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I would have framed it as "buyer who can get the most leverage from it", which equates to being able to spend more. It's an economic argument, not a values argument.

In 2003, RFC 3629 removed all 5 and 6 byte encodings, effectively limiting it to 4-bytes. Of course it could be expanded at any time, but that would be a significant change to esta…

You really want to measure life expectancy for people entering working age to avoid measuring infant mortality. Those numbers sound like they don't take that into account.

The point of his blog is to demonstrate how to make the realm of FU money easier to achieve. His major claim is that, since he owns his house and has chosen a relatively low-cost r…

Because there are so many companies willing to provide comparable service that supply is nearly infinite. That offsets any feeling of what it's actually worth in productivity.