petrocrat

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by petrocrat 2mo ago
Worker cooperatives are fully compatible with capitalism. Only mentioning it because sometimes this idea gets unfairly maligned due to some mistaken association with socialism or even communism. There should be more of these sorts of entiti
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by petrocrat 3mo ago
to be fair, in the pharoahs quest for immortality after death, if they could have put their pyramid burial tombs in space to avoid decay/ruin for longer they would have. I wouldn't be shocked to see the oligarchs paying for their
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by petrocrat 3mo ago
It's not about the "Access to resources. A sense of adventure. Learning." Since you are right. All of these things are available on Earth for far cheaper, with better ROI and with far less risk of dying or getting early cance
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by petrocrat 3mo ago
> By soul I mean "the part of you that is an observer" This is a nice notion, but it's not how the existing literature (going back very long) generally uses the term "soul." Conventionally speaking the term soul
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by petrocrat 9mo ago
Also that the "spiritual world" (i.e. religion) in America has been colonized by money, consumption and commodities as well, which has drained all the spirituality from it. Religion in America is as desolate of meaning and sustena
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by petrocrat 1y ago
The Slate truck might be the only one to have less digital tracking just due to how they are skipping so many electronic bells and whistles to keep costs in the $20k range.
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by petrocrat 3y ago
Though demand for heating should be falling simultaneously, no? I wonder what the net CO2 tradeoff is there. At least historically with burning fuels to create heat, that likely contributed more per unit of degree-change than AC, however wi
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by petrocrat 3y ago
WhatsApp, famously launched and served millions of users with a small team using Elixir. Seems to me that speaks to the language's production capability, or enterprise capability, if you will. Considering that, can you go more into det
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by petrocrat 3y ago
The term for the parent comment's concept is anti-fragile
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by petrocrat 3y ago
The over simplification here is that not all plants are equal and not all soils and/or climes can support all plants. So for soils or climes that can only really grow "weeds" that are inedible to humans, if you put them throu
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by petrocrat 3y ago
Interesting, I was thinking of them for another use as well: dumping surplus photovoltaic/wind collected energy into space as a thermostat of sorts to help control global average temperatures and buy more time to handle CO2 emissions.
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by petrocrat 3y ago
If it's meant to transfer momentum to a lightsail, then there is no requirement that the power must be delivered to a single point on the electrical grid. Several of these lasers in a smaller form factor dispersed over a rather large g
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by petrocrat 3y ago
It's not the fact that there is food stuck in your teeth that causes cavities, it's what pH results from the bacteria metabolizing that food. Bacteria breaking down carbs produces acidic conditions, but when they break down protei
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by petrocrat 3y ago
Echoing most of the comments here: Love your product! This feedback in the article isn't even a setback, just a learning opportunity that Supabase users know will only make it better. You guys/gals at Supabase are crushing it!
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by petrocrat 3y ago
The term ballooning is so qualitative and subjective that it is essentially a Barnum statement. How would you determine if the number for the debt is too high? And why? And how would you determine if it is too low? For example would the ca
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by petrocrat 3y ago
Probably going to sound crazy, but we could start running water pipes in front of the walls and under the ceilings and mounting the LED's directly on the pipes for cooling. Creativity, thinking wholistically... the entire contemporary
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by petrocrat 3y ago
> Does the government require banks to buy long-term treasuries? Yes, there are a number of banks that have "Primary Dealer" [1] status which confers to them some benefits, but also makes them legally obligated to make some min
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by petrocrat 4y ago
At large timescales, the migrations most likely occurred in a way that followed Fick's diffusion patterns [1]. Some human groups inevitably even migrated backwards into Russia at times. And the partial pressure of humans in the America
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by petrocrat 4y ago
Funny, seeing with two eyes is needed for depth perception. Pretty sure that was a really subtle joke from the user above you :)
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by petrocrat 4y ago
Why is nobody questioning the analysts methods and models? Are they using DSGE economics models? I'm sure there's plenty of angles of criticism for their tools if one digs a bit.
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by petrocrat 4y ago
1. Interest on reserves increases the rate of growth of commercial bank reserve balances held at the Fed: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IORB 2. How Do Primary Dealers Make Money? Primary dealers buy bonds directly
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by petrocrat 4y ago
Orienteering implies there's already a cartographer who made a map for you.
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by petrocrat 4y ago
PASETO tokens are superior to JWT in just about every important way, it's weird how they are so obscure and have not caught on. [1] https://paseto.io/
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by petrocrat 4y ago
I've always suspected that mosquito venom does something along these lines, where the venom hijacks or overwhelms some pain nerves and makes them emit pleasure sensations instead so vigorous scratching of the skin feels unreasonably go
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by petrocrat 4y ago
did a large collision during the era of the dinosaurs also form Saturn's rings then? If so what residual evidence of that collision do we know about?
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by petrocrat 4y ago
Did you try to use javascript's BigInt data type?
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by petrocrat 5y ago
All energy has externalities, fossil fuel externalities are much worse. Why object to the externalities of solar in particular here but not the externalities of what it replaces? An honest comparison would only judge the externalities of so
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by petrocrat 5y ago
> many would work on various useless things instead of on what the society needs to be done. Do you honestly believe that is not happening now in ghastly amounts? That is basically the definition of market failure, which is of course an
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by petrocrat 5y ago
I don't think that's what critics of anarchism are thinking. They just believe that anarchism is a metastable state (with a very short half-life) that inevitably reverts back to either a strong central authority or multiple vying
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by petrocrat 5y ago
What good is being opposed to both of those things if there is no way to implement a situation without at least one of them? The single public sector monopoly on violence is the least bad alternative, because if it were to vanish the vacuum

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