Translation of my blog "Rich people don't (have to) pay taxes" into English. The politicians like to tell you that it will be the rich people or corporations that will pay the taxes and you don't have to worry about it. The fact is that it's the poor people and people who use fiat money who pay most of the taxes and rich people can very easily avoid it.

Juraj Bednar

Rich people don't (have to) pay taxes

The core of this text is a thought experiment, not science - and it's perfectly OK if you disagree with it. I found this thought experiment to...

Znova aktualizovaný zoznam obľúbených produktov. Pridané AI tooly, konkurenciu k Oura, ktorá vyzerá dobre, prepísané hardvérové peňaženky, pôžičkové platformy.

Juraj Bednar

Obľúbené produkty

Na tejto stránke by som vám chcel ukázať niektoré moje obľúbené produkty. Niektoré linky sú affiliate (teda dostanem nejakú odmenu za pr...

HCPP Schedule is out! My talk on Nostr is Friday at noon. https://hardcore.hcpp.cz/

From Raphael Douady: Did you hear about the "tail concentration effect"? When a #blackswan shows up, everything goes wrong and correlations spike to 100%. In other words, any risk factor becomes a risk source. Correlations are not stable at all, particularly under extreme events. You need proper models to handle it, starting with #nonlinear. Nonlinearity is more important than multi-factor. Comic by Stefan Gasic (highly recommended)

A friend of mine said something along the lines of "We have this cosmic technology of v4v splits, and we use it to send each other $0.01". Yes, we can't change the paradigm from "zero cost, pay with your attention" to "value for value" by rewarding creators $0.01 per episode. All of us are more or less guilty of this. The ransom model seems to work a bit better: "Full podcast available after paying $10". What I don't like about the ransom model is it is often on fiat platforms and it is often a monthly subscription. There is hardly ever any podcast that I want to pay for monthly. I would gladly pay for some single episodes.

New Free and Open Source microproject for podcasters: A podcasting 2.0 boosts dashboard, created from @Core_LN's listinvoices output. I have a podcast, but I want to be sovereign and not host my boosts on a third party (such as Alby, although nothing against them, I just want to do it on my infrastructure). It is a simple python script that takes the json output of the command line, filters out podcasting boosts and displays them. The output is a static HTML and JavaScript that you can open locally. No backend, pure simplicity. Enjoy!

GitHub

GitHub - jooray/podcaster-boost-dashboard: Convert core-lightning's listinvoices output to a podcasting 2.0 dashboard

Convert core-lightning's listinvoices output to a podcasting 2.0 dashboard - jooray/podcaster-boost-dashboard

V tomto podcaste spájam viacero tém, ale hlavnou témou je "case study" podnikavosti. Keď som robil Výzvu podnikavosti, niektorí ľudia to pochopili ako výzvu založiť startup. To je samozrejme tiež dobré splnenie výzvy, ale môj pohľad na podnikavosť je oveľa širší. V tomto podcaste vám predstavím jeden môj "mikroprojekt", ktorý výzvu podnikavosti splní oveľa jednoduchšie - má pomerne krátke časové ohraničenie, jasné ciele, a o mesiac môžem robiť niečo iné. V podcaste sa ale dozviete aj ako môže bežný človek používať umelú inteligenciu. Ak to zatiaľ nerobíte, vypočujte si aspoň úvod podcastu. Hovorím tiež o dôležitosti otvorených modelov, prečo by sme mali mať každý v "domácej serverovni" naše vlastné AI. A môj projekt je podľa mňa vhodný medzikrok k tejto vízii - sprístupňuje open-source modely ľuďom, ktorí zatiaľ nemajú hardvér.

Juraj Bednar

Ako na podnikavosť? Príklad s AI, Venice a financovanie open-source vývoja

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3GNuy8ilew V tomto podcaste spájam viacero tém, ale hlavnou témou je "case study" podnikavosti. Keď som ro...

Testing testing, sending message to Košice, is there anybody out there? @Paralelná Polis Košice

Venice's new combo is fun and food for thought - they're using a Dolphin 🐬 variant fine-tuned from a Chinese qwen base model. Ironic that it seems the Western woke models like Gemini/Gemma are more censored than the ones approved by the Chinese Communist Party (I am talking about the base model now, Dolphin is always awesome).

Mnohí z nás podnikáme kvôli slobode. Slobodu však každý vníma inak a nie každý vidí “za roh” slobody – podnikanie môže priniesť dokonca aj rôzne formy neslobody. Ktoré z týchto problémov dokáže riešiť Bitcoin? Ako sa rozhodnúť medzi investovaním do podnikania a kúpou Bitcoinu? Je očakávaný výnos podnikania vyšší ako Bitcoinu? V tomto podcaste sa pozrieme na “otočené” podnikanie, rôzne ukazovatele podnikateľského úspechu a verím, že vám naruším štandardné pohľady na to, čo to podnikanie vôbec je, prečo ho robíme, čo nám prináša a aké máme od neho očakávania.

Juraj Bednar

Podnikanie vo fiat svete slobodne s Bitcoinom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF3aAdHw5ZA Mnohí z nás podnikáme kvôli slobode. Slobodu však každý vníma inak a nie každý vidí "za ...

Last year, I went to a family vacation in Thailand. At sunset, this was everyday happening at the beach. Usually they used phones not cameras though. Self organization was very funny, they were in corridors, so it looked like they were at the beach alone. It was packed with people though.

A long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away...

It's funny that CAPTCHA a.k.a. Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart can be now better solved by computers and thus became useless in telling computers and humans apart.

Low latency anonymization does not work. Back to mixmaster?

ndr.de

Investigations in the so-called darknet: Law enforcement agencies undermine Tor anonymisation

The Tor network is considered the most important tool for surfing the internet anonymously. Law enforcement agencies have apparently begun to infil...

One of the most famous bitcoin critics. His predictions are always spot on, be careful, bitcoin is only for terrorists and governments should print money to "save the economy" (Offer a blood sacrifice to the almighty altar of aggregate demand.) (Never forget that they gave this guy a Nobel Prize in economics 10 years after he said this nonsense. The titles don’t matter, the made up math doesn’t matter, Paul Krugman is guaranteed to say something dumb again.)

Bullish.