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You are trying to rationalize a sadistically lavish display of spending money for something that honestly insults ordinary people intelligence. NFTs are just like generating random numbers and then bidding who of the rich will give more money.

Art progresses human knowledge, spirit and soul it has embedded intrinsic attributes that makes us better people. NFTs do not have any of those. Jack's net worth according to google is 12.6 billion USD. (12600 million USD) so on top of that you say hey let me get even more ... in way that can be characterized as most idiotic thing I can imagine, why? because, you know we can.

All this in time of pandemic when millions lost job.

This is exactly type of thing why Nick Hanauer said "The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats".

Owning history? Seriously? In a 1000 years no one will care about Jack, Bill or Elon or about any other "look how rich and smart I am". What after 10000 years... or 100,000 years? For the universe that period is just a blink of an eye.

So, no mate, you do not own anything in this world, you are just here for a moment of time and then you die.

> "The level of oxygen is only a third to half of the concentration found in open air (7–10% O2 in the cave atmosphere, compared to 21% O2 in air), and about one hundred times more carbon dioxide (2–3.5% CO2 in the cave atmosphere, versus 0.04% CO2 in air). It also contains 1–2% methane (CH4) and both the air and waters of the cave contain high concentrations of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and ammonia (NH3).[2]" - wiki

- At least we know who will take over planet if we screw up with Global Warming ...

Ok but what the fork is Jack Dorsey laundering, he does not have enough money already?! Can you use someone else property and put it for a bid as NFT for that same purpose?

I know I will get a lot of negative points for this one, call me old or whatever, I do not get it. Seriously I have not heard anything stupid as this... while other starving billionaires acting out, historically is this equal as time when Marie-Antoinette said “Let them eat cake”?

Sorry, I just do not get it $2.5 million for someone else Tweet that will stay his. Seriously, WTF is wrong with this world!?

Me too, space should rotate and arrow down should drop.

"Look Maa it is image, it is game, it is web page ..." :)

I thought oh I cannot believe this it is again one of those supper advance CSS, and then a saw javascript.

Never the less, still cool!

I know two things:

- tracking cookies are bad and yes it is an issue. - GDPR and consent pop-ups are pain, surfing is becoming similar effort like moving through the mud.

Solution? I hope we can embed response in the browser, so you say once I do not want to be tracked not even for "legitimate interests" :P and then in background browser does the rest? How difficult is that?

Maybe it was structural for buildings - termites...

I think it is much simpler like diseases, or pests like flees, rodents or ants they could not eradicate in any other way?

Sugars are far verse than meet, and for some reasons in the UK, it is an ingredient of most processed foods. (even the salty ones like cans, ready meals, pastries, pasta, sometimes they are sweetening salads...)

I guess sugar does not create CO2 while it grows so (it binds Carbon), so political idea is to create a narrative that will decrease usage of meat/dairy. But even if we all stop eating meat/dairy sheer number of people and population growth will again create CO2 emission in some other way.

> Elizabethan preachers railed against a fuel they believed to be, literally, the Devil’s excrement.

1. So it seems, 500 years later, as we struggling with all the issues this resource has caused and still causing they were not wrong...

> For too many environmentalists concerned with global warming, nuclear energy is today’s Devil’s excrement

Read (1)

--- It is only a question who will suffer along the lines, after we are long gone from the existence.

This is one more example of terrible management. Mistrust, too much control and micromanagement are totalitarian ways of push management that do not work with thinking and creative working force. Unless what you do is already known pattern coding and repetitive work, which does not include the left or right side of the brain, the above approach may work. Maybe in movies, you can put a gun to a hacker's head and say you have 1 minute to crack this, but in reality, that does not work. Solving problems takes time, and art-wise, to get inspiration, it takes even more time. "Slacking" time is necessary to produce a good solution...

So, you give a difficult problem to your employee, he gets stressed it is difficult, but now he needs to pretend to be busy to satisfy boss, he is even more stressed as he does not have time to think about solving the problem, but he needs to think about being busy... I can see people spiraling into mental health problems.

I just remembered, at the beginning of my career, one of my coworkers got a request from a client: we need something, we need it urgently, so make it and make it interesting by tomorrow noon.

How do they record your thinking time, do they take a brain snapshot?! As writing new code represents 30% of all time...

Well, I would like to agree with you, but "moustache-twirlingnes" is in all of us; it is called greed and lust for power and money.

Our political and economic systems in the state of the things they are right now have not created on their own. All our systems are the human product - created through many iterations with a very similar theme and always done by similar actors - an elite that can influence those policies and the elite that have the right to invent and pass new policies, which is, to say the least, very corruption-prone process.

For instance, policies created after 1973 created a mismatch between productivity and salaries; basically, the working force become constant losers and elite winners. https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/ https://files.epi.org/2013/ib388-figurea.jpg

At this point, who is to blame for those policies? And more importantly, when it becomes evident knowledge, who is to be blamed for keeping the state of things as it is?

Treadmill and the rules it runs on - are built by humans, and if we did built it, we could change it too.

If everything is simulated, and there is infinite number of simulated realities, as simulation is only reflection of possible reality - then maybe what is simulated continues to live in reality regardless of being switched off as just infinite number of realities that exist always at the same time.

Antigravity device :)

As you said, those are two incomes, not one, and in this economy and state of things all I can say good luck.

Again, maybe thing is about being brave and just jump in without thinking about possible issues that may never happen...

Regarding eviction, I meant more, that you will be able to have some savings to bridge gap between two jobs or if it gets to unforeseen illness or event. Like what happens if you both lose jobs, or you need take care about your spouse ... (I hope that never happens). But, my only point was that system is adjusted so you are always on the edge (regardless where you are), so you always turning that economic wheel ...

I have few mates they have miscalculated amount they can borrow, forgot to include other expenses, service charges etc. now they really struggling as mortgage is eating most of their salary, they have very little room for any maneuver.

Issue is that really all in UK is in London, no offence to other towns, simply: museums, clubs, meetups, tech conferences, startups, theatre shows, multicultural vibe, amount of things you can do ... (please ignore pandemic and current lock-down state)

I have been in Manchester for a few days, and except for my friends and few exceptionally good food & club places town is simply unsatisfying (I do not know what word to use to describe maybe day time boring). For me I would rather take a StarLink and move to Scottish mountains ...

Don't get me wrong, I do not hate rest of UK, there are different towns, and they are quite different, some are nice and pretty, other look like post-communistic havoc...

The entire comment was about majority of people not just a handful of 70 million UK has. As my initial comment was, system is design in such way to keep you in constant state of work, not allowing you to be free...

In Ukraine with average salary of $400 is equally difficult to afford home as in UK with salary of $3000, only difference is that from more expensive it is possible to find a way to reduce expenses (giving up comfort) and then move savings to a cheep/er place.

Where in UK are we talking about London where all good things happen or Sheffield ? And what is your salary ...

By the way, when we say "afford", I mean be comfortable, that if you lose your job you will not lose your home because you cannot pay 2 payments, and therefore lose your deposit and everything you have payed in until that point. Buying home in UK is life under constant stress of "what if" and pandemic, Brexit and current economy have not done a good job of removing that fear...

True, even during pandemic prices of properties have gone 20-30% up, even with salary of £100K (£5.5K a month NET) which is above average for majority of developers, it is difficult to afford property in London. And if you move outside, then you need to include traveling fees which are additional +(200-400) and lose of time each day about 2-4 hours (of course depending on location)

It is not just economic situation that pushes people to migrate, socio-politic condition can be additional reason.

This is savings wise in UK. > https://themoneycharity.org.uk/money-stats-almost-10m-with-n...

Another thing is that those who migrate are looking for more opportunities, and also in comparison they decide to live in worse condition as they can save more working jobs local people do not want to do. In that way when they go back they can live significantly longer with those savings.

Person struggling to find job 500 EUR a month in Ukraine, (https://ukraineliving.com/the-truth-about-the-average-salary...) can in UK live in share bunk bad room eating noodles for a year and save £10000 working construction industry. In London normal expenses rented 1 bed flat,food etc. will eat those saving in 3-4 month. Back in Ukraine same person can live out of those savings for 2 years.

Location pay reduction is fair to the rich. Simply put, our "chains" are designed in such a way for us to stay in them as long and possibly - contributing to society, whatever that word could mean. Basically, with the current state of property prices and overall prices, the UK average is struggling equally as a person from Eastern Europe - as someone said: "majority is one month salary far from bankrupt".

What I am trying to say is real income is what is left after your expenses.

Our system is profit-centric, and most of the profits go similar to snowballs, always to the bigger ones. In our world those big ones have additional supper power, they can change rules so that they can become even bigger...

15+ years of development and CSS still drives me crazy ...

I do not want to repeat what other said but I do not see this as problem there are deserts in the world, which are not used for food production and they are have not been use for anything else in that sense. Nothing lives there so there is nothing that could be endangered.

Total area needed to power entire world with solar would be ~ 532,900 square kilometres (square with sides 730 km) roughly area of Spain.

Space of just 3 deserts is:

Sahara 9,000,000+

Australian Desert 2,700,000

Arabian Desert 2,330,000

Gobi Desert 1,295,000

Further more, vertical farms are not just about space, correct me if I am wrong but vertical farm use less water and they have a better control of pests without usage of chemicals, they are easier to work with and automate food production.

There is one thing that has not gone up.

Salaries.

I was thinking about a similar experience I have each time I need to do anything with any larger institution in the UK. For instance, if there is a problem let say you have with the bank because of their business policies, and if you get transfer to the agent, talking with the agent is even more annoying than talking with the bot. Employees here are trained to go by the script, so there is no thinking, no logic, no reasoning, if it is not in the script they will just go on and on, in the same loop like a broken gramophone record. Usually, humans should be more helpful, but in quite a number of cases, when things are exceptions to the book, that simply does not work. I personally find that type of behaviour super frustrating, wanting me to stop any kind of business with that organisation, for ... forever. Any similar stories in other countries?

Contrary to many other comment assumptions that I do not like sports, I do, but just struck me that it is similar like any other entertainment, movies, music, radio, internet ... but they do not have dedicated block each day.

I meant TV news.

Ok, it is fine in papers, internet, but I am talking about prime time TV...