nickbauman

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by nickbauman 2y ago
Having worked at a couple of banks, this is absolutely true.
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by nickbauman 2y ago
Comment was not meant to cover Lydia; just generally how money emerged. And this is a "cartoon" version of the story.
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by nickbauman 2y ago
Huato doesn't seem to have read the first line of page 22, as Graber actually refutes the claim that money and debt co-emerged. As far as the Cato institute's criticism is concerned, that section is almost entirely free of specifi
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by nickbauman 2y ago
David Graber's book "Debt, the first 5,000 years" goes into this in great detail. Highly recommended.
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by nickbauman 2y ago
Thanks for posting! Burke uses the term "barter", which is wrong. Before coinage, people used credit. Barter was extremely rare.
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by nickbauman 2y ago
Coins (specie that had a direct connection to a ruler, usually with the name or visage of the ruler struck on them) were invented to facilitate war. They were given to soldiers to allow them to participate in the economy of the conquered. S
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by nickbauman 4y ago
This is interesting. I sat next to a German manager of DaimlerChrysler (which really dates me, I know) on a flight. He agreed with the idea of worker unions being inside the company and having a seat at the table. He also disliked the pract
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by nickbauman 4y ago
JSX has an Async "tag"... Let that sink in. <Async></Async>
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by nickbauman 4y ago
The most radical are Co-Ops. The workers own the company. They're called Worker-Owners. Where management is a skill, not a rank. The problem with this model is three-fold: • Outside investment can undermine the Co-Op's autonomy (m
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by nickbauman 4y ago
What's the title?
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by nickbauman 4y ago
The big German companies invite the unions in because they are a source of innovation too. And managing the connection between the people who actually build the cars and the people who design/plan them is important.
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by nickbauman 4y ago
I was just going to say this too: JSX is a DSL. And a particularly screwy one!
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by nickbauman 4y ago
I'm sure this has some amazing features that really help with project and personal productivity mgmt compared to other systems. But let me ask you a question. If I want to get your attention, which one of the following techniques will
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by nickbauman 4y ago
I believe your comment might be a bit too broad for the claims you're making. Arguably, the most advanced "tech stack" for moving trains around rail systems today (at scale, with the highest safety rating) is based around the
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by nickbauman 4y ago
I believe this as well. And I happen to know of one of the largest rail systems in North America changes its topology weekly . I'm not sure "throughput over latency" is as much of a mindset as those here who say it is.
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by nickbauman 4y ago
This is a perfect example of path-dependent policy. Because the decision was to select for freight, other kinds of rail are "unfeasible". I'm using scare quotes to suggest that it's not really unfeasible, it's a cho
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by nickbauman 4y ago
No it doesn't have a world class freight rail network. The North American rail infra is incredibly primitive. Most of it is "dark territory" (no track sensors), unlike Europe. I used to write rail automation software for a Ge
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by nickbauman 4y ago
Yes; I have a friend who is part of a small team that wrote a very successful stock market trading gateway in Java. Turns out the JVM's GC can be tuned in very specific ways based on your needs. And there are ways to avoid having to do
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by nickbauman 4y ago
I thought the increase in nearsightedness originated in kids not playing outside as much (and thereby not focusing their eyes over longer distances) resulting in eyesight that's more attuned to shorter distances.
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by nickbauman 4y ago
Our nuclear storage problem will not change whether or not we build more nuclear power plants or shutter them. The problem will remain "forever" regardless. So I am for new nuclear power projects because we will need generations o
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by nickbauman 5y ago
Surprised Cloudflare was mentioned so late in the article and almost a footnote. I think that's not representative of its impact of their strategy on the industry.
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by nickbauman 5y ago
Wow, using the old Common Gateway Interface, no less!
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by nickbauman 5y ago
We still can't read Linear A, the language of Minoan Greece.
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by nickbauman 5y ago
I think it's possible with the rise of more and more "successful" dictatorships the Internet will become the domain of the state and we'll probably lose a lot very very quickly. So... that happening.
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by nickbauman 5y ago
Yeah otherwise laws don't mean anything, right? It's free-for-all. From "stopping at a Red light is optional" to Vigilanteism. Can you explain how that would work? Would you want to live in that kind of state?
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by nickbauman 5y ago
If you live in a society, you agree to abide by its rules or to move to a different society that better suits you if they will accept you. Otherwise you are a renegade. I don't see how this is avoidable. A state is considered intact if
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by nickbauman 5y ago
The sleep monitor is amazing this doesn't work for me.
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by nickbauman 5y ago
Agree on all counts. It's very hard to put time horizons on anything. But I started wearing a Series 3 watch (3 generations old now) when I started a project my client in 2019 insisted I wear it as I was writing code that utilized Heal
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by nickbauman 5y ago
I've never seen documentation efforts pay off in organizations that do not have documentation as a deliverable artifact to outside stakeholders. I've never used commit comments to store important information about the systems I&#x
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by nickbauman 5y ago
Generally, time spent twiddling with the repo is time not spent delivering code. It's a distraction. Yes git has all these features that lets you do that and those feature matter when you're committing to the Linux repo which has

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