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by spiralx 6y ago
Our legal team code most of our documents in a hybrid of Pug, Markdown and Handlebars which works for us - it also supports automatic sectioning as well. This works well for the general case where documents are generated from question sets
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by spiralx 6y ago
Except there are numerous flaws with the construction of that graph: https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2020/01/17/debunking-the...
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by spiralx 6y ago
If you want a long debunking of that graph then read this: https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2020/01/17/debunking-the...
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by spiralx 6y ago
Fractional reserve banking doesn't actually model how banks work in the modern economy though - they don't lend out deposits, they just add a figure to the customer's account and add a matching loan to their assets, literally
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by spiralx 6y ago
My guess is string case conversion functions, of which Lodash has quite a few, and parsing the micro-templates it has built-in. The case conversion regexes are likely defined in one place.
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by spiralx 6y ago
That seems a very simplified and conspiratorial view of finance to me, but whatever makes you happy.
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by spiralx 6y ago
The KBC Void our entire super-cluster is within is about 2 billion light years across... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBC_Void
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by spiralx 6y ago
The Local Void that we are on one edge of is about 150 Mpc across (~490 million light years) and contains several "void galaxies" such as NGC 6503, about 4 Mpc (17 Mly) from us: https://www.zmescience.com/space&#x2
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by spiralx 6y ago
That's actually us - the Local Group (the Milky Way, Andromeda and other smaller galaxies, about 3 Mpc diameter) is part of the Local Sheet (about 5 Mpc × 0.5 Mpc) which is on the boundary of the Local Void (about 60 Mpc diameter). ht
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by spiralx 6y ago
I dislike using Macs for the same reason, when I had one for work I managed to use Karabiner to remap a ton of shortcuts to at least make it tolerable. And by tolerable, I mean "only cursing at the OS every minute or so rather than on
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by spiralx 6y ago
The US has been trying to reduce the usage of the USD as a reserve currency (it's the largest such currency but not the only one) due to it not having any real benefit to the US while exposing its economy to the effects of financial cr
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by spiralx 6y ago
Legal documents are already a combination of data values and custom rules, they just also reference external rule sets such as legislation, regulation or case law. I work at a company where we use the same data points to generate the legal
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by spiralx 6y ago
"Any criticisms of leftist politicians are bad faith smears by oppressors defending the status quo." "Any criticisms of Trump are bad faith smears by the Deep State defending the status quo." Hmm.
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by spiralx 6y ago
What union busting? ThinkProgress and CAP were both unionised.
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by spiralx 6y ago
> Or, more simply, political beliefs and values are real and the conflict between two specific ones is much more important than it used to be so people are taking it more seriously. Social media gives everyone a single place in which to
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by spiralx 6y ago
The "dirtbag left" is a particular segment of leftist podcasters who called themselves that e.g. the hosts of the Chapo Trap House podcast. The other statement seems toxic however.
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by spiralx 6y ago
Slashdot is still around lol, so technically it is the wrong forum :)
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by spiralx 6y ago
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-weather-typically-so-much-b... It's actually more complicated than that - the Gulf Stream contributes not to warming Europe but to cooling the eastern seaboard of the US: https:/&
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by spiralx 6y ago
Money transfers take less than 10 seconds where I am, don't project your countries antiquated banking systems onto the rest of the world.
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by spiralx 6y ago
Dividing up a pie into smaller and smaller slices doesn't increase the amount of pie. It just lets people who haven't already taken a slice fight over ever smaller scraps.
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by spiralx 6y ago
> The economy depends not on the supply of money but on the stability of the money. The supply of money is adjusted to match how much is needed, it's the entire reason why countries switched to fiat currencies. Everything else being
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by spiralx 6y ago
> Says someone who is using 1970s technology called ACH and SWIFT to send money over. In Europe SEPA Instant requires transfers take less than 10 seconds in anything other than exceptional circumstances, and costs the same to transfer be
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by spiralx 6y ago
I keep these bookmarked as they're about the simplest and clearest introductions to how economies work that I've found - and the Bank of England should know what they're talking about :) https://www.bankofengland.c
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by spiralx 6y ago
> US has fought wars to retain dollar as the global reserve currency. Why would the US give up this advantage ? Not true, the US has been trying to reduce the usage of the USD as a reserve currency (it's the largest such currency bu
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by spiralx 6y ago
The petrodollar is basically a conspiracy theory - you can use dollars to buy oil priced in Euros the same way you can use Bitcoin to buy drugs priced in dollars. Iraq pricing oil in Euros would just mean they sold most of it to countries u
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by spiralx 6y ago
> The Venezuelan government would way rather its citizens use BTC over USD or Colombian currency, in order to ensure inflation/deflation is globally decided by neutral parties, rather than decided by a single foreign entity with pot
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by spiralx 6y ago
> Only the US is incentivized to have USD be the world's reserve currency. The US is merely the largest reserve currency and has been trying to reduce that role for well over a decade now - being a reserve currency merely means fore
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by spiralx 6y ago
Your comment would have made more sense before everyone had the ability to use their debit/credit cards almost anywhere in the world, meaning the fact that other countries don't take GBP doesn't matter a huge amount at all. L
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by spiralx 6y ago
Which is a case that made headlines because of how unusual it is for this money to not get returned - it relies on an ultra-specific set of circumstances and still could have been decided the other way.
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by spiralx 6y ago
I've taken acid with three people who I later found out suffered from schizophrenia, and in all three cases they had had psychotic episodes years before I had met them. The first of these three definitely went from normal-seeming to mo

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