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There's a good post about why this isn't as foolproof an approach as it might first seem here https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a...

> If billionaires and aristocrats were actually a sizable amount of a country's wealth I might be misunderstanding your point, but I think they might be? E.g. in the UK: > By 2023,…

Yeah I think that's a fair shout, the main element being that private banks create the money via loans. Thanks for engaging, I appreciate the discussion. One day I might grok how m…

Interestingly that paper from the Bank of England makes no mention of "fractional reserve" anywhere, but they do say: >Another common misconception is that the central bank determi…

> The main source of "money printing" is banks making loan Sounds like a similar mechanism as the UK. I'm not aware if the system is exactly the same or not. It was apparently so p…

Good write up here https://www.economicforces.xyz/p/stop-saying-a-value-added-t... about how VAT doesn't alter the levelness of the playing field re imports and exports

I have exactly this as well. My optician explained it as my brain would use the information from the lazier eye only if there wasn't any information from the good eye. Just tried t…

>I thought the keel only needed to be down when they were something like 70 knots out at sea 60 nautical miles out to sea according to a write up by a former captain of the yacht (…

> you don't need a license of any kind to listen to the radio. I believe you did once upon a time, but I guess they were phased out as TVs became more popular. >The first supplemen…

I absolutely love Chef John. Great recipes and the cadence of his speech on YouTube (foodwishes) is very soothing, while he cooks up something amazing. If you're a home cook I high…

You've articulated how I'd describe my experience as well. I'd not ever describe something in my mind's eye as 'floating like holograms'. "Vague visual imagery appear in my head" r…

Interesting, maybe it depends on when you were looking? Also central York and we popped outside just after half eleven and the aurora was very visible to the naked eye, not in full…

Clip for anybody who doesn't know the Futurama reference https://youtu.be/O4RLOo6bchU

I was stunned to read that, in the UK, after carefully separating out the microplastics with the solid waste, that waste is then... spread on farmland as fertiliser, microplastics …

I generally think of this as the same principle of "prefer composition over inheritence". Leave the top-level free to compose the behaviour it requires rather than inheriting the f…

Have you tried using something like telepresence ( https://www.telepresence.io/ ) to get a better debugging story? It's not perfect but I've used it to good effect in the past to h…

> I did a quick trawl through the patents filed by SiTimes, and I’m guessing the MEMS oscillator chip contains at least two separate oscillators. These oscillators are intentionall…

Second this. I first heard about this book in a comment on HN a few years ago (can't find it at the moment to link), and happily pay it forward whenever I can.

>"where do you see yourself in 5 years?" Don't say "doing your wife", don't say "doing your wife" "Doing your... son?" Sorry for the cheap laugh. I really needed it right now. Mayb…

I found the oatmeal's comic about Columbus enlightening (and disturbing) https://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day

Cool, thanks. No idea how I failed to find it...

Thanks! I swear I searched the repo and didn't get any useful results, but yeah it's there plain as day...

I could never unsee it in this old easymock logo https://www.javacodegeeks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/eas... . They have since changed it to something much more neutral, thankf…

Looks cool, is the source code for promtail available? I can see there's an image available https://hub.docker.com/r/grafana/promtail (which is used in the readme) but I can't find…

Have you come across https://www.provenance.org ? It's outside the currency/wire transfer space. Looked like an interesting application to me, but possibly too nascent to be a shin…