Man, I hate tipping as a culture. It fosters placation, flattery and synthetic connections with people as well as suppresses teamwork, cooperation and dampens the collective willingness to help others to short, commercial interactions.

Having lived in societies that have both tipping/non-tipping cultures, I'll take the non-tipping every day.

Last week a guy helped me get a package through Japanese customs, making phone calls, faxing information and sorting out the bureaucracy on his own time because he wanted to help.

Then yesterday I saw him again, we ended up having a great chat and I ended up having some ideas for him that may have returned the favour. It's such a nicer way to live with others.

In San Fran, I once asked a dude for directions and he put his hand out wanting a tip.. fuuuck that, it's so shit.

classic microsoft.

The weak argument in all of this is that they can't take away pensions and healthcare because it will parsimoniously tank the economy.

Heaps of countries with little to no social support still rank amongst the fastest developing economies on the planet and we have very little self control when it comes to casually spending.

Not disagreeing with everything, but found that to be a big assumption to breeze over.

Yep. But I would not forget local/edge hardware just yet.

The size to quality spread is shrinking pretty fast. What I can do now - locally vs a year ago is astounding, half due to better & smaller/faster models, half due to better tools.

For what cloud usage costs, you can do a lot with a $50k budget, which is peanuts in cloud compute terms.

I don't think this will be lost on everyone.

Yeah, I'd just remind you that we're not on the practice round of life, this is it. This is the one. If there's something you want to do with your life, don't let money, hard or not get in the way.

There's nothing wrong with debt, be it monetary, a favour to your neighbour, a cheeky beer or two to your health.

Life happens on the middle ground.

He's offering a product with unique tradeoffs, you don't have to buy it, get on with life.

Japanese economy implodes from an energy glut and takes us along for the ride. ..maybe not psyopsy enough.

Rice is $15 a kilo here atm due to some shortage, so someone's pushing on the big 'ol inflation boulder perched on the hill.

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Got a link?

Just as google was getting a tad more useful, ..I'm back to not using it.

I got a 90 series (1996) landcruiser that is full mechanical (except the efi) and a model y. No complaints about either of them.

Niiiice work. That's the way. The intersection of Bitcoin and AI is the on ramp to the future.

Idiot. Registration INCLUDES 3rd party insurance for others this moron might injure while driving with their head up their ass.

At the same time as the federal government deciding it can tax us on unrealised capital gains (money we don't have), a judge has ruled that Bitcoin (specifically) is in fact, money.

This is one hell of an opportunity to make some progress. All the right conversations at the same time.

https://www.smartcompany.com.au/tax/bitcoin-ruling-bitcoin-tax-ruling-capital-gains-tax/

#Australia #Bitcoin #tax #Superannuation #cgt #money

How about - we just move to a deflationary economy and scrap retirement funds all together?

Thank you. It needs attention.

They introduced superannuation to stop paying pensions. Now we pay our own pensions but at reduced tax rates.

Now they want to add the tax back in.

Net net, they just abolish the pension.

eh, our debt to GDP is about 40% we grow enough food to feed ourselves and New Zealand and our combined defence forces include 90% of the planets dangerous animals. We'll be fine.

Bloody unastrayn.

MCP?

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Does anything explain inflation more clearly than lotto companies raising prices and prize-pools at the same time?