morgoo

You're actually using Strong as an example? It's practically abandonware nowadays!

One of the earliest lines in the article:

I believe subscriptions for mobile apps are the best thing that has ever happened for both indie developers and iPhone users.

The article isn't extolling the virtue of paying for a utility!

You used a lot of words to defend a strawman argument

But if you make 10 $40m movies and 2 of them make $300m you've spent less for more revenue and a lot more profit, and that's assuming the other 8 make exactly $0

I'm a huge fan of lazygit

I found that entire section amusing. Some choice quotes:

So does Bitcoin. A Bitcoin user has two keys: a public key, from which an address is derived that acts as a digital safe deposit box; and a private key, which is the secret combination used to unlock that box and spend the coins it contains.

How interesting, I thought, that Mr. Back’s grad-school hobby involved the same cryptographic technique that Satoshi had repurposed.

And Mr. Back’s thesis project focused on C++ — the same programming language Satoshi used to code the first version of the Bitcoin software.

public key encryption and c++! It must be him.

We're 2 1/2 years away from the next election...

I'd assume that medical graduates are earning a lot more than €40k

Ukraine gave up their nukes due to American assurances as to Ukraine's defence.

Peter Thiel is mentioned by name in the footnotes and I'd assume Paul Graham thinks relatively highly of him.

Quantum computing isn't a serious threat. Would require a concentrated effort from the community to migrate to a quantum-proof hashing algorithm but there's no greater motivation than potentially losing it all.

And why are/were they used as currency?

Just don't think about the long term economic effects of rent-seeking

Now you need to look into the "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel" - Economics wasn't part of Nobel's original endowment so the Swedish Central bank funded it in the 60s.

I'm just going to add a recommendation for the book 'Technofeudalism' by Yanis Varoufakis. The short version is that the current cloud economy is similar to serfs working under a feudal lord.

https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/

CX23 is €3.49/mo, but you can save 0.50€ if you forgot ipv4.