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Me: money is fake
Them: yeah it's just paper that we ascribe value to
Me: no it's faker than that. Only 3 percent of USD exists as physical currency. The rest is just bank credit.
Them: right, so money is just numbers in bank accounts that the government creates from nothing
Me: no, it's faker than that. Most money is bank credit, created by private banks. Not the government, not the Fed, banks like Chase or Bank of America. They take zero dollars and turn that into a loan and debt. They decide who gets new money. Capitalists decide where new money is created and who it goes to. If the government paid back all government debt, there would be no more treasury bonds, and then if everybody paid off all their private debt, there would be no more money.
Them: wow, so most money is just credit corresponding to debt, and there's just a small amount of money they borrow from the federal reserve that was created by the government.
Me: no, it's faker than that. Since 2020 reserve requirements were abolished. Banks don't need to legally keep any money on hand or borrow money from the federal reserve or each other at all. They can just pay interest on every dollar they create to the federal reserve without borrowing from the Fed at all.
Them: oh. So money is REALLY fake.
Me: yeah. so if the government just paid off all of our student debt it wouldn't affect the money supply at all. It would do nothing to the economy other than release a huge debt burden. So let's do that.
What’s the opposite of Carmack-levels of motivation? Because that’s me at work lately.
This happens to some degree already, when phone battery levels start to dip. But, it’s opaque, and I’m not sure if app developers are able to handle those cases in their application code.
This idea has definitely *not* been inspired by parenting.
Battle royale game where instead of playing yourself, you pit a bot you’ve trained against other players’ bots.
An OS designed for solar-powered computers
The available instruction set changes based on available power levels
Fuck off from work in the middle of the day to play those fancy video games
RIP #lot2046
For the good death
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A “Koyaanisqatsi” reboot featuring the same soundtrack, but using found footage from YouTube selected by a bot.
Learning C and computer hardware is finally changing how I think and perceive the world.
Concept album idea: using scavenged and repaired musical instruments, write and record an album set in a post-apocalyptic future, where the beats are all uber-danceable and the lyrics are all nostalgic for our current times.
Current job goal: generate output that I don’t hate
Just used ASL to count hexadecimal. There's a Venn diagram here.
When I brag on my wife, I talk about how she was a professional pastry chef, and is now going back to school to get her PhD in organic chemistry.
When she brags on me, she talks about how I do laundry.
I'd like to be my own lever, aimed at a weight of my choosing.
I have laid myself upon a fulcrum, so that force can be applied to me and I can help move an impossible weight.
I listed out all the parts of my job, in order to figure out where I can increase the leverage of certain tasks and be more effective in what I do.
I then realized -- I am the lever for someone else.
Ah, the ol’ “this is hard and complicated because I’m taking the wrong approach” feedback cycle.
“Fundies in my undies,” as a rap lyric, seems underutilized.
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