Letting the enemy choose the battlefield is a massive failure in strategy. Most people are too smart to fall for it, but you only need a few stupid or mentally ill people to go along with it and suddenly you've got 2 years of "free" propaganda.
We forget that because our computers became so astronomically powerful that that old software works really well.
This is reality, right here.
Lots of Priuses are driving around and basically they're heavy, expensive, cramped corollas. The batteries don't even work anymore.
Lots of Priuses are driving around and basically they're heavy, expensive, cramped corollas. The batteries don't even work anymore.
That's a key part of why it isn't a currency: the use case for crypto at the moment is you convert Fiat into crypto with the hope that in the future someone will pay you more Fiat than you spent for it. That's how all of these companies were structured, and why they all went under when cryptos started to go down in price.
The fact that hypothetically you could find some electrical company in Texas that might accept a Bitcoin as payment, and you might find some water company in Indonesia that might accept Bitcoin, and a farmer somewhere in England who might accept Bitcoin for food, and a bus driver in Bangladesh who might accept Bitcoin, that doesn't make it a currency. It means that certain people are accepting a speculative investment in lieu of money, and whether you like it or not, they're only doing one of two things with it: either they are holding on to it with the hope that they will get more fiat currency for the Bitcoin tomorrow, or they are converting it to fiat currency so that they can buy the things that they actually need using something that is in fact a store value, a unit of account, and a medium of exchange.
There are anecdotes of people trading a tulip bulb for a house during tulip mania in the 1600s, because the tulip bulb was so valuable that it was considered a good trade, but that doesn't mean that a tulip bulb was a currency, it was a widely speculative investment, and that's where all of their value came from. The high price of tulip bulbs were never going to make back the money that they were demanding in actual flower sales.
The fact that hypothetically you could find some electrical company in Texas that might accept a Bitcoin as payment, and you might find some water company in Indonesia that might accept Bitcoin, and a farmer somewhere in England who might accept Bitcoin for food, and a bus driver in Bangladesh who might accept Bitcoin, that doesn't make it a currency. It means that certain people are accepting a speculative investment in lieu of money, and whether you like it or not, they're only doing one of two things with it: either they are holding on to it with the hope that they will get more fiat currency for the Bitcoin tomorrow, or they are converting it to fiat currency so that they can buy the things that they actually need using something that is in fact a store value, a unit of account, and a medium of exchange.
There are anecdotes of people trading a tulip bulb for a house during tulip mania in the 1600s, because the tulip bulb was so valuable that it was considered a good trade, but that doesn't mean that a tulip bulb was a currency, it was a widely speculative investment, and that's where all of their value came from. The high price of tulip bulbs were never going to make back the money that they were demanding in actual flower sales.
There's a lot of stuff that's isekai that isn't isekai, including stuff where someone is reincarnated in the past, or stuff where the person is already in a fantasy world but is reincarnated in another part of the fantasy world.
Given this looser definition of isekai, a lot of stuff is isekai.
Given this looser definition of isekai, a lot of stuff is isekai.
* 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
