Elections are like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
Johnathan Corgan
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🎶 Older now, but still running against the wind 🎶
Scientist, engineer, consultant, pilot. Slinger of bits and reducer of gradients.
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Close enough.
I'm getting about one Lyn Alden a day following me--she must really like me!
GM ☕
Only the paranoid survive, the rest are ngmi.
My public prediction:
By 2030, the USD will have ceased to be a reserve currency except among some subset of US trading partners, and hyperinflation will then be in full force.
There is no longer anyone running the train, only thugs looting its cargo and jumping off before it derails, leaving everyone else holding the bags.
And there is nobody coming to save you.
The ability of MS copilot/GPT to analyze, fix, or write new Rust code is pretty mind blowing.
I'm not a Rust expert, but I'm getting close to being an expert Rust prompt engineer 😆
GM ☕
Hey, it could happen...
We're so back
I've lived in the same place for the last 30 years. And in those decades I have visited dozens of countries both for business and for fun. The comfort and familiarity of home is always nice to return to, yet I constantly seek out opportunities to visit unique destinations.
The most important thing I've learned from interacting with people from cultures different from my own is that sometimes those differences matter, very much so, but most often they do not.
It is the humanity we all have in common that matters the most.
Unless it fell out of the sky into your open hands, every good you value in life is the result of the efforts of some other person or group of persons collaborating to produce it from where it did not exist before, and has been offered to you in trade for some other thing of value.
It is this way that people can come together, voluntarily, to produce abundance greater than the sum of their individual abilities.
To claim you are *entitled* to the product of the labor of anyone else is to claim he or she is your slave, and you must act with deception or force to take what is not offered to you.
The difference between wealth and poverty in a society largely depends on the willingness of people to respect these boundaries, to learn how to collaborate and build, and to peacefully go separate ways when this is not possible.