I have family there. You have to wear a mask everywhere and they even have plastic dividers at dining tables. Not between, I mean like at the table you are sitting at across from your daughter at a restaurant. We can't visit. Only business travel exceptions for foreigners to enter. They are in the Tokyo area, so maybe things are looser elsewhere.
That would be a lot better if he named the company.
This is why I'm not as concerned as I could be about woke companies.
It reminds me a lot of the Soviet union, from what I can tell, not having been alive in it, it was a huge threat untill it collapsed overnight. And it was revealed to be completely hollow inside, and the CIA were taken completely by surprise.
This part here:
"Record profits at the top, because of existing code and product-market fit cruising along, so leaders don't notice."
is telling. Profits and growth can cover a lot of cracks, but if Google had a quarterly report where users went backwards for whatever reason, it would instantly shift the equation and almost certainly cascade. Google can't last forever, it will go quickly, like Enron, or quietly, like the East india trading company. My moneys on the former. And no-one will be able to predict the small event that causes the collapse.
Agreed. Additionally, many “woke” companies have become woke because they think that is good marketing. Others are woke at gun point. A few are woke because of how they feel.
I used to point out that defense contractors are notorious for embellishing national security threats, so why wouldn’t green companies embellish too? These analogies never got much attention. I would like to think that profiteering (and failure) is always the litmus test in the same way life insurance is.
Bitcoin is government-proof, no one can steal it from you unless you don't know how to store it correctly. You can memorize your private key or mnemonic password to your wallet, and the only way to know it would be to torture you until you say it.
No mandate can force you to give away your Bitcoin.
You would know if you studied it. Try watching Andreas Antonopolous videos on youtube, I've posted some of his stuff on this thread too.
No one is "shutting down the internet".
But if it were to happen, money and Bitcoin would be the least of our problems.
You could have ended the sentence at "The government will always demand".
Until we all have actual ownership of private property and money, the government can take away everything you have, or at least have an excuse to do so.
Eliminate central banks, eliminate governments, regulations, even private banks, anyone would have a bank in their pocket, especially the BILLIONS of people who are unbanked or live with hyperinflationary currencies. Try and ask a venezuelan what they think about Bitcoin.
The dollar or the euro are no different, it will all go to shit because that's how the system is designed. And that's why the richest people in the world own a lot of things except dollars. They're starting to buy bitcoins too, even though they won't admit it.
The ship is slowly sinking.
Bitcoin solves it all. The network just turned 13 years old and no one has been able to stop it yet, and there's been quite a few tries. It keeps growing, improving and working. It's just like the internet, but even more censorship resistant. It'll take some time but as of now it is the only hope out of this suicidal and evil financial system.
I am in Tokyo.
Depends what you call pragmatism? Everyone masks in public, the end.
I saw Ivermectin mentioned somewhere here as having basically ended Covid here, there is absolutely nothing I have heard or seen to suggest that is the case. It is masks and vaccines all the way here.
Foreign visitors are shut out nearly completely, thus the current wave was started off around US military bases who don't have restrictions and basically do their own thing - rendering the strict quarantine measures for everyone else pretty much pointless.
The vaccinated believe that the vaccine prevented them from serious illness, as they were told by the media. Were the unvaccinated sicker or out of work longer? Nope, unless they had other preexisting conditions.
If my memory serves me correctly, when the vaccines were launched, the story was that they would 95% effective against contracting the virus and prevent the spread of the virus.