petrocrat

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by petrocrat 6y ago
The 1st amendment covers freedom of assembly as well. > Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of gri
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by petrocrat 6y ago
The other officers (excluding the one who was standing) involved should also be arrested.
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by petrocrat 6y ago
Why must officer names be anonymized? They are public servants and they are obligated to provide name and badge numbers during the course of their duty. (Anonymizing citizens that were arrested/cited makes sense, of course)
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by petrocrat 6y ago
This is like the Open Source Ecology project but for computing hardware.
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by petrocrat 6y ago
Are there any schemes where it costs some tiny amount of eth/gas/whateverCoin to post content? Theoretically that should decrease spam and increase high effort posts, but I could see it also reducing open source style contribution
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by petrocrat 6y ago
Transformers are usually housed in metal boxes. Any wires inside metal sheeting of whatever geometry would be protected because any current induced would be induced in the metal container which dissipates the power of the pulse. To learn mo
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by petrocrat 6y ago
> it's every major nation No, Countries in Europe are providing fiscally sourced replacement to wages/salaries. For example Denmark is paying 80% of an employees salary if the company does not lay them off. This is a drasticall
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by petrocrat 6y ago
>Where is the declarative query language equivalent of Rust, Haskell, etc.? Maybe Cypher from Neo4j?
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by petrocrat 6y ago
At least for programming content, I think dev.to has replaced medium and is doing a fantastic job so far.
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by petrocrat 6y ago
Another useful topic to understand that's related to this: Hamiltonian Mechanics ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian_mechanics ), which is a whole other way to express what Newton described with his physics,
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by petrocrat 6y ago
That assumption is incorrect for sovereign currencies issuers (like the US, UK, Japan). They would just issue bonds, which is not at all like you or I taking out a loan.
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by petrocrat 7y ago
I don't see that many pushing for communism. Now, a lot are pushing for universal healthcare and similar social safety-net programs. Confusing these two things is a hallmark of either a propogandist or one of their rubes.
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by petrocrat 7y ago
natural selection applies to any self-replicating things... viruses are considered non-living, but they are still self-replicating. (technically, the self-replication need also admit mutations into the replication process for natural select
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by petrocrat 7y ago
have you heard of interviewing.io?
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by petrocrat 7y ago
reddit.com/r/mmt_economics Not a book, I know but there are a lot of articles and resources in the sidebar, including a list of academic papers on the inner workings of money/monetary systems. Search for "MMT Foundations
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by petrocrat 7y ago
Minksy also "identified three types of borrowers that contribute to the accumulation of insolvent debt: hedge borrowers, speculative borrowers, and Ponzi borrowers." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_Minsky
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by petrocrat 7y ago
Upwork, fiverr, freelancer also have jobs posted which are for fake reviews, even though the job description is cleverly disguised as a a blog post or some other innocent thing.
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by petrocrat 7y ago
It actually extends to the entire economy: The public sector debt is exactly equal to the private sector savings, because they are literally the same entity. Check out MMT Economics for the balance sheet math that demonstrates this.
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by petrocrat 7y ago
What if it automatically populated the list of your "close friends" by some algorithm that ranks your overall interaction with them. So you can't arbitrarily add or remove the friends. You could "game" it but only b
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by petrocrat 7y ago
It's fine to ignore those parts as long as you still vote and advocate for increased funding to renewable & no-carbon energy deployment and reduced tax incentives for legacy fuel generation (i.e. the depletion allowance, which is s
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by petrocrat 7y ago
I really like react, but I see the appeal of the .vue files in the vue framework. I think there are perhaps more people than you think who don't like how CSS integrates with react (CSS-in-JS) and prefer having the single file component
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by petrocrat 7y ago
The argument for omnivorianism that I find unassailable is that plowing which is required for annuals is actually worse for the environment than ruminant emissions. While utilizing perenials will require ruminants for a truly holistic agric
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by petrocrat 7y ago
The alternative is protecting and even strengthening estate taxes and perhaps something like Bernie Sanders' wall street high frequency transaction tax idea.
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by petrocrat 7y ago
Article 1, Section 9 prohibits direct taxes (which a wealth tax would definitely be) unless apportioned by state population. So it is unconstitutional unless every state agrees on an apportionment arrangement, which is nigh impossible as lo
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by petrocrat 7y ago
They are also unable to harness fire or combustion... arguably a prerequisite of civilization and the easiest way to acquire/use exosomatic energy.
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by petrocrat 8y ago
Let's do both.
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by petrocrat 8y ago
Just did a rework on mine and would love any feedback: https://jamievaughn.github.io