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I remember going to Disney Epcot Center as a kid and it showed how we would be living on the ocean floor by the year 2000. That is what I consider wild.

If you told me as a kid that I will go my whole life without owning a robot and that the main difference is we will replace a rotary phone with a hand held phone I would want my money back.

I guess poor Christa McAuliffe has been totally forgot about also.

Wages and prices are relative and there is always going to be groups of people at the bottom that are not going to have capital to invest.

So what? What is your point? There is no way around this fact. Of course this does not apply to them but so what? You must think this can somehow not be the case to even mention it.

Of course you are not going to get to financial freedom making the lowest wage possible? So what?

New study finds people that read more tend to own more books than those who do not read as much.

Sounds almost exactly like the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known as Jonestown.

What could possibly go wrong?

I use to rollerblade in the 90s. I never heard of this at the time I couldn't have possibly cared less if I had.

IMO the problem is I rollerbladed for 3 years and I never learned to stop properly. I basically had to fall on grass or cruise. IMO it died because it wasn't a good hobby for the average person. A skateboard doesn't have a speed problem like rollerblades. A bike has nice easy breaking system.

It was a giant 90s fad that was not a good idea for the average person. I loved them and wouldn't even consider getting a pair now based on the almost certainty of taking a massive spill.

The article talking about Tether: "don’t be surprised when the Federal Reserve comes to its rescue."

This is completely delusional. As if the Fed is going to hold Tether on its balance sheet to stabilize the price in some crisis event? The lack of correlation with the broader markets is because of all these crypto Three-card Monte games happening that make the space seem much larger than it is. "500 billion" gets shaved off the "market cap" and the broader markets don't even notice.

I mean surely they know this was coming?

Their marketing was starting to get to me as far as being the privacy company. I was really considering buying my first iphone. They had to know they were throwing all that marketing/effort down the drain.

There is no way they are going back on this. They will just wait out the collective short term memory to move on to something else. In a year this will just be normal. In 5 years all the other things that have been added to scan for will also just be normal.

For me, I am old and just accept we will live in an ever growing dystopian surveillance state. I am so grateful I was able to live my youth the way it was. If you are young? Yea, I have no answers.

May you live in interesting times? At least we have that going for us.

In the US at least though I believe zoning is the issue.

Our zoning laws are so bad and it is so hard to add to supply that no one really bothers much.

There are all kinds of dislocations in the market because what you should see right now is massive amounts of home building but you do not. 15 minutes away from me there is a ton of open land that could practically be built into a entire new town. I would imagine the larger the project the more bullshit you have to deal with when it comes to permits, zoning, political pushback, palms that need grease.

If you compare the work, risk/reward to alternative investments like just holding the stock market index it becomes a bad investment so it doesn't get made.

We have all these self reinforcing distortions happening in the market that probably can't be fixed.

Greedy? Not me. Always the other guy that is greedy.

The irony is there is such high probability with posting on this board you are part of the top 1% of the globe when it comes to wealth.

Spot on. I believe Yuval Noah Harari's Homo Deus has a section on lawns.

I am fully vaccinated and will get a booster as soon as offered but even I am so sick of people preaching about this.

You do your part individually and that is the best you can do. All you are doing when you post something like this is causing a visceral reaction in the people that need to get vaccinated of "fuck you internet guy, I am not listening to you, I am not getting vaccinate!"

The people I know that are not vaccinated are this exactly. They are so pig headed that if you preach at them they will dig in their heals and do the opposite almost automatically. We need people to just shut up about this already and dial everything back so it is not some admission of defeat for pig headed people who haven't got the vaccine to actually do so.

I am a life long lover of philosophy but the idea of spending $50k+ on a philosophy degree is utterly ridiculous to me.

You have your whole life to read, study and think about philosophy. It is easy, it is enjoyable, all the material is readily available.

I would almost view having a fresh recent philosophy degree as a huge negative in the 2020s. I would not hire someone with a recent philosophy degree almost point blank because IMO your decision making is highly suspect.

In the words of Neil Postman "What problem is this technology trying to solve??"

I just don't get it. How much easier do you need it to be than to hand someone an ID card?

The trade offs being made here for the ever slightest convenience make absolute no sense to me.

It is this weird technological addiction to novelty even when there is basically no value or even difference. The only gain is that it is new and novel.

Not me. To me, what this article is describing is just poor mental health.

On the other hand, I grew up in a nice middle class family but a family that was basically trivial to do better than.

Maybe things would be different if I had a chip on my shoulder from growing up dirt poor or a chip on my shoulder from an ultra successful parent that is almost impossible to live up to.

I have been going into the office when I could work remote.

I don't feel like it is a motivation thing. I was just sick of being home all the time.

I think many people on my team are not doing well mental health wise from being at home so much.

The most miserable people I know are a few software engineers that have been working remote for years making great money. One guy I know works at night because he can. Sleeps to 2pm. Basically, never leaves the house for anything. Seems unable to connect though that being a total shut in is why he is not happy even though he is killing it objectively. Practically hiding from the world in a nice house.

What has been good for my mental health is getting up and actually having to get dressed in the morning. Actually have to get out of the house at a specific time. Seeing people at the office in person. Saying good morning to the security people. Using a fitbit my friend noticed that by 10am they had already done the equivalent of a 20 min walk step wise just going to the office. At home, basically nothing. If you work at home you practically have to do a 90 min walk a day to get enough steps in. Good luck as your conditioning gets worse and worse trying to be happy.

I mean really? In 1955 people were worried about a literal nuclear apocalypse.

Of course health care was much cheaper when the doctor basically had no health care to give.

A medicine man 2000 years ago was even cheaper, practically free.

ahh was hoping for a launch date but now early December has been mentioned.

Come on.

I also suspect we forget how in the "good ol days" that you would go into a department store and they wouldn't have your size even before the internet and cheap goods.

I absolutely remember this with sneakers a few times. Oops, sorry that size is out of stock. Go to a different store, oops sorry that size is out of stock. Could go to 3 different locations and still come home empty handed.

To believe department stores use to always have every size is simply not reality IMO.

It also went too far though as well.

I remember I stopped shopping at Circuit City because you couldn't walk 10 feet without someone asking you if you need help finding something. If you wanted to browse the CDs you would have to tell 3 people you didn't need any help and were just browsing. Walk to a different section, "no thanks I don't need help, just looking."

It was an utterly ridiculous shopping experience.

Because the people that run banks are morons.

It is exactly the same thing. It has nothing to do with productivity. It is a test for membership in a club.

I am an American but I completely resonate with Confucian values when it comes to work and learning.

The most insulting thing to me would be to be called lazy. I can see as a society with that many people though this would naturally go too far.

In the West, we are not lazy but delusional as a society. We are the boxing champion that has quit hard training because they think they can't be beat. This is pretty natural after being the champ for so long. We don't need to train, we can just party and still win. That works until the younger talented hungry competitor comes along and you get knocked out. A tale as old as boxing, a tale as old as human history.

I would think they will become more productive. I love working hard but working hours have dependency when it comes to being unproductive.

That many hours is just hard work signaling or some kind of test of commitment.

Working that many hours is ultimately a cortisol problem that only less work can solve. This is obviously sub-optimal.

Anything China ever seems to do is rather smart and reasoned so I assume they have just figured out this makes no sense and will lead to an increase in productivity.

I bought a usb adapter with the penguin on it. I don't even know what it is called.

That was 5 years ago and I never looked back. I think that adapter is the secret key. Once you have that it doesn't make sense why you wouldn't use KDE Plasma.

I literally only know LS MKDIR and then conda commands. I don't know what any folder does outside of /home. I don't care about these things. Everything has always just worked and if something breaks I can reinstall in about 10 minutes.

The experience people describe on here is what I remember in 1999 when I spent a week trying to get my soundcard to work and gave up.

I can't agree with that from a personal level. I have used KDE Plasma for a few years now and I really don't care much at all about software freedom.

It is ultimately just way better than Windows. Windows 10 is just an embarrassment.

Congrats. It looks decent. My biggest knock though is "freeoptionscreener"

If you didn't post it here I would never click on something called "freeoptionscreener" . I would just associate it with all the junk/border line scams that infest the world of retail trading, especially retail options trading.

I would also say that I expect to pay something for quality in this space. Even if free I wouldn't mention it. It has a discount sushi feel.