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by scatters 5y ago
> you can't eat virtual goods There's a limit to the physical quantity of non-virtual goods you can eat, as well. If you switch from eating a $3 burger to a $100 steak with the same nutritional content, that contributes to econ
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by scatters 5y ago
It's mostly from merchant fees. This means that it's being paid by consumers who use other payment methods - but then, those come with their own costs.
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Since 2000, the proportion of Oxbridge entrants who attended state schools has been consistently over 50% and is steadily approaching two thirds. The public school track really isn't the advantage some (including the schools themselves
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He won a plurality of votes, which translates into a majority of seats via the winner-takes-all representative system. Success at playing the electoral game is not the same thing as popular support.
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Why not? What's stopping you?
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Yes; a simple example is Norton's dome. It is possible to construct a frictionless curve such that a particle that is pushed up the curve with correct initial velocity will reach the top and halt in finite time. Observing a particle si
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by scatters 5y ago
For the apple to fall on Newton's head? It could have been dropped by a passing swallow (or possibly two, held on a line between the dorsal guiding feathers). For it to fall from the tree? Well, that's a linguistic trick; for it t
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by scatters 5y ago
There are no necessary conditions in the physical world. If you hadn't turned on the light, perhaps someone else would have. Or perhaps a bird or a meteorite could have flown through the window and struck the switch in just such a way
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by scatters 5y ago
MSVC claims complete C++20 support, but their concepts implementation is lacking support for requires-expressions. This is a pretty huge oversight, imo.
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What's stopping you taking a purely transactional approach to using those sites? You can post on FB Marketplace or stay logged into Instagram without ever needing to scroll the feed, give out likes, or engage in pointless arguments. It
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All the evidence shows that a rate of inflation around 2% averaged over the business cycle is beneficial and necessary for the economy. Trying to adopt a deflationary currency is akin to refusing to drink water because people drown in lakes
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by scatters 5y ago
Since C++20, you can write `explicit(false)` to indicate that a single argument constructor is intentionally implicit. Similarly, the language adds the [[fallthrough]] statement attribute to indicate intentional fallthrough between switch c
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by scatters 5y ago
You realize that modern economies haven't used fractional reserve banking for decades at least?
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You're implying that Google wouldn't bring out two or more products in the same space? The same Google that releases a new messaging app on Android every quarter?
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> a planet that you then have far less ability to explore and enjoy Living in a city doesn't prevent you from getting a train, riding a bike, or (even) hiring a car to get out into nature. The only thing in the way is getting out th
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by scatters 5y ago
I think smartwatches fill that niche now - at least those models with physical buttons. I'm actually impressed by how ergonomic the music listening experience on my Garmin is.
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Isn't that called a city?
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> But...work friends aren't friends. It's very rare to stay in touch if you change jobs The exact same holds for other situational friendships. Stop drinking, stop going to church, get injured and stop playing sport, and see ho
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by scatters 5y ago
No, the "pen" in "penguin" means "head" - it's from Welsh. English spelling is a lot easier if you know the languages it was derived from or influenced by. An advantage of non-phonetic spelling is that it
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by scatters 5y ago
Trees use the C3 pathway. There are much faster-growing plant species (for example bamboo, switchgrass) that could be incorporated into a BECCS process.
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Is "You art tall." a grammatically valid sentence? Obviously not; don't be silly.
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Start with Wikipedia: novelty effect, Hawthorne effect.
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The US does not have reserve requirements; it has capital requirements. The fractional-reserve model is not a realistic description of banking in modern developed economies.
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> almost as bad as walking What's bad about walking? It's good for your health, good for the economy, good for the environment.
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Did you consider the ability to charge an EV when buying (renting?) your home? Will you factor that in when moving in future? Consumers have more choice than you think; not everyone, but a definite proportion come into a position to make a
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by scatters 5y ago
Alcohol is regarded as lowering inhibitions, which allows people to express themselves honestly and break down boundaries while returning to the normal social order the next day.
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To be fair, cryptocurrencies do have genuine cash flows as well. People who need to launder money out of the criminal economy or out of oppressive economic regimes will be willing to pay a considerable cut to do so, and that money goes to &
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If an instrument is priced correctly, that is to say at the risk adjusted net present value of its future cash flows, then it absolutely will go up in the long term as it returns cash (dividends, buybacks) and as cash flows that are still i
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"Early to rise and early to bed / Makes a man healthy but socially dead." I feel ya.
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You're certainly supposed to sleep longer; it saves energy. Supposedly that's the adaptive background to seasonal affective disorder.

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