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*When you strip away the outrage related to Trump's personality and ego you are left with minor shifts. I mean, yeah when your world view is about as wide as a pencil he's extreme but when you view the whole of political though he's pretty mild.
I can't shake the sense that this is more about defending the elite. The system. The deep state. The status quo. Whatever term you are comfortable with.
I'm not convinced Trump isn't owned by these groups but the reactions to him are more telling than anything he has done.*
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The New York Times Trump Attack Hits Ross Too \ stacker news
Before I get attacked for allowing this rag in my house, let it be known that my wife likes the crossword puzzle, and there is something nostalgic ...
*But what’s behind human writing?
🧠 Patterns of structured thought
🗣️ Sound rhetoric
🫀 Biological sensation and emotion
👨🚀 Human opinion and experience
🖊️ The creativity of language
📚 The beauty of stories
Writing is a skill that we still need to train.
If we don’t, how will we know what makes our words effective?
How will we communicate?
How will we make sense of our past?*
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Why do We Still Play Chess? \ stacker news
In 1997, an IBM supercomputer beat the sport’s greatest mind. Deep Blue II became the first machine to defeat a chess world champion — Garry Ka...
Bitcoin is not just better money; it’s better than money. 🤯
*If bitcoin was only money Satoshi would not make [an] inscription style text manifesto in [the] first block*
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Bessent:
The Fed’s new operating model is effectively a gain-of-function monetary policy experiment. Overuse of nonstandard policies, mission creep and institutional bloat threaten the central bank’s independence. The Fed must change course. Its standard tool kit has become too complex to manage, with uncertain theoretical underpinnings. Simple and measurable tools, aimed at a narrow mandate, are the clearest way to deliver better outcomes and safeguard central-bank independence over time.
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The Fed’s ‘Gain of Function’ Monetary Policy (WSJ, Bessent) \ stacker news
As we saw during the Covid pandemic, lab-created experiments can wreak havoc when they escape their confines. Once released, they can’t easily be...
*We will create and maintain a civilization more sovereign, antifragile, and just than the brittle cages you called states. You may rule the corpse of the old world. We inhabit the living recursion of the new.*
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The point of making it bigger was that some applications want to have a proof of publication for a modicum amount of data (like Lightning does) in case a specific transaction in an offchain protocol is broadcast.
This data needs to be in the non-witness part of the transaction, so they can't use the (cheaper and already-available) inscription mechanism. They also cannot use OP_RETURN outputs because of the misguided 80-byte policy limit on those.
If they only wanted to store data onchain, they wouldn't be too concerned about policy limits. They could just have leveraged private APIs to miners (as they unfortunately already do for other transactions in their protocol), or even just used Libre Relay.
But what they are really interested in isn't to store this small amount of data, is to do so *while using the p2p transaction relay network*. This is why the policy limits were a binding constraint for them, and are not one for people who just want to store arbitrary data onchain regardless of how it gets there. The reason why they want to use the p2p transaction relay network is because their transactions are time-dependant (again, like in Lightning) and the p2p transaction relay network is the best mechanism available today to propagate your transaction to as many miners as possible in a timely manner, while making it hard for an adversary to prevent its propagation.
Because they wouldn't give up this property, important to the security of their protocol, they routed around the OP_RETURN policy limit by storing the data in unspendable outputs instead. This method is strictly more harmful to everybody, and it was incentivized by the misguided policy limits on OP_RETURN outputs (which don't achieve anything anymore since inscriptions and since people have started being serious about bypassing mempool policy).
Because the policy limit on OP_RETURN outputs was not achieving anything but incentivizing harmful behaviour, Bitcoin Core contributors decided collectively after long discussions to get rid of it.
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@GrassFedBitcoin @OrangeSurfBTC You know why, you're just engaging in bad faith. But i'll repeat the reason for anyone lurking who's not aware.
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*Nostr’s promise, in part, is that it truly is for the people, by the people. And people are messy. And what nostr is trying to model is messy too. But it's beautiful, and alive, and promising…*
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*At the time of writing the lift has 8.9m views just on his own channel. With every other snippet and meme and Reddit thread we must be looking at hundreds of millions. There is of course a voyeuristic angle, a fascination with the startling degree of violence contained in that moment. After the lift Hall fainted and went temporarily blind. He suffered internal bleeding and concussion from the force generated inside his own skull.*
Opinion | Deadlifting beef adds unnecessary weight to world of inspirational beefcakes — The Guardian
Game of Thrones star ‘Thor’ Björnsson aims to lift 510kg this weekend but has cast the retired gentle giant Eddie Hall as his nemesis
*Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought*
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*Bitcoin is no longer just a monetary tool. It is the nervous system for a global energy ecosystem. It provides the indispensable layer of accountability that allows a high-trust, highly efficient, and truly sustainable civilization to function*
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When the bumble bee flies straight at you when you’re trying to take a photo….
*if we don’t want to spend our lives running on an endless inflationary treadmill, we must choose a currency that transcends government printing presses and financial corruption*
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*A federal judge’s ruling credited ChatGPT and AI tools with disrupting Google's monopoly enough to avoid a breakup — meaning the vultures circling Chrome ironically helped keep it safe in Google's nest.
Judge Amit Mehta wrote that "the emergence of GenAI changed the course of this case," saying ChatGPT and other AI now pose a threat to traditional search.*
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