I haven't bought a new laptop or desktop in 6 years and don't feel the need. Seems that since 98% of computing happens in a web browser now, local computational power is less important.

On the flip side, upgrading phones every couple years is still important because the hardware and sensors keep improving substantially.

The fruits and the maple syrup are. 😌

Beware of single-cause interpretations—they are the refuge of the simplistic mind. The world is a web of interwoven threads, each pulling on the others, each driving the whole. To seize upon one thread and declare it the whole truth is to embrace a comforting illusion. Complexity defies reduction, and reality resists such narrow confines. Seek out the many forces at play, the tangled roots beneath the surface, for it is in the interplay of causes that the true shape of the world emerges.

Lemon Ricotta pancakes for brunch. Always with real food.

Get yourself a foodie bitcoiner wife, that’s all I’m saying.

#bakestr

there’s a difference between influencing an idea and trying to sell some stuff. for me, value for value is the path to a new, humble creator’s economy.

how many years of something feeling wrong before you give up and move on. sometimes you just need to bite the bullet and make the big change, noone else is going to do it for you.

The complicated aspect about the Social Security system in the United States is that it was falsely marketed.

It's called an "entitlement" because people pay into it and are supposed to get it back like a pension, regardless of whether they are rich or poor when they retire. And so the Baby Boomer generation views any cuts to their social security as a rugpull, basically. It's not insurance or charity; it's an entitlement.

However, although it was marketed as like an entitlement/pension, that's not how the math worked out in practice. And it's because population growth is slowing. It was based on ponzi math, assuming that every generation will be bigger than the one that came before it. But the Baby Boomer generation was huge.

In addition, when Social Security was created, the retirement age was set near the average life expectancy. Many people would not live long enough to collect it, and most would collect it for a handful of years. Only a small minority of outliers would work for like 40 years and then live off social security for like 20+ years. But then over the decades, life expectancy increased by like 15 years, so the default assumption is indeed that someone can work for 40 years and then have 20+ years of retirement, even though the amount they pay into it doesn't really mathematically cover that. It's not designed for that en masse.

And so Baby Boomers had like a 3.5 worker-to-retiree ratio to support in their peak earnings years, while Millennials will have more like a 2.5 worker-to-retiree ratio or less to deal with. Which means they get a worse deal. Many Millennials don't even think they'll get it at all, despite paying into it.

That breaks up the social contract and sets up inter-generational political conflict. "Fourth Turning" stuff.

It's a big reason why "defined benefit" plans are inherently unstable; they rely on being able to predict the future.

And it's also a big reason why, when speaking about deficits, nothing stops this train.

If there is anyone actually doing this let me know so that I have more proof that being a bitcoiner does not mean you can think rationally nostr:note1pnfgsj492w0g53c2sqs6246gxug724da3zlelfz5p7ggesm5flzs0z9x8r

We may be always measuring habits, and the habitat may be measuring us

Neither is bad nor good; the habitus isn't inherently vile, although it doesn't has a definite goal neither

The body and the place, these may be the most common rules to have in check...

Kind of.

I’m really bullish on the next six months of Nostr development.

I don’t know if it’ll generate user growth in that time period, but I’m more confident that it’ll improve UX and applications, and thus bring in more capital for the next stage, which can then be used for more user acquisition.

I guess life is a lot easier when you just assume what most people are telling you isn’t true

Maybe a child of b) and c)

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You must be a pretty boring person if all you ever talk about is what group you belong to