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by psychphysic 4y ago
It's worth checking out the link I provided to the Bank of England's document on modern banking and "loans make deposits", as opposed to your outdated view that "deposits make loans". Fractional reserve banking
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by psychphysic 4y ago
Excellent point well said. It's part of why I find the neurodivergency movement likely harmful. It's the functional impairment that defines disease. Traits which help classify the disease if one is present are present in those wit
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by psychphysic 4y ago
It begs the question why don't banks do that instead of lending it? Well because the bank never had the money they lent you. Central banks let retail banks invent money for the loans[0]. Then incentives then to meet some thresholds on
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by psychphysic 4y ago
Exactly, the same thing can happen in funds. As they go south they sell their liquid assets. Which are typically the best. The remaining business is doomed to fail now but even more painfully.
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by psychphysic 4y ago
"World War I" would have been a better example. That only made sense after WWII.
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by psychphysic 4y ago
Not quite, new variants develop and new to adult variants will appear every few years. It's less able to spread than COVID so adults get the flu about every 5 years[0]. I'm sure you've heard of Spanish flu by now, but may not
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by psychphysic 4y ago
Unless you're licking buttons on the subway, how could you possibly be getting exposed to that many different strains? For what it's worth adults get the flu about every 5 years[0]. It's not till we get elderly that we can st
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by psychphysic 4y ago
Cheap lesson as corporate lessons go.
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by psychphysic 4y ago
Mind over Mood is an excellent self guided CBT book. It comes with works sheets. There's also a practitioners version if you want to see how the sausage is made from a fascilitation side of thing. If you're interested in more adva
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by psychphysic 4y ago
CBT is an amazing invention. Aaron Beck it's creator passed away not so long ago. There is an issue where some personality types don't accept it. And will rationalise somehow that they ought to remain miserable.
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by psychphysic 4y ago
> I think the natural end point for heavily worn clothes would be as a rag? This is what I do, but I read somewhere that old clothes make bad rags due to losing texture over the years of use and washing and especially fabric conditioner
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by psychphysic 4y ago
One wrinkle in this is that photons do have indirect self interactions, and any graviton should have self-interaction. [0] But the overall story around colour confinement, flux tubes and so constant force required to separate quarks is the