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Oh man. Patrick Bateman in shambles

In America, it's been a persistent psyop campaign under the guise of fighting terrorism for the last 20 years. Trading freedom for security. People are more and more conditioned that control and authority in their lives is there to keep them safe. Whether or not they consciously believe it, subconsciously these ideas still permeate our everyday lives and now we just sort of accept it. Governments and powerful people have, and always will, push these boundaries, since it's essentially the quest for power (control). I don't know what the solution is, because more or less I feel everyone is so divided (and in that sense, conquered). There's an undercurrent of distrust (albeit mostly aimed in the wrong directions) but it hasn't really boiled over enough yet. More and more I think this is just an inevitable outcome to where we are as a society. I'm not trying to doom and gloom but it feels like the writing is on the wall. These things have happened before. Seems to be human nature in that we tend to repeat the same mistakes and it looks like we're currently doing that now.

Yes, they ultimately act at some point and not at others, and that is their policy or stance (action or inaction). The problem is the actions they've been taking that are leading to the results I'm referencing.

Think about how ridiculous this is for a moment. It's an easy loophole, and just more red tape and a bother. That's also not really the issue though. The problem is rates in general. Trying to spur growth into a system where there is none. Forcing speculative investing because of poor central banking policies and tough economic conditions. Ultimately the backlash from this will be worse than if central banks had avoided interfering in the first place. However, the interference has allowed a free-for-all in inflation and asset repricing to attempt to shift the debt they created away from themselves and increase wealth for those with assets. So in a sense, it's working. Robbing Peter to pay Paul. No one should be under the assumption anything else is happening here with these policies.

Yea, that's the major problem. I'd prefer just some sort of inline helper that could point directly to documentation, topics, stack overflow answers that might be helpful for whatever I'm developing. An enhanced "Intellisense" or something. That to me, is better, because ultimately it's up to the developer to place scrutiny on the solution. You basically can't blindly accept the implementation which makes this just a constant code review, of yourself? I dunno. This just seems half-baked

Exactly. Everyone having their own Office Space moments right now.

Thought for Uber. License the software they already have (maybe at a certain rate and/or percentage of revenue) to the businesses and/or governments and let them handle the employee side of things

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Right? Back in 2016/2017 it seemed more open. There was discussion about technology. I remember quite a bit about Bitcoin and blockchain, Ethereum, smart contract platforms etc. There's been a lot of technical innovation in these areas. Ethereum has a real product in DeFi nowadays and there's been some really amazing technical achievements. With Ethereum's move to PoS it will put the argument of energy consumption behind us and then the merits of having a distributed worldwide computation system might get talked about again. I don't get the hate now. Maybe people are just holding backs and are bitter about it

Exactly. As they say, first step is always the hardest. The switch from PoW to PoS was monumental and I'm glad they took the time to execute so well. This is a great step forward for Ethereum

I'm going to go with the latter

I'll add onto that and the prediction for 2020's from yesterday that meat may very soon begin to price itself out of the market with meat alternatives from Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, etc being first movers in this area could be a great investment over the next decade