*paper bitcoin is trading at a discount. anyone who ever used P2P platforms can confirm that* View quoted note →

*AI is automating routine tasks,which raises the bar for graduates, but it also increases demand for higher‑level skills: critical thinking, systems design, and domain expertise* View quoted note →

*The real world of consequence is a harsh teacher, but it is the most effective one. It teaches reality, not theory.* View quoted note →

*there are likely far more people who think they want open intelligent dialogue than those who actually enjoy it. Most find it unappealing and choose to go back to the comfort of just having their priors confirmed*

Stacker News

Why people leave nostr (and SN?) \ stacker news ~nostr

https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs083hwcxwx6jtrlh8fxt5rz7ua47tm8m4nems95mql2n8xnsajntqvkuvwr I thought this note was interesting and potentially relev...

*Our collective complacency in the face of these systemic failures is perhaps the greatest failure of all* View quoted note →

*we’ve inherited a shadow republic where the most world altering events occur without explanation, where justice is selectively applied, and where our silence is mistaken for consent* View quoted note →

*The American experiment was predicated on the radical notion that power must justify itself to free citizens* View quoted note →

*This is a weird moment in fusion. Investors are pouring billions into the field to build power plants, and some companies are even signing huge agreements to purchase power from those still-nonexistent plants. All this comes before companies have actually completed a working reactor that can produce electricity. It takes money to develop a new technology, but all this funding could lead to some twisted expectations.* Fusion power plants don’t exist yet, but they’re making money anyway

MIT Technology Review

Fusion power plants don’t exist yet, but they’re making money anyway

The industry is getting billions, but it’s way too early to count on fusion to meet growing electricity demand.

“What stands in the way becomes the way” is a famous Stoic concept attributed to the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, meaning that obstacles and challenges are not merely to be endured or circumvented, but are actually the very means by which growth, virtue, and success are achieved. Perplexity

*The ONS data showed that for the year ending in March 2024, 35.8 million people lived in households receiving more benefits than they paid in tax – a record outside the pandemic when the figure rose to 36.5 million.* Over half of UK population live in households that get more in benefits than they pay in tax - and it's set to get worse https://share.google/r63BPoSzlGqfiBzc5

*The performance of a tool can drop as much as 20 percentage points when it is tested out of sample, on data from other hospitals. In one study, a pneumonia detection model trained on chest X-rays from a single hospital performed substantially worse when tested at a different hospital*

Stacker News

AI isn't replacing radiologists \ stacker news ~AI

It's cool to see The AI Replacement Hypothesis not playing out in this case. Optimistically, I suspect AI will work like this in most industries. I...

*Walton emphasizes how companies with massive valuations like Nvidia ($4 trillion market cap) hold just $54 billion in actual capital, creating enormous risk gaps* TFTC *Strive deal points up fact that different bitcoin hoards can trade at different prices depending on who holds them* Financial Times

*Interior Secretary Doug Burgum revealed in April that the Trump administration was considering taking equity stakes in miners to back them against state-sponsored competition in China* CNBC

*When we’re on the same team because of the same incentives we can coordinate efficiently* View quoted note →

*CLINK is a nostr based transport for invoices, a bit like LNURL, but end to end encrypted and key-identified so you don't need a web server of your own to use it trustlessly, works with any open relay. Also provides an much better alternative to the slow and unreliable onion-based messaging of Bolt12. The spend spec offers functionality like NWC or LNURL-Withdraw, but without prior account setup and secret sharing.*

Stacker News

SN release: CLINK wallet, recent search order, improve related posts, bug fixes \ stacker news ~meta

If you are running https://lightning.pub/, you can now send/receive with CLINK. Also we now pickup the lightning address from NWC strings if it's p...

*denomination isn't set by the buyer, it's set by the seller* View quoted note →

*If someone else can tell you what to do with your money is it really your money?* View quoted note →

*A political regime can't outperform the market because it doesn't understand the market, and it doesn't care about the return on investment anyway because it doesn't share the same interests as the market*

Stacker News

Our Economy Has Never Needed an "Elastic" Currency \ stacker news ~econ

By Jonathan Newman Mainstream economists justify the creation of the Federal Reserve because they claim that a growing economy, especially the bank...

*the solution to the inequality and injustice produced by govt central planning is not to institute more central planning* View quoted note →