vvpan

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by vvpan 7d ago
Seeing the world through property rights is so one-dimensional and devoid of any creative thought it makes me sad as well. Eventually this is the SV ethos - own, conquer, extract, no space for externalities like simple urban pleasures.
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by vvpan 7d ago
Hero.
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by vvpan 7d ago
Or jerk's boss or their boss or shareholders.
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by vvpan 8d ago
Downgrading from Opus 5 to Opus 4.8 was the biggest improvement with readability. I do use the skill under the link and with Opus 5 the improvement felt marginal.
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by vvpan 8d ago
Opus 5 writes absolute garbage, I do have the skill in question installed and it did not help much. Me and everybody on my team downgraded to 4.8 - instant improvement.
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by vvpan 1mo ago
What is the problem?
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by vvpan 1mo ago
Blockchain has some solid properties, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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by vvpan 1mo ago
Not hotdog.
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by vvpan 2mo ago
Well eventually consumers don't really know how the system they are using works. Prediction markets run on blockchain but few people know this. Robinhood is offering trading in perpetuals of companies that haven't IPOed yet and yo
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by vvpan 2mo ago
Pentiment is a Peabody award winning video game that covers this period. It's terribly engaging and well written. I'd use the word "educational" but that might make it sound dry, which it is not.
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by vvpan 2mo ago
Curtis Yarvin in a New York Times interview said that there were no wars under monarchy in Europe. Imagine that.
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by vvpan 2mo ago
Real World Assets (RWA) is the hot stuff these days. While it is still early the mega-banks are starting to pile on. One of the reasons is that any infrastructure built on blockchain is reusable for free by everybody (minus transaction free
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by vvpan 2mo ago
Except Pavel Durov has been caught lying before and in general is not a great source of information.
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by vvpan 2mo ago
Somebody already posted it but I wanted to mention it again, investigations that Telegram has not been able to dispute have revealed that Telegram's infrastructure is managed by a person who is also managing infra for FSB. And this is
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by vvpan 2mo ago
The Insider also did an investigation disproving his claims that he "fled". He consistently visited Russia afterwards. Edit: it's another iStories piece, not Insider, Insider only re-reported it. https://storage.go
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by vvpan 2mo ago
It's a great an telling investigation. Dropped in to share it as well. Telegram deserves no trust from us.
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by vvpan 2mo ago
I think one thing that we have come to think as electronic consumers, or just consumers in general, is to expect the absolute best modern version of everything (plug, AI model, car...). I think it is pure conditioning and we forgot the simp
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by vvpan 2mo ago
A complimentary complaint is that payments are a "pull" operation with subscriptions. You can't decide who gets your money. How retro is that!
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by vvpan 3mo ago
Free speech for them, "woke propaganda" for you.
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by vvpan 3mo ago
Do we have any hard data about AI improving any business metrics yet? I am not skeptical that it might, but I have yet to see anything.
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by vvpan 3mo ago
Steer towards that Fully-Automated Luxury Communism.
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by vvpan 3mo ago
Humans?
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by vvpan 3mo ago
I am sure they are. But afaik some european countries have much stronger institutionalized trades programs. https://www.aasa.org/resources/resource/Youth-Apprenticeship...
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by vvpan 3mo ago
When I look at those people first thing I think is that they have never seen a cell phone and I am bit jealous.
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by vvpan 3mo ago
An average user does not need to run their own node for decentralization to work. It just needs to be cheap and easy enough for enough of technical users to run
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by vvpan 3mo ago
People have set up relays for like $15/month.
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by vvpan 3mo ago
Was wondering and discussing with somebody yesterday why USA does not have a strong apprenticeship culture like Europe does.
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by vvpan 3mo ago
It is all about the system of values. The system of values that the stereotypical high powered CEO billionaires have is unfathomable to me. Do they have time to breathe? Do they have friends? Their lives sound boring and unfulfilling.
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by vvpan 3mo ago
One of the effects of giving is de-concetrating power and diminushing your political leverage.
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by vvpan 3mo ago
I've been told that it is a regional thing.

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