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MacBook Pros of the same price are being made worse over time, even though the technology used to make them is getting better. In an economy that isn't an inflationary hellscape, such remarkable efficiency innovations would result in lower-priced goods, commonly lumped in with "deflation" by quasi-socialist Keynesian ideologues, and associated with recessions and business failure. Their solution during such times is-- of course-- increased government spending at the expense of monetary expansion through debt issuance in a fractional reserve system of banking, to prop up such "zombie corporations" for as long as the system will allow before their poor performance from a failed business model becomes inexcusable in the market. And if the business model is successful, as it is in Apple's case, its success is ignored amidst a wash of muddled price signals. It took me a long time and a lot of study to understand why the current system that's commonly called "capitalism" is in fact monetary socialism. And this is the sad truth. It turns out, socialism in all its forms results in significant societal costs. The results speak for themselves, everywhere it's been tried. Monetary socialism is just much more subtle than most forms of socialism, and as a consequence, is much harder to explain why it affects as much as it does. Saifedean in The Bitcoin Standard and The Fiat Standard does an admirable job at providing a high-level overview, which draws much from Hayek's The Road to Serfdom and The Fatal Conceit. This is the kind of stuff they don't teach in schools. Instead they teach, the government must intervene during economic crisis. How convenient for them.

Ars Technica

512GB version of the new MacBook Pro has a slower SSD than the Mac it replaces

Apple is using fewer chips in M2 Macs to provide the same amount of storage.

This is a pretty good, objective overview of Axum and modern Rust serverside development

thoughtbot

Rails developers write some Rust: a review of Axum 0.6

Is Rust Web yet? We used our Rails knowledge to try writing a Web application in Axum in two days.

Fiber keeps your internet regular

Solarpunk is way more practical than steampunk. At least if you adopt solarpunk aesthetic, you get greenhouses, solar panels, windmills, and waterfalls.

It's so frustrating that there's 365 days in a year, but only 256 states in a byte. I propose we move to the 32 hour day, and the hour is redefined as being 64 minutes long, an the minute is 64 seconds long, and the second is 940 ms. There, only... 25 bits... Augh! Ugly numbers!

This is what was needed to keep 10GB of data in 1988. it rly dinks u dink. 🤔

DataVault - Wikipedia

The Sun blasts unimaginable quantities of energy into space each instant, and virtually every joule of it is wasted entirely. Incomprehensible riches can be ours if we can but stretch our arms wide enough to dip from this eternal river of wealth. What better than a system of energy credits to entice humanity to reach for the stars? CEO Gideon Nweze, "Pathways to Abundance"

The technical details of Bitcoin are about as interesting to me as the technical details of Internet Protocol or the SWIFT banking system. I mean, they're certainly fascinating, and useful to grok at that level, to be sure, especially early on. But one day, it'll just be seen as infrastructure, because that's what it is. Granted, it's infrastructure designed to disrupt the world order and revolutionize how humanity exchanges value, but similar was said of the Internet in decades past. As we're colonizing the solar system, teaching grains of sand to think and feel, and learning to manipulate biology at its most fundamental level, there will certainly be other, far more interesting things that will be just as worthy of one's attention. The *real* interesting thing about Bitcoin is what humanity does with this gift.

Normalize conspiracy theories, shame the conspiracies. By shaming theorists, it's like blaming the victim, and gaslighting. No, things are not okay. 60 years later, we'd finally get mainstream confirmation that we were right about JFK. How much longer until we're proven right about 9/11, Jan 6th, the pandemic, and the vaccine?

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