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Private sector debt can comfortably be discharged in bankruptcy and new things can grow - creative destruction.

Public sector debt in your own currency is all right, it's not like you can ever run out of money - print more of it.

Inflation? Eh, maybe in certain sectors but it's not like income is rising, nor is labor participation rates.

Kind of like when two realtors pretend they're adding $100K of value to a transaction...

Also: being rich and attractive solves all your problems.

Being human is messy.

Do you want to under-perform during all bull markets so it hurts less during the corrections?

If you stayed invested in the broad market through any bubble-pop you would be better off than aggressive diversification and hedging. Unless you can reliably time the tops and bottoms.

Where else will you invest? China? India? Rest of Asia? Europe? South America? Africa? Specific commodities?

Do you believe the next generations in the US will continue to create value or do you think this is the beginning of a perpetual decline?

I did that in my teens, 20s, and early 30s.

Looking back I say F** that, what a waste of my youth.

I could've worked half and accomplished just as much, maybe more in different areas had I taken the time to explore not just more of the world but myself.

There's a huge difference between "policing of social norms" and equal rule of law for all regardless of who they choose to have sex with.

Maybe you can argue that it's fine for someone to choose not to be friends with gay people but it shouldn't be OK for the government withhold rights/law/healthcare/social security/education/electricity/water/etc because of it. Who cares if it's genetics or a choice.

Don't ask for advice, don't follow advice, don't give advice.

These people don't know you.

Learn to know yourself and make your own decisions, live your own life. It's yours to live and it'll be over way faster than you think.

The con is strong in America, always was, always will be. Just read about wage theft, it's sickening.

Apples to oranges.

The bank's collateral is its lien on the house. A bank is not interested in foreclosing as long as you keep paying interest + principal every month. In fact, if the value of your house drops 90% it is in your interest to drop the keys off at the bank and say: "You guys can have it".

A broker's collateral, when you buy on margin, is the security you bought. As the value drops, collateral goes towards 0. Of course they're going to cover their own a*. It's in the agreement you signed when you opened a margin account.

Nobody changed any terms.

Of course, you're literally borrowing money from them to buy securities.

This is what AWS said in their letter to Parler before cutting them off. It sounds reasonable enough to me

https://www.gadgetsnow.com/tech-news/read-amazons-letter-to-...

Does that mean, in the EU context, that the EU (whatever EU organization that may be), or the individual EU nations can compel private companies to publish certain speech?

Are all EU citizens entitled to publish on Twitter for instance, and can the EU force Twitter to publish?

Is that the EU version of freedom of expression and information?

Snow in Madrid is definitely unusual but Spain gets snow every year.

"You can go to Puerto de Navacerrada for a few hours of skiing then return to Madrid to continue visiting the many attractions in Europe’s fourth-largest city."

https://www.justapack.com/best-ski-resorts-in-spain-ski-reso...

You can vote in local elections, you can vote for a representative for congress, you can vote for a representative for senate, you can vote for local propositions.

What is your expectation? What do you mean by "voice"?

They did it to protect the locals from the hordes of annoying tourists.

Maybe through Klarna[1]?

[1] https://www.klarna.com/us/what-is-klarna/

Developers are supposed to do all this learning on their own time as well, right? No budget or time for training. In fact, why don't you do some overtime paid in pizza?

Learn new stuff at home on your own time, put it on github, it'll be fun, ignore your family and your friends.

And the helpful comments here for someone who is doing 12-hour days is to meditate and go for a walk?

Work 7 hours and go home, your life will be better.

America is a business. Get rid of regulation and let people fend for themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_shop_(stock_market)

Linux and macOS game development in a nutshell - spend $200K to make $10K, get 10x angry "support requests"

Make it illegal to aggregate data about a person.

Europe already has great consumer protections. The US doesn't, and probably never will.

The speed and reach makes it different. You wouldn't say that flying is like walking faster - it's fundamentally different.

Read it - they don't delete your data.

Even if you delete your account, they probably still keep and sell your data to anyone who asks.

Is there any way to force a US company to scrub your data, including from logs and backups?

>In addition to cultural attitudes about the value of hard work, she said, some employers reduce costs by relying on overtime, and employees work the longer hours for the extra pay and to please the boss — promotions often depend more on time spent at a desk than actual productivity.

The US game industry - except you don't get overtime pay (maybe pizza).

Perhaps it would be better to talk about the complete failure of planned economies[1] (centralized) VS the success of market economies[2](distributed). I guess you could do both systems under a totalitarian regime or a democratic regime.

Most pro-socialist talk in the US today is probably talking about a market economy with a better social safety nets for the regular population (at the cost of the wealthy), something like the Nordic model[3], not a re-imagined Soviet Union.

There's no way any discussion of Socialism, Communism, Capitalism, Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism, Whateverism on the internet will bear any fruit today. No one even knows what they're talking about.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_economy [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_economy [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model

But the noble poor man (or the noble savage if we look to the past) never cheats, lies, steals, etc. And if they do it’s for survival or family or some other sympathetic cause.

Or we’re all humans with normal human traits and egos to rationalize just about anything given the right circumstances.

But it's not political, really. Both parties have different politicians shoveling different bullshit to different people. Same game, different target audience.

That's not to say genuine people/products/value doesn't exist but you have to dig through so much bullshit to find any of it.

The US has a long history as the land of the bullshitter - the snake-oil sales men, the Psychics and Tarot card readers, the self-help authors, the "business coaches", MLM... the list is endless.

And people love it so much they'll gladly get into debt for it and even vote for the king of Bullshit for president.

Just make free (paid in pizza) overtime illegal at the federal level and most of the work-life-balance issues would go away.

Add federal minimum vacation time too, 20 days at least.

"but but my margins!!!"