He reminds me of Shane Battier, though with a harder route to the NBA

Same with video games. I feel like the indie scene is thriving while the mainstream is just full of junk.

My guess is that it's easy enough to develop games in small teams now that the people with real vision just move to indie development, while the big players are just living off the fumes of their former reputation

AI will only accelerate this trend

/o/

Thanks for the insights. it's quite possible that there are some changes since 2022 that aren't well optimized for the Pi. Anyway, not much for me to do right now except wait. Good thing I don't really need the node for anything right now. But it is a bit concerning... I wonder how many people tried to run a node and gave up because of technical difficulties. Not a good sign for decentralization.

I think he's not wrong... Chinese producers are heavily state subsidized to an extent that I'm not sure we can even measure, because of how opaque their data is.

Mankiw actually talks about this in his Principles textbook. He says that (paraphrasing), "If other countries want to subsidize their producers, who are we to complain? It just means more cheap goods for us."

But IMO that is such a short-sighted and consumption oriented way of thinking that really reduces humanity down to consumption machines. I think people care about things like fair play, and being productive, not just consumptive. Mainstream economists need to rethink their model of what makes people satisfied.

I'm running bitcoin core 29.0 on 64bit Raspberry Pi OS (debian bookworm)

Please post some context, like a link to an article.

True. We want the barrier to be a node runner to go down, or at least remain constant, not get harder.

wa hovers at aroud 10-15. si hovers around 1-3. The other two are zero.

Yep, don't believe everything you see on youtube. The reality behind the scenes is usually quite different than what you see on camera.

\o/

Clearly Trump wants to favor domestic production over domestic consumption. I'm not necessarily a tariff supporter, but I think there's merit to this idea that America has become a fat and lazy nation of consumers. Are tariffs the best way to change that? I don't know, but let's at least acknowledge the core of the idea here.

mempoo.space

surprisingly little poop, but maybe their poop detection algorithm isn't that great.

I think it's going to take longer for young people to launch out of subsistence living, unless they're willing to get out of the knowledge-producing industry and go back to physical labor.

I just don't see what value a young person with no domain-expertise brings to a knowledge industry anymore. I'd venture to guess that AI will outperform 99% of undergraduates on knowledge tasks in their first 1 or 2 years on the job. So why bother?

So it'll be harder for young folks to get a foot in the door. They may have to work longer at subsistence wages to build up a portfolio to show that they can do self-directed work, including orchestrating AI outputs to align with a business use case, before they'd get hired by a company. Or they might have to go the entrepreneurial route, which is probably a good scenario if more people were to do that.

I think maybe that second to last person can't get a job because of their personality.

True true

Poof

HUH... I had never heard of Rene Girard till now, but he seems to have some interesting ideas worth reading. If Peter Thiel and JD Vance like him, that's a pretty good sign too (from my vantage point, anyway)

Just one thing I'll about about memetic desires... it reminds me of the Fight Club quote: "We work jobs we hate, to buy things we don’t need, to impress people we don’t like"

Stonemason, since I want to know the truth about the Illuminati

I roll my eyes whenever people talk about their travel vacations like it's some noble thing to do.

Dude, it's just your vacation time, I'm glad you enjoy it, but don't act like you're doing the world some favor or becoming more righteous in the process.