eruleman

Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are incoming — 2020s will be the fight of MMT vs BTC as Balaji says.

It's easy to create a fork of software.

It's hard to create a fork of firmware running in people's minds.

The market should decide what the correct fee is.

Unfortunately, there isn't a free market in payment processors for phone apps as there is no choice, and therefore no competition.

I think Joe might've forced Spotify to put the episode back up?

https://twitter.com/joerogan/status/1321651282667433985

Refreshed my page, and the episode is back.

Good news: Crypto created the new business model for open source software.

Naval: "Ironic that the most monetizeable code in the world is now open source (running on blockchains). OSS has the best business model."

https://twitter.com/naval/status/867860551522598912

Trump quote-tweeted a Babylon Bee post saying that Twitter had taken down the site in order to slow the spread of bad Biden news.

you're my hero.

What were your favorite parts of it?

I've been listening to podcasts on YouTube, running RoamNER [0] on the transcript, and inputting the result into Roam.

[0] https://github.com/hmprt/RoamNER

you sold me with "no woowoo."

"What is a debt, anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence..." - David Graeber

Hildegard von Blingin's cover of Bad Romance is the anthem of Bardcore:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2zpbcW-h-c

> I doubt I could list even three things I’d read or experienced the entire preceding eight hours. At this moment I feel very bad. I know one of the ~30,000 days in my life is gone. And I didn’t get anything out of it.

This resonates — I have trouble pursuing hobbies and being motivated. Thinking this is one of 30k days on this Earth at least puts some scarcity back into the game.

Primary agent problem. The people who purchase Enterprise software (accounting, IT) aren't the same people who use the software, therefore they don't care about things like UX when making purchasing decisions.

Does anyone know of other open-source projects in the speech-to-text space? DeepSpeech was one of the most promising projects, especially the latest versions...