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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 4h \ parent \ on: What problems are you facing? AskSN

Well, something I'll say is that the cities that are considered desirable change over time. I don't know how it is with Sydney, but just in the last 30 years in Los Angeles Culver City has transformed from a more modest neighborhood to a high tech hipster place with soaring home values.

So instead of focusing on the places you can't afford, why not focus on building up the communities in the places that you can? And who knows, maybe 20 years from now, that community will be considered the more desirable place to live?

12 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 4h \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon

there's a whole series of these

62 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 4h \ on: Stacker Saloon

Hmm, tempting

55 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 5h \ on: [Ask Stackers] What led you to Bitcoin? bitcoin_beginners

Just reading the white paper. It taught me what bitcoin was and what it was for. I realized it wasn't a scam, and it had real potential. Then, reading Antonop's Mastering Bitcoin helped me understand more how it worked under the hood.

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 7h \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon

did you really?

102 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 7h \ on: More than 2/3 of all primary energy is lost as waste heat bitcoin_Mining

Very interesting. Can Bitcoin actually make use of this waste heat? For transportation, I'm thinking mostly "no", but what about the others?

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 9h \ on: Why I recommend against Brave 🦁 tech

This makes me want to use Brave more

36 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 9h \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon

i'm definitely checking it out next time i'm in new york

36 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 10h \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon

how's the food?

50 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 10h \ on: What problems are you facing? AskSN

My biggest struggle right now is actually with diet and exercise. With two kids and lots of other obligations, it's hard to establish any routines. But the bigger issue than that is simply willpower.

49 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 10h \ parent \ on: Food Stamps and the Federal War on Self-Reliance econ

i actually don't favor that, reason being that I don't think that within a democratic society, there is any credible commitment to let people suffer the consequence of their own bad choices. Thus, cash transfers will never work as a substitute for in-kind transfers. I think it's a sad state of affairs, but I think it is the state of affairs.

52 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 10h \ parent \ on: Food Stamps and the Federal War on Self-Reliance econ

restricting choice is a necessary consequence of public money

that's why, during the Obamacare debate, I didn't like it when republicans called bureaucrats deciding on healthcare choices as "death panels". If you're gonna be throwing public money around, which the healthcare system already does, you need a non-price form of rationing

ideally, the solution would be to get public money out of as many markets as possible. If that's not possible, then you have to restrict the things that the public money can be used on, sadly.