Comment and Link Roundup: July 1, 2019

[brin_bellway]

Comments on my own posts:

Not a comment exactly, but I found and edited in the context link I wanted for that post about dual-boot issues

[cw: illness, venting] The one about pollen allergies [two comments]

In which Brin learns to speak another dialect of Pokemon

[cw: abuse, self-harm] The one about catharsis

[cw: poverty] The one about Pokemon Go

Me, arguing with my new credit-card company about signup bonuses

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Comments on other people's posts:

[cw: death, asphyxiation] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by exigencelost) What would breathing feel like if you didn't need air to live?

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by gasmaskaesthetic) Paper vs electronic paycheques. [three comments]

[cw: Christian fundamentalism] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by thedarlingone) Not sure *how* this feeds into Their plots, but it can't be good.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by etirabys) How to ensure camera privacy.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by thedarlingone) Video-game serial monogamy. [two comments, one of which is new]

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by sigmaleph) "Throuple"? Really?

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by quoms; in response to rustingbridges) The intricacies of rounded cash transactions. [three comments]

[mild cw: death, misgendering] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by transsexualite; in response to serinemolecule) Customer honorifics.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by official-voice; in response to sigmaleph) There are even better 2020-vision jokes yet to come.

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Links:

Two laugh-rule entries:
[Twitter; Wayback doesn't seem to handle long Twitter threads well, though you can see some of it here] (by dsquareddigest; h/t Matt Levine)

as well as the PE ratio, block trading and the team, Goldman Sachs invented Europe.

[Bloomberg; Wayback crawling forbidden] (by Matt Levine)

True, there is some history of huge exogenous discoveries of precious metals causing monetary disruption, but the important thing to realize is that that was back when precious metals were money. Now bringing back a gajillion tons of gold from outer space would not increase the money supply, because the money supply is not linked to gold. It would just decrease the price of gold. It would be super disruptive to gold miners, sure! The rest of us would be fine.

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Now if they find an asteroid that is made out of Bitcoin, that will be economically significant.