Exo_Tartarus

That's exactly what I've been thinking. Of course the inflation target would be arbitrary, but once agreed upon and baked into the blockchain logic it could maintain itself based on some parameter or set of parameters

I wonder how that train it? The network is built into the silicon so I don't see how training could occur after its creation... But maybe they build a simulated network and train it then construct a faithful hardware representation

People need to work not because of inflation, but because they get a fixed amount of money and spend most of it on things they want.

Not only that, but wages largely track inflation so your argument fails.

Inflation can be properly managed by responsible central banks. It's not really a problem.

Also "wage slavery" is perpetuated by private companies not governments, so not sure how you aim to eliminate that by killing governments.

Have efforts been made to produce a cryptocurrency that is compatible with monetary policy? Such that supply can increase or decrease either on command or naturally?

Governments should make it illegal because governments need to have control over the money supply.

We need taxation. We need monetary policy. The Bitcoin obsessives think these are bad things. No. They are very important and good things.

Well the author starts out by saying 15% of Economics Professors are women. Then says

"Across all the years, only 18% of the authors are female. This disparity between male and female authors alone exemplifies the gender gap."

Which is in line with the previous acknowledgment, so there is no additional conspiracy at play, just a result of the gender composition of the field.

But then the statistic about collaboration.

Men tend to collaborate with other men, just as women tend to collaborate with other women. The natural tendency for people to collaborate with people like themselves is universal.

So don't blame male economists for collaborating with other males slightly more than with females. It's a natural human tendency to do so. Women are more likely to collaborate with other women.

I worked in the administration of a flagship state university. Instead of spending millions of dollars on salaries for bogus administrative positions like 'Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives', put that money towards grad student salaries and bringing down general tuition.

These are just words that don't mean anything without a concrete implementation plan. Owning a piece of America... What is America? Is it US based companies? Is it physical property and capital? These things are already owned by people. Everything worth being owned is already owned by someone or some corporate structure. Who is going to rearrange and adjust all these existing ownership structures to introduce joint ownership by the American people? Why would we expect existing stakeholders to want anything to do with such a plan?

Silliness.

That may be true, but wouldn't that not affect my argument?

The assumptions I'm making are that most people drink water and non water, and the non water they drink is not going to be more than 3 to 4 drinks (cups/bottles) per day, and that people drinking coffee are already filling their quota of non water drinks by drinking coffee so they don't drink sugary drinks.

Just like milk, there is probably a sub population of people whose body chemistry is not compatible with caffeine or coffee. You may fall into that category.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and state a theory I've been considering for a while that could explain these coffee health benefit results...

The liquids I and everyone else consumes can be placed in two classes: pure water and everything else.

When I'm not drinking pure water, my drink of choice is usually coffee, of which I drink about 3 cups a day.

Now let's think of the alternative non water drinks out there... Many of them are sodas which have obscenely high sugar levels, just like most drinks that aren't pure water.

Someone who doesn't drink coffee may have more of these sugar containing drinks when they're not drinking pure water, inundating their bodies with harmful amounts of sugar.

So the benefits we see from high levels of coffee consumption come not from the coffee itself but from a substitution effect of replacing unhealthy sugary drinks with coffee.

A good test for this would be to see if tea drinkers also experience health benefits similar to those seen in the study. If not then that may indicate that my theory is wrong.

That's not what I'm saying at all

Agreed. And I'll go one further: there is no free will. But the point holds

What's their fair share? You think you're worthy to determine that?

Maybe they don't want to be anything other than retail or factory workers?

Many people don't have ambition, or they have limited ambition.

I'm not exactly sure what the point of the article is or what the author is trying to say. It's pretty much an abbreviated biography bookended by some attempts at philosophizing. It is interesting to hear how much easier the author found his British curriculum than his Chinese. I was also amused by how he mocked his Stanford MBA curriculum, and how the career office people were dismissive of his passion to make money.

Smart hard working people succeed much more often than they don't. Born into difficult circumstances, their probability of 'success' (accumulating prestige and wealth) is much higher than for others.

Of course sometimes circumstances are too oppressive to overcome, and sometimes the stupid and lazy are elevated in spite of themselves... But these are exceptions.

I own an original Pixel XL, it's an amazing phone. The Pixel line is just getting started.

I notice that when I begin to procrastinate, I actually am thinking about the task intensely. So intensely that I believe I overwhelm myself and subconsciously decide to put off working on the task.

When I silence my mind prior to starting work on a task I find I'm more easily able to actually start.

Accumulate more concrete knowledge. Our brains develop abstractions when we identify patterns in disparate phenomena. Can't identify those patterns if you don't study the concrete phenomena themselves.

As you learn more you'll build up a toolbox of abstractions that will make thinking and learning easier.