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14 sats \ 0 replies \ @SpaceHodler 3h \ parent \ on: Ross Ulbricht pardon coming tonight or tomorrow according to LP chair bitcoin
The only thing that's NOT better than coercion is coercion.
It's an easy thing for him to do. An easy way to appease a cohort of voters and gain popularity among them.
She also said that Ulbricht should serve as a public example for acting as though he "was better than the laws of this country."
He was better indeed. Much better.
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SpaceHodler 20h \ parent \ on: Women Are More Woke Than Men charts_and_numbers
Sure they exist, it's just that those are not the traditional gender roles, which still shape our upbringing and political views.
8 sats \ 2 replies \ @SpaceHodler 20h \ parent \ on: Women Are More Woke Than Men charts_and_numbers
Men traditionally have to provide, they're brought up to be competitive, tough and self-reliant. Consequently, they tend to develop an internal locus of control.
Women are brought up to spend other people's (typically their husbands') money and come up with creative ways to justify expenditures.
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The Panama Canal is one of Panama's government's major sources of income; in 2023 it accounted for 24%. If they lose the Canal, it may be a big loss for the locals and those seeking to relocate there for its tax haven status.
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In any case, it doesn't change anything but official US English. Anyone can call it what they want. You can't force the French to call La Manche "the English Channel", and I might just rename the Gulf of Mexico to "the Trump Gulf."
I had to use a VPN to access that article, my ISP blocks the domain. The same with my mobile connection, so it must be a UK-wide thing.
How can the CIA log into my phone?
Would GrapheneOS prevent that?
LLMs are great for research, data extraction, language learning, designing a study plan etc.
They can answer a complex question quickly, so you don't have to waste time going down a road that leads nowhere. The answer may not be accurate, but the accuracy can often be verified easily.
I find it fascinating that they can also reason as an emergent property of the way they work, even if the reasoning is different from human reasoning; based on pattern matching rather than an internal model of reality.
For example they can solve math problems they never encountered in their training.
Most people don't know how to use them. LLMs sound much like a human, but need a different approach to talking to a human.
That's why you need decoy wallets.
When a gangster demands your seed and passphrase, give them the poop they deserve.
If 30% of zaps, including CC zaps, gets converted into revenue and rewards, which can be paid out in sats, would it be correct to say that CC are like sat IOUs (i.e. SN backs them with real sats), but with the caveat that users can't simply redeem them for sats, they only become sats under special conditions (like payouts of revenue and rewards)?
One thing that never ceases to amaze me is how people conflate wages with minimum wages.
They will say a country is unattractive, because its minimum wage is low.
Until not long ago Germany didn't have a minimum wage and somehow people from minimum waged countries migrated there for economic reasons. It surely wasn't for a zero wage, but for a market one, which was higher than in their minimum waged country.
I don't want to lose my Revolut or Wise, those are anything but burner accounts. Without them I'd have half my fiat income.
We have many traditional banks, I guess I could use those, but only while my accounts last, which probably wouldn't be long.
I don't use p2p exchanges, because I don't want my bank accounts closed without a warning.
It's easier to find workarounds for withdrawing from exchanges than banks closing accounts.
So every time you pay an LN invoice, it asks you whether you're withdrawing to your own wallet or paying someone?
Sounds bad, but I guess those KYC services were never meant to be used as 'wallets'. They're on-ramps; a place you deposit fiat, buy corn and withdraw it somewhere you won't be spied on.