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Humbled and honored and STOKED to have my piece “Bitcoin and Music”featured in vol. 13 of Citadel21! Can’t think of a better home for it ✨
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"In a single free and open source code base it harmonizes completely separate aspects of culture and society — deeply foundational ones — and leverages our own human nature (especially our flaws) to make the network richer, stronger, and more effective." citadel21.com/bitcoin-and-mu
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The US government spends over $6 trillion a year. Where does all that money go? I went down a deep rabbit hole to figure it out. What I found was shocking. Here is what I learned... pomp.substack.com/p/where-does-t
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"Spending by the Department of Health and Human Services is 2x the Department of Defense (military spending) & the Department of Homeland Security combined... We spend double the amount on Social Security compared to the Department of Education." via
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"They are disincentivized to purchase electricity from the utilities companies, which results in less revenue for those utilities and less tax revenue for the Paraguayan government. The miners lose. The utility companies lose. And the government winds up losing."
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Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy. —John Dewey
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Tiho Brkan
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This is the most annoying thing Apple has done in a while. I've spent hours a day reading books and exported my notes easily to Readwise via email.
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Tristan Homsi
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Unfortunately, it looks like @AppleBooks has removed one of its most important features in iOS 16 -- the ability to export highlights from a book. Now, your highlights are stuck (and useless) in Apple Books, unless you can use the mac app. Details 👇 discussions.apple.com/thread/2542053
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Marc Randolph
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Years ago a good friend of mine was running Microsoft’s development efforts for their smartphone. He swore up and down that all their research showed users would NEVER buy a phone without a keyboard. Current trends don’t always predict the future.
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"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." ―Frédéric Bastiat
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"When normal people and businesses realize that global money transfers can be borderless, instant, free, and only take like two clicks, I think things are going to get very interesting."
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on #nostr + #Bitcoin lightning network
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when you go to the bank and take out a mortgage to buy a house, the bank loans you hundreds of thousands of dollars which you then start paying back every month + some interest did you pay tax on those hundreds of thousands of dollars you got? no top 1% do that for everything
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ordinary folks work for their wealth. they receive income, which needs to be reported to the IRS. rich folks invest for their wealth. they own assets, which can be borrowed against for cash, and money borrowed isn't taxed
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here's the script: - print tons of money - act surprised that, once again, it ends up in the bank accounts of the top 1/10th of 1% - raise taxes - taxes only apply to *reported income* and the big 4 accounting firms use offshore pools of capital - not reported, not taxed
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"we need more taxes!" oxfam says, right on cue and the plunder continues because the rich didn't get rich without learning how to legally avoid paying taxes. they use the tax system to their advantage
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"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." ―Frédéric Bastiat
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Dear
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, the US defaulted FOUR times: 1862: default on demand notes 1933: default on gold bonds 1968: refused to redeem silver certificate paper dollars for silver dollars 1971: refused to redeem dollars held by foreign govs for gold under the Bretton Woods Agreement
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Brian Roemmele
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This is an iron bar—value ~$100 If you make horseshoes—the value would be $250 If you make sewing needles—the value would be $70,000 If you make watch springs—the value would be $6 million Value is not what you are made of—but in the ways you can make the best of who you are.
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Noor Siddiqui
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Pretty absurd that chatGPT has passed the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE). Today, it takes 4 years of med school and 2+ years of clinical rotations to pass. It tests ambiguous scenarios & closely-related differential diagnoses
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Performance of ChatGPT on USMLE: Potential for AI-Assisted Medical Education Using Large Language...
We evaluated the performance of a large language model called ChatGPT on the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE), which consists of three exams: Step 1, Step 2CK, and Step 3. ChatGPT...
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James Lavish
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There is nothing more offensive and obscene than billionaires flying private jets to a remote Swiss village, dining on Wagyu filets and the world’s finest wines, while telling you to turn down your thermostat, stay within 20 miles of your home, and eat insects for dinner.
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Saifedean Ammous
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Keynesians think you can measure inflation by taking out food, energy, shelter, and used cars, which likely make up more than 80% of more than 80% of people's annual expenditures.
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Paul Krugman
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But anyway, the truth is striking. Here's 3-month "supercore" excluding food energy shelter and used cars: 3/
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Luke Gromen
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Dimon's comments about fossil fuels ("Gonna need them for the next 50 years; we're not investing in oil & gas to keep it low") & BTC ("It's going to zero") are fundamentally incongruent. That he doesn't realize this (or doesn't care) seems bullish for BTC over time IMO.
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Dimond doesn’t understand Bitcoin, hasn’t spent the time to understand it, & is extremely smug that he’s right, similar to most of Bitcoin’s critics If you don’t like Bitcoin, at least take the time to learn enough about it to make a coherent argument
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Paul Graham
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I have to admit I've never understood exactly what the World Economic Forum was supposed to be about, but this at least makes me stop feeling I should have.
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MORE - The crisis is also "spiritual," a woman with a hat added.
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i used to be a big Fed watcher reading Barron's and Bloomberg and reviewing earnings reports then i focused more on creating and building and adding value myself 10/10, highly recommend
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