Melonius

yep agreed, I really appreciate your posts and write ups. I'm like 5% through superimperialism

so here the Federal Reserve can sell government-backed securities (US treasuries) at a specific rate (say 2%) to set the minimum price of borrowing

It's my understanding that treasury rates are set at auction, so these rates can be driven by demand (and not just internally as bidding is done by outside governments). The easier way to affect interbank lending is through interest on excess reserves - https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reserve-balances.htm

This very transparently sets a floor while discount window rates sets the cap on interbank lending, and of course feeds back in to the treasury auction results as banks will allocate excess reserves to treasuries if they are paying substantially more than the interbank/fed IOER rates

I read this with the last reading group but didn't really have much to say or participate in the discussion. I'll give it another go this time please ping me!

Photoprism is great, the web UI works really well and it does a good job sorting and grouping photos based on faces / metadata.

I was looking for something like this, thanks. Still pathetic that average voter equates illegal immigrants with jobless criminals by default.

Aw that's so sweet! Yeah they grow up so fast its hard to keep up. I also noticed I can ask my kids about books or tv shows and they can give me pretty good summaries of what happened when before I'd get blank stares or a "you tell me"

One of our kids has been copying words they find in the house on to paper and asking us what they mean. It's been fun finding random words to write out and they've memorized a few. She saw a short word in all lower case and wrote it out in all capital letters. Maybe its a little silly but I felt really impressed that she was able to translate the underlying letters to their other form unprompted.

I'm one of the only parents in my local friends group so they just nod and give a "wow cool" response. One of the slightly overwhelming concerns I have as a parent is there is just so much to teach and learn, so it's a little deflating to me to share this incredible translation accomplishment that sounds mundane but I think is really cool. It was a great moment for us though and that's what matters.

jejabhramsverse

Imagine living in a place where your choice has publicity and voting store brand

Not even a single Jeb?

Ooo that makes sense. I remember there were only like 5 krakens you could fight anyways, some were in the weird dreamverse area.

I always wanted the gutsy bat from the kraken

Treat Assassin

why am I like this