Happy Proof-of-Steak day!

How it started... how its going. EasyPark took over ParkMobile and then jacked up prices by up to 18x. Fortunately there's actually competition. And tourists will probably keep using it.

Even better if it says "I told you so" if you ignore the warning and end up rugged. View quoted note →

@L0la L33tz on the bright side, it's nice to have a convenient cryptographically signed public record of who ratted you out to the authorities:

The Rage

ICERAID: Report Immigrants, Get Paid In Crypto

ICERAID promises users rewards in cryptocurrency to report immigrants to law enforcement. The project claims to be in talks with the White House, b...

Unfortunately nostr doesn't fix this. And that "please list your social media accounts" question on ESTA applications isn't that innocent anymore either. Assuming the First Amendment doesn't make a comeback, we'll probably see more encrypted group chats (e.g. MLS based). Unfortunately those are not immune from rats, which governments could offer bribes for. So really we'll just go back to good old Soviet kitchen conversations with trusted friends, after everyone leaves their phone at the door. And then Glory to Trump in public. View quoted note →

Cruise ship that plans to sail around the world every 3.5 years, carrying a combination of buyers and renters. According to this newspaper article some folks seem pretty happy, others are not. At $100-320K plus monthly expenses of $3K - $7K it's a bit too expensive for my taste and I get sea sick. You can travel the world and live in very nice hotels and apartments on that budget. That said, it's not crazy unreasonable either and apparently many Americans spend more than that in dreadful land based homes. What I find encouraging is that isn't a libertarian sea steading project. At least that wasn't the perspective of the people they interviewed. And the marketing doesn't emphasize that either. This is just a mainstream option now.

NRC

Geen thuis meer op land, maar wonen op een cruiseschip

Wooncruise: Huis verkopen, hut kopen en wonen op een cruiseschip. Hoe ziet je leven er dan uit? Aan boord van de Odyssey: „Ik kan me terugtrekken...

Weer een interessante aflevering.

Fountain

Zo simpel is het niet – Stellinga & Schinkel over economie • Zit er dan toch een plan achter Trumps chaos? • Listen on Fountain

In de financiële wereld praat iedereen erover: Donald Trumps dreiging en intimidatie richting bondgenoten zouden onderdeel zijn van een groots en ...

> Volgens het RIVM heeft het gebouw een open uitstraling. "Het pand heeft een zichtbare, gastvrije en open uitstraling door het gebruik van veel glas." Als je er langs fietst, ziet het er misschien anders uit, zegt woordvoerder Coen Berends. "Maar van een afstandje stralen we een open karakter uit." > Met dit gebouw laten we zien dat we midden in de maatschappij staan.

Streng beveiligd RIVM-gebouw lijkt wel een gevangenis, maar moet een 'open uitstraling' hebben

De verhuizing van het RIVM van Bilthoven naar het Science park in Utrecht had al heel wat voeten in de aarde. Door de vertraging van de oplevering ...

I'm seeing this new meme bubble up that Bitcoin, not even "crypto", is responsible for the demise of US democracy. This is nonsense. First of all, everything that's happening in the last two months is a continuation of multi decade trends. It was obvious long before the whitepaper was published. Particularly an out of control growth of, and complete lack of checks on, executive branch power. Trump isn't even using a fraction of it. I find Dan Carlin's take on this stuff in his Common Sense podcast useful. But that aside, crypto just isn't that important (yet). It's nice (or bad, depending on your views) that some people in power have at least heard of it, and own some, but that doesn't make it a crypto coup. The highest estimate of crypto industry donations to this campaign I've seen is $400 million. That's a lot, but total spending was many billions. Apparently even Musk, who has very little to do with crypto despite his Doge pumps, donated hundreds of millions. Crypto was also barely a voting issue. Molly White went to great lengths to prove that. Finally, a friendly reminder that Bitcoin is a global phenomenon and not everything is about the US. Find another scape goat.

Friendly reminder that at some sudden point Github is not going to work anymore. Especially if by "US law" you mean any Executive Order, e.g. because one contributor is too woke for POTUS? Until such time though, it's a great platform. View quoted note →