attila-lendvai

perhaps... or perhaps not.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/just-coincidence-ro-khan...

(suspiciously timed trades by people close to the fire)

money comes from other people... and the money printer -- if you have access to it.

money =\= purchasing power. if they print enough (and spend it themselves first into the economy), then the purchasing power is being siphoned away towards the source of the new money.

see the cantillon effect.

not OP, but it's much simpler for me: when i edited/reordered a sentence, i hated when i had to fix the capitalization. and it's also faster to type without messing with the shift key.

eventually it became a habit and started to leak into more and more of my writing, including public writing. if i wrote something like a blog post, i would still capitalize it, though.

.and some are putting the dot at the beginning of sentences with all lower case, like in Lojban .it makes much more sense if you think about it

(but i'm half joking here. normally i just don't capitalize, only the names.)

how much time have you spent with lisp?

IME, at least a weak of full-time dedication is needed, with a suitable editor and config, to start grasping this.

there's a large threshold on the way just to configure emacs and structured editing of lisp, in a powerful environment like slime. and only then comes the language itself.

nowadays it could be less, though, with tutorial videos and LLMs to set it up.

metaprogrammin is not only about decorating code written by hand, but a lot more, e.g. introducing DSL's that integrate with the rest of the language.

anything that transforms the source code in a lossy way is an obstacle to that.

why would they? they are on the same team.

the corporation legal framework is the very means of ruling. its entire point is to crack a covert fault line into the idea that everyone is equal in front of the law.

the key impact of simple syntax is in metaprogramming.

secondary impact is structured editing, and maybe it's helping code reading by human brains.

also, lisp was not really practical on consumer hardware for the majority of its existence.

what spreads among humans is not truth, but whatever has the best characteristics for reproducing from brain to brain.

this applies even to programmers.

good luck!

sadly, politicians are very happy about the centralization of power... they are the same team with the corporations.

you lost me at the receiver selector order.

because it lacks humanity.

intelligent psychopaths understand what is and isn't appropriate very well -- they just don't care.

which is my experience, too.

winter tires, especially the snow versions, are straight out a source of danger here in central europe.

i just put some snow chains in for the winter surptises, and ride with my summer tires because its grip is clearly better on dry and wet bithumen, even in near zero temps, which is most of the season.

i don't even have google play serices installed, let alone the play store...

pieces of paper is certainly better than bank database entries, but it's still fundamentally the same game: you need to work for something that they can print.

also, it's been on the books for decades... when cameras arrived to phones, they added a sentence.

well, i say it's high time to ridicule the people who try to ridicule others by labeling them as a conspiracy theorist. i'm a proud conspiracy researcher, and when someone throws this thought terminating cliche on me, then i nonchalantly ask stuff like:

wait! did you mean that as an insult or as a compliment?

or: have you ever read a history book?

consumer control begins by chosing what you give your money for.

then look for alternatives to banking itself! that impulse will shape the world even more.

splitting a canvas in two is a perfect "art form" that anyone can do to launder some millions into "honestly earned" money...

i agree with your sentiment, but what you disagree in is crucial here.

there's a class of topics where disagreement means the death and dispair of one side.

hoping to live and let live, with a disagreeing party that doesn't "let live", is a fool's errand.

closed is never secure. it's just open only for a smaller circle.

well, i guess the writing was on the wall, so to say, pretty much from the beginning: "don't be evil".

i used to work for a rich one like that ~20 years ago. we were walking through the border without a word, boarding his private jet, and crossing the Schengen border.

such documents are worth only as much as the population wants to, is willing to, and is able to enforce them.

right, it's just Hungary... in Germany you must ask for permission from the military to leave the country for more than 3 months.

i think it's just that the American population is the last bunch who gives a damn about it, and the pockets of resistance still makes the news... the same happens mostly everywhere else, just without much complaints.

e.g. in Hungary the authorities treat it as a felony to possess an equipment that can record video or sound and it's not obvious when looking at it. 2-8 years in prison for mere posession, i.e. even if it's turned off in your backpack. random nonsense that if it can also make phone calls then it doesn't qualify (the above is the law paraphrased).

/me shakes head in disbelief and closes the tab