And that gets into why thinking in terms of 'settled' is kinda silly. For any particular theory there is a scope to it. Newton's stuff was never debunked, it just got a change in scope, but all the equations are still used in the majority of situations... they are still right to within a certain range.
Sadly, this is true for pretty much all American political thought. Pretty much everyone in the US, regardless of political stripe, is 'freedom loving' in their own mind, but their lines usually conflict with other people's.
Or pick the name of an ex-coworker that you thought was cool, or simply could not remember where you had heard it and decided it would make a good alias.
Going in the other direction, while every country has its outliers, I would say the US is not exactly top of the list when it comes to systemic problems with paparazzi journalism.
Be prepared to be ashamed for things you do buy then. Apple tends to get singled out for some reason, but the things it gets criticized for are the norm, any transnational that is not doing them is just hurting itself and becoming less competitive. This is something that can only be fixed if the rules change in a way that effect all the companies, not something that public shaming of individual ones can help.
Well, one issue is how much to the governments actually care? BTC adherents believe they are a huge futuristic threat to the world order and have states quaking in their boots, but as far as I can see, outside worries about money laundering and tax evasion, the various states do not really care all that much.
Control over currency is important, it allows governments to make adjustments based off the needs of the economy, which increases stability. BTC would need to get much, much larger to even make a dent in the overall stability of the economy and THEN states might actually worry, but we are about as close to that as interstellar travel.
To be fair, with autonomous cars, they do not need to be perfect, just more reliable then human drivers. Given we have pretty good metrics on how often people mess up, there is a pretty clear bar afterwhich autonomous cars are 'good enough'.
BTC as a protocol no, but as an ecosystem it is still open to debate. With USD there are rules regarding who can act as a bank and what procedures they need to follow and, in exchange, if something goes wrong with said bank FDIC will help the people hurt by it. So the ecosystem around USD means greater stability and trust in financial institutions, even small ones.
but.... but... the market fixes everything! If consumers just vote with their wallets we do not need regulation in order to have dependable banks, right?
More accurately, there are men and women who will take advantage of others, but that does not mean 'men' or 'women' do. There will always be jerks, but jerks do not define the whole.
I applaud the author for trying to keep things even and dig into the numbers, but she missed two rather critical things.
The first thing she touched on was women staying in STEM. She dismisses this as personal choice and finding something 'more fulfilling', but most women I have talked to that dropped out of STEM did so more because of problems they encountered with coworkers and managers. They did not really want to leave the industry in order to take a lower paying job in another field, but they found treatment to be pretty bad and opportunities to be fairly restricted.
And that brings us to the second point, opportunities. While it is true that actual pay for the same job tends to be fairly even, advancement opportunities for women still tend to be pretty limited. The same quality of work is often praised more for a male then a female and men are generally seen more as 'management material' and 'leaders', while the same leadership behaviors in women are often dismissed as being 'bitchy'. Dominance is often rewarded in men and punished for women, which results in fewer women getting those higher paying jobs within the same organization.
Actually, all of the women I have dated have been like that. For that matter most of the women I know are like that. The ones you describe are more creations of men in internet forums telling other men how women are.
Well, that is part of the appeal to adherents. They do not want a currency to expand or contract to fit use. They have gotten ahold of some alternative history where the gold standard was actually a good thing and believe that a deflationary currency will improve the economy since investment is for takers.
Yeah, but people do not actually like Paypal. Paypal survives by inertia and eBay integration. Sellers use them because buyers are registered with them. Buyers use them because sellers are registered with them. They are terrible, but people who break away from them just find themselves with fewer opportunities.
Well yes, that is because banks, unlike BTC exchanges, are actually critical for the economy to keep moving. When a BTC exchange goes down the impact is minimal. When an entire banking system freezes up things start grinding to a halt.
True, I can agree that people who did not learn to use the tool to a degree have themselves to blame, esp when it comes to having used exchanges (since it could be argued that their primary utility was for trading and speculation).
However, when trying to extend things to more general solutions, it is a failure of the tool not the user.
Which is why crypto-anarchists are seen as elitist snobs. They are the digital equivalent of people who think it is better to learn MMA then have a police force and thus the 'only way' to solve a problem just happens to be the same solution they themselves are good at.
While it is a loaded word, I do not think it is inappropriate here. While adherents have talked about how BTC could help the developing world, its primary utility is to people who are in strong economic positions. BTC is a bit of a luxury toy, it solves primarily philosophical problems that become important when not only basic needs have been met but luxury needs are already partly sated. The community built around it has, at its core, the idea that they are owed more by society then they are getting (even though they are already benefiting from the main economy more then the vast majority of humans and more then a significant majority of people in the 1st world) and BTC part of that idea.
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And that gets into why thinking in terms of 'settled' is kinda silly. For any particular theory there is a scope to it. Newton's stuff was never debunked, it just got a change in scope, but all the equations are still used in the majority of situations... they are still right to within a certain range.
Sadly, this is true for pretty much all American political thought. Pretty much everyone in the US, regardless of political stripe, is 'freedom loving' in their own mind, but their lines usually conflict with other people's.
Or pick the name of an ex-coworker that you thought was cool, or simply could not remember where you had heard it and decided it would make a good alias.
I think she said there were something like 3 people with that name according to US and JP records.
Going in the other direction, while every country has its outliers, I would say the US is not exactly top of the list when it comes to systemic problems with paparazzi journalism.
No. Depression is not rational, it is a mental illness. You can have a wonderful life and a full future and it can still kill you.
Someone is dead, likely from suicide stemming from clinical depression.
This really is not the best place to inject all the politics and conspiracy theories.
That really seems like a significant stretch, or at minimal a significant persecution complex with an inflated sense of importance.
Be prepared to be ashamed for things you do buy then. Apple tends to get singled out for some reason, but the things it gets criticized for are the norm, any transnational that is not doing them is just hurting itself and becoming less competitive. This is something that can only be fixed if the rules change in a way that effect all the companies, not something that public shaming of individual ones can help.
Well, the solution to that is simple at least, if people do not like the behavior of socially conservative women, date more liberal ones.
Well, one issue is how much to the governments actually care? BTC adherents believe they are a huge futuristic threat to the world order and have states quaking in their boots, but as far as I can see, outside worries about money laundering and tax evasion, the various states do not really care all that much.
Control over currency is important, it allows governments to make adjustments based off the needs of the economy, which increases stability. BTC would need to get much, much larger to even make a dent in the overall stability of the economy and THEN states might actually worry, but we are about as close to that as interstellar travel.
To be fair, with autonomous cars, they do not need to be perfect, just more reliable then human drivers. Given we have pretty good metrics on how often people mess up, there is a pretty clear bar afterwhich autonomous cars are 'good enough'.
BTC as a protocol no, but as an ecosystem it is still open to debate. With USD there are rules regarding who can act as a bank and what procedures they need to follow and, in exchange, if something goes wrong with said bank FDIC will help the people hurt by it. So the ecosystem around USD means greater stability and trust in financial institutions, even small ones.
but.... but... the market fixes everything! If consumers just vote with their wallets we do not need regulation in order to have dependable banks, right?
More accurately, there are men and women who will take advantage of others, but that does not mean 'men' or 'women' do. There will always be jerks, but jerks do not define the whole.
I applaud the author for trying to keep things even and dig into the numbers, but she missed two rather critical things.
The first thing she touched on was women staying in STEM. She dismisses this as personal choice and finding something 'more fulfilling', but most women I have talked to that dropped out of STEM did so more because of problems they encountered with coworkers and managers. They did not really want to leave the industry in order to take a lower paying job in another field, but they found treatment to be pretty bad and opportunities to be fairly restricted.
And that brings us to the second point, opportunities. While it is true that actual pay for the same job tends to be fairly even, advancement opportunities for women still tend to be pretty limited. The same quality of work is often praised more for a male then a female and men are generally seen more as 'management material' and 'leaders', while the same leadership behaviors in women are often dismissed as being 'bitchy'. Dominance is often rewarded in men and punished for women, which results in fewer women getting those higher paying jobs within the same organization.
Actually, all of the women I have dated have been like that. For that matter most of the women I know are like that. The ones you describe are more creations of men in internet forums telling other men how women are.
I don't know... I have generally found that women like that exist mostly in the imaginations of men trying to explain why they are not sexist.
Well, that is part of the appeal to adherents. They do not want a currency to expand or contract to fit use. They have gotten ahold of some alternative history where the gold standard was actually a good thing and believe that a deflationary currency will improve the economy since investment is for takers.
Yeah, but people do not actually like Paypal. Paypal survives by inertia and eBay integration. Sellers use them because buyers are registered with them. Buyers use them because sellers are registered with them. They are terrible, but people who break away from them just find themselves with fewer opportunities.
Yeah, but so far it is just group think and says a lot about the community`s self perception.
Well yes, that is because banks, unlike BTC exchanges, are actually critical for the economy to keep moving. When a BTC exchange goes down the impact is minimal. When an entire banking system freezes up things start grinding to a halt.
True, I can agree that people who did not learn to use the tool to a degree have themselves to blame, esp when it comes to having used exchanges (since it could be argued that their primary utility was for trading and speculation). However, when trying to extend things to more general solutions, it is a failure of the tool not the user.
Which is why crypto-anarchists are seen as elitist snobs. They are the digital equivalent of people who think it is better to learn MMA then have a police force and thus the 'only way' to solve a problem just happens to be the same solution they themselves are good at.
While it is a loaded word, I do not think it is inappropriate here. While adherents have talked about how BTC could help the developing world, its primary utility is to people who are in strong economic positions. BTC is a bit of a luxury toy, it solves primarily philosophical problems that become important when not only basic needs have been met but luxury needs are already partly sated. The community built around it has, at its core, the idea that they are owed more by society then they are getting (even though they are already benefiting from the main economy more then the vast majority of humans and more then a significant majority of people in the 1st world) and BTC part of that idea.