I definitely think her being a chinese woman makes her a bigger target for some people

No, Undisciplined is just being an annoying economist

But my understanding is the demand from the US for overseas adopted babies has created "industrial adoption" in some other countries.

school project?

LARPing as a dev/founder?

drunk with newly discovered power, that they soon realize isn't actually that powerful?

we're like a midsized subreddit lol

eggchain

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Moon? I thought we were journeying to the center of the earth.

What's the story about how she got her position?

To be fair, economists have a long history of deliberately antagonizing those with bleeding hearts

I mean, I wouldn't even object to policy based on it. If people want to ban the sale or consumption of dog meat I have no problem with it.

Just don't get mad at me when I say, "Well, that's illogical but ok"

New Pleblab business idea just dropped @k00b @Car

I don't necessarily think it's "dumb", only "illogical". I wish more people are willing to face up to that and say, "Yeah, it's not logical, and I'm okay with that."

I think sometimes when economists approach these subjects from a logical/rational lens, people who feel strongly morally about it get upset at us, because they think we imply that their moral concerns are dumb or not legitimate. But that's not the case: If you think it's wrong to eat dogs, I totally respect that. I am just trying to look at it from another lens.

I hope it's not because she got tired of dealing with all the crap that gets thrown her way. If it is, then that says a lot of bad about the bitcoin community.

I think that's a big part of it.

I also think there are more stories of people getting killed for their kidneys, especially in places like China.

Ah, yes, the dichotomy between the present self and the future self. That's an entire subject of study that's really fascinating, but really calls into question what "self" even means.

I probably don't have anything too intelligent to say about it right now. It's something that requires a lot of deep thought.

But your basic insight into that is correct, which is that if the present and future self are likely to conflict, then it's safer for the present self to be limited to short-term commitment options.

Who is Buck Sexton?

Very stupid statement, by the way. I mean, what value does a dollar bill have besides being able to convince someone to give you something for it. All he did is literally describe what money is. Dumb*ss

Crime, like anything, is a social activity. And I believe that certain crimes tend to pick up steam in certain societies because criminals tell their criminal friends about it, teach them how to do it, maybe even do it with them. It's kinda like how immigrant communities coagulate in certain industries, like the Vietnamese nail salons, or the Korean drycleaners. The same thing happens with criminal activity, and probably in France wrench-attacking crypto influencers is one such crime that's been picking up steam.

Zero Knowledge Proof just sounds so damn cool. But I still have a hard time understanding what it means, especially within the contexts in which they're being used.

With ZKPs, it seems like the devil is entirely in the details, and thus throwing the buzzword out like that tells me almost nothing about what the security and trust assumptions really are.

I also find dog meat to be the strangest one. It seems the least logically grounded, unless you also object to eating the meat of other animals like cows, chickens, and pigs.

When my kids go off to college I am totally going to binge on a backlog of video games.

That seems to be the one most other people find offensive as well, consistently so. Even moreso than indentured servitude.