blueterminal

You must pay taxes in USD. BTC and USD are really not comparable.

Millions of developers, millions of apps used by billions of people. It's quite a challenge to have it perfectly run. Mistakes are unavoidable.

Abolish antitrust laws. It does nothing but create monopolies.

Milton Friedman on Anti-Trust and Tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlwxdyLnMXM

As a dev: all of their products I've worked with are superb (made me even buy some shares of theirs because of that).

I work mostly with Django at my work. I still choose Lumen / Laravel for my personal projects. Both Django and Laravel are amazing but I'm still more effective with Laravel. It has way more functionality out of the box.

I wonder whether we'll ever get Assange to give an interview? Him on Joe Rogan would be amazing. Of course that will never happen.

Unions are absolutely detrimental to the society. Thank god we'll never have one for Software Engineers.

Great short explanation from Milton Friedman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzYgiOC9cj4

Why should they? You're using a free (and honestly, amazing) service, and you agreed to the terms and conditions. Don't like it - don't use it.

Maybe with 3 or 4 full generations of nothing but hard work and luck you might make it up from working to middle class. Maybe.

This is a ridiculous over-exaggeration in the age of internet.

I don't need to worry about many many trivial things I had to worry about before these tools, and now I can actually work on the problem I'm trying to solve almost immediately.

I completely agree. Docker, amazing frameworks (Laravel, Django, ReactJS etc.), git, CI, amazing IDEs, etc. It's absolutely magical compared to what we had 15 years ago. Entry level is much higher though for sure, you definitely need to learn and know a lot. But once you do know certain things at a certain level, you become a very powerful individual.

Water with a little bit of salt solved this for me. But I am not a doctor so I don't know how good or bad it is.

However I enjoy VR too much

What do you do with it? I remember trying it out like 2 years ago and didn't find it that engaging / useful / interesting that I would want one at home.

Stop people from laying out the traps, and saying it is not really fine. Guess that means regulation and enforcement thereof.

What kind of regulations would you impose? Any specifics?

Some basic rules and regulations would be great :)

Any specific ones? I personally can't think of any at all that would work.

One way of promoting personal responsibility is to make people aware of a problem.

Totally agree. Movies like these or like "That Sugar Film" are extremely important.

That being said, I believe that social responsibility also has to play a role. If companies were simply interested in making a product appealing, they would look at how well it is received. When companies start employing psychology, there is a strong possibility that they are doing so to override people's judgment (thus their ability to take personal responsibility).

They are going to inevitably do that, and that's what we should expect them to do. I don't think there are any solutions to that except building some new services / protocols.

How would you try to help an alcoholic? Would you tell him that it's alcohol producers' who is at fault? Or would you tell him to try and get help? Why would an advice be different for over-consumption of social media, coke, big macs, tv shows, casinos etc.?

What do you propose to solve this problem besides teaching others to take personal responsibility?

These apps are absolutely addictive because they were explicitly and intentionally designed to be.

Same goes with fast food, TV shows etc. It's your responsibility to not over-consume anything; and if you have children, teach them to not do that as well. The problem is not with FB, Google etc. The problem (which is over-consumption of everything) is cultural. Blaming some specific corporations is easy but it won't lead to any positive solutions. We desperately need stoicism in the west.

What under UBI is preventing me from quitting my job and spending the rest of my life playing videogames?

You wouldn't quit your job. You would continue working. Like most people would. Why? Because if you didn't work, someone else would, and they would get way ahead of you. From my point of view, UBI would do nothing but cause inflation (at least for now anyway, story will change once lots of people have no skills that are needed in the job market).

It is a great idea but seemingly impossible to implement successfully. Has it ever been successful?

Prices shouldn't rise because more people can afford to buy something.

Of course they should, and they would. It's really econ 101. More demand = higher prices. Why wouldn't it?

If you were selling apples for $1/kg, and you have it sold daily very rapidly, wouldn't you try to make $1.1/kg? $1.2/kg? $2/kg? Until you can't sell everything you produce, or, more precisely, until you can't make more profit.

Yes, but only for the poorest. And I think only they need it.

There are 209,128,094 people over 18 in US. Let's assume $1,000/month UBI. It would mean we need to get $209128094000 (~ $210B) a month ($2.5T a year) from somewhere.

Where would we get it from? Are there any extensive papers explaining it? I'm super curious.

Wouldn't nationwide UBI just make everything more expensive? Most people who work will continue to work, most people who don't, won't. More money in circulation = higher prices.

If you care about poor people, why not just try to fix welfare with e.g. Negative Income Tax proposed by Milton Friedman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax)?

Just stick to something for a few months without exceptions and it'll become who you are.

This is a super interesting take. Are there studies / clinical definitions of this or something similar?

One example: fit people made fun of because they are fit. The message that everyone is beautiful the way they are and that there's no need for further improvement is detrimental to the society.

That is why somehow decentralized applications have to be better than centralized ones.

When people lose their jobs if they make fun or just question certain group's behavior, what would you call it?