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by bolanyo 4y ago
I don't know about this aspect, but horse sales typically involved this type of commission. The buyer would pay in guineas (or £1.05 times the nominal purchase price) and the seller would receive that number of pounds, with the extra g
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by bolanyo 4y ago
In fact, a shilling was defined in terms of silver ('sterling silver' gives us the 'pound sterling'), so it was a bimetallic system.
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by bolanyo 4y ago
I know lots of old people who are absolutely fluent with almost all these terms (excluding 'mite' and 'groat'), could reckon with them quickly and accurately, and who (when I was younger) would quickly and accurately tra
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by bolanyo 4y ago
I don't recognize the 'vibiness' of imperial length and distance measurements at all. Perhaps this is a pareidolic interpretation which came to you when you noticed people using both sets of measurement types?
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by bolanyo 4y ago
Distances on road signs are still in miles and speed limits are still in mph, so familiarity with miles reflects their official status, not just British weirdness/quaintness.
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by bolanyo 4y ago
This is not true. They were widely welcomed, including by many many people who quickly became disillusioned and/or left.
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by bolanyo 4y ago
Obviously, this is not true, since many young people care a lot about lots of new music.
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by bolanyo 4y ago
The definition of inflation is a deterioration of the value of money. Nothing about this requires or suggests that it affects the prices of some goods more than others, or prices more than wages. If there is relative movement between distin
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by bolanyo 4y ago
Do you visit gay sex clubs? I do, and I would say that it is far from true that people feel they can be as reckless as they want. Rather, they are generally risk-aware, but within a context where the risk tradeoffs are completely different
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by bolanyo 4y ago
I don't agree with your analysis about the relative culpability of Masayoshi and Neumann, although I agree that both are culpable, but you are missing the point. I am not talking about WeWork going from a large valuation to a small one
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by bolanyo 4y ago
Literally hundreds of police forces in other countries have to broadly follow the law while exercising their powers. How do they manage this? They have training manuals which break down the law for them in basic, easy-to-understand terms. T
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by bolanyo 4y ago
> So the consequences of one's actions, don't matter? For the purposes of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, this is broadly correct.
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by bolanyo 4y ago
I think both those claims are significantly at odds with the overwhelming consensus of both mainstream and heterodox economic thought.
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by bolanyo 4y ago
Wages also go up with higher inflation.
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by bolanyo 4y ago
Ah, so underlying the 'moral' argument is the uncontrollable FEAR that you, a wealthy but unadventurous person, are somehow subsidizing other less wealthy people as they enjoy their lives.
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by bolanyo 4y ago
The poor are not necessarily the most affected by inflation, and can be among the least affected. Being poor means having around no dollar-denominated wealth, and usually less than zero.
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by bolanyo 4y ago
> How did he destroy billions in value? He turned around $25bn in cash into a company worth about $4bn, how else would you describe this?
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by bolanyo 4y ago
Do you think that maybe you are biased by being older than you were in previous decades, and thus spending less time and less emotional investment on pop music? Or do you honestly believe that the quality of a whole art form has dropped sig
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by bolanyo 4y ago
your car has libcurl on it, but not Rust.
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by bolanyo 4y ago
I don't think you're accurately disputing what I said. Bitcoin went through a period when transaction fees were very high, and wait times were unreasonably long. During this period, they essentially lost all their users who were u
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by bolanyo 4y ago
It wasn't just ICO pump and dumpers that got rid of this utility. The people coordinating Bitcoin made an explicit technical decision to focus on it being a store-of-value, which made it too expensive to use as a means-of-exchange. Sma
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by bolanyo 4y ago
There are no humans and basically no vehicles along a road like this. The chances of anything interfering with it are nil.
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by bolanyo 4y ago
And it is vastly more radioactive than background. They might have used clever technology but someone in the passenger seat with a Geiger counter on their knee would probably have found it.
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by bolanyo 4y ago
It's customary to put the number of paid leave days without including bank holidays.
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by bolanyo 4y ago
Most of the demand for chips, and the vast majority of the strategically important demand, is not for chips made with state-of-the-art fabbing. Slightly old tech and IP is more than enough to become chip independent.
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by bolanyo 4y ago
I'm teetotal and I feel like I can sort of turn this on, usually motivated by boredom. I wonder if I am putting more effort into it, or lacking a genuine uninhibitedness which drinkers access easily. Or perhaps, on the contrary, by dri
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by bolanyo 4y ago
Welcome to social media.
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by bolanyo 4y ago
I love Twitter. But I immediately thought of Twitter as a counterexample when I read vagabund's claim.
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by bolanyo 4y ago
Conditional on who you are and what you do, dang, there is no information content in the fact that you admire pg.
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by bolanyo 4y ago
Slate Star Codex in particular has a way of pushing the indulgence in his essays beyond what seems possible. When I read the one on Moloch, I thought "this is an idea I am extremely familiar with, expanded to 100 times the necessary wo

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