Adam Cypher

DAOs should be considered like autonomous vehicles for capital, conditional interfaces to an agentic agora which can be operated by anyone and anything with natural language. opinionating DAOs to mean a council/assembly which disputes bureaucratic process is not ideal autonomy.

Ridiculous that people think there’s no economic secondary market value for hot water.

@glcst @tursodatabase What’s the probability of accidental hash collision using UUIDv5? Malicious hash collision of UUIDv5 post quantum?

I was planning to use UUIDs to represent the databases we have on the @tursodatabase Cloud. I got a bit worried that we would perhaps run out of UUIDs. I just double-checked and I think we'll be fine for the next year or so. Will use UUIDs for now, and if needed, rearchitect later.

@glcst @tursodatabase Lolz! V5 and V7 UUIDs work great for deterministic and sortable UUIDs respectively, don’t only use V4.

@TheJerzWay The US will not accept renunciation of citizenship for anyone not already holding alternative citizenship. They refuse to allow anyone to become voluntarily stateless, citing some UN treaty on statelessness. It’s definitely plan B, but only the start.

50% of Caribbean citizenship applications are now Americans. Newsweek just reported it. Antigua. Dominica. St. Kitts. They're paying $250K+ for a passport thinking it's their "Plan B." Here's why most of them are wasting their money... 🧵

Marc Andreessen just revealed how Harvard Business School was built on a broken 1941 theory, and how it's now collapsing... Andreessen co-founded Netscape in 1994 and a16z in 2009. He has sat on Meta's board since 2008. He has spent 30 years backing founders and watching managerial CEOs lose to them. The pattern traces back to one book: James Burnham's *The Machiavellians* (1941). Burnham argued every great company had been founder-run. Henry Ford ran Ford. Bob Noyce ran Intel. Today, Elon Musk runs Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink. Then, he said, something broke. Between the 1880s and the 1920s, a new philosophy replaced the founder. It was called managerialism. The professional manager would now hold a portable skill, usable across any business. The consequences were: - Harvard Business School - Stanford Business School - Management as a universal skill - The 1970s conglomerate "That assumes the managers are going to do a good job," Andreessen says. For 30 years, they haven't. Managers can run something static, he says. Soup is soup. A bank is a bank. A car is a car. But when the industry changes, the manager freezes. Look at SpaceX. "Imagine being a professionally trained manager, trained at a top management school, working for a rocket launch company, competing with SpaceX." Then Elon's rockets started landing on their butt. "Your management skills ... what good are they at that point?" Andreessen's conclusion: "You're much more likely to build something important in the 21st century if you start with the founder and train them on management." What "professionally run" institution in your life has quietly stopped working? If you're new here, @GeniusGTX is a gallery for the greatest minds in economics, psychology, and history. Follow along for more similar content. P.S. I made a free toolkit breaking down 100+ mental models used by history's greatest thinkers. 5,000+ downloads. 113 five-star reviews. Grab your free copy here: besuperhuman.gumroad.com/l/mentalmodels — Marc Andreessen ( @pmarca ), co-founder of a16z, on David Senra's ( @FoundersPodcast ) podcast

@ZPostFacto @ryanels Neither are comments.

@ryanels Okay this is funny but does it bother anybody else that a string literal surrounded by curly braces is not valid JSON?

The data transporter 😂

@lastoriaeleidee If you came here to say that why not post a map that shows it?

C'è un sacco di gente che parla degli Emirati (UAE United Arab Emirates) senza bene sapere di cosa si tratti. Innanzi tutto è una federazione di sette sceiccati, ognuno governato da una sua dinastia, che per accordo fra loro vede come presidente lo sceicco di Abu Dhabi, e... /1

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital. Cette phrase change tout. L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ? Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible. Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur. Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé. Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire. L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants. Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution. Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain. Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée. Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien. La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose. Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins. Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires. La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

@wangbin579 plpgsql_check

Beyond PostGIS, pgvector, TimescaleDB, and Citus, which Postgres extensions are truly worth tracing next?

@snoopy_dot_jpg You’re just hanging in the wrong crowds.

weekend in seattle so far: - i have not seen a single laptop running claude code - no one has mentioned ai, except to disparage it. they don't know gpt5.5 just dropped - many young people are unemployed, but in a genuine way and not the gross "starting something big" way everyone is relaxed. the performative anxieties of the bay area do not exist here. no one has told me about their startup. much to consider

@VoteBaumgartner @bitgeek Let’s levy tax on beautiful weather and industry density (Hollywood, Silicon Valley). Taxes are a sacrifice for both. Except we have neither. Sounds like a winning proposition.

Take a bow, Bob. Gov Ferguson and Olympia Democrats have turned Washington state into the worst fiscally managed state in the country. Reckless spending, job killing taxes and regulation and now a likely drop in Bond ratings. What’s the plan? seattletimes.com/opinion/editor…

@IntCyberDigest @0xocdsec Meanwhile the EU banning open source software not written by licensed and identifiable engineers. Who’s going to tell them?

❗️🇫🇷 Following the French government's ban on Windows and its replacement with Linux, French activists are now saying goodbye to Windows 10 and actively encouraging people to embrace freedom and use Linux instead of paying for an upgrade to Windows 11, citing privacy concerns.

@thesincerevp @Polymarket 🍆🇪🇺💩

JUST IN: EU to push for crackdown on emojis that can be used to cover up “illegal speech”

@ClementDelangue Restricting open source going to make even less sense than the age verification requirement to run an operating system.

I’m hearing there’s renewed lobbying in DC and in state legislatures to ban or severely restrict open-source. Like a few years ago, we’ll need everyone to help show policymakers why open-source matters: for startups, for competition, for economic growth, and for jobs. If you build with open-source, now is the time to speak up!

@prestonjbyrne Out of curiosity, does Cayman Islands suffer the same weakness regarding English judgements? Get Marshall Islands to adopt a shield law, then we can have a US-aligned offshore jurisdiction.

Telegram's particular weakness to Ofcom is that it is incorporated in the BVI. Domestic enforcement of English judgments there is streamlined. One possible defense would be to shut down in BVI and reincorporate in the US. A U.S. shield law might help us win Telegram's HQ...

@sapphi_red Why the circle? Dioxus. dioxuslabs.com

crates.io will be using SvelteKit. This means we've come full circle 😄 crates.io → SvelteKit → Vite → Rolldown / Oxc → Rust → crates.io blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/20…

It's a great article, btw, it misses only the fact the bitcoin protocol sits outside the law, or at least above the law of multiple competing legal systems. It's likely no protocol change will be made except for adding quantum resistant crypto primitives, and failing to quantum proof your bitcoin will be widely considered abandonment or gross negligence. If a protocol change were made, however, there's no legal system that can challenge consensus.

Just dropped in @BitcoinMagazine: "When Quantum Computers Come for Your Bitcoin: What Classical Property Law Says Happens Next" Quantum computers cracking dormant private keys isn’t “treasure hunting.” It’s theft. Classical property law draws a hard line. Thread 👇 ⅕

<< It is your contention that stealing bitcoin makes it legally and morally the property of the thief, because math? >> It is my contention it makes it mathematically the property of the thief, as the protocol does not have legality nor morality. Legal and morals apply to the thief, not the bitcoin. The thief can be sued. The bitcoin cannot. The law regularly sues assets. Bitcoin can only be sued in-as-much as it is a John Doe placeholder for suing the keyholder.

@adam_cypher @CaitlinLong_ @BitcoinMagazine Physical gold and most personal property are also bearer assets. Money, even digital money like Bitcoin, is personal property. We have tons of laws around theft. It is your contention that stealing bitcoin makes it legally and morally the property of the thief, because math?

Satoshi's coins are most analogous to a ship wreck loaded with gold in international waters. Unless the protocol changes someone will spend considerable recovery effort in salvage (quantum computation). Satoshi is dead. Bitcoin with demonstrable providence will be a legal clusterfuck. One can quantum proof it now. Failing to do so would be negligence. When/if it is brute forced (stolen), all that matters is which State can point a gun at the head of the new bearer, it isn't really a math problem or a protocol issue.

Physical gold belongs to the State. We've seen that play out many times. Citizens belong to the State. The State can compel forfeiture of bitcoin under contempt of court, but it is the citizen not the bitcoin held in contempt, and only the citizen can volunteer the forfeiture. The protocol operates beyond the reach of the State. The protocol enforces a bearer nature of the asset. Lost keys. Lost assets. Found keys. Found asset. Brute forced keys with Quantum Shor's? Does the brute belong to a State that can hold the brute in contempt under its laws and enforce its will. The protocol doesn't care. Satoshi does not own Satoshi's coins. The bearer of the keys own the coins. The State may or may not own the bearer. The protocol respect only math.