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They wouldn't be the only party, but they are in my opinion the most likely party. What the people that can monetize it? Microsoft, X, IBM, Salesforce, Discord, Google Microsoft wo…

And that might be why Google loses, they are competing with companies that are willing to operate outside the law (or at least pay Trump to have the DoJ look the other way).

Gemini seems like a better search engine than the alternatives because it has access to Google's massive crawler feeds. I think Google could charge 30 dollars month for Gemini + al…

Anthropic has no moat, their models just get distilled and resold. They can maybe get good margins when LLM improvement rate is very high but as it slows down they are looking at c…

I disagree. Google is one of the few parties that can monetize AI because Google has a massive moat in the form of their products: gmail, chrome, photos, search, etc... and Google …

You can use a self-hosted identity provider with OPKSSH. OPKSSH is just the protocol and the software that plugs an identity provider into SSH. Lots of people use it with authentik…

Exactly! Assume that you will have bad apples and build a system that protects against them and minimizes the harm they do.

Those jobs protects aren't necessarily wasteful in that they stimulate the economy and cutting them would have serious impacts for those states. The essential question is, could th…

Because finding people that are 100% ethical is extremely difficult. Even if we are wildly optimistic and say 20% of the population is 100% ethical. You aren't likely to weed out u…

A Surveillance state is not the same as police state. We already live in a surveillance state, but we are protected by three things: 1. The cost of arrest. Actually sending someone…

This is a very cool idea, surprised no one has done it before!

It was an accident, you can read the investigation. No one claims Nagasaki or Hiroshima were accidents. > I think americans have the false belief that US is some of kind of benevol…

> Iran does not think they are dealing with a madman. No one knows but the Iranian leadership. The Iranian leadership has been famously bad at modeling the intentions and motivatio…

Threatening autocrats might work, but just bolt out of the blue decapitation strikes undermine future threats because they figure they'll get no warning. If you are threatening, yo…

> I think "Iran was considering a peace deal" is a bit of a stretch here. Iran was considering a peace deal. I agree that the most plausible was they would reject it. > What does I…

The bigger issue is the tankers. The US Navy isn't going to be happy patrolling the strait sure, but even if they did they wouldn't be able to protect the tankers enough for it to …

I'm not arguing against anything you have said, but there is an important connection here that I want to make between disillusionment and funding. > Besides the people in this thre…

r/K selection theory but for protocols? This unofficial Bitcoin roadmap and the official ETH (Ethereum) PQ roadmap present two very different philosophies. * As one would expect th…

> but some portion of folks can attest to their ownership. How? Alice pay's Bob 1 BTC at random address 0x1234. Someone shows up and says, I own that address and here is signature …

> In practice there are very few bitcoin outputs that aren't linked to an offline identity and most users could easily produce a proof of ownership. Any who is going to in charge o…

That is not what I am hearing from people working on CRQC. A prediction of a CRQC with 10% by 2030 was made by own of the top experts in this field. 2045 used to be the pessimistic…

> fork the chain at a snapshot before the attack, patch the protocol, and call that Bitcoin? It won't work. The only way to authenticate who ones what coins is with signatures. If …