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by spiralx 5y ago
There are massive advances in subjects like materials and biotechnology happening now, they're just not big and flashy despite being at least as game-changing as any other major advance over the last century.
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by spiralx 5y ago
South Korea seems to manage building a nuclear power plant in six years or so, they don't have to take decades to get online.
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by spiralx 5y ago
Try "Effective TypeScript" from O'Reilly, every chapter I've read so far has been informative - even when I thought I knew the topic inside-out - and it's well-written for the subject depth. You can read some of the
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by spiralx 5y ago
She didn't want to go public at all. She was outed by Ryan Grim at the Intercept as part of an attack article he wrote on Diane Fenstein.
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by spiralx 5y ago
Apart from the historical reasons both `getElementsByClassName` and especially `getElementById` are optimised - the latter being a simple lookup - which I'm not sure `querySelectorAll` is able to take advantage of.
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by spiralx 5y ago
Selecting descendants or sibling elements? Selecting based on tag and class? Selecting elements with a given attribute present or matching a particular value? Selecting elements with classes starting or ending with a given string? Selecting
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by spiralx 5y ago
There are no monthly audits. They have "attestations" which are not the same thing.
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by spiralx 5y ago
Because market cap is nonsense, if I create FooCoin with 1,000,000 tokens and sell one for $250, it has a market cap of $250M despite only ever having $250 in real money involved.
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by spiralx 5y ago
I'm sure every police force takes that into account along with other factors, there are always laws that become outdated and are arrested for less, prosecuted less and convicted of less over time. And in common law jurisdictions preced
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by spiralx 5y ago
> And that ignores issues like the Conquistadors coming back from the new world with literally tons of gold / silver and royally messing up the gold / silver coinage economy. Which was preceded by the exact opposite problem in
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by spiralx 5y ago
How courts interpret legislation and precedent differs a lot between common and civil law jurisdictions, but that's got nothing to do with how policing operates. Police everywhere can choose not to take action unless you're talkin
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by spiralx 5y ago
Yeah, our cat hated the vacuum cleaner at first but having seen us using it regularly she now sleeps through it even if we hoover around her. They're pretty quick to accept things when they associate it with a trusted person.
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by spiralx 5y ago
Here you go! https://github.com/codemix/ts-sql import { Query } from "@codemix/ts-sql"; const db = { things: [ { id: 1, name: "a", active: true }, { id: 2,
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by spiralx 5y ago
That's a far more reassuring figure lol, thanks for the link!
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by spiralx 5y ago
I presume that given effective physical and mental immortality you'd see relatively few people hit 1,000 years simply because a lot of people would run out of meaningful things to do before then, and we don't tend to do well in th
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by spiralx 5y ago
Just as bank lending creates money, paying back bank loans destroys money. Money is also created or destroyed by banks purchasing or selling debt assets such as government bonds. https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media&
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by spiralx 5y ago
Fractional reserve banking is an incorrect model of money creation though, banks in today's world really do create money via lending. https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
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by spiralx 5y ago
Fractional reserve banking as a model actually requires deposits in order to make loans, but you're correct in saying that banks do not lend out deposits at all, they in fact create money by lending. This is the clearest overview of th
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by spiralx 5y ago
This looks quite nice, but it's a couple of clicks through to the guide where you can see what this is actually about: https://docs.pyfilesystem.org/en/latest/guide.html
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by spiralx 5y ago
Banks literally create money by lending, here's a good overview from the Bank of England: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
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by spiralx 5y ago
Did anything happen in 1971 though? https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2020/01/17/debunking-the...
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by spiralx 5y ago
Psychoacoustics and "perceptual audio coding" are the search terms you were looking for, here's a couple of links: https://www.izotope.com/en/learn/psychoacoustics-how-percept... https://
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by spiralx 5y ago
Slashdot's moderation system was amazingly effective given the complete hands off policy to comments on the site and anonymous posting was allowed without signing up. It's features were: * comment scores clamped between +5 and -
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by spiralx 5y ago
I hate that stuff, it seems like every other minute I've moved my mouse too far and I'm suddenly in one of several completely different screens or views, I then need to figure out how to get back to where I was and perform the app
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by spiralx 5y ago
Except that it has all of the ergonomics of mid-2000s PHP and MySQL. Hah, this comment from a discussion here in 2017 also explicitly compares it to PHP of that era :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14691212
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by spiralx 5y ago
There is a discretionary budget allocated to the executive that can be used for funding EOs, although it's not huge when looked at relative to the budget - $800m a year is what's in my head but I could be wrong.
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by spiralx 5y ago
As someone who implemented over 70 different indicators and close to 20 tools for drawing Gann fans, Fibonacci retracements and so on, I've heard a similar thing about technical analysis and astrology and very much concur :)
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by spiralx 5y ago
One place I worked at had something similar as well, it's just that all my memories are of using it for mail, calendar and contacts. And the stupid log-in dialog!
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by spiralx 5y ago
Thanks, I was very happy with it, it had the right balance of being outrageously inflammatory while containing plenty of clues that it was a troll. And the images were the icing on the cake lol.
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by spiralx 5y ago
AMD being dangerous knock-offs was one of the recurring themes we had, and in fact when we closed the site in 2002/3 we changed it to a blank screen with just a message we'd received from an AMD employee threatening to "shut

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