It's hard to picture trump following through on that promise. I will be surprised if he does. I think central stake holders in the financial system will view that as a declaration of war. Hard to imagine a more influential set. If he does follow through, I would interpret him as thinking the deep state was behind the assassination attempts, and that he is at total war with them. Which makes me think his first shot we would have to knock them on their heels, something like declassifying/unsealing the files on the the JFK assassination. That would be such a big shot that it would sow chaos in their ranks, and then freeing Ross could be done as a second shot.
I don't think you can solve agi without solving the halting problem first. You can't design a truth machine and throw power at it, tempting as that may be to believe.
nostr:nprofile1qqsw4v882mfjhq9u63j08kzyhqzqxqc8tgf740p4nxnk9jdv02u37ncpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9uju6mpd4czuumfw3jsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsq3yamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wpskwtn9wvql3tqm thoughts on the ECB's paper 'The distributional consequences of Bitcoin'? How would you counter the argument?
Which sci-fi authors inspire you the most?
Also looking forward to getting back in the gym in a few days. Waiting for a surgical wound to finish healing (had a basil cell carcinoma removed via mohs surgery a few weeks ago).
Just deep fried 4lbs shrimp in avocado oil, breading was coconut flour/garlic powder/paprika/salt/pepper/oregano. My family loves it every time I make it.
It is time time of the conjuction of the million narratives spheres, and all things are posssible.
Correction: 313 means 3 seconds down, 1 second hold, 3 seconds up. 515 means 5 seconds down, 1 second hold, 5 seconds up. 313 and 515 tempos are useful in building tendon strength.
One key to avoiding injury weight lifting as you grow older is to rotate through slower tempos (313 = 3 seconds up, 1 seconds hold, 5 seconds down). The slower tempos cause you tendons and connective tissue to get stronger. 1 second tempos won't do that. So the trap people fall into is their muscles keep getting stronger but their tendons don't and they injure their tendons at some point.
I can see how money launderers could use self hosted wallets to evade detection. I also see how they could use careful reasoning to evade detection. Should access to careful reasoning therefore be restricted so that the general public can not access it "just because" they want to?
3. #EU #AML PROPOSAL TARGETS PRIVACY PAYMENT INSTRUMENTS AND FREEDOM TOOLS
The current AMLR version specifically targets self-hosted wallets, ignoring their role as vital financial tools as #Bitcoin for millions of activists facing financial oppression.
Labeled high-risk, self-hosted wallets are now seen as significant money laundering and terrorist financing facilitators. Changes include revisions to Recitals (20) and (21) and the addition of Article (31b) in Charter III, which increases operational and compliance costs, affecting business strategies and client relationships.
The consequences for EU users of self-hosted wallets are serious. Additional compliance checks will complicate, if not block, the conversion of crypto-assets to fiat currency for activists and civil society members already facing financial exclusion. The AMLR overlooks the crucial role of self-hosted wallets in transferring funds to non-democratic or conflict regions, exposing donors and recipients to repression by authoritarian regimes using AML/CFT laws (e.g., in #Belarus, #Kazakhstan, #Turkey).
Smaller clients with self-hosted wallets, viewed as higher risks under Article (31b), may be deprioritized or excluded due to higher transaction compliance costs. This makes them economically unviable for financial institutions, which often favor larger, lower-risk clients for efficiency. The latest AMLR version could effectively ban self-hosted wallets in the EU, significantly impacting the cryptocurrency sector and those vulnerable to oppression.
See our reaction in our Submission: https://en.odfoundation.eu/a/725781,building-true-change-btc-coalition-submission-on-the-eu-proposal-for-a-regulation-on-the-prevention-of-money-laundering-or-terrorist-financing/ 
Does the concept of prior restraint being a fundamental violation of individual rights have standing in Europe?
I feel like I am walking into a trap here, but technical debt can't be forgiven, it has to be worked through. Unless a new superior technical framework, with vastly less technical debt replaces the existing rube Goldberg technical framework whose accumulated technical debt is preposterous and unworkable. So the old debt is walked away from. Ok, nick, well played.
I am in the middle of reading Dune at the moment. I am pretty impressed at Frank Herbert's analysis of governments, culture, and the conditions necessary for humanity to thrive. Especially his concept of the butlerian jihad, which I think is widely misread as being anti technology. What I think he is objecting to is the use of technology to replace human risk taking and exploration with some elaborate but ultimately non-sensical technocratic framework that is expected to solve the garbage-in-garbage-out problem and which, if it were successful, would solve the halting problem. The closest match to what we are going through currently is not AI bullshittery, but the fiat money printer, which promises to remove risk from the process of discovering/producing useful goods and services.
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CN you just quote your npub in your Twitter bio?