Wrecking-Ball.
When he was little, a fever gave him cerebral palsy.
scrimp
A flippant remark.
Being called a “bitcoin maxi” is about as offensive to me as being called a “heliocentric maxi.” Satoshi helped us this year.
(geocentric)
burglar, burglary.
She gives showbiz parties a wide berth.
As China has grown in global stature, the Chinese government has sought to present itself as a different sort of superpower.
This farmer still owns most of his shares. A 10,000 bagger.
A primer on Time Preference.
As such, the effect inflation has on civilization is regressive. It heightens our time preference, erodes our capital and drives us backward morally, socially and institutionally.
For anyone out there, and I know you’re out there, who hates meditation, I hate to break it to you: it really does, nearly invariably, change your life.
I knew I couldn't be relaxed like this. So as a last ditch effort to make my brain shut up, I decided to turn to meditation.
Bitcoin is infecting the system. It’s a virus of sorts that latches onto hosts who then act in such a way as to cause it to spread further.
It’s also completely different in a paradigmatic sense.
To fix the debauchery, Bitcoin must subsume the debauchery and then slowly, like a virus (or in the case of Bitcoin, an anti-virus), infect the hosts and begin to change them.
limp to the pot.
Poker is a psychological warfare.
aforementioned.
Go out on a limb and give it a shot.
Urinary incontinence, fecal incontinence.
Black and tarry stool.
tarmac.
mawkish
A Mercedes carries a certain cachet.
This test result is yet to be reviewed by the provider.
We should cultivate the habit of choosing the more demanding option, actively seeking out challenges, and embracing discomfort.
However, pasteurization doesn't eliminate all types of bacteria. Plus, once you open a carton of milk, it’s exposed to additional bacteria from the environment.
When milk begins to spoil, it develops an unpleasant, rancid odor. The scent is hard to miss and gets stronger with time.
8 is 2 to the 3rd power, aka 2^3
auditory system, auditory learner.
neocon: Neoconservatism
Dual n-back training is a cognitive exercise where you’re required to remember and recall both visual and auditory stimuli.
Higher protein diets provide more satiety than lower protein diets, which helps keep hunger at bay.
Also, be mindful of how caffeine consumption increases your overall water intake needs, as it is a diuretic.
Many people slam their foot on the gas and give up after a couple of weeks.
I'm literally in shambles right now.
I know I showed a lot in this video, it's a bit like whirlwind.
I believe this wholeheartedly.
LazyVim’s a featherweight champ, so it doesn't hog your system resources.
Sure, its minimalist approach might mean it doesn't have all the bells and whistles some might want.
But for those who want a zippy, responsive editing environment without drowning in options, LazyVim could be your perfect match.
See them out there, skulking around?
She is a remarkably adroit and determined politician.
At any time I could run into rain, sleet, snow, or scorching heat.
Flurry.
grantee.
She's an old hand at dealing with the press.
Severe overdoses of magnesium are rare in otherwise healthy people. Getting too much magnesium from the diet is not typically a cause for concern.
The only blot on an otherwise clean campaign..
The soup was cold, but it was otherwise an excellent meal.
Best of all, you can keep still with him. It makes no matter. He likes you. He is like fire that purges to the bone.
The juice is worth the squeeze.
Bitcoin's been on a tear lately.
Stratospheric.
Claustrophobic
The tinsel and the holly were decorating the drug store.
There is a pole requires no decoration, I find tinsel distracting.
This new holiday of yours is scratching me right where I itch.
drain the swamp.
crony capitalism.
Finally, the SU Committee collated the results and drew up a report.
tag alone: to follow another's lead especially in going from one place to another
No man is infallible.
Jack Welch was viewed as an infallible titan of a CEO and was named “Manager of the Century” by Fortune.
conglomerate.
When GE ran into the funding issues that put them on bankruptcies door, GE went hat in hand to the government.
The Fed demanded that they provide reams of data and increase the amount of equity in the company.
One meeting turned fiery after a regulator trashed GE and the CEO pushed back.
Artists and museums are still creating or collecting non-fungible tokens (nfts). As are those looking to flog an image.
(I had a letter from a company trying to flog me insurance. )
In October the court upheld its ruling—in effect ordering the sec to give way.
Given the returns bitcoin has offered in the past, and its correlations with other assets, the result could be a rush of cash into bitcoin, as even sensible investors consider putting small slices of their pension pots or portfolios into crypto for diversification.
Many feel instinctive revulsion when they spy a roach.
I love that they get up once it’s done as if there was no other reason to be in the room.
Don’t settle for friends, relationships, or others who aren't lifting you up.
The capstone in Maslow's hierarchy, it is reaching your potential.
well-spoken.
grave.
kowtow.
Such a transformation is a big deal. Becoming global money will not be a walk in the park, it will not come easy, it will face many, many headwinds and corpses will line the path along that journey.
Cardinal numbers count objects, while ordinal numbers indicate the position of objects in a list.
Spears hurtled against shields.
I hurtled down the path, trusting to luck that I wouldn't put a foot wrong.
The United States is hurtling into the modern age.
We should winnow out the errors in logic.
women winnow the chaff from piles of unhusked rice.
I need to claw back a sense of normalcy.
The Federal Reserve says that it will not raise interest rates through 2022, as the economy claws back from the pandemic recession.
fortress.
scalpel.
expiate, atone, penance, repentance, retribution.
orgy.
Her hair was thick, glossy and in tiptop condition.
Splurge means to spend money extravagantly or to indulge in something luxurious or expensive. It has a positive connotation and implies treating oneself to something special.
Flaunt means to display or show off something in a boastful or ostentatious manner. It can have a negative connotation and implies showing off or bragging about something.
risk adjusted return
unit price bias
Eudaimonia
amenable, conducive, gullible, susceptible
pliable, supple, amenable, deference, flexible, malleable, plasticity
brittle, fragile/fragility, tenuous,
delirium, deranged, unhinged, lunatic, demented, schizophrenic
insane, delusional, psycho
Crypto has its uses, too, such as portfolio diversification and keeping money safe under despotic regimes.
Musk has also repeatedly clashed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which regulates US public markets, since Tesla listed on the Nasdaq back in 2010.
cape of good hope, Capetown
The furtherance of human civilization.
industrialize & urbanize.
Marcus Aurelius talks about how crazy it is that we just go on staying the same person we've always been—how we just “keep being mauled and degraded” by the life we’re living.
In her earlier writings, she was unvarnished and revelatory–mostly about herself and her famous family.
The public expects us to deliver the unvarnished truth.
uninhibited.
unwieldy, cumbersome, clunky
gyration
risk parity
paperweight.
captive insurance.
rooming.
wimpy
vindictive
hexadecimal
incantation.
Amphibian.
Copious
Unilaterally.
conman.
He's very tightfisted.
Her boss is a skinflint.
The natural trend of whichever country has the reserve currency is to inflate the money supply and increase deficit spending until it loses that advantage.
They may start moving fiat into crypto, as an antidote to inflation.
I suddenly realize that I completely went off the rails, rushing into repetitive tasks without sense of growth, chasing shiny new technology without sense of sharpening the craft, draining energy on fruitless debate without sense of priority, none of what I was doing matters in terms of whom I want to become.
A pipe bomb is an improvised explosive device (IED) that uses a tightly sealed section of pipe filled with an explosive material.
The emails are public record now and reading through them feels like reading a dissertation defense, with articulate questions and articulate answers between professionals.
Satoshi continued to provide updates for the code and discussed various concepts with early users, keeping with his calmly spoken and matter-of-fact persona.
The total number of bitcoin that will eventually exist is 21 million, and they are divisible into a total of 2.1 quadrillion sats.
aristocracy, aristocratic
Evolutionary taxonomy.
Various taxonomies are used to categorize models of capitalism.
Rememberance is a form of meeting. Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.
stocky, stout, portly, plump, chubby, chonky
diffused
complimentary tickets.
hold sth in hostage.
high time preference vs low time preference
The feasting, drinking, dancing and revelry continued for several days.
the voters' visceral fear of change.
What are my favorite hours of the day and what adjustments can I make to ensure they are under my control?
She could rattle on for hours.
shun.
We old codgers have our work cut out for us keeping spirits high at home.
Pitchforks and torches
This is a glider that's falling, and you have to be able to make sure you start with enough physiologic headroom to make that work.
No, for some reason, we think of an academic. We think of somebody scrawny.
Nero, for instance, demanded that enormous audiences celebrate his greatness. This was also the same emperor who banished a poet from Rome for being too talented, and thus a threat.
we should be routinely peering ahead, planning for the unexpected, running these war games–to lessen the strength of the blow before it lands.
Italy is even more generous to its diaspora.
But the diaspora provides more than just money.
release valve.
Rule of law is subservient to money. If you have broken money, the rule of law just breaks faster and faster.
While Keynes is absolutely deserving of scrutiny and skepticism for its poor contributions to economics, I would prefer Saifedean not to succumb to academic "name-calling".
The house was in a ruinous condition.
ruinous fiat regimes.
Collateral damage
plump cat
A worthy economist's view of Bitcoin.
Enlighten us.
holographic seal.
Some people like to laminate the piece of paper that has their recovery seed written on it and store it in a fireproof and waterproof home safe.
To help with seating, we ask associates to not block off seats tomorrow, strictly use pods as hoteling desks, and when not in use, please vacate them.
No, "except" and "besides" have different meanings and cannot be used interchangeably. "Except" means to exclude or leave out, while "besides" means in addition to or apart from.
I hate his smarmy compliments.
Well, it can have a negative connotation, yes.
Berserk .
Inquisitive.
Facebook supplanted MySpace because it didn’t cost anything to open up an account on both networks.
Bitcoin is good at doing some very basic things— storing value and making it possible to send that value anywhere in the world. If you added more bells and whistles, it would only increase the attack surface of Bitcoin.
a foot in the door.
Nothing could be further from truth.
Asphalt pavement/road.
in disorder.
retrench expenditures.
kickstart your networking journey with fellow Bitcoin enthusiasts over a delectable meat feast and drinks.
It progressively harder as you go.
broom and dustpan.
seminal.
vagus nerve.
overture conditions for a cease fire.
He drew three squiggly lines.
And they're over-the-top, buttery and delicious.
Sheila had an ulterior motive for trying to help Stan.
The hardbitten detective had seen it all and was not easily shocked by the gruesome crime scene.
Orca.
underpin, undermine
The inauguration was set to resemble a coronation.
These tendencies wax and wane depending on whom we're with, what’s going on in our lives, and many other factors.
I know this sounds snobby, but it’s the way she speaks.
I know that in a long relationship, you go through periods of ups and downs. But now that it’s been a few years, this feels like a major shift that needs to be addressed.
Mateo is like that kind of scrubby old sweatshirt that you have that you love but maybe wouldn’t wear to an important meeting
Are there extenuating circumstances going on in your partner’s life right now—like a new job or a sick parent—that make it hard for them to show up for you the way you want them to?
You're about to detonate a bomb in someone else's life.
Skinhead, punk.
China supplies about one-third of US graphite imports, according to the US Geological Survey, and it’s the world’s leading graphite producer.
This one goes out to my fellow "bah humbugs".
How many people spend an enormous amount to keep up their estates, but then let their brain fall into disrepair.
Everything's topsy-turvy in my life at the moment.
I think lots of people have now just tuned that out, basically.
platonic love.
play the peacock.
proud as a peacock.
He was confined in an internment camp in Utah.
reflector.
Slacks.
The car's design is a throwback to the 1960s.
Courtesy must be instilled in childhood.
confidence will not be instilled by harping solely on the negative.
Talmud.
How can I atone for hurting your feelings?
That pretty girl rode astride the horse.
You should draw up a plan or outline for the essay.
The general ordered the troops to draw up in formation.
The honey badger is known for its fierce and fearless nature.
back rent
Objection. Counsel is badgering the witness.
He wasn't able to follow his own precepts, in terms of keeping an open mind
dysentery.
spherical, sphere
negligence.
His tightfisted employer is unwilling to give him a raise.
In Hollywood's pagan pantheon, Marilyn Monroe is the Goddess of Love.
lavishly.
voluptuous .
sling-back, sandals .
He is very sceptical about the value of rote learning.
Newly rich consumers eager to flaunt their prosperity.
Gothic style/architecture.
Eating fewer calories can ward off ageing.
The secret ingredient of Blue Zones is … not so cut-and-dried.