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Similar, but just is frustrating is the other common occurrence:
- A single study produces a sensational finding.
- Over the next several years it turns out not to be replicable.
- Even though it's debunked, the public attention has moved on.
- The debunked finding continues to be parroted for some decades.
Wow, you can see the great recession in US demographics. My son is at the bottom right of this slope, but I felt very fortunate to be gainfully employed at the time. That was not at all the prevailing sentiment at the time.
That's got to be the Tor option, no? I'm certain Uber tracks the hell out of it's customers. The real question is whom they sell the data to.
I've run some of the Mistral instruct and smaller Ollama models myself, but generally rely on trymaple.ai. Can't say I've had this concern.
I use a 5 year old NUC I had around. I've been pretty happy with it. 4 core i7, but it's still overpowered for a bitcoin and lightning node.
I still think the most useful degrees are technical - engineering, medicine, etc.. From my experience with a mechanical engineering degree, most of the grades were from tests and the homework was essentially just your own practice and reinforcement. If you're not learning the equations and solving the problems on your own there's no way to reasonably complete the tests. I don't see how AI significantly impacts those. Computer science degrees may be in trouble, even though I think there's some value in learning and pursuing a degree there.
I think the technologies we interact with do impact the wiring of our brains at a fairly deep level. Even the ancient Greek orators were concerned with reading and writing that it would weaken students memories. AI offers some compelling uses, but I worry about the side effects of dependency and mental outsourcing a lot. Especially when the results can be mediocre to outright flawed, what happens when the ability to think critically about AI output is simultaneously impaired?
I've been pretty happy with protonmail. At $3.99 per month there are probably cheaper alternatives. You can pay in bitcoin though.
I'm using an Intel NUC7i7. The memory is expandable up to 32GB. It sips power and has been rock solid. It seems to be a nice compromise between a Pi and a proper server, but I do appreciate the small footprint.
It's ironic that one of the legitimate criticisms of chapter 2 is that Wall St. now owns and deals in bitcoin. Well yeah, if you wait 15 years on the sideline you're eventually going to get passed by. This is like the stick in the bicycle meme.
And what about those terrible, horrible traditional financial institutions that bitcoin was supposed to do away with? Well, a bunch of them have joined the party too. For example, the financial giant BlackRock (we’re talking more than $11 trillion with a “T” of assets under its management) started offering a bitcoin exchange traded product in 2024, making it much easier for people to invest in bitcoin.
I used to make a lot of stuff out of plywood - laser cut or CNC routered. I always thought it was a shame that these designs are never quite universal. That is, if you want a tight fit, each slot needs to be the exact width of the actual plywood it's slotting into. The process was always:
- design
- collect materials
- update design with actual measurements (seldom are the labelled thicknesses of plywood or acrylic accurate)
- layout tool paths
- cut
Of course, if you don't mind sanding down the slot afterward, you can leave the dimensions slightly undersized, but I always thought that defeated the point of having CNC precision.
I watched it, and there were some good points by both sides. Chano's arguments made sense in a perfectly efficient market, over a long time horizon. They were principled I would say. Rochard argues there are issues with the current bond market and enough forward looking aspect to stock valuations that the elevated mNAV is justified.
I haven't made up my own mind entirely, but it's an interesting thought experiment and the debate is worth the watch. The arguments are all made in the best faith and with the intention of learning, which is a refreshing departure from most of these things. Kudos to both.
Eh, this sounds like another dire wolf "designer animal" style announcement from what I could find. Color me skeptical of the result even if the animal looks like the extinct one.
Scientists aim to genetically engineer living birds to resemble the moa within five to 10 years, starting by extracting DNA from well-preserved bones.
This marks Colossal's first attempt to de-extinct a bird, presenting unique challenges compared to their previous work with designer grey wolves.
via the independent
I wonder if this is solely accounting for migration and not currency fluctuations creating and removing millionaire status. The pound has been quite strong recently while the dollar has lost 10% this year. That the stronger currency has seen the greatest loss of millionaires while the weaker one has seen the most growth is something I would expect to see regardless of migration patterns. I guess "millionaire" here is qualified against USD so maybe I'm overthinking it.
Yes, a bitcoiner friend's kid described to me step-by-step how to build a CPU from scratch. Complete with a program counter, 8 bit memory, addition, subtraction, multiplication and several other essential operations all starting from discrete logic gates - not even flip-flops were taken for granted. From my EE101 experience, it seemed to check out but honestly I could only barely keep up with his pace. I think he's 12. Oh, and there was no pencil or paper involved, just from his memory of previously trying to build one in simulation.
The contracts were awarded to the global ad agency M&C Saatchi and the final cost was around £532,000, the government has confirmed.
This graph appears to show a decrease in the avoiders and an increase of allergy in the consumers. 17.2% -> 15.4% versus 3.2% -> 4.4%
I made the pilgrimage on Friday and was met by a several other bitcoiners. Pretty cool experience and I'm glad to see like minded individuals supporting lightning as a medium of exchange. I'll definitely be going out of my way to give Steak n Shake some repeat business.
At the end of the day, we expect skin in the game. I would argue there are plenty of ways in which people have skin in the game simply by being alive and living in a state. There are separate ways in which taxpayers have skin in the game when it comes to laws authorizing spending. Still others in which parents and young people have skin in the game when it comes to legislation disproportionately impacting future generations.
I don't think it's a one-size fits all answer here, but it certainly seems like we could do better. It also doesn't help that we generally vote for politicians rather than individual measures/legislation.
It was fun hearing from people I know and respect on both sides make their case in person.
I think minimizing utxo set bloat and maximizing miner decentralization are both fairly critical to the bitcoin network, so I'm generally for removing the limit. It's unfortunate that people want to use the blockchain for cruft, so I'm sympathetic to the motivations of team filter as well. However, ultimately we have to follow consensus rules and the mempool cannot afford to diverge too much from what the consensus-valid market for block space bears - if it does our decentralization is toast. Ultimately I'm here for decentralized, censorship-resistant currency. Perhaps arbitrary data on the blockchain is just the price we have to bear.