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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 5m \ on: Steak n Shake now accepting bitcoin news
It's quite telling that all comments below the tweet are either:
- Never selling my Bitcoin, just holding
- Shitcoin shills conveniently ignoring that LN voids their 7 transactions/s argument
This is a top-notch Quanta Magazine piece, very entertaining and inspiring read.
iâm always amazed at people with such high iq that choose to spend their lives solving riddles 99% of the population canât understand instead of making millions in AI or finance etc.
Yeah. I consider finance (Wallstreet, etc) to be a net negative to society, and they suck up many big brains. It's good that not everyone has that strong urge for big money.
Or a specific split chosen by the person who asks for it. The other one can accept or refuse.
I'll probably just forget to pay at some point. Or I won't have internet access for 24 hours.
0 sats \ 4 replies \ @south_korea_ln 8 May \ parent \ on: Zapback / Last Pay Wins for Friends gaming
Maybe I should~~
@remindme in 1 year.
This is going to end badly, indeed~~
With LPW, I think, at some point, node liquidity could become a problem.
But things could get out of hand much faster there...
Thanks for the book recommandation. Will let you know if i get around to reading it.
your words are quite the result of 0 ego
You saying this feels satisfying. This would mean there is a non-zero amount of ego to caress~~
"The end is the beginning"... Is that a Vedic time reference?
135 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 5 May \ parent \ on: Zapback / Last Pay Wins for Friends gaming
I'm a bit of a degen, at times~~
Different dynamics than LPW. Not sure how I'll go about with this one.
140 sats \ 3 replies \ @south_korea_ln 5 May \ parent \ on: Zapback / Last Pay Wins for Friends gaming
Yeah, I remember lastpaywins had something similar going on where timers would not sync between tabs... @alex_lewin resolved it somehow, but don't know how.
Haha, you made me reopen my laptop in bed and check the Wikipedia page. I see your point now about there being no time in this equation.
WheelerâDeWitt Equation
That's a long time ago. But isn't
\Psi here a functional in spacetime, i.e., time treated at the same level as spatial dimensions?By the way, we have Mathjax support here, so you can use LaTeX formatting. You just need to use double $$ instead of single ones for your equations.
Thanks for tagging me. That was an interesting read.
I'm not sure if you have a specific question. I use the equations of quantum physics daily, but just as a way to make tangible predictions on the observables of condensed matter that I am interested in. The concept of time there is in its simplest and most widely used form. I don't even do anything relativistic, even though the particles that I study can formally be described by the Dirac equation, I mostly use the time-independent Schrodinger equation for everything.
Very down to earth. No metaphysical thinking, just use the probabilistic nature of the equations to make predictions that can be measured.
I usually don't think about the metaphysical aspects of it all. I haven't read a book that ponders the nature of our reality in a long time. Funny thing, though, is that I could only read them when they were written by what I considered a "real" physicist. If it were just someone who was good at thinking, but unable to grasp the equations, I would de facto discard it. The trigger that made me stop reading these kinds of books was when I was focusing on free will, and my conclusion from reading the books was that we don't have free will. It kinda made me depressed and annoying to talk to, as most people want to believe in free will. So, one day, I just decided that free will must exist, as a postulate, and it has made my life easier. But that's also probably why I just use the equations as tools now and don't think much about Everett's many-world interpretation, etc.
I'm rambling, but all this to say I don't have neither the qualifications nor a desire to go much beyond a similar approach towards the nature of time.
Still very interesting to read about it, but I don't look for it anymore.
It's a bit sad to write it out like that~~
According to preliminary figures released by Eurostat on Friday, consumer prices rose 2.2% year-on-year, unchanged from March but slightly above the 2.1% forecast by economists.
On a monthly basis, inflation accelerated by 0.6% as in March, suggesting that disinflationary momentum may be stalling.
I guess the 2.2% number includes energy prices.
What do you think? This kind of smallups and downs will be the new normal for the next 10 years? Just a slow degrading of people's purchasing power with momentary small improvements, that will be reported with big fanfare as things are getting better again?
I applied for a permanent academic job a while back. I was objectively the better candidate according to neutral people in the room during my presentations and interviews.
It's a three day process. On the evening of the second day, it was clear that some powerful people in the jury had decided the other candidate would get the job. It was not even worth it to come back the third day for what would be a formality as there was no way for me to win the game anymore.
I decided to have the hard conversation though. I'd go to the last interview, and instead of giving my presentation, I'd use the first 5 minutes to speak my mind.
Even though i did not say it explicitly, every spectator could hear me accusing them of corruption. The conversation was quite one sided in the end~~
This was a very difficult conversation for me to have, as i am also very non-confrontational. I hate conflict.
I felt vindicated in my decision to speak up as i ended up winning the last day's competition, even though it wasn't sufficient to get the job.
Not sure about that. Europe made sure that Brits believe that Brexit has been a net negative for them. Many are worse off now than before Brexit. If that's because of Brexit, that's another question, but many people associate their current misery with Brexit. There haven't been more calls for Brexits, as far as I know.
101 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 1 May \ parent \ on: What to improve for the Predyx platform? devs
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