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Why do people need to be on guard for those beliefs? People should be critical thinkers and not thought police.

Granted, there are all kinds of whackos in crypto, but we should only be concerned about the immoral ones trying to scam us out of our money: SBF, Do-Kwon, and the like.

What makes the “b-word” dirty?

Sure, let's go!

Odds are they lost access because they didn't treat it as something really valuable. A good idea is to learn how to safely store and backup your keys (plural). If you allow others to hold your bitcoin, particularly a large one that could easily be nationalized, you're playing with fire.

Why is collective bargaining power a concern of the FTC? I would have thought that bargaining power would have increased with a merger (despite being smaller overall with layoffs).

Perhaps people should get off these me-too-coin casinos and just self-custody their bitcoin if they are serious about saving.

Sadomasochism is alive an well.

Definitely enjoying that irony, although the smart home products came first for me.

Re. #2, I like the peace of mind that I haven't left lights on when I head out of town and also the security benefit of programming them to periodically turn on.

Also, if you only have a single switch to flip, then I envy you.

  "Charter contended the $600 figure was inaccurate, arguing that its Spectrum TV Select service in Los Angeles only cost around $219 a year more than Google's YouTube TV service," according to a MediaPost article in August.

I always thought Select was considerably less than $73/mo, but just going to their site, I see that it's $59.99/mo (for 12 mos). So I guess it's jacked up after that first year.

I would have settled for "$600 less than most cable"

How was that even “remotely regarding…”?

Seems back up. I'd love to get a deep-dive into some of the recent outages and some reassurance that they're committed to stability over new features.

I talked to a CS person a couple months ago and they pretty much blamed the lack of stability on all the custom work they do for large customers. There's a TON of tech debt as a result basically.

Gensler explicitly stated that BTC was a commodity about a year ago: https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/22/06/278669...

I'd give some benefit of the doubt like perhaps it was taken out of context, but... "bro"!? roflmao at the brazenness

WTF? That's incredibly sad. Suddenly I'm interested in DVDs again.

I don't know who said it first, but it was something to the effect "the Fed will raise rates until they break something."

The rapid move away from ZIRP might be the real culprit here.

The investors sure don't. But I'm not sure how failing to provide a backstop for deposits would help anything here other than the big four.

FDIC insurance doesn't make sense to me for businesses. If a startup receives $25M of investment, are they supposed to split it up over 100 banks?

Let's hope (for all our sake) your work continues for a loooong time, fun and not-so-fun.

Until we all can self-bank!

I don't know who Brad Hargreaves is (or if his area of expertise makes him qualified to opine) but his previous tweet is interesting:

> CEOs yesterday faced a hard choice: Pull your deposits and go into default on your venture debt or risk losing everything if the bank failed. Many chose to hold tight as SVB's outright failure seemed outlandish.

well.. you didn't give me much to go on:

> It's because we don't want borderless payments. That's why nations set up borders in the first place.

So, let me get this straight, your nation should have zero influence/dependence on anything outside of its borders?

There are probably at least 20 stereotypes/organizations objectively more dangerous than "crazy MAGA freak with a gun", but congratulations, you've contributed to political divisiveness on a tech-oriented forum!

I'm inclined to agree, but can you please clarify "a lot less than one billion"?

> FSD reliably and repeatedly tries to stop at green lights on a 50 mph road near me

I believe that's a "feature". I had it on a loaner too and it wants you to give it permission to cross the intersection by pressing down on the drive stalk or briefly press the accelerator pedal.

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/en_eu/GUID-A701F7D...

> "you have a vote to force others to comply to the majority"

is less terrifying to you?

That's largely because academia favors central planning and doesn't trust those without a graduate degree to make socially optimal choices. They want to be the planners the masses depend on and Mises tried to show that desire was problematic from a first-principles, liberty-oriented perspective.

What's really laughable is that academia thinks its policy prescriptions play no role in the ongoing economic mismanagement despite all evidence to the contrary and the predictions of the Austrian school. Your need to smear the name of Mises with unrelated controversies is also very telling. Why not let the theories speak for themselves?

Targets to ban internal combustion engines will put an enormous strain on battery costs. Someone mentioned "massive pumped storage" but there's hardly any water where you'd want to build solar plants.

Industry and even the modest of living standards depends on energy density & reliability. So there's really no way to get completely off of fossil fuels without nuclear or literally starving people. That's your choice.

If Fukushima wasn't an outlier, then I wouldn't want to live anywhere close to a traditional reactor. Yet accident statistics & population trends don't really support that conclusion.

I highly recommend YouTube Comment Search[1]. I just searched for "hike" and got three Putin Price Hike quips from Psaki (yesterday's brief).

The masses are being programmed to look away from monetary policy. The last time an invasion caused oil prices to soar, we didn't get 8.5% inflation!

1. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ycs-youtube-commen...

edit: my search was on yesterday's press briefing

> Nobody owes another country trade. ...not the rest of the world for wanting to avoid trading with a warmonger.

You're conflating decent people with their indecent governments. There are plenty of decent people who would gladly trade with decent people of countries we sanction, but we not only punish the entire country, we punish ourselves in the form of higher prices. Those prices ripple through the economy and we all get less.

Virtually everyone loses here, but we're supposed to take solace that the "other side" suffers more. That is pure 1984-level insanity.

This is about as close as you can get to the government suing itself.

Turbotax is the dominant player in an industry created by the government. Tax prep fees are just another tax.

Blow away by the different tech demo'd here. It reminded me of "The Mother of All Demos" by Douglas Engelbart