Paul Sztorc

Bip300 allows BTC to scale to 8 billion users, with no code changes to Bitcoin Core Try the testnet (play money) now, at: LayerTwoLabs.com/download It also has "zSide" -- a chain where the [sender + receiver + amount] of the transaction are all encrypted

Yes, though the other two quadrants are also important. Singapore does things like HSAs and HDB flats (top left) and also restricts behavior likely to cause ethnic resentment (bottom left). I think of political paradigms as akin to programming paradigms. Often you use imperative programming or OOP. But sometimes the problem domain is more suited by recursion, or declarative code, or something more exotic. All that matters is the end result.

Texas actually did something like this, but better. Starting in the 1960s, thanks to Lady Bird Johnson and the Highway Beautification Act, Texas began planting native wildflowers along highways. Today, TxDOT manages about 800,000 acres of roadside and intentionally delays mowing until early summer after wildflowers have bloomed and dropped seed. Mowing late in the season allows the wildflowers to stay vigorous and not get crowded out by taller grasses or trees and shrubs. Take a drive along Texas highways in the Spring and you will enjoy a beautiful display of Bluebonnets, Indian Paintbrush, Coreopsis, Winecup, Mexican Hat, Indian Blanket, and more! Then thank Ladybird Johnson and TxDOT’s commitment to keeping Texas Highways beautiful.

"online prediction markets … boosters … offer an unnerving implicit philosophy: that we should relate to the future not as citizens or moralists, problem solvers or advocates, but as gamblers, each of us surveying the horizon of possibility somewhat indifferent to human outcomes and looking instead for a betting edge" We don't all have to do the same thing, & surely one valuable role is to predict. With conditional predictions, markets can become problem solvers. nytimes.com/2026/03/23/opi…

If the ICE agents just wave everyone through the line, without checking anything, Then that would be A+ screening, in my opinion

I just can't wait to see what they come up with next

John Taylor Gatto was named New York State Teacher of the Year. Upon receiving the award, he quit and spent the rest of his life writing devastating critiques of the educational system he had mastered. Gatto argued that regardless of the official curriculum, schools actually teach seven hidden lessons. The first is confusion. Students learn disconnected facts across dozens of subjects with no integration or meaning. The second is class position. Students learn their place in the social hierarchy. The third is indifference. Students learn that nothing is worth finishing because the bell always rings. The fourth is emotional dependency. Students learn to surrender their will to a chain of command. The fifth is intellectual dependency. Students learn to wait for experts to tell them what to think. The sixth is provisional self-esteem. Students learn that their worth depends on expert evaluation. The seventh is that they are always being watched and have no privacy. These lessons, Gatto argued, are the actual function of schooling. The explicit curriculum of reading, writing, and arithmetic is almost incidental. The real purpose is to produce passive, dependent, compliant citizens who wait for authorities to tell them what to do and think. Trad schooling amounts to thirteen years of training in being passive and dependent. I have seen this play out with hundreds of students. When I created Montessori middle schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, about half the students came up through Montessori elementary and about half came from public schools. When we opened, the Montessori kids immediately began doing their work, taking initiative, choosing what to tackle first. The public school students were lost. They would stare at their desks until we walked over and helped them plan their morning. It took at least a semester, sometimes a full year, before they could function in an environment that asked them to direct their own learning. These were not less intelligent children. They had simply been trained differently. For years, someone else had made all the decisions about what they would do, when they would do it, and how they would do it. When that structure was removed, they did not know how to operate. Agency is natural to children unless we train it out of them. When I coach parents on evaluating their children's education, I tell them to ignore grades entirely. The question is whether their children are taking initiative, being responsible, and becoming empowered moral beings. If a child is getting straight A's but has no initiative and no sense of personal responsibility, that child is being damaged by their education regardless of how it looks on paper.

We live in a world where Bitcoin Core, the most conservative piece of OSS to have ever existed isn't conservative enough lmao.

Whenever I press Print Screen -- [PrtSc] -- (which is often), I sometimes wonder how the neighboring [ScrLk] -- feels, that it never ever gets pressed. Once in the BIOS, I think I had to press it for some reason

Even Agent Smith *LITERALLY* tells Morpheus that The Matrix was modeled after the peak of human civilization? Can you guess what year? That's right. 1999. youtube.com/watch?v=9Qs3Gl…

We need better multisig wargaming

It's best to assume that anything you send to an AI bot that isn't being hosted locally on your machine is going to get logged and eventually leaked. expressvpn.com/blog/searshome…

@BitMEXResearch @brian_trollz Isn't the real problem that no one on this list ever ended up making anything?

@brian_trollz The funding organisations are also very transparent. E.g. publishing a list of grantees on their websites and being relatively transparent about their funding sources * Chaincode * Brink * HRF * Spiral * Opensats * Localhost Research * Maelstrom * 2140 * BTrust

This is literal mental illness. 1) all code and code changes are public 2) all discussions around that on Github are public 3) IRC meetings are public, and logged 4) numerous things like Optech exists, publicly summarizing things. WTF alternate reality do you live in?

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Daily reminder that out of the 3 worst nuclear disasters in human history: - 1 was caused by the worst Tsunami in recorded Japanese history - The other 2 were caused by the incompetence of Communists

@simulx4 @4moonsettler 2023 was a preview of what will happen

@Truthcoin @4moonsettler nah, people will get off their ass and push for proper batch channels and VTXO covenants

The simple (and regrettable) truth is: - lightning doesn't work - those who try to make it work, eventually modify it so heavily that it is no longer recognizable - it has become a self-reinforcing memeplex of lies and wishful thinking - it is best (for Bitcoin) to just burn LN down

@simulx4 @4moonsettler When L1 feerates rise, that will only accelerate the demise of LN

@4moonsettler @Truthcoin watch what happens when everyone starts using it. suddenly fees are rising, pressure is on to soft fork in a way for batch channels to happen, miners and holders get worried about l2 scaling with subsat fees there's zero reason to care

@DanBurmawy It's lonely at the top!

Bibi Netanyahu quoted the Christian author Will Durant, saying: “Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan, because if you are strong enough, ruthless enough, and powerful enough, evil will overcome good.” So far, I’ve seen a few comments: One from an Arab account saying that Bibi is claiming we must be strong enough to be like Genghis Khan and defeat Jesus Christ. One from a useful idiot on the left saying “Christ is King” and cursing Netanyahu for uttering the name of Jesus. One from the woke right saying evil will never defeat good and “Christ is King.” Idiots, idiots everywhere.

The United States fire a 15-kiloton Nuclear artillery shell, 1953

Thank you @_DannyKnowles for having me on WBD! What an amazing opportunity to tell people about the injustice of the @SamouraiWallet case, and that the “War on Crypto” isn’t over. fountain.fm/episode/atwkFD…

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