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by spiralx 5y ago
> This will single-handedly allow equality of opportunity to be realized. In the long-term and not entirely. I wonder what the effect in the short- to medium-term would be on poorer countries who presumably would see a lot more emigratio
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by spiralx 5y ago
> You make a good distinction there and perhaps politicians act as a bit of both. And I also think it's not scalable to vote on all issues that come up, that's why we have politicians full time. But for specific big issues dire
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by spiralx 5y ago
> I dont know whether these people are stupid, or brainwashed by something. People like stories that they can grasp in general, and populism as a political tactic provides an extremely simple narrative of a clear-cut "elite" gr
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by spiralx 5y ago
> More accurate idea: genes are like the NVRAM of a running program that has run continuously with in-place updates for 4 billion years. They also represent the NVRAM of the compiler that builds both the program and the compiler itself :
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by spiralx 5y ago
Needless complexity has costs associated with building it and maintaining/running it, so I'd expect in the majority of cases it would be selected against strongly enough to disappear over time. Which implies the majority of comple
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by spiralx 5y ago
Except fractional reserve banking is an incorrect model of how banks work, the poster you're replying to is correct, banks create money when they make loans. The Bank of England's guide to money creation makes this distinction cle
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by spiralx 5y ago
It said emissions from activities relating to loans are 700x direct emissions, 1.04 Gt / 700 is 1.5 Mt.
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by spiralx 5y ago
So banks actually produce about 1.5M tons of emissions then according to your link.
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by spiralx 5y ago
> US Military: 59 M ... Banks: 1040 M tons I have no idea where you got these numbers from, but the idea that banks produce 17 times as much CO2 as the entire US military - with all of its fossil fuel-burning vehicles - is obviously ridi
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by spiralx 5y ago
It made it easy to pay for things from sites that didn't support debit cards and other European-only payment methods. And while bank transfers have been free for years, doing so online or on your phone hasn't necessarily been easy
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by spiralx 5y ago
Disney World is allowed to build a nuclear reactor :) https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2019/02/21/disney-wo...
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by spiralx 5y ago
> The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist (Magician, Silverthorn, A Darkness at Sethanon), while not an officially licensed D&D tie-in, is based on a D&D campaign the author played in at UCSD in the 1970s. The books are set 500 year
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by spiralx 5y ago
Users will ask for three things they can describe in a simple sentence. One will take someone half a day, one will take a whole team a two-week sprint, and one will require fundamentally rearchitecting the project, or not be possible at all
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by spiralx 5y ago
Articles, thumbnails, comments, votes, awards, users, I'm sure it all adds up considering the dynamic nature of what each user sees. And they do do a lot of caching to make it work: https://redditblog.com/2017/1&#x
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by spiralx 5y ago
> "Despite the 'Puppy and Sunshine' bill actually providing everyone with puppies and sunshine, we can't support it because it also summons the literal anti-christ to destroy the Earth. The puppies and sunshine is sim
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by spiralx 5y ago
If you dig through legislation it begins to look like a Git repository, with patches adding and removing parts of the content and branches that if successful generate their own patches as well. Legal documents aren't code, but they do
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by spiralx 5y ago
> Where is Venmo ubiquitous? Always remember that consumer banking in the US is at least a decade behind everywhere else in the first world. Apps that allow cheap/free and fast money transfers were and still are a big deal there.
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by spiralx 5y ago
Without riders and earmarks there's no way to get someone to support your bill if they don't like the concept to start with. There's no downside for not supporting a bill, so cutting half of its provisions will still half to
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by spiralx 5y ago
Ars Magica the RPG was set in a low-fantasy version of Europe, you had three different characters you could play during a story - a magus of the Order of Hermes, a companion of the mage's covenant (knights, scholars, churchmen and othe
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by spiralx 5y ago
Which is why the US has been trying to discourage the use of the dollar as a reserve currency for well over a decade now. There are no real upsides to being a reserve currency (i.e. the strength of the dollar is because of the size and stre
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by spiralx 5y ago
Thanks, the second image was by far the clearest demonstration of rendering issues that are well-beyond just aesthetic preference and verging on actually changing the meaning. The first character of "口周辺" looks as if someone cut o
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by spiralx 5y ago
The top 10% of active users were actually prevented from getting moderation points at all, which helped prevent those users dominating the site. If you browsed /. a couple of times a week and read a few articles each time you'd li
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by spiralx 5y ago
After stopping reading /. every day sometime around 2010 or so I've started browsing it again about once a week or so. There's less discussion than there used to be but it's no better or worse than it used to be - there&
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by spiralx 5y ago
> UI/UX matters. A perennial issue for GIMP, at least their branding is consistent though :)
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by spiralx 5y ago
But I can't even remember the name of the other billionaire who ran in the Democratic primary this year, so I don't think it's a sufficient condition. Nobody will be concerned with Bloomberg's 2020 run in a decade, heck,
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by spiralx 5y ago
Calvinist influence has been on the rise again in the US for decades, you can see it in the rise of the "prosperity gospel" in churches. https://www.reformation21.org/mos/1517/creeping-calvinism
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by spiralx 5y ago
It was random who got mod points, additionally the 10% most active and 25% least active users were excluded from getting mod points at all.
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by spiralx 5y ago
You could, it would just undo your moderations in that article.
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by spiralx 5y ago
Also: 5. most active users excluded from getting votes at all
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by spiralx 5y ago
Money is created by banks when they loan money, so none of those apply.

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