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right, but being a member isn't a pay-wall. This feels more like an academic argument than a practical one.

The way it works.

You buy a house. It grows in value. You then use that value as a down payment on a bigger better house that you now pay as much as rent for monthly. And you multiplied your wealth and have a wonderful place to live.

When you retire you sell that house, buy your kids a down payment, and yourself a place in a low cost of living area. And now you enjoy the fruits of your life's labor till you die.

But this all relies on population growth and a lack of better housing options. A. K. A. House prices generally always go up.

Right, INTERNAL economical crisis is what causes the collapse of currency. But just because the rest of the world doesn't recognize it, doesn't mean it is worthless, it simply converts.

Bitcoin has nothing in and of itself.

Also private currency like script was awful, please don't take the worst financial examples in history and claim that bitcoin is similar as an argument as to why it is valid.

There's a story about a man who woke up as a dung bettle...

LITERALLY marketing is all about creating associations and perception. That is basically marketing's entire purpose for existing. So to say "well its only media that creates an association because of XXXXXX" sure! Because that is marketing. Thus marketing in a nazi filled content site makes your marketing associate you witrh nazis!

Every movie of a dystopian society shows some ads in bloody places, you don't think "man, I wonder if that company really just meant to sell workout equipment, and in no way related to the purge happening below the billboard in that area all the time". Again, its just not how we work.

There's a vast difference between saying "I live in a neighborhood that has a nazi in it" and "i actively go and spend my money at a bar that is known for making it easier for nazis to hang out there and harass customers"

but money has intrinsic value. It is directly tied to the economy of a country. So if a country was to collapse, so would it's money.

The point here is that if a country collapses, then you got bigger problems than the loss of whatever stored currency you got. Even if your money is in the hypothetically useful crypto, you got far bigger problems that the money you own is useless to you, you need to survive.

But aside from that extreme scenario, money is not the same thing.

Another way to think of it:

There is nothing in the world that would prevent the immediate collapse of crypto if everyone who owns it just decided to sell.

If everyone in the world stops accepting the US Dollar, the US can still continue to use it internally and manufacture goods and such. It'll just be a collapse of trade, but then even in that scenario people can just exchange the dollar locally for say gold, and trade gold on the global market. So the dollar has physical and usable backing. Meanwhile crypto has literally nothing.

which hopefully means Brave and friends will switch to being based on Firefox instead. Could lead to some positives.

Alternatively it could be that all alt browser companies will maintain one chromium fork that preserves manifest v2. Or V3 but with a lot more rules.

Until company heads are legally responsible for the death they cause, they will shrug off any penalty and weigh it as cost of doing business.

Sure. But do you want to be known as the guy who hangs out a bunch of pedophiles? Man that'd really make you popular at kid's parties with all the parents right? But just hanging out where the pedos are doesn't mean an endorsement.

Point is. It's not how humans think.

how would you define an asset that has zero intrinsic value other than the value people have already committed to it? house of cards?

lets do a different analogy:

you have a bunch of barbers in a city, well, i open up a business where i cut hair. BUT I do a shitty job, so you kinda need to come back maybe 3 times for a decent haircut. Wow it sucks. Yeah. BUT...

I also put in a giant screen with ads, and an advertiser that counts people watching the ads. And then I say... ITS FREE.

Woah okay. At first not much happens, but eventually the other barbers start to lose money, thats because they can't compete with my free haircut business. I quickly expand and now have shops all over town, and competition is dying.

Now some people realized they can take a quick nap while getting a haircut so they don't see the ads. And suddenly I kick out anyone who takes a nap. Those people can no longer get haircuts because everyone else closed down because they couldn't compete with my free. And as those people complain everyone says "EVERYONE WANTS A FREE HAIRCUT BUT NOT WILLING TO PAY FOR IT!"

Edit: I also start selling packages of 20 ad-free haircuts a month. Most people think this package is a bit insane given that they don't get 20 haircuts in a month. Or every month. And they still have to listen to the barber push their "cancer cures" and other nonsense they keep pushing every time they get a haircut.

This is the reaction I am seeing.

RMS (I assume Richard Stallman) may be many many many things, but setting up a global pyramid scheme doesn't seem to be his M.O.

But stranger things have happened. One day I may be very very VERY surprised.

Hypothesis: Companies that are functional as fully remote tend to have to have really solid communication capabilities which means people can be partially independent when needed.

Companies who need to be in person suffer from the desperate need to constantly tap people on the shoulder and have in-person convos since no information is written down.

I'm experiencing these things so I feel like funcitonal remote work is a side-effect of good processes, and good processes lead to good company growth.

I've told people, every experiment I do with it, it seems to do better than asking stack overflow, or helps me prime some code that'll save me a couple of hours, but still requires manual fix ups and a deep understanding of what it generates so I can fix it up.

Basically the gruntest of grunt work it can do. If I explain things perfectly.

I would like to say, its all marketing. I sold my fiance on the idea that I spent a month shopping for the best cost-efficient but best looking deal on a ring, and settled on the one I got her, and that ended up being better than the presentation itself (she absolutely loves the ring).

Point is... marketing rules the world, programming just supports it.

Edit: To be fair, I showed her the other options and she likes the ring I got her on sale more than all the other options that were available. And she was very happy that the rest of the money was spent on us.

Me and my fiance read this some years back. I ended up getting her a massionite ring and she absolutely wows everyone with it. And it was less than a grand. Even people wealthier than me get impressed because the diamond industry is indeed a cartel with vastly over-priced costs.

In any case. She's extremely happy. I'm happy. My wallet is happy. It's honestly the best decision.

I will take the shit I get at work every day compared to the shit many I know get at work for a quarter of my salary.

Every 3 months MS "updates" windows by prompting me to enable edge, buy/try office, enable one drive, etc. And every button for no is in a different location.

i can see this happening. This really REALLY needs a law or strict court decision at the federal level.

IANAL but... you can't. You can't require that "you cannot file an arbitration case when there exists another one already that isn't you" as that violates the constitution.

In any case, I hope DDOS attacks on arbitration start up hard. But so far the problem has been that companies refuse to comply with their own rules. It seems very one-sided. This is something the supreme court needs to rule on.

I found NP was having trouble keeping up, meanwhile youtube revanced has been amazing.

Good. Be too expensive. The balance must be thrown off.

Once the balance is off the market can adjust. And if it isn't adjusting in the right direction regulation can step in and give it a shove.

I've been running youtube with:

- youtube revanced on my android

- sponsorblock + adnauseum on firefox

no ads, no sponsorship messages. so far works well. my daughter switched to this from chrome when chrome started to complain, it works for now.

Exactly. Because their solution is the whip, not the carrot. They are describing a very real need, people having kids, but they are absolutely going about it in both the worst possible way AND in the most malicious way.

They are not solving the problem, they are just pushing the problem onto people who's future will be destroyed. And it is causing many secondary catastrophes in our economy. And this article points out exactly one such. Healthcare is another. And food security is a third. There are others.

Furthermore, if we care about a growing population, we need to encourage people to have children. Seeing children as a massive burden and a trap away from your ability to work (because of childcare needs) leads to people just not having kids.

All the talk about "we need more kids" is completely moot, if you want people to have kids, give them a reason not to fear it. I am thankfully in a position where a phone call from the school means I'll work the rest of the day from home. My neighbor has limited options because she can't afford to work and childcare while her husband is at work. So her only options are: Don't work, work such that she never shares any off time with her husband, and thus is effectively living alone and basically that's it. And her job prospects aren't such that most jobs will cover daycare + more. In fact most jobs will barely pay above the cost of daycare.

I found that a suite of useful tests speed up my development by a lot.

Tests that test services that do interesting thing in my code. I find that I can get 90% of my work done without ever firing up a web browser. It's cool to know that by the time you hit up the ui the code already works perfectly and I spent less time coding than otherwise.

So idk what this article is pointing out. Tests for test sake is probably that, but a big chunk of unit testing is definitely not bad for developers.

Ad nauseum seems to do the job well. Ads are clicked and not displayed. So YouTube is happy I guess.

Ad nauseum solves this. Sure you get tracked but you also send all the wrong signals.

Homeschooling _can_ work. But the likelihood of it working well is pretty low. You literally have a teacher wife who is homeschooling the kids. For most people homeschooling = not schooling.

Very heavily used by the hassidic community here in nyc to prevent girls from having any education.

I linked to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzsZP9o7SlI as a top level post, but just to give you some ideas. This is John Oliver's take on it.