If you don't trust the government with your money, why are you trusting them with your children?

LLMs have not just increased the volume of spam, but have blurred the line—the distinguishing marker—between signal and noise in every content arena.

Your boomer relatives are getting wrecked by phones right now.

Put your money where your mouth is. You don't get to route around the powers that be for free.

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I'd hate to say it, but Trump getting assassinated would have saved his presidency and legacy, much in the same way it did with Lincoln.

The reality of the left is that most of their activists/supporters are paid in one way or another by fiat money printing, so the right has no chance from within the system. The only way out is through.

Exposure to Bitcoin is not Bitcoin because one is centralized the other is not.

Quantum Computing will never die as long as there are people who are incentivized to make it seem like more than it is.

Hard forks are a clever way for investors (VCs, mostly) to exit losing investments. They'll run the same playbook as they did with ZCash, just watch.

Pride says that you have ideas. Humility says that the ideas have you.

In retrospect the country-by-country bans/restrictions/taxes on smoking (~2005-2015) was the canary in a coal mine for authoritarian government.