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In less than a week, over 30 editor bugs have been searched and destroyed. Huge thanks to everyone that helped us by reporting everything they could find.
We're also going to release a megafix for Android users in the coming days.
Happy holidays!
I've never really cared much for "the" excellent. If you are excellent that is awesome, but I think that it's the desire to be excellent and the attitude that comes with it that is priceless.
The last section on why is the highlight for me. I'd come to a similar, less well articulated conclusion on a recent episode of SNL. Somehow, Japan has maintained its identity while every other western country has melted into one.
Instead, I think it’s more useful to realize what Japanese culture represents to foreigners, in a more general sense. And what I think it represents is alternative modernity.
Politically and economically speaking, Japan is part of the West. It’s a democratic, capitalist, developed country, with a notion of human rights similar to what prevails in the U.S. or Europe. It trades extensively with the U.S. and the EU, and it has strong scientific and intellectual links with both. It is neither a repressive one-party state like China or Russia, nor a theocracy like Iran, nor an aristocracy like UAE.
And yet in a million small ways, Japan is culturally distinct from the U.S. or Europe — or from anywhere else. It has different mannerisms, different social customs, and different aesthetic sensibilities. People relate to their coworkers and their friends and their families in different ways. Japanese institutions — companies, schools, bureaucracies — all do things a bit differently than their peers elsewhere. Even tiny aspects of Japanese culture, like preferences for brand goods, or the way people read the manual when they buy a new camera, feel different in ways that are difficult to describe but easy to recognize.
My friend @benwehrman made a formal invitation to me and he is the reason why I'm here today! (he is the reason why I'm on NOSTR too and why I eat a bunch of meat too) I'm glad to be here today sharing with y'all!!
Was not expecting to see Google after. Might come back in a few months when there are other options.
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Maple?
When I left Cuba for Brazil, we had to go through Venezuela to reach Brazil, where we crossed the border. We left Cuba on April 17th, a Monday. The plane we were supposed to catch at 4 PM never left because it didn't arrive in Havana. We left Cuba at 12:17 AM on Tuesday. At 8:00 AM, we had to catch a flight within Venezuela to another city, so if we were delayed any longer, we wouldn't get on. But, well, everything went well, and we managed to catch the other flight. From there, we arrived to the city of coyote , and that day we couldn't leave by car because there were roadblocks (protests) by miners on the roads. So, on Tuesday, we couldn't leave and had to sleep in that city. Coyote's house was extremely dirty; he even had mice in the room. So, thank God, the people who were helping us in Brazil—his parents lived in that same city—and they picked us up and took us to their house. On Wednesday, we left the city at 9 AM, heading for the Brazilian border. Halfway there, the car broke down and we were stranded in the middle of nowhere. Imagine, me, my wife, and a one-year-old child in the middle of nowhere. At that moment, a thousand things go through your head: are they going to kill us and leave us there, stealing all our money, etc.? Well, the guy managed to get someone to tow us to the nearest town, and we slept in a seedy motel. The next day, Thursday, he still hadn't fixed the car, so another coyote had to come and sort it out. From there, it was nonstop until early Friday morning when we finally reached the border. We crossed with other people on motorcycles, and the coyote took us to the hostel where we were going to stay.
After I took a bath and collapsed into bed, it was like all the stress vanished at once; it was like I'd finally exploded.
It had been almost five days without sleep, and with all the psychological burden of knowing my family's life was at stake.
Yes, post Christmas brain.
Might be a hot take because obviously Parsons is an elite player but he wasn't going to make that bad Cowboys defense good enough to contend this year.
When you account for the trade deadline move, the Cowboys ultimately gave up Parsons, a second round pick and Mazi Smith to get Kenny Clark, Quinnen Williams, a first round pick and 90M in cap savings (over next four years). That's not bad at all.
Unfortunately many European countries need to hit the rock bottom Argentina-style before things start to change
It's been nearly a year. I applied for a permanent job in Spain. I was told I was the best candidate. Little did I know that the 3 days of interviews would nearly devastate me. Day by day, it became painstakingly clear that the people who supported me were initially unaware of plans made by the opposing side to support their candidate, at all costs. And the opposing side had managed to put their pawns in the jury, making it mathematically impossible for my side to get the upper hand during the voting process. I came over from Korea, thinking I'd have fought off the jet lag by the day of the first interview. I didn't. Ensued three days of sleeping 2 hours per night, trying to make up for the odds tilted against me. On the day of the last interview, it was already clear that I could no longer catch up. Someone from my side told me I should not even bother coming over. Someone else from my side told me I could use this opportunity to leave the competition with my head up high, and, at the same time, seize the chance to speak my mind and ask the jury if they believed they had acted ethically and with full scientific integrity. I came short of dropping the word corruption. I ended up crushing it in the last interview, yet the math was unforgiving. Adding up all points, I lost by a fraction of a point. The stress during those days was crazy. Freaking out of my mind crazy. And my wife usually complains that I am too relaxed, so this was really out of the ordinary. I enjoyed it so much that I am trying again this year.
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Blockspace is a whopping .5 sat/vbyte. At night that’s 500$ a block in fees or 3k usd per hour. 3k per hour is all there is, in the entire world, in terms of demand for blockspace and ultimately miner rewards.
How much hashrate will 3k per hour pay for? Or 72k per day?
One thing to remember about hashrate, it is artificially boosted by tax policy (ie. bonus depreciation). Investors are buying miners because they can depreciate 100% of the cost immediately, effectively reducing (or in some cases eliminating) their tax bill.
Imagine I said to you, you can either pay a $50K tax bill to the gov and get nothing in return, or you can spend $100k and have no tax but own 10 miners which may earn you $65k over next 3 years....from your perspective its a pretty easy choice: Spent 50K or spend 35k...
This is the crucial thing that most miss: Because of this new depreciation scheme, miners don't care about net profit of their mining equipment. They only care about the offset to their tax bill....meaning its not spending 100K and hoping to earn some percentage over that. Its spending a 100k and earning just enough back to offset their tax bill, so maybe only earning back 65% is still "profitable" from a net tax perspective.
I love this question Ben!! If I became President of Love, I wouldn’t try to engineer romance — I’d fix incentives.
I’d invest in honest relationship education early, slow dating by default, and systems that reward clarity over volume. Fewer options, clearer intentions, more accountability.
I’d also focus on reducing chronic stress and instability, because people bond better when they’re not in survival mode — and I’d normalize being single so relationships are chosen, not rushed.
One key thing: I would actively discourage red-pill ideology — for both men and women.
That content thrives on manipulation, resentment, and zero-sum thinking. Love doesn’t work that way. Healthy relationships aren’t 50/50 scorekeeping — they’re two people consistently trying to give their best.
What I see instead is confusion being incentivized:
• Men being taught to use women rather than approach relationships with long-term responsibility.
• Unrealistic and contradictory expectations around purity, sex, and commitment.
• Young women absorbing distorted standards about money, status, and worth before they’re emotionally or financially grounded themselves.
None of this creates stable couples. It creates distrust, delay, and isolation.
Healthy love emerges when truth, generosity, maturity, and long-term thinking are incentivized — not fear, leverage, or gender wars.