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Bitcoin's supposed to be "liquid" but I'm wondering what happens when there's a forced liquidity event.

Like this scene from Pirates of Silicon Valley between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBri-xgYvHQ Bill was saying that Steve was stealing from Xerox so it's okay if Bill stole from Xerox first.

What I would love to know is who is selling my info. I get texts from all kinds of politicians but I didn't know who sold them my number. Seems like selling someone's property without their approval should be illegal. It'd be great if I could request who sold them my data, then go to that entity tell them to stop selling (rinse and repeat)

Oddly enough if the scraping is good, AI can find the CSS tricks in the wild. Not as applicable with other technologies but scrapable web is readable for AI much like how some of us old people learned html/css by looking at source of quality websites.

I use Claude and Gemini to customize things for me all the time. If something doesn't work the way that I want it, I let AI fix it (I do back up and maintain scripts to revert back to its current stage).

"The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it." Linus Torvalds

or mastodon...

Since this is from court filings, that would be perjury if they can't back it up.

That's classic game theory. It'd be better if everyone refuses to defect.

I would say misuse AI for mental health advice. It's already difficult to find good mental health professionals.

I would love to have AI that can help support my fragmented memory. As my mom said, I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached. However, this requires a lot of TRUST with the company this access. Apple is the only big tech I could trust but I'm still unsure.

I’m a die hard engineer, yet when I see Apple, Microsoft, and Google marketing: it makes me realize the importance of marketing.

Don't forget about civil forfeiture where the government sues the alleged drug money.

Probably. I know Google has partnerships with Pharma: https://www.merck.com/news/merck-and-google-cloud-partner-to...

Unfortunately in the USA, most of the house of representative districts are not competitive and an incumbent is more likely to lose in a primary than in the general. Working to do something with the other side seems to be unpopular these days.

I refuse to use windows at home. I'll use it at work, but it's either Xubuntu or MacOS at home. I couldn't be happier.

The damage done will take decades to fix if it can be fixed. No idea why any other NATO nation would buy any weapons from the USA.

That makes more sense than Rocket Propelled Automation that was my hallucination.

Yes, very rural place or the woods. No idea about taxes, etc. I remember him explaining that you only need a SSN if you want to receive it and a diatribe about the mark of the beast.

When the guy was trying to get a passport, he asked if anyone could show a picture of him from our high school yearbook.

I think this is the horse shoe theory where the far left and right are against it. https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-conservative-and-li...

I know people who don't have a social security number because their parents didn't want them to be tracked by the system.

The difficulty for the US is people seem to be against a Federal Government ID. India doesn't seem to have this stigma and hence rural India can solve this problem.

I'll leave this here, Donald Trump Jr got a free stake in Kalshi. https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/options/articles/donald-tr...

My Claude and Gemini (Antigravity CLI) are working

Elective surgeries have fallen in price because many no longer occur in hospitals. In the USA, ERs have to treat everyone regardless of their ability to pay. That's why you see a lot of urgent care.

Gemini hasn't failed me for personal usage yet. I haven't had the opportunity to use it at work.

Not to mention the microplastics. Plus the Solo cups are transported over a great distance as well, between the fuel and packaging it could easily triple their carbon costs.

Is it worth a human reading it or not? There are many, insipid human-writers (me included). Historically I got a lot of value of reading info posted on HN.

Or a future president renaming Mar-a-lago as Epstein's Resort... this opens the door to all kinds of petty behavior.

This is Idiocracy the movie IRL. I can't wait for plants to need electrolytes.

Unfortunately for me, when I hear music it's from the horrible audio of a cell phone speaker.