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Jeff Booth, Nick & Jack explain how there is ZERO risk of quantum attack on Bitcoin Few understand.

a long time ago i had the experience of chatting irl with someone well known on twitter, well connected, well platformed, influential, etc. He was smart, seemed to have domain expertise in his technical field. But gradually over the course of the conversation I realized he didn't actually know what he was talking about. He used complicated words, but in subtly off ways, and would reply to questions with things that sounded like answers but actually weren't.He'd confidently reference concepts that I think he assumed I didn't know, but I did know, and I knew that the term he used didn't actually have anything to do with his claim, etc. But his confidence was intense and radiating, and the speed at which he talked and the complex vocabulary he used really disguised what I perceived to be both a lack of deep understanding of the material and also a lack of self-awareness that he didn't have deep understanding! I've def met people who disagree with me online who I think *do* engage deeply with the concepts, but this specific one didn't, and it was a little blackpilling for me to realize that he had such a following from a bunch of people who couldn't tell the difference.

Update and observations, 6 weeks into learning Mandarin: 1) Paul Noble’s Mandarin course has its pros and cons. The course is aimed at low-investment learners who tend to quit languages.* In an effort to keep them interested in Mandarin, it avoids frontloading pronunciation drills and tells you to “copy the native speakers.” It does slowly teach the consonants and tones of words, but the effect is that you have to relearn things you did earlier, or seek out other resources like… 2) Feyd Rautha on YouTube (“Mandarin Blueprint”). This man is invaluable to any Mandarin learner. Many native speakers are very good at telling you “something is wrong” (or just shuddering when you make a mistake), but are not good at telling you how to fix it. This Englishman tells you exactly where to position your tongue. 3) Apparently Mandarin has “accents” like English does, according to my partner. Eg the southern regions (and 🇹🇼) speak with less retroflexed consonants than the northern ones do. This makes the southern variants a bit easier for an Anglophone. And fortunately, I will only ever go to 🇹🇼. 4) The characters are tough to learn, but they have an odd beauty and mystique to them. People on here talk a lot about Bronze Age Mindsets, but learning characters is as close as it gets to experiencing a Bronze Age society (the Minoans and Hittites gradually abandoned logograms in the 2nd millennium BC, I’m still wondering why Chinese kept at it). —- *This is probably the correct approach to teaching Korean. People get into Korean from KPop and KDramas, and tend to be low-investment learners. But IMO it’s the wrong approach to teaching Mandarin. You’re not going to attempt Mandarin unless it’s a do-or-die thing, so the people doing it tend to be medium or high-investment learners. Since you made it this far, you get to see my character practice and a picture from my recent sojourn in Austin!

Roughly 300 athletes took part in Gaza's first official running event in more than two years since the war began. The group ran four kilometers through the streets of Gaza, cheered on by spectators.

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Vincent, of course, promotes this idiotic study b/c it suits *his* ridiculous priors (ideology is like bad breath: it’s always the other person). One could engage but it’s not worth breaking the cordon sanitaire b/w serious economic and historical inquiry and libertarians clowns.

I’ve never read a Godard quote that resonated with me. I prefer Herzog on Godard to Godard on Lynch: