Vijay>Proof-of-Work In Colonial Maryland: Burning Tobacco For Paper Money, Burning Electricity For $BTC @.fernikolic #bitcoin
#Tesla just crossed $100 billion market cap.
Xerox launches a hostile takeover bid for HP
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/23/tech/xerox-hp/index.html
😲
>The first 20 years you measure success with grades, only to realize that the real value is in learning to learn and critical thinking.
>The second 20 years you measure success by how much money you made, only to realize that how you spend time, and with whom, is most important.
🐦 @.ValaAfshar
>Europe is getting ready for green QE
🙄
>“Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”
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The Controversy Behind Nike’s Vaporfly Running Shoe, Explained | WSJ
"Ignorance brings chaos, not knowledge" - Lucy
News: The best nondiary milk for you
Me: 🤨
News: and, environment
Me: 🙄
Thermometer is for kids.. if you're an adult you'll only need two measurements; Can get out of bed, and can't.
Loneliness epidemic, reminds me of "The Bulls and the Lion story". Who's the lion here? 🤔
Why Are We So Lonely? - Glad You Asked S1
Faith: not wanting to know what is true. #Nietzsche
Remember #ColdFusion? Now it's called "Low Energy Nuclear Reaction" #LENR
https://www.ft.com/content/4233196a-82cb-11e9-b592-5fe435b57a3b
https://www.ft.com/content/4233196a-82cb-11e9-b592-5fe435b57a3b
Watching #avengersendgame.. first time. :)
🤔: Where did you find that? I've been searching for it everywhere
😊: I created it myself
Via, WA.
#bitcoin onboarding, and for payments.. P2P way.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/dyclf8/list_of_bitcoin_persontoperson_p2p_bitcoin/
Observable universe. Just this volume could be anywhere, may not be at the center as shown in this picture.
@.Forbes.
Stock markets are grossly overvalued, but Trump’s not going to burst the bubble in an election year | South China Morning Post
https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3047397/stock-markets-are-grossly-overvalued-trumps-not-going-burst-bubble
Maybe bears timing next crash, near 2020 election.. 🤔
Stock markets are officially obese but Trump won’t allow a credit diet
Stock markets across the world have price-to-earnings ratios well above their 15-year averages. But with accommodative monetary policy entrenched, and Trump sure to keep up pressure on the Fed, expect easy credit to continue to push markets to morbid heights, for now.
Watching #TheBigShort..
Social Capital in Silicon Valley – alexdanco.com
https://alexdanco.com/2020/01/23/social-capital-in-silicon-valley/
https://alexdanco.com/2020/01/23/social-capital-in-silicon-valley/
>The modern mental illness is anxiety. The symptom is inability to fall asleep. The evidence is pills, meditation apps, opioids, and sleep trackers. The causes are oversocialization and overstimulation
@.naval
@.naval
>If you create it for yourself, it’s art. If you create it for others, it’s business @.naval
What's Linux? 🤔
>75 years ago today, more than 7,000 prisoners of the Nazi Auschwitz concentration camp were liberated by the Soviet Army.
>In the previous 1,689 days, at least 1.1 million people were murdered there.
@.uberfacts
>One of the strange possible solutions to this paradox is that black holes are actually two-dimensional entities.
>When we say two-dimensional, they are not like our television screens. Rather, two-dimensional here is like a hologram, with information of three dimensions saved on a two-dimensional surface. Unlike a flat picture, if you turn a hologram, you can see information from all three dimensions of the object
@.forbes
R3 (R3 LLC) is an enterprise blockchain technology company. It leads an ecosystem of more than 300 firms working together to build distributed applications on top of #Corda (known as #CorDapps) for usage across industries such as financial services, insurance, healthcare, trade finance, and digital assets.
Wiki
>Henry Ford would replace gold with energy currency and stop wars. December 3, 1921 — 98 years ago
🐦 @.FloridaHodl
>Valuable information is increasingly free. The focus to learn and apply it is increasingly rare.
@.TheStoicEmperor
Power button on servers, needs to be replaced with some kind of pat gesture input.
WA.
>The idea is that as a civilization progresses, its increased urbanization would make city lights detectable farther and farther away. @.forbes
>Family first
>Be honest
>Do not respond to negativity
>Be kind
>Fight against entitlement
>Be humble
>You are not your job
>Forgive first
>Keep in touch with friends
>Know when to leave
>Sleep more
>Do not brag
>Learn to learn
>Be on time
>Write more
>Drink water
>Eat less sugar
>Exercise daily
@.ValaAfshar
Yesterday #bitcoin closed above 200dma ($8904), at $9394.
>A good idea is a bad idea + a day of rethinking it.
>Good writing is bad writing + a day of revision.
>Quality is a process
@.TheStoicEmperor
Atom, size comparison;
Say, diameter of electron is 1mm (0.1 cm)
Then, diameter of,
proton 1m (1000x electron)
nucleus 10m (10x proton)
electron orbit 100km (10000x nucleus)
>"You don't smoke because you need something to do with your hands, or because you love the ritual of it, or any of the other excuses people make. You smoke because you're addicted to a powerful drug called #Nicotine.
Get it clear in your mind.
#Cigarettes don't fill a void. They create one."
- Allen Carr, "The Easy Way to Stop Smoking" (1985)
Allen Carr also says that the best, and easy way to #stopsmoking is to quit cold turkey.
>Though it feels unpleasant, and people will sometimes ridicule you for it, the more you feel like a noob, the better.
Being a Noob
http://paulgraham.com/noob.html
>“I think the next four to five weeks are going to be critical. It’s either going to start peaking and go into a downturn, or it’s going to explode into a global outbreak.” - Fauci NIAID #coronavirus #2019nCoV
@.V2019N
After a long time (maybe more than 2 years), YouTube algorithm shows me a Jason Silva (Shots of Awe) video.. 🤨
Microsoft accidentally made a great Chromebook
Google AI Blog: Towards a Conversational Agent that Can Chat About…Anything #Meena
https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/01/towards-conversational-agent-that-can.html?m=1
https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/01/towards-conversational-agent-that-can.html?m=1
Same sized #raspberrypi but with 4 SOCs.. maybe 4x gigabit eth. 🤔
>This is me using @.ln_strike in our Boulder store: buying a 10-cent product with the app over the Lightning Network; bitcoin instantly received in our store's Zap wallet.
>No bitcoin required on my end, just my debit card. No fees! And no cap-gains tax on the purchase. Brilliant! https://t.co/zoCIPr9bxL https://twitter.com/bitcoinmom/status/1222969746452180992
@.bitcoinmom
#Bitcoin L2 in action.. $0.1 payment demo, no custodial wallets, buyer has no btc, spend $ directly from bank account to ₿.. via, #Strike
I'm not sentimental, but soul hesitating to leave dead body comes to mind.. and, sand mandalas during clean up process, shredding.. 🙄
I need to blame YouTube for this. 😊
98,961 mails, as per my last count before deleting all PSTs (20.8 GB).
90,488 received / 8473 sent.
Huawei CEO talks about 2nm processors, that's when we see explosive growth in the power of computing technologies.
https://youtu.be/3czZpAHS-tk
https://youtu.be/3czZpAHS-tk
Yuval Noah Harari & Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei in Conversation - Davos 2020
At 2nm, what one will put into a SoC, be it smartphone / server? 1000 AI cores? 🤔
People became very good at reverse engineering anything.. be it cows, crops or religions.
https://youtu.be/DTepA-WV_oE
https://youtu.be/DTepA-WV_oE
Dan Dennett: Responding to Pastor Rick Warren
Rolls-Royce electric plane.. specs; 322km on single charge (London to Paris), 3 x 72 kWh batteries-450 kg each, 485 km/h, <40 mins flight time.
This Exolung promises 'unlimited' air supply underwater
Mine #bitcoin.