Lack of shame doesn’t do you any good financially if you aren’t using it to take social risks that people with shame wouldn’t
https://xkcd.com/1570/ cleanly sums up why I shy away from actively trading my own money despite the temptation to do so
There are a lot of different types of characteristics that get described as 'smart.' Risk aversion is often categorized as 'smart,' as in "I'm too smart to do something that risky," but that is definitely not something billionaires are known for - you can't get that much money without big risky bets paying off.
My neighborhood is very “dog and jog” walkable, and that helps build some connections with neighbors who either have a dog to walk or get out for recreation or exercise, but I wish it were “destination” walkable as well so I could more easily run into neighbors who don’t fall into those categories
Causal connections make a world of difference. A smile and nod at scale can make you feel a part of a community, and it’s so much easier to pause for a conversation when you aren’t in a car
Looks better than both old and new Reddit!
Does the idea of shortening it to 10 years as others in the thread have suggested scare you as well?
Each jurisdiction in which it has protection
I think the value that has been produced by a single IP should be a trigger for passing into the public domain, not just elapsed time
This is one of the bigger speed bumps with lemmy, but hopefully apps/web apps eventually get a smarter way to deal with links to other instances more robust than relying on users using markup
I've been watching Wildtype excitedly for some time, I'll definitely jump at the first chance I get to try it!
I used “Saint Derelict” as a pen name for some poetry in high school, then in college I used it without the Saint as a character name in Numenera, and it stuck as a gamer name. I used it here because my other online handles are either unwieldy or name-based and I didn’t want a new one