21 sats \ 2 replies \ @nullama 21 Oct \ on: SN elects to go noncustodial on Nov. 5th - FAQ & AMA
Are Cowboy Credits tradable for sats in the wild?
I see them as the same thing.
If you are rich in assets, then you have the time to do whatever you want.
If you need to work for a salary, you have to be somewhere at some time.
You can publish your apps at https://itch.io
Great platform for indie developers.
Here's how you can move all your saved places from Google Maps to a more private and open source solution, Organic Maps.
First, get your data from Google Maps. Go to https://myaccount.google.com/yourdata/maps and click on Download your Maps Data.
Then use this handy converter: https://github.com/rudokemper/google-maps-places-to-organic-maps to get a KMZ file.
Open the KMZ file in Organic Maps and you will have imported all of places into a new list.
What you mention here is a well studied phenomena, It is called survivorship bias
Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on entities that passed a selection process while overlooking those that did not. This can lead to incorrect conclusions because of incomplete data.
I think we are in an interesting time. On par to The Internet, and smartphones.
Up to around 2004 it was all about the "dot coms", basically the web 1.0
Then later came the web 2.0, followed and accelerated by smartphones. Then there was a period of the "internet of things" and "big data".
We are now entering a new era. The era of AI, where all the advances in GPU, training, annotating, and dealing with all this "big data" is finally starting to see real world applications.
Basically the 2017 paper about transformers changed everything in AI.
I don't think there's anything like that in schools.
Definitely I didn't get any information about how investments work, etc.
Looking at my friends from school it is so obvious what happened:
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The kids with fathers that own their business, ended up rich while managing the business.
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All the other kids ended up working for someone else, and they're all relatively OK but clearly struggling, as in, they have to continue working or they run out of money.
That's basically what happens. Rich families pass this information to their kids, and working class families teach their kids that they should work hard.
It's basically the main premise of the 1997 book Rich Dad, Poor Dad, from Robert Kiyosaki.
It makes sense really, because you need way more workers than entrepreneurs/business owners.
But I think with AI we will start to see more 1 man companies since you can use AI as your tech employees, but that's a topic for another time.
Yes, with fiat the rich get richer.
Here's a good video from Garys Economics that explains these concepts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMkWPXVUteY
I feel like around a decade or so ago (maybe a bit more?) was the goldilocks period for the web.
Social media was transitioning from MySpace to Facebook... solving the real problem of getting people's photos and stories online, reconnecting with people you haven't seen in years, etc.
Then I feel like in the last decade or so it has been mostly on decline, just ads everywhere and trying to maximize every single thing to make the site more profitable.
That's when new "social media" like Tinder started to appear, which in the beginning was relatively OK, but in this past decade has turned into a sea of bots and subscriptions, etc.
I don't like to feel this way, so I will end with a positive side, which are the things like Stacker News, absolutely amazing content and community.
I hope I get to discover more of these incredible new things. ChatGPT certainly has changed the game again, and I still think we are living in the "nice" period of it, before it turns into just a money making machine.
Nice to have that 10% discount, but I see it as a lack of respect if I am with someone in person talking and they start looking at their phones.
It's a huge problem these days as many people are addicted to them.
Bitcoin helps you change and keep your mentality focused on the future, instead of the now.
In terms of writing posts, I would say Bitcointalk and SN both make you write better posts in general. Of course there will be lots of spam, but there are so many gems in both places...
Bitcoin also reminds you about the power of being self sufficient.
You don't need a bank, those extremely wealthy people are constantly taking the money from everyone in every single transaction (MasterCard, VISA, etc). Bitcoin changes that model, you pay directly to another person, just like cash, but electronically. Much better.
It's really a game changer. But I still think that most people are not into it.
We kinda recently moved from a cash society into a card society. I think it will take some time to become a Bitcoin society.
Although the recent increases in fees from these companies might accelerate this process.
OpenBSD is quite an interesting OS. It's rock solid, and it's maintained by a handful of people.
It's crazy how much stuff can be done by just a few people.
Pareto principle is usually at work, 80% of the stuff is done by 20% of the people.
I don't tend to put labels on people.
Each person is unique in their own way.
It's way more interesting to meet people like that and see what they have to say instead of trying to label everyone into a predefined set.
What's a Bitcoin career?
It's like saying a USD career... money is what you get from selling goods and services.
You mean something like working at an exchange?, not many roles really. Sure, there are some, but it's very niche.
Working on the Bitcoin protocol itself, like the source code?, not much money in there as any other open source project.
Working for a company that uses Bitcoin, kinda like Strike or Square?, maybe, but then it starts to become a bit like any other job really...
Yeah, I get what you mean.
I find it most helpful for languages I don't know at all.
I was able to add a feature for an open source Android app that I use because of this. The app was written in Kotlin but I have never used that language before. With the help of LLMs I was able to implement the feature by describing the pieces I needed in English.
It was an "aha" moment really. This changes everything.
Having LLMs integrated on your own laptop with ollama is a game changer.
It's basically "intellisense" on steroids.
You can press CTRL-Enter and describe what you want, and then the code will appear, in any language you want. It's almost like magic.
It saves so much time typing stuff.
I read whatever I am interested in the moment.
For example some times I am more interested in the financial markets so I read the central banks websites, and things like that.
But other times I couldn't care less about finance, so I read about other things that are happening.
Now, news sites usually cover whatever is in the interest of whoever is controlling them. I don't care about that.