Fido had several down days last week. I learnt that anxiety affects the kidneys and vice versa, and it was thunderstorm for a few days. Down days mean he stops eating š but he overcame it. Love is happiness seeing your dog finish his entire meal ā¤ļø. Today would have been a perfect day for the dog and I at the beach but he is not ready for a long driveĀ yet.Ā Someday
happy happy birthday! You have a beautiful family
i think its the right way to go - removing that single source of "truth" is fundamentally crucial. It may not necessarily be mutually exclusive to being data-complete as the latter is more related to the number of contributors. But the idea of enabling individual thoughts and biasness would shake up this silo regimes
This caption is perfect for an article on MSM. WIll get many people out there to read it and start talking about it.
Maslow once said ' The key question isn't āWhat fosters creativity?ā But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled?" and Picasso echoed "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." . Goerge Land's creativity test from how kids scored 98% and adults scored 2% on the same test was another indicator of degradation.
The damage of the traditional education system in establishing moulds of new generations and limiting creativity, thoughts and opinions is not talked about enough.
wow. this obsession in wanting to control Bitcoin transactions. Ironically I was just reading about UPI system which has iris scanning and finger print with about 300 million people using it on a monthly basis, and it is in the process of being cross integrated with UAE, France and other countries. This seems to be happening at a high intensity globally. And then corporate with ppl like Sam Altman runs Open AI that is likened to the Manhattan project, and on a mission to expand eye-scanning and establish worldcoin. I was just thinking if the world has gone mad, and then I saw this lol.
I cannot imagine living in that world without the options of Bitcoin and Nostr, pretty crazy huh
I hope that's a great thing. I wish I could be at least half the person my father was in this lifetime.
if most parts are just plug and play, and you can print the casing for prototyping, and put it together fairly quickly. Jeremiah on nostr is setting up his fab lab and you might be able to collaborate for longer term solutions ie cnc casings. The harder part might be developing the system to operate it.
i'm glad you found some silver lining and hope you and your family are recovering well!
Interesting. 23% real unemployment is too high. Was reading the Brogen project last night and in Bangladesh, official unemployment is 4.1% but real unemployment is 40%. People who work for a few hours with a measly salary but can barely survive are considered employed. Bangladesh remains one of the poorest countries in the world. Ironically they invented the concept of micro loans in the 70s and won noble peace price. They have potential, but the monetary system is broken.
The global population increased triple fold in the past 70 yrs, and with women in the workforce too, there is more need for job provision. I think we have to change this mindset from providing jobs to people to enabling people to become job creators. And I think the ecosystem in bitcoin, nostr, open source enables that.
If you do speak to him though, would love for him to go all out with the āno warā campaign that his uncle JFK strongly believed in. That and to steer away from pump and dump shitcoin - it brings more harm than good. Shitcoiners would probably try to hook him on the climate change angle. When it comes to mining and how it benefits people, Africa is at a huge advantage, countries like India uses terms like āelectrifiedā to indicate that 100% of the country is āelectrifiedā when what it really means is that only 10% of rural areas have access to electricity.
I think having this opportunity to enable and empower people to build their own lives will make all the diff in the world.
lol, this is funny. Good pic of Jack Mallers tho
Bootstrapping means you are either rolling revenue to cogs without access for operating cost or have multiple jobs, bills to pay, and scrapping earnings into building startup bit by bit. It may not be so bad for SW but for HW ie tangible goods with mass manufacturing and high r&d and cogs, you can only progress bit by bit and it takes forever. This is why bootstrapping is often much slower than aĀ fundedĀ venture.
For a short period of my life I lived in the US, drove a red convertible mustang (with only the tip of my toe reaching the peddle lol).
My colleagues in the US were all full time engineers but had extensive hobbies. One was a weekend pilot, another a wedding organiser. One refurbished Volkswagen and made 5x min profit. 2 of my colleagues had farms - and not your small vegetable crop. One was apple farm that yielded 13 tonne of trucks per year for cider, another was winery. They are also some of the smartest people I've ever met my entire life.
Minus tax, housing and healthcare, the cost of living in the US was incredibly low in proportion to wage. Also everything in US was large. The people, the food proportions, the clothing size, the houses, the cars.
I was there for work, and got a chance to visit many other states. West coast and East Coast is glaringly diff. I stayed mostly in Northern California and visited NY and D.C. I have family in San Antonio so I spent some time there - best BBQ. LA was interesting - almost everyday someone will ask you out lol. I did weekend trips to Nevada, Utah, Colorado, also very diff vibes.
For stupid reasons like wanting to contribute to my country, I decided to come back home lol.
US, despite all its flaws, is a beautiful country, with good quality of living, for at least most of the peopleĀ IĀ encountered.
i canāt believe iām agreeing with pmarca https://www.wsj.com/articles/should-ai-be-open-source-behind-the-tweetstorm-over-its-dangers-65aa5c97
He might unblock you now :)
I didn't know Khosla was early OpenAI backer - big returns
While this may not be relevant to the discussion, I donāt think the Manhattan project is a great analogy. The US is the only country that killed hundreds of thousands of innocent lives with nuclear weapons.
During WW2, while Russia was busy fighting against the Nazi, the US was focused on building their atomic weapons.
After WW2 ended, and many years after Pearl Harbour, and way after Hitler committed suicide, and months after that last battle of Okinawa, only then US decided to show its global dominant power by blasting Japan.
Why?
Who knows. But a couple of months before that, they pitched the Bretton Woods agreement and needed the world to sign on.
Russia picked up pace on nuclear weapons after WW2 and it's at par. The world has not been at peace because of global dominance over nuclear weapons, nor have they really put nuclear energy into good use for the people.
Having a select few make decisions for the world because they have monetary interest has never been a good idea. The Manhattan project will tell you that.
I'm sorry to hear that, tho sometimes insurance inflates the medical cost to an atrocious amount, just because. Hope the dog and the sheep is better, and you are doing ok too. Go easy on yourself!