just look at the dirt on the outside- that is the particulate in most chinese cities air

quick explainer of spark statechain that WoS uses (h/t yah-noosh) a statechain is a 2-2 multisig: - alice deposits into statechain. she has custody. operator cannot steal - alice sends her private key to bob. statechain entity now has a keyshares with alice and bob. statechain can collude with alice and double spend bob. - to not do this, statechain must delete keyshare held with alice. if statechain does, bob has immediate custody of the funds - bob can never know if the statechain was actually honest. they can really only know once they withdraw funds from the statechain or when they get rugged when receiving funds, you have custody in the event that the operator set is honest. you can trust that they are honest, but you can never be sure. in terms of trust-minimized-ness: - spark = trusted, but you have immediate custody if operators are honest

an amazing fiction book. i'm halfway through and am very selective about the fiction i read and wish i could read this book all day long

yes. raw milk cheese specifically

raw milk cheese is a superfood. eat as much italian parmigiano reggiano as you can.

https://archive.is/s9LGx The Secretive Dynasty That Controls the Boar’s Head Brand

You’ve already quit. You’re just mining your freedom on company time

cove vs bluewallet? https://stacker.news/items/1017478

https://stacker.news/items/1017237 Masterclass in healthcare insurance corrupt incentives

just had a conversation with a former ny diamond dealer i met at the gym. he says that the lab grown diamond industry is so wild right now that there are a flood of supposedly "mined" diamonds that are so good they are probably black market lab grown. everyone is doubting all diamond these days due to black market labs creating amazing stones and destroying diamonds as "forever store of value" traditionally lab groom diamonds needed to have a LG inscription buried in the stone, but so many of the diamonds now flooding the market are missing this subscription and seem too good to be true he thinks that there are some Chinese labs that have created lab grown diamonds with boron so they fluoresce blue unlike lab grown, which fluoresce red or green. Apparently many diamond dealers have vaults of these questionable diamonds that are passing spectrometer testing originating from chinese dealers