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In theory, if the government spends by borrowing there should be less of an inflationary impact since the money is taken from the private sector and recirculated.

In practice, the bonds and bills are used as collateral for new private sector loans, so the inflationary aspect is almost entirely preserved.

It depends on the blockchain and on the implementation whether a smart contract is immutable. Technically, all smart contracts running on EVM (the most popular smart contract virtual machine) are immutable. However, it is possible to call smart contract methods from a different smart contract while operating on the same state. Some smart contracts use this as a hack to get around immutability, by changing which smart contract is called by a proxy smart contract.

Generally immutability is better for security reasons, but proxy contracts are useful if someone is testing in production. There have been cases of immutable contracts with bugs that locked millions of dollars of cryptocurrency with no recovery possible.

You’re correct about most of the existing cross chain apps, but there’s a wide variety of operational cross chain communication protocols that are decentralized. Chainlink CCIP & Cosmos IBC are the first that come to mind.

LLMs are great at emotion, tone, feeling. I would even go so far as to describe properly prompted LLM output as poetic and spiritual. That’s because of how an LLM works- it’s essentially associative. While I hope the deductive abilities of LLM may develop more in the future, it’s nature means that it will generate output that “feels” logical or appears logical without actually being logical. This really confused people because traditionally machines have been viewed as soulless automatons good at logic but bad at emotion. LLM output is the opposite of our intuitive understanding of machines.

Your job is too many hours unless you’re someone with innate natural energy. Judge your own health and if you start to see signs of illness cut back side projects. Maybe consider that even though your current job is rewarding, it might be trapping you in a dead end if you can’t both do your job and the side activities required to stay relevant.

Once you have a community, monetization just requires a bit of creativity. If it’s an authentic community, you’ll already have deep insights into what members desires are (intellectual fullfillment, belonging, relationships, etc) and how those can be fulfilled better. It can be something as simple as status badges for donors, or something more complex like a new app or product.

When buying diamonds, be aware that most consumer name brand frqnchises will scam you. To protect yourself, you need to things: (1) a price sheet like from Rapaport and (2) an understanding of this diamond grading works. The most common craziness I saw while diamond shopping in USA was low quality diamonds but with large carat counts being sold at huge markups. Another thing to look out for is cheaper certifications; some certifications are much stricter on grades than others. GIA is reliable, look for it. You also need to read the etching of the diamonds cert number on the physical diamond yourself; in one instance a friend had his diamond swapped by the dealer, and proved it thru the physical etching.

One of the similarities between philosophy and art is that in both fields, non experts seem to think they are qualified to give their own opinions. Unfortunately this means the public discourse becomes more about what people enjoy than what is actual.