Peter Todd

79.8K posts

Peter Todd

@peterktodd

@opentimestamps founder pgp: 37EC7D7B0A217CDB4B4E007E7FAB114267E4FA04 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇹🇼

Beigetreten Mayıs 2013

1.1K Folgt204.5K Follower

Angehefteter Tweet

Peter Todd@peterktodd·24 Haz

The hardest part about being a contrarian is knowing when not to be.

Pedro L. Gonzalez@emeriticus

The mind virus of conspiratorial thinking has been devastating. It completely paralyzes analysis and reduces everything to entertainment, fodder for clicks, traffic, and attention. It’s like a caricature of the Straussian close reading of texts: the “real” meaning is always hidden from view, and being unable to see it means you don’t have access to esoteric insights and knowledge. In reality, you’re just reading it wrong. In the case of Russia right now, nobody really knows what’s happening. But that doesn’t matter; all you have to do is come up with the most absurd theory, and the more absurd it is, the truer it must be.

English

152

105

661

841.2K

Peter Todd@peterktodd·1h

@n0m3ncl4tur3 +1 To be clear, I'm not assuming odds here. Just pointing out that in theory there is genuine demand. So simply providing it would almost be enough to make a profit through averaging. Of course, the markets aren't so simplistic. So you need to do something more sophisticated.

English

nomenclature@n0m3ncl4tur3·1h

@peterktodd The original post assumes the bot is getting 50/50 odds on every bet which is usually not the case.

English

Peter Todd@peterktodd·2h

If prediction markets are getting used efficiently, for insurance, you could almost expect this bot to make money. Why? Because to buy insurance with prediction markets, usually you're betting yes: Yes Amazon AWS will will; Yes rain will come. Thus, the bot provides liquidity.

Sterling Crispin 🕊️@sterlingcrispin

Introducing: Nothing Ever Happens A @Polymarket bot that automatically buys "No" for every non-sports market and holds to resolution. Why predict the future when 73.4% of all Polymarkets resolve as No? Stop over thinking it. Nothing Ever Happens. github.com/sterlingcrispi…

English

1.7K

Peter Todd retweetet

Andy Ngo@MrAndyNgo·7h

I’ve done reporting in Hungary & people are applying an inaccurate US-framing to the election result. The opposition that won in Hungary came out of Orban’s Fidesz party. The Tisza party is also right-wing, just less skeptical of the EU. They are anti-mass migration & pro-family.

Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh

🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: Elon Musk is sounding the alarm that Hungary has FALLEN to Soros Right-wing PM Viktor Orban just lost the national election, and Alex Soros — son of George Soros — is celebrating ELON: "Soros Organization has taken over Hungary" The people will REGRET THIS!

English

380

328

2.3K

112.6K

Peter Todd retweetet

Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@DrewPavlou·11h

New Hungarian leader Peter Magyar recently accused migrant workers of eating ducks and goldfish from Budapest Zoo. This is a positive sign. Hopefully he will keep Hungary’s strict approach to migration and social cohesion while rejecting the dog shit pro-CCP and pro-Putin foreign policy of Orbán. This would be best case scenario. Hopefully a conservative government without cartoonish corruption and dog shit Third Worldist anti-West foreign policy.

English

126

175

1.8K

48.8K

Peter Todd retweetet

Kama@Kama_Kamilia·14h

Do we have any indication of how this guy is doing in the Hungarian elections? He had posters everywhere, I’m assuming he’s doing numbers right now

English

184

3.1K

59.5K

Peter Todd@peterktodd·16h

Where's the outrage from our alt-right architecture accounts?

Victoria@victoriaslog

In 1934, Russians destroyed St. Nicholas Military Cathedral, where Cossacks once prayed. They leveled the entire area to destroy the memory of Ivan Mazepa, who personally financed it and fought for Ukraine’s independence from Russian influence. Later, they replaced it with a House of Pioneers and the “Salut” hotel, one of the ugliest Soviet buildings in Kyiv, which still stands today. 📍Kyiv, Ukraine

English

3.7K

Peter Todd retweetet

S. Ashton-Cirillo@AshtonCirillo·16h

How's that russian cease fire coming?

Peter Todd@peterktodd

@BitPaine Nonsense. Russia has agreed to ceasefires plenty of times before. They use them to rearm. Peace is achieved when evil people are dead.

English

Peter Todd@peterktodd·18h

@twistall @blind_via Actually, tantalums might win in cases where microphonics is an issue. MLCC's can make quite good microphones... I've never considered that tradeoff in detail myself.

English

Peter Todd@peterktodd·18h

@twistall @blind_via ...except on price. :)

English

BlindVia@blind_via·1d

What the Heck, why would they put a 555 timer in a BGA package. Texas Instruments, why would you do this?

English

803

73.8K

Peter Todd@peterktodd·20h

@twistall @blind_via Depending! At a previous job we had a complete ban on electrolytic and tantalum capacitors for reliability reasons. So I'd end up designing boards with hundreds of dollars worth of bulk ceramic capacitance. Didn't matter as production quantities were usually ten or so.

English

Twistall Tweet@twistall·20h

@peterktodd @blind_via Mostly comes down to dollars and cents. Can you afford $2.50 a system? Is your micro’s clock good enough? Are you space-constrained?

English

Peter Todd@peterktodd·20h

@twistall @blind_via Depends on the circumstances. There are definitely applications where even a 50% tolerance on timing is fine. But the timing function absolutely can't fail.

English

Twistall Tweet@twistall·20h

@peterktodd @blind_via In a word, reliability. You don’t want your system’s timing to be at the mercy of some $0.003 part. It’s ok if you’re operating at room temperature and not trying to communicate with other systems. If you can’t ‘get off the bus and walk’ then you need a purpose-built oscillator.

English

Peter Todd retweetet

calle@callebtc·1d

telegram is the biggest psyop in privacy history. no encryption by default. vast majority of the 1B users send private messages in clear plain text to the telegram servers. most users wrongly assumes that they have pRiVaCy because durov said so in a podcast. it's a literal affinity scam. TELEGRAM IS NOT A PRIVACY MESSENGER. I don't understand why none of his podcast hosts ever pushes back on this obvious, blatant, dangerous bullshit.

English

468

27.7K

Peter Todd retweetet

Privacy Guides@privacy_guides·1d

When did we start calling installing computer software “side-loading” as if it’s some shady jailbreaking-esque back alley stuff?

Tuta@TutaPrivacy

We did it everyone! We forced Google not to be evil. 💪 🎉 Side-loading will be cumbersome, but it will remain possible. Thanks everyone for speaking up against Google's plans! 🙏 ❤️

English

824

7.8K

155.8K

Peter Todd retweetet

Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕@jeremykauffman·1d

According to the CDC, 67% of new HIV cases are from male gay sex. Gay males are under 2% of the population. Due to the false negative rate of HIV tests, this results in a fascinating phenomenon: Untested straight male blood is as safe as HIV-tested gay male blood.

TroodonVet (Comms open on VGen)@troodonvet

Fun fact: the reason why HIV was associated with gays and lesbians is because they reported the disease. The disease affects everyone including the straights, but they kept it hidden because most of them get/spread the disease to their spouse because of cheating/prostitution.

English

266

313.6K

Peter Todd@peterktodd·1d

@twistall @blind_via > I was taught as a tadpole that we didn’t do relaxation oscillators and one-shots—not in the primary functional path. What was the rationale for that?

English

100

Twistall Tweet@twistall·1d

@blind_via @peterktodd I was taught as a tadpole that we didn’t do relaxation oscillators and one-shots—not in the primary functional path. You might have a one-shot in the BIT. We don’t do crystals if we can help it. The persistence of the 555 is know-a-littles following in the footsteps of amateurs.

English

111

Peter Todd@peterktodd·1d

@AlmightyAye The typical type of bb gun or airsoft carnival game you see in Ukraine, and eastern Europe, is just bottles, cans, or metal targets on shelves. Very straightforward and honest, no trick to it. Anyone with any real skill can hit ~100% of the targets by aiming carefully.

English

AlmightyA@AlmightyAye·1d

@peterktodd Did you ever manage to beat any of the BB gun games? I did not . . .

English

Peter Todd@peterktodd·1d

The reason they want to ban these guns is they want to ensure that kids never get any experience with guns, and thus grow up to be gun enthusiasts. Same reason they go after airsoft and paintball. BB guns are really common in Ukrainian arcades; unheard of in Canada...

Daisy BB Guns@DaisyRifles

ATTENTION CITIZENS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - YOUR GOVERNMENT IS WORKING TO BAN THE RED RYDER (and every other airgun) BY PLACING THEM IN THE IMITATION WEAPONS CATEGORY. This would require a plug in the barrel and coloration to match toy guns. The plug alone renders them useless. It’s two bills - S9215 and A10701. Contacting your legislators to voice your opposition is required to stop the removal of yet another of your rights. Hard Air magazine has more info. Go to hardairmagazine.com/news/new-york-…

English

7.3K

Peter Todd@peterktodd·1d

@blind_via Easier to inspect to make sure it's actually assembled correctly too: don't need to dump firmware to know what it's doing.

English

704

BlindVia@blind_via·1d

@peterktodd That was one thing I had thought about, simpler characteristics under certain environments or extreme environments even.

English

5.1K

Peter Todd retweetet

Dimko Zhluktenko 🇺🇦⚔️@dim0kq·1d

Extremely interesting development from Ukraine - this is how infantry position in the treeline looks like. It's just full of fishing nets that protect against FPV drones. In this war, you have to adapt extremely fast, and this is a direct result of measures and counter-measures

English

432

12.1K

Entdecken

@n0m3ncl4tur3 @twistall @blind_via @elonmusk @BarackObama @taylorswift13 @cristiano @BillGates