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"Too much money" is a condition almost always caused by the creation of too much "fiat currency" (ie a currency that is backed by nothing but the good faith and credit of the issuing government)

As we all should know, in the US, on 6/5/1933 FDR took the US off gold-backed currency and started the fiat currency situation we still find ourselves in.

Over the past 13 years, the US M3 money supply (see https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MABMM301USM189S ) has grown from around $7.5T to $22T.

This number represents the "too much money" part of the original equation, and to be honest I'm quite surprised that price inflation isn't significantly worse then what it currently is. This is almost certainly being caused by the fact that the US dollar is the world's Reserve Currency.

Looking at the graph, starting Aug 2020 the line is starting to approach vertical, so it should be completely unsurprising that price inflation is occurring.

Finally, a 0.25% increase in the Federal Funds Rate is laughably small, and will do absolutely nothing to help with the price inflation the US is currently seeing.

Ha. I, too, experienced this same shock when I moved, as a teenager, from MS-BASIC's editor to a Pascal-based (in my case it was Turbo) full-screen editor.

Ton be honest, for the first couple of hours I can recall being very confused about how I was to approch coding with no line numbers? How was I to move to other sections of my program? What, no GOTO...help!

Little did I know at the time almost all GOTO use is bad programming and that Pascal was such an elegant and dare-I-Say beautiful language to program in. It's fairly tame use of pointers (as compared with C smashing you over the head with them) really exposed me to one of CompSci's more powerful paradigms...indirect addressing.

And, OMG, the incredible speed of both the compiler and the programs it generated simply blew my mind...esp. since its very possible I was using a 8Mhz IBM PC/AT at the time. My simulations literally ran 25x faster.

Those were heady times to be a programmer IMHO...you literally had the count the number of bytes in your data structures to squeeze every bit of memory use out of your 64k stacks and 640k DOS limits, and all sorts of tricks were used to overcome these obstacles. ..

For sure next.js is an interesting framework and of course I use plenty of typescript in my projects to keep the UXs from feeling stale, but I have yet to see the overwhelming benefits that going all-in with something like this framework would give me overall, besides just the obvious one that I'm "keeping up with the cool kids"...

One think I do really like here is the way Remix is keeping things on the backend...I'll admit coming from the 1980s I'm much more comfortable working with backend paradigms, so this particular stack has caught my attention more than others and why I am particularly interested in hearing about its direct benefits (besides the obvious ones like "its not PHP" of course)

In the last Econtalk podcast that I listened to last night, they discussed the loneliness "epidemic" and the author ended up blaming Thatcher-based Capitalism as perhaps the main reason why people are so lonely today!

I thought that was quite the stretch but imagine my chagrin when here was another spurious back-handed attack on it.

I asked what I think is a valid question and would like to hear honest reactions from people about my observation.

I feel I have every right to be a cheerleader for Capitalism as my father escaped communist Cuba in 1959 as Castro was coming to power and used the US's system and tons of hard work to create a extremely comfortable life for himself, while friends and family members who stayed there lived rather wretched lives.

He never forgot how lucky he was to be able to get out of there just in time and told me time and time again that the US while having flaws, was by far the best place in the world to live, so my original comment comes from this background.

I don't give a flying fuck if the comment gets modded down, but i would like to know just what in it is so offensive to those modding it donw so I can learn something.

Or are we supposed to imagine that under socialism, there would be no need for Big Tech surveillance? This I most certainly disagree with.

I'm just noticing a trend lately where the word "capitalism" is being attacked on many fronts, and I personally find that troublesome.

Like Churchill said..."Capitalism is absolutely the worse system there is, besides everything else of course"

Same as the old boss.

It was almost pure luck if I managed to save the silly little thing, and all i was really interested in were the games.

I do remember to joy of getting a little ASCII slot machine game actually working after like 3 sessions. and the guys at the RS were so impressed that they left it running and used it as a in store demo.

Don't tell me that Lisp ever achieved cool-kid status that a thousand different libs wouldn't pop up basically overnight.

Also, I always had a strong passion for music, so I started a band as a "side-project" and it added a huge amount of fun to my life...plus it allowed me to meet interesting non-tech people and really put in perspective the "work" side of my life comparted to the "living" side.

It sounds like you need more "living" and less "work"...of course, music probably isn't your thing but anything that really interests you outside of IT could be considered as a way to get out of the rut you find yourself in.

Seriously, did you post this just to brag about how much you make to everyone? It seems almost ludicrous that this could be a serious comment....

And at how many millions does that number start to taper down? Plus, zombie devices of all sorts are being used of course, so while there certainly does feel like some sort of resource-symmetry scheme would be, if nothing else, a satisfying solution, its hard to see logically how that would really help all that much for these sort of attacks.

What do you mean, not working? That the AI was randomly choosing the correct race 82% of the time by luck?

I'm confused by what your implying because it would seem to me that the authors went through many steps to try to pinpoint how the AI was doing this identification and how baffling it was to everyone that even with a lot of x-ray information removed (8x8 pixels compared to say 4k), it somehow was still correctly picking the race.

What would this "something else entirely" that you are implying actually be?

Like 5 under each wing seems like a stretch...could you put maybe 3 under each wing and 2 on the back tail somehow? Or is 5 under each wing the only way to go?

Also...one of my favorite parts of travel is the spontaneity it affords me. I loath the idea of turning my free time into just another work day but with one-offs like "going to the museum" instead of "meeting with sales" embedded into some app....bleh!

Also...maybe no one has been creative enough to crack the problem yet, and someday someone will finally come up with a piece of software that is useful in this domain.

K-12 was, of course, invented by the Germans in order to create good little factory workers that would get up early and work all day and not complain too much. The fact we still use the word Kindergarten is a nod to this origin story.

They weren't at all interested in the students gaining any "understanding" and most certainly not in them "winning" in any sense of the word.

And I think its safe to say that when a women is playing against a misogynic douche like this guy seems to be in spades no less, that she actually does want to take as much money from him and crush his ego.

In general, the FBI doesn't let criminals just slide when the scumbags steal a bunch of money and then launder it in the open if they have enough hard evidence to convict them.

Have you put any thought into why that isn't the way its done?

This understanding is the basis of the Right's "slippery slope" argument...that in normalizing behaviors today that yesterday were considered "wrong", they tomorrow can we expect ever more and more outrageous behaviors to follow this same template?

The answer is, of course, yes.

Way easier to breadboard and write opcode for then, and more powerful than the Intel 4004 and 8008 (what would eventually become the 8086..the great-great-great grandfather of the i9's we now use of course), my very first working "computer" used a 6502 at its heart for my senior project...we attempted to build a voice-activated phone and actually got something that would pick up and shut off the phone with some noise, but obviously a working voice-activated phone was something that was still many years away.

Also, I remember writing an opcode instruction emulator for the chip as a extra-credit project for one my classes. I wrote a really nice emulator on my beloved Atari ST and, much to my horror, discovered a horrendous bug in he C compiler I used for the project, almost ruining both the project and my grade for the quarter.

The program had a graphical representation all all the primary subsections of a basic computer...CPU, disk memory, the various busses, and some other things that my old brain can no longer remember, and the program would step thru the processors opcodes and show, with literally the 1s and 0s on the screen, how all the parts of the computer processed the opcode instruction set into something that coordinated all the chips into doing very useful stuff.

The problem was that due to some sort of crazy hex arithmetic bug in the compiler, one of the values at one of the nodes was stuck at like x0E or something like that...and no matter what I tried to do to debug it, I could not get the damn thing to work perfectly. I thought I was going to fail the class for sure, and it wasn't even my fault!

Thankfully, I was able to show the results in pure binary form, and the rest of the program was quite impressive. Also, my professor was a HUGE fan of the Atari ST (probably because it used the 68000 and wasn't Intel), so the day of me showing him my work wasn't a total failure...in fact, his face totally lit up when I asked him if I could pop the floppy into the ST in his office, and we verified that, yes, the bug was there in all versions of the compiler.

Only one other student had chosen to do the assignment, and he had used a minicomputer from his work to do it and his results where shown in reams of printouts where mine was there graphically represented in real time updates as you stepped thru the opcode instructions. I remember its addressing modes and GP registers made writing opcode a breeze as you didn't have to waste cycles juggling data and memory addresses at all.

[edit] wow...sorry this was such a long post! I just got lost in remembering old times...

Loner-ism isn't exactly the best trait for landing contract jobs, or for sales in general...just in case you were perhaps wondering.

I had a fair amount of success on the Upwork platform until some real dickweek in New Jersey destoryed my JSS score because I wouldn't violate federal law and allow them to dictate the exact hours I was to work as a 1099 IC.

Worse, I feel, is that Upwork agreed with them (of course because they have the money) about this situation that could not be more plainly written on the IRS website.

I don't know exactly how you landed the contracts you did in order to pay the bills and such, but I don't seem to have any skill with that, so while I really appreciate the brainstorming everyone is doing, people should know that I'll never give up trying to better my life and make a living doing what I love.

I totally accept that many of not most people who read my BG think I'm getting exactly what I deserve...to never be given the chance to redeem myself or to pull myself out of my shit situation.

I think that's an extremely harsh way to judge someone, and that everyone should be given an opportunity to make a living if they show they have learned from the pain of the past.

Also, considering that hiring is such a crap shoot anyway, (I read somewhere that over half the people hired as programmers today won't be at that job in a year) what is the huge deal with giving someone like me who has been in recovery for 2.5 years a shot to contribute to the bottom line?

I really am a damn good programmer, and I still have an amazing passion for building new systems using modern stacks. I am fortunate as hell that I'm apparently a "natural learner" defined as someone who spends their entire life always chasing new knowledge.

The problem is the way the law is actually written...it 's written for a very specific use case (at least the one in Florida is) for people who committed ONE and ONLY ONE felony in their entire life (I think the Florida statue say that you can't even have another misdemeanor on your record, but perhaps I'm disremembering that).

It was never made to throw a big blanket over a lifetime of impulsive decisions like I have done. Plus, there is the problem of actually purging the perhaps 100s of private BG check database out there that various companies use that do not even advertise to the public.

Man I wish more than anything that I could just be given one chance to "start over"...you would see perhaps the most law abiding, risk adverse person you have ever seen.

I've been thru true hell with all this stuff, and people actually do change when the pain of staying the same crushes the pain of making changes.

In fact, that's the only time they do change if you ask me.