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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
lol fine: Banking shouldn't have a reserve ratio. Rather, banks should have to show that they have a claim to each dollar they have loaned out for the period they have loaned it. This means they have to lend short and borrow long. Th
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Yes: it punishes reallocation of capital and makes moon-shot style companies less viable. You would have a less dynamic economy with organic growth being the norm. I would allow for in-kind exchanges within a given trading year to make it
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
It would be extremely naive, given what is openly admitted about Operation Mockingbird[1], and the well known dictum that "who controls the present controls the past" to think that intelligence agencies aren't intensely inter
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Well, my plan would be to treat dividends as tax deductible to the company and then flow through to the owner, as with LLCs. Capital gains would be taxed at a windfall rate (e.g. the highest marginal income tax + payroll tax rate + 10%). T
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
In a world with zero-to-negative interest rates, unlimited margin available for the big players and a generation of boomers sold on the idea that stock appreciation (not dividends) is going to fund their retirement, what's the value o
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
More austere boxes at dehumanized scale. Insecticide factory, school, church or city hall? Who can tell? I liked it better when architects aped greeks and romans, rather than WW2-era germans.
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Server-rendered HTML: the once and future king https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ENnKCr2U8AAw4Bf?format=jpg&name=...
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Nothing. Nothing happens. You may get an in-person visit, and if you blow them off, nothing also happens. As with voting, it only encourages them. They are passionate about getting you to participate because they want the appearance of l
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Everyone is familiar with the Peter Principle at this point. I believe there is something to it, but it doesn't explain what we find in modern companies. It's too passive a mechanism to explain the malevolence that typically qui
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
No worries, though, I'm sure intelligence agencies weren't smart enough to get out ahead of things like search, social networks, password storage services and VPNs.
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Which is why you need extended family and social infrastructure, and cultural infrastructure, etc. as I mentioned. Nothing this side of heaven is perfect, of course.
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
People don't need cash. That's the easy way out for intellectuals. And they sure as shit don't need a casino in their town. They need social infrastructure (families, extended families, social institutions like churches and
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
I agree entirely, except for the necessarily ugly part. You can use intercooler.js to wire in very usable modern UX with very little overhead, relying on the native, screaming fast DOM implementation.
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Your general data api and your application api should be separated, since they are different concerns with different requirements, as you are discovering. Intercooler is better mentally modeled going from a traditional web application ->
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
The nuclear family wasn't a choice, it was pushed on us by the economic elites who wanted to refine the old extended families (and, left unsaid, the old ethnic neighborhoods and towns) down into a more homogeneous group of consumers, w
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Adding AJAX (and usability) to ROCA-style applications is exactly what intercooler as designed to do: http://intercoolerjs.org No application-land javascript code, just HTML-extending attributes that fill out the functionality m
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Hyperview is a mobile framework inspired in part by HyperCard: https://hyperview.org
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Evolving a Django App with Intercooler.js(engineering.instawork.com)
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Only if your 1980s SUV is capable of reaching speeds that might kill you. I will simply be maimed horribly and die later in the hospital, screaming "AT LEAST MY DEATH WASN'T TRACKED BY ALEXA". I am, on balance, comfortable wi
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
The issue here isn't that this guy can see and control the the vehicle without the next owner knowing. It's that the entire corporate world and government can see and control the vehicle without the next owner knowing. This is i
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Get married and have kids. Nothing will cure narcissism more effectively than holding a quivering, helpless newborn in your arms and realizing that you must keep this miracle alive.
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Yes, I think that's a reasonable alternative. Certainly much better than nothing.
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
In increasing level of commitment/difficulty: - Use brave as your browser - Use a VPN w/ tracker blocking DNS - Move to protonmail or fastmail - Start using Signal for your instant messsaging - Start using Tor (but that might get
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Does anyone knowledgeable know if a magnetic coupling is coming for USB? I have used volta cables for a while (I preferred the 1.0 to the 2.0) and I'm surprised that this design idea isn't more widely popular, given how user frien
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
People want it both ways[1]. Well, sorry, that's not on offer. Your options are either Nietzsche or God, or ignoring the problem. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_atheism
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Computer: there is a small group of unpopular people causing social problems. Liquidating them humanely would increase net happiness at the least cost. Shall we proceed?
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Does anyone have good experiences with seamless sharding at the database layer? I'm old school and I'd be strongly inclined to look for a simple cut that allowed me to shard at the app layer, but I'd love to hear an alternat
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
We do not have a rational monetary system, so expecting rational valuations in the terms of that system is not rational. What is the present value of any revenue stream if you think that interest rates are going to be negative in real terms
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Great book.
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
As nietzsche said, we are beyond good and evil at this point. The ethicists are there simply to help us ignore the melancholy, long, withdrawing roar.

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