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Have you noticed how your cash is buying fewer items than it did a ~year ago? My daily item costs are WAY up, which is really just saying the value of the cash is WAY down.

Zero mention of the recent unprecedented fiat currency printing we've seen, nor the fact that every time since the Tang Dynasty when we have done this, it has led to very troubling times 12-18 months later.

Everyone is gambling even if they dont know Crypto exists.

I'm a very visual thinker, and this is very cool!

Thank you very much for making it!

If there were no advertisers, they would not be able to pay the expenses required to deliver something that meets user's expectations, and they would lose interest.

As long as it's still 2006.

Only if by "lots" you mean "almost no one".

Training - simulations.

Eventually, a Danger Room anywhere.

I like Kevin Kelly's point of view, which he talked about recently on David Perell's podcast:

"When the first humanoid picked up a rock and turned it into a hammer, either to make a shelter or to kill his brother, he suddenly had a new choice he never had before. That choice is good. You see what I’m saying? Even the choice to do evil is itself a good. Which means that if there’s a 50/50 wash between good and evil, the fact that there’s another choice gives it a 1% edge.

So there’s 51% versus 49%. So that’s why I say that given everything, even the choices to do evil are a good, that we have 51% good and 49% bad. That 1 or 2% Delta, the tiny, tiny little bit better, the incremental creep of goodness and betterment compounded yearly is civilization. All we need is to have 1% better. What we need to do is create 1% more than we destroy. Then we have civilization. And by the way, 1% it’s almost invisible. Look around the world and say, half of it’s crap. Yes, it’s true. There’s only a 1% tiny bit, but that 1% difference, that little tiny bit, is all that we need. And that little tiny bit comes from, even the evil choices are choices and those choices are good. It’s good to have a choice."

Kevin Kelly

This is why most of my copy-paste is actually: copy-paste_in_SublimeText-copy-paste.

How about a 10x reduction?

Thinking of when "Paste with style" became the default. :P

I heard Jim Keller say on a podcast recently that many computation problems are N^2, so if unoptimized and run on silicon with 2x the transistors, it runs 4x slower.

This says more about the mindset of Sci-tech journalism than it does Tesla.

Reminded me why I really try to avoid consuming any of it anymore.

They think they know better, when it's clear to anyone with actual domain knowledge that it's much more that they don't know that they don't know.

Most things we think come from the scientific process in fact are the result of trial & error and tinkering, and then back-filled with the scientific process and so only appears historically as if they came from theory.

Galileo would never of survived peer review.

"Science progresses one funeral at a time" - Max Planck

Watching a friend go through the process of attaining tenured position in Economics recently has taught me to never listen to Economists. They are all focused on impressing each other MUCH more than progressing Economics. And that's not even considering the Ergodicity crisis there.

Once you see the sausage being made, you realize "peer review" is a way to project power in academia, it is not about science.

Eric Weinstein has been talking about this lately, something he calls DISC "The Distributed Idea Suppression Complex". Some of his first hand stories are shocking, but are exactly the kind of thing those I know in academia tell me they face every day.

People should be more aware... of the collapse of science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

Apple doesn't have to build it's own CPU, but often vertical integration gives one a significant advantage.

TSMC is slave to Dutch ASML, whos is the only one on the planet who can make the EUV lithography technology TSMC uses to make the latest chips.

Also Apple didn't have to do ~80% of what Intel has to do - you know, the actual building of chip fabs as well as chip design.

"merely" LOL.

"...Just weird little scenes!"

Does this not describe YouTube too?

Sometimes the rumor of a weapon is better than the actual weapon, and can in fact be the actual weapon if you can use it to control your enemy's actions.

Eg. the prospect of imminent cheap laser weapons puts a lot of doubt in expensive hypersonic missile investment.

"First of all, you must realize that that 10% isn't stable: the "Market for Lemons" effect will guarantee that if nothing is done to stop it, that 10% will become 90%."

Are you sure? Is this ergodic? Does the ensemble average predict the time-series average?

So the problem is more a coal energy problem than a bitcoin problem?

Which transactions? The Bitcoin transactions running on coal, natural gas, hydro, geothermal, nuclear, solar, or wind electricity?

Figures don't lie, but liars will figure.

The coal ingredient still vents off toxic and radioactive waste in the making of the polysilicon.

And with the rapidly falling price of PV, it's unlikely we'll see expensive investments that do not reduce costs.

Many solar panels are made by putting quartz and coal into an oven, and using coal to heat it to like 1800 degrees.

This releases a bunch of C02 and other much nastier stuff like silicon tetrachloride and radioactive uranium into the environment, and out comes purified polysilicon for making "green" PV panels. :P

In contrast Bitcoin can run on green hydro or nuclear power.

Even more directly - How much energy does all the world's "legacy" Fintech use?

Banks, exchanges, government tax agencies, accountants, money printing, retail cash machines (ATM, registers, etc) and all the way to gold mining.

Most environmentalists are in it for the religion.

For example, wind turbine blades are composite components that are too expensive to recycle and wear our much faster than most people realize, so there are vast garbage dumps filled with buried giant wind turbine blades made of petrochemicals.

Most electric vehicles are charged with electricity made from burning carbon (coal & natural gas).

Reusable plastic bags need to be used like 28 times before they have less of an impact than disposable ones. Cotton bags need to be used over 7000 times before they are better than disposable.

Um, how many lifetimes have audiophile headphones been available?

If there have been people passing headphones down to their kids, I bet that would be a lot smaller group than you are suggesting. A pastoral fantasy.

How do you know this to be true?

At least with us geezers there's no trace of it ... now nothing gets deleted. That's a new stress for sure.

doesn't that headline essentially say "teenagers damage teenagers' mental health"?

Don't most teenagers spend most of their time socializing with other teenagers?

My pre-internet teenage "social networking" was full of traumatic times. Has that not been the case of teenagers forever?

I guess this study is reporting an measurable increase above the "normal" amount? That seems like it would be very hard to measure.