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by zby 6y ago
Sigils are for simpler visual parsing - they stand out and mark the 'nouns'. It is not about the compiler - but about people reading the code. I know you can get similar advantages with IDEs colouring the code - here it is in the
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by zby 6y ago
Well in the cases of number 3, 5, 6 and 7 in these cases the Feds will just print the money - technically it is just a flip in their computer system and also in practice the difference is not that big - it changes a fixed term debt to a on-
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by zby 6y ago
You make it sound as if that swap was something that happens automatically - but it is not. It is something easy to do and it has been done so far consistently - but there must be circumstances where they stop doing it at least temporarily
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by zby 6y ago
Some loose threads: The main difference between bonds and cash is mostly based on the fact that cash is the means of settlement. But in fact what we call cash can also have two main forms: federal reserves (debt of the feds) that can be dea
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by zby 6y ago
Does anybody know what was the content that was the reason for the ban? The article only quotes: “Dr. Seuss Enterprises has stopped publication of this book due to its negative portrayal of some ethnicities,” - but I am curious what was it
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by zby 6y ago
And yet this is the way to create money - money is what we believe other people will want and will give us something valuable in exchange. It only works because other people also believe in it. It started with shells and gold and other coll
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by zby 6y ago
OK - but what is Plain Text? Is it ASCII or maybe should it also include UTF8 or other Unicode encodings? What is the difference between the bits that form HTTP/1 and the bits that form a binary protocol like HTTP/2?
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by zby 6y ago
"There's no way to transfer USDT into USD. The few exchanges that say they offer withdraws actually don't if you go and try." How about Bitfinex? I had some problems with withdrawals there in the past - but now it seems
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by zby 6y ago
It might have started in 1989 - but in 1993 when I encountered it it was still alive.
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by zby 6y ago
But is WSB an issue?
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by zby 6y ago
For everything you need a use case. You list those where antigen tests don't fit - but it does not mean they are trash.
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by zby 6y ago
I think the "first internet meme" title should go to ASCII cows. https://cruzio.com/2019/10/ascii-cows/ (I don't know what would be a cannonical source for this - this is a first googled link)
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by zby 6y ago
I don't know what happened with his antigen tests - but there is scientific backed data on their efficacy - and it is pretty good: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Comparison-of-seven-co...
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by zby 6y ago
I might be many things to different people. I hear your gambling and rise my performance: https://zby.medium.com/gamestop-capitol-hill-riots-flashmobs...
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by zby 6y ago
Looks very similar to Enso (formely Luna): https://medium.com/@enso_org
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by zby 6y ago
With the internet is is easy to get many people do something for fun - this is the essence of flashmob. It works only as long as there arn't too many serious consequences - because serious consequences throw people off the mood. So it
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by zby 6y ago
The question the article is about is 'can we deduce that a condition is discrete when we cannot measure it directly, only via symptoms'. If we could measure it directly - than we would obviously get a discrete distribution - but l
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by zby 6y ago
I don't know - in 2003 we have learned that flashmobs are possible - eighteen years later we see flashmobs in politics (Capitol Riots) and financial markets. They are still funny and entertaining - but now they are disrupting more than
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by zby 6y ago
Not really - the point of the article is that we don't know which conditions are on spectrum and which are discrete and it looks that the data we have is just bad.
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by zby 6y ago
You suggest the author is conflating something - but you never explain what it is exactly. You just spill some general theory. You also write "The problem the author complains about is an inevitable artifact cause by discretization of
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by zby 6y ago
I don't know about Open Source - but Free Software is about users having the right to understand and modify the software that they use. This is my understanding of 'the printer story': https://www.fsf.org/blog
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by zby 6y ago
The only not silly response to that silly situation would be to GME to quickly sell enough stock to stabilize the price at some reasonably high valuation and them maybe use money from that to do some stock buybacks later if it falls to an u
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by zby 6y ago
Eighteen years ago flashmobs were disrupting some retail stores - but I knew they have a potential for more. Now we see flashmobs in the US Senate and then disrupting capital markets. It is funny - but also ... disruptive. Actually politics
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by zby 6y ago
One thing that helps me enormously in figuring the system out is running tests. I was surprised to see no mention of tests in the article.
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by zby 6y ago
The problem is much more fundamental. Free Software is about users having the right to understand and modify the software that they use. This is my understanding of 'the printer story': https://www.fsf.org/blogs&#x
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by zby 6y ago
I expected it to be about Cthulhu.
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by zby 6y ago
Teaching will not solve the problem with incentives - QAnon is just more fun.
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by zby 6y ago
I would add to his list the following: - let the people make their own decisions
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Making policy for a low-trust world(slowboring.com)
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by zby 6y ago
If the point is security - then it should be virtual machines not containers. I wish QubesOS was more popular.

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