mrmikardo

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   by mrmikardo 3y ago

   This is another good case for security-by-minimisation. I struggle to see why NI numbers were required on the electoral register — particularly when democracy in the UK had been functioning for over a century without them. The best way to e
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   by mrmikardo 4y ago

   And indeed, there's an important caveat in the Django 4.1 docs; Note that, at this stage, the underlying database operations remain synchronous, with contributions ongoing to push asynchronous support down into the SQL compiler, and i
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   by mrmikardo 4y ago

   Craig is a former ambassador to Uzbekistan, who served in the Foreign Office for many years. He's since dedicated a lot of his time to following and reporting on the Assange case in the UK. He doesn't hide his opinions, some of wh
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   by mrmikardo 5y ago

   > By taking everything literal ("no, Bill Gates is not literally inserting microchips"), their enemies can avoid dealing with the issues a more charitable interpretation would be getting at. This is so on the mark - too often w
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   by mrmikardo 5y ago

   Thank you for remdinding me of this fantastic book! One of my favourites.
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   by mrmikardo 5y ago

   I've been practicing kriya yoga and hatha yoga every day for the past half year. I usually do it as soon as I wake up, and it takes about an hour. It's quite intense work, but I'm glad I've kept it up, as the benefits ha
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   by mrmikardo 5y ago

   Many thanks for posting this. It's a very well-written and timely piece.
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   by mrmikardo 6y ago

   Thanks for reminding me of this. A very pertinent and insightful observation and, as you suggest, one that is missing from the linked article.
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   by mrmikardo 6y ago

   I agree. And the more centralised the banking system is, the weirder the incentives become / banks are somewhat decoupled from the incentive to lend to credit-worthy / promising businesses (like here in the UK).
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    by mrmikardo 6y ago

    I think this article misses a valuable point: because they lend more than they keep in reserve, banks create money or credit, and thus expand the available money supply. Removing banks, and giving all this power to the central government, a