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I also maintain an org-mode web app called Weborg:
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A stable currency would have an inflation rate of 0%. Inflation does not cause currency stability, it decreases the value of the currency.
By definition, its value is changing.
Why would any sane person invest in real estate? You have maintenance costs, property taxes, it's not liquid and you can go years with little growth. Not to mention if your area see's hard economic times (i.e. Detroit), the chance of a rebound is slim.
However, as an investment, as of right now, there is only a span of a few months where if you bought Bitcoin you would not be in the green right now.
Staking pools also have a "saturation point" to encourage decentralization. That way not all 80 Billion dollars worth of ADA goes to one staking pool.
Very hard to see how oligopolies can arise in this scenario when compared to mining operations that are unprofitable to most users (and of course bad for the environment).
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I'm confident my manager was scolded for the score he gave me by his boss or hr.
Ever since he's given me the most middle of the road scores . The only take away I've gotten from this experience is that performance reviews in my company are more political then actually reflective of your performance.
When I was in college I read The Passionate Programmer by Chad Fowler, which was my first exposure to the concept of treating yourself as business even when working for an employer.
Later on a found Patrick Mckenzie's blog, via his blog post on salary negotiation. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/ Which lead me to discovering a bunch of other great posts.
I could go on, but the moral is to seek out successful people that are willing to share their story.
They may read a textbook to teach themselves but it'll be different than the textbooks they make you read for a CS degree.
This typically is a benefit, many fresh CS grades I've seen are not as comfortable developing in their first job as a lot of self taught developers.