Tailscale is one of the most profoundly useful technologies I’ve ever used as small business person. It’s also one I would have never thought to invent despite feeling its lack daily.

25% of hacker news readership works at meta or google? You mean 25% of meta and google reads Hn, no?

You’re the only one in the thread that gets any of this right. But: Monetizing the debt is replacing one asset (treasuries eg) that pays interest with a nominally equal asset that doesn’t (US dollar). How does that spur inflation? It’s a reduction in income over time. How does paying back our debt IN FULL hurt our credit worthiness?

Money is special because it’s the only asset that can be used to purchase goods and services. If I have a pile of 10 year Treasury bonds worth $500, and I want to buy a TV, I have to first convince someone with $500 in cash that they’d rather have my bonds than buy their own TV.

No thats not true.

It operates under expectations - the more liquid the asset, the more likely you'll be OK with accepting it in the context of a trade. The discount is for illiquidity.

> No thats not true.

I'd love to see someone buy a TV with those bonds.

I use the “natural” method for blocking Facebook ads.

Ok. Now help me get spotlight to index my mirror-style Google Drive. Seems only this level of genius could accomplish it.

the titular feature is still free and strong!

the titular feature is still free and strong!

All the downsides of your cliched agi nightmares but with the “intelligence” of your bog standard national security functionary

You can be a greedy pig and be an idiot simultaneously. You can see how those two things might even be correlated, no?

I've had those times in swift in a terrestrial setting!