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Well eventually consumers don't really know how the system they are using works. Prediction markets run on blockchain but few people know this. Robinhood is offering trading in per…

Pentiment is a Peabody award winning video game that covers this period. It's terribly engaging and well written. I'd use the word "educational" but that might make it sound dry, w…

Curtis Yarvin in a New York Times interview said that there were no wars under monarchy in Europe. Imagine that.

Real World Assets (RWA) is the hot stuff these days. While it is still early the mega-banks are starting to pile on. One of the reasons is that any infrastructure built on blockcha…

Except Pavel Durov has been caught lying before and in general is not a great source of information.

Somebody already posted it but I wanted to mention it again, investigations that Telegram has not been able to dispute have revealed that Telegram's infrastructure is managed by a …

The Insider also did an investigation disproving his claims that he "fled". He consistently visited Russia afterwards. Edit: it's another iStories piece, not Insider, Insider only …

It's a great an telling investigation. Dropped in to share it as well. Telegram deserves no trust from us.

I think one thing that we have come to think as electronic consumers, or just consumers in general, is to expect the absolute best modern version of everything (plug, AI model, car…

A complimentary complaint is that payments are a "pull" operation with subscriptions. You can't decide who gets your money. How retro is that!

Free speech for them, "woke propaganda" for you.

Do we have any hard data about AI improving any business metrics yet? I am not skeptical that it might, but I have yet to see anything.

Steer towards that Fully-Automated Luxury Communism.

Humans?

I am sure they are. But afaik some european countries have much stronger institutionalized trades programs. https://www.aasa.org/resources/resource/Youth-Apprenticeship...

When I look at those people first thing I think is that they have never seen a cell phone and I am bit jealous.

An average user does not need to run their own node for decentralization to work. It just needs to be cheap and easy enough for enough of technical users to run

People have set up relays for like $15/month.

Was wondering and discussing with somebody yesterday why USA does not have a strong apprenticeship culture like Europe does.

It is all about the system of values. The system of values that the stereotypical high powered CEO billionaires have is unfathomable to me. Do they have time to breathe? Do they ha…

One of the effects of giving is de-concetrating power and diminushing your political leverage.

I've been told that it is a regional thing.

Gross historical ovesimplifications aside I am wondering why one would use this as an opportunity to belittle a whole continent.

I think that's unfair to "vibe coding". If anybody explicitly claims to vibe coding something than they are admitting to low supervision of the code. And on the contrary you can al…