damptowel

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by damptowel 10y ago
I only listened to half the interview, but my impression is that this guy is basically reinventing the wheel, all those theories already exist in various fields of social science.
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by damptowel 10y ago
Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_problem I assume the only objective way to calculate value would be to see the planet as a dynamic system, put a baseline price on energy and do some kind of therm
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by damptowel 10y ago
Maybe it's because of my sentimental mood, but I can't help but think, perhaps we're too focused on achieving maximum productivity in a competitive market. It's like for the first time in history abundance for every huma
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by damptowel 10y ago
Yes... but only on paper!
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by damptowel 10y ago
Let's not forget Chile https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2003/sep/08/sciencene...
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by damptowel 10y ago
Mandatory post :) Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/04/economist-meets-...
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by damptowel 10y ago
Photoshop has 'smart filters' and 'smart objects' which do exactly what you describe.
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by damptowel 10y ago
This is simply not true, Photoshop does have all those features!
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by damptowel 10y ago
Well, only a shoddy craftsman blames his tools, but if you work in a design or ad agency everyone uses the Adobe monoculture because no one wants to deal with potential asset pipeline hickups when under tight deadlines. I'm sure there&
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by damptowel 10y ago
Sketch use case is different though, its more layout oriented whereas illustrator is mainly a vector editing powerhouse. Layout is a pain in illustrator because it was never meant as a layout program. I use sketch, illustrator and indesign
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by damptowel 10y ago
I wish these kinds of things didn't happen in the real world, but they do. Management wants it fast and cheap, wether it's good, they have no clue, they probably don't trust their engineers who speak too much gobbledigook. S
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by damptowel 10y ago
Gov can still be considerably cheaper depending on the structure of the underlaying circuit, how much intrest does the gov charge vis a vis the banks, I'm sure for profit institution charge a lot more, leading to a higher fraction of i
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by damptowel 10y ago
> Another way to think about it is a bunch of complete maniacs being allowed to run experiments on the live production system without any testing. Although hopefully it won't come to that. You mean like NIRP and QE? -_-' Like y
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by damptowel 10y ago
I once had a chat with a philosopher friend about Freud and Marx and my suggested pages were full of communist groups and psychoanalysis the day after.
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by damptowel 10y ago
This seems like a great startup opportunity...
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by damptowel 10y ago
I haven't been keeping up with Elm news, FRP is gone? Wasn't that the entire idea to begin with?
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by damptowel 10y ago
I'm sure if would capture imaginations if it were called the "triforce" :)
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by damptowel 10y ago
One practical concern I have for this is that you're going to need bigger triangles to avoid things bumping into eachother around the triangle. I really like the point he's making, just not sure if this triangle notation is the
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by damptowel 10y ago
That's the same as asking who will pay for laissez faire statism, so inconsequential.
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by damptowel 10y ago
I'll add... Sectoral Balance Identity https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectoral_balances Endogenous Money Creation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_money http://www.scienc
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by damptowel 10y ago
How much of that is due to capital flight from economies which are actively downsizing their public investments?
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by damptowel 10y ago
The amount of GDP going to paying of debt is historically high, it's a huge drag on the economy. http://static.cdn-seekingalpha.com/uploads/2012/5/10/sauploa...
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by damptowel 10y ago
Must-read regarding smoothing and hinting: http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.h...
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by damptowel 10y ago
#unlessallelse
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by damptowel 10y ago
Also, give it a unique name that's easy to websearch. E.g. No single char names, no common verb or noun, etc.
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by damptowel 10y ago
Finally, I've always wanted a terminal with particle effects!
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by damptowel 10y ago
I think those EU applications are mostly a front for Nato expansionism...
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by damptowel 10y ago
Did you try shift or alt, or combinations of those? I'm pretty sure it's been hidden in OSX for a while, but I think the shortcuts were changed at some point.
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by damptowel 10y ago
I once was smart enough to burst into a rant about exactly this in an interview question. I didn't get the job. Next I was joking with a friend that all the layers of abstraction added to the web are probably part of some big conspirac
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by damptowel 10y ago
Bernard Lietaer has written a lot on complementary currencies, such as the one above. His basic point is to have a heterogeneous money market, as opposed to the current monoculture. Every currency needs to fulfill a social goal, or number o

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