Hindsight is 20/20 and I was referring to liquidating a portion of your bitcoin holdings, not all of them.

Yes, it is. How can it make sense to get a mortgage if you can pay cash, unless you think you can get a higher rate of return on investment than you pay on a mortgage... which I really doubt is doable nowadays unless you invest in a pretty high-risk investment.

(Note: I'm in Canada and mortgage interest here is not tax-deductible which might very slightly change the calculus.)

People ought to be incentivized to reduce plastic on their own, especially food, due to the estrogenic effects.

They say it's a "great mystery" why males have historical low testosterone and women have messed up cycles.

I just found out last week that my chewing gum (notionally a xylitol-carrier) is made with "gum base" which I presumed is a mixture of several plant and tree gums.

Nope! FDA allows, and the market dominates, mixtures containing polyethylene, polystyrene, etc. Real gums went out when I was a kid.

I'm not on the microplastics scare wagon but this is out of control!

Bobby is doing great things with coal tar dyes, so maybe there's hope for plastics (then wheat contaminants, ideally).

Both methods can get you "a job".

If you want to be a 9-5'er that's fine but outside of the trades that's really unstable work. Pink slips and bankruptcies everywhere.

Work your social networks (family, church, community groups) for opportunities to earn money on your terms, if you can handle it.

Then you lose out. On the other hand, Bitcoin is a very risky investment, so you could very well win big by cashing out and buying something less risky.

IMO, if you have $1M or $2M invested in a highly volatile asset, cashing out 25% to 50% of it for something with almost no risk is not a bad decision.

If you have a million or two in Bitcoin, sell $500K of it to buy your house with cash.

If you have $1M in cash, why wouldn't you buy a $250K house with cash?

He's starting out great with Krypto the Super-Dog!

Interesting because the moral argument is about reproduction.

I own a notepad and a pencil. But if I start writing "A long time ago in Galaxy far, far away" and continue as such, 'you' will threaten to beat me up and put me in a cage for years (if I persist despite threats).

That just obliterates real property rights in favor of imaginary property rights. And real property rights are the basis of a peaceful civilization.

On the other hand, the AI bros have a moral obligation to not suddenly destroy society's creative engine of thinkers to make a quick buck.

On the other ... tail ... the lizard at Facebook has no morals. People expect their government to protect them from such predators because their government school taught them a fairy tale version of what government is.

7+7 is how the Founders understood the Constitutional bargain.

Mark Twain planned to add a new chapter to each of his books every seven years.

"You do want to know what happened next, don't you?"

Life+75 is just abuse and Corporate Welfare (but I repeat myself).

This is a good move. Now everyone outside the USA needs to do the same thing. The USA is no longer a trustworthy partner and you really don't want to risk the USA shutting down your operations if King Donald gets in a snit at you.

I've de-Big-Tech'd my personal life to quite a large extent.

I'm also in Canada. Our system is very good... except that it's incredibly slow and access is difficult because there are not enough family doctors. Once you manage to get in the system, care is excellent.

The speed and lack of doctors can be fixed with adjustments to the system that don't involve bringing in private healthcare. We need to recognize foreign doctors' credentials more readily and not force family practitioners to also deal with owning a business and all the headaches that go along with that.

In Canada, some services (eg, lab work and diagnostic imaging) are done by private companies that are reimbursed by the government. I think that's a fine arrangement and would be open to that sort of "private healthcare."

But math has "a steep learning curve"! :ducks:

> film which has comparable resolution to 4K and below

"It's complicated".

Many of the masterpiece films were filmed on 70mm which is about 4x the size of 35mm, plus better emulsion with a tighter grain.

So if we take your 4K number for a normal film and 4x it and double that for scanning we're waiting for 32K to master it digitally.

We're going to need faster storage!

Why ask why you need it?

Ever see a Jumbotron in 1080p? It's ridiculous.

I can totally see a wall-sized screen being useful for many businesses. Walk to one area, read what's there, move to another area to read something else. Analysts, factories, hospitals, military, theme parks, etc.

They already are doing this with walls of a dozen different screens, with that many video cards, cables, power supplies.

Or complex video splitters, muxers/demuxers, etc.

When they scale to 24K there will be customers too.

I'll be happy with low-cost 8K when all that hits the market.