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by spiralx 4y ago
But window.event is deprecated as you can see here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/even... It's been around since IE 4 and is the "current event being handled by
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by spiralx 4y ago
My thought is that having | as the pipe operator in the shell means that it's okay to use | for the or operator in your query syntax as the people using your XGQ will be familiar with that usage, but to then introduce a pipe operator (
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by spiralx 4y ago
> PowerShell is "Python interactive done right". Actually PowerShell is "Perl interactive done right" if you read what the designers say about their influences - the automatic variable $_ is straight from Perl and the
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by spiralx 4y ago
Looks interesting, and I like the analysis of JQ's model in order to compare and contrast it with ZQ. It reminds me somewhat of the difference between XPath 1 to XPath 2 - the former worked great if you were selecting stuff and using t
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by spiralx 4y ago
A lot of those are related to death: 5 WRAPPING (THE CORPSE OF) HIS MOTHER 2 WRAPPING (THE CORPSE OF) HIS SON 1 EMBALMING HORMOSE 1 EMBALMING HIS BROTHER 1 MOURNING HIS SON 3 LIBATING TO HIS FATHER 13 and I suspect most of these: 8 WITH THE
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by spiralx 4y ago
> So... how can we trust the writings of the author? Are you saying you're sceptical of something published by Austrian China : View from China with an Austrian School of Economics Perspective ? Austrian economists are well-known
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by spiralx 5y ago
I'm impressed, for once the label "frightfully insightful" was, if anything, under-selling the linked content. Fascinating, thanks for mentioning it :)
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by spiralx 5y ago
> Bitcoin, gold, and anti-fed fanboys have a tendency to have a poor understanding at best of global economics with very basic misunderstandings like thinking that bumping the rate bumps the rates of all previous bonds. Discussion on thi
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by spiralx 5y ago
It's like the anthropic principle in physics IMO in that it can be taken either descriptively or prescriptively, and while the former is almost trivial in what it describes, the latter invariably ends up leading to significant conseque
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by spiralx 5y ago
Worldwide there are several each year IIRC. There are a lot of small regional timezones you have to account for - at least two Native reservations have their own timezones, each offset by 15 minutes from the timezone of their surrounding re
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by spiralx 5y ago
IIRC in Saudi Arabia the start and end of daylight savings is decided on each year, so not only do you need a historical record, but there's no way to future-proof it without integrating some external source of data, otherwise you&#x27
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by spiralx 5y ago
Because Instagram just announced they were supporting NFTs?
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by spiralx 5y ago
The web wasn't publicly available until 1992, which is why there was so much hype around it in the 90s. Both eBay and Amazon were started within two years of the web being opened as part of what started as the dot-com boom and became t
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by spiralx 5y ago
> My gripe revolves around the fact that the author has no relevant training in the matter, but signed a highly controversial paper along with an ophthalmologist. Rand Paul? :)
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by spiralx 5y ago
Most companies involved in the seedier side of business keep a low profile to avoid attention though. Tube sites were "disruptive" in that they let users upload copyrighted material and said "it's not us!" so it&#x2
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by spiralx 5y ago
My take is that a lot of USians will vociferously defend the differences in regional cultures within the US - East vs. West, coastal vs. flyover, state vs. state and so on - as both a conscious and an unconscious response to questions of na
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by spiralx 5y ago
No, the US gets low rates because of the stability and strength of its economy i.e. both reserve currency use and low interest rates are effects, not causes. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/ben-bernanke/2016/01
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by spiralx 5y ago
The space shuttle's crawler transporter managed 42 feet per gallon or 126 gallons per mile, which is 0.008 MPG :)
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by spiralx 5y ago
How do you invade somewhere and not have contingencies for being denied the use of major roads? That's in the top three essential (and obvious!) things the defending force will do. For a Russian force you'd also think dealing with
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by spiralx 5y ago
> On the other hand, the Stormlight magic system involves "grain" and "blood" being fundamental elemental substances. I've been enjoying a story that manages to have 22 elements - including Healing, Blood, Sound,
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by spiralx 5y ago
It's only the fact that he's such a prolific writer makes that sort of agreement possible, it's not like George RR Martin where he keeps writing smaller side projects instead of finishing the books that actually make him and
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by spiralx 5y ago
Global currency reserves are currently ~60% USD, ~30% EUR and 9% GBP/JPY/CAD, USD use as a reserve currency has been trending down for decades now. As for previous reserves I would guess before the Euro the German Deutschmark and
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by spiralx 5y ago
The status of the USD has also been called the "exorbitant privilege" in part because times of crisis lead to a strong USD and hurts US companies - even when the crisis is entirely unrelated to the US. US policy for well over a de
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by spiralx 5y ago
Being the main reserve currency (global reserves are ~60% USD, ~30% Euro and 9% GBP/JPY/CAD) also means local financial crises lead to dollar buying which then affects the price of USD and thus US imports and exports. This is in p
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by spiralx 5y ago
Apparently money gets laundered internationally by under-invoicing via front companies such as import/export businesses, travel agents or foreign exchange shops. https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/terrorist-i
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by spiralx 5y ago
Never underestimate how antiquated US infrastructure can seem lol. But to be fair European banks were always motivated to develop robust protocols for international bank operations due to the number of countries in Europe, even more so with
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by spiralx 5y ago
Thanks, this comment has explained to me what SWIFT is more than anything else I've read so far :)
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by spiralx 5y ago
This site really does largely veer between Republican and Libertarian depending on the topic, anything involving COVID, 'cancel culture' or 'woke'-ness is a shitshow of ideological talking points that I don't rememb
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by spiralx 5y ago
There are Android apps where you can select two items in a list and then there's a button that selects all of the items between them, which is equivalent to a shift-click.
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> IIRC one bank accidently paid off the loan of one of their boderline-default customers to another bank and then couldnt get the money back That was a story because it was an incredibly unusual set of circumstances that meant they didn&

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