So ChatGPT but not its competitors? Someone must be well-connected 😄

0.01 eh? Looks like I'll be retiring in Lebanon as soon as the bombniks stop falling 😄

So they have a government bureau existing solely to deficit-finance the government to the detriment of consumers/taxpayers/humans but their spending is so deranged that they have to side-step even that.

Tell me again how "the government works for us" 😂

That's the next level after falling *up* the stairs 😄

No, it won't be taken by AI, it'll be taken by a 22-year-old using AI to create twelve times as much code implementing 85% of the specified features in twice the time at half the cost per hour.

You know, just so middle management can claim they employ "fully agentic developers" or some such nonsense 😄

Oh I'm afraid that doesn't apply across the board, the only boomer couple in my life - he worked some bullshit middle management job for decades, she never had to have a career, just some social jobs to pass the time.
He just retired this year at like 63 or whatever and for the last couple of years, they took three to four proper beach holidays every year plus three to six weeks of skiing in the French alps, own a house that's been paid off for decades, two cars, two children in their 30s, no sweat at all.

They didn't inherit the money for all of that either, he's from a piss-poor family and she inherited a little something only well after everything was paid for.

Just lucky enough to grow up in a world in which showing up on time for a normal job, not stealing from the company, not gambling or using drugs, and the bare minimum of financial literacy could get you a decent middle-class life.

And I'm paying for the guy's retirement, among other things the roughly 75% of my income the government takes pays for 😄

"You just gotta work harder, son, back in the 70s, we worked that extra hour every day, skipped that new car, postponed that fourth child, and finally bought that house at 26"

Well, if the mining meets a market demand, the power grid will be improved accordingly, if it doesn't, the mining will go away or be reduced.

If it's merely kept alive by government subsidy and political will, well the good people of Paraguay better keep some candles and firewood on hand 😅

Kind of, sure, but we don't have those outside the US, here no bank's insane enough to bet on current interest rates staying profitable for three decades. Best you can get is 25 at a heavy premium but most people go for 10-15.

The details don't matter though, inflation and bank cartellization via central bank in addition to artificial scarcity brought about by zoning and other regulations, as well as confiscatory income tax make it damn near impossible to buy a house for anyone not starting out with massive inheritance.

Still cheaper than renting for 50-70 years though, especially since the public retirement system (equivalent to US social security) us workers are currently paying into won't be paying out anything to speak of once I'm old, it barely us now 😄