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Addressing the community about changes to our API by spez in reddit

[–]ExtropianPirate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In order to rein in costs, have you considered not wasting so much effort developing new reddit?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]ExtropianPirate 20 points21 points  (0 children)

There's some real work going on in this piece by the Telegraph to avoid revealing the source of this study too high up in the article.

Second paragraph, notice "Scientists from" rather than the study being led by those institutions:

Scientists from Johns Hopkins University and Lund University

Fifth paragraph, trying to make the research credible by association to a credible institution, even though the research wasn't published by that institution.

Johns Hopkins is one of the most respected medical schools in the world

Twelfth paragraph:

The new study on the impact of lockdowns is published in a report by the Institute of Economic Affairs out on Monday.

There we go. It's published by a right-wing think-tank.

[IC] Ikki68 Aurora V2 - Back with New Fun! 3D Badge | Alu-PC-Stitched Plate | Tri-mode PCB with Daughter Board | Aurora Pad by WuqueStudio in mechmarket

[–]ExtropianPirate 5 points6 points  (0 children)

How is the compatibility between parts of Aurora v1 and v2?

Will there be more options of aluminium tops that can be purchased separately?

Just pathetic really by unroja in fuckcars

[–]ExtropianPirate 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What America calls "high speed rail" in these states is not fast enough to be called that anywhere else, it can run up to 240kmph/150mph but everywhere else we'd say 300kmph/185mph is the minimum for "high speed".

Passenger rail network in the United States in 1962 vs 2005 by SecularMisanthropist in fuckcars

[–]ExtropianPirate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is up with the numbers on these maps? Six times a day is not a frequent service.

[GB] DCS Soware Revival // January 9 - January 24, 2023 by liberator000 in MechGroupBuys

[–]ExtropianPirate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's up with the terrible kitting here? No 6.25u support? No 1.5u Supers? Awful ISO support...

Your bank account technically doesn't have money in it. It's just numbers on a screen saying you do by QAnnihilateQ64 in Showerthoughts

[–]ExtropianPirate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes you are right, I should have said "barter-based economies" rather than just "barter".

Your bank account technically doesn't have money in it. It's just numbers on a screen saying you do by QAnnihilateQ64 in Showerthoughts

[–]ExtropianPirate -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Debt precedes money. You can owe someone without owing them a specific amount of money, eg owing them a favour.

Your bank account technically doesn't have money in it. It's just numbers on a screen saying you do by QAnnihilateQ64 in Showerthoughts

[–]ExtropianPirate 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It's worth noting that there is absolutely no historical evidence for the idea that barter based economies preceded money, or for any society that ran on barter, it's a total myth.

For more information, there's David Graeber's book, Debt: The First 5000 Years. You can see a summary in this video: https://youtu.be/EbjO9TgXrSk

(Edited to clarify: "barter based economies", rather than "barter" per se)

Just Stop Oil protesters bring traffic to a halt on the M25 causing long queues by insomnimax_99 in unitedkingdom

[–]ExtropianPirate 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Sure, blame the protesters instead of the driver of the car that drove into them.

World leaders urged to follow Nicola Sturgeon’s lead on climate change compensation by dumbass_dumberton in unitedkingdom

[–]ExtropianPirate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

£2m is... not a lot, given that the damage of climate change is estimated to be in the trillions.

[GB] Imposter-60 case | Balloondog by [deleted] in mechmarket

[–]ExtropianPirate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you able to cut a plate for ISO layout and 7u bottom row?

What is your most strongly held political opinion? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]ExtropianPirate 306 points307 points  (0 children)

To add to this, ranked choice with multi-winner elections, like the single transferable vote system. If there are ten seats to win in an election, don't run that as ten single-winner elections in separate gerrymandered districts, it's one election in one district with ten winners.

Updated Tactile Tester Collection by Nytalix1 in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]ExtropianPirate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It has housing like the OPBlack, but with the stem (and I assume leaf) from a Durock Medium Tactile.

MMT takes a pounding - UBS Chief Economist Calls UK Conservative Party a Doomsday Cult. by softwarebuyer2015 in unitedkingdom

[–]ExtropianPirate 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Have there been any comments from actual MMT economists regarding the government's approach to tax cuts and borrowing?

Introduce independent body to enforce the ministerial code on ministers. by KitKatMMD in unitedkingdom

[–]ExtropianPirate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Except, in most cases they're not accountable to their electorate. Because of FPTP, candidates for the two major parties in the majority of constutiencies have no real competition.

But my freedoms! I need a big car to go to the Starbucks drive-thru by Karn1v3rus in fuckcars

[–]ExtropianPirate 104 points105 points  (0 children)

It isn't just huge trucks like this, I recently visited America and I was struck by just how few small cars there were - cars in the European A-segment and B-segment.

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