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by spiralx 8y ago
> I will just remind you that there is a thing called a carbon cycle. Carbon is absorbed from the atmosphere. Carbon is not a poison, but is instead, a fundamental component of all life on earth. It does not accumulate forever, but inste
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by spiralx 8y ago
Yes I know, that's why I made the general point first, then talked about how quantum gravity theories impose even harder limits if true.
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by spiralx 8y ago
> But there is no general law preventing increasing the precision with better instruments and better methods, so as measurement gets more advanced, more data (such as more decimal digits) can be obtained. That's not true, as at the
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by spiralx 8y ago
> They're not creating money from nothing, hence fractional. No, banks do create money through loans - lending occurs first, then reserve requirements are met afterwards. See for instance this research paper from Standard & Poor
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by spiralx 8y ago
> Are you saying that individual Swiss banks are currently free to make up their own reserve requirements? No, but bank lending is not made from customer deposits or bank reserves - lending occurs first, then reserve requirements are met
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by spiralx 8y ago
No, because bank lending is not dependent on customer deposits or bank reserves - lending occurs first, then reserve requirements are met afterwards. See for instance this research paper from Standard & Poor's: Repeat After Me: Ban
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by spiralx 8y ago
Brunch was between Gulp and Webpack, so don't worry! And since Webpack there's only been Rollup and Parcel to consider :)
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by spiralx 8y ago
It never was libertarian in the first place. Here's what they have to say about their stance: > What, besides free trade and free markets, does The Economist believe in? "It is to the Radicals that The Economist still likes to
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by spiralx 8y ago
Well GitLab is hosted on Azure, so you're out of luck there if you're that paranoid.
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by spiralx 8y ago
Something this article goes into in more detail with regards to Git: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2017/05/30/optimizin...
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by spiralx 8y ago
Well, they've been losing money for several years now, but they were originally profitable and operated without any VC money for years. If it weren't for the problems that growth has caused them since then I'm not sure they w
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by spiralx 8y ago
If you want a good overview of how money works overall this PDF from the Bank of England is pretty approachable: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-... There are a lot of misconc
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by spiralx 8y ago
Out of the list of companies that the article says have expressed an interest in GitHub at one point or another - Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Atlassian and Tencent - I have to say that Microsoft seems the most best fit, especially given thei
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by spiralx 8y ago
There's the John Lewis Partnership in the UK that includes 36 department stores and 353 supermarkets with over £11bn in annual sales. https://www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk/about.html
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by spiralx 8y ago
> As someone with an Adult ADHD diagnosis, this has definitely been my experience. Adults weren't even being diagnosed with ADHD when I was a child and it was never brought up when I showed the signs in school. Now I'm receivin
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by spiralx 8y ago
> It seems to me the inherent infinite divisibility might change this? No, because 100 cents are not worth more than 1 dollar. Increasing divisibility just means you can split existing value into more pieces, it doesn't change the o
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by spiralx 8y ago
True, but remember that 4,000 people died in four days in London during the "pea souper" of 1952, when visibility was about a metre or less: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-42357608/death-by-sm
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by spiralx 8y ago
It's digital data that's covered by GDPR, so a bricks and mortar outfit with solely paper records wouldn't be affected.
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NPR has decided that you either agree to let them do whatever they want with your data, or you're only allowed to see a ridiculously bare-bones plain-text version of the site lacking any functionality beyond links. Ten minutes later I&
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by spiralx 8y ago
> London's Victoria Line now runs at up to 36 trains per hour, a train every 100 seconds. And have thinking about pushing it even further for quite a while now. https://www.londonreconnections.com/2017/ninety-se
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by spiralx 8y ago
What I find fascinating is how there's a whole mathematical formalism for describing juggling patterns called siteswap which allows patterns to not only be described, but discovered. It's based on throw heights, with the basic 3-b
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The pattern is like McDonald's Golden Arches but with the arches pushed inwards so that they mostly overlap, and as you say you always throw inside the ball coming down. Two helpful things while learning are a) doing it standing in fro
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There's ransomware as well.
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by spiralx 8y ago
> They weren't bugs for the thousands of years when gold was used. Growth rates during the Dutch Golden Age were about 0.2% a year, with very brief peaks of up to 1%.
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by spiralx 8y ago
> People do things in loops— they go to work every day, come back home every day, hang out with the same people, engage in the same hobbies, think the same thoughts. And bad trips are people stuck in a loop, unable to break out. Which is
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by spiralx 8y ago
> With that being the case, I don't see why being an atheist is not the most rational position to take. Because the absence of proof is not the proof of absence.
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by spiralx 8y ago
"I don't have enough knowledge to make a judgement of whether the moon is made of cheese" is a perfectly valid statement. And if you base your personal beliefs on whether they'll impress other people, then I suspect you&
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by spiralx 8y ago
> The UK is what is called an aristocratic republic* It's a constitutional monarchy based on a parliamentary system.
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> Corrupt politicians might treat power as a free market commodity; but that's still corruption and not a market. A might treat B as a market commodity, but that's not a market. What does make a market then, if not having commo
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by spiralx 8y ago
> Using capital as leverage for political influence is not a central tenet of capitalism. You can be a capitalist and remain entirely outside the political realm. If capitalism is based around rational self-interest, why would anyone exc

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