> We have been hearing these same predictions about the national debt for almost 100 years ... the argument is fundamentally flawed. Mostly because it ignores things like economic growth, inflation and the value created by whatever the debt buys.

The fiat system has collapsed a few times, do you know anything about Brazil or Zimbabwe?

I don't think gold is a magic solution here, or returning to that standard would fix everything, but you do need some level of balance between the amount of currency and the things there are to buy with it and we damn near broke it during Covid with the mass inflation there. So I wouldn't be too cavalier that this could never happen, even as I don't think it's in any immediate danger.

But remember: there won't be a US dollar to peg the US dollar to if we screw it up and that's the only way Brazil got out of its mess in the 1990s.

Meanwhile, you can get $100 trillion Zimbabwe dollars for $3 USD.

> It's a useless technology anyway

I hope this quote someday goes on to be as infamous as "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." but Slashdot probably isn't relevant enough for that any longer.

Yeah, because the customers don't want anything else. Itch.io is great ... if you want random indie stuff. GOG seems to have no idea what to recommend and you either get games from 1992 or hentai VNs with a porn patch so they're not technically selling the porn, with little that's actually interesting.

If they ever want to do that, they should hire Kitboga. He made a digital maze where a bunch of scammers are still looking for some bitcoin that doesn't exist by solving captchas, waiting on hold in ridiculous phone trees, etc.

I see a lot of grumbling about hypothetical bug fixes. Personal experience - my Tesla has been bug free, what does happen is the software gets better and better.

Since I purchased my car two years ago, it's gained several features I love and use:

1. Instant live video feed from the car to my phone if the alarm goes off
2. Navigation now has an "avoid highways" option and "search along route"
3. Navigation tells you the weather forecast at your destination for longer drives
4. An easy "low power mode" that turns off all optional features (like security cameras) when parked
5. Added support for Audible and a couple of other entertainment streams
6. Option to automatically reduce AC fan speeds when on calls

There are things I'd like to give the designers a hard time about - more physical controls, door controls that don't confuse guests, but the software and update system is outstanding. Like my phone, and unlike any car I've owned before, the car keeps getting incrementally better.

This is what I did. They're basically indestructible and once I learned how they worked, I haven't needed anything else. They also seem to be easier to clean than the old nonstick pans. Oh, and they give you a little extra iron in your food.

> "Art" that is created by a non-scient, non-sapient entity, that has neither an idea what it is doing nor an artist's intention is by definition not art.

This is how I feel about the banana duck taped to the wall.

We should ask it what the fox says.

> Even if the hardware is already firewalled away from the public internet.

Then just use an internal CA that signs the certs for as long as you want? Why even get a public CA cert for that, if you control everyone talking to it?