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When the Fed hugely increased the money supply with QE2 from 2010 onward, the move didn’t lead to runaway inflation, despite the fears of economists and investors at the time. Similarly, large amounts of money-printing by the ECB did little to raise inflation for years until the pandemic unleashed government spending.
Monetarism Is Back. It May Not Last.
wsj.com
Regarding the Otherdeed land NFTs, the terms and conditions explicitly state that the “purchaser has the property right to transfer the NFT, property rights do not include intellectual property.” Essentially, while NFT owners have the ability to use and transfer the virtual land they purchase, owners of Otherdeeds have no rights to the copyright for the artwork or other media associated with the virtual land.
A Survey of NFT Licenses: Facts & Fictions
galaxy.com
The solution here is to have a dynamic tick so that when the CPU is idle, the timer interrupt is either deactivated or reprogrammed to happen at a point where the kernel knows there will be work to do (for example, a process might have a timer expiring in 5 seconds, so we must not sleep past that). This is also called tickless mode.
What Does an Idle CPU Do?
manybutfinite.com
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