The new OpenAI 4o1 preview seems much improved for coding.

A long article but I wanted to emphasize an important point. Ethereum became trapped and centralized because of the success of stablecoins on their network. The bankers behind the stablecoins were able to dictate the software of the chain. This is another example of unanticipated consequences. Did those devs realize that tokens on ethereum might end up controlling the network? Even when a protocol change is technically safe, it can still have side effects that can undermine the decentralization of the network. View quoted note →

IMHO, the greatest product advice ever given. Compare what he said with Apple today. The Vision Pro was a disaster because they no longer follow Steve’s product design framework. When you watch the launch video for the Vision Pro, you can see they weren’t sure what it would be used for. They made the old mistake: marketing technology instead of focusing on real human needs. Maybe Apple’s old institutional knowledge has been lost by now. In Monday’s product announcement, they practically hid the Vision Pro. Sad. All that work for nothing. New suggested slogan: “Designed by committee in California” View quoted note →

Seems like good evidence for another conspiracy theory. The US and the UK may have interfered in the Ukrainian peace deal to provoke a Russian invasion.

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ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Two (long but interesting) takes on historical events. Why hitler hated communists and the Jews:

The Managerial Minority: Adolf Hitler on Woke 1.0

Austria 1910 to America 2024

Also, Tucker had this historian on to a lot of backlash but was an interesting discussion. The question that made me think: Why did these people act the way they did?

Why we don’t need op_cat, op_ctv or anything else so that we can open many lightning channels at once. Maybe we’ll need that someday when plebs prefer self-sovereign lightning over custodial lightning. But that day is not today. View quoted note →