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by febeling 8y ago
Thinking out loud here. This ownership analogy isn't working well, because ownership is a concept invented for physical things, whereas data can be copied. We can keep it, and pass it on. We know from copyright how painful it is, to
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Spirit: Animation Tool for the Web(spiritapp.io)
1 points by febeling 8y ago|0 comments
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by febeling 8y ago
That's true depending on the definition of money you use. Commercial banks can't create central bank money (M0). But they can create credit, and convert it to central bank money at will. And credit counts into M1+, one of the comm
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by febeling 8y ago
That's the way that it's meant, I agree. They might have worded that a bit differently, like saying "We assume a simplified economic system that has constant money". Because "closed economic systems" with this
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by febeling 8y ago
Not sure what you mean by "primary" money, but I can't think of a definition that would make that statement ("is strictly conserved") true. All money is in the books of the central bank, and it all has counterpart a
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by febeling 8y ago
I think you're right. The "closed system" is supposed to mean "without regard for the monetary aspects." Those are where all the interesting stuff happens (like growth, crisis), though ;) But that way the statement
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by febeling 8y ago
To me reads like the first premise is already wrong: "In a closed economic system, money is conserved." The opposite is true. Debt and the loan asset (if that's correct English usage) are created from nothing, for the debtor
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by febeling 8y ago
It's interesting that apparently this effect you describe doesn't seem to apply just as simply as we'd expect, however convincing it sounds. At least according to the book "Drive" by Daniel Pink (2011), for any cogn
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From Shock to Awe: Documentary about PTSD Treatment with Ayahuasca and MDMA(fromshocktoawe.com)
2 points by febeling 8y ago|0 comments
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by febeling 8y ago
I don’t understand the second paragraph. Could you explain?
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Oldest Viable Laptop (2017)(geoff.greer.fm)
202 points by febeling 8y ago|287 comments
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by febeling 8y ago
Sorry for the negativity, man. I hope this thing succeeds in a big way. Only consider this point a little while, and don't rule out grepping through the code base with the name change just now.
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by febeling 8y ago
Maybe it's a subjective association. But isn't a shelter a place for a homeless person?
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by febeling 8y ago
It's a great idea, and certainly much needed. I wish the name wouldn't imply as much misfortune and this sense of giving all hope up on the part of the original author. They have possibly toiled along for years. Some name that ins
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by febeling 8y ago
Debt is not money, but it has a flipside, the debt claim, which can be readily converted into money at a (central) bank. That's the fundemantal if somewhat hidden mechanism of our monetary system.
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by febeling 8y ago
You’d have to explain why there’s the same problem in Germany, where there are many unions.
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by febeling 8y ago
and "brid" -> "bird"
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by febeling 8y ago
> The proper conclusion may be that intellectual bubbles are a useful means of moving forward. Read the last sentence. Unless I misinterpret this grossly, the author is making fun of demands for "ideological diversity", i.e. la
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by febeling 9y ago
Suppose the majority of ISPs was to move to a direction were some significant portion of internet services was "shaped" or throttled in some way that was imposing real disadvantages or inconveniences for the user: wouldn't th
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by febeling 9y ago
https://www.versioneye.com is great, they support many languages, and maintain a checksum database for libs
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by febeling 10y ago
I remember him saying somewhere that he didn't use CGI because he wouldn't have the time to master it any longer. He explicitly didn't say to oppose it for artistic reasons. But, yes, sorry, no reference.
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by febeling 10y ago
I use boxes-and-arrows sketches a lot. The UML which was so popular around 2000 was this detailed quasi-standard graphical language. It was very centred around being correct, and diagrams being of a specific type of a number of permissible
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by febeling 10y ago
Now it all makes sense. I adopt your position. Thanks for disabusing me of my ignorance.
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by febeling 10y ago
Idea made me smile, but what about making appointments? I grant that you usually give a place, too. But to be entirely location independent, my nerd self would probably prefer UTC globally and get rid of timezones entirely :)
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by febeling 10y ago
Last time this came up I remember reading somewhere that dazzle camo isn't so much meant to conceal the vessel, as to make it harder to tell the course it is running - through a submarine's periscope. That was said to be critical
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by febeling 10y ago
i tried to word it neutral with regard to intentionality. after what i read it was considered more of a tragedy then anything else, but i think there are new interpretations, which are also mentioned in comments above.
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by febeling 10y ago
many people are convinced today that the (smallpox and other) epidemics introduced to north america by european settlers were real. allegedly 100m native american people inhabited north america before and it is assumed that 90% fell victim
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Psychopathic Mind Control: The Hunt(hintjens.com)
2 points by febeling 12y ago|0 comments
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How can we tell a psychopath?(hintjens.com)
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by febeling 13y ago
I agree with your general sentiment wrt to good and bad, but saying these people are criminals is just plainly accurate, and specifically not attributing "badness" at all. It's extortion, which is forbidden for very good reas

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