*Fiat is an experimental kind of currency that is (weirdly) printed by each individual country, and people took somewhat seriously between roughly 1600 AD and 2009 AD. It tends to gradually lose value over time. You could show Fiat in Euros if you wanted, instead of dollars, with this switch.*

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Megalith's funny answer to "What is fiat?" \ stacker news

Even if you already know everything about running a lightning node (which seems impossible), Rizful's instructions and pointers over on their websi...

*When you follow someone on Nostr, you publish a kind 3 event listing every pubkey you follow. This is not a security ritual; it is the normal behavior of using a social network. But that follow list, signed by your key, is now a cryptographic attestation. You are implicitly saying: these are the people whose content I want to see, whose judgment I find valuable enough to include in my feed.* View quoted note →

*...their prediction that training compute goes to 0% is the part that feels directionally wrong. Also, IMO, with a breakthrough in “continual learning”, Nvidia's stock will get another boost. Nvidia sells the picks and shovels for both training and inference. If anything, continual learning can increase inference-side complexity, because you are not just serving forward passes, you are also managing memory, state, and sometimes update steps. That tends to push you toward more capable hardware, not less.* Rohan Paul on X

*Inference is where the hype has to convert into margins, and it's also where the compute bill never stops: each new user, workflow, or agent adds recurring demand, not a one-time training run. That's why the buildout has started to look less like a moonshot and more like a utility race, with companies scrambling to secure the power and capacity to serve what they expect will be always-on intelligence.* The year AI tech giants, and billions in debt, began remaking America

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Dust to data centers: The year AI tech giants, and billions in debt, began remaking the American landscape

Big Tech is remaking the U.S. map into an AI empire — kingdom-scale data centers, unprecedented debt, power constraints, and a near-religious bel...

*It’s hard to comprehend how badly the credit based financial system has distorted our perception of reality.… People have been convinced of the idea that it’s good for them that they are losing purchasing power all the time thanks to inflation.* View quoted note →

*Curricula optimize for clean exams, employability, and tools — not long-horizon failure, adversarial reality, or responsibility. Reality lives in the tails. Education lives in the mean.* View quoted note →

*In a free market, cash scarcity forces decisions. In today’s market, cash scarcity gets patched.* View quoted note →

*Find the fear that exploits you. You are stronger than that* View quoted note →

*AI is responsible for the omniscient and omnipotent "Compute"; Humanity is responsible for the "Gravity" of pain and glory. AI is responsible for maintaining rational order; Humanity is responsible for providing the spark of chaos.* Tianqiao Chen

*Absolute rationality implies absolute prediction. In the eyes of an all-knowing observer, the world is static because everything is within calculation. Without surprise, there is no time; without time, there is no meaning.*

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*What's needed: Permanent, searchable, crowdsourced investigation infrastructure. Not one journalist. Thousands of eyes finding connections. Published to Nostr so it can't be memory-holed.* View quoted note →

*1. Being a great hacker does not imbue moral or ethical characteristics. 2. Being a great coder doesn't mean you're not a crackpot. 3. Working on a great project doesn't mean you share my motivations about it.* View quoted note →

*"If you didn't run code written by assholes, your machine wouldn't boot"*😂 View quoted note →

“Most people are sitting in a sympathetic state a lot of the time, in this low-level stress, and that wears you out,” Stacy says “It can impact your ability to perform at your job, and it can impact your relationships with your family, friends, and loved ones.” “[When you improve your V02 max], there's less stress on your overall system. And when there's less stress on your overall system, it's much easier for you to manage your emotions. It's much easier for you to step back and make better decisions and see things for how they are, rather than being caught up in all the day-to-day stresses.” Why Increasing Your VO2 Max Is Great for Improving Longevity—and Your Daily Life | GQ

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Why Increasing Your VO2 Max Is Great for Improving Longevity—and Your Daily Life

Experts explain why this measure of cardiovascular health isn’t just for ‘fitness people,’ and how improving your VO2 max could even help you...

*...Bitcoin was money designed to serve humanity, rather than humanity being bent to serve the money* View quoted note →

*Why this obsession with time? Because marking the passage of time is something that marks us as humans. It is the lower animals, the brutes, and the outcasts who fail to mark their time on Earth. Who simply live into every hour of every day, as if it were interchangeable with every other. Like zombies. Like the lost, cursed to wander in the desert. As if there were no progression, no direction, no movement. It is both a Biblical curse and a sign of societal degeneracy to _fail to mark the time_.* View quoted note →

*What a business will declare for taxation [has] nothing to do with what they use as [a] form of money. The taxation event is on the invoicing volume, NOT on the money aspect.*

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How to Use Blink POS in Your Shop, Cafe or Restaurant \ stacker news

Blink Wallet is a great solution to start accepting bitcoin and lightning payments in a physical shop. If you have a cafe, restaurant or any other ...

*hustle works best with alignment, and simplicity ties it all together* View quoted note →

*courage has meant staying open without self-abandonment, choosing honesty over reassurance, protecting your peace, and trusting others to walk their own path* View quoted note →

Before planting the seeds of the Bitcoin circular economy, clear the fiat weeds. Lower debt. Don't buy junk.