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So the vision's a conventional popular news site with a range of sections driven (submitted, modded) by those with subject interest/promoters.

The user that's casual across multiple interests is the audience. The deep user/focused not. The promoters will promote. Big sub mods... have their trust abused, that's an abusive relationship, it already is.

Four years, I give Reddit no more than four years. It's no longer a going concern and any financial investment treated as an asset strip.

A fine question.

I feel this quote

> “The app right now is really just the first building block in a much larger vision for how we want the social web to work,” Graber said.

Highlights a difference in ontological approach.

The 'oldest' Wikipedia article you linked isn't the 'oldest'. Should you want to go by Wikipedia for a 'truthyness' https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Inflation&oldid=2...

But.. we could reference "a rise in the general price level caused by an imbalance between the quantity of money and trade needs" [1] (Cleveland Fed; On the Origin and Evolution of the Word Inflation).

[1] https://www.clevelandfed.org/publications/economic-commentar...

On reverting to to 'old' meanings, Adam Smith's The real price of everything...is the toil and trouble of acquiring it isn't inconsistent with Marx as long as toil and trouble is, in the end, people. Or perhaps myths of old beliefs that there was no sectoral, geographical nor temporal stickyness to anything. It's as if there were no sudden and unexpected changes in prices during times of a roughly constant amount of specie backing 'prices' that make 10% look like a storm in a teacup, though was it ever 1:1 or was hope to have the means to provide backing more accurate; specie based currency has a long history of volatility over the world, from West African empires to Asia.

We could even go farther... to say that inflation, a change in prices, is caused by expectations of inflation; that the supply of money is driven by the demand for money... and that gets us to whether demand is liability or asset driven which may be full circle.

I just asked my rabbits this question for you. Do they count as who?

They continued chomping down celery tops and coriander.

One of them likes to watch planes. It sits on its hutch in the afternoon watching planes from a local airport fly away, more interested in them on days when the wind's blowing such that when nearby they're taking off rather than days when the wind means they're approaching. The other one doesn't care for planes, but stamps whenever a wasp's nearby. This second one also likes to observe, then crush with a front paw, any ants it comes across or that come across it.

Remarkably human behaviour, though I know not what they think. Is it curiosity. Is it fear? Is something in-built and there is no 'thinking'? And what of us? Do we really comprehend? An Area51 alien is to me as a flying celery-rabbit on a magical boat with radish tops for wings is perhaps to these rabbits, if they've ever thought to imagine. They do seem to dream. That is, it's completely within bounds of their known reality. As outlandish as the very real, lived, imaginations of a schizophrenic delusion may be, and my observing it based on my 'norms', it's still somewhat based on the individual's experience, or imagination, of their reality, their experiences.

Perhaps there are aliens. Perhaps they exist in differing dimensions. Perhaps they exist as stars blinking to one another, perhaps they exist in my underpants or in fact are my underpants, what do I know, we are all in our (bounded?, there is always a bound...) existence, as Spinoza pointed out, of "Substance, its attributes, and modes".

Your post reminds me of three things -

The nature of what's being learnt. Some things require a continuity - to understand B, prior A is needed (or helps, to understand faster).

The method of learning. Book/theory-based, or practical? For either, what's the nature of scaffolding (self, or via resources) to help leap the chasm? If testing one's self, what's the complexity and can that complexity be broken down into simpler (or more discrete) parts, (perhaps testing working better in smaller parts)? Perhaps A isn't fully (or at all) required to 'know' B, depending on how it's learnt. Which goes on to -

The nature of the learner. Someone that's looking to solve a task, somewhat surface, or someone that's interested and will go deeper into edge cases or approach with greater curiosity?

[I'm skipping the nature of the learning/knowledge, since 'resolving DNS' is a pretty externally verifiable result. However it might be fruitful to consider the nature of the learning is not only 'resolving DNS', and even if 'resolving DNS' fails, learning always happens (intended/unintended, positive/negative, a can of worms there).]

You point out that 'easy' and 'hard' are motivators that might have unexpected, or the reverse, effects vs. intended, depending on the reader. When putting it into those 3 parts, perhaps this shows the usefulness of framing.

Heads-up: You might want to email dang as your account seems to be shadow-banned. Your recent comments of the last couple of hours show as [dead] (logout and see).

Continued innovation in financialisaction.

Walls represent, indeed are, non revenue generating assets with recurring operational costs. It makes sense to release tied-up capital by selling them off, then leasing back. The operators of the walls can reduce costs by operating walls at quantities that afford economies of scale, provide innovation as mentioned in the article through perhaps providing spaces to artists, or even radical wall transformation perhaps by installing and partially replacing with solar and battery packs, neighbourhood social facilities, and more.

The owner of the wall benefits from core property revenue stream plus innovative applications. The prior title owner benefits from lower cost compared to direct management, free capital not tied up in the wall, and from innovation provided by the wall operator. Win win.

When thinking at scale, it's incredible that walls are so late to financial innovation.

Aluminium's also more expensive than steel but experiences sufficiently less breakage to justify the price.

> the question of whether historic emissions somehow entitle a country to future emissions

As a national of a developed country, I am entitled to make more greenhouse emissions than the poor.

As a national of a highly developed country, I refuse to, or otherwise fail to, make the changes to achieve 'different growth' that I demand of significantly poorer countries seeking to up their living standards, because these changes threaten my quality of life.

Apologies, dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36881814

Fascinating, thanks. Not just for the salt, but the trail and narration. Saved, and saved the old.permalink... to the Wayback Machine just in case.

Your [citation please] got me looking. https://latin.stackexchange.com/questions/7159/etymology-of-... ; Google Scholar seemed to provide some references in a search for 'salt salary etymology'.

It is somewhat documented, well documented perhaps.

Correctly documented?

I never finished the recent popular book 'Salt'. After a few chapters it became tedious, repetitive, plus the book consistently omitted tying text to sources. A frustrating read.

As I didn't in fact tie Salt to Roman soldiers' salaries, that was your reading, simply salt -> salary, I'm curious what references you could provide for different etymology? I'm genuinely interested, I rarely reply to replies.

The article also mentioned the beer ration could be passed to families.

Which had me thinking of various pecuniary benefits armies pass and why. Salt -> salary is well documented, on the opposite side slightly less so but still somewhat known was for conquering armies to compensate farmers for essentially pillage as the monetary compensation can't buy much grain nor meat when the army's eaten the village's as well as that of surrounding villages. It also wasn't unusual for state coffers to run dry also, delaying soldiers' salaries, plus graft - several banks still around were founded on the basis of lending to a liquidity starved crown, a modern placation and guarantee of support in the classical baronesque sense perhaps.

And I became curious about all the other money-like tokens, like these beer rations, backed by the promise of a commodity, that floated around in those time, and in ours today. Meandering thoughts, the best kind.

Owner of @x Twitter handle says no one reached out ahead of Twitter’s rebranding to ‘X: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/25/owner-of-x-twitter-handle-...

Plenty of reasons. Is to consider consumption of alcohol a norm a problem?

If a quiche is not a pizza, is french bread pizza a pie?

Indeed, this submission was inspired by the Antarctic Panini Press.

They're a different epistemology. Tools of storytelling - video vs. book in this case - are being conflated with their use. They are tools not exclusive to a single epistemology, many ways to explore many perspectives of 'what'.

Contrast, for example that either of these books' narration allows a reader to fill in a lot of the blanks with experience, both real and imagined, constructing it for themselves even down to the temperature of the air, shade of light at dusk, smell of the air, exact tone and pitch of voice of a speaker. Vs. a video where the experience is fully narrated and scenes presented in 4k. Is the video 'more digestible' because it's a different thing being digested?

Not that these tables can't and often aren't reversed. Some vloggers say little, sometimes 'scaffolding' only some understanding through a bit of backstory, or allow their audience to similarly construct experiences of the pieces of a journey. And some books are instruction manuals, or unintentionally read as so.

A tool, be that video, text, audio, game, is only that. It's just a medium, a method that's surface to the deeper world view of the 'maker'.

They still have regular commits on Github. https://github.com/dimdenGD

US 30 year mortgage, fixed rate as they are, are risk subsidised by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It's a regulatory subsidy of the mortgage and ex-mortgage home owning class.

That 'problem' is caused by regulation, structural regulation, not day-to-day regulatory enforcement or change. So where does that risk 'go'? Where do you suggest? What can regulators do to un-risk the risk that's been un-risked/passed on from those that take out mortgages?

It didn't even ask for an email address!

It was also a time of DIYing shopping carts in cookies, forums all about getting payments working, and what's HTTPS?

Does it matter hugely that it takes one second to open a terminal? Not three, or five, but one? I assume when a terminal's open that it's reasonable responsive.

It takes less than a second on my 13 year old ThinkPad running Debian/Gnome3, but what's the difference half a second saved makes? And why even close it?

Focus on the greatness you're about to perform and thank the second for giving you that focus.