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by spiralx 5y ago
The essay linked in the article is absolutely spot on when talking about the dynamics of groups with formalised structures vs those that are decentralised, it's well worth a read. https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/t
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by spiralx 5y ago
It was one politician who blocked a full national health service back in the 70s despite bipartisan support for it - IIRC he used his position as ranking member on the Ways & Means committee to stonewall the whole thing. American politi
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by spiralx 5y ago
Banks don't lend out deposits though - a $100 loan creates both a $100 liability - the value in the customer's account - and a $100 (plus interest) asset - the loan itself - which also balances out to $0. The process literally cre
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by spiralx 5y ago
> BUSD as of Oct 29th had a market cap of $13.1B USD which was fully backed by fiat USD held in bank accounts which are audited monthly. You claim this and then link to a page explicitly labelled attestations - an attestation is not the
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by spiralx 5y ago
The Wikimedia Foundation is literally run by a governing board lol, and if I start a project on Kickstarter I still have complete control and ownership of my project. Saying that "having multiple contributors" or "permissive
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by spiralx 5y ago
A great video demonstrating the strangeness of representing colours is this video on the colour brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU Colour theory can get pretty complicated, the video is however very understa
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by spiralx 5y ago
This whole topic is extrapolating from people's feelings to the behaviour of a huge public company. I've not seen a single piece of actual data anywhere so far.
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by spiralx 5y ago
> The website where the efforts were finally consolidated was a central place, but it could very well have been developed as a network of nodes dedicated to different aspects of the explanation of areas of knowledge; the license allowed
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by spiralx 5y ago
There have been precious few new arguments put forth since the crypto space pivoted from "currency of the future" to "immutable store of value" as its origin story, and even then it was - as you pointed out - a bunch of
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by spiralx 5y ago
USDC has not been audited, they have only had attestations.
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> They seem to have especial disdain for scientists, who have a long and stories reputation as the intellectual elite, which might just rub their egos the wrong way. Doubly so for anything vaguely related to social sciences and other fie
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by spiralx 5y ago
I recall that as well, my guess would be Sublime Text. Ah, it might have been this plugin for Atom, I was using that for a while: https://github.com/davidleghorn/atom-focus-mode Edited to add that I found this for VS C
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by spiralx 5y ago
You pair the tax with a redistributive dividend to ensure that the change is neutral for the least well-off. https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/why-carbon-divi... https://www.scientificamerica
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by spiralx 5y ago
We provide documents and services for startups and this is spot on. Once you've got past the idea of "getting investors to invest in a funding round in exchange for equity" and the obvious differences of i18n and l10n, there
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by spiralx 5y ago
Yes, I'm aware that they're an area of research in many countries, I was talking about actual projects that represent the "endgame of tyranny" as described above. The paper you've linked to talks about privacy and u
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by spiralx 5y ago
As far as I'm aware CBDCs are a largely theoretical concept right now, do you have any links to an implementation such as you're describing?
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by spiralx 5y ago
As far as I'm aware CBDCs are a largely theoretical concept right now, do you have any links to an implementation such as you're describing? No videos please, I don't watch them.
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by spiralx 5y ago
The miners have the actual power, but want to avoid a situation where they are directly fighting against Buterin and the developers, because that would cause a crisis and tank the value of ETH and hence their income going forward. A hard fo
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by spiralx 5y ago
> People could not imagine automobiles or flying or computers, but that did not make them impossible. People imagined versions of those things for a long time before they were practical. People have imagined other types of currency as we
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by spiralx 5y ago
How are CBDCs the "endgame for tyranny" in a way that (presumably) fiat currencies or cryptocurrencies aren't? Seems a bit hyperbolic, but maybe you have good reasons to be so alarmed.
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by spiralx 5y ago
Do you have evidence that "a desire to create centralized digital currencies" has anything to do with "banning cryptocurrencies"? Because lots of countries have expressed interest in CBDCs and most of them aren't ta
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by spiralx 5y ago
+1 for Octotree and Tabs Outliner from me.
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by spiralx 5y ago
Jordan had said there was only to be one more book at the point he became ill, somewhere along the line that turned into three books, presumably the notes and scenes he left to whomever was to finish the series was a bit more extensive than
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by spiralx 5y ago
The CoCs are to guilds as unions are to factories in my opinion - they both are for workers' rights but operate within different power structures.
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by spiralx 5y ago
But I enjoyed all fifteen books of the Wheel of Time and it had a satisfactory ending - what for me makes an epic fantasy is that it tells the story of a world-changing event, and world changing events have a very broad scope that involve n
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by spiralx 5y ago
> Let's see if Martin pulls a Jordan. Dying before finishing the final book? That seems pretty likely. > At the start of February, Martin told his followers that lockdown had enabled him to make headway on the eagerly anticipated
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Another good series and one that having read and enjoyed meant I decided to chance 1632 despite the awful cover and blurb.
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To be honest everything about the cover and blurb put me off reading 1632, but I've learnt that American fantasy/SF books require applying the maxim "don't judge a book by its cover" quite literally due to the fashi
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by spiralx 5y ago
No, banks create money when they make a loan, they don't lend out deposits. Loans are constrained by risk and by reserve requirements set by central banks. https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/file
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by spiralx 5y ago
> TypeScript doesn't truly understand sub-class relationships nor even prototypal inheritance. Yes, I was recently spent several hours trying to write a conditional type based on the prototype of a generic type and gave up in the en

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