Most public debt, at least in the west, is owed to that same public. For the US it's about 75%. The US government can absolutely default, and the people left holding the bag will mostly be Americans.

Gold swings by about 5000%, and is currently quite high.

Most people who have significant assets have the vast majority of those in "something tangible": their house.

Borrowing money because your kids will pay for it is not a wise plan. One might even hypothesize that strategy has something to do with current low birth rates.

"are the main threats to unsustainable debt."

I don't think you've considered what "unsustainable" means.

This would seem like an ideal platform for that. The random unwashed pay the Post-Open Foundation and they pay you. The customer doesn't even pay specific projects, they just pay for the bulk licensing.

Ah, knew someone must have done it. It seems like a good business opportunity putting one on the web though. Unless they haven't figured out how to get it to shut up about incest, slavery and mass murder yet.

If nobody uses it, they'll change the licensing, or offer additional options. I imagine they would get some. Most established companies have a pretty good idea how much a given product is going to sell and they'll do the math. And if they're unprecedentedly successful then they'll do the math again and hire somebody to replace the functionality.

Don't use it?

Licenses are options. If you don't like the license, don't use the product, or contact the author and try to negotiate something to suit your special case.

This thing Perens is proposing isn't really a license. It's an enforcement agency. And yeah, if you're used to ignoring the license because you don't think it should apply to you then probably you're not going to like it.

It sounds like you didn't make it to the second paragraph, but it's also possible that in AWS-land "private" means "publicly acessible and writable?"

If so, you can't really blame the author for the confusion.

The internet predated the dot com boom.

Dot com was about the idea that you could use the Internet to sell stuff. That completely died and nobody ever does it. After that brief interlude we went back to waiting for progressive JPEGs to load on the Louvre website.

No, it changes the weather. It's a short-term effect.

You could argue that building a civilization that depends on emitting a lot of water vapour makes a lot term change, i.e. changes the climate, but your post was about water vapour being a greenhouse gas, not changing the climate.

A Ia supernova is a white dwarf that accretes enough material to blow itself to pieces. This one will presumably do that eventually. A type II supernova is a large star that collapses into either a neutron star or a black hole, or blows itself to smithereens, depending on its size and metallicity.

That depends on how fast you're moving, and in what direction.

Or, the sensible interpretation, everything has already happened.

Yeah, but when the concentration gets too high it condenses and falls out of the atmosphere. You may have observed this yourself.

Yes, my laptop is a ten year old 15" MacBook pro and the only real upgrade I'm coveting is something smaller and lighter, ideally with the same size screen. Anything computationally intensive just gets executed via ssh on either my desktop or a cluster somewhere. But some people want portable desktop workstations. Contrary to the OPs desire, you can't have both.

Second this.

Pharma companies on the other hand....