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davel [he/him]
davel [he/him] @ davel @lemmy.ml
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  • Usually when credit ratings fall, fixed-income security yields rise…

    http://archive.today/2025.05.17-052540/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/business/us-credit-downgrade-moodys.html

    The 10-year Treasury bond yield has risen roughly 0.3 percentage points this month to around 4.5 percent. The 30-year Treasury yield briefly crossed 5 percent this week; the last time it did that, during some of the worst tariff fears, Mr. Trump cited the bond market among reasons he pared back his tariff proposals.

    It’s a sign that the government could end up paying a higher interest rate on its debt if it can’t soothe investors’ concerns over its mounting debt, a development that could snowball into a full-blown debt crisis for the world’s largest economy.

    Moody’s announced the downgrade just before bond markets closed on Friday, so investors will have to wait until Sunday to respond.

  • Definitionally in IEEE floating point, NaN is not equal to anything, including itself. The only real abomination here is B:

     javascript
        
    > Math.min()
    Infinity
    > Math.max()
    -Infinity
    > 
    
      
  • Generalísimo Franco ruled fascist Spain for 35 years, until he died of natural causes.

  • Joke’s on you, Wells Fargo: I'll never have to pay off my 10100-year mortgage.

  • Read a community’s rules before posting or commenting. Take this community, for instance:

    1. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below

    Each Lemmy instance also has its own site-wide rules.

  • Sorry, you can’t delete your comment if they choose to disallow that. That’s common on lemmy.

    Please show me a single case where that actually happened.

  • The original one was far too vague for my liking.

    In such cases, I will sometimes editorialize/clarify [in brackets].

  • Please don’t completely rewrite headlines.

  • ALSO YOU CAN’T DELETE YOUR COMMENTS OUTSIDE OF YOUR INSTANCE.

    Yes you can. But just as is true with posting and editing, sometimes a deletion will fail to federate to all instances. No federation action is guaranteed, but rather best effort.

  • Habeas corpus predates the US Constitution and even the US itself.