If they lose their retirement that means they will also have to lean on the younger generations that are already having a serious uphill struggle...
Meanwhile the crypto bros and the financially interested are telling everyone bitcoin is going to be the world reserve currency, it's a store of value and so on.
Doesn't sound like irrational exuberance at all does it? :-)
Funny how all the bitcoin purists haven't noticed it's trading like a commodity. Influenced and manipulated by the deep pocketed institutions...it all works out until it doesn't.
For the time being however the math is simple, if Trump continues down the path of weakening the dollar, commodities trading against the dollar will do well. Including Bitcoin.
It's not magic. It's not the second coming of Natishi SuckMyMoto.
Good luck storing your value in someone else's asset.

It would be amazing if there was a document that stated in very clear terms just how limited our federal government is and what it can't do at all no matter what.

With tariffs forcing a massive onshoring of manufacturing you will soon be able to take your $50k student debt and your degree and sit on an assembly line earning minimum wage...and the even better news is you can have two such jobs to work 14-16 hours a day so you can just manage to pay interest and never get out of debt.
As this is not a political post I'll not try to sway you as to what the root cause might be I will let you determine that all by yourself.
I got all my fingers crossed for all Americans and their future...

I think the problem is not so much the $70 vs $80, it's that this money is to buy a beta that might or might not be eventually fixed/polished etc.

Sure but then again I'm after getting the result I imagine. So there a certain amount of control.
If course even without AI some people have down dumber things to their pets... it's a tool. A saw can be used for many things. Same as a hammer or a car.
The real danger are and always have been people. AI is just the next step in speeding up and automating Human error (and therefore learning and success)

Why would the stat be so high? Managers know they are towing the company line and shovelling bullshit.

If it can predict how to turn my bread into toast and actually fumbles it's way to completing the task I'm OK with how it got there.
I might actually manage to live eating toast without ever having known how a toaster works.
Now I just imagine my toast and the AI that doesn't know anything and predicts the next step gives me mostly what I imagined.
It doesn't get tired. It doesn't have a shitty attitude. It won't talk to me about how toasters work just to get toast.

Soon people everywhere will no longer be limited by insufficient coding knowledge and gain immediate beginner to intermediate coding competency.
Anthropic may just be the next big thing in tech investing.
I'd recommend anyone with ideas and inability to code to try Claude Code. It is quite spectacularly good if you consider that it allows someone with 0 coding knowledge to describe a program or script they want and Claude will make it a reality.
Of all the AI available today for coding Anthropic's Claude Opus is IMO hands down the best.
If you never used AI tools I suggest you go watch some YouTube videos on how to set it up...or just chat to Claude.

The lessons learnt here will ensure aviation is the safest mode of transport for years to come. Yes it comes at a cost but increasing use of robotics and AI should help alleviate the high human labour cost in the long run.
An over simplification but the principle would be the same as getting an AI agent to test your site and try every feature every day.
What used to be a tedious and prolonged task requiring multiple people could be left to an automatic mechanism running constantly.

Everyone I know who makes my equivalent AGI, except for my household, has 1+ dogs, work crazy hours, and have been told that their dogs are lonely and depressed.

Not one or two people.

EVERYONE. Dozens upon dozens of my clients, colleagues, peers, friends from grade school, etc, have a dog or two, and then they have to have someone come spend time with said dog when they're putting 10+ hours away from them.

Wag/Rover/etc is part of their crazy consumer spending. I always am shocked to hear they're spending $1000 a month on their pets.

Americans are insane about their pets. Instead of buying a dog, I invest in corporate veterinary hospitals, because it's crazy profitable.

I had to repost my own comment because dyslexia + autocorrect + phone posting sucks. It's like asking if GPS makes you stupid. It certainly alleviates a lot of thinking involved in traditional pre-GPS times of reading a map and remembering a lot of the way...but it requires additional thinking as reaching the destination is no longer the primary challenge. Fairly there is only so much thinking a human can do. We use tools to compensate for our lack of physical abilities and tools for our lack of mental abilities and thus far tools only made us smarter because we need to understand how to use them and to some extent how they work.

It's like asking if GPS makes you stupid. It certainly alleviate a lot of thinking in the traditional pre-GPS thinking of reading a map and remembering a lot of the way...but it requires additional thinking as reaching the destination is no longer the primary challenge. Fairly there is o lying so much thinking a human can do. We use tools to compensate for our lack of physical abilities and tools for our lack of me talking abilities and tools only made us smarter because we need to understand how to use them and to some extent how they work.

I don't understand. Do you mean Chris Hemsworth is an "up-n-comer", or are you saying it's easy to find someone new but similar to him like Chris Hemsworths grow on trees?

Not that I care or gonna watch F4 or another superhero movie. Well, with the very rare exception now and then...

I thought that hiring GP was Astronomer's weird attempt at some sort of flex on Crooks. "Hire Paltrow, i bet she's got dirt on him!"

Wait, he didn't have the trademark for "pebble" but he had for "Core 2 Duo"??? Or is Intel selling off assets for a penny nowadays?