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Wait I know Google search to content sites is largely dead, but I thought Google ads still worked fine.

I don't know what you mean. Circle is a US company that needs to follow US laws. There is no USDC without Circle.

Yep, I mean regulated with respect to who's allowed to offer and hold digital accounts in the currency. Circle itself may not do anything too funky, but big chunks of USD then get …

It's entirely at the whim of the US government whether they allow non-KYC foreign people to have USDC accounts. Right now they say USDC:Yes and USD:No. They could easily say yes or…

Let me help explain whether blockchains are useful or not: They're not. The US gov let Circle be a less-regulated bank than other banks. This is called "regulatory arbitrage". You …

I think the balls stop when the tab isn't focused

What if you want an HTML-first page with a canvas in it, but then you realize you want some layout/styling for the text within the canvas? Seems unnecessary to propagate that situa…

I often don't endorse the behavior of Israeli settlers. I'm responding to the question of what Israelis think about the news in general, a question to which I wanted to contribute …

Israeli here, can't directly answer your question since I've lived in the US for 99% of my adult life, but I consider myself pro-Israel and resent the way Israel is currently/alway…

The "Do you want a Pebble?" "No" button is hilarious

Being a toy implies some niche of users is getting fun out of the product. Who's having fun here and how?

There are countless use cases for a good AI agent. The problem is temporary: good AI agents don't exist, because sufficiently intelligent AI doesn't yet exist. (Agency and broad-do…

This is decent as a "rah rah techno-optimism" piece, but it continues Marc's pattern of cheapening the discourse when opining on the topic of AI existential risk. It's easy to mist…

Here's how OpenAI could show they're minimally competent at AI security: Before beginning training on GPT-5, submit a version of ChatGPT that’s immune to prompt injection. If no on…

I downloaded a huge Firebase backup looking for a particular record. I ended up using the “split” shell command to get a bunch of 1gb files, then grepping for which file had the re…