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by spiralx 3y ago
It helps if you think about it in accounting terms where assets minus liabilities needs to add up to zero. When a bank makes a loan for $100 it adds $100 to the balance in your account - which is a $100 liability - and the $100 loan to its
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I can recall visual "snapshots" of my road and places I know, but I can't hold them in mind or do anything with them, and as far as I can tell those flickers of visual memory are in part reconstructed from facts about those p
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by spiralx 3y ago
> Yeah. People say things like "I don't like the movie because it's not what I pictured in my mind" or "the character doesn't look like what I pictured while reading the book." I always assumed they jus
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by spiralx 3y ago
Sounds like audial daydreaming, where white noise would be perfect for triggering almost any memory of music depending on the fluctuations of frequencies. Staring at the static on an old TV does the same thing visually if you look at it and
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I only realised that I barely had any ability to visualise in the last few years and I'm over 40, it's something that's never been there and because it's not the same as lacking either visual memory or imagination there&
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by spiralx 3y ago
Which, as the article says, is an inaccurate model of how modern monetary economies actually work. Bank loans create new money, they don't lend out existing deposits, and repayments destroy that money. Reserve requirements - in countri
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by spiralx 3y ago
I wrote an XSLT stylesheet that would turn any page into a pretty-printed source view of the HTML just by including it via the <?xml-stylesheet?> tag. That was during the years I worked at a publishing company that stored, generated a
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by spiralx 3y ago
0 to 3 would be a quat, 0 to 4 a quit, 0 to 5 a hext and so on.
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by spiralx 3y ago
What's happening is that all of these rapid changes have left people with whiplash and feeling dislocated from the institutions that make up the societies they live in and play a large part in the establishing of norms. And FPTP voting
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by spiralx 3y ago
The surface of a black hole is also the most efficient information storage possible - each 2x2 Planck lengths area can store a single bit. Of course there's no way to read that data...
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by spiralx 3y ago
It depends on how quickly you pass through each order of magnitude milestone. I remember reading about how MySpace grew something like five orders of magnitude in less than a year, and no matter how scalable your architecture is you're
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by spiralx 3y ago
> First job was everything XML. We had our open source CMS that stored all documents as XML and used XSLT to transform it into the HTML we needed. Docato/XHive? Been there as well.
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by spiralx 3y ago
Specifically they have an entire court system for corporate disputes which - along with the general clarity of Delaware corporate law - is what provides the expertise and capacity to produce sensible and speedy resolutions (relatively speak
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Even better, the influx of gold from the New World was preceded by the period called the Great Bullion Famine where Europe-wide shortages of silver and gold led to long periods of deflation across the continent! https://en.wikipe
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by spiralx 3y ago
My personal user style for old.reddit.com extends the comment width to the whole screen and moves the horizontal action list for each comment to align with the username and the right side of the screen, while changing the font to one I find
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by spiralx 3y ago
Her job was to come in, make a bunch of unpopular changes and then move on, leaving the existing management who wanted those changes free of any associated blame. Quite literally her job was to be a scape-goat, it's quite a common stra
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by spiralx 3y ago
Really “cavemanship” was small tribes with basically a socialist economy and that only scales so far, what we have today is 14,000 years worth of societal progress towards social structures that can support more than 150 people who all live
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by spiralx 3y ago
Engineers are famously over-represented amongst terrorists, so probably. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/magazine/12FOB-IdeaLab-t....
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by spiralx 3y ago
Are you talking about the difference between proximal and ultimate causes? As in the proximal cause of these people dying was an explosion from a bomb set by Kaczynski, while the ultimate cause was that the things that caused Kaczynski&#x27
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by spiralx 3y ago
Didn't both KotukuInAction and TheDonald get shut down by the sub's original creators due to them going off the rails and then forcibly re-opened by the admins and handed over to new moderators who were happy with the massive grow
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by spiralx 3y ago
Maybe you get the scams because from Facebook's demographic model of you, you fall in to the lonely and weird categories targeted by scammers? It can only go on what you've given it after all.
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by spiralx 3y ago
The US financial infrastructure is remarkable in how far behind the rest of the world it is though, which is one of the reasons I think Bitcoin took off in the first place. Fast and free transfers of money never seemed quite so magical when
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by spiralx 3y ago
It's redundancy, not waste, in the majority of cases. Look at what's happened to the Russian army to see what happens when there's no redundancy built-in to your logistics and supply chain, redundancy is essential to the capa
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by spiralx 3y ago
Or that both ketamine and the blind had very similar pharmacodynamics and perhaps we should explore anaesthesia as a mechanism of action more broadly?
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by spiralx 3y ago
We are many meat computers layered on top of each other and interconnecting, with consciousness being the newest and thinnest layer on top.
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Yes, I've recently come to realise that ketamine allows me to slip into a meditative state as a result of its consciousness-suppressing anaesthesia. For someone such as myself with ADHD and aphantasia this is a revelation as normally I
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And RxJS is itself an implementation of the language-agnostic Reactive framework.
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Reminds me of a place where every screen, dialog and domain object was specified in a single table with hundreds of fields that could only be accessed or changed via a custom app that looked like a primitive DOS spreadsheet app, and often c
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> This is the dirty little secret of billionaires' private foundations. That 5% has a lot of latitude and little oversight. For example, it includes administrative costs. A private foundation can pay each family member a salary (all
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Add `// -----------------` in between blocks to work around this issue, and IMO provide much better delineation of content blocks e.g. imports vs definitions. I do miss C#'s use of macros to allow defining arbitrary blocks th

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