spiralx

> When I see a system that combines externalities, wild inequality of outcome and this sort of builtin restistance to tackling the cons, my facile knee jerk reaction is to assume that it is rigged.

But that's just the brain's bias towards simple explanations and well-defined actors - the Ockham's Razor heuristic you could call it. Truth is we're still in the early stages of capitalism where most (all?) nations aren't stably resourced and as such geopolitical strategy and internal unrest can and will undo capital expansion with a stroke of the pen or a bullet from a gun. The need for monopolisable extractative resources such as fossil fuels ensures that capital will trend towards monopolistic behemoths with deep connections to their governments, and that permeates down into capital as a whole.

Moving to a more decentralised model of resourcing means less need for national security to favour and support massive quasi-governmental corporations that are "too vital to fail" and which leads to an environment where the inevitable endpoint of every market sector is consolidation into their own behemoth conglomerates. The more dispersed your resource acquisition is, the less dependent on massive corporations governments will be.

> Reducing profits defeats the purpose of becoming a monopoly, while any sliver of profit is the startup's opportunity.

Only if you ignore the concept of loss leaders, or the very act of competing in the market itself by undercutting competitors' prices. Companies are very happy to receive less money in the short term in exchange for guaranteed recurring revenue in the long term, it's only rational after all, and applies as much to a yearly subscription being cheaper than 12 individual monthly subscriptions as it does to established companies accepting reduced revenue in the short term to guarantee their share of the market in the long term.

This is all pretty obvious from a basic understanding of how companies work TBH.

You say that, but her name all on its own was enough for me to click on the link, because the name gives clues towards being related to physics or the Cold War or something intriguing.

I doubt it would happen in Labour's first term, it would suck up all of their time and energy and give the pro-Brexit crowd endless fodder to attack them with. It could be a second term project, or maybe even a risky re-election bid if they perceive that it might win them enough votes to secure another term.

This is complicated by the fact that the whole process of re-joining would likely take longer than a single term to complete, and the EU is unlikely to start that process until they believe that support for it in the UK is strong enough that the whole thing won't just be abandoned part way through due to a change of policy or party in government.

Cause or pre-condition? It's simple to state the pre-condition for quantum tunnelling to occur, but as a probabilistic event the cause seems hard to define...

A _Georgist critique_ is a critique from a Georgist perspective, same as a _Marxist analysis_ would be an analysis from a Marxist perspective. A _Georgist's critique_ would be a critique from someone who is a Georgist, but not necessarily relating to Georgeism, which is more ambiguous in this case.

If you separate capitalists and landlords out as different classes (in the Georgist sense) then you can say that landlords have extracted rent for far longer than capitalists have been around; it took the Industrial Revolution to move from the guild-based master and apprentice model to a capital-based owner and worker model of production.

There's Democracy:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1410710/Democracy_4/

I think you're describing the difference between commercial bank money and central bank money, but I'm not sure.

QE is a separate process from the usual act of money creation by banks making loans, it's best to consider it as an out-of-the-ordinary manual intervention by the central bank where they create new central bank money ad hoc and use that to purchase assets on the market. The normal process of money creation is banks creating new commercial bank money when making loans to individuals and companies.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...

Just tried Shade Of Purple and while it looks nice for TS code when I switch to HTML the fact that attribute names are italicised and a bright orangey-yellow while tag names, attribute values and text content all have neutral or darker colours to me makes it look like a case of not being able to see the forest for all the trees - the least interesting part of the document grabs my attention and makes the whole thing harder to visually parse. And it's even worse when attribute values contain expressions because some parts (property and function names) get the same bright orangey-yellow colour as the attribute name.

It seems he does:

https://kimjongunlookingatthings.com/

I once got a club night for an event called "Sold Out" and while I could see what the organisers were trying to do with that - give the idea it was popular - I could also see what a mind-blowingly terrible name it actually was, giving the impression of a) being "sold out" so not worth trying to get a ticket for, and b) being a "sell out" which is not the impression any brand trying to be cool should give.

A friend was booked to DJ there and apparently it was not sold out, it was barely attended at all, to my complete lack of surprise :D

Why is it anyone's job to coddle and cajole people who have no logical basis for their beliefs, no interest in changing them and will in fact double-down on them any time they feel the slightest bit challenged, such as when merely presented with an alternate view?

They've pushed everyone else away as part of falling down the rabbit hole of denialism, they're the ones who have to want to change their beliefs.

The guy who wrote the original Task Manager has a video about how it came to be, how it works and some of the "hidden" features such as the one in the article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve95Nh690l0

He's also got a new video trying to see how the NT4 Task Manager handles 32 CPU cores lol.

I assume the name is a play on Maxwell's Demon in that its proposal was a fly in the ointment for a prevailing idea in its field of study.

This article is quite a bit better at explaining things IMO:

https://www.space.com/bizarre-demon-particle-found-inside-su...

> I don't think it explains the degree to which right-wing politics has become optimized for ignoring real threats and inventing fake ones.

You're assuming that they believe in the same sets of "real" and "fake" threats, or at least prioritise them similarly.

> Can you see yet where this is leading us, and why I'm 120% sure that climate change WILL come with an increase in volcanic eruptions?

Melting of ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica causing land to rebound (called iso-something shock IIRC?) which is likely to cause all kinds of tectonic activity such as volcanism. Which is less weight on the crust there, and so a lower local gravity in those areas. Gravity isn't strong enough to do much to even the thinnest part of the crust (about 16km in part of Antarctica apparently) directly unless you just mean it as weight, which is a weird way of using the term.

What an awful text colour, had to do this just to read the article:

  $$('div, h1, h2').forEach(e => e.style.color = '#111')

I just went from the article itself to searching Google for "chronocration" and then on to this comment from the results, the recursion is METAL.

Sounds more like something from Bal-Sagoth, my favourite pretentious black metal group ever.

http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/balsagoth/starfireburningup...

I loved that album so much when I was 17, and I don't remember anything other than HP Lovecraft that made me look up so many words in a dictionary - unfortunately this was back when I didn't have internet access, and most of the medical terms Carcass used weren't in my dictionary lol. And I guessed that they were medical students from that, seems I wasn't the only one to make that assumption!

But never since have I come across such philial odes to corpses and the cleaning thereof.

Edited to add I'm thinking of Symphonies of Sickness as the one I listened to the most, although Necroticism came a close second.

He'd fit in well at the Bangface Weekender I go to religiously, they've had both plenty of chiptunes artists and Napalm Death play there in the past :) https://www.bangface.com/

Ah, that's black metal, which is deeply earnest. When I explain to people about my theory of earnestness in music death vs. black metal is a great way to show "not earnest" against "earnest". Can you tell me the story of the band and the sheep heads though please? I've heard a lot of stories from the black metal scene but not that one!

Here are some very earnest album covers lol:

https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2017/06/13/the-worst-black-m...

Xpounds. And I'm sure Musk would love the puerile possibilities thereof.

> It's a bit like how in Big Brother and other reality shows people first try to show their best side, to show restraint. But over time, and with stress, despite all the cameras, despite the knowledge the world watches, you slowly revert to being yourself.

Hah, I'd never have considered the parallels between Big Brother and Twitter before but you're spot on here - even more so when you consider the existence of Celebrity Big Brother showing that celebrities are - of course - people who act like people do. Musk isn't the only famous person who's been unable to stop revealing who they are on Twitter, but he's certainly the one who's taken it the farthest.

Yes, at the point where you try to withdraw actual cash the bank will have to use any cash it has as its assets, but nowadays the majority of transactions are digital and all that needs to happen is to adjust the balances of the payee and payer accordingly (potentially this can involve the interbank settlement network but the end result is the same).

Once you stop thinking of money in terms of tokens and bank deposits as those tokens getting stored in individual buckets - or there being any buckets at all - you can think of it in terms of assets and liabilities it makes sense. Also that commercial bank money (deposits) and central bank money (cash) are different because they are liabilities to different entities - commercial banks and the FED respectively.

Or more fundamentally, modern money is just I-O-Us being moved around.

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/banks-do-not-create-money-out...

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/money-reserves-a...

Brutal but true. Mexico will replace China as a manufacturing hub at some point in the next decade.

Heh, you've just made me consider that the asymptote of capitalism is communism.

They don't lend out deposits, if a bank had zero deposits it could still loan you that $100 just by adjusting your balance and adding the loan to their books. It's a subtle difference, and honestly, the BoE explainer I linked to is by far better at explaining this than I am.