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Short story set in a sci-fi universe @Miriam Snoyman and I have been imagining. Bitcoiners should find some hints at how this universe became so advanced. #bitcoin #scifi #fiction View article →

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There need to be congressional hearings on the mismanagement of forests in California. I doubt there would be any consequences for the perpetrators (primarily Gavin Newsom aka Patrick Bateman), but it’s worth a spectacle given all the damage they’ve done.

Many of us have understood for a while that over-regulation via groups like the FDA prevents us from getting healthy food and effective medication in many cases. Something I only realized recently: the reverse is true too! By claiming the title of "arbiters of safety," they are _also_ able to hoodwink the world into believing that potentially unsafe things are safe. Without a corrupted, agency-captured government department involved, the free market would ultimately decide whether various food additives are safe or not. In other words, the evils of centralized power were worse than I'd originally thought.

The most unbreakable thing is what’s already broken.

I can’t find my shoes. My house is not gigantic. Where could they have gone? #haiku

People often use phrases like "free from political meddling" or similar. It sounds great. After all, who likes politicians getting involved in stuff? If the outcome of getting rid of the politicians is "there's no government control," I'm all in favor of it. Instead, often this phrase is used when some unaccountable government bureaucracy now has control over our lives. As bad as politicians are, we at least have some tacit control over them via elections. The unelected bureaucrats have no accountability. So the next time you hear "free from politics," ask what _does_ control it.

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Modern “economics” believes that California wasting $100b on a train they’ll never finish is good for the economy because it created jobs. In reality, it was malinvestment that sucked up productive resources that could have been spent elsewhere to actually make peoples lives better. Ironically, the people who scream the most about the evils of money are the quickest to judge the merit of everything based on arbitrary monetary assessment instead of the actual impact on improving people’s lives.

I’ve determined that my three year old autistic son’s counting game this morning has O(n^2) complexity

Insightful and fair analysis of a complicated, controversial topic.

Half-formed thought, interested in feedback. The main debate of our current times is individualism vs collectivism. We see it in _many_ aspects of modern life and politics. Two obvious ones: Bitcoin vs fiat: people holding Bitcoin believe that we have a right for the purchasing power of our money to go up, not down, over time. It's a selfish (in the good way) approach. Fiat, by contrast, is about giving power of money printing to the central collective to take care of everyone. It's altruistic (in the worst way possible). Gun control: those wanting to hold guns want the ability to protect themselves, end of story. Those wanting gun control look at the (IMO totally made up) risks of widespread gun ownership and say that, even though an individual may be able to protect himself through personal gun ownership, society as a whole will be better if we all disarm. Does this paradigm work, and does it extend to other political and other disagreements out there today?

My brother got married last night!

Looks like I need stronger floor mats for my home gym. Deadlifts seem to have cracked the concrete under the mats, and now water is leaking in.

I read half a book on Modern Monetary Theory. I couldn’t stomach more. The basic premise was “since we print money as a nation, debt isn’t a problem because we can always print more money,” with some caveats about inflation as if it was a crazy extreme corner cases of money printing we’d have to try really hard to hit. The scariest thing about the book: if you grant the premises of Keynesian economics and the veracity of fiat currency, the conclusions make perfect sense. Just shows how absolutely insane the current monetary order is.

Money is the root of all good