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> The root of the problem is a loss of trust. Comedy is ultimately about trust. The TreePeople audience laughed at my joke because they trusted that I hadn’t actually molested young boys. My kids laughed at my jokes because they love me, and they know they’ll be beaten senseless if they don’t. Without trust, audiences begin to question the intentions behind every joke, they take jokes literally, and they use their collective voices to bully comedians and pressure studios against taking any comedic risk.

Meanwhile Bitcoin is up another 50%!

Nassim has a bone to pick with Saifedean, whom he wrote the forward of "The Bitcoin Standard" apparently without understanding what Bitcoin was.

https://mobile.twitter.com/saifedean/status/1382408549343580...

Some examples:

- https://apeboard.finance

- https://curve.fi/

- https://opensea.io/

- https://www.trufflesuite.com/ganache

> Thamus inquired into the use of each of them, and as Theuth went through them expressed approval or disapproval, according as he judged Theuth’s claims to be well or ill founded. It would take too long to go through all that Thamus is reported to have said for and against each of Theuth’s inventions. But when it came to writing, Theuth declared, “Here is an accomplishment, my lord the King, which will improve both the wisdom and the memory of the Egyptians. I have discovered a sure receipt for memory and wisdom.” To this, Thamus replied, “Theuth, my paragon of inventors, the discoverer of an art is not the best judge of the good or harm which will accrue to those who practice it. So it is in this; you, who are the father of writing, have out of fondness for your off-spring attributed to it quite the opposite of its real function. Those who acquire it will cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful; they will rely on writing to bring things to their remembrance by external signs instead of by their own internal resources. What you have discovered is a receipt for recollection, not for memory. And as for wisdom, your pupils will have the reputation for it without the reality: they will receive a quantity of information without proper instruction, and in consequence be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant. And because they are filled with the conceit of wisdom instead of real wisdom they will be a burden to society.”

We are on premium, the ultimate features would be an easier way to replace Jira but we manage with epics, milestones and iterations.

Granted overdoses can cause cardiac arrest.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/leaky-vaccines...

Selection pressures and non sterilizing vaccines are what causes more virulent strains to emerge.

I think you know what he meant. I remember having a similar discussion with my dad. He was surprised to learn his peanut butter and bread both had sugar as one of the top ingredients. Sauces in a lot of restaurants have it in high quantities. Even things like beef jerky can have twenty grams of sugar per serving.

I created an account when my wife went to run an errand. After two hours she returned and I was still using it. Immediately deleted. It's flawlessly executed and addictive, but so is fentanyl.

> U.S. hospitals going back to 2001 and were able to estimate self-harm rates for the entire country. They found that the rate for boys held steady at roughly 200 per hundred thousand boys in the age range of fifteen to nineteen. The rate for girls in that age range was much higher, but had also been relatively steady from 2001 to 2009, at around 420 per hundred thousand girls. Beginning in 2010, however, the girls’ rate began to rise steadily, reaching 630 per hundred thousand in 2015. The rate for younger girls (ages ten to fourteen) rose even more quickly, nearly tripling from roughly 110 per hundred thousand in 2009 to 318 per hundred thousand in 2015. (The corresponding rate for boys in that age range was around 40 throughout the period studied.) The years since 2010 have been very hard on girls.

Thread about the decay in general.

Has MLM level distribution where only the top 2% or so make anything of consequence.

There are numerous other instances of near willful infection of others.

> As will become apparent from this exposition, the notion that a “blockchain technology” exists and can be deployed to solve any specific problems is highly dubious.

> It is unworkable for third‐party intermediaries to imagine they could improve their performance by employing a technology that sacrifices efficiency and speed precisely to remove third‐party intermediaries.

> Ethereum can be rolled back means that all blockchains smaller than Bitcoin's are effectively centralized databases under the control of their operators. It turns out code is not really law, because the operators of these contracts can override what the contract executes. Smart contracts have not replaced courts with code, but they have replaced courts with software developers with little experience, knowledge, or accountability in arbitrating.

The same director made Robocop which had similar satire and themes.

Can't squeeze blood from a turnip.

Come in to an exciting new opportunity. The first week you recoil in horror the technical debt. It appears the previous maintainer/builder didn't know one or more of: basic system admin, testing, documentation, packages, coding design, database design, or security.

The incidents start. The code is so interdependent it's terrifying to make even a small change. Fixing a bug in their custom json generator breaks a service you don't know exists and takes out billing. Yes they wrote their own. You lose the confidence of the team already there. Now you are too afraid to make changes.

All you can do is toil or try to think about selling a rewrite. When one or both of those hit burn out you fire up LinkedIn and beg for mercy.