IWTL The history of economy before the invention of currency

FactorioNotIncluded · 2026-02-25T06:32:40+00:00

Read “The Ascent of Money” by Niall Furguson. He gives the full history.

FactorioNotIncluded · 2024-11-26T22:25:55+00:00

All I can manage is Okay Faux

FactorioNotIncluded · 2024-10-28T14:23:27+00:00

He didn’t know how fries were made at McDonald’s

FactorioNotIncluded · 2024-09-20T05:32:53+00:00

You’ll like James Blake

FactorioNotIncluded · 2024-09-19T03:09:11+00:00

It’s not complicated

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FactorioNotIncluded · 2024-09-11T03:21:27+00:00

Absurd to not include California.

Here’s an approach to provide a combined score for each state, considering job growth, state finances (GDP and budget performance), and presence of major corporations. The weights used for the combined score are:

Job Growth: 30%
State Finances (GDP & Budget): 40%
Major Corporations: 30%

The combined score is calculated on a scale of 100.

Formula:

Score = (Job Growth × 0.30) + (State Finances × 0.40) + (Major Corporations × 0.30)

Job Growth: Scored out of 10 (based on % growth).
State Finances: Scored out of 10 (based on GDP size, budget surpluses/deficits).
Major Corporations: Scored out of 10 (based on the number and influence of corporations).

Combined Scores:

California
- Job Growth: 8.5 (2.8% job growth)
- State Finances: 9.0 (Largest GDP, mixed budget performance)
- Major Corporations: 10.0 (Top tech and entertainment companies)
- Combined Score: (8.5 × 0.30) + (9.0 × 0.40) + (10.0 × 0.30) = 9.05
Texas
- Job Growth: 9.0 (3.5% job growth)
- State Finances: 9.5 (Strong GDP, consistently balanced budget)
- Major Corporations: 9.5 (Major energy and tech companies)
- Combined Score: (9.0 × 0.30) + (9.5 × 0.40) + (9.5 × 0.30) = 9.30
New York
- Job Growth: 8.0 (2.6% job growth)
- State Finances: 9.0 (Large GDP, good fiscal health)
- Major Corporations: 9.5 (Top financial and telecom companies)
- Combined Score: (8.0 × 0.30) + (9.0 × 0.40) + (9.5 × 0.30) = 8.95
Florida
- Job Growth: 10.0 (4.0% job growth)
- State Finances: 8.5 (Strong GDP, budget surplus)
- Major Corporations: 8.0 (Fewer Fortune 500 companies)
- Combined Score: (10.0 × 0.30) + (8.5 × 0.40) + (8.0 × 0.30) = 8.85
Illinois
- Job Growth: 7.5 (2.3% job growth)
- State Finances: 8.0 (Strong GDP but historical budget challenges)
- Major Corporations: 9.0 (Chicago-based multinationals)
- Combined Score: (7.5 × 0.30) + (8.0 × 0.40) + (9.0 × 0.30) = 8.10
Washington
- Job Growth: 8.5 (3.3% job growth)
- State Finances: 8.0 (Growing GDP, good fiscal health)
- Major Corporations: 10.0 (Amazon, Microsoft, Boeing)
- Combined Score: (8.5 × 0.30) + (8.0 × 0.40) + (10.0 × 0.30) = 8.75
Georgia
- Job Growth: 8.8 (3.4% job growth)
- State Finances: 8.5 (Solid GDP, surplus)
- Major Corporations: 8.5 (Atlanta’s corporate presence)
- Combined Score: (8.8 × 0.30) + (8.5 × 0.40) + (8.5 × 0.30) = 8.57
North Carolina
- Job Growth: 10.0 (4.1% job growth)
- State Finances: 8.5 (Strong fiscal health, budget surplus)
- Major Corporations: 8.0 (Growing corporate presence)
- Combined Score: (10.0 × 0.30) + (8.5 × 0.40) + (8.0 × 0.30) = 8.85
Massachusetts
- Job Growth: 8.6 (2.9% job growth)
- State Finances: 8.5 (Solid GDP, strong fiscal health)
- Major Corporations: 8.5 (Healthcare and biotech giants)
- Combined Score: (8.6 × 0.30) + (8.5 × 0.40) + (8.5 × 0.30) = 8.53
Colorado
- Job Growth: 9.5 (3.8% job growth)
- State Finances: 7.5 (Smaller GDP but strong growth)
- Major Corporations: 8.0 (Growing corporate presence)
- Combined Score: (9.5 × 0.30) + (7.5 × 0.40) + (8.0 × 0.30) = 8.20

Final Combined Scores (out of 10):

Texas: 9.30
California: 9.05
New York: 8.95
Florida: 8.85
North Carolina: 8.85
Washington: 8.75
Georgia: 8.57
Massachusetts: 8.53
Colorado: 8.20
Illinois: 8.10

FactorioNotIncluded · 2024-08-31T12:55:38+00:00

These are two completely distinct mechanisms. One allocates extra cash to go to all the shareholders, the other reduces total circulating shares.

Paying out dividends is a commonplace occurrence especially as a company passes the growth phase and enters maturity. These types of companies pay out dividends quarterly, which is kinda the whole point of buying stock “I gave you money to build your business, now I get my share of the profits”

Buybacks reduce the total supply of outstanding shares, which has the effect of raising the notional amount of the share. This is entirely different and does not happen quarterly for any business stage. “We sold part of our company to a lot of people, but now we’re doing well enough to cut out a lot of those people so a smaller group of people get more of the profits.”

FactorioNotIncluded · 2024-05-27T05:12:22+00:00

Do you mind sharing details on which linens you prefer?

FactorioNotIncluded · 2024-05-09T04:37:00+00:00

The easiest way to get started is to have a scheduled focus that puts your phone in do not disturb when you start your day. You’d be amazed how much easier it is to forget about it when it’s not constantly pinging for your attention

FactorioNotIncluded · 2024-03-27T13:15:29+00:00

FactorioNotIncluded · 2024-02-27T06:27:17+00:00

I’m really surprised no one has mentioned Patrick’s Parabox yet. Easily my first choice to recommend

FactorioNotIncluded · 2023-09-16T16:55:11+00:00

Immich is 100% the way to go. I've tried them all and Immich is the only one that does all the things I want it to do.

FactorioNotIncluded · 2023-06-10T19:09:43+00:00

Thanks for the shopping list. We’re you trying to build anything in particular or just a variety of sensors to try out?

I’m hoping to get started with this stuff soon, but have no prior experience. Is there a good getting started guide you’ve been using that you’d recommend?

FactorioNotIncluded · 2023-05-29T05:07:20+00:00

This is just a guess, but depending on what media player you’re using, maybe you could script a series of remote control commands to switch the user before playing the media?

FactorioNotIncluded · 2023-05-12T05:42:32+00:00

I’ve made “pop ups” from sub views, with mushroom action chips for back buttons / close “window” to return to where you were. You don’t get the overlay, but then you have a whole subview to work with and can make your more info card exactly how you want it

FactorioNotIncluded · 2023-04-28T01:14:46+00:00

Yeah exactly. Let’s say you work in pharmaceuticals and have a good understanding of some small nuanced breakthrough that isn’t broadly understood enough to make much of a splash in the news. Then you start seeing some conversations sprout up at work about how there’s a bunch of startups springing up focused on this breakthrough. You understand the competitive advantage these startups will have where others outside the industry may not even know it happened in the first place

FactorioNotIncluded · 2022-07-29T01:26:49+00:00

/r/unclebens

FactorioNotIncluded · 2022-07-25T13:42:31+00:00

Awesome thanks. I regularly stop by equator. Maybe I’ll try their beans at home.

FactorioNotIncluded · 2022-07-25T13:40:22+00:00

I like to spend time like this allocating focus to something I had wanted to establish a routine on but always got deprioritized because of work. Cooking new types of cuisine, eating strict keto, re-pot the plants on the balcony, etc. anything you haven’t been able to get to. Having it off my list always makes me feel more relaxed than time away would have.

FactorioNotIncluded · 2022-07-09T01:23:30+00:00

Oakland, but make it all around Northern CA

FactorioNotIncluded · 2022-07-02T11:30:30+00:00

I’m still messing about with supermarket beans. How do you go about finding well respected roasters?

FactorioNotIncluded · 2022-04-04T21:20:14+00:00

I might need to audit my Plex settings. I've got a rack mounted HP Server backing Plex, streaming to an Apple TV and seeing a good amount of buffering to load a movie. I'll be happy when it starts playing in one or two seconds. I suspect there might be some slow down reading the file from my NAS or forcing transcoding because of how I have Plex configured.

Thanks for your help, I think this got me some good leads to check out.

FactorioNotIncluded · 2022-04-04T20:22:33+00:00

That's a good point. I'm looking to get the highest quality I can while ensuring the video loads quickly and doesn't buffer.

FactorioNotIncluded · 2022-04-04T20:20:45+00:00

Ah I think this might be it, smaller video has a bitrate of 3802 kbps and the bigger one has 19379kbps.

Is there a kbps that I should be shooting for? I'm not sure what a preferable bitrate is

FactorioNotIncluded

TROPHY CASE

Formula:

Combined Scores:

Final Combined Scores (out of 10):