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Sounds great, I'm going to give this a try. Is there a plug-in for passkeys/webauthn for the mandos-server unlock?

Do they support the ClearFlow layout?

Crazy times. Getting strong vibes of the purge of "Jewish Science" in Germany in the 1930s from this. Until that point Germany was a world leader in the field and then they handed it to the US and never recovered the same status. Looks like the US is desperate to hand over the baton now.

Exactly this. I would like to use it, and maybe I'll give it a try, but then is what has been holding me back.

How good is the Excel formula language equivalent these days? Does it have LET and LAMBDA?

Thanks. So you essentially get an 88 key macro board in your lounge?

Thanks for the PSA. Sounds like some cool new developments I want to learn about.

> Similarly, the nature of the trait system is such that impl blocks relevant to a particular method call can be found almost anywhere. For every trait method call, you get a dependency on the impl block that supplies the implementation, *but you also get a dependency on non-existence of conflicting impls in every other file*!

The last clause is a great point and one I will try to remember.

In March 2020 l was glad about the oil price dropping to below $20, but very concerned about the state of the world.

Bravo

I'm not saying it's impossible. I said "which have seen zero prosecutions in the US", i.e. to date.

My estimated timeline at this point is 3 years.

I was also curious about the base64 encoding in the stack. I'm not knowledgeable in this area though so it was more for my own education than questioning the choices.

Cool, thanks for this. What about the extensions though? For me the point about pi is minimal base plus configurable extensions you choose.

Thanks, I'll check out Verse.

I haven't seen anyone make the point about graphs before. FWIW PRQL allows defining named subqueries that can be reused, like J1 and J2 in your example.

Thank you. Started learning it last night and already up to a workable speed. I was getting frustrated with all the corrections I had to do when gliding on qwerty.

Thanks. I always like putting my ideas out there as I often get feedback on points I hadn't considered.

On this leading to reporting being pushed more towards what people consider in the public interest, I would argue that's a good thing. It's also maybe not that different to the current status quo if you look at how different TV or news networks cater to one target market or another.

With regards to your second point, sounds like you're essentially describing a Sybil attack. I agree with you that that's a serious concern. I'm just going to think aloud here so not sure where I'll end on this but let's see:

1. Having to make a micropayment for each upvote will at least put some cost to the bad actors, cf spam email vs spam SMS. That still makes it more amenable to abuse by the rich but I guess in the end it would come down to the balance of economic power and interest/participation between the masses and the elites?

2. How does it compare to the current model? You pay for a monthly subscription which in this context is an undifferentiated portfolio bundle of the news stories of a particular month. I guess that does make the cost of a Sybil attack higher because you can't just spend on the particular other stories trending at the same time as the one that you are currently trying to bury. For the good actor consumer this means that they generally have to pay for/support a news organisation that is broadly aligned with their interests or ideology. It does create this cliff effect though in that if I don't think I'll read enough stories in a particular month to justify my subscription then I won't pay for it at all.

3. I guess this mirrors the kind of debate and thought that's been going on in decentralized blockchain and web3 circles over the past decade or more about how to structure incentives that create broad distributions of power without too much concentration. I'm not up to speed on that so would love it if someone more knowledgeable would weigh in.

4. I had a thought about tying subscriptions to real world identities of natural persons but I don't like that from a privacy and censorship perspective.

5. I was reminded of Quadratic Voting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_voting) which I believe would work well if there is a limited set of participants but I think won't protect you from a Sybil attack when it is cheap to create identities.

6. Building on points 5 and 4, what about this? You need a decentralized digital identity in the form of a DID which would have to be signed by some trusted party, either a government or some other institution. This could still be anonymous or pseudononymous in that when you go to the authority to have it signed, the signing authority checks that you currently don't have another active identity or any previous ones have been revoked (potentially problematic as I'm guessing the authority would have to maintain a link and I don't know if that's possible in a zero knowledge way). Alternatively identities are unlimited but expensive to create, say something like $1000 a piece so that creating 1M fake ones at least costs you $1bn. It's yours for life though so you can amortize the cost over time. In order to not cut out people at the bottom of the income distribution, they can use the government signed one but they lose the benefit of anonimity.

7. Once you have something like 6 then maybe QV is a good mechanism for apportioning micropayments on stories in the public interest?

Anyway, would love to know what current SOTA on this is in web3 circles rather than my speculations over my morning coffee.

Great point and good idea. Maybe something like the Kickstarter model, where you commit to paying something and it only gets deducted if enough people commit?

You'd probably still want to read it straight away rather than wait so you'd pay a small amount for immediate access and commit an additional amount for public access if the threshold is reached. The public commitment could come at the bottom of the article, once you've decided that it's on the public interest.

This, so much this!

I have the same issue with Google Sheets. Non-experts don't understand how much of an impediment this is.

People need to watch a Shrekli video on YouTube to see how much some of us rely on the keyboard shortcuts.

You wouldn't expect a Vim user to just abandon their muscle memory and just switch to Emacs.

Thanks for this!

It's ironic that the landing page shows people from around the world but the country where healthcare is least affordable is the USA.

I was expecting this to be about The Legend of Zelda.

I misread this as "A shortage of tensors" ... disappointed.

> The story took another surprising turn in 1993, when Wyman's 30-year-old son from his first marriage, Stephen, married Smith's mother, Patsy, then aged 46, making Smith her own step-grandfather’s ex-wife.

How are there real numbers real? They're certainly not physical in a finite universe with quantised fundamental fields. I would say that natural numbers are there only physically represented ones and everything else is convenience.

Haven't used Google Trends in years but from what I recall the trends are normalised, right?

I wonder what base effect there is as a lot of search volume is being replaced by AI usage instead?

Given the .gov extension I'm assuming this is real?

So in three years time they're going to rename it? Unbelievable.

Interesting. I have almost the same smoothie every morning minus the banana and oats. Instead I use psyllium husks for fibre.

My cholesterol has been in range for years despite eating almost exclusively saturated fat since I'm in the keto camp. Just watched an interesting episode by Peter Attia and Layne Norton on seed oils which might shift my view on PUFAs a bit.

Thoughts?

Short and sweet. An absolute masterpiece of scientific writing!

A family friend used to run a travel business with tours to the Okavango Delta. When I asked him how it was going, he replied "Great, we've only ever lost one honeymoon couple to hippos"! People don't realise they are one of the most dangerous animals to humans.

That's what I thought too. The $ sign seemed quite appropriate given Goldman's line of business.

In general, his emails read like something I've observed people doing IRL; they coax smart people into talking by saying ambiguous, clever sounding things (which are actually nonsense). The actually intelligent person will give them the benefit of doubt by association with their connections, thinking they must be intelligent to have such friends, and assume they misheard or something. Quite surprising how often nonsense like that passes muster. From the bits I've skimmed so far, he looks like a very successful hanger on that leveraged each connection into other ones.

Some of these are wild. This one reads like him journaling on an acid trip:

24. questions = AI to the minus 1

If this was from 2025, I'd put his RADICAL BREAKTHROUGH down to spending too much time on ChatGPT.

https://www.jmail.world/thread/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019871?view=i...