Link to article?

If Elon was philanthropically motivated he'd impliment bitcoin on X.

X payments would just be sats and zaps.

Maybe you could but should you? 🤔

No WeChat for me, thank you.

Taking the post-hoc rationalization of a politician at face value is hardly fair.

I personally think there's a lot we could gain from realizing that we are all ruled by the least among us. And that they don't represent our values. No matter how many other people have been tricked into thinking they do.

But he's wrong though. The "book" says no such thing.

Good article.

Someday I'd like to decorate my house with paintings just like this.

I thank you for the recommendation but I'm sorry to say this book wasn't for me.

The author is undeniably imaginative, but the theme of every story seems to be the complete denial of human agency in some way or another. I don't find that interesting.

Besides that, our author has a problem with religious people. That would be fine if it didn't manifest in frequent, random asides that feel really petty and dated.

I read up to including "Axiomatic" and probably enjoyed the first story the most.

It didn't work

The hype was marketing bullshit? No waaaay

My ego be like

Into a burrito?

Not at all! I genuinely had not thought of that, but it makes sense that you could just pay with the primal wallet. It's cool. :)

That's awesome! I wouldn't have thought to use primal directly but why not! Xd

Sensible? Reasonable?

I could never pin down any self-avowed athiest on what he did and didn't believe. Nor was I impressed by that "there is no god, god is impossible" <---> "just a lack of belief, you can't prove a negative" motte and baily game. That may be one way to win an internet debate, but not genuinely open minds.

This is before the fact that these types obviously hate something they claim to disbelieve in. Militant Athiesm was just a front for high-modernism, statism, and hedonism.

Everyone is too stressed, overworked and in debt to care. The blue collar scene us what I'm familiar with and it isn't good. People are depressed out there in more ways than one. They suffer without being able to pin down exactly why and they don't see a light at the end of the tunnel.

I would donate to you but after 7 rounds and counting of select the bikes, crosswalks and stairs, I'm out.

What does the other room look like I wonder?

Suitcoiners is a good term.

Disagree. I've never met anyone who was confused by the smallist division of a bitcoin being called a sat. Not any of the blue collar people I've spoken to, not my parents nor my grandparents.

A sat is the smallest division of a bitcoin. Literally no one I've explained this to has had trouble with this concept.

The debt doesn't matter. Return that money to the people.

I'm unfollowing you for stuff like this. It's been good. No hard feelings.

Took me a moment. She has six fingers on her right hand.

Same.

I'm aware of a branch office in Akihabha, Japan, but that's about it for me. Not exactly a card-carrying member myself.

The main takeaway is that this universe-tracking technology is a very common tool for this community. No mystery or mysticism about it.

Just science!

A divergence meter. It's common enough knowledge in the mad scientist community.

I don't have a preference as long as the writer is creative and competent. Attention to detail matters, though.

You can dream up whatever future technology you want, but if you don't think through the societal, economic, and even social implications of that technology at least a little bit, I'm going to start to lose interest. I like The Expanse series (hard sci-fi) for that specific attention to detail. On the fantasy side, I like the Mistborn series for the same reasons.

Sci-fi I didn't like was Red Rising (which was just another flavor of Hunger Games with the same boring anti-elitist enlightened-centrist stance) and Cyberpunk 2077, whose every idea and theme felt half-baked.

There are not many options.

perpetual sellout

Did you find any extra benefit to reading this edition over the original (2004) one?

To continue complaining, it also doesn't help that all of the vehicles on the road (including my own) aren't much to look at either. For one, I suspect our oligopoly of a car market is to blame for everything kind of looking the same (with rare exceptions). And for another, everything is pretty much the same six colors. With the exception of the madlad I saw driving the lime-green convertible, every car I passed the other day in 5 hours of driving was:

- White (light gray from sludge/weather)

- Black (dark gray)

- Gray

- Silver (gray)

- Blue

- Red

There just isn't much to see from the highway this time of year. Even less so when driving through a city in the Midwest.