Black market money sounds cool in a sci fi sense but if we get to a point where it's the #1 use case, humanity has some big problems. I think reasonable people over generations will come to treat it like gold. Along with that Bitcoin's excellent properties as base money will help it push fiat aside.

I'm not particularly surprised about being investigated for anything and everything going on then. I guess a guy's gotta do something and maybe if, as he claims, the exchange was handed to him in a financially compromised state then he'll do better running services where no trust is required. Being in any marketing for such services I'd advise against.

Insufficient activation energy is the bog for me. Good to realize strategic reserves don't exist and just get on with it.

Also, love this format. Funny names and entertaining descriptions with solutions sometimes.

That's an absurdly big blindspot.

Wonder if they can hear honking.

Yes that'd be fun. What's really needed is a modern 1984 wherein banks and tech play an ensemble role as big bro.

Congrats on stealing away! My favorite day of the last trip was my "day off" where I didn't have to do anything from the official agenda. On that day I got up early for breakfast buffet, went on an awesome hike, drew, and made music. On future trips I'll push for every third day off rather than one out of fourteen. It's awesome visiting new places but running around to take pictures and ride on bus tours can sometimes be more draining than relaxing.

At what point did we move beyond should I use ChatGPT to what apps do they have on there with which I can integrate my life?!

Does closing accounts count as innovative activities? All banks seem to offer are variations on the word "No."

AI is great and all, but do you really want to go to work at a place where everything inside was vibe-coded?

What I'm seeing with AI is it's giving people all kinds of unearned confidence. Ok, it can write a nice sounding answer for you but when it's confidently wrong and you trust it, it should be your ass on the line. Over the next couple years were going to see some spectacular failures that remind everyone of the value of a high quality human brain.

Build vs. buy is dead? Long live build vs. buy!

Tokin' tokens. I'll pass.

That certainly sounds like a chaotic and upsetting scenario! I'd look at it as a particularly modern wedding gift assuming you place a wager in the affirmative and actually tie the knot. Best wishes to the the happy couple!

Raises worked in the 70s but this ain't the 70s. Hopefully the AI-job-pocalypse isn't as bad as people say.

Satoshis around the world are quaking in their boots. Absolutely paralyzed with fear. I mean held just as hard as if Japan issued a fixed monetary issuance schedule.

Josh Waitzkin put it well recently on the Huberman pod. You're either training quality in yourself or you're training yourself to do mediocrity/shit.

So mind what you're training. Speaking of which I gotta go.

Ooh maybe political support will rise to abolish the TSA.

Anon can dream.

Me when I haven't visited GitHub for days:
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That's hot.

Do corporates have a hold meme yet? Maybe something like our R&D department is buying a lesbian bar, we've got scotch are deciding to skip this particular board meeting.

It's axle is connected to a gearbox or directly to a generator. The jet turbine is just a really efficient way to capture energy from combustion.

Thrust should be minimized by sapping off that mechanical energy to the generator, but of course it has to run fast enough to achieve compression for efficiency.