the thing about Google is that it's always doing updates and opting in automatically

avoiding Google is a great policy

reminds me of this brilliant skit for some reason

I wasn't a fan of article 7.. so this news was bittersweet

who needs a security budget when u have fees this high?

wait ... who is the president today?

Imagine telling my computer to run this code.. outcome would be disastrous

I had to unlearn the tendency to think i am smarter than everybody else

now, notice the difference between Wholesale and Retail markets

stablecoins are just CBDC tho, right?

hmm... does seem that way sometimes.

on the other hand, Bitcoin is too ;) (or at least it was for a long time. we're a bit more mainstream now)

I'd be interested to know how the epoxy&metal corrosion impacts over 25year span

might be some existing material research out there already addressing this question

"290k boost" lol

yah.. duh.

I didn't need to watch a video to know that

parent comment was remarking that the video demonstrated the cognitive dissonance present in the bullshit influencer. That's pretty neat to hear of, and rather unsurprising..

if he had just not filed taxes, then he wouldn't have had to lie about his taxes

black swan event, that is

i wasn't around for the historicals... could you please comment on the claim in his interview that there were shadowy characters coming around convincing people that small blocks were the thing?

good question. Thanks for asking it here

^^ obviously this is an inaccurate statement. but it's functionally identical to your claim that music has no economic value.

good movies aren't easy to make. same as good songs. they're scarce.

wrong.

ownership of the song isn't changing. they're streaming you bits... phone's converting that to sounds, yes.

it's a nice noise, that you pay for the comfort of hearing.

you're not paying for songs. you're paying for the service of listening to them (you continue to lean on this argument while you're making the point (which I disagree with) about the value of music).

song ownership is not changing through the transaction with Spotify.

Spotify is the same as paying a theater to watch a movie.

awe, thanks

as i mention here, i don't agree that digitized things have no value. the point of the post is satire.

i think the argument that individual songs don't have value is absurd, too. the fact that amplified music is ubiquitous and individuals may not have to afford music has more to do with the fact that they are freeloaders to the entertainment environment (somebody else paid for the music they're listening to) than it has to do with the actual value of the music itself.

i do not dispute the suggestion that some songs are worthless (consider the case of "muzak" or so much of the LLM music that has been flooding the zeitgeist)