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Just FYI based on your comment you might not be aware but just on ads D's outspent the R's 4.5 billion to 3.5 billion ( https://www.axios.com/2024/10/31/democrats-republicans-ad-sp…

Is a place really beautiful if no one ever gets to see it?

You are saying he "clearly had nothing to do with" a company he founded, funded, and has been CEO, CTO, and chief engineer. What do you think the word "nothing" means?

Okay read Walter Isaacson and Vances biography and get back to me. There is hundreds of examples in each. Or read this thread that has a few snippets from the book. https://www.red…

Just to be clear, you're saying that Shotwell has contributed more to SpaceX than Elon? What about, without Elon they'd have reusable rockets but without Shotwell they wouldn't? Do…

A senior editor just admitted they are biased. You can try and guess my politics (you'd be wrong), but I can guess that you don't think journalists who agree with your politics can…

> I have sympathy for the journalists actually doing journalism You know that with Substack all these actual journalists are having no issue getting paid very well. I'm not sure wh…

I'd buy that.

I see it less as an alliance and more like a shift. Being pro freedom of speech and the freedom of computing you are pushed out of the left. You can say they aren't the actual left…

Don't you think if we turned USPS into this it would be a another billions of dollars a year waste for taxpayers? Do we really need to be subsidizing drop shippers? > Amazon is not…

Yah. If students loans are so evil that they must all be forgiven, shouldn't we stop the creation of new student loans first? Plus its not like admission prices will just stay in p…

Good dialogue so far but you've lost me with this. When I buy a big vault, extra door locks, a pitbull, and a gun to protect the gold I store at home to go full gold buggery, am I …

Gold and crypto are already taxed the same and on the same level (capital gains). Go ahead and regulate fraud how is crypto packets flowing preventing you? The blockchain is more o…

Well sorry but you confused me as my main issue was with USD and I believed you thought that USD had "not all that much of consequence" happening to its value. But it seems we are …

Well I mean the recent bank failures showed the issue with treasuries, but sure it seems we agree more than disagree. You agree that holding USD is failure for long term value or e…

https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm From Jan 2019 to now we've had 17.4% inflation. Your purchasing power of the money in your bank account has been reduced. How have…

IMO you just found another area where Sturgeon's Law applies ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law ).

Yes exactly, on gold standard they would default, now they inflate. The US can issue debt in USD and even print 1 trillion USD coins. But what happens to the value of the currency …

No legal use case? Really? Honest question are you legitimately excited for FedNow? What problem will it solve? What does FedNow have to do with cryptos downfall? Does FedNow fix o…

I'm not following you. Are you saying we implement this alternative by removing income tax and replacing it with consumption tax, that corporations will run everything and only sha…

I have a hard time combining this sentiment with my lived experience in California.

The national consumption tax. It says in the first sentence...

I'm sorry I'm not following you. Are you saying that what the US has now is well-functioning social institutions with mutual accountability? Since they oppose this by trying to pul…

The reason is because your government is reasonably well behaved. You can think of crypto as a hedge against bad government behavior. So in your case, you aren't a target customer.…

I want a co-op RTS and FPS/TP game. Imagine one player is playing a game like Total War Three Kingdoms, and on the same team your friends are playing something like Dynasty Warrior…