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by spiralx 5y ago
I was talking about its utility, not value. The whole point of a currency is being useful, not in being valuable.
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by spiralx 5y ago
And use it to participate in the economy to obtain little things such as housing and food. Not to mention a computer and an internet connection.
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by spiralx 5y ago
Another half billion or more in Africa have been happily using mobile payment systems such as M-Pesa for years now as well, sending more money than the Bitcoin "market cap" each year.
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by spiralx 5y ago
Presumably those corrupt people will be the ones in charge of writing smart contracts as well if you're living somewhere so deeply corrupt.
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by spiralx 5y ago
Eric Flint specifically talks about his long-term support for unions in one of the prefaces (I think) of the early books in the series, quite likely 1632 itself. He's worked in a union as a longshoreman, truck driver, auto worker, stee
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by spiralx 5y ago
I read this review of one of John Ringo's series some years back and have never been tempted to read anything by him - the review is hilarious, the books sound absolutely fucking awful. https://hradzka.livejournal.com/1
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by spiralx 5y ago
I've been reading these for a while now and they're a genuinely great exploration of 17th century European cultural, religious, political and scientific ideas as well as a fascinating take on how the 20th century would fare in tha
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by spiralx 5y ago
Going from Java to JavaScript really does seem to be painful for developers who don't know other languages as well, I know what you mean... "A closure?" I'm sure it's an easier switch today but I've read a lot
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by spiralx 5y ago
Denmark looks down on Iceland, which in turn looks down on the Faroe Islands. Ari Eldjárn's stand-up talks about this and is well worth a watch :) https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81337086
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by spiralx 5y ago
Was it just me that couldn't find a single example of what this Scrolldown actually looks like? I found a link to it's grammar file buried at the bottom, but that was it.
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by spiralx 5y ago
Or - as happens frequently in multi-party PR systems - large parties needing to form a majority coalition end up giving small extremist parties concessions in order to secure their support, meaning even a single electoral success can be par
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by spiralx 5y ago
These primers from the Bank of England cover what money is and how it is created in the modern economy, which would give you a better understanding of the subject than 90% of posters on these articles :) https://www.bankofengland
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by spiralx 5y ago
Will this fare better than the MS Satoshi? https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/sep/07/disastrous-voya... Or Liberland, Galt's Gulch in Chile, Sealand, the Republic of Minerva or that place in NH t
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by spiralx 5y ago
Can you have a cooperative with limited liability? I'm sure you can emulate it with a limited company and particular arrangements of stock ownership and voting rights, but I doubt that's easy or cheap to set up. The John Lewis Par
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by spiralx 5y ago
An epidemic is an unexpected rise in cases within a community or region, which could mean part of a country, an entire country, an ethnic group spread across multiple countries, or an entire landmass. And a pandemic is an epidemic that has
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by spiralx 5y ago
I'd say emotional over-investment is at least a big a problem with founders and family businesses.
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by spiralx 5y ago
No, it's Piketty's controversial book, one of his points was his analysis of historical data showed that the only time the ratio of wealth between capital and labour R decreased was during wartime, especially the two World Wars wh
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by spiralx 5y ago
Whether you cut a pie into 10 million slices or 10 billion slices you still only have one pie in total in the same way that changing ten dimes for a hundred cents still means you have a dollar. In a world where only 1,000,000 BTC remain in
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by spiralx 5y ago
Before your examples Europe had the Great Bullion Famine during the 15th century that caused deflation across the continent due to the lack of gold. This was ended when the Spanish started flooding Europe with vast amounts of gold from the
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by spiralx 5y ago
Oh good I'm glad I'm not the only one who has started it and not managed to get through the whole thing in one go. It's very good, but very dense. I should also finish reading it at some point...
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by spiralx 5y ago
This site which was posted here a while back is great, it's up to date and explains the concepts CSS is based on clearly with examples using Codepen so you get to see both the HTML and CSS as well as the result, plus you can open them
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by spiralx 5y ago
Europe had the Great Bullion Famine in the 15th century causing deflation across the continent, which was ended by the Spanish flooding Europe with gold from the Americas, causing massive inflation instead. https://en.wikipedia.o
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by spiralx 5y ago
No, banks do create money through loans, a bank with zero deposits could still loan out money. https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
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by spiralx 5y ago
Because HN is one of the most anti-vax websites I browse regularly? This story is relatively sane compared to most.
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by spiralx 5y ago
Tether counts for 80% of the trading volume though, which is the important figure instead of the nonsensical "market cap" value so beloved of crypto fans.
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by spiralx 5y ago
I don't think individualism became the norm until the early 1980s to be honest. Outside of niche sub-groups and the youth you see massive conformity when looking at footage from before then.
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by spiralx 5y ago
Brexit was about Tory backbenchers, not UKIP.
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by spiralx 5y ago
It was more to do with appeasing the backbenchers in the 1822 Committee than voters.
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by spiralx 5y ago
Parliamentary systems still devolve into two-party contests in each district though, it's more that the larger number of districts means that regional parties sometimes takes one of those two slots. At their peak the Lib Dems basically
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by spiralx 5y ago
Well Japan has over twice the debt-to-GDP ratio (the important figure here) as the US, and has done for almost two decades now. The debt isn't one thing, it's millions of bonds being sold all the time, each of which has to be repa

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