If you believe you determine your actions in a literal sense you are saying you believe in magic because there is no mechanism that could make this possible in a deterministic universe.
The type of free will that people subjectively think they have is so called "Libertarian Free Will" and it's basically universally understood by the majority of philosophers that this does not exist.
Yay I can't wait for a trip to the grocery store to take 12 hours because every transaction takes 20 minutes. lol. This is just pure bitcoin hype, there are far better coins to use if you are actually interested in them as currency.
It was a little more like that before, say, summer 2020. Lots and lots of people have been onboarding in the last couple months, I assume because of the VC money and pressure to expand. At this time, it's less like you describe and more like "influencers" cannibalizing each other with constant rooms with a thousand or two people listening on "the success mindset" or "how to build a brand identity." I don't really log in anymore.
That was my thought, I was wondering if it did ANYTHING that isn't already in Mumble/Teamspeak/Ventrilo/Discord-- about the only thing I can come up with is that it's probably easier to set up for non-technical users (the one place Mumble/TS/Vent fall apart at) but even there I don't think Discord loses out on that.
And that’s what I find compelling about it. I’ve never been to Davos or worked in Silicon Valley, yet I felt like I was in that environment. I don’t expect it will last. But it felt nice.
As the article mentions, it's not limited to Silicon Valley types, but even if it were I don't know if there's really a "just" about Davos in your living room. A direct line to the thoughts of top Silicon Valley people is a pretty powerful pitch, no?
Books yes, youtube no, except the occasional funny animal/baby video with my wife. Even books need to meet an expected quality threshold before I elect to dedicate tens of hours of my attention, and I am willing to grant it because the thousands of hours or years worth of thought put into a book are often worth the brain space consumption trade-off. I try to be very selective in the content I consume, with exceptions for pure entertainment when I need it.
Given that productivity has skyrocketed in the past few decades it should be totally unacceptable to need to accept a 20% pay cut for only working 32 hours.
If we ever figured out a system where prices like rent weren’t set by the most that people are willing to do, maybe we could finally get more leisure time from our productivity increases. In the meantime, everything is an auction :(
actually it's a little (tiny) bit offset by paying less taxes proportionally. So your net income would be like 84% instead of 80%. Doesn't change your overall point, though ;)
I think the real reason is that Greece was more or less forced by the EU to accept austerity and a bad loan it can't possibly repay. The leadup to this was irrelevant.
I don't think you appreciate the use of gold. For one, every chip is using it. Would we better off without semiconductors in exchange for a few less mercury ponds?
