I watch plenty of movies and TV shows, but I get all of them on bittorrent, so no ads for me. My music comes from iTunes, and I spend most of my free time reading books on my Kindle, fiddling with iPad/iPhone, coding or playing with my PS3 or Xbox360.
I also think it is important to recognize that apathy is a luxury provided by the very system you denigrate. It appears that you benefit from the security and bountiful supply of our system, yet participate or offer little in return. Noble though your motivation may be, your approach appears inherently selfish.
I respectfully suggest that the isolation you have chosen is a valuable refuge, but is not a sufficient solution to what disagreements you have with the world around you. After all, this society is ultimately defined by its members, not some external and immovable force. I would posit that your role in this society as a productive contributor, rather than a withdrawn critic, would likely benefit the system, and us all, considerably. The courage to individuate is admirable; even more, the courage to integrate.
Yes. If I invite someone in my house or decide to engage in a mutually beneficial exchange with them, it is thoroughly unacceptable for you to interpose yourself (whether personally or using the force of government) in that private transaction and they and I would be well within our rights to defend ourselves from your violent aggression. The fact that the other person was born in a place far away changes nothing.
Nonsense. The constitution gives the right to decide on who is a citizen or immigrant to existing citizens. The fact that you wish to override this lawful consensus is no different from radicals who want to override property rights on the grounds that it was illegitimately stolen from Indians and on the utilitarian grounds that a lot of poor people would be better off if more of your goods were given away.
Caplan similarly wants to pick and choose which property rights of the social contract he likes and which he can choose to ignore. It is not a surprise that this aspergery attitude among libertarians allows their pockets to be metaphorically picked by socially savvy leftists policy makers.
In much the same way, the Euro project is forcing the elites of the North (e.g. Sweden and Germany) to live with the less functional states of Greece, Italy, or Portugal who adopted their welfare systems without their norms.
If there were no public choice issues, then living in a bubble wouldnt matter. But there are. And the ignorance of the masses that the elites that hold or influence the levers of power thus has understandably negative consequences for those outside the bubble.
In other words, as someone who presents himself as a public intellectual, frequently proposing sweeping changes, you should be embarrassed to admit abject ignorance on the subject for which you claim expertise-the public.
Note, I understand how nice and comfortable a bubble can be, but for a person engaged in public policy, living in a tight bubble greatly reduces your practical knowledge of your field of theoretical expertise.
NASCAR is an elite sport. Although there are many non-elite people who watch it, one must be elite to participate in it. One must be somewhat elite to participate in any of the motorsports that lead up to being able to participate in NASCAR. Anyone who can afford an economically useless machine that costs 5 figures to buy is elite in world standards. Compare this to the cost of playing basket ball in a neighborhood court. There, all you need is a ball.
It seems obvious to me that everybody constructs a bubble to some degree, or at least would like to if circumstances permitted. Bryan is hardly unique in this regard. Perhaps what is unique is the thickness of his bubble, assuming he paints an accurate picture.
Caplan loves having hordes of low skilled immigrants come to the US because he can avoid having any contact with them. People who can not avoid dealing them and complain about it he considers immoral.
This is why leftists think that libertarians and conservatives oppose the welfare state because we enjoy hurting poor people, and why leftists think conservatives must love war since they advocate being prepared for it. The flaw in that logic is, of course, point 2. The proponent of Policy X probably does not think it obvious at all that Policy X will have awful effects.
In other words, he thinks very little of American society and most Americans, but he has a great deal of sympathy for those who want to become a part of the society he despises. Or, alternatively, he cares greatly for the plight of immigrants, but the children of those immigrants, on the other hand, born and raised here as native citizens, to hell with them. They just become more of those ugly Americans he dislikes so much and tries desperately to avoid. See the contradiction here? If he actively dislikes most Americans and their society/culture, why is he so obsessed with the ability of non-Americans to move here and become a part of it?
There are plenty of top-notch students and business people from China and India (not to mention Mexico, South America, and around the world) who want to get into the U.S. Why in the world does the U.S. government keep them out? And why in the world does the public (seemingly at least) support this?
So I looked up George Mason University, and lo and behold it is a public university. That means those dreary Americans are supporting this author, who I understand is a professor at said institution, not vice versa.
For one, the bulk of the adventuring was done by solo characters, once they had advanced to moderate levels (and that was only so as to blunt the swinginess of the random numbers; accounts overwhelmingly point to the success of these adventures being due to player skill, not character ability), simply because they were outliers from the other players in terms of inclination and time for play.
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Each of these six influences is measured using a number of stats that are combined into gauges. In the stock market we do it for each stock that we are looking at. These gauges are combined into aggregate indices by security and then for the market as a whole. The table below shows the current readings of each of these gauges for the US equity market as a whole, and the chart below it shows the aggregate reading derived by combining these gauges into one reading for the stock market going back to 1910. It shows how the conditions stack up today for US equities in relation to past times.
In brief, the aggregate bubble gauge is around the 77th percentile today for the US stock market overall. In the bubble of 2000 and the bubble of 1929 this aggregate gauge had a 100th percentile read.
There is a very big divergence in the readings across stocks. Some stocks are, by these measures, in extreme bubbles (particularly emerging technology companies), while some stocks are not in bubbles. The charts below show the share of US companies that these measures indicate being in a bubble. It is about 5% of the top 1,000 companies in the US, which is about half of what we saw at the peak of the tech bubble. The number is smaller for the S&P 500 as several of the most bubbly companies are not part of that index.
Hello Community,
We are planning to build a on demand realtime service application, with tons of complex features in it.
Initially about 100k users will be signing up
About 10k users will be online at any given time.
Planning to upgrade as load increases.
Hi @abc
Bubble is more powerful than we actually think, but speaking of 100k registered users with 10k always online !
I also fell in doubt?
Hope someone from bubble support team or experienced bubblers share their opinion.
As a power Bubble user of 5 years, I would say no. If you have that many people signing up and that many users, you should have the funding to do something with custom code with more control over performance and your server.
Seriously @w.fly you opened my eyes.
This is the real truth!
I thought bubble can easily handle lot of users, but it can only handle a MVP ?
Man I was having very big plans in future with bubble but it seems to be ruined.
ANY app that passes a very large amount of revenue and has the time/market hold/customer retention/scale potential should 100% move to a full custom solution but that could be 50-100-200k+ per month. Bubble gives the speed to build and flexibility to get there.
just a note for people reading this.
there are 1M bubble users.
Basing your opinion on even what just 10 people say in 3 threads, so 30 people, is not necessarily the truth truth. Something like statistics is in the way.
Loading times from 2018 to 2020 became 2x faster. And since last year another 2x. So we went from 10 to 2.5 seconds for page loading speed.
1sec would be great for SEO and mobile but will be even harder work.
The dot-com bubble (or dot-com boom) was a stock market bubble that ballooned during the late-1990s and peaked on Friday, March 10, 2000. This period of market growth coincided with the widespread adoption of the World Wide Web and the Internet, resulting in a dispensation of available venture capital and the rapid growth of valuations in new dot-com startups.
Between 1995 and its peak in March 2000, investments in the NASDAQ composite stock market index rose by 800%, only to fall to 78% from its peak by October 2002, giving up all its gains during the bubble.
During the dot-com crash, many online shopping companies, notably Pets.com, Webvan, and Boo.com, as well as several communication companies, such as Worldcom, NorthPoint Communications, and Global Crossing, failed and shut down.[1][2] Others, like Lastminute.com, MP3.com and PeopleSound remained through its sale and buyers acquisition. Larger companies like Amazon and Cisco Systems lost large portions of their market capitalization, with Cisco losing 80% of its stock value.[2][3]
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