spiralx

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by spiralx 3y ago
Half of all the gold in the world has been mined since 1965 if you'd like another factoid :)
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by spiralx 3y ago
Yeah we've helped hundreds of start-ups do their R&D claims, and you have to have specific projects that fall within the definition of "novel" and even then you need to explicitly specify exactly which people worked on it
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by spiralx 3y ago
I saw a Greek food stall in town a couple of years back with the statement "Food delivered with mathematical accuracy" which just bugged the hell out of me lol.
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by spiralx 4y ago
I thought AI was an existential threat to humanity according to Elon?
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by spiralx 4y ago
This is exactly what I suspect is the problem with a lot of sound engineers, where over-loud top-end frequencies damage their ability to hear those sounds, leading to an escalating increase in the volume of those frequencies. I've been
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by spiralx 4y ago
For a particle travelling faster than light (a tachyon) it takes more and more energy to decelerate the closer to light speed you are, and at zero energy velocity would be infinite. At least via a naïve look at what SR says.
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by spiralx 4y ago
Adults, females and minorities are all under-diagnosed compared to the estimated 2-4% of the population with ADHD. And I'd guess that diagnosis rates are higher across the board in the USA than elsewhere - I read the other day only 1 i
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by spiralx 4y ago
I got into programming using GFA Basic on the Atari ST, which had: • no line numbers • indentation-based code blocks for conditionals, loops etc. • string/byte/word/float/boolean variables • pointers • arrays, hashes and
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by spiralx 4y ago
That's really interesting, thanks. And sure, a significant amount of remembered imagery is undoubtedly reconstruction and interpolation, but when I try and imagine a bicycle all I get is those partial memories of bicycles that flicker
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by spiralx 4y ago
I assume that would undermine the argument, as ADHD and other disorders are underdiagnosed in girls and women compared to men. And in fact anxiety and depression are most likely underdiagnosed in boys and men, which also helps their argumen
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by spiralx 4y ago
I probably wouldn't be a programmer without ordering floppy disks full of random source code by post from software-by-post catalogues - one letter to ask for a catalogue, get the catalogue in the post, send them a letter with your orde
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by spiralx 4y ago
Me neither, but I have aphantasia and thus an under-developed mind's eye - if I can't visualise detailed imagery within my head normally, it makes sense that that machinery isn't available for LSD to build realistic hallucina
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by spiralx 4y ago
It's not as good as the RES user tagger but it does work: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-friends/ffgfcbf...
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by spiralx 4y ago
There's hn-friends which is pretty basic but allows you to add plain text tags. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-friends/ffgfcbf...
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by spiralx 4y ago
There are some great historical nuggets in that archive, I liked this appeal to people to stop hoarding pennies and get them back into circulation. > Creating a shortage where it does not exist can adversely affect every public spirited
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by spiralx 4y ago
Thanks for posting this, could possibly have affected our honeymoon had we not not been aware!
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by spiralx 4y ago
Well as of this release enums are now also union types by default :) https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescr...
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by spiralx 4y ago
I just posted this in our FE channel at work > Note that the ECMAScript decorator spec now supported in TS 5 doesn't support decorating method arguments, unlike the experimental decorators TS has had an that Angular uses e.g. @Injec
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by spiralx 4y ago
You're talking about buying bonds as "lending to the government" which is a pretty odd way to describe it, but it still isn't the bank lending to clients, which creates new deposits and a matching loan asset. https:&#x2
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by spiralx 4y ago
See them refusing military assistance to Armenia - a defensive treaty ally - which has been invaded by Azerbaijan in the last year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NOMj7n6QAM
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by spiralx 4y ago
He's correct in that you'd get a loan or mortgage from a bank still, but incorrect that banks lend out deposits though - a bank loan directly creates new money, so if everyone was using a CBDC and had their money kept in their dig
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by spiralx 4y ago
Banks don't lend out deposits though.
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by spiralx 4y ago
I dislike that alot.
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by spiralx 4y ago
Try searching for "reinsurance" as in insurance for insurance, Swiss Re and Lloyds of London are the two big names I can think of, I don't know much other than that.
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by spiralx 4y ago
A novella? A short story? Both of these are common enough that I find this particular example rather strange. ETA: And now I see it's in the context of non-fiction, ignore this. But I remember seeing novella-sized non-fiction books aro
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by spiralx 4y ago
Yes, the net energy of the Universe is zero.
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by spiralx 4y ago
"Defund Planned Parenthood" has been a Republican rallying cry for abolishing PP for almost two decades and is but one of many "Defund" bills they've introduced going back years: • Defund EcoHealth Alliance Act (202
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by spiralx 4y ago
> That only comes from understanding that my case of ADHD is a disability. I didn't do that before when I thought I was just lazy. Ugh. Yeah, I had to recontextualise a lot of my life after getting my diagnosis, there's a real
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by spiralx 4y ago
If you're aphantasic as part of your ADHD - i.e. you don't have a well-developed mind's eye - which is likely, then LSD is I suspect a much "safer" experience than it is for normies, in that your brain can't ge
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by spiralx 4y ago
> Haven't been able to get my new prescription yet (ran out yesterday) but other than that, I take 30mg/day dexedrine XR. Heh, snap. I ran out of my medication yesterday and haven't got my new prescription either. What got

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