I've said this many many times before. Masks, distancing, testing, vaxxing: they were *never* about *you*. They were about being inconvenienced in small measure to *help* your fellow humans and bear your compassionate soul. How often do you get to potentially save a life?
@CastilloTrading Stay the goddamn course. It's not about believing in Saylor, $STRC, whale wisdom, crowd wisdom, etc. It's about math and physics. It's also about a $124B institutional investment in BTC since 2016 (25% of circ supply). In 3 to 5 years, it will be a fully fledged asset class.
@champbronc2@STPCHS_Oblivion@0xEthan It's catastrophic mostly to retail. That's what the post is about. FTX was big but even it was small compared to e.g., Terra/UST.
@RealCryptoDose Why do you believe that BTC is Saylor's only asset? Also why wouldn't he believe the 4 year halving and subsequent bull market would hold after 3 such cycles? From ~Jul 2022 to ~Oct 2023, we effectively had a bear market with BTC in $20K–$30K. What's fundamentally different?
@CanesDavid@jeremiahscholl@midjourney I wouldn't put it past greedy politicians who eventually own Midjourney shares to carve out exceptions to HIPAA so that the company can access biopsy and other test data with abandon. Either that or the tech becomes boutique and falls under "general wellness" software/hardware.
@addyosmani This reminds me very strongly of The Mythical Man Month. In that case, adding more people increases the coordination, communication, and context switching costs of every other person already on the project, slowing it. Frederick Brooks taught us this more than 50 years ago!
@GretaGrace20 The human still moves more smoothly, adjusting for weight and other factors...Robots in humanoid form are a vanity project spawned from decades of scifi. There's literally no reason to make robots in our image. We're physically suboptimal at almost everything.
@elonmusk Here's the real problem: scifi has trained us to believe that other species might be trying to reach us. But if those species are capable of interstellar travel, there is *zero* reason to think that we would be of any interest to them. We would be bacterium to a Type II civ...
@GretaGrace20@gothburz The man deserves all the gold in the world, just like Crassus, Aquillius, Emperor Valerian, Viserys, and all the Spanish governors before him...
@Mark_Peterson__@qhapaqinka@Eric_Schmitt That person is a biological male who identifies as a female -- feels like they should have been a female, dresses and acts like a woman, and would like to be treated as such in most, if not all respects. Why is that hard to understand?
@murphreads If you ever get a chance and can find it, I'd highly recommend The Picture of Dorian Gray (Play of the Month) that aired on the BBC in 1976. It's one of the most faithful adaptations for the screen.
@CMDROpAtLargeCA And you think all unauthorized immigrants are breaking our laws. You know very well that you are prohibited from picking up declared asylum seekers yet you do it anyway. Can you honestly say that everyone you pick up has done something beyond civil misdemeanor?
@theteapot07@Matt_Pinner Not all jobs are equal and it's easy to say "well they just shouldn't work in that position." But take that to its logical extreme and there would be almost no dine-in restaurants at all. The industry has evolved this way, and like backbreaking jobs, we're lucky anyone does it.