*wow, core counts so big I found it slightly difficult to multiply by 2 in my head.
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*wow, core counts so big I found it slightly difficult to multiply by 2 in my head.
Plus people you share your hobbies with (if you have a social one). This is the way. I like who I work with, but I don't want to socialize with any of them, unless I'm being paid.
Yeah, we're all paid by BIG FIAT to descredit crypto on a technical news comment site.
You know you need those kids so you can retire, right? Idk, maybe you want to tap out code forever, but you're going to need farmers and cooks and doctors and plumbers and people to make your iPhone. I guess, everyone else can raise those people though right? Fuck them, they can pay and you can enjoy their children's labour, right?
[1] Number Go Up by Zeke Faux tries actually using BTC in El Salvdor. Many don't know how, some people tell him to leave, some try but it's strictly inferior to existing payment methods.
Given how the culture ambassador is rewarded by being given an Affront body so he can indulge in Affront culture on even terms, and that the Affront are basically psychopathic Bertram Wooster-types, Banks knew that there was some people couldn't help but love the Affront. Something in humans loves it. Like looking at a file of red wool coated infantry (btw, did you get that the Affront is coded for the British empire?) and thinking "yup, really cool".
Absolutely no surprises there. I've read the entire culture series several times. I've read every entry in it at least twice, some more than that. Except Use of Weapons. I only need to read about the "chair" once.
Has any other director managed to get away with making the same film three times?
>A group of kids save the world via playing battle games in an ultra detailed 3D virtual world.
Now, is that Digimon (2000), Summer Wars (2008) or Belle (2021)?
Yes. I encountered a homeless person in the CBD of Tokyo, sleeping in the bushes of a (very small) divider between a main road. Almost totally hidden, by those bushes. With enough items to look like they'd been there a while.
Don't make me link Joel Spolsky's never do a rewrite.
Yes, they provided more office space for you on Softbank's dime. Funnily enough, this isn't sustainable.
Of course the model, broadly speaking, makes sense. There are loads of boring, CRE rental providers. e.g. Regus. Which never had valuations in the billions, nor billions of VC inflow to subsidise the offering. WeWork is piss poor execution on a thin margin business.
For sure. But if you have limited resources, and sane, sober people will get a job and support themselves, feed themselves & keep their room clean and undestroyed, vs someone with "complex needs" who will do none of those things, when you have limited resources to work with, what will you choose? Help one ill person who will (potentially) harm others, (likely) harm the resources you give them, or five people who don't need the extra help?
It's heartless, but resources (for these services) ARE limited. Would you, could you, make a different one?
Because you've never met an athlete, I guess. None of them would stop at "mild".
Oooh, what a fancy, high-falutin word for... writing bingo tickets to your SSD. Could more accurately be called "proof of bingo card", and then it doesn't infringe on actually interesting concepts, like relativistic physics.
I remember when the new of Chia caused SSD prices to spike around the time I was buying, in the speculative fever for free money. At least it crashed, causing the Chia miners to become irrelevant in the market. Too late for me, sadly, I was stuck paying 400% of current market prices.
Fuck Chia, fuck crypto nonsense.
That's a very different river now to what it was in the stone age. I know it's practically a canal along many parts of it, especially upstream around Henley.
For one, no country on earth has ever been Capitalist. The word itself is a Marxist word describing a system that worships capital, it's actually meant to be derogatory and sarcastic. Every western country today is a liberal democracy and follows Liberalism, where any one in particular lies on a spectrum from Capitalist to Communist is variable but only within a fairly small range.
Finally, only a wilful idiot could call the current US a "failure". Is it flawed, far from perfect, miserable for a large part of its population? Yes. But does it also deliver them from starvation, war and natural disaster? Yeah, mostly. Better than nearly all other systems. It could do better, maybe a lot better, but it's so far from "failure" it's quite laughable.
But besides from that, European-style social democracies (note, also liberalist) can only exist because the US exists to guarantee that you can be that way safely. And because advanced, rich nations are more profitable for the US to trade with.
You might think that your earning and savings supports your retirement, but no. It will be the next generation of workers that actualize it. Money is just unit of account, it by itself does not give you a retirement. Only working age, working people.
We've found ourselves in a very strange moral hazard. You spend your money to raise kids that will work to earn my savings in my retirement. Hopefully the state can afford your retirement too, but that's unlikely, because no one had children. Because this society sterilizes itself.