damptowel

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by damptowel 10y ago
No complete market system in any of those though. The structure of financial flows can radically change the growth patterns in an economy. (I'm ambivalent on UBI)
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by damptowel 10y ago
What does using a bsp tree gain you in this case? Wolf was all tiles so using a data format that reflects that makes intuitive sense to me. Bsp gives better occlusion culling maybe?
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by damptowel 10y ago
I'm not sure governments are funded by their citizenry, those citizens have to conduct commerce in the nation's currency and pay taxes in the same currency, which is solely issued by the government. It becomes more of a social rel
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by damptowel 10y ago
Just get the loudest one so your superiors kick themselves for going with that open floorplan.
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by damptowel 10y ago
Whether it's good "AI" or not, it looks like fun, and that's good enough for me.
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by damptowel 10y ago
Note that overleveraged companies tend to outcompete more conservative ones in the short term, they just have more weight to throw. And if enough of them go down at the same time, the resulting slump won't do decent investors any good
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by damptowel 10y ago
YES.
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by damptowel 10y ago
I often worry that with every new standard the platform becomes more opaque for newcomers. You know, average people who want a shot at making their own webpage and learn to program for something with an immediate use case. It's not lik
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by damptowel 10y ago
On a tangent, this reminded of this 2D shadow mapping technique. https://github.com/mattdesl/lwjgl-basics/wiki/2D-Pixel-Perfe...
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by damptowel 10y ago
> A good night's sleep means you're not working hard enough. That seems that you buy into one belief system (work is sacred, achievement is the goal in life, etc...) and project that onto others.
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by damptowel 10y ago
If you're sleep deprived you need to check the privileges around you. :)
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by damptowel 10y ago
Good question, what drives politicians I can only guess. Neoclassical economists have their heads buried firmly in the sand, preferring their a priori fantasies and pushing that as their agenda. Taxes are good for creating currency demand (
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by damptowel 10y ago
I guess the right amount would be, if you're democratically inclined, to whatever reduces political influence of the wealthy over the less wealthy. The current US distribution and it's political and economic destabilizing effects
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by damptowel 10y ago
Here's a thought experiment I've been been wrestling with... Imagine a dirty low skill job. Something that currently doesn't pay much and is generally considered low status. Assume it's a job no one really wants to do bu
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by damptowel 10y ago
But government spending within the national economy is not income constrained, so raising taxes is not a requirement.
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by damptowel 10y ago
Another one for the list. Hands on introduction to a lot of basic concepts. https://m.youtube.com/user/codingmath
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by damptowel 10y ago
In elementary school I was thought to draw in roundhand variant. The problem I had felt for years was that I could either draw fast or readable, but never both. So a number of years ago I set out to consciously change my writing style. I de
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by damptowel 10y ago
> Is a label engineered to align the left, never any kind of useful thing, or movement nor school of thought. Say what? Milton Friedman, Neoliberalism and It's Prospects, 1951 http://0055d26.netsolhost.com/friedman&#
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Can banks individually create money out of nothing?(sciencedirect.com)
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by damptowel 10y ago
Japan's decline might have been a political phenomenon. https://vimeo.com/110710752
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by damptowel 10y ago
My course started with learning structured programming logic by drawing structograms. From 'what is a variable?' to several sorting algorithms and their time complexity. No keyboard was touched, everything was computed by hand to
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by damptowel 10y ago
another such beauty http://hg.icculus.org/icculus/lugaru/file/97b303e79826/Sourc...
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by damptowel 10y ago
Is this true? There's leaked Unreal alpha stuff from 1995, which was already doing almost everything Quake's bsp renderer ended up doing.
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by damptowel 10y ago
Can you give some references? Might be a good read.
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by damptowel 10y ago
Popular support. Legacy of Cold War era anti nuke propaganda and ridiculous portrayal of reactors and nuclear waste in fiction have lead to a skewed public perception on which politicians don't want to get burnt. Fukushima happened. Pa
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by damptowel 10y ago
The web is hacky and getting anything to look and feel just right is a pita more often than not. So people use band aids like bootstrap, sass, react, angular, jade, custom build systems requiring lots of set up... frankly speaking I'
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by damptowel 10y ago
> Why do you need it? Are your fancy fonts, 1 meg CSS file, or 1 meg of Javascript that essential to the function of your website that you absolutely must have them? And if not, what are they doing there? I wonder myself this every time
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by damptowel 10y ago
Another tutorial from first principles. https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer/wiki
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by damptowel 10y ago
And its only the tip of the iceberg, read Richard Vague or Steve Keen. Global private sector debt is at historic record levels. It's the sole reason the economy stays sour.
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by damptowel 10y ago
Governments have been running deficits for 5000 years, it's how currency is established.

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