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My grandmother knew 6 languages.

The price of borrowing has never been lower. Stable governments can borrow at negative real rates. When prices drop it means there is more supply than demand.

Long term too. The bottom 50% of Americans lost all their wealth and went into debt to live since then.

I had a great-grandmother from rural Moldova. She spoke Vlach, Bulgarian and Russian.

Speaking three languages is not a big deal when you live in a village where everyone else speaks them.

A lot of places can't do more than 10k a day. So you either try and sell at the peak and eat the risk of them going under, or you sell continuously and leave a lot of money on the table because price fluctuates week to week.

These people are too poor to be a viable market. There is a lot more money in getting more of them in prison than getting them out.

The same people who benefit from encryption if govts are to be believed. If cash keeps being as unwieldy as it has become, a $100 note today is worth about what a $10 note was worth in 1920, people will just stop using govt back cash and use gold or art instead. Monero looks like it's the first large scale crypto to get inflation and anonymity at least partly right.

The bottom 50% of US citizens have -0.2 trillion in wealth. That's right, they are in debt.

Never in the history of the world have the poor had less than nothing.

To quote Feynman: explaining how something happens makes the why irrelevant.

Stop the always on web. There is no reason why latency for Twitter or facebook should be any faster than 1h.

You can easily run a workload with 20tb/day on a single thread ripper.

My last contract we wrote a c tool that did dsp on 10tb/day data with a latency of 50 microseconds. We are using less than 10% of the CPU on that.

Imagine if 70% of roads were privately owned by one company. That company, call it roadle, opened a restaurant chain. There is free parking in front of all roadle restaurants. There are always roadworks around all non roadle restaurants.

This is what search is like today.

And no one will stop her. Just how today some women elect to give birth without anesthetics. And others do it at home.

It's an odd world where 4chan back in its worst days had a better community than fb, Twitter or reddit do today. And that's with the gore and other unmentionables.