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by jddj 6y ago
Oh man, please allow me to do my best to offer some subjective validation of your life choices. I grew up in one of the small, very coastal Australian towns that stayed beautiful but got expensive and boring (alternative seems to be: grew b
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by jddj 6y ago
Agreed that it's been a number of factors coinciding. (Granting the usual caveat that a lot of the content there is satire...), there sure are a lot of posts there also making reference to dreading offices opening back up, because they
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by jddj 6y ago
It's meaningful in the same way that the illusion of free will is meaningful. It provides a lense through which to view the world. For instance, take a heinous crime and assess it first through the lense of free will, and then swap in
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by jddj 6y ago
Visual studio code does #1 for me if I'm editing a file with a .md extension. I don't think it's plugin related, but if it is it'd be one of the top search results.
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by jddj 6y ago
Along this line, there are some open source MUD clients around which are (naturally) entirely telnet focused and embed lua, regex, aliases and usually their own extensible UI frameworks.
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On Systemic Debt(thedailywtf.com)
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by jddj 6y ago
The playbook is the knowing look and the consistently not reaching conclusions, or perhaps not amongst polite company. They're quite free to think differently to me. If they had said that the protests were fine but next time we expec
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by jddj 6y ago
You're stopping short of spelling out your conclusion. The aims of the protests are to shine a spotlight on police brutality and qualified immunity / defund the police / ensure that killer cops are prosecuted / damage pr
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by jddj 6y ago
I agree with your second point. American federal politicians and political organizations seem to care less and less about the middle. Change happens at the edges, and sadly people deal more and more in extremes + absolutes. There's not
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by jddj 6y ago
That's an uncharitable read of that comment
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by jddj 6y ago
Only if they continue to buy. As shown in 2018, the fed has the power to massively deflate the currency simply by indicating that they might want to unwind or reduce stimulus.
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by jddj 6y ago
It's a common speculation, but employment (and recreation, regular life, going outdoors) actually kills a lot of people. Every % rise of unemployment in Europe during the financial crisis resulted in a 3.5% drop in all cause mortalit
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by jddj 6y ago
Until the danger is reduced (via therapeutics or societal adaptations), your unqualified and unquantified "many" would ideally have to wait until they become a qualified and quantified majority. That's how living in a modern
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by jddj 6y ago
It might be the case that a seven day quarantine with a test on the fifth day (for example) would be enough, but I imagine their government would want to see data confirming that. It's probably not the case that someone can be tested o
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by jddj 6y ago
As someone who thoroughly enjoyed Swedish snus for a year or two, I'd love to say that it's the nicotine interfering by binding to the AChR receptors. In reality though, I feel like in comparatively sparsely populated places like
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by jddj 6y ago
Right now that's a really good point. If the route out of lockdown is to test and trace, though, international travel without quarantine makes that pretty tough.
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by jddj 6y ago
Another anecdote: I do some contracting work for a British company, and had some extremely unrealistic deadlines looming in late February. For this reason, I was keenly watching their government's announcements at the time and was amaz
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by jddj 6y ago
You'd think so, but France has recently come out and said that they don't even plan to require 14 day quarantines for arrivals from the EU or UK. The UK border, despite their having the highest death toll in Europe, is similarly c
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by jddj 6y ago
Yeah, my pihole would usually block something like 70% of what was a good number of requests from my Xiaomi overnight. It's gross.
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by jddj 6y ago
Thanks. I think this point has made it a lot clearer. So sure, the loaned money might still be in the system in some naive sense, but value has been destroyed in the asset price ? Suddenly a lot less money buys a lot more asset and that&#
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by jddj 6y ago
That would be my intuition too. But if you go down almost any "this crisis won't cause inflation because..." rabbit hole on hacker news, you should see multiple unopposed claims that defaults lead to deflation through the des
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by jddj 6y ago
I've wondered the same thing lately whenever someone here posits that defaults cause the destruction of money. I'd love to see this properly explained, because it definitely has a counter intuitive ring to me.
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by jddj 6y ago
Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good. GDPR did a lot to shift the window back and put the behaviour of the big adtech companies in the sunlight for a while. The enforcement side is definitely lacking, and black mirror might still
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by jddj 7y ago
I feel like looking at the statistics for the Scandinavian countries might be useful. That's a pretty large population of nicotine users who don't smoke.
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French researchers to test nicotine patches on coronavirus patients(theguardian.com)
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A nicotinic hypothesis for Covid-19 with preventive and therapeutic implications(qeios.com)
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by jddj 7y ago
Really? A lot (most?) of the fintechs in the UK/EU seem to use TransferWise under the covers for their foreign currency exchange, and while I haven't used the api itself yet I have skimmed the docs for it and they seem detailed en
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by jddj 7y ago
If the countries are trying to do contact tracing and isolated quarantines where flare-ups are found, it absolutely matters. This is what people are talking about at the moment when they mention easing lockdown restrictions. Imagine a singl
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by jddj 7y ago
Sorry, you're right. The messaging was that it's primarily the travelers. My feeling is that the quarantines definitely should have gone ahead, but in justifying them to the public the govt. seemed to place a little too much empha
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by jddj 7y ago
They've been getting broader testing underway and are employing it where there seem to be community breakouts, but I have to agree with your parent poster. There has been community transmission, so stressing so strongly that travelers

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