You can increase the refresh rate until it goes away. I don't think anyone notices flicker at 80Hz or so.

Yeah, there's no visible flicker at 70Hz or higher.

Resolutions were very high for the time, I have a 2002 LG f900p (pretty high end, yes but it wasn't super expensive even back in the day) running at 1920*1200@85hz and it's a delight to work and play on it.

IMO, the only factor that kills the crt vs a moderm monitor is the size and weight. I imagine resolution would be limited by how small the dot pitch can actually be made to be with modern processes but with the advances in magnets and power electronics devices I imagine going at MHz horizontal frequency would be not that hard.

Consumers at large don't like them. In the same desk or table you have a crt monitor or tv, you can have a muuuuch bigger flat screen with higher resolution that weighs a tenth as much.

I like how back in 2023 we had "no AI scientist believes this to be intelligence" and in 2026 we have cults in Anthropic praying to the LLM.

I can't short onion futures? Why? Buying the nov. Contract and selling the dec. Would net a >100% return on a month (minus the freezing cost of the onions)

You can, since the contracts are transferrable. But SFOFC is not an exchange so you'd have to find a buyer yourself.

I can't wait until someone tries to corner the market, holds a shitton of future onions, the onions go bad and the market implodes showing that future contracts on perishable items is generally a bad idea.

That's half the reason we have futures contracts. If they were only on nonperishable goods you could just buy the goods and store them in a warehouse. Futures contracts allow you to do something similar with perishables.

Future contracts on perishable items are executed all the time.

He had a good record with his pick until this one.

It's a nice fresh take. I like how naturally it comes that there's no singularity inside a black hole as there's no matter that can go through the event horizon in a finite time.

Still from a far away observer. As matter gets close to the event horizon, its local clock as viewed from far away slows down to the point of freezing completely when it reaches the horizon (this you won't see from outside).

As this happens, what you see is a very hard dimming of the emited light and a very hard redshift because everything takes so long now (from the perspective of a far away observer) that the frequency of the light emitted and the luminous power emited basically go to zero (along with everything that has time in the denominator).

I like the alternative even less, as it incentivises spending more than you would and taking on debt you don't really need.

Well, countries have experienced moderate inflation and moderate deflation, ask the ones who lived through both which one they preferred.

Moderate deflation is fine, it's good even. But only as long as nominal GDP stays stable.

See the so called 'Long Depression' in the 19th century. Which was only a depression of the price level, everything else did well.

For a more sectoral example, see how computer hardware used to get cheaper and cheaper all the time, but total spending on hardware went up.

That is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

> taking on debt you don't really need.

How does that work? When inflation goes to 18%, borrowing rates go to 23%.