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  • As i understand it it (somewhere between barely and not at all) the idea is not that It’s “expanding” in the sense of a balloon inflating into the space around it.
    Its more stretching internally.

    So the distance (or time it would take at constant speed) between any 2 points is geting bigger.
    You could maybe also say it’d take more energy to move between the points in a set time.

    There’s probably nothing outside, but the distances inside get longer.

    It’s probably something to go with gravity, momentum and entropy. The actual concept of “distance” between things might not be what we think.

    But all these theories give rise to the concet of large amounts ob unobserved ‘dark’ mattter and evergy, so the actual basis of currently observable fact (i.e. energy / mass) is a small fraction of what is needed for these theories to work.



  • Those 2 Israelis were probably supporting hamas and spreading hamas propaganda and eating jewish babies. why else would they be in gaza? Real journalists can get all the evidence they need sitting in Tel Aviv to do honest unbiased journalism. They shoudl be working on articles about all the nice upcoming new beachfront luxury properly development opportunity in south-west israel.
    It’s anti-semetic to fall for these journalist costumes being worn by all these hamas agents - the world should be grateful it is now safe from their lies and suicide bombs.
    /s




  • shareware - I mean they probably didn’t make much money.

    But apogee, epic, id all came fom releasing shareware initially.
    but also nethack and all that stuff.

    I can’t really remeber how it worked, but i think you got these bundles of paper stapled pamphlets for free with hundreds of shareware packages listed with a few lines of text describing each one.

    If you didn’t have BBS, you sent a real mail back to a distributor and they send you disks in the post ffor a fairly small charge.

    Some shareware was so good the magazines had to cover it (for example, doom)

    Also i think there just werent as many big budget titles back then (on PC),
    Consoles probably had most of the money.
    elite 2 was massive, but still only 1 bloke i think.




  • It’s a donation so you’re never going to have perfect pricing everything down to the nearest penny or remunerating each person-hour worked. I think It’s about something rough and ready that is better than nothing. And it’s all goverened by morality anyway . . .
    so doomed to failure on that side.

    Buy hypothetically a simple principle with reasonable administration cost, like each 3 months, each node shoud add up all donations, slice off 25-50% , split it equally among their top 5 or 10 most important dependencies - just guess, and maybe swap from quarter to quarter if if there’s doubt. There’s some wiggle room there for small projects to do less and large over funded projects to do more.

    Each node in the network could follow a simple rule like that, making a limited number of transactions each time period ,and you’d probably end up with quite a complex outcome after a few iterations (years).

    The real trick would be having enough nodes in the network that actually enact such a simple rule. (Apart from having enough donations flow in to the consumer level projects of course).
    But enough nodes and enough inflow and the fractal would work for you - roughly.

    THe speed is an issue, the more often you settle up then quicker people see money, but the more the admin cost.
    But even doing it quaterly is not slower than doing nothing.

    Such a model is not something anyone will be securing bank loans off though, so if that’s the point then you probably need a paid licensing / service model of some sourt maybe Canonical and redhat.








  • Permits also enable stuff like a regular independent inspection regime which might be a good idea for especially dangerous stuff.

    It’s not good enough (in my opinion) that they might be doing it right for now - they have do do what is necessary so that it can continue to be done right until the stuff is safe.

    If they go out of business or sell the land or assets, the next people need to know what is where and how to handle it and have all the records and reports and so on. So a proper public record, rather than private would better.

    Don’t get me wrong, a spill is worse than a paperwok infringement, but
    this fine seems trivial in relation to (what I think should be) the level of responsibility for handling and toxic materials - even just getting all the paperwork right.

    Imagine if they did go out of business, and someone had to re-inspect the whole site to determine the risks with no reports to start from - could that be done for $14k?