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- graymirror.substack.com The inflation economy
"Money is a store of value, not a yardstick of pleasure."
We observe that the little guy gets the shaft, always.
And when the inflation machine is working, who loses? Ultimately, this is not an economic question, but an aesthetic question. The whole world, not America, is on the dollar standard; the whole world experiences monetary dilution; the world’s rich live by printing money, then spending it on goods and services made by the world’s poor.
This, in the 21st century, is “capitalism.” This is the inflation economy. It’s really not so different from the late Roman Empire. That lasted a long time, too.
And if you think the world’s economy should work some other way—you have to explain how, instead, it should work. And then you have to figure out to get it there.
- danuker.go.ro The Grand Unified Theory of Software Architecture
Take Uncle Bob's Clean Architecture and map its correspondences with Gary Bernhardt's thin imperative shell around a functional core, and you get an understanding of how to cheaply maintain and scale software! This is what Mr. Brandon Rhodes did. It's not every day that I find such clear insight. I ...
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Rump Kernels
An operating system is an arbitrary black box of overhead that enables well-behaving application programs to perform tasks that users are interested in. Why is there so much fuss about black boxes, and could we get things done with less?
- www.quantamagazine.org Mathematicians Report New Discovery About the Dodecahedron
Three mathematicians have resolved a fundamental question about straight paths on the 12-sided Platonic solid.
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Is the U.S. Dollar About to Crash?
www.pairagraph.com Is the Dollar’s Status in Jeopardy?A debate between Stephen Roach and David Rosenberg
- open.lbry.com Anarchist Infighting || Centricide 6.5
Many thanks to my homeboy Nickolas Cruiser for making the sikk backgrounds and VFX for this episode, check him out here:
- amasad.me Dialectical Progress in Programming
The notion of progress in programming is -- as in anything else -- debatable and hard to define. For various reasons that are besides the point of this essay I believe that we're indeed making progre...
The notion of progress in programming is -- as in anything else -- debatable and hard to define. For various reasons that are besides the point of this essay I believe that we're indeed making progress in the art of programming (otherwise what's the point in getting up in the morning afternoon and going to the office?).
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A Letter on Justice and Open Debate | Harper's Magazine
harpers.org A Letter on Justice and Open DebateJuly 7, 2020 The below letter will be appearing in the Letters section of the magazine’s October issue. We welcome responses at [email protected] Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform...
- www.theverge.com Federal agencies concerned face masks will thwart facial recognition tech
The CDC says face masks are the best protection against the spread of the novel coronavirus
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slatestarcodex - NYT Is Threatening My Safety By Revealing My Real Name, So I Am Deleting The Blog
slatestarcodex.com NYT Is Threatening My Safety By Revealing My Real Name, So I Am Deleting The Blog[EDIT 2/13/21: This post is originally from June 2020, but there’s been renewed interest in it because the NYT article involved just came out. This post says the NYT was going to write a posi…
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generative artistry
> A range of interactive tutorials, exploring ideas and techniques used in generative art. Progressively learn the steps used to create generative art.
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Shivering Truth Season 2
vimeo.com The Shivering Truth - Season 2 - Extended ClipWatch The Shivering Truth Season 2 - Sundays at midnight on Adult Swim. Watch the FULL episode here or on the Adult Swim app: https://www.adultswim.com/videos/the-shivering-truth/the-burn-earner-spits Watch…
at that moment hank realized all every he wanted in life is his hands back so that he could pray for his hand back. Cuz without pray prayer you have to improve yourself.
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z - jump around
github.com GitHub - rupa/z: z - jump aroundz - jump around. Contribute to rupa/z development by creating an account on GitHub.
Tracks your most used directories, based on 'frecency'.
After a short learning phase, z will take you to the most 'frecent' directory that matches ALL of the regexesgiven on the command line
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Synthesizing JIT Compilers for In-Kernel DSLs
> Abstract.Modern operating systems allow user-space applications tosubmit code for kernel execution through the use of in-kernel domain spe-cific languages (DSLs). Applications use these DSLs to customize systempolicies and add new functionality. For performance, the kernel executesthem via just-in-time (JIT) compilation. The correctness of these JITsis crucial for the security of the kernel: bugs in in-kernel JITs have ledto numerous critical issues and patches.
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- untools.co Tools for better thinking
Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.
> Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.