But I can see the lure for masses, driven by the startup subculture, but the truth is that if you can master something like bubble, the transition to actual coding would be seamless and often very liberating.
I could only stand Bubble for a day or two before it became too restrictive and yet complex for doing very basic stuff. Buffer suffers from the same issues as other no-code solutions but also has a subpar UI.
Yeah I agree, there's lots of bloat as well, that's why I said that the transition of bubble tinkerers to actual coding with any high level languages and frameworks would be very liberating. Even a beginner could do a heck lot in something like RoR or Django, without even mastering the respective languages.
What I said is that Bitcoin is a perceived store of value, and like any currency it's valuable only if it's perceived by the masses to be so, no different than fiat. Bitcoin ticks that box and is scarce, as opposed to inflating fiat.
Porn doesn't creates value storages, except dopamine hits.
And am not making a personal judgement, but just making a contrasting argument for someone who says that mining bitcoin is a waste of energy.
I think what needs to be "mass adopted" is parking etiquette from ICE car owners.
Often do I find them parked on parking bays designated to electric car charging. This is such an annoyance when you have an electric car with limited range.
The idea of free markets existed in India, Arabia and China long before this, the 'Silk route/road' gave birth to first truly global and free market with many 'bazaars'. There is a whole book in Sanskrit named as "Arthashastra", which was written in 3rd century BCE.
This is again some kind of whitewashing the history where Europeans seem to have invented everything and nothing ever happened before them.
Not to talk about Europe's precedents too. For example, Phoenicians and Greek commerce in the Mediterranean sea, or Celtic with Tartessos trade or Persian markets on its Empire.
You can not talk about theories(Adam Smith) about ideal trade without considering geopolitical power. It was a free market within the British Empire for the British to benefit, but the British gave themselves the monopoly of trade with whatever they could monopolize by force, like India's trade.
There was not freedom of trade in India under British domination, remember the Salt March of Gandhi.
You completely missed the point. Article is not about trade nor free markets.
Article is about the metaphorical elephant realizing it could break its chains. It is about a change of mindset about individual destiny and how this change of mindset was the birth of capitalism.
And just to be clear,
economics <> capitalism <> free markets <> trade
I can't help but notice that many of the same people eager to point out that western civilization isn't the first or best to do a particular set of things, are then reluctant to place blame for any of the less than palatable elements of those things anywhere other than on western civilization.
Very well might not be the case here, but it was simply a thought that occurred to me.
I think that this is often a case of "history is written by the winner".
What I mean is that our view of history is often written from a western perspective, and therefore biased in favour of western civilization.
As a consequence of this, when we learn that something we had previously thought to be true, might not actually be true, it is likely that the new information portrays western civilization in a less favourable light.
Don't underestimate the amount of propaganda flowing around out here. We're not as bad as reddit, but the general tactic online has been for nation-states to astroturf and gaslight to new extremes.
I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying that (if it applies here) people don't like talking about the pre-European origins of flaws in economics? Or is there a better example in another area?
It's 5:00am here, and I haven't slept yet, so I'm not going to do a great job of clarifying my point.
> This is again some kind of whitewashing the history where Europeans seem to have invented everything and nothing ever happened before them.
My point is basically that this person seems to believe that our current problem is whitewashing history, whereas I would argue that we have an equally pernicious problem, wherein western civilization is made out to be uniquely responsible for problems that are actually found all over the world, and throughout history.
A couple examples:
1.) The 1619 Project is an attempt to reframe the defining characteristic of the US and its founding as being uniquely fixated around slavery. Despite it existing in a world in which slavery had existed in virtually every civilization up to and beyond that point. And more importantly, despite it being one of, if not the purest embodiments of liberal governance explicitly outlined up until that point, since which its constitution has served as the foundational text for countless other nations to come, as well as the basis by which the abolition of slavery and the subsequent civil rights movements would come to follow...perhaps its least interesting feature, in slavery, is elevated to the forefront of the nation's character. We are so far down this rabbit hole that during the George Floyd crisis, we had congresswomen making claims that the existence of POLICE in the US (again, a concept that exists virtually the world over), are simply downstream from government officials whose purpose was to catch runaway slaves.
2.) The various attempts to go after logic/mathematics/scientific method as being constructions of the western patriarchy, arbitrarily imposed upon other cultures. If you are unaware of this movement, it is an academic argument that suggests that "western science" and "western medicine" are equally valid as, say, shamanistic practices of other cultures, and that things like logic and mathematics are simply held to an arbitrary standard of correctness due to a western-centric view of the world. All the while failing to acknowledge that we use Arabic numerals, contributions of Islamic scholars in the invention of algebra, or that concepts like the Pythagorean theorem were very much un-arbitrarily and independently arrived at within multiple cultures. So without even getting into the non-arbitrary nature of the correctness of logic and mathematics, attempts at accusing western civilization of whitewashing and imposing their modes of thinking onto the world, there is a complete failure to understand the cultures that contributed to those modes of thinking in the first place. There is literally a whitewashing of how influenced western civilization is by other cultures, when accusing western civilization of actively erasing other cultures with its modalities.
Maybe it's a sophomoric point, maybe I'm not getting it across clearly. I'm just finding a pattern among the self-flagellation of the west, that there's a certain beauty that seems to be lost in reducing the complicated way in which the west fits into the web of historical and contemporary civilizations to basically be one of oppression and whitewashing. For all of the whitewashing that may occur, I am simply making the point that there exists just as pernicious an issue in which the west is not framed as uniquely good and benevolent, but the precise opposite.
"When accusing western civilization of actively erasing other cultures with its modalities"
- It can't be discounted as a mere "accusation" when it is a "fact" that western civilisation, where-ever it went, systematically and categorically 'erased' the indigenous, and I am not saying metaphorically.
I live in NZ and the history and injustice here have been bloody, like any European occupied colony. The Maoris still suffer from systemic oppression here.
The cultural whitewashing is something that has always been operating at the intellectual echelons of 'European/white supremacy', they usually move into the scene to carry their jobs, after the military/warlords/mercenaries have cleared the scene.
And trust me, I do get the point you are trying to make, but that doesn't apply here. Nor I am saying that ideas from other cultures shouldn't be subjected to valid criticism or that Europeans should bear the brunt for it.
And if you do study history of other colonies a bit, you will find that police in colonies like India was created to instil the fear and British dominance in locals, with guns and batons.
The police there hasn't been reformed even now and is still brutal, following the same standards set by the British.
So there is a degree of truth in that congresswomen's words.
Vae victis. Losers of conflicts against non-western expansionists were no better as a general rule.
NZ itself was hardly a haven of peace in pre-european times, and Maoris didn't have too many qualms exterminating Morioris either.
I think people are trying to correct the existing picture (ie the current popular history is good, too clean) by adding the bad for a truthful version with positives and negatives. It's one of those "we're arguing, but actually we're both right" situations.
The person who designs the firmware of the charger has full control over the harmonics it produces.
They aren't a tricky engineering problem to solve - but nobody is too worried about solving them right now because the people who maintain the grid and who have to deal with harmonic losses aren't the same people as those who design the charger.
Did you read the article? The conclusion is a good charger design can the problem. If that's all it takes then the problem is trivial. You just need to regulate EV chargers.
It's not as bad as you might think because replacing old chargers is easier than replacing all EVs.
Thanks.Both fixed cost per connected accounts and liability of chargebacks. We may switch to express based on how we go.Apart from that, we will be supporting PayPal soon though.
So, Clubhouse is just a pretty UI built on top of their voice SDK.
https://www.agora.io/en/products/voice-call/