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2026-10-05 20:46:48 UTC

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I don't know anyone who considers that a serious issue. I try to tune them out because I think they're just yelling about it in the hopes of getting the govt to protect their declining subscription-based business model against the low cost and increasingly comparable open source models.

2026-10-05 17:31:52 UTC

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Needle

2026-10-05 13:15:40 UTC

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I find testing to be the biggest weak spot of current models. They lack common sense to they are apt to take shortcuts and add theater as they goal seek a green test. I have thousands of tests in projects and I hope that a decent percentage are properly written. I'm not sure what the solution is except to do red green tdd and just constantly improve tests over time.

2026-09-22 18:39:24 UTC

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With all the recent bitcoin attacks, bitcoin security is on many people's minds. The reason many bitcoiners take issue with op_cat isn't because it's "inefficient" or "too general of a solution". It's because it increases security risks. You have an opportunity to explain those top concerns simply to help educate people on both sides of the debate.

2026-09-16 12:23:42 UTC

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Tree circle of life

2026-09-13 19:27:19 UTC

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High protein ... cricket powder? Not gonna eat the bugs.

2026-09-13 15:36:48 UTC

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AI is not actually intelligent. It's only a tool without its own goals and is fully dependent on humans. It can only live in a sandbox created by humans. There is already a kill switch. It's the power breaker. You can just flip it when you want to turn it off.

2026-09-13 14:28:45 UTC

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2017 vibes. Making me feel younger. Maybe we'll cycle through this every decade.

2026-09-13 14:21:56 UTC

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I can't believe that this is still a debate in 2026. Retro 2017 vibes.

2026-09-13 14:17:49 UTC

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Unfortunately, you can't just throw bodies at a project and make it better. Not sure if you've managed a large dev team. As you add people your team overhead in communication and coordination increases causing lower productivity. Amazon famously had their restriction that no team could be larger than the people that could eat two boxes of pizza. You also can't dismiss the tradeoffs between layers and decentralization. The smaller the base layer data requirements, the more nodes that can independently operate. It's a no-brainer for me. The best system is the one with the greatest ability to run local nodes at global scale while preserving created trust.

2026-09-13 13:51:52 UTC

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I'm sure the Liquid team thought they were being "aggressive" in their security too. We have no idea how much effort developers are putting into their projects. My point is that the uncertainty is the problem. You can't know, nobody can. The only thing you can trust is what you can audit. I can prove for myself there are only 21 million BTC.

2026-09-13 13:48:39 UTC

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That's not racism. It's the opposite. He's clearly expressing his concern for how govt intervention is harming black people. Lowering standards for a group will obviously have negative consequences. The govt is literally branding an entire race as not equally competent. It's pretty clear that govt intervention has harmed black people. As another example, you can either believe that black fathers just naturally abandon their children at far higher rates than everyone else, or you can believe that there is another systemic underlying cause at work. I would think that people who knowingly support a system that harms a group of people based on their race, are actually the racists.

2026-09-13 13:03:22 UTC

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It's one of the reasons I've been collecting passports and residencies. Long time believer in the Sovereign Individual thesis. The welfare nation states will need to go through the "great adjustment" where they slowly go bankrupt. They can't avoid it and will be dangerous places as it happens. Already, in places like Canada, the majority of voters in the country are financially dependent on the government. Direct welfare, employment, subsidies, etc. Once you're dependent on the govt, you'll likely continue to vote for more socialism until your physical safety is directly at risk. It took Argentina 80 years to reach that point. As the world transitions multi-polar, I'm hoping there will be safe havens in the world (but not guaranteed, of course). Another part of the SI thesis is the decentralizing effects of technology. YOu can see that playing out in open source AI models. Always getting cheaper and easier to run locally. World in transition, but many reasons to be optimistic.

2026-09-13 12:52:31 UTC

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By a boomer? I think the norm for Gen X and below is now to text first instead of just randomly calling someone. For a while, I couldn't handle the spam. I just sent all calls to VM and disabled VM so I never had to check it.

2026-09-13 12:43:56 UTC

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Sure, it might be finite, but you don't know how many more bugs are in there. It's the uncertainty that kills it. You can never know if you fixed all the bugs. When you have a choice between storing your life savings in one vs the other, you'll always choose the more certain one.

2026-09-13 12:32:00 UTC

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We've all just watched Liquid get burned because of confidential transactions. Nobody can tell if there is an inflation bug until it's too late. It's necessary for a globally trusted base money to be open and visible to be trustworthy. We need to add privacy in other ways (joins, L2, etc.)

2026-09-13 12:18:58 UTC

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Silicon Valley

2026-09-13 12:14:12 UTC

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It seems many bitcoiners do, which surprises me. I would have expected more suspicion for fiat world narratives. 9/11 was actually my blackpill moment. I was glued to the news that morning. I remember clearly the news updates on flight 93. They were interviewing folks from the ground reporting how they had heard planes flying overhead, and a large explosion in the sky. They also showed scenes of parts wreckage strewn over large areas of ground. Bits of engine here, plane parts over there. Then at some point they pivoted to show a burnt area of ground, again no crash wreckage. A while later they started reporting that a plane had crashed into the ground, and at first I had thought they were referring to another plane. After they stopped reporting about the explosion in the sky, and no longer showed the burnt ground, I realized that they were actually talking about the same plane and had switched stories. I justified it at the time by thinking that Cheney had claimed he had the power to order planes to be shot down, and they did, but changed the story when they discovered the phone calls about the passengers going to attempt to storm the cockpit. Why explain about shooting down the plane when you can make heroes of the passengers? Then I started realizing that pretty much everything they told us was not true. Opened my eyes.

2026-07-18 11:23:49 UTC

GM!