It's more useful to look at it through the lens of Pareto distribution rather than averages. From the chapter of my book, published also here: Let's look inside the Pareto distribution, towards the median. If we are among the poorest 80% and within that we are Juraj Feb 17, 2024, 11:34 AM
Yes. Europe is living Atlas Shrugged live. It's mostly part of the declining world, although there are ascending spots here and there. While I agree, there are a few things to note as well: Western Europe has insane amounts of accumulated capital. It can take decades until people Juraj Feb 17, 2024, 10:58 AM
I don't know how you can handle the boring view. No Apple vision pro... And that highly limited breakfast, short on synthetic jelly and sausages from default hotel continental menu . This nomad life must be hardcore.… Juraj Feb 17, 2024, 7:38 AM
Hmmm, I wish there was an open source, self custodial provider that can not only accept Bitcoin, lightning and even Monero, but also do magic with it on the backend... Oh, here it is! @BTCPay Server Short the corps!… Juraj Feb 17, 2024, 7:35 AM
Think about the populist case for fully socialized medicine. What’s supposed to be so great about it? The certainty. You know that no matter what happens, the government will provide your health care. Of course, this certainty is merely rhetorical. Can you be certain that the government will cover… Juraj Feb 16, 2024, 7:40 AM
To get even more meta. LXMF from Reticulum project can transfer encrypted messages in QR codes. Maximum capacity of byte data (version 40) of QR code is 2953 bytes. So you can encode a picture, even two in a single QR code, or have better error correction. You can encode… Juraj Feb 14, 2024, 9:55 AM
This is very cool. Fast image generation is nice, but imagine you can send 24x24x2 bytes = 1152 bytes and you can share a photo. Applications: super low bandwidth projects such as radio transmission. Send a map or a photo of a location. Or a family photo. For example with the… Juraj Feb 14, 2024, 8:41 AM
All these construction workers building this beautiful cantillonaire mansion for rent seekers were not building your house.… Juraj Feb 13, 2024, 12:17 PM