Shapeflation right there! To me, it's kind of even more sinister than just making the candy bar smaller.

Of course. But, does everyone judiciously check that for every product and do the price per ounce tabulation? And the historical price per ounce chart? I love the stores that have the price by per ounce, helps me find the most economical product. Yet that still doesn't tell me what that per ounce price was last year.

Plan to read both, then check this article at some point too. thanks

That's exactly the plan, thank.

I will read that one for sure. Got Snow Crash at the library yesterday, so I'll do that one first just because it's in hand.

You scarin' me.

Thanks. I'm think I'm starting to get it a bit...on the custodial spectrum, has done tradeoffs

Thanks for the info. I still don't quite get it, sounds like it's on the custodial spectrum to me from bitcoin...ln...spark...liquid...ecash

Based on you interests, you are in the right place.

I can't decide how this UNC job will go. Could go really good (since college football is now pro football, maybe a coach like Belichick will be great), or it might go really badly (he can't connect at all with 18, 19, 20 year old young men). My gut leans toward it going bad.

They'll surely point out: bitcoin has no intrinsic use. A house you can live in, you can use a phone, you can make gold jewelry, but you can't do anything with bitcoin.

That's when you pull out a sack of Steak n Shake burgers and fries. You say, "I'll sell you a burger if you pay me with your house, phone, or wedding band."

My understanding of Ostrom's work is this: the tragedy of the commons doesn't go away, but we can do better. Historically, the solution to the tragedy has been regulation from on high...an authority (government) metes out a law: thou shalt only have one cow in the commons per household. Punishment is issued for violators.

As I understand, Ostrom said local communities can better self-regulate than a distant authority from somewhere far away. Self-regulation, self-rules, self-enforcement by the locals is more optimal. You still can't herd a 100 cows on the commons, but maybe you can have two for your family of four because your neighbor who lives alone doesn't need an entire cow and you've agreed to share some of your milk with the neighbor.

In a very short while, "vibe coding" will be a bygone phrase and it'll simply be called "coding".

Then, what will traditional, manual coding, be called? "ManCode" and "man coding"?

No doubt. I guess for me it's horse season when the KY Derby ramps up and I start paying attention. Figured I got to just finish the book. It's hard to read for me when I already know the rest of the story. Did learn stuff though. By the way if you like horses, I wrote about the good/bad of it a week or two ago. It's here: #973869

I just finished it last week. Started it years ago, finally got back to it. Great book, thoroughly enjoyed the movie. I liked Unbroken even better (book) and I don't know which movie I liked bettern both terrific.