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Yeah and OP is incorrect, foldables are a rapidly growing segment in mobile phones. Having used one for over a year, I'm not going back, and had the Duo been out a couple months ago, I probably would have bought that instead of the Fold8.

Foldable phones are a growing segment of the mobile phone industry. The newest iterations of foldables work quite well and I'm quite happy with mine, and I have no desire to go back to a candy bar phone after having one.

I think touch screen Mac is mostly pointless though.

Taxes only apply to net profits. Some trades create losses. At any rate, tax rates vary dramatically by jurisdiction, with some jurisdictions paying zero tax for trading-based profit.

> They are permisionless protocols

No, they are not. You can trade a tokenized stock on top of a blockchain that happens to be permissionless, but you can also fully operate a permissioned protocol on top of a permissionless network. How many permissioned products run on top of TCP/IP (a permissionless protocol)?

Smart contracts enable any sort of logic that you can encode in a Turing-complete software language, including authorization controls, or awaiting offchain KYC checks, or whatever your heart desires.

Memecoins don't have anything to do with real stock, but tokenized stocks trend towards the underlying's price as long as they are redeemable for the underlying in a timely manner.

A BTC is not notional nothing. What determines the value of a thing? The market does. Not you. The market. And the market has determined that BTC has value, and that's been true now for 16 years and counting.

At any rate, to the tokenized stock example, if you are purchasing a tokenized stock represented by a company such as Robinhood, it too is a debt in that the token is exchangeable for the underlying.

This is an even higher level of guarantee than, say, an options contract, in that the reserves are provable. It does, of course, involve trust in the intermediary, just as your bank balance does. But at any rate, this financial technology is an expansion of what isolated databases provide to the market.

No doubt, they are complex and you can't factor for everything, but I suspect that just even a cursory understanding of some broad characteristics across hardware will help you to design faster software when using a low-level language (and to some extent when using higher level languages as well), and your software will probably achieve must faster speeds than focusing on exotic design patterns in your software, for example.

There are plenty of local shops that are large, have plenty of seating, and don't mind you staying for several hours. It's up to the shop to enforce rules if it doesn't want people camping or using laptops or if it wants to require purchase.

If you understand how the CPU, memory, network, and disk are processing your program and its structures, you can design your programs to optimize for the hardware.

Full guide for ref: https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle/blob/main/docs/TI...

And your bank account balance is some meaningless entries in a SQL database

By definition nothing onchain is off the books. You can download any public chain's history from genesis. Very traceable. Meanwhile KYC is pesky and onerous, but there is nothing precluding an onchain protocol from implementing KYC. Most protocols that deal with real world assets retain the ability to freeze and seize funds if required by law.

24/7 liquidity and near instant settlement, easier access for international investors, and ability to plug token into other apps and products onchain like Aave lending, providing liquidity, etc.

Value comes from the underlying. Of course you are carrying some intermediary risk but that's also inherent with stock brokers as well. Similar to a stablecoin backed by treasuries. Voting isn't the only value of holding stock, although some platforms have proposed passing through to token holders voting and dividend distributions as well.

One of the primary benefits for traders is 24/7 liquidity and the ability to plug the token into other products onchain, like lending markets.

Perps aren't the same and they carry liquidation risks.

Mainly console games. I play some games on Mac but maybe only like 10-15% of Steam library is supported on Mac.

People immediately trying to point fingers, it's all so tiresome. Ultimately Clinton could have vetoed but this was likely a bipartisan supported bill. Both sides of the government were generally for balancing the budget and winding down some of the excess spending and planning that went into the Cold War era mentality. The late 90s was the only time in my lifetime, I believe, that the deficit shrank. But of course, Your Team Was Responsible For All the Good Things and The Other Team Was Responsible For All the Bad Things from that era.

> Government sales flooded the market with cheap helium, causing much of the private helium industry to shut down

Very sloppy

It's crazy that we have such a disjointed system that someone can die and the Federal government is unable to timely discover and process death records.

The death of security by obscurity

I think EPCOT could have been quite successful. The Villages, Florida was centrally planned and designed by many Disney architects (among others) and it is hugely successful and profitable.

Walt's brother, Roy (who remained after Walt's passing), was not the same visionary that Walt was. Simple as that. Most people would never have taken the risks Walt did with the company. Even the idea of a theme park that has tens of thousands of employees and requires millions of people to fly in from all over the world to be profitable sustainably, was quite a bold idea in the 1950s.

I regret that Walt passed too young. Florida would probably be covered in a large monorail network had he lived a couple more decades. And Epcot as a city would have been a tourist destination in its own right, and might have influenced urban development elsewhere.

Yeah well you can imagine it would be a problem if I built a 20 story shed in my suburban backyard.

Just because its heavily regulated doesn't mean it is centrally planned. Housing isn't decided at the federal level. Even city and county commissions that largely decide fate of large, new projects have to abide by state laws or executive orders from governors that sometimes overrule them. And as long as you propose a project that fits zoning rules on the specific parcel you own, you get a permit to build your dream house.

And if one city, county or state says no to your commercial or industrial venture, it's nice that you can shop other states that might love to have you.

That would be chaos. Imagine needing to sign a 10, 20 or 30 year agreement 6 months before a law expires.

Its very simple for states to pass safety regulations here. The federal outright ban is whats in question.

There are about 1000 easier ways to start a forest fire than running a mini- distillery. Meanwhile if the local or state government wants to regulate safety requirements here, that is within their power to do so. Its the federal outright ban that is in question.

I get it, but apple pie isn't distilled either. Was just tying into something more thematically aligned. The law has nothing to do with danger, either, it seems to have been driven entirely by desire to protect federal tax revenue.

TIL: Apparently the nickname for distilled apple cider is applejack. Never realized the origin of the cereal's name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applejack_(drink)

Congress creates laws, the President signs them into law, and the Supreme Court has the power of judicial review. The catch is the court has limited capacity to review laws, cases have to go through lower courts first usually, and it has discretion of which cases it hears. The 1868 law might not have ever been challenged in 150 years, or the current judges may think that this particular case has a compelling argument to warrant another review (it happens). The Constitution does not specify that a law is beyond challenge after any period of time, so there is an infinite amount of time to do so. That's a good thing.

Or more appropriately, hates apple cider, which was the most common alcoholic beverage in Washington's era. Often homemade.

Striking this down won't mean you can resell your homemade liquor. It might lead to some experimentation and we may get more micro-distilleries as an indirect effect, but it won't change the local and state regulations around producing and selling liquor for public consumption.

Wang reported the excessive token usage was a bug and they fixed it and reset the usage totals to 0: https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/2109774017574113780

> Mountaineering cannot be described as anything other than a "hobby".

Mountaineering was only ever a hobby because of how dangerous it was and the lack of a payoff (people instead took the valleys wherever possible). People didn't even try to summit the tallest mountains until 19th and 20th century, because it was a waste of resources and the techniques weren't good enough.

Americans spend 81.0% of their retail dollars in brick-and-mortar stores. Does that figure surprise you?