*China's gazillion factories are deflationary : that makes China the enemy. You buy cheap shit from China : debt doesn't get devalued as fast as the corrupt class would like.* View quoted note →

A brutal reality check. Although i frame Bitcoin as an ethical exit from fiat, i am still 'gambling' that I am right about it Not just ethically correct but assuming the market 'votes' in the same way i.e. NgU. *Markets are about the edge. If you don't have it, you don't add anything to the price, except for liquidity. You are gambling and the odds are not in your favor. Good.* View quoted note →

*Privacy isn’t extreme. Mass surveillance is.* View quoted note →

*Helm, the Oxford professor, argues renewable energy will remain more expensive than fossil fuels because the overall system is more cumbersome. The U.K. used to meet its electricity demand with 60-70 gigawatts of power capacity. Now, the country requires twice as much capacity, 120 gigawatts, to meet slightly lower demand—not to mention the additional storage facilities and interconnector supplies to and from continental Europe.*

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Europe's Green Delusions Are Luxury Beliefs (WSJ, Tom Fairless & Max Colchester) \ stacker news

Everybody knows that renewables (="unreliables") don't work as baseload or really at all for powering a 21st-century civilization. Yet, certain cra...

*a sound money future gives people room to choose work they care about. To stop trading their purpose for a paycheck* View quoted note →

Villermaux derived a mathematical equation that describes the pattern of fragment sizes from a shattered object. He then validated the equation by comparing the equation's predictions to years' worth of fragmentation data collected on various objects, including glass, spaghetti, liquid droplets, gas bubbles, plastic fragments in the ocean, and even flakes from early stone tools. All matched the predicted size distribution. New physics equation describes universal law of how things shatter, from glass to pasta | Live Science

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A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same ...

*The cynic always wins the argument. And loses everything else.* View quoted note →

*when you give everyone a button that says “show me more stuff like this” they keep pressing it until they end up somewhere insane* View quoted note →

*Everyone claims to love “nuance” until you actually present them with some* View quoted note →

*Democracy by retweet is just the tyranny of whoever has the most free time* View quoted note →

*Every complex system is one black swan away from revealing it was duct tape all along.* View quoted note →

*There's a whole generation that learned irony before sincerity and now they're trapped.... The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.* View quoted note →

*Culture isn't actually "worse" now. You just got older and stopped being the target demo.* View quoted note →

*The reasonable majority gets drowned out by the loudest extremists and now nobody can have normal conversations about anything. The flanks capture the discourse.* View quoted note →

*There are signs, if you're watching for them. A creeping restlessness that suggests you're ready to plant something new. A bone-deep fatigue that suggests you need to stop harvesting and let the field recover.* View quoted note →

*most people don't take agency to adopt a new system ahead of states and institutions* View quoted note →

Interesting.... *I do not believe in one ring, one money, one A-eye to rule them all. I believe in nature that has built in competition and synergy at the core. It comes with kill switches (Achilles) to exit the form and start anew.* View quoted note →

*Calm people calm you. Driven people activate you. Draining people drain you* View quoted note →

*it is mostly our own fault for allowing ~100% of nodes to run a single implementation for so long* View quoted note →

*Usury violates covenantal bonds by commodifying the need of the vulnerable* View quoted note →