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It will be censored, curated, moderated, and filtered by Facebook. No thanks.

It's not. It's the same thing, now with a headset and better graphics!

Also, you can pay taxes with fiat currency.

Agreed and it would make the mod position self-sustaining.

100% agree that journalists emphasize the sensational for the clicks instead of the moderate and reasonable.

That said, I don't agree with this framing of your question with regard to "individual" journalists. It's unlikely that any "individual" journalist has economic, political, and social power. Journalists' power results from their collective efforts as a group. I would be hard-pressed to name more than five individual NYT reporters but collectively, the NYT has unquestionable social and political power, if not economic. The NYT's angles on stories, its decisions to pursue certain trends and not others, its portrayals as somethings as good and others as not good, etc. - these efforts have tremendous power and shape society.

Why do you think someone like Bezos was so interested in buying WaPo? To anyone who fails to appreciate the power of journalism, start with Walter Lippmann's Public Opinion.

I recall this period as well (early to mid 2000s) and the fears of overseas workers led me to change my college major at the time. There was also still a big hangover effect from the 2000 dot com bubble. I remember seeing low developer salaries and, although I at least somewhat enjoyed coding and tinkering around with technical things, there were other pursuits I enjoyed more. I kind of regret not sticking with computer science but my career has turned out fairly well (although I think I would have optimized my income faster if I had stayed a computer science major).

But a job provides you real money that gives you real options in life. You can't take someone out on a date with your video game points.

Nice! Good to see a company being proactive about this nonsense.

I totally forgot about this issue with dial-up modems. The good ones would temporarily pause a connection when someone picked up the phone and the cheapos would instantly lose the connection. My family was too poor to afford to phone lines and it made me value time online (also made me have to use the Internet at odd hours when people were unlikely to call the house).

The rule sounds fair for direct family members (wife, husband, children under 18, etc.).

It's a mix of both. Musicians often want to seem like they didn't take lessons and don't have in-depth knowledge of music theory and old songs, but they often do (e.g., how many guitarists don't admit they took lessons and want to make it seem like they're just riffing but they mysteriously seem to hit the chord tones on the changes and manage to play in modes that work for a song). It's just not "cool" for a musician to be knowledgeable about music theory and history. I think every pursuit - not just music - is presented with a challenge once it's been around for a while, it's no longer new and unusual, and there exists a body of knowledge and history. It becomes a large task to learn from past performers and then try to innovate in your own way. Once a body of knowledge becomes large enough, it's a big life-consuming task just to get your head about the prior body of knowledge before you're able to go out on your own and attempt to innovate. I think the same thing is happening with rock. The same could be said for philosophy itself - philosophy used to be practical and applicable to everyday people (see Greeks and Stoics, for example). Now, it's largely confined to academia and extremely esoteric arguments among a cloistered elite.

How does this compare to Age of Empires? It looks like AOE3.

This is really good. Thanks for posting.

Not true. If you have any capital markets gains, you have to pay TurboTax. I don't need a tax accountant to report simple capital gains. If you have side hustle income, you have to pay TurboTax. Basically, if you're reporting any income other than your standard day job, you have to pay. And TurboTax has done things like advertising free filing but only offering free federal filing and finding out you have to pay for state filing only after you've filled out your federal forms. It's just a scammy business that relies on lobbying and governmental pressure to stay afloat.

Read this ProPublica story on how TurboTax has lobbied for 20 years to prevent people from filing for free easily: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...

No, it's also problematic to the upside if you're trying to use it as currency or medium of exchange rather than a speculative investment. How do sellers of assets price things? If I'm trying to sell a home in bitcoin and btc surges in value one day, do I lower my price accordingly? Or do I wait to see if btc goes back down a bit and settles? Volatility - both up and down - is destructive to price discovery.

If you're just making long speculative investments in btc and volatility is skewed to the upside, well sure that's fine but you're not using bitcoin as a medium of exchange, you're investing in it as a security.

Google's fix for spammy results seems to be favoring large corporations, governments, and putting results on their own page (so-called "rich results" fka "rich snippets).

A lot of SEO and digital marketing agencies use SEMrush because it's an easy way to track keyword rankings for your clients and their competitors. SEMrush also generates reports for keyword rankings that are helpful to provide clients. I haven't used it in a few years but I found SEMrush to be a good tool and worth the cost if you have clients.

I think the idea is trying to replicate ownership of a physical item. When you own a book or a painting, you don't own the underlying copyright in that item and you don't control reproduction and distribution of the item or the creation of derivative works (i.e., if I buy a paperback copy of Confederacy of Dunces, I can't contract with a movie studio to make a movie based on the book -- I just own a copy of the book and that's it).

But who honestly wants to own a digital copy (without underlying rights) of something that can't be consumed like a movie or book? We're supposed to now pay for an image I can view freely? Where's the benefit in owning the NFT of an asset? Perhaps if a device manufacturer comes out with a device to display ultra-high resolution art images in an attractive frame and you can only obtain a compatible copy of the ultra high-res image if you buy the corresponding NFT, this could be an attractive offering if executed properly but I'm not aware of any devices that create such value for NFTs.

NFTs are somewhat interesting but I strongly suspect there is market manipulation (most likely by players with investments in NFT-adjacent entities) going on with some of these NFT sales.

That's absurdly reductionist and my comment is sincere. All the items you listed are able to bought and sold digitally. There is no evidence that the market in these items is being restricted because digital transactions are somehow being suppressed.

Where is the added value from NFTs? From my perspective, the only "value" from an NFT is the concept that a digital item that is indistinguishable from an identical digital item may now be tagged with a token that proves ownership (but only of that one digital item) and which may be bought and sold. This is unnecessary for things like insurance policies, land deeds, equity, intellectual property, and domain names. All of these items have meta-information that allows proof of ownership (land deeds are recorded; IP is registered with the USPTO; equity ownership is registered with brokers and trades are recorded with the SEC; etc.). There are already functioning systems setup to record, register, and transact these items.

I fail to see how something with wildly fluctuating value like bitcoin can ever serve as a stable currency or medium of exchange.

Maybe it's a "less terrible" solution in poor countries with inflation challenges, but I don't see that as a strong proposition for the utility of bitcoin. Cigarettes are used as a medium of exchange in prison. That doesn't serve as a strong argument for using cigarettes as currency.

All of these items are already transacted digitally.

Why is this necessary when you can own the copyright to an image (or other creative work)?

When someone borrows a share, do they pay the current share price to borrow it?

Depends on the case. If a case is taken on a contingency basis (personal injury, medical malpractice, and other practice areas are usually contingency), the lawyer will only take winnable cases because the client is paying a billable hour rate and if you lose you're left with nothing but expenses and an angry client.

For cases where the client is paying the billable hour rate, lawyers will take just about any case as long as it isn't totally unethical and could get you in hot water with the bar.

I'm not so sure. If engineer's were cheap, you wouldn't have Steve Jobs colluding with other companies to suppress salaries: https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-tech-jo...

The SEC's stated mission is "to protect investors; maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets; and facilitate capital formation." I would equate Robinhood consumers with investors.

And plaintiff securities class action law firms are undoubtedly drafting complaints as we type.

This is also possible in America in many theaters.

It works on Mac but you have to use Boot Camp or Parallels (or a similar system). Kind of a pain but totally works.

I play AOE2 as well (the Definitive Edition is really great), but I never got that serious about it. I play with relatives and friends mostly. I've watched some videos about how to increase my efficiency and some basic strategies (killing the boar, fast castle, etc.) but never really dedicated myself to it. Really brilliant game. It just gets everything right and the graphics are timeless. I can't think of another game that still gets regular updates and has a big online following 21 years after it was released.