*Nicolas Dufourcq, the head of France’s state investment bank Bpifrance, warned that Europe is becoming “doubly colonized” by Chinese industry and U.S. tech.* CNBC

*We never got rid of feudalism, it just got a rebranding* View quoted note →

*We’re here because we believe ideas should compete on merit, not on how well they serve the attention merchants* View quoted note →

*Most people have invested too much of their lives in the fiat based monetary and belief system to reject it for something so alien as a decentralised algorithm based protocol with no leader and no hierarchy. People want familiar power structures because they provide a sense of security and most peoples experience is that challenging established power structures is unrewarding and dangerous. With Bitcoin you are declaring war on the core of the power structure people live under, and most people who depend upon that power structure for their sense of wealth, security and purpose do not want to declare war on that.*

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What is it that people say they don’t like about Bitcoin? \ stacker news

What is it that you/people say they don’t like about Bitcoin?—do you/they really dislike Bitcoin, or just the discomfort of letting go of the b...

*paper bitcoin is trading at a discount. anyone who ever used P2P platforms can confirm that* View quoted note →

*AI is automating routine tasks,which raises the bar for graduates, but it also increases demand for higher‑level skills: critical thinking, systems design, and domain expertise* View quoted note →

*The real world of consequence is a harsh teacher, but it is the most effective one. It teaches reality, not theory.* View quoted note →

*there are likely far more people who think they want open intelligent dialogue than those who actually enjoy it. Most find it unappealing and choose to go back to the comfort of just having their priors confirmed*

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Why people leave nostr (and SN?) \ stacker news

https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs083hwcxwx6jtrlh8fxt5rz7ua47tm8m4nems95mql2n8xnsajntqvkuvwr I thought this note was interesting and potentially relev...

*Our collective complacency in the face of these systemic failures is perhaps the greatest failure of all* View quoted note →

*we’ve inherited a shadow republic where the most world altering events occur without explanation, where justice is selectively applied, and where our silence is mistaken for consent* View quoted note →

*The American experiment was predicated on the radical notion that power must justify itself to free citizens* View quoted note →

*This is a weird moment in fusion. Investors are pouring billions into the field to build power plants, and some companies are even signing huge agreements to purchase power from those still-nonexistent plants. All this comes before companies have actually completed a working reactor that can produce electricity. It takes money to develop a new technology, but all this funding could lead to some twisted expectations.* Fusion power plants don’t exist yet, but they’re making money anyway

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Fusion power plants don’t exist yet, but they’re making money anyway

The industry is getting billions, but it’s way too early to count on fusion to meet growing electricity demand.

“What stands in the way becomes the way” is a famous Stoic concept attributed to the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, meaning that obstacles and challenges are not merely to be endured or circumvented, but are actually the very means by which growth, virtue, and success are achieved. Perplexity

*The performance of a tool can drop as much as 20 percentage points when it is tested out of sample, on data from other hospitals. In one study, a pneumonia detection model trained on chest X-rays from a single hospital performed substantially worse when tested at a different hospital*

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AI isn't replacing radiologists \ stacker news

It's cool to see The AI Replacement Hypothesis not playing out in this case. Optimistically, I suspect AI will work like this in most industries. I...

*Walton emphasizes how companies with massive valuations like Nvidia ($4 trillion market cap) hold just $54 billion in actual capital, creating enormous risk gaps* TFTC *Strive deal points up fact that different bitcoin hoards can trade at different prices depending on who holds them* Financial Times

*When we’re on the same team because of the same incentives we can coordinate efficiently* View quoted note →

*CLINK is a nostr based transport for invoices, a bit like LNURL, but end to end encrypted and key-identified so you don't need a web server of your own to use it trustlessly, works with any open relay. Also provides an much better alternative to the slow and unreliable onion-based messaging of Bolt12. The spend spec offers functionality like NWC or LNURL-Withdraw, but without prior account setup and secret sharing.*

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SN release: CLINK wallet, recent search order, improve related posts, bug fixes \ stacker news

If you are running https://lightning.pub/, you can now send/receive with CLINK. Also we now pickup the lightning address from NWC strings if it's p...