spiralx

22 ms·

181.
by spiralx 4y ago
All the Lone Wolf books are free to download or play online here: https://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Home
182.
by spiralx 4y ago
Joe Dever has put all of the Lone Wolf and related books online to download for free or play interactively on the website: https://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Home That's 21 Lone Wolf books and 10 in the New O
183.
by spiralx 4y ago
I was interested as well, but couldn't find anything specifically answering the question. According to the link below social media, email and watching videos counts for about three-quarters of most people's internet usage, which c
184.
by spiralx 4y ago
FRB isn't how banking has ever worked, even when we used commodity money, but it's a relatively simple concept that matches peoples' intuitive sense of money as a fixed amount of tokens used to store wealth. But money's
185.
by spiralx 4y ago
Also their paper on money creation specifically: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
186.
by spiralx 4y ago
The smart contract that ran everything and owned the accounts with the money in was ended by the dev, via a simple command in their CLI I believe. Presumably he had meant to pause it or some other interaction, but there were no protections
187.
by spiralx 4y ago
Just make sure it goes better than it did for these guys: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/sep/07/disastrous-voya...
188.
by spiralx 4y ago
An aging population is a significant factor, another one is the increasing range of treatments available today - and of course they combine because most medical expenditure happens during the last part of a person's life.
189.
by spiralx 4y ago
You can use recursion and template types to type some pretty complex string values now - I've seen cut down parsers for both SQL and TS written just via TS types which is madness but does show what can be done. Whether the effort is wo
190.
by spiralx 4y ago
Maybe this is evidence this place does not in fact have "lots of world class thinkers"? It's classic bike-shedding.
191.
by spiralx 4y ago
Well yes but that's also the case with property taxes. A reasonable figure based on current market values seems simpler to calculate for unimproved land than it does for property tax, which includes the value of the unimproved land as
192.
by spiralx 4y ago
Sending money to an entity that then declares bankruptcy before the transaction can be reversed doesn't is unfortunate, but it's not a counter-example at all - indeed, the fact that they tried to reverse it undermines your point t
193.
by spiralx 4y ago
If there were only those two people involved that's possible. But in a situation with onlookers the bull-headed 'winner' will gain a reputation for being aggressive and unlikeable, while the the 'loser' will seem re
194.
by spiralx 4y ago
I though it was combining strategic and drivel, a combination that definitely exists :)
195.
by spiralx 4y ago
Why do libel and slander laws exist when someone can just debunk any lies told about them? And then the next lie, and the next one, and so on... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaPgDQkmqqM
196.
by spiralx 4y ago
But the example with multiple selectors and & at the start is unclear due to the precedence of the @nest operator over the comma: /* @nest always */ @nest & + .baz, &.qux { color: red; } It&#
197.
by spiralx 4y ago
Which allows for things like this type that implements a simplified SQL query parser checked against a provided 'database' object: https://github.com/codemix/ts-sql This project was my go-to "nifty but p
198.
by spiralx 4y ago
A "store of value" when talking about the properties of a useful currency implies that the value is largely stable so that it can be "stored" over the medium- and long-term. So that's actually the property BTC is wo
199.
by spiralx 4y ago
I called it HasId, there's a withId RxJS operator to go with it that selects from an IdRecord<T> based on an inner observable that emits an ID string. Due to nominal typing in TS you don't need to explicitly implement HasId
200.
by spiralx 4y ago
Australia has almost everything wrong you can think of climate-wise: cold Antarctic currents hitting the west coast causing dry winds with little moisture, on the east coast there's a narrow strip between the coast and the long N-S mou
201.
by spiralx 4y ago
Doesn't 80% of the world's population live within 100km of the sea as well. And I'd guess most of the remainder live close to major rivers and lakes.
202.
by spiralx 4y ago
London has long benefitted from its position allowing its working day overlapping everywhere from the US West coast to Japan, even if barely at those extremes. Most of the world's population lies between UTC-5 and UTC+5 I believe.
203.
by spiralx 4y ago
Judging from all the youngsters at work a ton of them barely drink at all, let alone do anything beyond that apart from - maybe - the odd joint. They're all much less hedonistic than the older folks.
204.
by spiralx 4y ago
Yeah, part of the issue is that historically we were wildly over-saturated with pubs due to the drinking culture, and as that's changed (along with the related issue of taxes on alcohol having increased a lot) there's just far les
205.
by spiralx 4y ago
I mean the HTML is in the worst tradition of mid-90s web pages - table-based layout, spacer GIFs, inline styles and generally awkward mark-up that I'd reject if it were in a PR. My user style has a bunch of rules like ".ind img[wi
206.
by spiralx 4y ago
The hn-friends extension allows very basic user tagging if you're willing to put up with the very clunky UX to add a tag - but it's not like I use it that often and tagging is a one-off cost which IMO pays itself back via not enga
207.
by spiralx 4y ago
Here's mine which is a lot more spaced out, has larger text and moves the post controls to the same row as the post's author and score, with Reply floated off to the right on its own. It works with a user script that allows select
208.
by spiralx 4y ago
For all of your policy tweaking needs: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1410710/Democracy_4/ https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/1410710/ss_94f...
209.
by spiralx 4y ago
I missed this "debacle" as well, the HN story on it in October only had 59 comments, of which about half a dozen were actually about the topic itself. Not much outrage here apparently. > ... if any other language platform was w
210.
by spiralx 4y ago
> In the early days of colonization of the Americas, Spain suffered inflation due to an influx of silver. Ironically that did end the Great Bullion Famine, a decades long period where not enough bullion being mined lead to Europe-wide de

More ›