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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @chairman_pretense 28 Apr \ parent \ on: Market Research for deGoogled Pixel phones privacy
100%, selling a preflashed phone just screams honeypot or supply chain attack risk.
If you care enough about the benefits, it's best to learn and do it yourself. Otherwise it's a larp.
I would also add that this is still "net bullish", as it demonstrates Bitcoin has far passed the point of being ignored. The race is on for political & corporate groups to try to understand it. What they do with what they learn remains to be seen...
Bitcoiners need to learn the difference between an organisation taking a new policy position and an organisation publishing research briefs.
This is a research brief.
Anyone who has worked in a large global corp or NGO understands that the rank and file of the org are regularly debating and exploring ideas, some of which go on to inform policy. But very often the wider political context of the org means research briefs and projects do not change policy.
Think of all the telecom companies who saw the internet coming but did nothing, the auto companies who had teams exploring EVs back in the 90s and went nowhere, how Kodak and Polaroid predicted digital photography but failed to shape their companies around it in time.
It's an interesting paper, but it's no indicator that the entire IMF is about to go Bitcoin maxi.
"The views expressed in IMF Working Papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the IMF, its Executive Board, or IMF management."
The context no one is talking about is the issues Peter is having with the local town council, who are currently not going to renew his lease on the football ground the team play at.
I wouldn't be surprised if a big factor in bringing big money in is to get the legal heft that comes with American billionaire backing.
Social media is mind of a dumb phrase. It's as valid a description of the web as it is anything else.
What sucks isn't social media, it's surveillance media, that is media which requires hoovering up behavioural data to serve content and advertising explicitly to change behaviour. This is the central problem of the platforms: on the one hand they collect behaviour data to better target advertising, on the other they explicitly change behaviour through advertising. Feedback loops of hell ensue.
There's nothing wrong with social media. There's nothing wrong with advertising either (free market + free speech). The risk is when dragnet surveillance couples the two together into a single system which feeds itself.
10 sats \ 1 reply \ @chairman_pretense 11 Apr \ parent \ on: Best Places for a Second Passport? earth
Getting your first citizenship is the easiest thing on earth. It's getting a 2nd that becomes a challenge!
It's funny really, it's a bit like how we let any pair of morons become parents. But if a couple want to adopt they go through an incredibly strict process.
65 sats \ 3 replies \ @chairman_pretense 11 Apr \ parent \ on: Best Places for a Second Passport? earth
Functionally impossible to get either unless you're very wealthy. Switzerland for example is a "decentralized" country - political matters are decided by individual cantons (administrative districts), including citizenship.
Sounds great but it also means your individual neighbours get a say in your citizenship, think having a HOA decide your citizenship. Applicants have failed because they didn't know of a bear enclosure in the local zoo, or because they didn't enjoy skiing: https://www.iamexpat.ch/expat-info/swiss-expat-news/5-times-swiss-citizenship-was-denied-strangest-reasons
Sounds like a nightmare of bureaucracy and petty mindedness.
On one level, not much. On another level you could argue it's how most (in)intelligent humans operate - biases and assumptions and fuzzy patterns and what "sounds good"
At their core, LLMs are just statistical models. They don't really have a concept of right or wrong information, just likely patterns of words.
Still no examples.
Stay in your bubble or start looking outside it and begin interrogating the axioms these beliefs are based on.
Your choice.
If you think there's a special way to opt out of laws by employing riddles, you are quite literally delusional. 6102 was amended multiple times. The government got what they wanted and there are no examples of anyone opting out by claiming they are a "free man not an individual".
Show me an example of someone opting out of law in court successfully.
Is this some sovereign citizen nonsense?
Executive order 6102 was a real event which happened in the past, which means we can observe the actual effects.
Regular men and women were compelled to give up their gold.
The end.
Good luck with your word games, but laws don't work like riddles. The government gets what the government wants.
Q seemed like a very rushed to market device. He saw where the wind was blowing with stateless QR support across Jade & Seedsigner and animated QR PSBT signing flow.
All the videos I've seen of the interface look janky as hell, lagging refresh rate on the screen and menus buried in menus. They got away with it on CC, but a device with the form factor of Q should be delivering more and with more care to UX.
NVKs position basically comes down to a belief that the only way to safely use an open source, distributed project is with his commercial proprietary product.
To me that's an intellectual dead end and if it were true is massive failure for Bitcoin.
Importantly, but anecdotally, I've heard many more stories of users getting rekt using commercial hardware wallers than with seedsigner. Coldcards old dice roll UX caused a whole bunch of noobs to lose funds. But he would rather talk about esoteric nation state level attacks.
It's "source available", but they don't accept outside contributors or allow forks which massively impacts the ability to have many dev eyes on the code.
Believed people who said miners control the network. Read The Blocksize War and learned how it really plays out.
Similarly, believed a 51% attack gave miners limitless control. Learned later it was only a short window of double spending unconfirmed transactions. (Bad, but not apocalyptic).
Believed TPS fud, before learning that a single on chain transaction can have hundreds of inputs and outputs. And learned about LN and the concept of layered scaling.
Nah come on guys, this is ridiculous. If you're a talented white dude the only thing holding you back is yourself. Take some personal responsibility.
Supporting groups who have been fucked over time and time again isn't a weakness or a loss. It's strength.
Don't let yourself get sucked into these dumbass culture war topics designed only to divide us.