spiralx

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by spiralx 4y ago
Is that with three separate, well-rested, crews, or just the one crew, who have to snatch a few hours sleep somewhere in the middle of those 31 hours?
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by spiralx 4y ago
> the "$2T" crypto loss would be a "$2T" crypto gain elsewhere Is that better? Not sure why that was confusing you though, what about this? > the crypto losses are crypto gains elsewhere
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by spiralx 4y ago
In the UK I remember the first time a friend had one which was in 1994 when I was 17. A year later I went to university and in 1995/6 almost nobody there had a mobile phone, the year after maybe 20% of students had them, and by my fin
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by spiralx 4y ago
This is basically asking "Is investment the same as monetary policy?" to which the answer is obviously no, they're different concepts entirely, and the overlap of crypto investors and the FED and retail banking sector is minu
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by spiralx 4y ago
Smaller than the 1,509 pages in total for the UK's traffic signs manual: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/traffic-signs-man... That's without various design specs, such as for the Transport fon
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by spiralx 4y ago
Electoral reform has been central to the Lib Dems plank since they first formed, of course they were going to go for the one shot at it they were ever likely to get. I was pissed off with them at the time as well, but in hindsight I was pre
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by spiralx 4y ago
GPs in the UK are private businesses and always have been lol.
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by spiralx 4y ago
> This does not include primary care which is provided by GP surgeries. Which are and have always been private businesses operating as NHS contractors - this was actually the concession the post-war government had to make in order to get
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by spiralx 4y ago
Greenland is a massive untapped mineral resource and important geostrategic asset that Denmark owns and having a few small-ish settlements there costing them very little money helps maintain sovereignty. https://www.nytimes.com&#
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by spiralx 4y ago
CBDCs are a digital equivalent to cash more than currency as a whole - they are something you hold yourself in a "wallet" instead of existing as bank deposits, and in fact they could end up reducing the need for current accounts b
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by spiralx 4y ago
Really? HN is one of the most anti-vax and COVID conspiratorial sites I browse regularly, it's pretty right-wing.
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by spiralx 4y ago
Sounds the same as I worked on a few years later at a large medical publisher, both our applications and journals were all produced from the same underlying XML content.
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by spiralx 4y ago
XSL:FO is great for turning into PDFs though. There's also XQuery for transformations and XSD/RelaxNG for schemas, the whole combination of XML database, WYSIWYG (via XSLT) XML editor and output transformations is very powerful, e
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by spiralx 4y ago
Once you understand those three patterns it does get a bit simpler. I wrote a ton of XSLT and XQuery years back and it's incredibly powerful when used well, plus I wrote a nifty little stylesheet that transformed any HTML page into a f
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by spiralx 4y ago
I don't think I've ever come across the word "moorish" ever in the UK, boggy would be what we'd use instead. Regardless of that I'm pretty sure that the stress for moreish is on the ish (often with a very sligh
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by spiralx 4y ago
Yeah, I've been following this guy https://www.youtube.com/@RealLifeLore/videos and one of the points that constantly comes up is the importance of oceanic trade and maritime borders, and how the geopolitics of th
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by spiralx 4y ago
Estonia's eRoad system includes a blockchain - predating Bitcoin by a year or so in fact - for recording any accesses and changes to official data with the goal of being able to detect breaches and/or corruption sooner. The countr
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by spiralx 4y ago
No they don't, bank loans create new money directly. https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
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by spiralx 4y ago
Thank you, that is such an apt parallel, it's got me giggling at the mental image of the CEO, seething frustration radiating out from him, storming from department to department to berate the staff over not having fixed all their probl
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by spiralx 4y ago
Moreish is a commonly used word in the UK.
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by spiralx 4y ago
HN is probably the most right-wing social media site I use TBH, I'm amazed that this thread is still producing civil discussion.
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by spiralx 4y ago
This is perhaps the most wonderful description of crypto ever, thank you :)
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by spiralx 4y ago
I knew what book that was going to be :D
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by spiralx 4y ago
But Russia has very limited access to viable shipping lanes and huge geographic barriers to shipping things overland. Why do you think Crimea is of such importance to Russia?
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by spiralx 4y ago
Perhaps CBDCs (Central bank digital currencies) are close to what you're looking at, the concept being digital money issued and verified by a central authority. There's been a bunch of research done by the central banks of various
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by spiralx 4y ago
Estonia uses a blockchain to act as an immutable way to store timestamped hashes of government data for security and verification purposes - they started building this a year before the Bitcoin whitepaper was released in fact. That's t
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by spiralx 4y ago
Ironically the Chivo wallet is a centralised system that only touches the wider BTC network when transactions are made to a non-Chivo address.
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by spiralx 4y ago
When I saw the announcement of the release of the Bitcoin 0.3 client back on Slashdot in 2010, both the whitepaper and the comments (and who was making them) cemented my view as it being more of the "an-cap gold-buggery" that the
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by spiralx 4y ago
It doesn't even use that, the Chivo wallet only uses LN for external transactions, everything else is a plain old centralised app.
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by spiralx 4y ago
From the article you linked: > This is not how money is actually created but only a way to represent the possible impact of the fractional reserve system on the money supply. As such, while is useful for economics professors, it is gener

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