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Also, people lie to themselves. Few people would probably want to see themselves as turning down a job simply because they already get enough from unemployment benefits.

Please don't!

Not a Nix user, but I spent some time trying to understand it. One thing that I wish I would have understood earlier is that "Nix Pills" is a decent, bottom-up Nix tutorial and pro…

Some would argue, of course, that inflation well above 2% has been with us for at least a decade if you don't measure by the biased CPI. I don't see how it helps the argument to br…

It's not obvious that Turing-complete smart contracts are a good long term decision. I agree that Ethereum is fascinating tech, but with great power comes a great many ways to shoo…

Care to share a link? I could only find this: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-D... ? That's already a couple month's old, though.

Given that Bitcoin has become quite liquid, there might also be ways to short it. But yes, governments doing it for political reasons would seem like the most obvious incentive.

Note to my future self: On top of the argument above, there is also the issue of "chaos" with complex systems. "Chaos" means that small perturbations to the initial state of a comp…

I believe that things like this are simply unknowable by any rational take because we're dealing with an extraordinary complex system. To make a statement like "These were the winn…

Actually, we'll never find out who the winners and losers of Brexit were.

Not convinced this is a good analogy. If we could have gone to the moon at a fraction of the cost, but people had still insisted on doing it the expensive way, just because the exp…

Give people tenure after their PhD and pay them a crappy salary that is guaranteed for the rest of their lives.