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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 …

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…

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, …

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…

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 t…

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 escape…

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 Def…

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 …

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, soc…

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…

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 wil…

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) freedo…