I don't want to unfollow, it provides a method of verifying the user. But it would be nice to both maintain a relationship of knowing who an account is and mute them.
Because the CO2 levels in your house get so high you can't think straight. Jk. It is probably more even heating.
I think reducing suffering is better understood as a desirable consequence of helping people become more fully alive and in tune with their nature, for example the practice of medicine restoring lost or crippled function. You really don't want reduction of suffering as a direct goal. The only way to fully eliminate potential suffering is to eliminate potential sufferers.
This isn't an academic exercise, there are whole classes of people whose goal of minimizing suffering ends up concluding that we must therefore kill people or prevent them from existing in the first place.
*tentatively raises hand* have experience but not much experience. I use it in hobby projects that have not gotten far.
What is "apps" in this case? My 3 months combined experience is limited to rust applications for Linux.
I was not saying that wealth causes poor decisions, I am saying carries a risk of masking mistakes. Plainly some level of wealth is desirable otherwise the consequences of mistakes are fatal. The question is how to maintain learning in the absence of suffering.
The short answer is that you can't, you can only change it's form. Without some form of suffering there is no information about when fundemental limits are bring exceeded. We can handle this in a few ways.
The first method is to transform potential suffering into education. People who have not encountered a painful limitation can be informed of it's existence. But education is itself a form of suffering. We inflict the pain and discipline of education on our children so they can avoid the greater pain of starvation.
The second is to change our understanding of pain. Pain is nothing more or less than information about our body's interaction with the environment and with itself. It is information loaded with negative emotional content to motivate us to move. Tragic suffering is only pain not accepted.
That isn't to say that we should want to be in pain, it indicates a condition at odds with nature that should be corrected, but we should be very grateful for pain and the information it contains.
So yay wealth and yay health, they are goods, but they don't come free.
To paraphrase a great line from a terrible movie...
I need to push back on this. Not because home ownership and job stability are some kind of an ideal, but because the pursuit one one's own true creative pursuits are both ultimately empty and not really enabled by Bitcoin anyway.
Working backwards through claims, Bitcoin is a means of exchange and a store of value. It does not create value. A person still needs to engage in endeavors that othe humans find useful. This implies that our economic identity is not completely self-determined. In fact it is largely driven by the needs of others. This is a good thing because it turns out providing for the needs of others is what gives us meaning and a sense of purpose. I.e. doing what we aught rather than what we want.
Bitcoin can seem like a fountain of value because it is currently an appreciating asset. This can only continue until demand stabilizes and demand cannot exceed the population of earth. In the meantime the phantom extra value for early adopters merely lengthens the reality-check feed back loop. This is the perennial problem of wealth. It insulates those who have it from the consequences of suboptimal choices and beliefs. That insulation is a protection but it also insulates from learning lessons, in extreme cases it even hides the fact that there is a lesson to learn. This is particularly true when the money providing the buffer is unearned though labor. The wealthy earner can at least track changes in income to bad decisions.
All useful human endeavor is geared by evolution to be directed to the perpetuation of humanity. While our rational souls allow us to rise above our nature they do not allow us to abandon our nature. This means that we can do more than self-perpetuation as long as we still fully engage in it. Thus we aren't free to choose just any creative endeavor, we must choose from those that give life and prepare it for a future of giving life as well. This can be as a parent, teacher, farmer, providing clothing, shelter, healthcare etc. even the arts help transfer needed ideas forward.
This brings me back to families. Families are absolutely the bedrock of society. If you wiped out all memory and signs of civilization in 9 months you'd have recreated the family and from there civilization would be reborn.
Home ownership and secure jobs is one way of providing a stable environment for families. It isn't the only way but it is a good way and the whole of society should be geared toward stable environments for families so the future is assured.
Bitcoiners should want this. The only way it can go up forever is for there to be forever more humans.
We all are. It's like having a screen play in Los Angeles.
Real anarchy can never be tried.
No idea what the first means but while I really like my stainless steel cookware, I don't think I'll ever worship pans.
ABSOLUTELY!! You get that smug feeling of being better that people who use JavaScript without having to BE better.
I presume so. I know a guy who gets paid to mingle with guests at parties doing hypnosis. I figured you had a similar gig discussing the pros and cons of typescript to the rapt delight of attendees.
So that's the secret! Thinking a bit ahead, if I were to, hypothetically, become well read in the software classics, how would I go about redirecting smalltalk™ to software implementations and more importantly how do I get invited to parties?
Except no one reads software. I shall give my kids a leg up in life by reading them excerpts from the Linux kernel at bedtime.
Make me a one person team agile tool and I'll use it. I suck at breaking down tasks.
Is that a thing we can do? Can I agree with the general premise, admit that I am terrible at it, and refuse to stop coding anyway?
It still takes me several minutes to bring a gallon of water to a boil. Unacceptable!
I need impulse labs to make a version of their induction range with an oven.
Though if they make oven-preheat faster I'll lose the only time I get to put my feet up.
Good kingdoms protect freedoms. Governments will always fill a power vacuum so it behooves us to build good ones.
I like ours. Much better than the coils we had previously that approximately forever to get to temp, and less alarming than the gas range at our previous house.