>You can’t convey a meaningful message in a limited amount words/seconds
You most definitely can convey meaningful messages in a limited amount of time, and that's exactly the point, enforcing conciseness you end up with higher information density.
Decentralization provides the additional value of resistance to censorship and algorithmic biases.
I disagree with your first statement. The amount of times I saw an opinion/statement/fact posted on Twitter, which required me to write a response longer than 120 characters, can't be counted on both hands. At these moments, I just give up because it's impossible to have a discussion in a chain of 5 Twitter replies to yourself.
Now, because these opinions/statements are not debated due to the fact that not everyone is willing to pay Elon for a set of blue pixels and the ability to post longer form content, they stay there, fueling the echo chambers of opinions that the authors' audience holds, never to be questioned again.
I exaggerate a bit, but I hardly believe I'm the only one who thinks "fuck this, I don't have time to spread my message to multiple tweets/restructure it to fit the character limitation/etc".
I agree with the parent about conciseness being a welcome feature in the character limit. However, I recognize many people don't like it and have observed people cheating it with chain replies. Making everyone sum up all of their thoughts up into a few sentences however fun for some (me) can be overly restrictive or impossible for others.
Probably also depends how comfortable you are sharing deep or personal thoughts with others. Also how much you are interested in reading about a particular person's thoughts. In my case I don't know enough people that care about the things I'm enthusiastic about so I've built up a habit of being direct and to the point.
Being able to express yourself with limited words, is a skill everyone should aspire to master.
Having said that, the idea of social networks like twitter, is to spark a discussion, otherwise you would write a blog. Discussing ideas in twitter is very painful with its limited number of characters.
Unless, of course, all you want is a 2-3 sentence “revelations”, in a form of motivational posters we used to see around 2010, which you accept without questions. But then, is twitter really that different than 9gag for example?
> Fiscal spending is still created as a loan though since the government has to sell bonds to finance it, no
Monetarily speaking, the government creates the money when it spends it. The loan then (and optionally) removes a similar amount of money from the system.
This is an enormous power, so we try to legally limit the government in how it can do this. (If we removed the Fed's independence and put it under the Treasury, the Treasury could just add numbers to the bank accounts of the government's employees and vendors. This is analogous to its minting power. We separate the Treasury and the Fed in part to fracture this power.)
I forgot one more creation/destruction mechanism above: the Fed's open-market operations. When the Fed buys assets, it creates money. When it sells them, it destroys money.
That's a great idea, a version of wikipedia with iframe embeds could allow for this, though it would be even better if these small websites could be directly uploaded by editors as html/js/css so they wouldnt depend on external websites and could be versioned and preserved.
The attempt is not to replace a particular neural network which has already been trained by using Sigmoid or Rel functions. If one does this then one would necessarily have to use non-linear maps.
The whole point is that such a non-linear technique is not necessary for classifications.
It is not necessary to confine clusters by hyperplanes for solving a classification problem.
Our focus is on individual points.
I always wondered if bars and clubs actually get inspected to check the dB level emitted by their sound systems, some places seem way too loud to be safe for people's hearing.
I'm not sure how common it is in other places, but in Belgium most of the bars and clubs have a visible screen which always shows the current decibels in the venue. Some of them have have free earplugs to take and concert venue have dispensers with concert specific earplug to buy.
Having a display in the sound booth is mandatory in France. Because the sound booth is usually in the middle of the stage, it is usually visible to the public too.
The maximum level is 102dB over 15 minutes. When I look at the screen in a loud venue (EDM, rock concert, ...), it is usually around 100dB, which more than justifies earplugs.
Free foam earplugs are common too, and they also sell better sounding earplugs in larger events. Personally, I bought custom molded earplugs, the type used by musicians. Expensive (~$200) but in my case 100% worth it: the others I tried tend to fall off, seal poorly, or be uncomfortable, and in the case of the cheapest ones (like the ones you get for free), completely muddle the sound.
I'm from the US, but have been very happy with etymotic brand earplugs. They have inexpensive ($15 USD) standard designs as well as custom-fit. Either sound much better than foam plugs.
I have the Interson Protac Pianissimo, with 25dB filters, I had them made at my local audiologist (Amplifon) a few years ago.
I am very satisfied, and I never suffered any kind of hearing loss or tinnitus after wearing these and while not perfectly linear, I could fully enjoy the music. If anything 25dB is a bit too much for "reasonably" loud events and I am tempted to buy extra filters with less attenuation for these events.
Almost all bars and clubs are too loud by a large degree. I started keeping track of decibel levels when I developed tinnitus, and at minimum a pub with a live band is going to be 20-30db too loud.
For this reason I always have a pair of ear plugs of some kind. Loop Experience, or even just regular foam (depending on the noise level and how well dressed I’m expected to be).
It's usually because they play music and only have like 1 crappy speaker, so they have to blast sound out of that speaker, and anyone nearby has to scream to have a conversation over the speaker, and then anyone near that group has to scream even louder, and before you know it - everyone is screaming and you can't even hear the music.
You can buy custom fit earplugs with changeable sound filters. There are lines specifically for bars, clubs and festivals for the staff to hear patrons speech but drown out the noise.
Like Warren Mosler (founder of MMT) argues, you can think of rate hikes as basic income for the rich.
Since the US Debt to GDP ratio is so high now, rate hikes are creating a higher deficit spending from the government into the economy (bondholders) which can be more than enough to counteract the contractive effect of rate hikes.
Can't you also think of rate cuts as basic income for the rich, because they tend to cause a rise in asset values as money searches for yield, and the rich own most of the assets AND rich people can take out very low interest loans backed by their assets rather than selling, which allows them to spend money without triggering a tax event?
It's a firm spring mattress with a relatively thick and soft mattress topper.
But it's a bit of a compromise. My girlfriend hates foam mattresses even though I thought they felt great. This set-up lets me get a somewhat similar feel of sinking into the bed while being well supported.
She's also much lighter than I am and wants a soft mattress, so her side of the bed is softer.
