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by hn0 8y ago
I’m of libertarian persuasion but it has to be noted that periods of human history where one faction was souvereign over it’s dominion, were generally more peaceful and conducive to trade and human cooperation. Empirialism, dispite all of i
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by hn0 8y ago
I’m not even sure competence is the right term here. People have different inate characters which will trust them into different positions. There’s also plenty of incompetence by a good portion of those at the top of hierarchies. Those usua
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by hn0 8y ago
So it’s a propaganda piece? I read it as an evolutionary biology/psychology explaination for much of human political sentiment. It’s well established that hunter gatherer tribes (the predominant mode during most of human evolution) are
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by hn0 8y ago
It’s insurance against life events outside one’s control. Anyone can end up poor or disabled at any time.
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by hn0 8y ago
I expect this would be the case with alpha compositing at least... Afaict subpixel rendering is supersampling width with multiples of 3, then modulo via the horizontal coordinate into rgb triplets and divide by supersampling factor. I guess
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by hn0 8y ago
I must be the odd one out in that I actually prefer my fonts to look “soft”?
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by hn0 8y ago
The more frameworks, the more there are to learn. The more effort required to learn all frameworks, the more appealing it becomes to roll your own. (The combination of choice paralysis and opportunity cost analysis are a powerful motivator,
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by hn0 8y ago
When I open this page on my phone I am greeted with a privacy modal that blocks the entire screen, with a consent button below the fold, which I cannot reach because scrolling appears busted. (Mobile Safari)
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by hn0 8y ago
Or, Shakespeare was completely consumed by it, to his detriment, and did not wish the same for his children.
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by hn0 8y ago
The older I get the more I appreceate that passage from Keynes. Most annoying brain virus at the moment are the walking libertarian cuckoo clocks that appear to have infested every online comment section. The contemporary version of the new
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by hn0 8y ago
It would certainly be good for the planet, but since petroleum is an input early in the production chain, that would cause price inflation, resulting in higher costs and lower demand, e.g. 70’s stagflation. Also black markets and resource c
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by hn0 8y ago
Non-paywalled tldr plz
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by hn0 8y ago
(One could probably make a comedic genre out of the type of comments that get voted to the top of the average hn thread...)
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by hn0 8y ago
"opposition to enabling people to live off the back of others" almost sounds like that other -ism...
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by hn0 8y ago
Talk about socialist nightmares, look at the sun, all that energy hitting earth, and no one's paying for it, no one's responsible, and it's got nuclear power! We should nuke it!
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by hn0 8y ago
It doesn't fully offset it. Avoiding debt by not investing leads to lower future growth prospects, resulting in opportunity loss. Debt is contractual and can be restructured.
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by hn0 8y ago
Try to understand their point of view. Maybe he/she hates your guts, but I doubt it. I’d ask something like: “I’m certain you have your reasons about not wanting me to attend the conference, but they aren’t clear to me. I have the best
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by hn0 8y ago
Can we have a comedy section for spam like this?
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The Big Deal About Small Talk(judyendow.com)
6 points by hn0 8y ago|0 comments
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Complexity Economics [YouTube Playlist](youtube.com)
1 points by hn0 8y ago|0 comments
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by hn0 8y ago
Not sure why sans-serif minimalism should be considered soulless. I don't think I'll ever tire of solid no-nonsense Swiss design, but variety is the spice of life for sure.
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by hn0 8y ago
Forced OOP model [1], lack of types, highly redundant syntax (ES6 whyyyy). After years I’m still fighting with the language, not to mention the browser with it’s frankensteinian api. Browsers should have just created a Lua dialect, which is
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by hn0 8y ago
> On the other hand, MMT is deeply concerned with institutional arrangements in the banking system, and still elides central banks and governments in its explanations of how the system works because doing so avoids the inconvenience of e
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by hn0 8y ago
Neoclassical economics still has no plausible answer for the Anything Goes theorem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnenschein–Mantel–Debreu_t... Decades after the findings were published. I find it hard to conclude
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by hn0 8y ago
This misses THE central point of MMT, the fundamental difference between currency issuer (souvereign authority) and currency user (households, firms, regional governments, etc).
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by hn0 8y ago
Richard Werner did empirical tests of the theory you describe, and found it to be false: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105752191... And https://www.sciencedirect.com/scien
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by hn0 8y ago
There’s a problem with this approach, which I found out about the hard way. Like you I thought I should keep my html “semantic”. The problem with this approach is that you end up tightly coupling the stylesheet and the html, because it requ
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by hn0 8y ago
Economists generally follow the idea that all trade is barter trade and that money is just an indirection layered on top the “real” economy, which alleviates some of the issues with bartering goods. That’s all fine, but historians and anthr
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by hn0 8y ago
There is no such thing as “fractional reserve banking”, the textbook models on banking taught in schools across the globe are dead wrong . See: Richard A. Werner, A lost century in economics: Three theories of banking and the conclusive ev
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by hn0 8y ago
The difference is, at least in theory, that boom-bust cycles from bank-fuelled speculative frenzies could be controlled.

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