I still think DOGE is just feeding all that information to Palantir, and everything else is a pretext to that goal. They want an AI embedded directly into the government, making a large dependency on it, and bypassing checks and balances quickly has allowed that to happen.

What tech are we talking about here, theres a billion different pieces of software out there all doing drastically different things.

Ya that is the bulk of my use, streaming sites and such.

Its a search engine, what are they going to do, give some guys search history to Putin?

I generally use it for finding streaming sites.

I created it in Word and opened it in Teams by accident once.

I use Yandex a lot now for not censoring me. Maybe I’ll have to try this.

Well its still early days, Biden was very against Crypto, so point of sales systems couldnt provide it. Companies like Square are now working on it, so you will be able to use it; or any form of cash you want, or fractional shares and gold etf.

Maybe all currencies will just be forced to compete on inflation one day, and everyone will use the one with the lowest annual growth in new supply.

You want just a fatty wad of cash, and for tellers to sit there counting change or what?

Or maybe a CBDC, so they can inflate it even more, giving out your purchasing power like like its a political football?

Do you think credit cards are ideal? People happily pay a 4% fee to Visa to buy something at the store, yet you think a spot convert is going to be the death knell?

As well as the deflation of their currency, as the currency increases at around 10% a year, as you’re praying that a CPI that does hedonic adjustments and substitutions maintains your standard of living; as we go from free range to factory farms, and housing appreciation is excluded entirety.

Maybe it wont be bitcoin, maybe it will be fractional shares, or spot convert gold, but I am definitely waiting for the day when I can hold 0$ in cash. I’m already near 0, but I’d like to replace it entirely.

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It’s objectively more private, if you take your own bias out of the equation. Monero doesn’t get much use however, its not very popular but it is private.

Ah weird.

Wikimedia is even using php still. Firefox created Rust I believe, in order to advance.

Sorry, why are they greedy?

Oh cool, thanks.

Its interesting they don’t have all the services Proton does. I’d pay them for a email and VPN combo.

Gitlab Id say. It even works as a OAuth server. The docker container is very easy to setup.

I think its because deflation is when the money supply is contracting and less debt is being created, so asset values begin to be valued at their actual value instead of their inflated nominal value, and people are no longer encouraged to attain the cantillon effect that drives up asset values.

Which an inflated nominal value then causes more consumption via the wealth effect, and the misallocation of capital known as the business cycle, that requires bailouts via money printing in order to debase people on fixed income which provides riskier debt issuance and more innovation.

I like a BeOS style vertical taskbar with window names. Neither of them do it well.

Not to mention DRM. They want to own your computer and prevent any kind of modification so that movie producers give them money.