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This isn’t true if the government generates more via subsidies.

This may depend on where you are, but around here I’d have very low confidence that the government would be capable of efficiently delivering quality housing at a low price.

Edit: Ah, I’m realizing now that you may have meant delivering it to the occupants at a low price out of their pocket, and not necessarily at a low cost overall.

What does it mean to "make haste slowly"?

Sure, as long as it’s possible to create a circle containing only one contact, the way giving permission to access photos now works on iOS.

You’re probably looking for NFTs:

https://coincentral.com/nba-top-shot-nfts/

I'm not very familiar with iOS dev, but I'd suspect a lot of dependencies, yes.

Also, the Uber app has a LOT more features than you would expect at a glance, due to extensive customization of the experience (i.e. feature flagging) along many vectors, and so it wouldn't surprise me at all if this ends up adding to a lot of code.

Edit: Linked post from sibling commenter bhupy outlines this in detail.

Yes, this is why the title includes the modifier "true".

Surely there must be some value in a more educated and capable population in and of itself?

> I'd argue the smartphone is irrelevant.

Access to information helps you obtain and maintain a roof over your head.

> I don't think we should be including basic necessities alongside improvements in entertainment in the same statistic, because it will just hide problems.

Agreed.

There have been some rule changes in recent years allowing non-accredited investors to invest in startups more easily, and platforms such as SeedInvest have sprung up which facilitate this, so this is at least one new pathway, although I don’t know how much easier it is necessarily, if at all.

Got it, I thought you were saying that none of them were middle-class generally, didn’t realize you just meant no one being kept in the middle class by the work.

I am personally finding myself getting caught in exactly these kinds of traps much more often since COVID showed up and all of the opportunity for in person social interaction dried up.

Stillness has become difficult and while the digital interactions haven been an imperfect substitute, they’re better than nothing and it’s even more challenging to engage in good digital habits when you’re leaning on these networks for such basic needs.

It’s been a challenge.

Why is it nonsensical? I've always interpreted this as being an attempt to call attention to things like the relative shortness of our lives in comparison to the earth and an argument that there's a certain amount of hubris involved in saying that you own components of ecosystems that you exist within and depend on to live.

No one in the middle?

> it’s terrible as a wide spread value store because it removes an important tool that governments have to handle the economy (dealt with debt via inflation aka printing money

How does a static rather than unconstrained supply make something a LESS good store of value?

Upside down. USB other than USB-C are not reversible.

Sort of - to understand how extreme a 10 degree high really is we should be comparing it to the high on the typical coldest day of the year, and then consider how many deviations away from that number this event is, not just how it compares to a typical winter day. Probably want to consider the low temps as well.

You definitely can, you'll just have to fill out a bunch of complicated forms (accessible via the "Use Free File Fillable Forms" button on the page you linked), which is what you pay your accountant to do, and that anyone has the option to purchase TurboTax software to assist with.

The article leaves this out.

Yes, it would be great if the IRS were able to provide software as slick as Intuit's to assist with this, and it would also be nice if Intuit didn't use so many dark patterns, and at the same time they've built a product that makes self-filing far easier to do correctly than any other option out there.

> No one said it was

You said "It makes no sense to talk about how much electricity a Bitcoin transaction consumes, as if that meant anything".

The only way for the amount of consumption to not matter is if there is a free or nearly free energy source.

For what it's worth, I agree with you somewhat that regulation and taxation could help, at least to the extent that such actions are enforceable - my issue is simply with your proposition that it is only the source of the energy that matters and not the amount, when in fact it is both.

You are correct that energy consumption that relies on fossil fuels is more damaging than energy consumption that comes from many other sources, but your claim that massive energy consumption means nothing it comes from other sources is not.

Even "clean" energy isn't free energy.

We need to consider both the costs on the supply side as well as what's driving the demand side for our energy consumption if we want sustainable systems.

The costs of running both our Internet as well as the Bitcoin blockchain are components of that, and if we aren't considering them, it's a mistake.

The energy costs of the Bitcoin blockchain will become highly significant very quickly if the network continues to grow at the pace that it has to date, even if the work is done by machines relying on energy sources multiple times cleaner than those that currently exist.

If we want to alleviate this, I suspect that we'll have to consider what the underlying social factors are that are driving the demand for such a network.

The idea here is that the hiring manager is likely to care about things other than raw productivity of their direct reports, such as how easy they are to manage.

Yeah, you likely should do this even if you unconcerned about this as otherwise your resume won’t be nearly as concise or effective as it should be.

The Wired article this post links to says that "the posts on Parler were simply listed in chronological order: Increase a value in a Parler post url by one, and you'd get the next post that appeared on the site"

This sounds like the resources were available by simply enumerating over autoincrementing primary key, so it didn't require much "guessing".

Fiat-denominated economic growth may not be tethered to natural resources, but real economic growth is.

We may well develop technologies that allow us to generate more with less, but there are limits to this.

Yes, Coca-cola may invent a new soda, but that soda will always have some material inputs.

Cloud computing most definitely does not escape this - it relies on massive networks of physical infrastructure that require huge investments of natural resources and human capital to build.

Even the monetization of things that appear at first blush to avoid this issue such as the monetization of human attention do not do so in reality as our mental faculties themselves rely on the continued sustenance of our physical bodies.

I thought that at first, until I considered that user ratings might not actually map all that well to things like how long they spend in the apps, how likely spending time in an app is to increase their time spent in the store or on their device overall, and/or how much money they spend in these places.

High ratings for apps in the store might help convince users that the store is worth using.

Or, even better, high ratings for apps from large corporations encourage them to support the continuation of your store's monopoly power.

Probably not any, but my understanding is that the answer to that is mostly yes because much of the incentive for these entities to self-regulate comes from the threat of worse-for-them regulations from SEC if they fail to do so in a way that SEC feels good about, and they spend a fair bit of energy communicating back and forth what those ways are, even if it's not made explicit on paper.

To clarify, do you mean therapy in the psychiatrist sense or some specific physical thing for bruxism? I could imagine either helping with this issue

Probably just helped keep stress levels down.

That’s one way of looking at it. It could also be described as being realistic - there are always “unknown unknowns” and all else equal, no matter how motivated and capable your team, estimates that consider this will be more accurate than those that do not.