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by megameter 5y ago
"Civilization is a Ponzi" is essentially my conclusion. The thing holding up government backing as the standard of real asset is simply its capacity as the just middleman enforcer. Subtract that and currency, real estate, stocks,
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by megameter 5y ago
This feels like a blogpost about graphic design using too many grids and tables. It doesn't really dive deep into the conundrum of what UI could be when the system is "symbolic all the way down", with the basic digital repres
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by megameter 5y ago
HN doesn't(as a rule) have economic philosophers in its userbase. What it does have are people who have built their livelihood within the familiar framework and set of rules abided by nations. The system has worked for them, and if it
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by megameter 5y ago
I am experiencing renewed optimism from materials technology lately. Graphene production is on the rise and the applications are huge. Mycelium is touted as the next plastic. Newer engineered woods like CLT hold a lot of promise as they get
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by megameter 5y ago
Nobody on Alpha Centuari cares how much Jeff Bezos owns either. All ownership is contextual, it only looks like we have universal rights enforcement because of the powerful state acting as middleman. Therefore I have to conclude that NFT
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by megameter 5y ago
It's easy. Copy-paste the blockchain and start over with a fork. When the system delegitimizes itself, a debt jubilee lies around the corner. This stuff is just glue now - a cheap way of making a financial system.
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by megameter 5y ago
I started doing animal crawls every day recently after being tipped off by some YT videos to their benefits, and they seem to work even better than running for the goal of full-body maintenance. Every time I finish I feel like my spine has
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by megameter 5y ago
While I have not used the Slimblade, I did consider it when I last shopped for trackballs and settled for the Orbit instead, which I've owned before and can use for hours at a stretch without issue. I believe the angles of the palm res
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by megameter 5y ago
It really does sound like the analogous statement about "only five or six computers in the world" from the 1950's.
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by megameter 5y ago
I think all the arts eventually gain a calculated precision to them, just at different stages of the process. With music, structure arrives at the very beginning: rhythm and harmonic structure have some concrete rules to make them cohere.
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by megameter 5y ago
One lesson of the medieval period is that that when the previous society(Rome) breaks down, a period of mysticism sweeps in, from which the new society emerges. This happens on a smaller scale with e.g. "Great Awakenings". Mystici
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by megameter 5y ago
This typically comes from chasing after higher sources of recognition/prestige/clout, and it's especially prone to happen when you have a background in the "traditional" industry and saw the whole endeavor of produc
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by megameter 5y ago
In my own assessment, fiat exchanges are just the tip of the crypto iceberg. None of the cozy corporate firms want to go near privacy coins, to name one example. They know that those don't fit into the plan, so they're ignored. Bu
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by megameter 5y ago
If I go on itch.io right now and pick something at random, the likelihood of it being both made by a teenager and involving written storytelling is quite high. Likewise a huge hit of the last decade was Undertale and it had the kind of suc
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by megameter 5y ago
Personally, I would go for a "power tower" type of setup(dips plus pullups) plus some mats, boxes and light weights to flesh out calisthenics routines. And if noise isn't a factor, I'd go for a Stepmania setup first over
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by megameter 5y ago
I find that a lot of fitness advice for the "ordinary overweight" adapts something from either athletic training, or physical therapy. Dietary advice likewise tends towards weighty, religious entreaties like "avoid all carbs&
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by megameter 5y ago
Lots of things, but almost always the same concept: Divisions of space. Not just "I'll remember to put that there," but making a place to put it. No "piles" allowed - a tray, binder, folder, bag or bin for everythin
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by megameter 5y ago
A key analogy that went unused in the article is the Red Queen's Race: "it takes all the running you can do to stay in the same place" applies to car traffic precisely because cars are large and powerful and are persistently
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by megameter 5y ago
You did all that in a few months? That actually sounds like something that went quite smoothly. The time needed to engineer that kind of high-scale system at the outset is also going to enter the multi-month range, and with less backgroun
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by megameter 5y ago
Lately I have returned to using a gamepad with Joy2Key for browsing and productivity in Windows, something I last did in the 2000's. It's not perfect(some mouse events just don't work right through this method so I may have t
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by megameter 5y ago
The SF Bay Area allows this possiblity, though it would be most feasible by including local rail; a walk-on north-south trip between Santa Rosa and Monterey could be done by going SMART->ferry->BART->Caltrain->Hwy 17 Express-&gt
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by megameter 5y ago
For the demographic in the mindset of "America = good, whomever makes it look bad = evil"(which is going to be a big demographic within the US so long as it's a going concern, and applies to US allies to a lesser extent), the
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by megameter 5y ago
Normally, in the SF summertime, the prevaling wind is east by mid-afternoon and continues strong well into the evening. Thus the city hardly ever heats up or experiences bad air until August, when the weather system changes and the winds ca
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by megameter 5y ago
I am definitely on the same track. When the gym reopened I tried going back and doing higher intensity routines again after mostly sticking to smaller daily ones. Within about six weeks I had managed to blow through my fatigue threshold and
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by megameter 5y ago
The last time I implemented a timing loop I came up with an approach that would mitigate jitter and oscillation artifacts occurring due to OS overhead (though not solving the aspect of video refresh itself being misaligned). One of my major
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by megameter 5y ago
Another way to frame the dichotomy for the CS-inclined is greedy versus backtracking solutions. A penny-pincher is taking the best locally optimal choice at each step, just like a greedy matcher. A "backtracker", while not always
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by megameter 5y ago
Atari BASIC used 48-bit BCD floats and the routines were not well optimized, making it one of the slowest at the time(later retrohobbyists have made various patches as well as faster BASIC implementations). It was also Microsoft-incompatibl
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by megameter 5y ago
Access to sexual experiences is something I would count as a great liberation of the past decades. When a man got desperate for release not all that long ago, they didn't hop online for an outlet, they drove to the seedy part of town a
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by megameter 5y ago
Tables of a static size, or small dynamically generated ones, are fairly straightforward because you just pay the entire cost of layout upfront. The layout algorithms themselves are a feature farm - CSS is complex because it supports so man
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by megameter 5y ago
Supine posture isn't really all that static if you're awake and on a surface at least as hard as tatami - you can shift around on the floor much more than in a chair, especially if the monitor can adjust a bit with you. Add a pill

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