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I replaced a 40 gal gas with no power vent about 5 years ago, the total was about $1800. So 50 gal with power vent I would guess may add another grand or so.....but well that doesn't factor in inflation.
Well, I think they pretty much gave up on Chivo already, my understanding is private 3rd party wallets had taken over anyway.
Thats essentially my take as well.
As I said in another thread, the saving grace at the moment is Putin is probably trying to be on his best behavior to not inflame Trump.
The european leaders probably realize this, which is why they are suddenly acting so aggressive....they can "bait the bull" as it were, and if Putin responds, they can use that to politically pressure Trump.
It raises many questions:
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Will European leaders provide the missing military aid?
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Outside of the money, do the Europeans have enough military hardware to provide?
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Will European leaders seek to increase the conflict hoping that it spills into NATO territory so it forces US hand?
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Will US be prompted by this situation to leave NATO before those events happen?
As an American, I feel very concerned about the "brinkmanship" game being played by Euro/UK politicians.
Its hard to tell: (a) Are they trying to goad Trump into providing more support for Ukraine by increasing the likelihood for war? (b) Or are they trying to push away Trump out of NATO so they can engage in some attempt at military self-determinism? (c) Or are the actually just completely incompetent while simultaneously having delusions of grandeur?
In a very weird way, their saving grace is that Putin probably wants to stay on Trumps good side throughout this. Trump has been the first western politician to offer an olive branch and seek to normalize relations, so trying to act respectful to Trumps public wishes for peace probably tempers Putins actions at the moment. Hopefully cooler heads prevail...
Regardless, its hard to see how NATO as an organization is going to survive this...
Steps needed.
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Figure out how brain works
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Figure out what consciousness is (without this step, it may all be pointless)
If Penrose is correct, and the brain is a quantum antenna that tunes into "consciousness waves", then it actually may be possible that we get there.
A minimal quantum computer chip to run the antennas that tunes into consciousness waves connected with LLM models....might more or less be what GI actually is....
I understand your sentiment, but you must ask yourself these 2 questions:
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What can any of us do about it? Should we have permission-ed money? Blacklist certain people that we don't deem fit to use bitcoin (obviously I know you don't think this, I just playing out the example to make an example)
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If Bitcoin is so fragile that it will be destroyed by Governments buying it, then that implies it was doomed to begin with?
I was thinking about something similar for distributed mining.
Not a mega mining farm, but instead imagine 1 or 2 containers with solar arrays/wind. Includes antennas for cell + starlink. 70% power goes to mining other goes to batteries for village use.
Villagers get electricity + cell service + internet in exchange for looking after equipment.
Meanwhile the top 10% programming languages account for 87% of all code written. (power laws are a thing).
Typical HN politicized hand-wringing.
He is cashing out far less than it appears on first look. From his 2024 letter:
Despite what some commentators currently view as an extraordinary cash position at Berkshire, the great majority of your money remains in equities. That preference won’t change.While our ownership in marketable equities moved downward last year from $354 billion to $272 billion, the value of our non-quoted controlled equities increased somewhat and remains far greater than the value of the marketable portfolio.Berkshire shareholders can rest assured that we will forever deploy a substantial majority of their money in equities – mostly American equities although many of these will have international operations of significance. Berkshire will never prefer ownership of cash-equivalent assets over the ownership of good businesses, whether controlled or only partially owned.
One note is his distinction of marketable equities vs non-quoted equities. This number of $354B does not include all the private companies he owns (about 170+ private entities).
Point being is that this isn't the "Buffet has completely cashed out" story like it first appears.
I still have about 25% hope that this can be reigned in and wind up as BTC only
The problem with putting something like SOL / XRP in a strategic reserve is those assets can be printed at will....that presents a national security issue for the administration if SOL devs decide they want to inflate by 100%
These facts need to be explained to people in Treasury that this creates undue risk for no real reward.