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Really depends on where you live. I find it's much better in bigger cities. Universities will have commercial-free stations. Also, more competition for the larger listener markets.

Also, I don't think LLMs have invented a way to make our applications maintenance-free. At some point outages become very costly, and a 24/7 support schedule for 1 dev is going to have trouble scaling. When production is down, we generally don't have some frontline staff vibecode it back up.

I would have considered this article as overly grandiose a year ago. Part of me wonders if there is some possibility that this is becoming a more prevalent thinking. Even if bitcoin crashes to $0.01 USD, it still has some usefulness as a way to transfer value (Western Union's market cap: $2.77 billion). If the mighty dollar eventually falls out of favor, is the volatility enough to drive people away? Can it become a collective delusion to rival gold? For the near and medium term, I think giz user 'curry for breakfast' had a relevant comment:

"Money? No, not money, just dollars, and specifically dollars because that's all that are at stake here.

The bitcoin bubble could burst tomorrow and the rest of the world, and their currencies, which are backed by their nation's economies, will trundle on as happily as they've always done.

The only real losers would be the unlucky crypto gamblers. Wrong bet, wrong time. "

If this were a goal, the USA would not want to push other countries into China's sphere of influence. The simpler explanation is that non-tariff taxes require congress and are not fully under control of the executive branch. This allows the executive branch to seize the power of the purse.

With respect, your statement about ECT is not aligned with reality. ECT is evidence-based and effective, with side effects that are less pronounced in many cases than drug-based therapies. It is approved for use in pregnant patients in the USA. One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest is not peer-reviewed.

Seems like a lot of folks here and at spotify do, as do we at my gig. Where do you keep your feature flags? Do you have to perform a reset to update them or do you cache them for X minutes?

I think there's still a market for slide-out keyboards on devices. They felt a bit janky in the 00's but I would still be first in line for the next android (or even ios, unlikely) device with such a feature. In high school I could send texts without having to look away from my counter-strike games.