Have you ever been involved in development or written software?

Is this sarcasm? I honestly can't tell.

Like... finance, economics and investments?

I don’t get his metaphor. Rat poison is not necessarily a negative thing as it helps people keep vermin under control.

I don't get how he didn't see making such a comment as an own goal, given how the average person sees the financial system these days.

> The World Health Organisation and Walker both recommend about eight hours a night as a good baseline.

I’ll take the shorter lifespan and bet that more diseases will be cured in the future. The extra hours of life I get every day will ultimately allow me to afford treatment.

Good for you if it doesn’t cause you any problems, but if I don’t get enough sleep I really notice my mood and productivity dips. Everyone is different, so just don’t enforce the same regime on others.

Health is never a priority until you smack your proverbial head off the concrete...

Theres a lot of evidence that the extra hour of sleep will boost your efficiency and quality of life while awake though.

... if I mention that very obvious deflationary fixed supply asset I will get downvoted into oblivion on Hacker News.

I think its inflationary actually (beyond the current speculation).

Consider that the miners will always produce a selling pressure on cryptocurrency (because equipment+electricity+labor costs), it stands to reason that cryptocurrencies will always have more sellers than buyers (again no new speculatary buyers for store of value, just pure currency as it was intended initially). This constant selling pressure will add inflation (increasing supply, decreasing price) to Bitcoin. Actually, once a stable price is reached for a long enough time, this constant inflation should make it a viable currency, and unsuitable as a store of value.

Unless the majority of miners agree, there will never be mined more than 21 million btc, and we already know that a none trivial fraction of those coins sit in wallets that no one controls, and thus are completely out of the market.

there seem to be a lot of variants of them, for having a fixed supply :)

> utterly horrifying

This has been common knowledge for years. Is the general population not aware of Facebook’s business model?

To be frank, Fox has been parroting the same conservative rhetoric for as long as I can remember. It’s the same as it was during the Bush years and the Obama years - O’Reilly has been replaced with Hannity and when Hannity retires another talking head will take his place. On the other hand CNN, NYT, Washington Post, MSNBC have shifted so far to the left, they would be unrecognizable to a time traveler from 15 years ago. Remember when CNN was considered in the center of the political spectrum and one of the most “objective” news source around? There is a pronounced bias in the mainstream media and it is not towards the right.

In Clinton years, conservatives called CNN the Clinton News Network. If that's the objective period you're talking about then all you need to do is look at how "liberal media" is discussed today and draw the parallels.

The overton window has been shifting decidedly to the right since Reagan. Conservatives today have essentially all the power in this country outside of a few states, largely due to bombastic right-wing media like Fox, Rush, Sinclair, and now Breitbart. If other mainstream outlets are shifting left it is to broaden their market share in response to competition.

The country is now realizing that some bad things resulted from that and the majority of the population in this country are moderate-left, so the window seems to be moving leftward again. I imagine it will continue bouncing back and forth over the course of decades. The citizens of the US all want to maximize power/freedom for themselves. Sometimes liberal policies are the way to do that and sometimes conservative policies are the way to do that.

Not at all a false equivalency. How do we encourage artistically oriented people to be more mathematical? How do we change ESFJ into INTP? How do we increase IQ? Just hecause certain traits are mental rather than physical doesn’t mean they don’t exist.