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throwaway5947

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    Comment #37432727

    Not to be confused with “the twelve”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_basic_principles_of_a...

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    Comment #37126189

    Mumbles something about complexity theory and system dynamics.

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    Comment #36633002

    Or mortgages driving up bids, benefitting finance and allowing the wealthy to flip more houses. Almost never mentioned either.

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    Comment #36149767

    Why does no one ever mention these are “gamey” physics, I’m currently playing the game they cut so many corners with regards to realism I’m not really all that impressed with its u…

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    Comment #35651870

    Adobe Animate.

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    Comment #35620689

    That’s all well and good but you still have to account for Jevon’s Paradox, that it might not matter if consumption keeps rising. It seems really, really hard to do that in a socio…

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    Comment #35620136

    The upper classes are drawn to these theories like flies to shit. The biggest lesson from history is that we never learn from it.

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    Comment #35595335

    Currently writing my own software rasterizer, some interesting stuff I came across: Fine grained visibility determination (span, coverage buffers, etc) https://www.flipcode.com/har…

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    Comment #35557944

    Are these systems essentially fully automated poststructuralist deconstruction?

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    Comment #35083140

    You also need to consider the slope and slipperiness of the status quo.

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    Comment #34822299

    It’s a cynical take, but I always thought the real reason for central bank independence is so the finance sector can exercise more political leverage and be safer during busts, for…

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    Comment #34492532

    Something something Elon Musk.

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    Comment #34492204

    Unrealscript has a notion of states built into the language. https://wiki.beyondunreal.com/States

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    Comment #34263457

    You could just do what happens everywhere else, price fixing. (I mean everywhere else as in the real world, not the soft interior of an “economics” textbook).

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    Comment #33396502

    I still find it hard to believe that this is the same person that gave us SpaceX and Tesla.

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    Comment #33153250

    Related hypothesis: https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2021/10/24/redistributin...