Imagine if you converted a p to an l and a c, but used styling to make those two letters look like a p

Same idea… The actual letters on the page are wrong, but when they’re rendered back into pixels through the browser they look correct. OCR and humans would be able to read this fine, but AI tools usually fetch the raw page and strip out the unimportant bits to save tokens

Yes, stupid questions are ones that could be answered by the information the asker already has with just a little thought. Its intellectual laziness

That’s often confused with ignorance, where you lack some unknown piece of information to complete the puzzle

… What? No they weren’t

Anyways, it’s not about coins, it’s about taxes. Taxes can be collected in the form of currency or in bulk goods

If you don’t have any coins or bulk storage, your community is not economically productive for whoever owns the territory. There’s nothing to take

But infrastructure must me maintained anyways, an empire lives and dies on it’s roads

To be clear, a default would be far more painful than the austerity required to stabilize the debt.)

Hard disagree. The debt is already unpayable, and austerity cuts the kind of investment that creates economic activity, like schools and infrastructure. And our schools and bridges are already collapsing

And it’s not just national debt that has become unpayable… We have levels of debt that can’t be repaid at all levels. It’s a big part of why everything is becoming unaffordable

This is part of the collapse of an empire. It’s happened before. There’s three ways out of it. The first is a jubilee, a one time general forgiveness of all debt (unlikely). The second is a revolution and reorganization where we don’t acknowledge prior debt

The most likely path forward is hyperinflation, where the majority of debt is shrunk by devaluation of the currency

No amount of austerity will get us out of this hole… The purpose of austerity is to extract wealth through opening outside investment and suppressing economic development. It’s purpose is to keep countries on a debt treadmill indefinitely

They’re only a like 300 hundred people in total, to run a fab they would have to expand to a point they are no longer valve

He said to give up the coin they have and no longer use money between them. To share freely, so that Cesar couldn’t extract tax income from them in any way

When the tax man shows up, you give them whatever they want and leave them frustrated. You return the coins you have to Cesar, and without stockpiles of goods the tax man would have to go house to house collecting random goods. You have no money to take, no grainary to take a portion of

An empire can’t run off taking miscellaneous things from each pantry

That’s why I said generally…copy left is great, I totally support it. But it also has the issue that without corporate donations, it’s hard for developers

Jesus’s whole thing was breaking out of the system through community though. Why would he care about most software? He’d probably try to get people off screens to engage more with the people around them

Jesus was all about becoming ungovernable. He said to stop using money and avoid storehouses so the tax man will have nothing to easily take. To let go of the temples and leaders so they cannot be used as tools of control. To use the laws of the oppressor against them

I don’t think Jesus would be generally pro FOSS, because it’s primarily funded by and taken advantage of by corporations. He was a revolutionary, he’d probably be going around helping people live outside the system

It’s how empires die. You can read about the same thing happening in Rome. Just like today, some of it is so ridiculous it sounds like satire

I take consolation in the fact that we’re speed running the process… Our system has been broken a long time, it’ll feel painfully slow but we’re likely to see the day when we can begin to build something better

What you’re saying is more consistent, but I don’t think it’s more readable

I’m fine with let or var…if the compiler is going to infer the type thats all well and good. But it’s a replacement for the type - why would you write both? It should be either or

And if the type is being inferred, the next thing I want to know is where it came from. That tells you the type and more, I don’t want to have to see a type name that may or may not be there

Can we just not burn things that will kill people?

Our trash is covered in plastic, and we can’t even manage to sort our recycling properly

I’ve been waiting for someone to post the link, ty

There’s a lot of anger. The ICC and the concept of war crimes itself haven’t been around for even a century, we live in a time of unprecedented things

I’m not saying the right people will be punished, but there will be punishment

That’s just the cherry on top - my main argument is that it’s impossible to build in the first place

I don’t think the thing could be put in tension in the first place. Gravity will act on every link in the chain unpredictably, and the “nodes” won’t hold their place in space either

I think it would all be tugged out of place immediately, and the ungodly amounts of energy to set it up (even assuming infinitely strong mythril) would outweigh the energy that could be collected during the collapse of the system

Also, realistically entropy is absolute. Realistically the chains would break and require more energy than could be harnessed to sustain order

Counter argument - putting the type first makes it easier to see where it is declared. Which is more important than the name or the type

How can he face anything? He ded

There will be a post Trump. He’ll die long before he faces consequences, but there will be a lot of political will to see someone suffer

This seems like one of those physics hacks that don’t work, because the laws of the universe close them off in unintuitive ways

Like at some point, the tensile stretch is essentially sound. Mythril wires aside, the weights are still subject to gravity. And not just gravity, but the kind of n-body gravity of a cosmic scale superstructure

Those strings are going to ring with the song of the universe, I don’t think they could even be kept in tension even if they magically had both infinite tensile and shearing strength

The cherry on top is that we don’t really understand cosmic expansion or the forces behind it… We have models that work to a point, but only to a point. We know our models are wrong (or say least incomplete), so there’s no guarantee it’ll continue when the stars go dark

Neo-liberalism’s strongest soldiers maybe

The so called liberals don’t seem to believe much in liberalism these days

It’s pressurized though. It’s basically sprayed upwards in a cooktop, it’s not going to rise but it’ll mix into to the air for a good while