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> I also left out a rant on the deficit the US has.

The deficit, at this level, is unimportant. The US will not retire, therefore there is no end date for the payment of its debts. The inflation it is experiencing at the moment is eating away at the base of the debt level while the interest rate is still far below the amount of inflation.

That's the question; was it greed, narcissism, or a mix of both?

> He only briefly wanted to buy Twitter;

I suspect he wanted to cause problems and pain for Twitter, and that this was the bait used to hook him into ownership at an inflated price. He has flouted so many other laws, regulations, etc, he probably thought he had a good chance at getting away with this type of behaviour in a Delaware court.

Elon has to find a way to monetise his fanatics before he loses some of them when Twitter tanks.

> He isn’t even currently a professor at any institution.

Steve Keen is a (retired) Australian economist who has held some senior positions at institutions around the world.

He holds heterodoxical views on a number of economic topics and has predicted, several times, the collapse of the Australian economy due to the continued strong growth in the housing market.

Is he wrong about climate science? Not sure, but it's not his area of expertise. However I also suggest that the IPCC are not a trusted source (IMO) in this argument, especially given they are essentially a political tool rather than a scientific one.

This is heavily dependant upon your views on the roles of mothers and fathers.

While this article and many like it suggest a sudden rise in cases due to a 2021 Youtube influencer, this was already spreading in 2020. Girls in my daughter's social network were displaying tic behaviour in the months after the first major lockdowns.

For context he is also a Nobel prize winner.

Not sure what any of these facts have to with crypto and the fact that crypto is primarily a gambling platform that enables some of the largest financial crimes in human history.

Godot is primarily an object-orientated rather than ECS engine so if you are comfortable with OOP then I think you will find it quite intuitive.

Also the sheer speed with which Godot allows you to load, build and test your software is second to none. Make an update, build in 2 seconds, then play. You just can't compare that to Unity and, even moreso, Unreal Engine.

> it's a Nintendo design philosophy:)

if only that philosophy delivered hardware that was not so prone to failure. I have owned my switch for 2 1/2 years and it is on its third set of controllers and now the screen is registering phantom taps.

> Finishing the game is a bonus.

I have put 600 hours into the game. I have never completed it without cheating, and then only to see what the end looked like - which did not inspire me to change my approach to the game.

The joy of Rimworld is in the failure, or in succeeding for a time against the odds. Maybe the author could provide options to make the game easier, to attract another segment of the game market, but the way it currently works is much more attractive to myself.

> Crypto is nothing special in this respect..

Crypto is nothing special in any respect except crime. Web 3.0 is basically blockchain re-discovering how finance works and why financial regulation is a thing.

Coins leveraging coins and pegged to other coins and hedged by yet another coin... None of it reflects a solid foundation and the fact that, for a time, enough people were fooled does not a revolution make.

I think Elon did not so much lose a game of chicken than he threatened to make Twitter share price increase if the Twitter board didn't do what he said.

I cannot discount that Elon may have a master plan here but it did seem he was being outplayed every step of the way because he was so... Elon?

Lamontcg offered you the simple explanation of why interest rate management is used to manage inflation. They didn't muddy the waters by talking about market distortions and why it is best to minimalise these. They didn't go into an explanation of why interest rate hikes are themselves a marketplace intervention preventing the proper movement of debt pricing. They didn't even get lost in the labyrinth of exchange rates, and the impact all of this has upon a global trade currency.

Their explanation was about as simple as you can get.

> Yes, but prices are not demand, they are supply and demand. What if you shut down the parts of the economy that make food and gas?

Think this through and remember that food and fuel are must haves. There will always be demand, even at high prices. Just less of it. Which is what the point is.

> Worker shortages are no joke, there are $20/h+ jobs that people aren't willing to do.

You can arbitrarily choose any wage level and complain that people are not choosing these jobs. The wage is not the point - the purchasing power is.

$800 a week is not a whole heap of purchasing power when you throw in things such as housing, medicals, etc, etc, especially if the person is time poor (due to commuting, schooling or other committments).

> It's almost as if a crash and a depression has to happen because of human psychology.

False choice. There are other paths that do not lead to a crash and depression, but these might force the upper classes to take a haircut on their expected wealth growth. Then again - for many people the rich becoming slightly less rich is pretty much the end of the world, I suppose.

I don't know that Ukraine has the capability to do this. The number of countries capable of this act is quite small.

The point of notes is to use information that presented fleetingly, to drive further activity, inform decisions and guide expectations.

The complexity must reside somewhere... but not during the moments I am taking notes.

> There's only one story type

One type, yes, and Kishōtenketsu as well. And now you know.

> I know they literally can't hear it, but I always have the urge to tell Gen Y and later that for a minute in the mid-late 90's we had this shit mostly, not totally - that'll never happen - but mostly figured out.

I disagree. We didn't have it figured out - it just did not get on many folk's radar because of the differences in network effects prior to the internet. If you were a lonely kid in a farming town who wanted to dress and act like someone from the other biological gender you were shamed or shunned or cut-off. You were the weird one in your town. And that was something that everyone - EVERYONE - else in your town, no matter how empathic or sympathetic, would agree upon.

People who were "odd" just didn't know they could expect a better world. If you were coloured you just sucked up the jokes. If you were gay you hid - or you ran away to places where the network effects were more beneficial. You just dealt with it, and left the normal people to the belief that shit was figured out.

Except for us spectrum types - from about 1997 onwards EVERYONE wanted a piece of us.

Yes, their book burnings, armed mobs and attempts to gerrymander political structures so only they and their supporters get to participate in democratic processes is... wait...

> So often any of these single causal theories forget to look at timespan.

So often people forget the last 'W' question - Who, What, When, Where, Why and Why Now?!

> There's a white collar crime investigator who has a sign in his interrogation room: "If you're here, you're not as smart as you thought you were."

There's a white collar crime investigator who believes that everyone is guilty until proven how guilty.

I work in Australian healthcare systems and can tell you that this situation does apply to the rest of the world, although the charging usually occurs to the public purse rather than the other way around.

The problem is that these activity/diagnostic/lifestyle codes exist for good reasons but existing incentives can push diagnostic coders toward exploitation for maximum funding rather than as a tool for capturing treatment burdens.

> The system resulted in covid lock downs that look more like china’s than most other democracies.

Strange how these lock downs remained popular. People were happy to see them go once vaccination rates were up, but the governments who instituted them still poll strongly.

Something about people offering to sacrifice you on the alter of capitalism tends to turn voters stomachs.

> Well the state elections are overseen by the various state Electoral Commissions, which are independent from the Australian Electoral Commission, but yes.

Well, huh. Today I learned something. Thanks.

Australian Federal/State elections are, I believe, unique in the world because of the mixed use of a) compulsory voting, b) ranked choice and c) apolitical election management through the Australian Electoral Council.

We are rarely happy with our choice of leaders (these days, at least) but these characteristics provide us with some protection from the more extreme elements affecting other Western democracies.

The one thing that strikes me about "boring" people is how seldom they are actually bored. They are finely tuned organs of consumption, able to discern the finest differences between states and measures, and are endlessly fascinated (and driven) by this consumption to consume more and more at finer and finer levels. They are the sensitive instruments by which the universe discovers itself.

Claiming that being boring (as opposed to inflicting boredom) is a negative characteristic is like judging a scalpel on its ability to crush boulders.

Elon's conduct and prior tweets will likely come back to bite him if a) Twitter can demonstrate Elon had already assumed a level of bot activity on Twitter and b) that he knew this prior to making his offer. If my memory serves me I think Elon has previously commented negatively on Twitter's management of bot accounts.

This, combined with Elon's apparent lack of willingness to engage in a professional and appropriate manner (i.e. his willingness to publicly disparage Twitter during negotiations and closure, and to respond to what appear to be good-faith responses with childish responses like poop emojis) along with his past behaviour, suggest to me that a judge might find it difficult to believe that Elon entered into the purchase contract in good faith and instead might find it easier to believe that he was entering into the agreement in order to extract value from Twitter at Twitter's expense.

Im just waiting for the moment it becomes clear this is another Musk pump and dump.

> Like, who is the employee at the insurance company who takes that call, and how do they decide what's just too risky, when there can't be much historical data on risk?

I suspect that it is the underwriters, who are responsible for assessing risks and determining what constraints and requirements must be met to claim insurance. Their work can be highly mathematical and, other times, they will just look at the underwriting guidelines and say "No, we won't let you test a homemade parachute on a living human because your team are not professional parachute manufacturers with valid indemnity insurance we can mitigate our risk against."