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Sjors Provoost
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Physicist turned bitcoin developer aka "shadowy super-coder", author of Bitcoin: A Work In Progress
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provoost 9 months ago
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.
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provoost 9 months ago
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 →
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provoost 9 months ago
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.
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provoost 9 months ago
> 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.