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only on incompatible MP plugins.

however I've just ran nightly and although it says vimfx will work as a legacy plugin it's not working, so the deal's off. I shall not use my mouse!

I read an article in the New Yorker recently about a guy chasing info on squid, just excellent. So well written.

The Economist is terrible. It's just the same neo-liberal slant on everything. Read one article of theirs and you are done.

FT is really weak. Go check out the FT comments some time - none of their readers understand how markets work nor how prices are set. You know why? Because they read the FT and the FT never talks about any of this. All they have is what appears to be in depth but is simply parroting numbers.

Guardian I have more time for but they are frustrating. They tell the truth right up to the point where it comes to talking about the banks and how land is used to extract labour, then they melt away. Which in the UK is everything.

UK journalism has fallen so far. Telegraph for example you could label propaganda - it's right wing. But it's so trashy now. And this is mirrored across all publications.

The BBC is a total shadow of its former self. Radio included. 9 o'clock news is like it's for kids.

UK "journalism" is simply stunningly bad now. When I think back 20 years ago the gap now is huge. I don't agree with the politics of The Telegraph but leaving that aside its slide is so sad. They now run stories about characters in TV programs as though they are actually real. All UK papers are now so bad I'd advise not reading any, including the FT which is simply terrible. They cannot die soon enough, the damage presently done by pandering to big bank advertisers is huge.

I think if you re-incarnated and showed the editor of the Telegraph from 1950 the web-site, just the difference between the background colour of "sponsored" stories versus actual stories, he'd blow his brains out. Never mind the actual content.

Do German papers do this, mix paid and actual content and attempt to show the paid as similar to real? Although this is nowhere near as bad as The Telegraph following the instructions of disgruntled banker advertisers:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/peter-oborne/why-i-...

> pay taxes in USD

bingo

No this isn't correct. The government imbues value in their fiat currency by insisting you pay your taxes in it. You may think bitcoin is the best thing ever for many reasons. But if you live in the USA you gotta get USD to pay your taxes or they are going to put you in jail.

We see this globally with the huge effort the USA puts into keeping oil priced / settled in USD. It matters.

USD has a store of value because if I hold USD I know the US govt is going to make people hand over a portion of their labour in taxes which keeps USD demand up.

thanks, sorry to reply to this late. I often wonder if I take a loyalty card and then for example I purchase twice as much double cream as the next person, does this get sold to health insurers who then charge me a higher premium? The permutations are endless eg too much beer. too many condoms. Too much spicy dip.

airbnb/uber are not "sharing", they are people renting/driving on a permanent basis, in the main.

It's interesting the way films like the original superman had a very clear hero "doing good". And now we have superheroes with clear flaws, wresting with their conscience and shades of gray. This mirrors the USA fall from hegemony.

My suspicion on this is that stores offer "reward cards" so they can get you to sign something that allows them to gather and sell your data.

I believe the tea pot is also rather good.

This is a way more sane post. Also I'd say coming off the gold standard lead to utterly unconstrained fiat issuance.

shame, was going to binge read them

Lots of people in big companies specialize in things they think are domain specific but are really company specific, they become redundant and cannot get a similar position.

Odd to pick c++. If you are very well versed in c++ you could get a well paid job in 100s of places.

I've failed the first test: how do I get a list of all "tips"?

Nope, that's not how prices are set.

https://www.quora.com/How-does-a-land-value-tax-not-create-d...

Little Schemer is worth reading if only to see a different approach to teaching. I really hope I can find time to read LoL.

How much was land back then? Far less. He'd be in that cycle if he came over now.

He owns and rents several properties. Rentier activity like this pushes up housing costs.

He has several rentals and lives off other families. We can't all do that. It's not a real, scalable solution. It's not genuine.

Agreed, it's a very good book, and Graeber is a very interesting man.

Agreed. Govt should issue money or force issuance of money against productive endeavor not rentier activity. Plus tax labour, not land.

We have a total disaster mid-way through. This has to change.

Disagree on Montreal. Cost of living here is good.

Wow that put me off. A bunch of kidults who need to get a grip.

Transaction rate is all down to speculation.

Payment systems already work fine with minimal cost. Store of value: yes you cannot overissue but the speculation tide could go out removing the store of value. Gold was/is volatile.

It's taking space that could be taken by yet another article about confidence/burnout/fitness/sleeping/nutrition!

Blair made them compete on ratings which is retarded when you have a guaranteed income. Another thing he ruined.

Yes it's due to high property taxes. Keeps the speculator scumbags out.

The higher property taxes are the more speculation is suppressed due to the high cost of carry.