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by fineline 9y ago
WW1 lasted from 1914-1918. The "war on terror" began in 2001 and is still ongoing in 2018, and its capacity to bite us in the ass seems undiminished.
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by fineline 9y ago
Lots of military technology is traded between countries all the time, tanks, planes, guns, boats, missiles, etc. China just bought a bunch of Su35 jet fighters from Russia. http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz&#x2F
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by fineline 9y ago
I haven't read it (yet) but it was described and exerted in a recent BBC podcast on voting patterns in Brexit/Trump elections: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09tcvp4 Some interesting people interviewed and
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by fineline 9y ago
Or like Brown Snakes?
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by fineline 9y ago
OK I am not an economist, but here's my 2c (of my own currency...) You're right, I phrased it incorrectly - the US could indeed default on its "debt" if it chose too - and maybe the current administration is more incline
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by fineline 9y ago
Warren Mosler mentions within this short book how he made a lot of money realising that Italian bonds could never default: http://moslereconomics.com/wp-content/powerpoints/7DIF.pdf Now they're on the Euro th
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by fineline 9y ago
If that "debt" is denominated in USD, the US cannot default. Really what is national debt in a nation with soft (non-exchangeable for gold) sovereign currency and limited foreign-denominated debt other than an increase in the mone
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by fineline 9y ago
One more: I could try out/ use the app on platforms for which it is currently unavailable, such as my iPad Pro (with large screen and stylus) or Samsung Note 8 (smaller screen but also a great stylus). Someone mentioned the lack of web
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by fineline 9y ago
I don't know about Cobra, but I would say Nim has first class support for unit tests. If you check out the "Testable documentaion examples" section of the article, it shows they've even added support for testing sample c
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by fineline 9y ago
I design and implement system architecture and user interfaces, manage people and projects, plan future areas of R&D, etc. and I still call myself (in conversation) a computer programmer. I find it helps distinguish me from all the talk
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by fineline 9y ago
I found this a strange decision in the Grid standard design. Surely most people* would think more in terms of "cells" that "cell-dividing-lines". Then again, compared to the design decisions in much of the rest of CSS in
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by fineline 9y ago
I feel (i.e. just my own subjective experience) it's not only the formation of memory that benefits from mental "down time" but also the gradual solution of abstract problems, such as the ones we come across in building compl
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by fineline 9y ago
Definitely - the easiest way to get something done is to have someone else to do it. Taming is a two-way process.
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by fineline 9y ago
Historically? Round us, there are various predators (wild and feral) that would happily feed on a cat - hawks, owls, goannas, snakes, foxes, wild dogs. Mainly nocturnal, we keep our cats in at night (so they don't prey on native noctur
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by fineline 9y ago
Many people still enjoy horses without using them as primary transport. I reckon it will be the same with ICE cars - various people with the money and inclination will still enjoy classic cars even when their daily driver is electric.
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by fineline 9y ago
Government checks can't bounce. http://moslereconomics.com/wp-content/powerpoints/7DIF.pdf Unless they give up sovereignty over their own currency of course. A mistake made by European countries - several of
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by fineline 9y ago
Maybe try different things. Some people "don't like exercise" because they don't enjoy the gym or running. But put them on a dancefloor / skateboard / ocean beach / roller-rink / climbing wall /
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by fineline 9y ago
I don't see too much problem with state controlling money creation - sovereign currency gives the latitude for deficit spending which provides opportunity to invest in future economic growth. (I have no idea why many "fiscal conse
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by fineline 9y ago
And execution. Knowing what you want doesn't guarantee you can deliver it. Otherwise your point (and parents) is a good one - certainly a good indicator that you might really be onto something.
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by fineline 9y ago
Thanks, sounds worth a closer look.
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by fineline 9y ago
Hi Rich, I notice you mention Marko. That was my first thought when checking out Svelte today - Marko uses somewhat similar approach, and thus brings somewhat similar benefits. But Marko has couple of other advantages - beautiful "conc
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by fineline 9y ago
Despite being a progressive-leaning person I find the Guardian's recent political correctness and value-signalling to be grating, and have been looking for an alternative and less hyperbolic sources of news. It's like they abandon
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by fineline 9y ago
In Australia I get charged separate CC fees when booking flight tickets, concert tickets, many filling stations, some food / hospitality businesses, etc. Surprised that's not normal in the US.
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by fineline 9y ago
How are you using du to find things that shouldn't be in node_modules? Wouldn't you need to build up a dependency tree, based on your app's package.json and recursing into every module's peer dependencies?
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by fineline 9y ago
New Model Army, Vagabonds, around 1.15M hits: https://open.spotify.com/track/41bdgBL7tjwQOl7RpwubKU The "real" version, with a fantastic build-up violin intro that to my ear at least, makes this a truly great
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by fineline 9y ago
I wonder if in a few years people will be fondly writing articles like this about the 2013-16 Retina MacBook Pros. Mine is getting a bit long in the tooth, but what to replace it with?
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by fineline 9y ago
Midlands of the UK, then various places around Europe, then Australia (since well before Facebook). I think we're probably seeing "the plural of anecdote is not data" in effect?
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by fineline 9y ago
Thanks so much for that link. As a "progressive leaning" individual I have despaired at the descent of the Guardian, along with much of the formerly progressive media, into pure political-correctness-gone-mad, value-signalling non
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by fineline 9y ago
Are you kidding? I'm an X'er and my parents are boomers, and I can assure you we all had an absolute ball before Facebook came along. "Not going out in the evenings to see friends, sitting watching TV, having narrow social li
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by fineline 9y ago
Bingo. I do wonder why people insist on seeing house price inflation as being solely caused by rising value of houses - due to increasing demand, constrained supply ... kitchen renos? - without acknowledging the role of the falling value of

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