* There are no guarantees in life and ultimately you're responsible for your own success and happiness but accepting that is one of the only ways to actually accomplish those
Michael Avenatti is a guy who knows a thing or two about what it takes to get criminally convicted of something.
The word didn't come into existence in 2012. Reality has a long tail going back a trillion years, human civilization has a recorded history going back 20,000 years, and central banks have a long tail going back generations.
Reality check: Cryptos as a concept are only about 10 years old. Despite the magical lack of cryptos, CBs raised interest rates to reduce the money supply in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s. If we go by your prediction, you'd expect money supply should have increased less in the 2010s and onward since cryptos were there to "force them" to tighten money supply. Instead the opposite happened, and money has been printed more than ever before during the crypto era. That's an epic fail of a prediction.
The thing that causes CBs to act is the amount of buying power a currency has trading those dollars for real goods, services, or hard assets. When people are paying many more dollars for food, shelter, energy, that's what spurs CBs to action, not the price of fake Internet currency.
In reality, the scam crypto market actually likely moderates measurable inflation because dollars that might otherwise go into buying stuff that matters to Central Banks is going into trading around imaginary Techno Disney Dollars instead. It actually helps them print more money rather than forcing them to print less.
Reality check: Cryptos as a concept are only about 10 years old. Despite the magical lack of cryptos, CBs raised interest rates to reduce the money supply in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s. If we go by your prediction, you'd expect money supply should have increased less in the 2010s and onward since cryptos were there to "force them" to tighten money supply. Instead the opposite happened, and money has been printed more than ever before during the crypto era. That's an epic fail of a prediction.
The thing that causes CBs to act is the amount of buying power a currency has trading those dollars for real goods, services, or hard assets. When people are paying many more dollars for food, shelter, energy, that's what spurs CBs to action, not the price of fake Internet currency.
In reality, the scam crypto market actually likely moderates measurable inflation because dollars that might otherwise go into buying stuff that matters to Central Banks is going into trading around imaginary Techno Disney Dollars instead. It actually helps them print more money rather than forcing them to print less.
I like the original idea where you have 12 years, and if you want you can renew after 12 years, giving you that 25 years more or less while also allowing abandoned works to enter the public domain.
I've argued many times that our overwhelming copyright protections are creating an uncreative culture that relies on century old works instead of creating anything new. It'll be the end of us if we don't regain our dynamism.
I've argued many times that our overwhelming copyright protections are creating an uncreative culture that relies on century old works instead of creating anything new. It'll be the end of us if we don't regain our dynamism.
I agree so hard that I changed the legal page of my book to release it to the public domain 10 years after initial printing.
The idea that someone needs to own something 70 years after they're dead is absurd. That doesn't promote the creation of new works, and in fact even after 10 years if you haven't made your money back then it's probably time to give up on that work.
The idea that someone needs to own something 70 years after they're dead is absurd. That doesn't promote the creation of new works, and in fact even after 10 years if you haven't made your money back then it's probably time to give up on that work.
As anyone else seen ChatGPT go wild with the "it's important to note that[...]" on things that it's not important to note that?
I asked about a trope in chinese stories and it *just had* to mention that "it's important to note that not every Chinese story uses this trope" no it isn't important to note that, shut the fuck up and answer my question.
I asked about a trope in chinese stories and it *just had* to mention that "it's important to note that not every Chinese story uses this trope" no it isn't important to note that, shut the fuck up and answer my question.
If only some dashing rogue economist had warned about this years before.
Where could we find such a handsome fella?
Where could we find such a handsome fella?
I can only thing one of two things:
Either they want to create their Boogeyman so they can crack down hard on society (the Reichstag fire method)
Or most dems are so old they don't give a flying duck because they'll be dead before the consequences play out.
Either they want to create their Boogeyman so they can crack down hard on society (the Reichstag fire method)
Or most dems are so old they don't give a flying duck because they'll be dead before the consequences play out.
Still refuses to ask permission to install a bunch of bullshit video games from the app store on a default install
I lived without a driver's license for a good chunk of my adult life in places where you could shop relatively nearby. There's a few trade-offs people don't realize about.
1. Prices are higher since there aren't economies of scale.
2. Selection is much worse, and since product doesn't move the same way, it's going to be stuff that'll keep, so less fresh food, more processed foods. Packaged foods tend to be salty, oily, and sugary because those are the foods that can sit on a shelf unrefrigerated for a long time.
3. Since you can only buy what you can carry every step of the way, you tend to buy less stuff, so instead of stocking up on bulk goods you'll end up buying small amounts. This has 3 effects: First further driving up prices, second increasing waste since you're buying more packaging for less product, and finally increasing dependence on making sure you can immediately get to the store because you only have a small amount of food at home at any one time.
4. Sometimes (only about 11 months of the year) the weather sucks and you've got to go out in extreme cold, or extreme heat, or rain, and you don't have much of a choice since you don't have any food reserves to speak of.
Honestly, having a house with a yard and a decent car in the driveway is actually nice. I'm not opposed to communities where people can live the 15 minute city lifestyle, but I think the concern people have is that these elites want to use pretty words to cram us into sardine cans and take our freedom to live the way we want to live away. Some people *want* the sardine can life, but other people want wide open spaces, a yard, a garden, a swing set in the back yard and the garage stocked with a workshop.
1. Prices are higher since there aren't economies of scale.
2. Selection is much worse, and since product doesn't move the same way, it's going to be stuff that'll keep, so less fresh food, more processed foods. Packaged foods tend to be salty, oily, and sugary because those are the foods that can sit on a shelf unrefrigerated for a long time.
3. Since you can only buy what you can carry every step of the way, you tend to buy less stuff, so instead of stocking up on bulk goods you'll end up buying small amounts. This has 3 effects: First further driving up prices, second increasing waste since you're buying more packaging for less product, and finally increasing dependence on making sure you can immediately get to the store because you only have a small amount of food at home at any one time.
4. Sometimes (only about 11 months of the year) the weather sucks and you've got to go out in extreme cold, or extreme heat, or rain, and you don't have much of a choice since you don't have any food reserves to speak of.
Honestly, having a house with a yard and a decent car in the driveway is actually nice. I'm not opposed to communities where people can live the 15 minute city lifestyle, but I think the concern people have is that these elites want to use pretty words to cram us into sardine cans and take our freedom to live the way we want to live away. Some people *want* the sardine can life, but other people want wide open spaces, a yard, a garden, a swing set in the back yard and the garage stocked with a workshop.
These old buggers don't care what they're doing to the next generation of democrats by being this petty. They'll be dead soon anyway.
...But man, I wouldn't want to be a Democrat. At this rate, they'll all be in jail soon the way they're sowing these seeds.
...But man, I wouldn't want to be a Democrat. At this rate, they'll all be in jail soon the way they're sowing these seeds.
That's an excellent point. It isn't like the sane among us are willing to turn back the clock -- we want to improve our environment, but we aren't willing to kill all the humans to return to a pre-Anthropocene period, and even if we did kill all the humans you can't put that genie back in the bottle, the world is already changed.
It seems much more mature to, instead of thinking of what genocide we can commit to undo human existence, we figure out the best ways to be better stewards in a world we have changed and will likely change more in the future.
There are a lot of species that thrive in partnership or cohabitation of environments with humans, and we could maybe do some things differently to increase the number that can thrive in the environments we create.
It seems much more mature to, instead of thinking of what genocide we can commit to undo human existence, we figure out the best ways to be better stewards in a world we have changed and will likely change more in the future.
There are a lot of species that thrive in partnership or cohabitation of environments with humans, and we could maybe do some things differently to increase the number that can thrive in the environments we create.