More tweets today from senior journalists decrying mob lynching than at any point in last decade. Only because some of their reporters are being heckled at the protests--a tiny fraction of the threat Muslims here face every day because of the bigotry they help spread or normalize
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NYC's property tax system is rigged. Multimillionaires in brownstones pay almost nothing. Middle-class condo owners pay everything. It's a $13.5 billion wealth transfer from people like you to people who don't need it
A lot of people seem angry that Elon is now a trillionaire, so it’s worth reminding them that he didn’t achieve this by making anyone else poorer. Wealth isn't zero-sum. Paul Graham explained it well:
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What are public sector unions for, exactly? What problem are they trying to solve? And what does the evidence show about whether they solve it?
I dig into those question in my latest for @TheAtlantic (link below).
The mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin, has remained unsolved for 17 years. Not anymore. Read my 18-month investigation to find out who Satoshi really is. https://t.co/fPtaK6YHJC
Went down the rabbit hole on this one. The answer is actually wild.
5,000 years ago, Sumerian merchants in modern-day Iraq needed a number that's easy to divide. They picked 60. It has 12 divisors (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 60). Base-10 only has four. That's 3x as many ways to split something evenly, which matters when you're dividing grain and wages and can't handle repeating decimals.
The counting method is the best part. They used their thumb as a pointer on the three bone segments of each finger. Four fingers, three segments, that's 12 per hand. Track multiples of 12, on the other hand, and you hit 60. No pen needed. Merchants in parts of Asia still count this way today.
The system spread from Sumer to the Babylonians, then eastward to Persia, India, and China, and westward to Egypt and Rome. By 1800 BC, Babylonian students were using base-60 to calculate the square root of 2 to six decimal places on clay tablets. One student's homework from 4,000 years ago, now at Yale, holds the most accurate computation found anywhere in the ancient world. The Greeks adopted it for astronomy, which locked it into navigation, cartography, and eventually clocks in the 14th century.
People have tried to kill it. During the French Revolution in 1793, France mandated decimal time: 10 hours per day, 100 minutes per hour, 100 seconds per minute. New clocks, new laws, the whole thing. Lasted 17 months. Workers hated getting one day off every ten days instead of one every seven. They tried again in 1897. Scrapped by 1900. The metric system replaced feet and pounds across most of the world. But 60 minutes in an hour? Untouchable.
60 is just too good at being divided. You can split an hour into halves, thirds, quarters, fifths, sixths, tenths, twelfths, or twentieths and land on a whole number every time. Try that with 100, and you get ugly decimals for thirds, sixths, and most common splits. 5,000 years of civilizations looked at that math and came to the same conclusion: 60 wins.
Ok @IndianExpress. You did a good story. Now do the next part. Deepak Kumar did a brave thing. He is losing his income because of that. He had 150 Members, now it’s 15. Get details from him and ask him to open online membership. By the end of the week, he will have 150 Members from all over India. Even if they don’t step in to the gym physically. We can’t let a good man lose. You can run this as an Indian Express Impact story and win your awards.
AS I POSTED on X earlier.
I stopped buying silver at $60.
I stopped buying Bitcoin at $6000.
I stopped buying gold at $300.
I have sold some Bitcoin and some gold. I hate selling because I hate paying capital gain taxes.
Today…. I wait patiently for new bottoms for gold and Bitcoin then I may buy again.
Rich Dad Lesson: “Your profit is made when you buy… not when you sell.”
I will post on X when I begin to buy again.
Until then please remember another Rich Dad lesson: “Pigs get fat… hogs get slaughtered.”
The bigger problem is the national debt of the USA.
The real debt is $38 trillion and $250 trillion when social security and other Marxist programs such as Medicare are counted.
Patience and vigilance and continual study on You Tube may be your smartest money habit today.
I will buy more silver at $74 and gold $4,000. I have enough Ethereum
for now. Will buy more.
The real problem is the Fed, our incompetent leaders, and our criminal banksters who rip us off via our fake dollars.
Rough times ahead.
Take care.