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by llimos 4y ago
> a government that controls the supply of dollars In most Western countries, this is the function of the central bank, not the government.
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by llimos 4y ago
> I see you're not the parent poster. That's the way HN works, and it's a good thing, but if you insist, here I am. It's true that governments don't see it the same way as households. But inflation provides them
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by llimos 4y ago
I'm not sure I'm cynical enough to say it's the reason, but inflation helps governments by reducing the real size of their enormous debts.
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by llimos 4y ago
Here's a more balanced take: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-online-safety-bill-i... It seems it's still fairly problematic
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by llimos 4y ago
It's the racism that got away. If you're in the UK (or have a VPN there), watch this[1]. Or read the book[2]. [1] https://www.channel4.com/programmes/david-baddiel-jews-dont-... [2] https://www.ama
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by llimos 4y ago
This is a great writeup on what's possible with undefined behavior https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140627-00/?p=63...
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by llimos 4y ago
Once when I was working in a big bank in London during World Cup 2010, they told us all to stream the England games on BBC Online since it would be a good test of their network capacity. They knew not much work was going to get done either
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by llimos 4y ago
Yes, and the idea of using php.net/<function name> as a lookup (which has been the case for decades) makes it so painless
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by llimos 4y ago
It looks like this article was prescient: "Why is Canada euthanising the poor?" https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-canada-euthanisin... Discussed previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.
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by llimos 4y ago
On EasyJet, seats do not recline. I remember the first time I discovered this, thinking what a brilliant idea and why doesn't everyone do this? Of course, it helps that their flights are mostly short-haul (mentioned in the article).
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by llimos 4y ago
Capitalism?
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by llimos 4y ago
These days I often find myself wishing I could find The Outside of the Asylum
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by llimos 4y ago
> you weren't kidding [sic] You mean "you weren't joking "
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by llimos 4y ago
Side-question: Is it normal to write [sic] after an alternative but not wrong spelling of a word? Jack is American, and uses American English, which I guess is against the BBC's style guide, but "I realize [sic]" seems to be
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The Flip Phone Experiment(ndsmcobserver.com)
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Solar Eclipse seen at 46,000ft(twitter.com)
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by llimos 4y ago
Feudalism is happening in a different way. Pretty soon the only people who can afford property will be those who already have. There will be the landowner class and the renter class who live at the landowners' pleasure.
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by llimos 4y ago
> The study's limitations include using grades which were awarded part-way through the school year. I think this explains a lot more than they seem to give it credit for. It's already been established in studies that boys will
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by llimos 4y ago
> "private" apparently implies you have a rank in the military Are you thinking of the "Private Browsing reporting for duty" clip? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5VEftRH12Y&t=42
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by llimos 4y ago
We also discovered on our Kanban board that sticking them sideways means they don't fall off the board so easily.
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by llimos 4y ago
A big turning point for me was reading Code Complete, by Steve McConnell. A lot of things "clicked" for me from reading that book, more so than any other.
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With a 93M-mile zoom, a stargazer snaps the sun up close and personal(timesofisrael.com)
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Why the economy can’t get real(spectator.co.uk)
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by llimos 4y ago
Slack is actually a terrible example of the phenomenon, because they had a messaging app as part of Office since 2007 with Microsoft Communicator. Slack only existed since 2013. A much better example IMO is the Power Platform, which might e
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Ok, Boomers: The selfish case for caring about housing costs(joxleywrites.substack.com)
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by llimos 4y ago
Bouncers?
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by llimos 4y ago
I've had an idea kicking around in my head for a while, tell me where I've gone wrong: They introduce a digital dollar, at 1:1 with the regular dollar, but then have it float as an independent currency. Freely tradable against the
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by llimos 4y ago
The original version of the British form (Robot Wars) used to give an extra weight allowance to robots with legs, for the excitement factor. IIRC, it was abused by robots technically complying with lots of tiny "legs" that you cou
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India farmer moves two-storey home – an inch at a time(bbc.com)
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Britain’s path to economic and national renewal is the genome revolution(telegraph.co.uk)
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