China inflation: Li Keqiang says ‘prudent’ economic policy, bumper wheat harvest leaves room to tackle risks
Premier Li Keqiang says China has refrained from ‘excessive’ money printing in recent years to prevent inflation and create room to counter new challenges. ⌘ Read more
No more GitHub Copilot for me
I was an avid user of GitHub Copilot during the technical preview phase. Apparently, as many as 1.2 million developers used Copilot. But now Copilot is out of beta and suddenly costs money. ⌘ Read more
Teen girl in China steals US$18,000 meant for sick mother’s operation to go on a shopping spree
Police in China helping a distraught woman recover some of the money she’d saved for an operation after her daughter stole it and blew it on online games, mobile phones and clothing. ⌘ Read more
Fear grips cryptocurrency traders and magnifies the global rout in US$247 billion DeFi market, Binance’s founder CZ says
The crash in cryptocurrencies shows how the fundamental principle of DeFi – the pursuit of higher yields in the era of cheap money to disrupt and replace traditional banks – has been upended by rising interest rates. ⌘ Read more
Fraudsters swindled HK$1.28 billion from more than 6,000 Hongkongers through online, phone scams in first 4 months of year
Nearly one-fourth of money victims lost was swindled through email fraud, while phone scammers pocketed HK$280 million. ⌘ Read more
G20 to raise US$1.5 billion for global pandemic fund, host Indonesia says
The money will finance efforts such as surveillance, research, and better access to vaccination for lower-to-middle income countries, health officials said. About US$1.1 billion has been pledged so far. ⌘ Read more
Vancouver’s housing crisis not caused by dirty money, inquiry finds
The three-year public inquiry into money laundering in British Columbia was prompted in part by public speculation that Asian criminals were driving up housing prices in Vancouver. ⌘ Read more
Hong Kong slips one place to fourth most expensive city for luxury spending as hotel rates take a huge hit from pandemic, Julius Baer report finds
Hong Kong is the fourth most expensive city globally for luxury goods and services, a notch lower than last year, as a dearth of tourists crushed hotel room rates, Swiss private bank Julius Baer says. ⌘ Read more
when you convert all your money into assets stored on the blockchain while you go into cryopreservation in an underground bunker—literally crypt-o-currency
Yesterday I ordered a blanket for an incredible amount of money, more precisely a weighted blanket. Now I hope that it will be delivered quickly and that it really has the positive effects that are being advertised. Although I can usually fall asleep quickly in the evening with a sleeping mask and earplugs, I never manage to sleep through the night, I am never woken up by the alarm clock because I wake up earlier. In the morning I feel tired almost every day, sometimes even the whole day, which then also limits my c … ⌘ Read more
I would never donate money to a fund that would accept me as a grantee.
Tux on Tour - Raising money for Open Source projects using nerdy NFTs
A percentage of all sales (and re-sells) goes directly to Haiku and PCLinuxOS. ⌘ Read more
Linux Foundation spends just 3.4% of its money on Linux
Where does the Linux Foundation spend the rest of its $177 Million in revenue? Let’s take a look. ⌘ Read more
a bunch of money in celestial futures: long on angels, but the bulk put into ein sof
On the blog: Explaining Cryptocurrency https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/05/16/crypto.html #rant #programming #money
status-acquisition more anti-inductive than money-acquistition?
Making Free Money off Credit Cards ⌘ Read more…
Got my kakebo for 2021, in 2020 it really helped me with saving money.
If you’re right about this, how could you make money with it?
Making free money off Credit Cards ⌘ https://lukesmith.xyz/credit-cards.html
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the shambling revenant of old money / the monstrous chimera of new money / the eldrich and ungraspable nature of financialized money, an alien invader from outside, whose gifts become leaves in the sunlight. Do not eat in their house.
Your money can be stolen from your Uber account with dodgy Uber code texts - unlike kinds https://unlikekinds.com/article/uber-code-text
Why Freelancing Creates Anxiety About Money https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/why-freelancing-creates-anxiety-about-money.html
All of the World’s Money and Markets in One Visualization http://money.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-money-markets-one-visualization-2017/
Demon Underneath: John DeLorean and the invention of the future | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/6776/john-delorean-rise-and-fall-big-money-the-fbi-celebrities-and-cocaine
We all know about social constructs vs reality, but there are levels of spookiness (and no upper bound). We can define them as how far a lie can go before the truth gets its boots on. Spookiness level one – money – already goes basically perpetually.
Bad idea of the day: Instead of a greatest hits album, a greatest failures album: a collection of all the tracks that made the least money and got the least attention (despite never being intended as deep cuts)
Remember: if a family member asks about your politics this thanksgiving, tell them you’re an anarchist & would like to abolish the concept of money. It’ll shut them up and it’s probably even true.
Ep. 20: Yasha Levine on Right-Wing Dark Money & the Electronic Frontier Foundation https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/ep-20-yasha-levine-on-right-wing-dark-money-the-electronic-frontier-foundation/
How Money Affects Elections | FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/money-and-elections-a-complicated-love-story/
Bad idea of the day: The HOWLing: angel-headed hipsters fight werewolves whose blood is running money and whose mind is vast machinery
tired: refering to bitcoin as ‘fake internet money’
Annie Lowrey on her new book, Give People Money, and how UBI could work in the U.S. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/annie-lowrey-on-her-new-book-give-people-money-and-how-ubi-could-work-in-the-u-s.html
pro tip: when you tie a part of reality to a social construct (like tying life to money, or violence to law, or technical decisions to industry hype) you risk huge ramifications unless the ‘real’ portion is the primary driver. social constructs are too floaty.
A Political History of the Future: The City & The City - Lawyers, Guns & Money http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2018/05/political-history-future-city-city
âI had to guard an empty roomâ: the rise of the pointless job | Money | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/may/04/i-had-to-guard-an-empty-room-the-rise-of-the-pointless-job
Send Anarchists, Guns, and Money | Jacob Siegel https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel
Hot take: if you have more than one user or you’re taking money from anybody, ‘break things’ should not be part of your motto, unless your job is literally demolition.
Thursday is the appropriate day to make sacrifices to Compound Interest. Use a gold altar cloth. Compound Interest prefers sacrifices in the form of burning dollar bills, but twenties will work in a pinch. If you cannot make money, store-bought is fine.
Money Laundering Via Author Impersonation on Ama… https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/02/money-laundering-via-author-impersonation-on-amazon/
Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Myste… https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html
Guns tend to empower white, financially unstable men—who oppose gun control | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/study-white-men-facing-money-trouble-tend-to-cling-to-guns-for-power-identity/
Russian Money in Silicon Valley - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/545483/
The Dumb Fact of Google Money - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/the-dumb-fact-of-google-money/538458/
How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God http://splinternews.com/how-fossil-fuel-money-made-climate-denial-the-word-of-g-1797466298?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Shanzhai Archeology: defying our standardized technological imagination – We Make Money Not Art http://we-make-money-not-art.com/shanzhai-archeology-defying-our-standardized-technological-imagination/
@dave@davebucklin.com Where did you leave it? Love their faq: “Where can I buy a PirateBox? There are some things that money can’t buy, and PirateBox is one of them!”
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