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4,412karma·596submissions·August 20, 2022
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Also, Twitter's mobile web experience is the best among social media platforms. They should immediately stop annoying users with the 'Twitter is better in the app' pop-ups.
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Not necessarily. If Elon wishes, he can go after (or at least credibly threaten to go after) Apple's core iPhone business with a Tesla Phone. There a lot of conflicts of interests with Twitter, b…
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Everything will remain available on the Wayback Machine even if HN nukes your account
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http://www.daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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He was referring to Moxie: He went on to praise Signal, the encrypted chat app that is run as a non-profit. He said he had spoken with its creator, Moxie Marlinspike, who is now “potentially willing t…
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I did think up some ideas one evening long ago and wrote down a rough note, but I don't think it would have much use for serious predictions (except as a fun toy to play around with to generate i…
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Develop AAA games, build a Disney metaverse with Mickey Mouse, lightsabers and Captain America, stuff like that ....
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A huge chunk of SBF's lobbying was to get on-chain DeFi banned. He was the biggest promoter of regulation, OFAC, KYC, etc in the space. His downfall, which began with the leak of the draft of the…
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This makes me think of the Stockfish analysis on Lichess
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> there are people who know what's that like, and who want to do for someone else what nobody did for them He probably hopes for a bailout from either BitMEX or Bitfinex-Tether and is simply t…
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https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/
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It's surprising that SBF sounds so libertarian suddenly - he was lobbying for government control of crypto just one month ago (which rightfully made him super-unpopular among the OG crypto crowd)…
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I've been convinced for sometime now that "effective altruism" (Lesswrong-ism? Yudkowskianism?) is the communism of the 21st century. Lots of parallels here beyond the obvious common th…
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Think it's wiser for writers to use ghost.org instead (can be self-hosted, extensible, open source, MIT license)
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https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1591989554881658880 This is a great way to gain investor confidence!…
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Whenever when you have to fight the government, the open ocean is your friend. (Think seasteading.) In this case, where what we want is bulletproof hosting, we host the servers undersea. Microsoft…
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