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> Any language takes at least 3-5 years to fully master.

That really depends on the language and their background.

Going from C to C++ and you can be pretty functional pretty quickly, and comfortable in a year. Your big hurdle then is whatever specific libraries you're using.

Smaller languages like Lua can be fully adapted to in about 2 months or less.

I mean, yeah, picking someone with 10 years of Python experience and nothing else, then expecting them to jump right into a massive C++ codebase won't go well. But someone with 5 years of Ruby experience and a side project in Python will probably do pretty well if they're dropped into a Python-oriented job.

> Which is in practice really no different from meme stocks today.

Which is exactly my point.

Crypto is a decentralized meme stock. Unless crypto finds a way to become just a normal currency, it'll go the way of all memes over time: dead, once everyone and their grandma is sharing it.

Discarding applicants for game dev experience and claiming there's a dev shortage is completely bizarre.

It's like starting a restaurant and banning chefs with baking experience.

You’re not opting out of anything. At the end of the day, everyone is trading their crypto for dollars or another government currency.

Crypto is opting out of real money is the same way buying an unstable stock is. People are buying it hoping to get rich and convincing others to do the same, hoping they’ll sell it off before the price crashes and it’s completely worthless. Nobody is buying milk and eggs with GameStop stocks or *coins, and if they did, it’d make international news and that singular event would be referenced for 5 years by supporters as an example of how “real” their currency is.

Others seem to think your claim for evidence is unreasonable, but I think it's a perfectly reasonable to ask.

One thing I've seen is that Indigenous Australian oral history is thought to extend back at least 37,000 years[1]. Natural events that have been demonstrated to have happened tens of thousands of years ago have been passed down in the oral history of some civilizations. This knowledge conversely seems to be lost with a transfer to written records, probably due to a lack of people keeping mental note of ancient knowledge. e.g., a lot of Native American history is just lost for countless reasons, despite them having written records now.

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/aboriginal-tale-anci...

They’re referring to the fact Gaza/Palestine is one of the densest countries in the world.

Gaza is also completely surrounded by sea and another country, so it’s an incredibly dense place with no room to grow. Seoul and Paris are also dense places, but you can keep walking and eventually you see it thin out without a clear border on city limits. Put a fence around Paris city core and fire a missile on the city center—news will talk about one of the densest places on earth being blown up.

That's... an odd assessment.

As someone from a family of farmers, yes, people can be fat and work on farms. I know people who are in the fields everyday and with beer bellies like you wouldn't believe.

This man is 72. The fact he's working outside well past the age of retirement for most people shows he's not in completely terrible shape.

We’re rapidly approaching an Ubik-like future where every object demands payment before use.

Maybe the idea of paying to open a fridge or unlock a door wasn’t just a silly sci-fi concept—maybe the wrong person just hasn’t considered doing such a thing yet.

Yeah, furu is shockingly close to cheese in flavor. It's very pungent and salty, so you can't just just chop off a huge slice and eat it like you would cheese, but you could probably blend it with creamier tofu/soy milk to make something similar to normal cheese.

The US is at a point where it's far more of a shame-driven society than Japan.

One wrong move and you, your family, and your employer are trending on twitter and national news and apologizing for your entire existence while everyone publicly announces that they're cutting ties with you.

Japan has incredibly strong defamation laws, where half the stuff that hits twitter in the US would land people in trouble in court in Japan for trying to ruin someone's reputation (even if it's justified).

People do report these things to facebook.

They might maybe possibly kind of sometimes take it down, or they might not. But one or two small news stories come out and they apologize and say there's nothing that can be done, then a big story drops and they instantly ban everyone who sold vapes to kids, filter out new ones, and the problem vanishes for a few weeks until people forget.

Wild to me that when it comes to drug offenses, the law is turning away from punishing the buyers and towards punishing sellers. But when it comes to the sex industry, it's steering the opposite direction.

No, because not everybody wants to live in the same city, country, climate, culture, whatever.

But what we do have today are cities that economically dominate their region with people commuting an hour or more each way just to make ends meet. And even if those people were to quit and try starting a business 5 minutes from their home, there's a good chance that some zoning regulation, lack of infrastructure, or other issue would make it rather troublesome for a normal person to do a startup.

What? That makes zero sense.

If you book in advance and your plane is delayed by a whole day, your ticket is void. That's it. You're done.

...In which case you can just show up to the station and buy an unreserved ticket and ride, like everybody else and like I mentioned is the better idea.

My point is that reserving in advance has no purpose because of reasons you're giving to somehow justify it. If you don't book in advance, there is zero chance of missing your train due to a delayed flight since you're buying it 5 minutes before riding.

You seem very, very confused.

What? No.

I live in Japan and you absolutely do not need to book trains in advance, ever, for any reason. It's a good idea if you're planning to travel during peak hours on the first and last days of a major holiday period, but there is a free seating area that you can ride. The only downside is that you may need to wait a bit on the platform until you're squeezed onto the shinkansen. You're sacrificing some comfort this way, but it's not a strict need.

But that problem only occurs 3 weeks out of an entire year. Also, the normal free seating tickets don't have a reserved time. They're only limited by day.

And my experiences in Europe are similar. Show up, buy a high speed rail ticket, hop on a train and go to the next city.

I've only ever needed to reserve tickets in two countries: one was dealing with Amtrak in the US, and the other was trying to take a train in China between two cities in the midst of the biggest holiday of the year. Other than that, it's always been a show up, get a ticket, and hop on 5 minutes later sort of deal.