Are videos not working for anyone else on #amethyst ? Like it starts then restarts, no sound sometimes, never plays to the end

Could someone please explain why consumer spending counts as GDP? Goodharts law?

As my father would say, The first rule of #garlic Start with too much and then go from there.

> Securities laws were specifically designed to protect individual investors, based on the idea that they “can’t fend for themselves,” James Carlson, a New York University adjunct securities regulation professor, told me today. By the same token ... “big institutional investors don’t need the protections of the securities laws. … This effectively stands that philosophy on its head,” he said. > > The implications of this part of the ruling are worrisome. As Carlson said, “The potential for bucket shop or boiler room fraud … is alarming.” Carlson painted a scenario where a crypto firm issues tokens to heavyweight institutional traders, who get detailed disclosures required by securities laws, but they then flip it to individual traders, who don’t get those disclosures. >

That is: If you go around making public statements, on your website and on Reddit and elsewhere, saying things like “if you buy our token we will use the money to build an ecosystem and make the token more valuable,” that makes your token a security, but only to people who are sophisticated enough to read your website. Sophisticated institutional investors who read your disclosure documents and understand that they are making an investment in your business are entitled to the protections of the securities laws, while random retail day-traders who just like your ticker symbol are not. You cannot be doing securities fraud on them, because they are not paying attention.

Pineapple and jalapeños is a good pizza topping.