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In order to "check out a branch" in jj, you would have had to run `jj new` already. So your edits won't be "added ... to the top commit of that branch", but in a new commit (revisi…

> any productivity improvements within that time become surplus value captured by capital. Not quite right. Total Value remains the same before and after increase in productivity, …

It seems to work correctly if you include the last two lines in the first commit. jj-workshop on  HEAD (2cab0f1) [!] > jj @ unwquwxk samfredrickson@gmail.com 2025-07-29 18:47:18 f…

So renters who smoke can just go pound sand?

Um, yes? Always has been? > Scholars tended to associate it with the theories of economists working with the Mont Pelerin Society, including Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Ludwi…

Why do you expect China’s deflation to be contagious and spread to the West? Or is there some underlying cause that both share, and it’s just that China is showing the symptoms fir…

Kinetic? Which targets do you have in mind that wouldn't start an escalatory spiral between two nuclear-armed nations? _Maybe_ some of the resource extraction infrastructure the PR…

I only found out about jujutsu yesterday, but from what I have gleaned, they aren't planning to remove Git compatibility. It's more that they want their own storage backend that ca…

Seems like an overreaction. Which specific rule did revscat violate? "Don't be snarky?" "Eschew flamebait?" Because it seems to me that all they did was thoughtfully state an opini…

Most people would probably say "too much." But since my cost basis is effectively $0, and I've already scaled out my position over the years during past bull runs, I'm not itching …

> For the transformation of money into capital, therefore, the owner of money must find the free worker available on the commodity-market; and this worker must be free in the doubl…

Mods should prevent flagging on one of these posts so that those of us who want to discuss it are able to.

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That's not really equivalent. In a fractional banking system, even if a loan is entirely "newly created money," it's not without strings: it's a loan, that needs to be paid back. S…

0.98^30 = 0.5459, so more like 30 years. But, that's why you have to put the bulk of your savings in equities and bonds.

There's some hay in the cryptocurrency space right now about how MSTR's market cap merits its inclusion in the S&P 500, which some think will cause a "flywheel". (1) Index funds pu…

Interesting article, should absolutely not be flagged.

But it did move more (2% vs 0.77%) today, the first full trading day after the announcement from OpenAI's board.

Gives me "Page Not Found."

He's a California resident, though, so wouldn't any non-compete clause be unenforceable? Or does California allow such clauses for executives/founders, just not for "regular" emplo…

$ du -hs /opt/homebrew/Cellar/helix/ 139M /opt/homebrew/Cellar/helix/ That doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

This is passing itself off as a religious text as much as The Book of Eli passes itself off as a gospel. That is, not at all.

A call credit spread simply means buying an even more out-of-the-money call along with the one you sold. It would have reduced the premium collected, but the long call would apprec…