spiralx

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by spiralx 2y ago
It was actually inspired by Perl as much as Bash if you read one of the asides in the O'Reilly book written by one of PS's developers lol.
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by spiralx 3y ago
Stephen Baxter's books are along the same lines, start with one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelike_Infinity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(Baxter_novel)
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by spiralx 3y ago
I mean any type of energy is just as intangible as potential energy, so I don't see that the energy stored by doing work (i.e. interacting with one four forces) is that different to the idea of energy stored by being in motion. You nev
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by spiralx 3y ago
Because gravity distorts _space-time_ - not just 3-D space - then the event horizon is the boundary at which gravity means that all future paths (technically everything within your future light cone) lie either on or within the event horizo
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by spiralx 3y ago
Which then significantly exacerbates the potential for a negative equity trap, because moving now requires paying all of those deferred taxes. So the longer you've lived somewhere the more you need to down-value when you move...
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by spiralx 3y ago
Same here. I'd been using GFA Basic for a couple of years when I came across Turbo Pascal which really helped - being a version of BASIC with code blocks, variable types including records, functions and procedures and even references -
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by spiralx 3y ago
The article is saying that the inherited wealth of the remaining 20% of today's billionaires is greater than the wealth of those new-made billionaires, there's no contradiction there at all. And obviously you'd expect most ne
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by spiralx 3y ago
But that already happens with property taxes - just look at all the people in California who can only afford to live where they do because their property taxes are fixed at their original rate, and so they cannot afford to move anywhere els
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by spiralx 3y ago
Nice one, I remember writing a 2D graphics library in Turbo Pascal using embedded hand-optimised assembly for the actual drawing code when I was your age, but that was back before I discovered the internet so it ended up being something I&#
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by spiralx 3y ago
The use of a continuous roll of paper with punched perforations to control a loom was invented in 1725 by Basile Bouchon. Then in 1745 Jacques de Vaucanson invented the first fully automated loom using punch cards which unfortunately was no
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by spiralx 3y ago
Probably not possible because it wasn't thought of when the system was first implemented and introducing such a change would involve getting new hardware with the jump feature and quite probably new hardware both to read the new card f
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by spiralx 3y ago
The KKK may be a shadow of its former size and power but that has just lead to lots of smaller groups with similar beliefs forming that aren't so attention-grabbing.
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by spiralx 3y ago
So starting in 1983 that's roughly five conversions a year assuming the figure of 200 people in the article. So a 1,000 years to get through all 5k members according to bruceb's post. The man is a legend but it goes to show how di
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by spiralx 3y ago
Of course they did that. So you'd have to use a user script to read each account's profile to see if they have a tick, which would be a pain even with caching the results. Just opened Twitter to nose at their HTML, it still hasn&#
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by spiralx 3y ago
Having nothing but random comments by $8 subscribers at the top of every post has been pretty terrible for any sort of discussion between posters and followers already, but at least you could ignore/filter posts by their blue checkmark
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by spiralx 3y ago
And of course physical currency - i.e. M0 - is only a small portion of the total money supply measured by M2.
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by spiralx 3y ago
Why should they? Other people have already done that, and it's not good for Bitcoin.
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by spiralx 3y ago
As of 2021 Russia supplied 15% of China's oil and 6% of it's natural gas, and those pipelines are a) for gas, not oil, and b) increase from 38 Bcm to 88 Bcm, while total imports via pipe are 2,000 Bcm, which c) doesn't accou
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by spiralx 3y ago
LOL, almost all of China's oil supply runs through the Straits of Malacca which the US Navy could blockade with a carrier fleet and a few submarines. Why do you think they've been so heavily focussed on building relationships (and
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by spiralx 3y ago
Although this issue is why the next five or six years is basically China's only window for trying to seize Taiwan, and its leadership is not so crazy as to not know that, but possibly crazy enough to think that acting on it is a good i
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by spiralx 3y ago
Only the UK and Taiwan have a nation-wide single-payer healthcare system, although Canada comes sort of close with each state having its own separate single-payer system. Most countries use some sort of insurance model with varying levels o
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by spiralx 3y ago
You have to remember that originally those exchanges would also have had a public option available to compete with private plans.
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by spiralx 3y ago
Romney got on board with the push for increasing healthcare coverage in MA and helped get the Medicare waiver required for MassHealth, but he didn't propose the system and vetoed significant parts of it, most of which was overridden by
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by spiralx 3y ago
Yup. The CBO have in the past even estimated a generic public option as being revenue positive due to replacing ACA subsidies for private insurance plans. https://www.cbo.gov/budget-options/2013/44890 Single-payer
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by spiralx 3y ago
The Netherlands has a system very similar to the ACA and the Swiss system mandates insurers offer a not-for-profit plan with minimum requirements, as well as offering generous subsidies to those with lower incomes. Both have cost controls t
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by spiralx 3y ago
The ACA included a public option to remove that tie to employers, but it was removed due to the opposition of Joe Liberman and his insurance company backers.
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by spiralx 3y ago
The creation and implementation of the Massachusetts health care system had little to do with Mitt Romney other than him trying to outdo Senate President Robert Travaglini's initial proposal for reducing the number of uninsured people
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by spiralx 3y ago
And they've open sourced a lot of the code they use for their infrastructure: https://github.com/nordic-institute/X-Road They also had a blockchain-based timestamping system a year before the Bitcoin white paper w
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by spiralx 3y ago
I'm sure the author considers himself a giver :)
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by spiralx 3y ago
Surely this is the more apposite link when talking about libertarian tropical island paradises? :D https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/05/michael-oliver-r...

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