Cuz health insurance and health care are both very expensive fields, and they’re in opposition to each other, so they both tend towards monopoly.

And from the consumer’s perspective:

• It’s hard to predict your health care needs
• It’s hard to comparison shop during a health emergency
• It’s hard to predict how your health care will get coded to the insurer

$10-20mil in the year 2571 is like $0.15 today

Not crypto. Just digital. So, centralized, subject to anti-fraud regulation, reversible transactions, etc.

Not loaned out. Explicitly marked as not-loanable. Which would be foolish in today’s market, because you’re losing out on a dividend. Except… the bank actually keeps most of the benefit from your deposit being loanable normally. This way, you get the benefit instead.

Basically, it allows depositors to compete against the banks. So they can’t take you for granted, because you actually have alternative.

Monetary Commons

Those additional requests will reuse the existing connection, so they’ll have more bandwidth at that point.

14kB club: “Amateurs!!!”

https://dev.to/shadowfaxrodeo/why-your-website-should-be-under-14kb-in-size-398n

a 14kB page can load much faster than a 15kB page — maybe 612ms faster — while the difference between a 15kB and a 16kB page is trivial.

This is because of the TCP slow start algorithm. This article will cover what that is, how it works, and why you should care.

Better symbol than Pelosi

Ours was always “1 2 3 save some for me”

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The original source was much more sensible.

The comparison makes sense for evaluating whether you’re over-invested in something. Like, if Nvidia suddenly poofed out of existence, would it seriously be worth 16% of everything the whole country makes in a year to get it back?

Owning a car that’s worth 16% of your yearly income sounds reasonable, no matter what your actual income is. A Pokemon card collection that’s 16% of your income is probably too risky, no matter what your actual income is.

Also, GDP is a decent scale to use for charting investment in a productivity tool, because if GDP ramped up at the same time as investment then it looks less like a bubble, even if they both ramp up quickly.

But that’s not what we see. We see a sudden and volatile shift, nothing like the normal pattern before the hype.

Just a reminder that literally every dollar the treasury disburses is spent into existence.

It is impossible for the federal government to run out of money, just like it’s impossible for a scorekeeper to run out of points.

So when they say they don’t have the money — an impossible situation — what they mean is they don’t want to have the money.

This is the power of the deficit myth. Money that you don’t want to spend has to “come from somewhere”. Yet all of the money you do want to spend never suffers that problem.

Jimmy Wales: Libertarian that ended up creating perhaps the most successful collectivist project of all time.

Trump admin suffers blow

Huh. I thought they enjoyed blow.

Technically, that’d be an ‘iff’

The closest modern thing is the Steam Deck.

Or a Retroid, or Anbernic, or Miyoo, or PowKiddy, or Ayaneo, or Ayn, or TrimUI… or slap a controller onto your phone using one of those derpy clip mounts or the fancy new Mcon once it ships.

Everyone listening to the same content at the same time? How miserable. I bet they’re listening at 1x speed too.

Could’ve been the Pessimists Archive (later renamed Build For Tomorrow, and now apparently Human Progress? Idk man): https://humanprogress.org/pessimists-archive-podcast-ep-18-kids-these-days

Peter Molyneux Studios presents, a Peter Molyneux production: Peter Molyneux’s Masters of Albion, by Peter Molyneux, featuring Peter Molyneux, and special guest Peter Molyneux

Is the IP still trapped in legal limbo?