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New comment by mono442 in "Nebula Sans"

mono442 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:40:51 +0000

it looks like every other sans serif font

New comment by mono442 in "The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven?"

mono442 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:19:14 +0000

Greece doesn't have its own currency and is completely reliant on private debt markets. Investors, mostly banks, started demanding higher yields, and Greece couldn't do anything about it. The EU used that as an excuse to impose garbage economic policies (austerity) on them, but the whole crisis could have been avoided if the ECB had intervened to keep Greek bond yields close to the ECB's interest rate.

New comment by mono442 in "The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven?"

mono442 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:23:13 +0000

30 year old bond yield being 1-2% above the short term yield is nothing unusual

New comment by mono442 in "The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven?"

mono442 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:27:25 +0000

A garbage article. Yields went down after the housing bubble in 2007 because the central bank interest rates were lowered, not because the investors decided to flock to a safe asset.

Yields are high because the inflation is also running high and it doesn't like it will come down anytime soon so the central bank interest rates will also be kept at a higher level.

Long term bonds can be replaced with short term bonds which are constantly rolled over. The bond yields are pricing in the future interest rates, nothing more.

New comment by mono442 in "Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree"

mono442 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 19:06:40 +0000

wolves are considered different species from dogs but they can produce offspring

New comment by mono442 in "A Friendly Introduction to Racket"

mono442 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:11:32 +0000

it's an academic language

New comment by mono442 in "I don't think AI is a bubble"

mono442 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:23:55 +0000

AI can write much more code than it was possible before but the real question is whatever that is of any economic value or is it more comparable to the iron smelting in china during the mao reign.

New comment by mono442 in "Young Americans increasingly fear AI will take their jobs"

mono442 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:20:12 +0000

agent ai is barely used for anything outside of software engineering

New comment by mono442 in "Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened"

mono442 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:11:42 +0000

China doesn't have a debt crisis.

New comment by mono442 in "30-year Treasury yield tops 5.31%, the highest in 19 years"

mono442 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:22:32 +0000

Long-term bonds can be replaced with short-term bonds which are constantly rolled over. It wouldn't make sense if the market was pricing in anything else than future interest rates.

New comment by mono442 in "30-year Treasury yield tops 5.31%, the highest in 19 years"

mono442 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:20:41 +0000

It's rising because the market expects interest rate hikes. Long-term bonds are basically a prediction market for future interest rates.

New comment by mono442 in "People are worried about America's solvency"

mono442 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:50:55 +0000

The US emits two types of scrapes of paper, one of which (bonds) promises the other (the us dollar) and the "experts" somehow think america can actually go bankrupt. That's hilarious.

New comment by mono442 in "Ruby 4.0 Universal RCE Deserialization Gadget Chain"

mono442 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:10:15 +0000

Quoting the ruby documentation:

> Marshal.load is not suitable as a general purpose serialization format and you should never unmarshal user supplied input or other untrusted data.

New comment by mono442 in "Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes"

mono442 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:18:43 +0000

journald has never been of great quality. It somehow manages to be visibly slower than grepping gzipped text logs.

New comment by mono442 in "Mojo 1.0"

mono442 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:03:50 +0000

Creating a new language in the age of AI seems kind of pointless. I don't write code by hand anymore, I only review it and I prefer it to be in a language which I already know since investing time in learning another language doesn't make sense at this point.

New comment by mono442 in "Why Do Fewer Renters Expect to Move?"

mono442 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:30:42 +0000

Even if the house is worth less, the morgage is eventually paid off. Rent has to be paid forever.

I can't even imagine renting when I'm retired and have less money.

New comment by mono442 in "Governments are making a dangerous bet on the AI boom"

mono442 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:11:38 +0000

The problem with public debt is vastly overestimated. It mostly doesn't matter at all. It can be just rolled over forever like it always was.

It's the private debt which is the problem since individuals and enterprises don't have the capability the governments have to roll it over forever.

New comment by mono442 in "Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026"

mono442 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:29:09 +0000

Electricity is expensive in the EU because of the EU ETS.

New comment by mono442 in "Show HN: We Fixed UniFi's Slow PPPoE Performance with PPPoE Half-Bridge"

mono442 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:57:02 +0000

I guess what they did works but it makes some of valid ip addresses unavailable.

New comment by mono442 in "US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market"

mono442 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:03:50 +0000

I'm not sure. Probably because they want to maintain the appearance of central bank independence.

The yields aren't even that high. They were much higher in the past.