Allan

this guy didn’t say anything bad he was just wrong, instead of raining insults and making him feel inferior why don’t you just use that energy to correct him

In a recent piece for @hackernoon, I break down what actually happened when I wired an autonomous agent into a bank‑based payment API. Of 64 lines of code, 31 only existed to babysit the bank’s state. hackernoon.com/the-architectu…

@jackbutcher Spot on. The economy rewards better human judgment, not more automated noise.

Hate to say it lads, but there is no agent economy

Emerging markets are not edge cases for Web3. They are the stress test. I ran x402 against real conditions during the Stellar Agents hackathon. The findings were humbling. Here is what actually happened. hackernoon.com/stress-testing… @BuildOnStellar @hackernoon

Not really a funny interaction...more of a cognitive illusion.

Behind that ranger sits part of 105 tonnes of ivory worth roughly $150 million on the black market. Days after this photo, Kenya soaked the lot in jet fuel and burned it. Critics warned it would backfire. A decade on, ivory prices have crashed and poaching is at a 20-year low. The piles held the tusks of around 7,000 elephants and the horns of 343 rhinos. It was the biggest ivory burn in history. The full stockpile was about 5 percent of all the ivory sitting in African government storerooms at the time. Kenya's entire annual environment budget was smaller than what they were about to set on fire. The argument against burning was simple. Cut the supply, push up the price, poachers come back harder. One conservation economist compared the move to Iraq going offline during the Iran-Iraq war, when oil prices spiked. Burn $150 million of ivory and the same shock should hit. None of that happened. Raw ivory in China peaked at around $2,100 per kilogram in 2014. Then Kenya burned its stockpile in April 2016, China shut its legal ivory market in December 2017, and similar bans rolled through the US, Europe, and elsewhere. The price broke. By 2020, the going price across Africa had fallen to about $92 per kilogram. In Kenya specifically, what a poacher could get for a kilo of raw tusk dropped from $190 in 2014 to $52 by 2018. Inside China, the share of people saying they would ever buy ivory fell from 43 percent before the ban to 18 percent by 2020. The bet was based on an old number. A 2014 Sheldrick Wildlife Trust study found that one live elephant brings in around $23,000 a year in tourism revenue. Across a 70-year lifespan, that is roughly $1.6 million. Its tusks, ripped out, sell for around $21,000. That is the 76-to-1 ratio that gets thrown around in conservation circles. Kenya runs around 10 percent of its economy on tourism today, almost all of it built around live wildlife. The numbers since have backed the call. The UN's 2024 wildlife crime report says the global ivory market is shrinking, with seizures and poaching both down. A 2024 Colorado State study found African elephant numbers fell 77 percent on average between 1964 and 2016. After 2016, things turned. Forest elephant decline slowed from 7 percent a year to under 1. Savanna elephant poaching is at its lowest level since global tracking started in 2003. The ranger in this photo is guarding ivory Kenya was about to destroy on purpose. Within four years, the market for what he was guarding had collapsed.

"malala asiperform hizo play zake kwa theatre zetu aende kenyatta"

"Bwana CS double click to Open". . Kabogo : "Nkt, Nkt." 😂😂

Wamama wote wa Labour waone Atwoli.

"Hao wa cardiac arrest tutaachia polisi wadeal nao"

@wamweaaa God bless CCP models!

Kimi K2.6 is actually free on Windsurf by the way. Give it a try!

"I don't drink" or "I don't drink anymore," should never be followed by "why?" Thank you.

@MischaSemenov @osgenic Cadaver

@osgenic cómo evitan el sangrado?

Open achilles tendon repair using the Bunnell suture technique. Care should be taken not to injure the sural nerve during the procedure. #orthopaedics #trauma #AchillesTendonRepair #Bunnell #meded #orthoX #orthoTwitter

Tokenization?

Mngejua how far these medics go for poor systems to save lives? We literally buy meds for patients. We buy Nan for mothers without breast milk. We even help clear bills. You go home defeated. Hospitali haina hata thermometer. Glucose strips ni gold Eeei

@0xNdeto In the name of “moat”

There was a time I could see all my recent activity on GitHub.. but they decided this was better.

Introducing Global Factor Authentication (GFA).

@shadrac_matata 😂😂😂

Doc almost got a taste of his own medicine.

Great stuff!

Its been over 3 weeks since I registered as a voter and my details are not in the @IEBCKenya portal. The polling station I registered at are telling me it may take a month+ to see my details. Has this happened to anyone else ama ni kura wanaibia Maraga?