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Maintenance is not a Romantic Subject (FT, Tim Harford) by @JB in ~HealthAndFitness 1,015 sats and 14 comments so far

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Maintenance is not a Romantic Subject (FT, Tim Harford) \ stacker news

Here's a cute one, courtesy of our fallen hero Tim Harford (tl;dr: he used to be great and edgy, now he's bland and irrelevant, perfect material fo...

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Ukrainian capital Kyiv under massive Russian attack, officials say by ch0k1 in ~news 5,305 sats and 10 comments so far

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Ukrainian capital Kyiv under massive Russian attack, officials say \ stacker news

The Ukrainian capital Kyiv came under a massive Russian attack early on Saturday, with explosions sounding in the city, air defences in operation a...

stackernews 1 month ago

Mental Obesity, Information Overload, and Selective Ignorance (by Aleks Svetski) by @JB in ~BooksAndArticles 1,280 sats and 1 comment so far

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Mental Obesity, Information Overload, and Selective Ignorance (by Aleks Svetski) \ stacker news

It's been pretty exciting to watch Svetski's intellectual development over time. I very much liked his Bushido book and have generally been pretty ...

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A Big Family is the Ultimate Status Symbol (FT, Paton) by @JB in ~econ 1,114 sats and 3 comments so far

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A Big Family is the Ultimate Status Symbol (FT, Paton) \ stacker news

It's the end of the year, so I guess the FT algo/email-pushers are giving me random shit they think I'll click on... and sure enough, they were rig...

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Do AI models have “taste” when it comes to code? by nkmg1c_ventures in ~AI 257 sats and 4 comments so far

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Do AI models have “taste” when it comes to code? \ stacker news

I’m curious if anyone has read about AI models having code taste? Is there a front runner when it comes to code taste and avoiding code smells/sp...

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Telegram - Pavel Durov will cover IVF costs for women who use his donated sperm by Wumbo in ~news 219 sats and 2 comments so far

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Telegram - Pavel Durov will cover IVF costs for women who use his donated sperm \ stacker news

During SNL last week @k00b had a memory that Pavel Durov was doing a similar thing to the Chinese billionaires - https://stacker.news/items/1343377...

stackernews 1 month ago

Countries Stockpiling the Most Gold Reserves Since 2000 by @0xbitcoiner in ~charts_and_numbers 186 sats and 0 comments so far

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Countries Stockpiling the Most Gold Reserves Since 2000 \ stacker news

This chart by Aneesh Anand visualizes the net additions to official gold reserves from 2000 to 2024, using data from the World Gold Council, IMF, W...

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Largest bilateral gold trade in history? China buys nearly $1 billion in bullion by spiderman in ~econ 297 sats and 2 comments so far

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Largest bilateral gold trade in history? China buys nearly $1 billion in bullion \ stacker news

Is this an evidence that the sanctions are working, and the Ukraine war is proving to be expensive enough for Russia as they have to force liquidat...

stackernews 1 month ago

Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves by Scoresby in ~tech 213 sats and 1 comment so far

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Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves \ stacker news

Unlike many of Flock’s cameras, which are designed to capture license plates as people drive by, Flock’s Condor cameras are pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ)...

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Bitcoin Builders Club #5 was a blast! ⚡️ - Brandon Keys by Car in ~builders 157 sats and 0 comments so far

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Bitcoin Builders Club #5 was a blast! ⚡️ - Brandon Keys \ stacker news

Bitcoin Builders Club #5 was a blast! ⚡️ 💫 Big thanks to Brandon + @Greencandle for coming through with a strong session on content, creatio...

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Bitcoin moderates Fiat, but I'm hard pressed to believe it can eliminate it by MaaliMKen in ~bitcoin 766 sats and 1 comment so far

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Bitcoin moderates Fiat, but I'm hard pressed to believe it can eliminate it \ stacker news

One of the things I notice from Saifedean Ammous's The Gold Standard and his views about credit creation and money e.g. here https://youtu.be/Tb3so...

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MIT roboticist calls out Elon Musk's 'fantasy' of humanoid robot assistants by brent in ~AI 121 sats and 1 comment so far

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MIT roboticist calls out Elon Musk's 'fantasy' of humanoid robot assistants \ stacker news

How much of the Tesla bubble is based on unrealistic hype? Rodney Brooks was the co-founder of iRobot, the creator of the home robot vacuum Roomba....

stackernews 1 month ago

Russia Central Bank Links Bitcoin Mining to Ruble by @0xbitcoiner in ~bitcoin_Mining 347 sats and 0 comments so far

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Russia Central Bank Links Bitcoin Mining to Ruble \ stacker news

- Elvira Nabiullina said bitcoin mining may be an additional factor supporting the ruble. - She cautioned the impact is hard to quantify because mi...

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Why Indian bond yields are at a four-month low, and what it means for you by spiderman in ~econ 205 sats and 1 comment so far

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Why Indian bond yields are at a four-month low, and what it means for you \ stacker news

As Lynn Alden said, the only reason for central banks to exist is to bailout the sovereign. Reserve Bank of India proving it once more [1 comment]

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Apple pauses app store changes in Texas after court blocks age-assurance law by Scoresby in ~Politics_And_Law 138 sats and 0 comments so far

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Apple pauses app store changes in Texas after court blocks age-assurance law \ stacker news

@winteryeti posted about this on Christmas Eve (https://stacker.news/items/1372613), but I lost it in the shuffle. The law, SB 2420, or the App Sto...

stackernews 1 month ago

Jungle Mesh: Trust-Minimized Offline Bitcoin Payments. Feedback wanted by jonslabyrinth in ~bitcoin 226 sats and 1 comment so far

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Jungle Mesh: Trust-Minimized Offline Bitcoin Payments. Feedback wanted \ stacker news

@jonslabyrinth stacked 226 sats posting https://jonslabyrinth.substack.com/p/jungle-mesh-trust-minimized-offline [1 comment, 24 boost]

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"Online Safety" will destroy free speech in America by guerratotal in ~charts_and_numbers 301 sats and 2 comments so far

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"Online Safety" will destroy free speech in America \ stacker news

This "Online Safety" shit will destroy free speech in America and almost nobody is talking about it. Digital identity + censorship update: Federal ...

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Letter #1: Notes From The Inside by jakoyoh629 in ~Politics_And_Law 311 sats and 0 comments so far

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Letter #1: Notes From The Inside \ stacker news

"Turning yourself in to be incarcerated tugs against every fundamentally primal instinct we have as human beings," writes Samourai Wallet developer...

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How Health Care Remade the U.S. Economy by Scoresby in ~econ 317 sats and 5 comments so far

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How Health Care Remade the U.S. Economy \ stacker news

I think someone posted this earlier this year when it came out, but the two charts really are quite an interesting comparison. [15 comments]

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Stacker News AMA - LOVE Edition 💖💘💕 Swing by and ask your questions to our resident relationship coach and dating expert! @Cupid’s Daughter 👇

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I'm a Relationship Expert and Matchmaker - AMA! \ stacker news

Hi everyone! 💌 I’m Cupid’s Daughter, founder of Join To Find Love, an international matchmaking company created during the lockdown that has...

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