Explosives in the microphone bring back memories of exploding pagers and walkie talkies.

He pissed off Israel.

This caught my attention:

Imagine a world where your “checking account” is actually a high-yield instrument backed by over-collateralized loans against Bitcoin. You are spending stable currency, but the backing is hard money.

I guess the stable currency would be the bank's digital dollar mentioned earlier.

If a bank can issue a digital dollar that is over-collateralized by Bitcoin, that digital dollar is “harder” and safer than a digital dollar backed by fractional reserve fiat lending.

Did the Germans ever get around to re-opening their nuclear power plants?

I prefer "life everlasting".

So true

that delicate balance where structure meets freedom. And perhaps that’s where the worlds of hackers and painters quietly meet, each shaping their medium until form and motion become one.

That precise balance is the true art of code.

I like this

5. Need a New Query Pattern Later?5. Need a New Query Pattern Later?

I believe this is one of the strongest points to this pattern. If at a later date your JSON shape changes (expected), you can just add another column and create another index.

For example, you realise you need to query by user_id:

SQL
ALTER TABLE events
ADD COLUMN user_id INTEGER
GENERATED ALWAYS AS (json_extract(data, '$.user.id')) VIRTUAL;

CREATE INDEX idx_events_user_id ON events(user_id);

The vast majority of chronic disease isn’t caused by our genes. “The Human Genome Project was a $3 billion investment, and what did we find out?” says Thomas Hartung, a toxicologist at Johns Hopkins. “Five percent of all disease is purely genetic. Less than 40 percent of diseases even have a genetic component.”

It was successful for me.

Yes, Wild West Mode turns it on or off.

I happen to be in Wild West mode so I am seeing this bullshit.

The price just went back to what it was a day or two ago.

wake up in a state of panic every day

That used to be me.

I think a lot of this is about

• starting out with fearful minds
• figuring out what will push them over the edge into terror
• applying whatever physical action to give them a little push over the edge

This would not have the desired effect if the target minds are whole, healthy and fearless.

mere geek novelties

Wait a minute, you are talking to some mega geeks.

I like the character based internet experience and Gemini is more polished than those systems I used in the olden days.

Just don't ask if you already know the topic.

Because then you will spot it's bullshit.

Dumont doesn’t expect a lot of new competition. Turning profits out of stagnation isn’t easy. “It’s a ton of work,”

I have the opposite view.
We can take as much time as we need.
Sometimes I pretend there's a deadline but I always get over it :-)

I think anyone who Downzaps needs to be known by everyone.

It seems so like "shootem in the back"

Did you get a notice when you were outlawed, or just figure it out somehow?

ghosts barely exist. They show up only fleetingly, over short distances. In those instants there is a heavy price to be paid, but it isn’t stability or unitarity. Rather, it’s the normally rigid ordering of cause and effect. That minus sign allows ghost particles to briefly skip backward in time, where they can influence particles that they otherwise couldn’t. In this picture, the inexorable forward flow of time that we experience would emerge as a delicate average over lots of temporally squishy micro-moments.