edzillion

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by edzillion 3mo ago
Reminds me of the Sybilline books; Rome only ended up with one of the three but made great usage out of what they had!
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by edzillion 1y ago
You listed: > my death would be inconvenient for my employer _first?!_ I believe you have your priorities wrong. Most regret not spending enough time with their loved ones. You only get one life after all.
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by edzillion 2y ago
I know comments commending the previous post are also frowned upon but that is one of the funniest sketches I've ever seen. Hilarity ad absurdum
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by edzillion 2y ago
Interesting. This should also shed some light on the [Dispilio Tablet]( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispilio_Tablet ) - which seems to feature some kind of archaic script (the oldest yet found, if the dating is cor
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by edzillion 2y ago
10 year old me: who the hell is Spiro Agnew?!!?
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by edzillion 2y ago
Point taken, Mr. Devil. I even agree, up to a point - and I think this might be a major issue in the immediate introduction of a UBI. The reason why is that the incentives will change but there will be many who have learned the system under
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by edzillion 3y ago
Use phone, ring overworked admin.
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by edzillion 3y ago
Whitney Webb's new book also has a lot of detail on BCCI https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51074723-one-nation-unde...
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by edzillion 3y ago
How very cromulent.
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by edzillion 4y ago
> My third remark introduces you to the Buxton Index, so named after its inventor, Professor John Buxton, at the time at Warwick University. The Buxton Index of an entity, i.e. person or organization, is defined as the length of the peri
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by edzillion 4y ago
There is also another interesting unwritten rule of the English language at play here. The rule goes like this: In a series of words which differ only (or mostly) by the vowel used, the order should be e, i, a, o - tic tac toe - flim flam -
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by edzillion 4y ago
Which is Mutually Assured Destruction. I can't think of many occasions in which financial elites would destroy their own wealth in pursuit of political (?) goals. The one incident I can think of didn't end well.
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by edzillion 4y ago
What you are stating was perhaps the previous orthodoxy, but in the last few years even major institutions[1] have come to agree that banks do indeed create money when they create certain kinds of loans; the upshot of which is that 90%+ of
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by edzillion 4y ago
Yes
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by edzillion 4y ago
> No one wants an imaginary Bowie album, because it's a glamour-free proposition - a curiosity at best, most likely irrelevant. They're all going mad for an imaginary Abba concert
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by edzillion 4y ago
Time it to finish when you get up and it will release a lot of warm (humid) air to help you warm up your house
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by edzillion 4y ago
Well if you're in the EU then no, unless you can overturn the legislation. > The Background: In 2019, the European Commission and the European Council jointly approved a regulation that will require new safety measures in motor vehi
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by edzillion 4y ago
Its pretty old so maybe just useful for inspiration but the old Amiga/Atari game Dragon Lord / Dragon's Breath (Europe) has a very interesting custom magic system in which you can create unique spells using combinations of va
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by edzillion 4y ago
Doesn't Japan have a tradition of long surviving privately held companies? Perhaps there are some lessons there > Back in 2008, a Bank of Korea report found that of 5,586 companies older than 200 years in 41 countries, 56% of them w
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by edzillion 4y ago
The linked wiki article doesnt go into the reasons why so many hybrid fission-fusion projects have been abandoned, this technology seems so promising that there must be good reasons why.
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by edzillion 4y ago
They mean short term financial gains vs long term economic success
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by edzillion 4y ago
There's no gold in fort knox
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by edzillion 4y ago
There has been some fascinating work on human canine coevolution over the past years - I read a paper (sorry can't locate it now) that claimed that humans developed such distinct pupils due to it being so useful to survival for dogs t
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by edzillion 4y ago
The Best Lack All Conviction While the Worst Are Full of Passionate Intensity
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by edzillion 4y ago
rimraf is your friend
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by edzillion 5y ago
Wendell Dingus Can we just take a moment to appreciate that name?
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by edzillion 5y ago
But how cheap is it to determine the leakage factor? I suppose they can just pour in the equivalent water and see if it leaks?
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by edzillion 5y ago
I was hoping for some mention of the ark of the covenant battery theory https://strangeago.com/2019/11/08/ark-of-the-covenant-was-a-...
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by edzillion 5y ago
If Eidos Montreal is the same as the game companies I have worked for they'll all be doing a ton of unpaid overtime. Work hours as stated on the contract meant nothing
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by edzillion 5y ago
> This is a bad take because if that dollar does not transact, you do not get inflation but you get a lowered velocity. > However a lowered velocity rises r - g. This exacerbates wealth inequality. The cantillion effect: https:/

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