The best way to explore Aotearoa New Zealand is via campervan, or in your case with an RV if you’ve got kids along. 6 weeks is enough to see a lot of the country. Usually folks go from auckland and head south or Christchurch/Queenstown and go north. Rentals are sometimes cheaper if you start south and end in Auckland. Be sure to go south of Queenstown and north of Auckland too.

Hotels and restaurants are expensive here plus you need a vehicle to get to most places, and with a few exceptions you can sleep in your vehicle anywhere or at free / nearly free in city centres.

Also the hiking trails are amazing. There are 1000 government run huts along the trails where you can stay. They’re great, but you need to make reservations in advance for the great walks, which are worth it. There are also great cycle routes, you can usually rent bikes and get pickup/drop off. They’re worth doing, especially the lake dunston trail.

I don’t know I didn’t create the issue

There are a lot of parts of the FLOSS community who *hate* bitcoin with a passion. It's the commie influence.

Which project was this, just out of interest?

They do. I was having a disagreement with someone and a trollbot jumped in on his side of the argument, and he zapped it for agreeing with him.

They make money feeding fights, basically.

Do bots zap? I haven't seen any that do, but maybe trollbots do, to encourage someone rage-posting?

And yet, billions of people still use them multiple times a day.

Actions speak louder than words.

I completely agree with the fact that most people are unhappy with the options but they are somehow serving a purpose or solving a problem, even if their user's can't articulate what that might be.

Because marketing is not sales.

I'm surprised by how many product updates still come from a no-reply email account. You miss out on valuable feedback.

Sorry you can't say that the Swiss Franc is very stable, that would make Bitcoin look bad and fiat look good.

Instead remind people that the Swiss central bank has all the money like King Ahab and is scheming to ruin people's life by putting it all in circulation.

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The really sad thing about constant currency devaluation throughout the world is that it benefits those who have the most access to cheap credit at the expense of those who do not.

People on the lower end of the income spectrum in Egypt are generally dealing with cash. Their wages and savings get debased, and they own fewer hard assets, so they have fewer offsets. Their ability to buy imported goods diminishes, their ability to travel outside of Egypt diminishes, and their costs in general rise.

People on the higher end of the income spectrum in Egypt have access to foreign bank accounts and/or have multi-year domestic property loans, which are basically currency shorts. They mitigate the impact from the ongoing devaluation, or in some cases benefit by it.

As a tangible example, last year I took out a 7-year loan or currency short against the Egyptian pound, and used it to buy a villa that houses a 9-person extended family (7 when my husband and I are not there). The money supply goes up by 20% per year but my interest rate is 3%, which is an ultra-cheap long-term currency short. Within the first six months of the term, the Egyptian pound was already cut in half relative to the dollar. Who knows what the exchange rate will be over the next 6.5 years.

The past four decades of global Fiat World have been like a game of Blackjack. In Blackjack, you try to get to 21 without going over. In Fiat World, you get into a position so that you can take out low interest debt and buy scarcer assets with it, and you do that as much as you can but without going bust in a downturn. The major governments can do that the most. The big banks are next. The big funds and asset managers and public corporations are next. The wealthy individuals are next. Then the middle class, and then the working class and the poor.

And the global aspect of Fiat World is important. An asset allocator can operate globally, so among the 160+ currencies out there, they can arbitrage them. They short a currency with negative real interest rates, and buy good assets somewhere with it. I personally did it in Egypt not to make money (we don't plan to sell for the foreseeable future) but to ensure good housing for the family at modest expense. But global firms do this around the world to make money. As the global economy got more and more financialized over the past four decades, a lot of professional talent shifted from engineering or medicine or wherever else and moved toward financial arbitrage.

Weak money financializes everything else. Strong money can de-financialize everything else.

Yup! Did the hike today with my wife. Beautiful.

Ireland has been amazing 🇮🇪

most people think email is bad because the only client they’ve ever used is gmail

Why are you still an active #nostr user?

One of my fav ways to troll Redditors is to start a argument. Then reply to every reply the exact same thing that the person you are replying to said, only slightly reworded. It's amazing how long people won't notice.

Ladies,

I've been advising you to mute first and ask questions later. I'm not joking.

And if someone tells you muting is censorship, then mute them, too.

Ok, this convinced me. I just created an account. Let's see how it goes ...