wustangdan

Just FYI based on your comment you might not be aware but just on ads D's outspent the R's 4.5 billion to 3.5 billion (https://www.axios.com/2024/10/31/democrats-republicans-ad-sp...).

In general D's always outspend and out raise R's.

Is a place really beautiful if no one ever gets to see it?

You are saying he "clearly had nothing to do with" a company he founded, funded, and has been CEO, CTO, and chief engineer.

What do you think the word "nothing" means?

Okay read Walter Isaacson and Vances biography and get back to me. There is hundreds of examples in each. Or read this thread that has a few snippets from the book. https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...

He is a constant technical driving force.

if you kicked Musk out of SpaceX and replaced it with absolutely any random guy as CEO, do you believe reusable rockets would never see the light of day?

Would we have reusable rockets in the same timeline as SpaceX, absolutely not. The proof is all the other rocket companies that have failed to do so, including government entities.

So yah obviously if Musk never founded SpaceX, we would not have reusable rockets right now.

Just to be clear, you're saying that Shotwell has contributed more to SpaceX than Elon?

What about, without Elon they'd have reusable rockets but without Shotwell they wouldn't? Do you believe this?

I get you hate Elon but at some point these takes are just so outrageous I can't believe you are making them in good faith.

A senior editor just admitted they are biased.

You can try and guess my politics (you'd be wrong), but I can guess that you don't think journalists who agree with your politics can be biased. I can agree with NPR's politics and still admit they are biased, why can't you?

https://www.allsides.com/news-source/npr-fact-check-media-bi...

I have sympathy for the journalists actually doing journalism

You know that with Substack all these actual journalists are having no issue getting paid very well.

I'm not sure why we'd want to expand NPR or make more NPR's. We need less of their low-quality and biased journalism IMO, not more.

I'd buy that.

I see it less as an alliance and more like a shift. Being pro freedom of speech and the freedom of computing you are pushed out of the left. You can say they aren't the actual left, but the fact is their anti-free speech ideas are polling over 50% so hate to say it, but they are the left. See "The shift in Democratic views on free speech — what’s going on?"

"at least until they get to power" 2016-2020 was when the left ramped up their censorship efforts, not the right. So how do you square that sentence with what actually happened?

Don't you think if we turned USPS into this it would be a another billions of dollars a year waste for taxpayers? Do we really need to be subsidizing drop shippers?

Amazon is not marshalling new capital to innovate or improve its digital marketplace. Rather, Amazon simply owns digital real estate and extracts rent, like some kind of futuristic dystopian corpo-baron.

What on earth are you on about? They own a url.

Yah. If students loans are so evil that they must all be forgiven, shouldn't we stop the creation of new student loans first?

Plus its not like admission prices will just stay in place with such a massive demand shock.

Good dialogue so far but you've lost me with this.

When I buy a big vault, extra door locks, a pitbull, and a gun to protect the gold I store at home to go full gold buggery, am I paying for the investigation, enforcement, and regulation of gold? This is what I mean by its expensive to secure my own gold.

When I store gold at a business that specializes in such services, am I paying for the investigation, enforcement, and regulation of gold?

If yes for either of these, how am I not paying for that same investigation, enforcement, and regulation of crypto when buying a vault for my crypto or paying one of many such companies to hold it for me?

I don't really get what you are subsidizing that you don't also subsidize for pokemon cards, private equity, or any collectable.

Gold is exempt from sales tax in most US states so I really have no clue what you are on about.

Incase I've missed something, on behalf of all crypto users you have my full permission to stop subsidizing all USG employees trying to investigate, enforce, and regulate crypto.

Gold and crypto are already taxed the same and on the same level (capital gains). Go ahead and regulate fraud how is crypto packets flowing preventing you? The blockchain is more open and transparent than the banking system. Don't you wish you could see JP Morgans or the Pentagons books laid bare like the blockchain?

This is gold buggery. Which means gold does a fine enough job.

It's really expensive to secure my own gold. I can't easily verify my own gold. I can't easily send my goal in under a minute to help my friends in Venezuela who's government has inflated his money supply by 5,000% and confiscate most of what sent physically or through the banking system. The USG also has a precedent for confiscating everyones gold. I can't take gold with me across a border in an undetectable manner. Sorry but gold is not doing a fine enough job for me and I'd like something a little more advanced and modern.

I understand for us privileged westerners (assumption about you on my part) that this all this seems a little silly, but for my family and friends in situations where their government is behaving really badly, this is serious. And "buy T bills or a house or the sp500" are not the solutions you think they are.

And I hope it doesn't come to the US but it seems a little silly if you are rich enough to not hedge against that possibility, especially given the US financial competency these last two decades.

Well sorry but you confused me as my main issue was with USD and I believed you thought that USD had "not all that much of consequence" happening to its value. But it seems we are mostly in agreement.

I'm happy you have a home and own some SP500 to offset USD destruction. Not everyone is so fortunate to have access to those markets. I would suggest you look into crypto as part of your hedge against bad USG behavior because it has some nice properties that could uncorrelate it with those assets if things get nasty (90% tax rates, etc).

Well I mean the recent bank failures showed the issue with treasuries, but sure it seems we agree more than disagree. You agree that holding USD is failure for long term value or even short term (3 year) value transport.

My argument is that assets and crypto is needed to hedge the potential incoming USD destruction. And that because crypto has some nice properties that houses and the SP500 don't, it has a legitimate reason to be a part (even if small) of your hedge.

I don't buy the "Crypto is a complete scam" argument at all.

https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

From Jan 2019 to now we've had 17.4% inflation. Your purchasing power of the money in your bank account has been reduced. How have other assets faired in that time?

Objection, Your Honor. Assumes facts not in evidence.

Okay longer timeline, if you held dollars in your savings account from Jan 2009 to now (during ZIRP) you've lost 30.5% of your purchasing power. How has the SP500 or houses fared in that time (even ignoring crypto)?

If losing 30% of your purchasing power is no consequence to you, please let me have a not much of consequence portion of your salary, thanks.

IMO you just found another area where Sturgeon's Law applies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law).

Yes exactly, on gold standard they would default, now they inflate.

The US can issue debt in USD and even print 1 trillion USD coins. But what happens to the value of the currency when they repeatedly do that?

Crypto (and other assets obviously) can act as a hedge against such bad government behavior.

No legal use case? Really?

Honest question are you legitimately excited for FedNow? What problem will it solve?

What does FedNow have to do with cryptos downfall? Does FedNow fix our 120% debt to gdp ratio? Estimates of inflation required to get our debt to gdp back to 50% is 4-5 years of 12-20% inflation.

You don't want inflation? Well then I guess the US is going to default on our loans. 98% of countries in the last 120 years that had a debt to gdp of 130% has either defaulted or had massive inflation (only exception is Japan which is still in progress, currently holding off because its positive NIIP, US has negative NIIP).

For the US it's either default, print, or hope for a miracle.

I'm not following you. Are you saying we implement this alternative by removing income tax and replacing it with consumption tax, that corporations will run everything and only share holders get a say?

I'm not sure what this tax issue has to do with the right to vote?

Don't follow the fact that only billionaire feudalists are allowed to think their government isn't working well? Why can't ordinary citizens be unhappy?

I have a hard time combining this sentiment with my lived experience in California.

The national consumption tax. It says in the first sentence...

I'm sorry I'm not following you. Are you saying that what the US has now is well-functioning social institutions with mutual accountability?

Since they oppose this by trying to pull funding from them.

The reason is because your government is reasonably well behaved. You can think of crypto as a hedge against bad government behavior. So in your case, you aren't a target customer.

Try thinking about people in Turkey or Venezuala, where the yearly inflation is 100% - 5,000%. Bitcoin looks like a relatively stable safe heaven in comparison.

https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/10/25/turkey-cryptocurr...

In the US it was illegal to send dollars to Wikileaks. Is it really your money if you aren't allowed to send it to whoever you want?

Imagine instead of Wikileaks it was a political cause you truly believed in and wanted to support but your government didn't like. Surely you can see how they could label any money flowing to this cause as an "illicit transaction". Dn't you think that you should have the power to support whatever cause you believe is right? Or do you think that only your government should decide what are the approved political causes you are allowed to support?

I want a co-op RTS and FPS/TP game.

Imagine one player is playing a game like Total War Three Kingdoms, and on the same team your friends are playing something like Dynasty Warriors. So you are doing all the high level RTS control while your friends are actually fighting on the front lines.

There has been games that have come close but all the ones I've tried have really lacked depth on either the RTS side (you only control maybe 30 units) or the first / third person side. The technical issue is you have to create almost two separate games and sync / balance them.

I just think it would be so cool to be playing a game controlling thousands of units and your friends happen to just be 3 or 4 of them. You could make it either Dynasty Warrior style where your friends are far stronger than normal units or something like Arma where you can die from one stray bullet no different than any other AI unit.

Setting could be medieval, fantasy, space, or modern military. Wouldn't really matter to me.

Not sure if this is allowed but I created a Udemy course on PID control where I go through the theory and then in the assignments you write Python code to create a PID controller for an elevator (with the goal of moving the elevator to the desired height). A PID controller can be written in less than 10 lines of code but understanding the different components is very important for tuning it and getting it to work. If your interested just go to Udemy and search PID Control, you'll find it.

If you'd like a discount code (not worth the full price if your a SW eng) DM me on Twitter as I'm not sure I'm allowed to post it here.

When I did my MSc I did all my PID controllers in MATLAB/Simulink but since the actual code for a PID controller is very simple, it's easy to implement in Python or C++.