That a very significant part of the human population could, at any point (!), decide to switch to crypto as its currency. A currency that gives 1 million coin to each living human and says go and prosper. Could this…
I apologize, but it's clear to me from your pointed responses that you have no idea what you're talking about.
Yes. These are called common law marriages. 7 states have them. https://www.ncsl.org/research/human-services/common-law-marr...
Get married. Doesn't work out? Divorced. Buried in debt for a decade or more, house gone, credit ruined, alimony indefinitely, child support forever, visitation up to a court. As a function of bad credit, impossible to…
We compete when we should cooperate.
This is at least partially biological. We are competitive because our survival depends on it, and deception is of utmost value in a competitive environment. See all of Capitalism, for example.
I spent three months in the Deschutes National Forest this summer, drought conditions throughout. I watched everyday as honeybees and yellow jackets happily shared a pan of water I'd leave out for them. The third guest…
Dilbert lives! All hail the Regal Dilbert!
It's that I can see the future for a few seconds that bothers me most. Not the “I've been here before” but the “I've been here before and I know what happens next” and that exact thing happens. It's that few seconds of…
The major concern is what if government-funded industry such as this succeeds, thereby encouraging more of it, the slippery slope to state capitalism and then Marx. The term escapes me, but it's some sort of neoliberal…
And there's a lot to being an Everyman. It's not a life lived unwell, or it doesn't have to be. One could well argue that unwellness is a function of doing. Read I. Berlin’s In Defense of Idleness.
It takes me a couple hours to watch a movie, a couple days to read a book. I can re-watch the movie or re-read the book, and enjoy them again even though I already have. The plots won't change; they are predetermined;…
We malign China's social credit system, but the same systems exists in America, only worse. We have “credit systems” for everything: financial, criminal, employment, race, sex, social, etc. These systems forget nothing,…
You don't have to do anything. You don't have to be anyone. You don't have to go anywhere. Life is not going to stop because you don't do something with your life. What are the 100 trillion lifeforms on earth, 8 billion…
And once you become accustomed to your imperfect pillow, no other will do!
That's when you bill them $500/hr for your services out of retirement.
re: survival in 50s. Only if you are by then successful. If not, your career will stall late 30s when you realize tech is age-bound, however immoral or illegal. They absolutely will hire 2 inexperienced college grads…
The thing with small businesses is that it's all-consuming. If you think you can squeeze work-life balance out of a business, then you are borderline delusional. The (false) freedom, (unstable flow of) money, and (faux)…
Or some country has started a war.
Is that you, Andrew Bosworth, you almost-CTO, you Borg?
This mortal sin: I named all of my servers after Wagnerian operas without realizing that might be a problem on a team composed almost entirely of Jews, Wagner being prime anti-Semite. It started simply, with “Good…
Wouldn't a poison pill to Taiwan’s semiconductor industry deter mainland China indefinitely? You invade us, we'll torch every fab on our island. Simple and borderline stupid and illustrative of my own ignorance, no…
You may not want creativity. You can't turn it off. Also, the world needs people like you far more than people like me. I might move the world forward tomorrow because I create x or b or zx or d, we shall see, won't we?…
I did. Too much bud threw my grammar aside. Corrected.
Those “Congratulations to Drugs for Winning the War on Drugs” bumper stickers must really bite if you're a DEA agent.
That a very significant part of the human population could, at any point (!), decide to switch to crypto as its currency. A currency that gives 1 million coin to each living human and says go and prosper. Could this…
I apologize, but it's clear to me from your pointed responses that you have no idea what you're talking about.
Yes. These are called common law marriages. 7 states have them. https://www.ncsl.org/research/human-services/common-law-marr...
Get married. Doesn't work out? Divorced. Buried in debt for a decade or more, house gone, credit ruined, alimony indefinitely, child support forever, visitation up to a court. As a function of bad credit, impossible to…
We compete when we should cooperate.
This is at least partially biological. We are competitive because our survival depends on it, and deception is of utmost value in a competitive environment. See all of Capitalism, for example.
I spent three months in the Deschutes National Forest this summer, drought conditions throughout. I watched everyday as honeybees and yellow jackets happily shared a pan of water I'd leave out for them. The third guest…
Dilbert lives! All hail the Regal Dilbert!
It's that I can see the future for a few seconds that bothers me most. Not the “I've been here before” but the “I've been here before and I know what happens next” and that exact thing happens. It's that few seconds of…
The major concern is what if government-funded industry such as this succeeds, thereby encouraging more of it, the slippery slope to state capitalism and then Marx. The term escapes me, but it's some sort of neoliberal…
And there's a lot to being an Everyman. It's not a life lived unwell, or it doesn't have to be. One could well argue that unwellness is a function of doing. Read I. Berlin’s In Defense of Idleness.
It takes me a couple hours to watch a movie, a couple days to read a book. I can re-watch the movie or re-read the book, and enjoy them again even though I already have. The plots won't change; they are predetermined;…
We malign China's social credit system, but the same systems exists in America, only worse. We have “credit systems” for everything: financial, criminal, employment, race, sex, social, etc. These systems forget nothing,…
You don't have to do anything. You don't have to be anyone. You don't have to go anywhere. Life is not going to stop because you don't do something with your life. What are the 100 trillion lifeforms on earth, 8 billion…
And once you become accustomed to your imperfect pillow, no other will do!
That's when you bill them $500/hr for your services out of retirement.
re: survival in 50s. Only if you are by then successful. If not, your career will stall late 30s when you realize tech is age-bound, however immoral or illegal. They absolutely will hire 2 inexperienced college grads…
The thing with small businesses is that it's all-consuming. If you think you can squeeze work-life balance out of a business, then you are borderline delusional. The (false) freedom, (unstable flow of) money, and (faux)…
Or some country has started a war.
Is that you, Andrew Bosworth, you almost-CTO, you Borg?
This mortal sin: I named all of my servers after Wagnerian operas without realizing that might be a problem on a team composed almost entirely of Jews, Wagner being prime anti-Semite. It started simply, with “Good…
Wouldn't a poison pill to Taiwan’s semiconductor industry deter mainland China indefinitely? You invade us, we'll torch every fab on our island. Simple and borderline stupid and illustrative of my own ignorance, no…
You may not want creativity. You can't turn it off. Also, the world needs people like you far more than people like me. I might move the world forward tomorrow because I create x or b or zx or d, we shall see, won't we?…
I did. Too much bud threw my grammar aside. Corrected.
Those “Congratulations to Drugs for Winning the War on Drugs” bumper stickers must really bite if you're a DEA agent.