Sure as long as the society spends it on things that it deems important. Why is money made from money not taxed the same money made from labor? On the other hand, if money is considered free speech in the US, how can we even allow taxation at all? Isn’t taxation a form of censorship?
BUSD is a US New York DFS, the banking regulator, regulated stablecoin. USDC on the other hand is not regulated. Paxos (my employer) issues BUSD, not Binance
Nope, Binance also issues BUSD on its own "Binance Smart Chain" (BSC). Why you would trust this, and why it's called the same thing as the one on the Paxos chain, is beyond me.
That is true...Paxos only issues the token on Ethereum...I also asked the same question myself..What if binance issues more busd on his own ? I think CZ is under pressure as he has Chinese look (non-western) but major player in crypto which is something not okay for US or west in general. He knows this and it would be too stupid for him to issue arbitrary number of busd tokens to break 1-to-1 peg.
Agree. Just drive down main once and look at all the 2 story buildings… not even talking about the neighborhoods that are primarily detached. Vancouver is so expensive yet nobody is allowed to create denser housing. Nimbyism at its finest
As the spouse of L1 you get an L2 which lets you work for any employer including yourself as long as the L1 is active. With the L2 you get an EAD on arrival and do not have to wait for months to get it.
A friend of mine moved to US on L1, with his wife. It took them 5 years before the wife got EAD (work permit). It is possible that they fucked the process up, and it can be done faster, just wanted to mention it here.
I get some of the sentiment that people should write clean code and I have been very adamant with my teams to ideally use best practices and make their code (re)usable and production ready. But the truth is: nobody likes to clean up. Including me. To use a real life example: I don’t use a broom at home unless my roomba is unable to get to the spot. This is not going to solve all problems and I will probably have to fix some edge cases, but I love the solution you have come up with and will definitely give it a shot next time I come across an ugly notebook!
The way I understand the science is that we can say with some certainty that…
- we know vaccines work and they’re safe
- we know natural immunity works
- we have a good estimate on how well/long the vaccines work over time (probably 9-12 months with potential boosters) given a plethora of studies
- we don’t know how long natural immunity lasts, but we can (safely) assume it’s going to be 6+ months? Maybe 12, maybe 18, who knows. Does it matter?
- everyone wants to be safe, but the goal cannot be 100% safety/certainty, but severely reducing the spread and impact of covid without giving up our freedom, liberties as well as our economy
Rather than calling it a vaccine passport, call it something else that is less controversial, such as a covid protection status
- if you have been vaccinated/ bolstered using authorized vaccines in the last x months, you’re protected
- if you have an authorized lab based positive results in the last y months, you’re protected
- if you have neither, but can show antibodies from an authorized lab, you’re protected for z months
Let’s set best guesstimates on x, y and z and then call it a day? E.g. Make it 12 months for x and y, 3 or 6 months for z.
I feel like 90% of people could work within this framework. The other 10% is probably too far gone…
Global entry / TSA-Precheck only required my face when I entered the the US last month (LGA airport). While I have gotten used to having my picture taken at US airports, it was a weird yet incredibly fast experience
Wallace says it himself in the speech:
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Twenty years after my own graduation, I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. Think of the old cliché about “the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.”
I second this nomination. This is one of the most insightful essays I've ever read. Wallace's central points of consciously choosing A) what you give your attention to and B) how you construct meaning from experience REALLY DO lie at the heart of learning how to think and live a meaningful life.
("Water" is the noise in life that surrounds us every day which we've learned to ignore. But it's still the lens through which an untrained eye sees everything, that shapes who we are and how we live, since most of us don't act deliberately so much as react to life. Being oblivious to water is about remaining clueless to this noise, just going with the flow, unquestioningly and passively allowing your view of the world and your role in life to be shaped by mostly meaningless turbulence.)
