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12 sats \ 4 replies \ @jimmysong 26 Dec 2024 \ on: Paul Sztorc on Activating Drivechains via CUSF (Bitcoin Takeover S15 E68) bitcoin
Can we have a deboosting option? This is just drivechain crap that's not really interesting. I'd pay to have it not stare at me every time I visit this site. If Vlad wants to boost against the de-boosting of everyone else, more power to him, but I'd pay to not see this post.
I'm skeptical of that particular interpretation of the Marshmellow Test. For a different take, check this out:
We don't act like that because we're not homo economicus, but people with relationships, emotions, goals and dreams.
Also, Asian cultures just give money a lot of the time. It's a lot like dating people are hoping to get a good deal (paying $50 for a gift that the recipient will value at more than $50, or getting someone slightly higher value on the dating market), but most of the time it's a futile exercise and everyone loses.
4 was good. 5 was great. 6 was ok.
1, 2 and 3 sucked in such indescribable ways, especially after waiting over 15 years for them to come out. One of the most satisfying early youtube videos for me was this takedown of episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5919C8DE6F720A2D It's so old that it had to be broken into 10 minute chunks because that was the limit on YouTube back then. There are similar takedowns of 2 and 3 by the same guy.
But then, it got worse and 7, 8 and 9 somehow made 1, 2 and 3 look reasonable, which still amazes me. I haven't watched 8 or 9, but if they can make 1, 2 and 3 look ok, they must be truly dreadful indeed.
But yea, 4 is basically a modern retelling of Kurasawa's classic The Hidden Fortress. Seriously, the plot is very similar, down to the perspective of the two lowest characters, which Lucas admitted he ripped from the movie. 5 was the real gem, in my view.
Sadly, this probably means the lone Bundestag member that advocates for Bitcoin (Joana Cotar) will no longer be a member after February.
There's a more general public-friendly and newer paper by the same guy here: https://ebooks.iospress.nl/pdf/doi/10.3233/APC200019
I'm going to send this out along with the classic Locklin article whenever anyone asks me about quantum computing and Bitcoin from now on.