mandelbrotwurst

Bitcoin is volatile because it is not yet widely used and the market for is still relatively small.

Yes, people are investing to speculate on its price, but they are also investing because it has a fixed supply that cannot be inflated away by governments.

Take a look at the U.S. M2 money supply YTD and the DXY and consider what happens next as more wealthy investors begin to recognize this advantage inherent in Bitcoin.

To say nothing of whether it's appropriate or fair, "name-and-shame" can certainly change dynamics because people generally want to avoid reputational harm.

That said, this service isn't actually doing that - it's sending anonymous notes to the alleged bad actor in private, which of course wouldn't have that effect.

True, although that cost gives you the ability to control the environment very precisely. This allows for a level of quality that people are willing to pay for, at least when it comes to flower.

I didnt downvote you but I'd guess it's because you're calling something "psychotic" that many on this forum aspire to or at least respect.

Maybe you meant something more like "extreme" ?

Ah, I think I've finally found it - or at least I've found what appears to be that by a John _Quarterman_.

Oh, I might be misremembering because I was very small but I could have sworn I used AOL as an ISP and used web browsers (maybe Netscape Navigator?) to browse the web on AOL (maybe version 5 or 6?) in addition to their own weird portal thing which in my very vague memory was a lot like what you are describing.

Is my memory completely false here? It's very possible I'm conflating things from earlier in the 90s with things later in the 90s.

I can't seem to find the book (?) that you're suggesting in a search.

Maybe they were part of the Internet but not the Web?

You're describing leases.

Do cars count as hardware? People spend a lot on those.

Probably an elaborate ploy by the subject of the photograph to generate positive AI bias for himself.

Your premise is wrong because there are many people in the voting population who do not work for the government, let alone as members of the same working group. E.g, a bus drivers union can't on their on their own dictate who the mayor is.

I would think at least some people would do that, yeah.

Right - the rewards system is essentially a wealth transfer to those who have access to credit with the rewards acting as a refund of the bulk of the fees.

Sure, but the original question was why is striking legal. Firing people for striking isn't the same as criminalizing it.

If you're responding to my statement of "can't legislate it away", then I suppose yes you're right that is an example of being able to do that and I should have worded that differently, but the key there is that it only works if your threat convinces the workers to return. Which, according to that Wikipedia article, it didn't entirely and their staffing levels didn't fully recover for a decade.

> why are they legal

Worker strikes arent something you can legislate away unless you're going to start forcing people to work, which is, uh, let's say widely frowned upon.

If you want to end strikes, you'll need to convince workers that showing up is in their interest.

Air travel has certainly become cheaper than it was in the past, but there are two sides to this - that credit card rewards are relatively high is largely a function of high credit card fees.

This is somewhat tangential, but why refer to a regulated market as a "free" market? I hear this often and it seems like a contradiction.

Why?

So you are collecting transaction fees, just none of one particular type of transaction fee.

> Technically that should have been a huge productivity hit

....unless of course most of those jobs can be done effectively remotely.

If we'd instead had all the people now WFH not work at all the economy would look a bit different today, even if you'd kept sending them paychecks.

You may not own the same vacuum.

If I'm using a managed service, it's more that I am expecting to get better reliability and less work on our part than it is expecting perfect reliability and no work on our part, both of which are a pipe dream no matter which route you go.

What do you mean by "no matter what"? Often when new physical products are in limited supply it is because there are real constraints in the supply chain, not necessarily because of an artificial limit imposed by the manufacturer (although of course that can occur as well).

Ive found that good interviewers / potential colleagues recognize this and I've found success in calling that sort of thing out and having a short conversation about it.

It may or may not also be more "normal" as you put it, but that's not at all relevant to what we're discussing here.

I also do this, I actually maintain two versions of the file. Swapping them out is a simple one-liner, but I find it works quite well because getting the page not found errors act as a reminder of intention before slipping back into mindless browsing.

You're not wrong, and I suspect the person who you're replying to understands that, but I think most of us here are probably more interested in the actual performance than whether the author here gave a green checkmark.

No, because people engage in riskier behavior when they start to feel safer, driving up R0.

You're right. I was being overly cynical and dismissive towards Pfizer's role after seeing many headlines crediting ONLY Pfizer.

Oh, fair enough!