Notices by Nicholas Conrad (nicholas@aklp.club)

Both. Unfortunately not making it to Patagonia, but we'll spend some time in Buenos Aries, and most of the time in the country in the north-west.

Will be there in November, very excited to see it.

#gnome

In Madrid, that's what all the buskers play. It was the best thing about that city.

GM ☕️ What is for breakfast?

Vscodium ftw

'Dark' wasn't the problem with picard season 1. 🤔 Maybe he misheard and thought people were calling it "redarked"?

I just finished his Martin Hench series (my first foray into Doctorow's fiction writing). The characters are lively, the dialog is witty, and on the whole they are well plotted and fun to read. But man, they are also dripping with SJW moralizing. Even on issues where his politics and mine align, it gets cringe-inducingly hamfisted in several places.

If mmt was even close to being correct, hyperinflation would be a theoretical boogie-man like the "deflationary spiral" instead of actually wreaking devastation and total destruction on every single country that has ever acted as though mmt was even close to correct.

I explicitly didn't say mmt claims hyperinflation is impossible. I said if mmt was real then hyperinflation wouldn't happen in practice. Any halfway competent bueacracy would just jack up tax rates and bad-a-bing optimal inflation achieved. Yet this has never happened.

too much money in the system = hyperinflation

Literally nobody thinks that.

overpriced enshittified roads

Bruh, have you seen the government roads?

demand you to have a monthly subscription to drive on their road

Yeah, they require by law my bank confiscate part of my mortgage payment each month to be held in escrow and forked over to the city automatically on tax day.

adobe-style cancellation fee.

Adobe doesn’t make you move house to cancel your subscription 🙄

money is not a scarce resource for the state. The problem is not running out of money, but losing credibility.

A statement drempt up by the utterly MMT-brained.

I heard a joke once:

A forign dignitary visits the great sultan, and he shows off the fruits of his empire:

Upon touring the dozen royal palaces, each in their own exquisite style, the dignitary exclaims "Great sultan, truely your architects are beyond measure in the whole world!"

After examining the royal treasury with countless pieces of art and jewelry the dignitary cries "great sultan, you have accumulated riches beyond the imagination of mortal men!"

And Upon seeing the harem of 1,000 concubines the dignity asks shocked: "Great sultan, how is it even possible that each of these thousand women is even more beautiful than the last?" To which the sultan replied: "Well, you see, you have to line them up that way."

Your workflow requires one bad app, so you might just as well run all bad apps and a bad os toboot

The true mark of a man who doesn't understand the concept: "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good."

It'll take you anywhere, but you can redline it and not hit 100 mph. Remember: 'it's more fun to ride a slow bike fast than a fast bike slow'

https://www.triumphmotorcycles.com/motorcycles/classic/scrambler-400-x

They had a slider qwerty running android too. Locked bootloader made it a no-go for me though 😟

You might be thinking about operation Babylon

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/operation-babylon-israels-strike-on-al-tuwaitha/

I will never understand why tech designers hate buttons so much.

The htc dream was the closest we've ever come to the perfect form factor; it was just missing dedicated media player buttons. 😗👌

Is this just your way of bragging that you finally have a dedicated BTC rig?