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As far as I can tell you've misread the article. The grandmother of one of the emperors may have been Korean but the first (non-legendary) emperor was Jimmu who was born in Japan. I'm also a little wary of that article since it says "Yamato is the name of the family that founded Japan's imperial line" when Yamato is the word used for the ethnic group to which most Japanese belong. I'm wondering if there's a link here to the idea that Yamato people are mostly descended from the ancient Yayoi who took Japan from the Jomon and were probably from Korea (but not the ancestors of the modern Korean people).

You're confusing languages "descending" from others and dialects (varieties of a language). It's true that there's not a strict boundary between dialects and languages but thinking English is simply a dialect of Proto-Indo-European is muddy. The better version of the argument is that English is a dialect of Indo-European. Proto-Indo-European would be the variety of Indo-European spoken at a particular time (though it's in fact entirely reconstructed). To follow the linguistic analogy, popular programming languages are creoles (like English). They combine features of multiple languages.

> can you provide an example of a pre-money society doing this?

Can you provide me an example of a pre-money society becoming a post-money society? I can't name any. Unless your point is that any theory would be speculative (which is correct). I think even if we were to see the same evidence our conceptual models would be different but I'd very much sincerely like to see evidence which allows me to rethink things.

> Or, you can just accept a debt as the indirect thing

You can :-)

If the debt is non-transferable, so simply between me and the other guy, then it's not money. Debt like this may lead to money but its no more money than barter is. Of course that is not to say that debt cannot be money (even following a similar process). I want to be clear that I would make no normative claims over which goods (or similar things like debt) can become money.

I don't think the argument I made was strictly Misesian but it's similar and to his credit he was careful on this same point. In The Theory of Money and Credit he's clear that he doesn't argue for gold (or metallic currency) based on "intrinsic value". He even goes out of his way to specify cases where metallic tokens (like scheidemünze) may not be considered money in the narrower sense (but may in the broader) and includes things classifiable as debt in both the narrower sense of money and in the broader (as money-substitutes). One key difference I can see in his treatment of debt is that he considers it after the existence of commodity money.

> Which works because you live in a small society where everyone trusts each other

I think this is one of many arguments where there's the unexplored subjective element. Argument A and argument B look reasonable to person A and B because of their upbringings. I wonder how trusting you are compared to me and how your social experiences have differed.

> Barter of goods is just inefficient in comparison.

Yeah, it can be.

> Why do you assume this is natural?

"The most saleable good" in our economy is money. The majority of explicit trades for goods and services involve money. Of course, that is now and we need to explain how this happened.

If I have a good another wants then I may accept something I don't directly want as payment. Of goods I indirectly value, I should value more the goods that are most saleable as they provide the shortest path to goods I directly value. Throughout this my valuations are based on expectations of others' future valuations. We can think of the path from regular good to money like a feedback loop. It's the economic bubble that doesn't burst (except when it does and we all switch to silver or furs).

Of course it's much harder for the value of the anomalously valued good to crash in a real economy because of things like taxation (this is almost chartalism).

Sounds like a mises.org post Jeffrey Tucker wrote

https://mises.org/library/halloween-and-its-candy-economy

YouTube also recently added a similar feature that's more limited

Low Tech Magazine has some articles on using wood to make more sustainable turbines

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/06/wooden-wind-turbines...

I like to have fun on-line :-)

Greetings, new friend!

You seem to have a misunderstanding on the use of Hacker News (henceforth "orange site"). While orange site (or its users) may be characterized as pretentious, it's by no means not a place for low IQ discussion. This can be demonstrated by the use of the upvote system. The goal of orange site is to increase your score and you do so by gaining upvotes. Every user's vote is worth the same so to increase upvotes an optimal strategy is to write a comment (or submission) that most who see it will agree with or like. High IQ content will be definition only appeal to a minority so isn't part of an optimal strategy (unless you can make it look significantly impressive).

Best wishes and happy commenting!

This seems more like the Urbit "personal server" idea than the cloud replacement for a phone I expected tbh

When I was writing something (partly) as a learning exercise the easiest way to handle errors was to have an error handler on the server-side JSON encode any errors. The client-side JS would then split the string it got back on newlines and then parse each part. Each chunk of JSON had a field to say if it were an error message and if so the error would be logged to the browser console. I don't recommend, by any means, that people do this generally.

The amazing thing about Gamergate is that it ended being a massive waste of time for everyone involved and the actual arguments were practically over right at the beginning. Most of what anyone saw was the gossip generated by two bands of grifters and a cavalcade of wannabe e-celebs.

One of the beautifully symmetric things about the whole affair is that each side had someone who had ran a Kickstarter campaign and then failed to deliver. In fairness, I believe Carl of Swindon eventually tried to make the game (and then started giving refunds) and Anita did eventually deliver the videos (of course it's still a little suspect why she needed the money since she was already creating the type of content albeit more in relation to media generally).

Something interesting about Gamergate is that it shows you (or at least me) how both sides in a dispute may have an interest in distorting the truth in the same way. We can remember Gamergate has a historical battle between political conservatives and liberals because mythologising the events that way is convenient for both. We can forget that Anita, for example, was more socially conservative than many of her detractors. We can forget that her early criticism came from sex-positive feminists and sex workers. We can forget her disapproval of SlutWalk and we can forget her praise of the introduction of female-only passenger cars in Japan.

For something from the time (on Anita specifically) I'd suggest two video by "Intig8ive Journalism". These are 'Anita Sarkeesian Part 1 The College Graduate'[0] and 'Anita Sarkeesian Part 2 Burqa Beach Party'[1]. The original account is gone (how much else?) but the they've been re-uploaded.

I could go on but I don't think there's much point. I don't expect this comment to be particularly popular but I've think I've said things which need to be said.

  [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xbLSe4E3XA
  [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njRWV12LPwY

It should be possible to create an MKV file like this but I don't know what media player support is like. If it doesn't work then I guess you're stuck with the stupidly common dummy video thing (where the video content is just black or a single image like the album cover).

I seem to remember old iPods having a feature where you could switch to the lyrics but it wasn't in time with the song.

>But at least you have a brand new customer: Henry@gmail.com. Since you do not lowercase the email and do not recognise him as henry@gmail.com which he used in his last order

You may not like it but this is fully standards-compliant behaviour. RFC 5321 states:

>The local-part of a mailbox MUST BE treated as case sensitive

I'm not saying this is a good behaviour and the RFC also discourages exploiting it further.

There are more ways an email address can be equivalent though :-). Since we know it's gmail in this case we know the email address is both case insensitive and dots don't matter. Comments are also allowed in email addresses (in both the local part and the domain part). Here's a couple examples from RFC 2822:

  pete(his account)@silly.test(his host)
  c@(Chris's host.)public.example

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321

[1] https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150

[2] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.html#appendix-A.5

thanks!

>where handguns are entirely illegal

Handguns aren't entirely illegal in the UK. If I'm not mistaken then, roughly speaking, what the law prohibits is rifles below a certain size. In the UK it is possible, for example, to legally own long-barrelled pistols and old flintlock pistols. Another caveat is that the ban doesn't apply in Northern Ireland.

I don't think this really detracts from your point at all.

I was still in school when I first found this :)

but don't exclude malice!

Closest I've read is Borges' Labyrinths

To add to the irony, I have a British accent which often drops (initial) Hs but I cringe whenever I hear 'erbal'.

When I was a kid I found it confusing people would confuse there, their and they're – or rather being taught that people confuse them. I'm not sure whether it was due to me being more literate than verbal or not but "they're" at least has always been distinct to me. Maybe it's due to accent changes. I used to pronounce bull and ball the same.

>in many ways the presentation is the semantics

As McLuhan said, the medium is the message

I think like a lot of things it begins as parody and then newcomers are sincere

Nice Scanner Darkly references :-) Only last night, I rewatched it

>Why is Hacker News unable to effectively discuss difficult topics?

>(Russian election interference report flagged off front page.)

Why is a tech news/discussion board unable to effectively discuss politics?

Pretty sure mine is something like

Firefox -> Opera -> Firefox -> Chrome -> Iridium -> Chrome -> Firefox

>Xfce with their "WinXP forever" style can be popular only inside old people communities

Little funny for me as I'm running Xubuntu with the XP desktop background (bliss). I'm not exactly old though.

>Like making a movie ... which one would expect it would be ... not "a financial scam"

I think you have better expectations of the film industry than I do :-)

It would be both