Zero_G
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i'm sorry, but after spending more time with it, the centigrade temperature scale is trash
only ~25 degrees of variation for your average temperate climate across the year
and (OMG) only 5 degrees of variation for normal room temperature. FIVE
and no, most home thermostats don't seem to have "half" degrees
absolute trash system. burn it to the ground with haste
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@dcinvestor @ProDJKC Yep, DC Investor and Eth Trader back in the day were so much fun. Still have that Dick Puddlecote? 😂
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there as a guy on Reddit in the old days, i don’t remember his handle (maybe @ProDJKC does)
but he bought ETH at like $300-400 during the 2017 bull
didn’t sell any. round-tripped back to $80 like a lot of us
many capitulated then, but he didn’t. though he seemingly have a mental breakdown of sorts
he would just post all day everyday about how he made the worst mistake of his life, that ETH and Ethereum were trash, and that he was praying ETH would hit $300 again so he could sell
i’d often argue with him saying he need to take a long-term view, but it didn’t click with him, so i eventually just stopped
well, he did sell when ~$300 came back around
and then he was sidelined watching it run to $4600 over the next year
oops
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That's how you alienate DeFi Builders on Ethereum when they already have a hard time dealing with the liquidity fragmentation of L2 and an inherently less secure programming language.
Makes me a lot more bullish Solana DeFi.
vitalik.eth@VitalikButerin
The kinds of applications that I want to see are applications that are (i) useful in a sustainable way, and (ii) don't sacrifice on the principles (permissionlessness, decentralization, etc) I think DEXes are great, and I use them every week. I think decentralized stablecoins (eg. RAI) are great. I think polymarket is great. I think USDC is less great than RAI, but as a practical matter we simply have to respect that it's incredibly convenient and lots of people use it. It's incredibly useful for me personally when doing international donations, way more convenient than banking. We are here to try to make the global economy and society more open and free, and people in emerging markets using stablecoins to freely transact is a real live use case that's happening everywhere. USDC on ethereum is also far better than account-to-account transfers inside centralized exchanges, which also happens a lot. If we get lots of people using USDC, that creates a situation where it becomes easier for people to move to other more decentralized stablecoins too. Things that I *don't* respect, are basically things whose attractiveness comes from some temporary source that has no sustainability, eg. I felt no excitement toward the 2021-era liquidity farming craze, because it was obvious that it came from token issuances that are fundamentally temporary. If people tell me "you can get good yield by parking your coins here", my question always is, "where does the yield come from?". Who are the people on the other side of the transaction, who are paying the yield? In those cases where there is a specific answer to the question, that there is a good reason to believe will remain true in 5 years, then I am absolutely excited about it.
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SpaceX employees brought in to Starbase, come out for their photograph. That's a good sign
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i think i’ll draw the line at neural implants
i won’t be an early adopter, and probably never an adopter at all
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This is a network’s wet dream. No more dealing with diva anchors. Just a group of propagandists in a room giving the order and the devs take care of the rest. Input the headline, filler content is generated. Anchors that never complain, never age, no scandals. No man, no problem.
Linus ✦ Ekenstam@LinusEkenstam
Woah. Wtf. All anchors in this 21min news clip and numerous other things are AI powered. Holy smokes, things are going to get wild
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@dcinvestor Did everyone forget when they made up a token and got it listed and used it to farm BAL tokens? That was the first sign that they just showed up to rob the place. Never deviated.
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the irony is earlier DeFi participants were *extremely* skeptical of SBF (myself included)
i think the combination of heavy FTX marketing efforts + his big regulatory push actually gave him more legitimacy, to the point where many viewed those as indicators he was doing no wrong
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@GusCampobello @RexChapman No because it looks like he ripped off this content and didn’t give credit. twitter.com/marshallcurry/…
Marshall Curry@marshallcurry
84 years ago today: 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for a Nazi rally -- a chilling reminder that we are fallible creatures with a fragile system that needs to be defended regularly. Watch the 7 min Oscar-nominated doc here: anightatthegarden.com
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@RexChapman Rex, maybe you did already, but give Maddow’s podcast “Ultra” a listen. It is the story of how many of these American Nazi wannabees were in positions of power and were secretly working for Adolph. Alot of parallels to today and a riveting yarn.
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Which crypto projects are making the strongest efforts towards being decentralized?
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Today in 1988, you excitedly rode a winning streak into a showdown against Mike Tyson and promptly got knocked the fuck out.
GIF
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@DegenSpartan Best attributes of RPL were asymmetric upside and a team with a perfect ethos track record. I think the first is mostly gone but second remains. It’s a LSD play that will greatest longevity of most all alt coins with a few exceptions. Not the opportunity it was a year ago, but
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@DegenSpartan Normally, I agree with you but this is betting on the right team with right approach vs team taking shortcuts to grab share that doesn’t seem sticky. Which is your LSD horse? The game isn’t David vs Goliath.
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if i get removed from this site because some shitpost i make about Elon goes viral one day or because i am on the wrong side of a culture war, i just want to say it's been nice knowing you all 🫡
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i think it's obvious now, between the "Twitter Files" and recent events that no one should have the power to summarily issue account suspensions because you don't like what they're saying (unless it incites harm)
new Twitter leadership not looking very different from the old
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@0xJCT @BowTiedTreebear @sayinshallah Wrong, pads, helmets and lots more gear in general. It is more expensive to support a football team than soccer. Also, probably 3X - 4X the number of required players. Offense, defense, special teams. All the position coaches etc.
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@BowTiedTreebear @sayinshallah theoretically all you need in american football is a ball as well
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Zero_G@Zero____G
@lawmaster There isn't much talk of SOL in my feed from long time eth heads. Almost of the SOL talk is from you and other influencers trying to make this case. SOL twitter "marketing" is obvious and this is now the theme being pushed. Why can't you go back to posting interesting charts?
QME
A confirmed FTX insider provides more color on the relationship between FTX and The Block:
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@dcinvestor Want to drop weight fast? Intermittent fasting and whole 30. It’s ridiculous. Read “It’s starts with food”. Don’t have to fast but it will accelerate.
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the only times in my life where i really feel like i can lose weight are 1) when i meaningfully restrict the amount of carbs i eat and 2) couple with muscle building or muscle preservation efforts (weight lifting, strenuous yoga, etc.)
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