Critics often argue that cryptocurrencies are too speculative to be 'real' money. What they seem to miss is that lots of 'real' fiat currencies are highly speculative.
Here's how the volatility of Bitcoin and Ether compare to the exchange-rate volatility of the world's fiat currencies.
I take each currency's US exchange rate and measure its coefficient of variation across time. Then I plot the distribution of the COV across all currencies.
I have a similar problem with WordPress not tracking Mastodon referrals. Perhaps its because of federation, so that each Mastodon instance is considered a separate site?
Here's the words vs. code for my last post on the Forbes 400. The analysis sat on the back burner for a few months, then led to some furious coding to scrape the Forbes data.
Hey folks! I've got a folder of 100+ HTML files; I'd like to get a word-count of the rendered text (e.g. excluding tags). Is there an ubuntu utility I could use for this?
ETA: I figured it out. I just did
> cat * > merged.html
then I opened the file in Firefox, copied the text, pasted it into Gedit, and used the Document Statistics tool.
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