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...and don’t forget Loon Lang — it’s a gem: https://loonlang.com By the way, “they” is actually just one person: Cam Pedersen — https://campedersen.com So far, he’s shown incredibl…

vcad was started in 2026 and has great ambitions: https://docs.vcad.io

*Supex* - Agentic coding for SketchUp. Working on a house renovation project in SketchUp, I wanted the same workflow I use with Claude Code: describe what I need in natural languag…

What about buying a dedicated machine for running agents? One macbook for agents and one for personal/private work plus a good KVM switch maybe or remote desktop.

According to the article it took him 15 years. Had been frequently visiting a single bank in Prague center (Raiffeisenbank) only with a briefcase exchanging EUR into USD in cash. D…

Creators of P2P bitcoin exchange: https://vexl.it The data is well sourced and the code is open-source. You don't have to trust or rely on their authority. Don't trust, verify!

Under BigSur > System Preferences > Accessibility > Display > Reduce transparency Thank me later.

Has anybody a link to the actual research paper?

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Blockchain might be a relevant tool for a group of strangers to maintain books (a database) which cannot be easily tampered with (or it is virtually impossible). Prime example is s…

Back in the old days if the Internet, there was no cryptocurrency. I strongly believe (crypto)payments can be used as a pretty effective anti-spam measure in the future.

Doesn't really matter how you spend the money. It is a signalling thing. The money must be burnt. With limited resources it ensures you can't repeat engagement with multiple women.…

Who is claiming that bitcoin transactions will be used by average person for everyday payments? Making a bitcoin transaction is like recasting gold bars - not something you want to…

This will be the base layer. They expect custodial wallets and payment channels on top (in Bitcoin terms exchange wallets and lightning network). See the Libra blockchain paper, se…

For clojurists here, Nathan is the creator of the Specter[1] library. Which is a brilliant idea and technical masterpiece, IMO. Nathan, kudos and good luck! [1] https://github.com/…

IMO, UX is a minor issue. Why would anyone spend hard money before fiat money? (Gresham's law) Also each spending could trigger a separate taxable event (depending on your jurisdic…

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Isn't problem simply with the user (his wife)? She had enabled auto-translation and didn't notice. Similar thing would happen to anyone with email account setup to forward all emai…

To truly understand how bad it is, we would have to analyse the 250T figure in more detail. There is a "free debt" component to it which was generated via seigniorage[1] and "real …

What about the number of deaths caused by possibility for governments to finance war efforts via money printing? Most notably both world wars.

No, mining gold is not cheap. And if by "traditional money system" you mean fiat then I must argue that it is not comparable. Comparing bitcoin to fiat is like comparing gold to pa…

A few years back I wrote something similar for ClojureScript: https://github.com/binaryage/cljs-zones The drawback was the need to manually wrap all participating async functions i…

> You should be asking the opposite question. Why does anyone choose to have children? I would think that the opposite question does not need much explanation because we have some …