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jfoldager | 7 years ago | on: New Map Scale Is More Readable by People Who Are Color Blind

I'm disappointed that they (in my opinion) managed to make a worse color scale. If you look at the CVD-Jet color bar you can see blocks that appears quite similar separated by too sharp transitions. This is a common problem in e.g. rainbow scales. They highlight them selves that yellow appears as highligt, yet the highest values get translated to black. How is black supposed to be interpreted as more luminescent/intense than yellow? It happens to be a color scale that makes the cells look good, but to me that is happenstance.

jfoldager | 8 years ago | on: Swedes turn against cashlessness

The verbification of a foreign language word easily becomes awkward: "Mobilpayer du mig lige 50?". Yes, Denmark is so anglofile they chose an English word for a Danish payment service.

jfoldager | 8 years ago | on: What is Money? (1913)

All time credits are not created equal though. Some have to burn half a day to obtain the time credits another make in a year.

jfoldager | 8 years ago | on: What is Money? (1913)

While governments back the base currency, most of the money in the monetary system is created by private banks as "money on account". A bank uses neither government issued money nor deposits from other costumers when writing up an account. Money on account is purely a promise of future payment, and in many countries these privately made money make up ~95 % of the monetary system (there are multiple definitions of money). Note that as long as the money on account are transferred to other costumers in the same bank, or can be cleared with other transactions when transferred between banks, the promise of future payment is deferred in perpetuity.

The main limits to how much money private banks can create are certain legal requirements and costumer trust that the bank is healthy. The legal requirements can be reserve requirements or capital requirements. Neither directly put an upper limit on money creation. A healthy bank will always be able to obtain more reserves. Capital requirements basically restrict how much banks can gear their capital, and when the banking sector grows in worth over time, it can add an equal amount of money into the system multiplied by that factor. In Denmark (where I am from) the is no reserve requirement and the banks are geared at ~20x.

jfoldager | 8 years ago | on: Is Bitcoin a Bubble? Economists Say ‘Yes’

Why will a bubble explosion bankrupt an exchange platform? The platform doesn't need to own any bitcoins and can be unaffected by price swings. The platform likely earns bitcoins through fees, but is free to trade them at any time. In principal all the bitcoins in the care of the exchange can be owned (or owed) to the traders.

jfoldager | 9 years ago | on: Night Shift compared to f.lux

There is already lots of blue light in my room, when I use a computer at night. I don't see how it would help to remove all the blue light from the screen, when the room is still bathed in it. I use quite warm light, and have it even warmer in the evening, but still, the standard settings for Night Shift looks very orange to my eyes.

I would love if Night Shift could just shift the white balance to match the surrounding. Does anyone have experience with True Tone on the 9.7-inch iPad Pro? I imagine would work like that.

jfoldager | 9 years ago | on: The closest I've ever come to falling for a Gmail phishing attack

That is very well done. I only see people suggesting 2-factor auth as a remedy, but I guess any password manager would work as well. You wouldn't even get to the point of compromising your password.

I use 1password, which will only fill in the password associated with the current domain.

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