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This is hardly something new.

Hard asset type investors were saying this in 2007/08 with the oil spike.

Gold bugs were saying this in the mid 80s.

Of course this is a misunderstanding of what is being measured but if inflation is in the news someone will be saying it is under reported. "What about food and energy!!"

This is the same exact thing that has been happening the past 40 years with this company and Windows.

Windows 10 was my fav version because that was the straw that broke the camels back for me and I would never even consider installing Windows at this point.

KDE Plasma is so vastly superior to Windows it isn't even close. I don't even work in IT either. A Dev intentionally using Windows is just embarrassing.

3. Tether

7. USD Coin

10. Binance USD

Crypto seems rather reliant on USD. The crypto narratives are always so flimsy.

You would think we barter and haggle for unproductive hours for the goods and services we need.

90% of what I buy at a store I walk in, grab what I need, go to self check out and swipe my credit card.

Our society has such a strange obsession with new technology that does exactly the same thing as old technology but with additional benefits for someone that isn't you.

You always have to be on guard to not fall into single variable thinking. "They did it because of X, not Y!" It is always at least x, y and z.

I would think this is a smart move to not fall into this trap we have and kills two birds with one stone as far as a powerful rivals go.

It was a change in sports betting. You really couldn't gamble on sports legally outside of the major casino sport books previously.

Keep in mind that black market sports betting is/was a multi billion dollar industry in the US so much of what you are seeing now is just more visible.

Great point.

Even to take it down a notch, what has happened in the US is just boring. You almost can't have a conversation without one of 5 of the same companies coming up.

I forgot you even have to install drivers.

I have a USB network adapter with a penguin on it. That was the key that solved all my problems. Everything just worked after that.

If you don't play games I just can't imagine using Windows over KDE with the application menu. It just feels like Windows 2050.

Been back full time for 3 weeks by choice instead of being remote as people trickle in.

I think when people start going back we will quickly see that most aspects of the office are actually worse.

I am a hard worker but I am also social and with just a few people back I end up wasting at least 1 hour talking about non-work related things. This isn't even an open floor plan.

If you are going back to an open floor plan, forget about it. Things will be so obviously less productive.

I am enjoying going into the office but I also know this time is limited. At some point in the future going into the office is going to be a perk with remote standard. Bet your ass on that.

You don't even have to bring in the cost savings but the cost savings will be the knockout punch.

Commodities have value in and of themselves though.

Bitcoin is a security for an electronic trading game that takes inputs and gives back less than that input.

Then on top of that there is this technological/economic quasi religion that is a random bundle of economic half truths but the followers beliefs are reinforced by the price going up.

The difference is you buy a stock/security with the expectation of some future cash flow. The value of the stock is an attempt at pricing the future cash flow at a discount rate.

BTC has no future cash flow and no expectation of future cash flow, of course everyone knows this.

It is an open ponzi scheme that you even kind of understand but you just don't use the language quite right. "Nobody believes that there is some sort of economic activity that is sustaining the growth"

You really mean to say that everyone knows it is a security with no payoff.

It really has nothing to do with fear mongering. An open ponzi is the best description.

No doubt. We are so spoiled we just take all our advances as a given.

On top of all this so many people are doing more interesting work. My father didn't just work 7 days a week, sometimes 16 hour days but he did that doing something so boring to me I would rather be homeless or dead.

Healthcare is more expensive because it saves people's lives.

Healthcare is really the best example that we are just spoiled children who can not be satisfied no matter what Santa brings for Christmas. Even getting extra years of life isn't good enough because it "cost too much".