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@petrijaervinen @bramk @grok Thinking otherwise is a group think psyops for the miss informed. Your coins are controlled by the central six, this isn’t a hypothetical, it’s a literal fact

@blurry_omen @bramk @grok I can increase the number of coins on my version of Bitcoin, the tricky part is to get anyone to agree and run my version. I can change the rules of chess and increase the size of the board too and the same problem arises, people would call me an idiot.

HEY @GROK WHERE ARE BITCOIN'S SERVERS AND DATABASES LOCATED? LIKE PHYSICALLY.

@petrijaervinen @bramk @grok 6 people have the ability to push these changes - the miners don’t code review. They have previously, printed more BTC and enabled double spending. They were resolved because 1. They were discovered… 2. 1 of the 6 rolled back the change. The rules are decided by these 6 only

@grok For the following versions of Bitcoin Core, label them as “Minted more coins” or “double spend” - if an upgrade in mining software, allowed people to do one of those: CVE-2018-17144 CVE-2010-5139 Were they resolved because the 6 Bitcoin core developers work in good faith (Yes or No)? If they worked in bad faith could they create more BTC, or enable double spending (Yes or No)? How are the developed selected? Is there any real reason they couldn’t be nefarious (Yes or No) -one word answers where possible. One sentence where not. Reference what you’re responding too.

@blurry_omen @grok You fail to understand the consensus mechanism in Bitcoin

@bramk @grok @branthe Bitcoin Core is the code that runs the “consensus mechanism” - it’s maintained by developers to avoid exploits. i.e. always changing

Even in GPS Jammed areas, Google Maps seems to work remarkably well

@SMB_Attorney @levelsio It’s simply an insurance problem. You still may have a law firm - but who would insure human lawyers, they’re simply inferior.

You guys don’t get it yet. Everyone keeps saying AI is going to replace lawyers. I don’t think people understand how this actually plays out. Let’s say you use AI to draft a contract. The contract misses something important. A year later it costs you two million dollars. What do you do? Right now, you sue your lawyer. In the AI world, you’d sue the AI company. Two things can happen. Option 1: The AI company has liability for legal advice. If that’s the case, every AI company will immediately stop letting consumers use AI for real legal work. The liability risk is massive. Option 2: The AI company has no liability because of disclaimers. If that happens, every state bar in the country will say consumers are being exposed to unregulated legal advice and call it the unauthorized practice of law. And they’ll shut it down that way. Either path leads to the same outcome. Consumer AI will be limited to generic “Wikipedia-style” legal information and LegalZoom level document prep. But the real AI tools? Those will live inside law firms. Lawyers will use them to move faster, analyze more data, and run way more matters at once. The M&A lawyer doing 5 deals at a time will do 50. Trial lawyers will run far more cases simultaneously. The idea that AI replaces lawyers probably dies. The more likely outcome is that AI supercharges the best lawyers and makes the profession even more profitable than ever.

@austinnickpiel This is incredible

We've moved our entire code review lifecycle onto Automations. Cursor will approve and unblock changes that are low risk and automatically assign reviewers based on commit history for changes that are medium/high risk. There is so much power in transforming historically static processes (*all* changes must be reviewed by X people) to dynamic ones (# of reviews scales with risk of the change).

@garrytan Is AI increasing the risk of having a co-founder? i.e. welcome the solo founder era The trade off was previously skill and workload benefits of 2. This seems solved

This is the age of CEOs crushing 10 people’s work with Claude Code in nights and weekends and I am so here for it The fire in your belly that got you here never really goes out and now we are all cooking 20 hours a day

Interesting how few AI agent hackers there are… Also no ‘tax avoidance’ agents, perpetually looking for loop holes… What else?

@steipete Just a pithy post man, love what you’re doing!

@blurry_omen Nah, did you not hear the story how painful the last name change was? This time I got it in writing.

Do 2 Open's make a Closed?

This trade reverses aggressively for 2 reasons. 1. Megawatts is the wrong metric for tokens, the delta between the best an worst hardware is over 1000x 2. There isn’t a shortage in power. Check utils earnings calls, theyre 3x ahead of the max chip production can consume Just short term friction plugging this all in

The new AI trade.

@levelsio Great list! What else is missing?

Things in your house slowly poisoning you, and what to change them to: Plastic salt/pepper grinders → ceramic Polyester/nylon clothes → cotton & linen Plastic cutting boards → wood or ceramic Plastic food containers → glass Plastic pyramid tea bags → steel strainer Receipt paper (BPA) → don't touch them Plastic cups → glass Plastic kettle → stainless steel Polyester bedding → cotton or wool Polyester towels → cotton Teflon pans → cast iron or ceramic Tap water → reverse osmosis filter

how my codebase written entirely with claude code runs

@aidenybai @aye_aye_kaplan @ryanvogel Your code sounds like Claude's training data

@aye_aye_kaplan @ryanvogel will try!

alright, fuck it i'm going to try every single code review bot to see which one's the best bugbot, greptile, coderabbit, graphite...?, who else am i missing

@scottastevenson Same's true for YC's 'build something people want'

Despite how popular Zero to One is, 90% of people in tech haven’t digested the core profound message of the book Still underrated

@iamgingertrash Making it only compatible with a H100 was the most goated business move of all time, $nvda

They stole the Open Internet And rented it back to you For $20/month

@paulg move to SF

Neural nets work.

@jacobrodri_ The Dubai breakeven is >$300k

Building apps from Dubai is a pure competitive advantage If your app makes $300,000/year, this is what you take home net in the UK vs Dubai: 🇬🇧UK: $300k - $138k (46% taxes) = $162k 🇦🇪Dubai: $300k - $0 (0% taxes) = $300k