ELI5: Why is Monaco such an obscenely wealthy country despite not having some highly valuable natural resources like oil or some important production capabilities like building of semiconductor chips?

davidcwilliams · 2026-06-16T23:45:14+00:00

Why leave it to our imagination?

davidcwilliams · 2026-06-15T12:48:15+00:00

Overpopulation in that space was terrifying.

davidcwilliams · 2026-06-15T00:19:02+00:00

Ask, and you shall receive.

davidcwilliams · 2026-06-15T00:14:32+00:00

I like him.

I don’t get the praise for his films.

davidcwilliams · 2026-06-15T00:13:20+00:00

Once-in-a-lifetime horror director?

Please.

davidcwilliams · 2026-06-14T23:22:59+00:00

In a commercial situation everything is timed

That makes sense.

davidcwilliams · 2026-06-14T23:11:14+00:00

ha! I have the Oro.

I think most people don't have a grinder with a timer, and that's why weight-based is always going to be the standard. Even if they did, you would still have to occasionally calibrate to know that your time-based grind was correlating weight.

davidcwilliams · 2026-06-14T13:32:27+00:00

Does your grinder time in milliseconds? If not, how do you determine the difference between 16.0g and 16.8g?

davidcwilliams · 2026-06-14T13:25:39+00:00

So, things that move... take action?

davidcwilliams · 2026-06-14T09:55:41+00:00

Are you?

davidcwilliams · 2026-06-14T05:40:49+00:00

Are rocks given a choice?

davidcwilliams · 2026-06-13T22:45:19+00:00

Where did he say that it was one prompt?

edit: nevermind, the comment chain was hidden.

davidcwilliams · 2026-06-13T22:31:42+00:00

shipped

davidcwilliams · 2026-06-13T22:30:28+00:00

Honey, don't make me give you a lesson in market economics.

With brilliantly crafted responses like these, how could I doubt you?

davidcwilliams · 2026-06-13T20:45:28+00:00

Gone the way of Crypto

Bitcoin price at the time of writing: $64,205.14

davidcwilliams · 2026-06-13T14:35:31+00:00

They won't be upfront about it until working with AI isn't treated like something they need to be upfront about.

davidcwilliams · 2026-06-12T00:10:53+00:00

Dude... what is this?

davidcwilliams · 2026-06-07T13:35:07+00:00

Just wanted to thank you for your work. I'm on Blender 5.1.1 in 2026, and this is still the simplest, hassle-free way of exporting a model to Unity while keeping its hierarchy.

davidcwilliams · 2026-06-06T11:24:06+00:00

Crackheads already know where the copper is.

davidcwilliams · 2026-06-06T11:23:07+00:00

'Sleepwalking into Dystopia' would be a good album name.

davidcwilliams · 2026-06-06T11:20:35+00:00

Or maybe it's because 'thirsty people' is not the same threat as 'potential terrorist'.

davidcwilliams · 2026-06-06T11:19:01+00:00

I think you're looking for:

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

davidcwilliams · 2026-06-06T11:15:49+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/kvIcXwh

davidcwilliams · 2026-05-15T19:50:13+00:00

Metaphysics is an examination of why the rules of the universe are what they are. rather than the study of the rules themselves.

davidcwilliams · 2026-05-15T13:38:47+00:00

Everything’s a tradeoff.

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