spiralx

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by spiralx 3y ago
> When I see a system that combines externalities, wild inequality of outcome and this sort of builtin restistance to tackling the cons, my facile knee jerk reaction is to assume that it is rigged. But that's just the brain's b
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by spiralx 3y ago
> Reducing profits defeats the purpose of becoming a monopoly, while any sliver of profit is the startup's opportunity. Only if you ignore the concept of loss leaders, or the very act of competing in the market itself by undercuttin
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by spiralx 3y ago
You say that, but her name all on its own was enough for me to click on the link, because the name gives clues towards being related to physics or the Cold War or something intriguing.
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by spiralx 3y ago
I doubt it would happen in Labour's first term, it would suck up all of their time and energy and give the pro-Brexit crowd endless fodder to attack them with. It could be a second term project, or maybe even a risky re-election bid if
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by spiralx 3y ago
Cause or pre-condition? It's simple to state the pre-condition for quantum tunnelling to occur, but as a probabilistic event the cause seems hard to define...
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by spiralx 3y ago
A _Georgist critique_ is a critique from a Georgist perspective, same as a _Marxist analysis_ would be an analysis from a Marxist perspective. A _Georgist's critique_ would be a critique from someone who is a Georgist, but not necessar
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by spiralx 3y ago
If you separate capitalists and landlords out as different classes (in the Georgist sense) then you can say that landlords have extracted rent for far longer than capitalists have been around; it took the Industrial Revolution to move from
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by spiralx 3y ago
There's Democracy: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1410710/Democracy_4/
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by spiralx 3y ago
I think you're describing the difference between commercial bank money and central bank money, but I'm not sure.
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by spiralx 3y ago
QE is a separate process from the usual act of money creation by banks making loans, it's best to consider it as an out-of-the-ordinary manual intervention by the central bank where they create new central bank money ad hoc and use tha
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by spiralx 3y ago
Just tried Shade Of Purple and while it looks nice for TS code when I switch to HTML the fact that attribute names are italicised and a bright orangey-yellow while tag names, attribute values and text content all have neutral or darker colo
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by spiralx 3y ago
It seems he does: https://kimjongunlookingatthings.com/
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by spiralx 3y ago
I once got a club night for an event called "Sold Out" and while I could see what the organisers were trying to do with that - give the idea it was popular - I could also see what a mind-blowingly terrible name it actually was, gi
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by spiralx 3y ago
Why is it anyone's job to coddle and cajole people who have no logical basis for their beliefs, no interest in changing them and will in fact double-down on them any time they feel the slightest bit challenged, such as when merely pres
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by spiralx 3y ago
The guy who wrote the original Task Manager has a video about how it came to be, how it works and some of the "hidden" features such as the one in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve95Nh690l0 He's
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by spiralx 3y ago
I assume the name is a play on Maxwell's Demon in that its proposal was a fly in the ointment for a prevailing idea in its field of study. This article is quite a bit better at explaining things IMO: https://www.space.com&#x
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by spiralx 3y ago
> I don't think it explains the degree to which right-wing politics has become optimized for ignoring real threats and inventing fake ones. You're assuming that they believe in the same sets of "real" and "fake&q
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by spiralx 3y ago
> Can you see yet where this is leading us, and why I'm 120% sure that climate change WILL come with an increase in volcanic eruptions? Melting of ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica causing land to rebound (called iso-something
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by spiralx 3y ago
What an awful text colour, had to do this just to read the article: $$('div, h1, h2').forEach(e => e.style.color = '#111')
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by spiralx 3y ago
I just went from the article itself to searching Google for "chronocration" and then on to this comment from the results, the recursion is METAL.
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by spiralx 3y ago
Sounds more like something from Bal-Sagoth, my favourite pretentious black metal group ever. http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/balsagoth/starfireburningup...
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by spiralx 3y ago
I loved that album so much when I was 17, and I don't remember anything other than HP Lovecraft that made me look up so many words in a dictionary - unfortunately this was back when I didn't have internet access, and most of the m
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by spiralx 3y ago
He'd fit in well at the Bangface Weekender I go to religiously, they've had both plenty of chiptunes artists and Napalm Death play there in the past :) https://www.bangface.com/
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by spiralx 3y ago
Ah, that's black metal, which is deeply earnest. When I explain to people about my theory of earnestness in music death vs. black metal is a great way to show "not earnest" against "earnest". Can you tell me the st
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by spiralx 3y ago
Xpounds. And I'm sure Musk would love the puerile possibilities thereof.
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by spiralx 3y ago
> It's a bit like how in Big Brother and other reality shows people first try to show their best side, to show restraint. But over time, and with stress, despite all the cameras, despite the knowledge the world watches, you slowly r
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by spiralx 3y ago
Yes, at the point where you try to withdraw actual cash the bank will have to use any cash it has as its assets, but nowadays the majority of transactions are digital and all that needs to happen is to adjust the balances of the payee and p
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by spiralx 3y ago
Brutal but true. Mexico will replace China as a manufacturing hub at some point in the next decade.
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by spiralx 3y ago
Heh, you've just made me consider that the asymptote of capitalism is communism.
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by spiralx 3y ago
They don't lend out deposits, if a bank had zero deposits it could still loan you that $100 just by adjusting your balance and adding the loan to their books. It's a subtle difference, and honestly, the BoE explainer I linked to i

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