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No, I don’t. Even if it were possible to acquire that much land, and it isn’t, the land isn’t suitable for solar.

You are incorrect.

No, I’m not.

The supply of Bitcoin is 21 quadrillion satoshi. You are making an arbitrary distinction that an entire Bitcoin is some meaningful thing. I’m not doing a conversation. A Bitcoin is 100,000,000 satoshi. That is just a literal fact.

People want the supply of Bitcoin to be limited because their economic models depend on that false reality. If there is 21 quadrillion of something, it is not scarce. Wanting something to be scarce doesn’t make it scarce.

Ads. You pay with your attention.

What? No. You pay with your data. You pay with your privacy.

And the ads additionally destroy legitimate paid services. Ads have destroyed the entire internet economy, and brought upon a surveillance state.

This blog post is more detached from reality than the Q board on 8kun.

Have you looked at a map? I live in NY, and there is absolutely no place for such a massive solar farm.

The numbers I quoted were just for NYC, and they weren’t adjusted for the winter sunlight problem. To power the entire metro area would likely require 40,000 acres. To cover the entire region likely 60,000 acres. This land does not exist.

That’s an arbitrary, and pointless, distinction. 100,000,000 different people can own a single satoshi. What does it matter that each individual does not own the entire thing? The question is whether Bitcoin has enough supply, and there actually is no question because the supply is effectively infinite.

The scarcity argument is just factually wrong. Bitcoin is not scarce.

Each Bitcoin is 100,000,000 satoshi. So the actual max supply is 2,100,000,000,000,000.

It’s effectively infinite supply.

Opportunity cost is simple. It’s a calculation of what your money could have been doing if you put it to use doing something else. The easiest to estimate is the market opportunity cost.

If you spend $10,000 on a solar installation that is $10,000 you could have put in the market. After 15 years you saved $10,000 in electricity, and you’re supposedly profiting. However, that $10,000 investment would have grown to $24,000 at a modest 6%. So you’re actually still in the red, and you’ll likely never catch up and break even.

If you took out a loan it’s the opportunity cost on the payments. There is actually a theoretical break even here, but it’s not 15 years.

If you’re doing it for some altruistic reasons then it doesn’t matter. But if you’re making a payback calculation, you should do it properly. Opportunity cost is a real thing.

The opportunity cost for the cash you had to put down to install a solar array. Or the opportunity cost of the interest payments you’re making on a loan.

I’ve yet to see any renewable plan that could cover big northern cities.

Where are we going to build a solar farm to cover NYC, DC, and Philadelphia? There is 9 hours of daylight in the dead of winter, and it’s not exactly known for being sunny in January.

NYC alone needs 11,000 megawatt hours per day. My back of the envelope fermi estimate is a solar farm covering approximately 16,000 acres. Forget the metro area, that’s just for NYC. Probably double if you include the entire metro area.

You aren’t going to find that kind of land within 300 miles of NYC.

Probably because finance people know to not accept such obvious bribery.

I find that most of these payoff periods are generous on one side, but lax on the other. For example, does the payoff calculator include the opportunity costs? I doubt it, because it would likely be impossible to ever achieve break even.

They do. Actual diamonds have occlusions, slight color shifts, unique sparkle patterns, and other characteristics.

Grown diamonds are too perfect, and it’s trivially easy to tell the difference. You don’t need a loupe at all.

I don’t own any diamonds, but I like rocks and minerals. Hank from breaking bad would be proud.

Would you prefer that the USPS join the public pension crisis? It is not scandalous to force a public organization to fund their employee retirements. What is scandalous is the massive unfunded public pensions that are going to wallop the economy over the next 10-20 years.

Hoffman said he thinks DeJoy’s real goal is to erode public confidence in the government-controlled postal system in order to build support for privatizing it.

We don’t need to privatize. We need to get rid of it and switch to digital for everything except physical goods. Revamp USPS as a package delivery company, or just outright get rid of it and let the existing delivery companies handle it.

USPS has an $80 billion annual budget. Put that money to use investing in something that has more use in the future. We don’t need to invest more in spam delivery.

Good for hobby or personal projects, but not if you’re building something for work. Many of these “free” tiers are designed to vendor lock you before they walk you off a pricing cliff.

Take Auth0. Free for up to 7,000 user but then it jumps to about $250/month. Migrating from Auth0 is a pain. You should really only consider these “free” services if you think you’ll always be in the free tier, and if you’d use the service even if it wasn’t free.

Yes they are business decisions but they are also political.

No, they aren’t. You’re trying to make them political. This is entirely of your own doing.

Take housing. It’s too expensive! Many people would agree. We can talk about houses being expensive without someone detailing the conversation by injecting politics into it. It devolves into politics when you try to let other people know why YOU think housing is too expensive. You are the one injecting politics into conversation where it isn’t needed, and absolutely isn’t wanted.

If you want to talk about politics go get a Twitter account.

Hey guess what we're doing right now? We're discussing the issues of Crimea, Russia, and China... and we aren't getting political about it. Incredible. Maybe impossible?

If you are an international company you have to discuss these things

No, you don't. These are business discussions. You discuss the issue, not the politics behind it. You do it professionally because you are a professional adult making business decisions. You leave the politics of it for Twitter on your own free time.

It's delusional to think you can avoid personal politics completely in a business.

It's delusional and absurd to think that you need to bring politics into any discussion at work.

What happens if you want to discuss a disputed nation?

You don’t?

Banning politics is impossible because everything in life has some hand in politics.

Hard disagree. You can talk about how houses are too expensive right now without someone getting political about why. It’s simple. Just don’t get political.

I am sure many of these people will land on their feet, but I would absolutely not hire someone who quit their last position because they were told to stop talking about politics at work.

Is there any place where you can exist, in 2021, without having political viewpoints crammed down your throat?

Some people just want to work. If you want to change the world go do it outside of business hours.

Seems quite similar to Hasura. Looks neat.

Uber is the client, not the person the driver picks up. The drivers are contractors, and they contract to Uber (or Lyft, etc) to do some job, in this case driving some person to a destination.

Each requested ride is a new job. The contractor can choose to not take that job, for any number of reasons.

The fact that the job has a set rate is not abnormal at all. The fact that the client will “punish” you for not being available is also not abnormal at all.

Additionally, the contractors are able to work whenever they want, wherever they want, and for whichever companies they want.

The only real oddity here is that the contract work is dependent on the ride sharing companies. There should be an additional classification for dependent contractors. These drivers are definitely not employees, under any definition.

It’s more complicated than what you’re saying. The health care industry in the US is almost 15% of the GDP and employs about 10% of the workers. It is difficult to quickly fix this system without catastrophic economic consequences. Unfortunately, our political leaders are unable or unwilling to plan more than 2-4 years out.

To fix this system we would need a 10-15 year transition period, and it’s virtually impossible to make that happen. No single President could oversee the process from beginning to end, and Congress could change party control 6-8 times.

The reason we haven’t fixed this problem isn’t because we love corporations, but because no single political party is willing to commit suicide.

The Democrats talk a big game, but it’s pretty much all talk. Bernie Sanders home state of Vermont tried to implement a single payer system, and failed spectacularly. Vermont is a tiny state. Imagine the disaster it will be trying to pull the rug out from under the healthcare economy for the entire United States.

https://www.vox.com/2014/12/22/7427117/single-payer-vermont-...

Well you used to be able to buy decent catastrophic insurance to protect you from unlimited losses. ACA effectively killed that type of insurance.

They need to allow me to operate my own store, or I’m suing.

The average premium for a family is over $1,000. The average family deductible is around $7,000. The numbers I quoted are high overall, but people absolutely pay those amounts. This topic of conversation is edge cases, anyway. The average person paying average costs wouldn’t likely be interested in going cash for healthcare.

I am suing Epic because I am unable to sell cosmetic items in the Fortnite store. Epic has a monopoly on it, and doesn’t allow third parties to sell within their store. This needs to change.

Does that democracy include the right to not join the union?

If you’re not American, it’s difficult to understand.

However, insurance is an absolute scam in the US. You pay hundreds of dollars per month for the privilege of having to pay thousands of dollars before your insurance will start paying. For many families the monthly premiums could run over a thousand dollars, and the deductible could be $15,000.

…or you could get some cheap catastrophic insurance, and pay cash for everything else. The cash price is generally less than half of the insurance price.

Many people have done the math and concluded that they don’t need insurance.

Android has an 87% market share. I don’t really care what the minority players are up to.

Bluetooth contact tracing had absolutely no chance of ever working.

15% of adults don’t own a smartphone.

47% of children don’t own a smartphone.

Of the 85% of adults who own a smartphone, 20% don’t carry it with them.

At absolute best 50-60% of Americans would be walking around with a contact tracing app. And that is if it was forcibly installed, and forcibly enabled.

The tracing is pointless even before we get into the technical flaws.

When you’re indoors, 6 feet is irrelevant. The air is circulating.

Bluetooth signals penetrate walls and glass.

The end of all this is a system that absolutely no one would trust on the positive or negative. Seriously think about whether you would consider an “all green” to unequivocally mean you were safe. Or that a “red alert” was actually cause for concern.

This has absolutely no chance at working. And despite what you’re saying about privacy, it is the mere existence of a tool like this that is alarming. It’s baked into the operating system, with no visibility into how it might be used in the future.