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by spiralx 8y ago
> So while I agree with you that most people are excluded from maximizing their potential, I think the root cause is not a lack of capital, but a lack of knowledge about how to interact with capital. And do you not think that this is a f
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by spiralx 8y ago
> When competition is allowed to enter the market, we eventually have an equilibrium where the right number of competitors is producing a good or a service at the best price and highest quality possible. That is capitalism. No, that&#x27
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by spiralx 8y ago
> In capitalism, people are given the ability to create value to their fullest extent. In capitalism people have the ability to create value to the extent they have the capital to do so, a requirement which excludes most people from achi
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by spiralx 8y ago
> but it's also clear that most families are run as communes Hunter-gatherer groups also operate on a cooperative basis where food sharing is an integral part of their social organisation. The trouble is whether this sort of model s
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by spiralx 8y ago
> What if Bezos said "I think fulfillment should be the priority" instead of saying work-life balance is a "debilitating phase". Because fulfilment for most people comes from balancing their positive home lives with t
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by spiralx 8y ago
This is the key point as to why this advice comes across to me as out of touch and patronising. Doing something where you have a real investment in the outcome can indeed be rewarding and even energising, and even when it isn't going w
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by spiralx 8y ago
I agree, although I also dislike text that's wrapped in a too narrow div with tiny text :) There are a couple of user styles here that look like what you're after if you've got the Stylish/Stylus extension installed: ht
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by spiralx 8y ago
You could look it up in the Land Registry in the UK if you wanted to, although it's often fairly easy to guess roughly when a house was built here from the style.
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by spiralx 8y ago
> The USA is big. Like, really fucking big. So? Most of that is empty space nobody is trying to serve. The key metric is population density, which is comparable between urban areas in Europe and the US. The size of the US has nothing to
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by spiralx 8y ago
> Except that under some theories the net energy in our universe is actually zero. Antimatter+matter = nothing. So the concept of unlimited energy can be acceptable under the rubric that energy in one area is mirrored by anti-energy in a
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by spiralx 8y ago
Max Tegmark has put these ideas into a hierarchy of multiverses, where universes outside of the boundary of the observable Universe are a Type I multiverse, and the many-worlds of the relative-state formulation form a Type III multiverse.
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by spiralx 8y ago
> In 2011 I was saying "the only thing Bitcoin is actually useful for (as in better than the alternatives) is buying drugs", and people assured me that actually useful applications were just around the corner. Same here. > 7
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by spiralx 9y ago
> So is it only the SA that can take action against you? Yes. > If someone wanted to harass you, must they complain through the SA, ... Yes. There are also provisions for handling malicious requests to access personal data: https:&#x
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by spiralx 9y ago
> If you embed a copy of jQuery on your page hosted by a CDN, you're collecting and sending personal data to the CDN. Do you have consent for that? You're not collecting anything there, so it's nothing to do with the GDPR
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by spiralx 9y ago
As another person with ADHD I've found the Tabs Outliner extension works best for me - it allows you to view tabs in a tree, label/group them, search for tabs, open/close tabs/groups/windows in one go, and most imp
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by spiralx 9y ago
http://sgmljs.net/docs/html5.html HTML5 is almost a subset of SGML, barring some ambiguities in itz table spec, HTML comments in script tags and the spellcheck and contenteditable attributes.
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by spiralx 9y ago
You append a correction, it's the same process as an edit.
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by spiralx 9y ago
Any chance of being able to save the network filter? It takes ages to re-enter a set of filters for request type, source, name etc. on every page refresh, to the point where I've got a bookmarklet so I can at least just copy and paste
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by spiralx 9y ago
I've seen the world's pinkest pink :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NzVmtbPOrM
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by spiralx 9y ago
> In a dynamic language all values, including expressions, share a single type - a union of all possible types. In a static language you can limit which possible types a value may hold. A dynamic language is like if you cast every single
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by spiralx 9y ago
Wiktionary says that munter and munted are from New Zealand, which I'm not sure about but could give it a regional spread - it's been common here in London for nearly two decades, but we have quite a few Anzacs here!
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by spiralx 9y ago
It's both, which meaning comes across is dependent on who you're talking to I guess! Wiktionary says the drug-related meaning is from New Zealand, but it's been around here in London for at least two decades... we do have a l
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by spiralx 9y ago
> Bored subways are imperceptible from above ground. Not entirely true - the Crossrail in London goes under the Barbican arts centre, and that section of the track has special floating tracks to reduce noise and vibrations: http:/&
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by spiralx 9y ago
TFL control two heavy rail networks - the Overground and TfL Rail - although the latter will become part of the Elizabeth Line when it opens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TfL_Rail
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by spiralx 9y ago
You're probably thinking of the Dockland's Light Railway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway It's not part of the Underground, but it's also managed by Transport for London as par
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by spiralx 9y ago
> A big part of the cost and complexity of Crossrail isn't the tunnelling but rather the (re)builds of the stations, the remodelling and reconstruction of the above-ground street areas to increase capacity there too, and many other
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by spiralx 9y ago
I was looking for that earlier, it's a fascinating paper, thanks! :)
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by spiralx 9y ago
I wrote an XSL stylesheet that turned an HTML page into a pretty-printed and syntax highlighted display of its source code.
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by spiralx 9y ago
Pain killers can affect your emotional state indeed: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/painkillers-might-...
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by spiralx 9y ago
"Getting munted" is also slang for taking drugs from the clubbing scene in the 90s/00s. One who does so would be a munter.

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