In software, you have the privilege of writing succinctly to communicate facts. In every other industry, the message needs to be packaged with courtesies like a greeting, cushioned delivery, and salutations. It’s a big waste of time and people stop reading your messages. But don’t put a bow on it and you get labeled as an asshole. At least the AI note taker can make me sound more palatable.
I wish I had that privilege. I've had a manager make a paragraph-long question about if I had any training courses that I'd want to take, and when I answered with a "No", I got chewed out for not being communicative or something.
That’s one way to frame it, but it’s missing the power imbalance. Loveable was the smaller party here, Figma suddenly turned hostile when their success overlapped with a feature Figma hadn’t monetized yet.
“Used the moment” sounds a lot like surviving a punch and then asking for help. If you think that’s scheming, maybe revisit who threw the first punch.
After all these years, people still aren’t accepting the basics of this argument.
Using nation-backed currencies, inflation can speed up rapidly — and often does. Money becomes cheaper, and it can lead to economic growth if done well, or economic destruction if done poorly.
In a Bitcoin-dominated world, the supply rate slows down as programmed, so it ends up being deflationary and winners take all.
So the only factor that decides if Bitcoin is a bubble is whether we take policy action to ban it as an investment product and method of exchange, or we let it replace money on a macro level.
To the Americans here: given recent inflation and increasing deficits, the time to decide is NOW. In my view, if you care about 1) national sovereignty or 2) income inequality, the answer is clear that we must take a much stronger step towards censoring Bitcoin on a banking and financial sector level.
Bitcoin is the solution to income inequality and taking back national sovereignty from central bankers.
Inflation is also a silent, invisible tax on the poor. It quietly eats away at their savings and buying power and ensures they will always be poor.
Bitcoin is also the solution to perpetual war. The only reason that WW2 was able to go on for so long was due to all the Western countries leaving the gold standard, and it is the reason that we have perpetual wars in the modern world. Governments just issue more bonds and when those don't sell, they just ask the central banks to buy their bonds. Bitcoin forces countries back into sane policies.
Let me say it another way — When the pioneers of the Internet started working on the first protocols, MANY of them thought it would lead to a new area of peace and free-thought. In 2025, many of them now just believe they created a corporate surveillance state.
As a former bitcoiner, I challenge any pro-crypto person to start imaging ways it could all go wrong.
Or at least make a list of three possible downsides?
It totally can. Governments around the world are trying their damnest to squeeze and crush as many of their citizens liberties as they possibly can. The European Central Bank is poised to push out the digital Euro that will track every single transaction you make and can be set to burn itself in your bank account if you post an anti immigration meme on Facebook. That is the direction the world is going. The only way we are going to protect outselves is ensure that our monetary system is a decentralized, peer to peer, self-governed and un-debankable, so that Corrupt governments do not make us financial slaves for the next 1000 years like in George Orwell's 1984.
In the US we have community colleges where you can take classes cheaply. Here in San Francisco there is a great Electronics class at CCSF you can take for free, providing you finish the course and are an SF resident.
I’m glad someone was able to get a bonus or promotion out of this, but in the just another symptom of google losing it’s soul as a “hard problems” engineering shop.
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