What book is this? Curious what genre and author would take this approach.
People often use phrases like "free from political meddling" or similar. It sounds great. After all, who likes politicians getting involved in stuff?
If the outcome of getting rid of the politicians is "there's no government control," I'm all in favor of it.
Instead, often this phrase is used when some unaccountable government bureaucracy now has control over our lives. As bad as politicians are, we at least have some tacit control over them via elections. The unelected bureaucrats have no accountability.
So the next time you hear "free from politics," ask what _does_ control it.
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Totally. I’d consider what they’ve done criminal abdication of their responsibility to protect their citizens. But that’s hardly unusual.
Modern “economics” believes that California wasting $100b on a train they’ll never finish is good for the economy because it created jobs.
In reality, it was malinvestment that sucked up productive resources that could have been spent elsewhere to actually make peoples lives better.
Ironically, the people who scream the most about the evils of money are the quickest to judge the merit of everything based on arbitrary monetary assessment instead of the actual impact on improving people’s lives.
I’ve determined that my three year old autistic son’s counting game this morning has O(n^2) complexity
I just suffered emotional damage reading that 🤣
Insightful and fair analysis of a complicated, controversial topic. https://youtu.be/arWdJiqwNI0
I'm a recent convert to Fedora after 20 years with Ubuntu (some weird hardware issue pushed me over the edge, I don't remember the details). I also ran into this issue with Docker, and weird podman incompatibilities.
Looks like I installed docker-ce at some point, and things seem to be working for me. Happy to help you debug issues if that doesn't help out.
He understood so many things so well, and explained much of economics in a way that anyone could appreciate. Very disappointing coming to the same conclusion about him as you did.
Thanks for the pointer! Time to go down the rabbit hole https://geoengineering.info
This is a new one to me, mind enlightening me about geoengineering? My family is still in town from my brother's wedding and they've heard me spouting off on all my usual topics, I need something new to convince them I'm crazy now that everything else I said is proven true.
Half-formed thought, interested in feedback. The main debate of our current times is individualism vs collectivism. We see it in _many_ aspects of modern life and politics. Two obvious ones:
Bitcoin vs fiat: people holding Bitcoin believe that we have a right for the purchasing power of our money to go up, not down, over time. It's a selfish (in the good way) approach. Fiat, by contrast, is about giving power of money printing to the central collective to take care of everyone. It's altruistic (in the worst way possible).
Gun control: those wanting to hold guns want the ability to protect themselves, end of story. Those wanting gun control look at the (IMO totally made up) risks of widespread gun ownership and say that, even though an individual may be able to protect himself through personal gun ownership, society as a whole will be better if we all disarm.
Does this paradigm work, and does it extend to other political and other disagreements out there today?
I'll start by saying: I'm massively risk-averse and I also don't believe in holding debt.
That said: getting rid of debt is going long on fiat, not short. If I borrow $1m from the bank and use that money somehow (e.g., to buy BTC or a house), my net position is -$1m. I'm happy to hold that position if I assume that the value of that $1m will go down over time.
If I took out that loan in BTC terms instead, I'd be shorting BTC, and we can all appreciate the insanity of borrowing 4 BTC to buy a home today and having to pay that back in 10 years, when the 4 BTC will almost certainly be worth far more than the house.
One final mental model: "selling short" is essentially the practice of borrowing an asset and then selling it immediately, which is exactly what most people do when they borrow fiat.
Yes. It was a great wedding, and she’s a wonderful person. Happy she’s a part of the family.
And I couldn’t believe it, but our three year old son partied all night, dancing until midnight. I guess that’s what unlimited candy and desserts will do to a kid.
I did almost the exact same thing, but with the California Proficiency Exam. I learned more in community college classes versus my high school friends, it cost almost nothing, got more credits than AP classes, and I didn’t have to waste time on bullshit. I spent the extra time practicing my coding skills.
My brother got married last night!