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Mostly thanks to this post #779811
One day soon it’ll be on merit again.
P.S. Hey Gray!
Thanks for raising awareness of this again @Signal312. I forget that I spent so much time on that.
Doug I have no doubt will do a podcast on it soon. I know for a fact he has already encouraged many families to move out and settle in Uruguay permanently.
Just added my 2 sats above #782977
Politics are pretty irrelevant in Uruguay compared to other countries around the world.
Optics matter sure, but put the trigger-happy quotes aside, both ‘sides’ actually can sit in the same room without squabbling and move things forward.
Expecting very much a continuation and a stronger peso versus dollar and western countries in coming years. And probably a few more less-pretty tax policies.
Fiat and politics everywhere are on a slow burn to irrelevance. Everyone knows this already here though, right?
Think what we’re witnessing here and globally is people sick of the existing establishment and swinging like a pendulum side to side.
Uruguay is not going to change into Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Gorgonzola, or Cuba. Not for a good 25 years at least. History shows that once the rest of the world sorts itself out, it is then and only then that the country has a habit of electing some benevolent dictator. Not happening any time soon.
P.S. Uruguay is getting better each day that passes for me personally. Ignore the headlines and come check it out if you’re still interested. This time of year it’s a real treat.
Glad to hear. I’m not sure there will even need to be a clash however. Will be obvious to all in time.
Stay positive and cheerful amidst the relentless waves of demoralisation and distraction. This for me is a time of enlightenment, where all things negative get exposed to mobilise & organise ourselves in a better direction.
We won’t get real change without us each taking matters into our own hands and building/adopting our ideals.
As bearish as I have been about our culture in years prior, I think in the next 2 years we’re about to witness the biggest fundamental changes to culture/economies/infrastructure than we’ve seen in our lifetimes. That too may mean a new asset bubble of epic proportions. It need not be financial ruin to see to a better future. That’s what the doomers want us to believe.
You love to see it. Nice pow @Design_r
Memes make the world go round.
You will get your duel soon, sat-cat!
This one of yours was a banger btw #506500.
I literally haven't owned a TV for as long as I can remember. Maybe 10+ years. To me, I increasingly see it as a tax on my attention.
There's been far too much quantity and very little quality and I've never felt like I've missed out on anything. Remember when people used to ask you why you hadn't seen Film X or Series Y? Given they were so good, so rare & a must-watch?
Until we see a renaissance return, I'll probably hold out for wall projectors/hologram devices. Until then, the only use I have for a TV will be showing node info and/or occasional sport matches.
Taking a break whilst still retaining your streak, is definitely a positive and just requires a little discipline. Provided you are still connected, I would encourage you to take the necessary steps to maintain it each and every morning, not let your day start without investing those few minutes.
Yours is similarly timed to mine, after going ham Q4 and into Q1 this year. Hope to be back and fully recharged in the months to come. Whilst hopefully not losing my ragged sun-bleached hat in the process.
I used to feel awkward about negotiating, until I needed to do it as part of day to day work. The best thing I can suggest is simply doing preparation beforehand to find 3-4 comparable prices from competing providers. That way you are not trying to beat down a vendor's price that is subjective, you have something to anchor to and can share 'alternatives' with all transparency, without any feelings of guilt or awkwardness. The market is good feedback for them also. But I know in non-Western cultures it's far more common to try and negotiate off-the-cuff without this in your pocket.
It would be much more efficient if we didn't need to do this, but I don't believe haggling is a consequence of our fiat world. Quite often the case, especially in bigger negotiations are expecting the conversation to arise and therefore they "pad" or sandbag their initial offer, knowing full well they may need to reduce it later.
The exception to this is IMHO if you really want to work specifically with a specific individual, quite often the less time spent negotiating and the more time spent building shared incentives (as you highlight) - the better and longer-lasting the outcome.
Welcome to SN @Aryaa. Enjoy the sats! Hope to see some posts inside the daily thread, if you have any questions or ideas.
Nice find. Would certainly be nice to obfuscate some of the QR overload of recent years. And it definitely feels like a stop-gap solution to future digital life.
Separate topic - part of the experience is improved because a QR is quite clearly distinguishable from our language or a picture or other means of communication. There are definitely use cases to hiding invoice QRs from plain sight, but I suspect any new standard would still need to be 'visible' so as to ensure backwards compatibility and to ensure people/machines are actively wishing to engage with it. Not accidentally triggering or actioning requests. Otherwise our lives would be DDOS'd with payment requests.
A great write-up on the history of El Salvador. So much knowledge in there.
Curious though, what were you thinking that wasn’t evident at the time? I didn’t find too much besides the following:
This will lead to investing in themselves. Building schools and developing teachers through youth education programs. Fostering tangible prosperity (educational value you can feel and touch.) this is what will guarantee the conditions of stability and economic change for the people in El Salvador. They are creating a new tradition of hope in El Salvador but they do this by first making make peace with the past so they can hope for a better future, it’s truly a remarkable thing.
I really want to read more forward-thinking posts into where El Salvador goes from here, now that the basic foundations of economic freedom are in place. My sense is it could see development at pace that we may not have witnessed before, perhaps surpassing Hong Kong or Singapore or Dubai in transforming themselves in prior decades. Though they are geographically more isolated so I am sceptical. I love hearing the stories of locals returning and finding opportunity in their motherland and construction being 20% of GDP in just a few short years. Of previously unthinkable practices and businesses flourishing.
Reading from visionaries like this who can see and describe a prosperous future I find uplifting. If anyone has read or written articles looking further forward please drop them or below or send them my way.
CoreWeave is a really small young company, only born in late 2021. How they are funding this without ponzi economics is beyond me. They’ve been funding their business to date, taking loans against their Nvidia chips. Leveraging up to the heavens.
Something smells really fishy here. Wouldn’t be surprised if this is about securing the ticker rather than attracting additional regulatory scrutiny with a new NYSE listing. Would allow them to cash-out their company stock and dumping onto retail if there were to be an AI super bubble coming 👀
Stay clear of this shady company folks…. nobody-special did a great video on the company’s strange history https://youtu.be/K6xALgeaSZM
There are a few sites aiming to help this type of use-case:
None have really achieved scale or top quality projects just yet, but hopefully in the next year or so we’ll see this much more commonplace.
Arguably the very implementation of these proposals will lead to the right kind of change - each of us becoming our own private communication providers.
It's not about the children. It never was. Debating 'leaders' on such irrational reasoning is a pretty poor use of resources in my mind. This is about the value of our data with it being colonized.
Cheers 🥃 enjoy the moment Nacho!