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by aronpye 6y ago
> If governments could legal mandate that their fiat currencies have value, there would be no such thing as hyperinflation. There is such a thing as hyperinflation. Therefore, governments cannot legally mandate that their fiat currencies
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by aronpye 6y ago
That’s where the term legal tender comes from. Society is legally mandated to accept whatever is determined by the government as legal tender for the settlement of debts. However, this does not include everyday transactions, only the settle
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by aronpye 6y ago
The article doesn’t adequately cover the role of central banks in fractional reserve banking. Back in the days of the gold standard you used to be able to redeem a set weight of physical gold from the central bank for a dollar / pound
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by aronpye 6y ago
I think in this example Feynman was using the question to illustrate the levels of complexity in answering a scientific question. If you watch his actual lectures, Feynman does break the concepts down in order to teach them. Also, documenta
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by aronpye 6y ago
Reminds me of Richard Feynman’s approach to learning (the Feynman technique, https://fs.blog/2012/04/feynman-technique/ ) and his controlled chaotic teaching style where he never relied on just one approach to
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by aronpye 6y ago
Reminds me of when Richard Feynman analysed the question of “how do magnets work?”. There are so many levels to it, coupled with assumed knowledge, that the question itself is shown to be improperly bounded.
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by aronpye 6y ago
I’m thinking more of where you still retain your original address but work abroad or out of state for a bit. If you did actually change address I suppose that would muddy waters as correspondence would be sent to the old address.
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by aronpye 6y ago
How would anyone know you have been working out of state / out of country? Has anyone been caught out by being tracked by their ip address when logging into the corporate VPN?
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by aronpye 6y ago
Paywall, didn’t read
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by aronpye 6y ago
Raw youtube video is here: https://youtu.be/5Xz0WudBEUI
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Diesel vs. electric powertrains for heavy duty applications(futureoftechnology.co.uk)
1 points by aronpye 6y ago|1 comments
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by aronpye 6y ago
Can someone explain why you wouldn’t use python or lua, or even just plain JS?
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by aronpye 6y ago
So you’d willingly allow tens of thousands of lines of code which you don’t understand or really know what it does into a kernel which is used by literally billions of devices?
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by aronpye 6y ago
Intent, promises and reality aren’t always aligned. Especially when given a slap dash of tens of thousands of lines of code that didn’t meet kernel contribution guidelines.
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by aronpye 6y ago
Comments are correct, what I should have said was: an invoice forms part of a contract. Once you have accepted the offer and you receive the invoice, then you have to pay it. Obviously only if it is on the same terms as the accepted offer.
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by aronpye 6y ago
Oh God, another wired article. This is written in a similar vain as “What’s a computer?”
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by aronpye 6y ago
Yeah, only listing one example, I.e. Zoom, especially when that example has numerous faults such as poor privacy, kind of nullifies whatever point the article was trying to make.
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by aronpye 6y ago
An invoice is a contract, you have to pay them
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by aronpye 6y ago
A pretty poor list tbh, doesn’t list any of the Unix / GNU/Linux built-ins for a start. Nor does it have any commentary on the software it does list, and why you might choose one over the other. I can’t fathom why it has 20K+ of s
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by aronpye 6y ago
When all you have is a hammer ...
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by aronpye 6y ago
You then pocket the net return on investment from the ETFs. The risk mitigation is that the interest free period is usually over 2 years, enough time for a stock market recovery should a downturn happen and you fail to time to market and se
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by aronpye 6y ago
One of the things I do is use interest free credit cards to pay for my usual expenses such as food and fuel. That frees up cash. I then use that cash to invest in ETFs. When the interest free period on the credit card expires I either sell
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by aronpye 6y ago
But it does though ... https://www.macrotrends.net/2526/sp-500-historical-annual-re...
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by aronpye 6y ago
Why would you ever have a savings account? They’re pointless as they always earn little interest. Much better to invest in an ETF that tracks something like the S&P500 with an average year on year growth of 10%, or if that is too risky
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by aronpye 6y ago
If this happened to you I doubt you would ever want to use Amazon again anyway.
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by aronpye 6y ago
How was trusting the word of a bunch of criminals, with no reason to follow through with deleting the data, the correct course of action? Isn’t a failure to disclose what data was comprised, and how, a breach of GDPR?
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C++ Is a Lie(harmful.cat-v.org)
3 points by aronpye 6y ago|1 comments
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Witch burning, guilty until proven innocent, accuser always believed, now why does all that sound so familiar?
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Agreed, but like I’ve said elsewhere the effort would be better spent modifying an existing browser to be lightweight. That would gain more widespread adoption than a whole new client-server protocol. You’d also gain the benefit of better i
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by aronpye 6y ago
Good point, but I doubt there will be any kind of meaningful adoption, I think the effort would be better spent modding chromium or such like to strip out crap from existing websites rather than creating a new client-server protocol.

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