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I don't think it is that easy though. If you are simply trying to pay off existing debt sure, but we constantly need new debt as well so there is a limit to how much money we can print.

You obviously cut the budget and raise taxes.

If that was actually being considered you don’t need to default in the first place.

"Not that easy" & EPolanski replies with 2 things the US Congress almost never does

Practically, my biggest concern is deliver ability

> The Zen Way: "I am <327c1b2f87c9353e01769b01090b18f2>. Wherever I am, my peers can reach me".

> When links are intermittent and latency is measured in minutes or hours, "real-time" is an illusion. Reticulum doesn't encourage Store and Forward as a mere fallback, but as a primary mode of existence. You write a message, it propagates when it can, and it arrives when it arrives.

Let's say A and B are talking.

A sends message A1.

B receives message A1.

B sends message B1.

A receives message B1.

A sends message A2.

Something happens and B doesn't receive it.

A sends A3.

B receives A3.

Later, B receives A2.

Now what does B do with this information? Does the envelope contain all the metadata about when A sent it so B client software can order the messages properly?


I think time and again, the main thing people should realize is you should never, ever raise venture capital unless you really, really have to™.

Or at least know that your interests as a founder and the interests of those who invest in your company will not always coincide. And they do this a lot more times every single day than you do.


I'm going to go out on a limb and say it has some thing to do with those data centers and LLM stuff.

So the increase was 3.1% and it was "fourth largest in the last decade", which means, "barely above average growth rate". Considering that economy growth rate was the fastest in a decade except 2021 which was a covid recovery year, it doesn't really show anything abnormal at all.

Granted, that wee bit 3.1% increase corresponds to an extra 135 TWh of demand.

T for tera. The mind boggles.


All that work and we still have a broken economy, go figure.

What's broken about it?

Funny, I was thinking the same thing.

> These days imho it's an automatic 2.99 strikes against anyone who is still endorsing X with their continued business.

Someone mentioned recently that it sure is a little bizarre how many "check marked" accounts Microsoft has on twatter.

https://x.com/Microsoft/affiliates

It is like USD 10k a year a pop per account? You may say 200k is a rounding error for Microsoft but it sure sends a message, doesn't it?


I believe it's $10,000/year for the top level brand plus $600/year/"affiliate account" https://help.x.com/en/using-x/premium-business

I have never owned a truck or a new car and I might buy one if they can truly keep the slate under 20knincluding delivery and all taxes and fees.

IIRC the 20k number depended on the 7k federal rebate that recently expired, so it will probably be more like 27k

F-150 Lightning was supposed to start at $39,974 and ended up at $54,780. I'll be surprised to see Slate actually happening under $30k. Having lost the $7,500 rebate, more like $35k.

USA seemingly can't sell small or base trim cars.


Congratulations on launching.

Also this is probably the most comprehensive what to test notes in a test flight I've ever seen iirc


get used to it with coding agents

It is possible they were mistaken. The extreme voices get magnified at these things, I'd guess.

Maybe it is an attempt to slow the shift in the Overton window?


I always find it amusing when I see a toddler knows to press skip ad on YouTube.

> 1996

I'm chuckling at the idea of pirating software in 1996.

iirc even in 1999, I couldn't figure out why Windows update required me to use internet exploder. It would take forever to download updates over dialup.


Don't remember if it was the 90's, but we got trial versions of Photoshop on some magazine CD and it was then all about searching for cracks / patches to it. These were quite small and bearable to download on dialups. And of course, even otherwise, dialups really taught all of us patience ... our generation thus knows the value of delayed gratification :).

My older brother and I were pirating software from BBSes before the World Wide Web existed.

Talk about being there when the deep magic was written.


Or buying CDs packed with software from markets. In Glasgow you could get copies of loads of high-end software from traders in the Barras market.

Exchanging "emails" over FidoNet was so cool

I definitely pirated Photoshop around 1996 from the macfilez (possibly zelifcam by then) AOL chat room.

BBS existed long before that, and even before that we had "sneakernets" or "copy parties". I assume the term "pirating" is much newer than the concept of copying software, or copyright of said software.

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