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Talking to a psychotherapist or reading fiction might help you feel more at ease. It's a crazy, contradictory world. I wish you well.

Tired of doing this alone?

That's some pretty ironic copy xD

It's still debated whether Lenin died of syphilis. It's less wrong to say he died of strokes.

BMAA and domoic acid induce extremely similar symptoms and are certainly on the rise in the water there.

My theory is that this hypothesis is shut down by the fishing industry.

Any psychotherapist ... tries to create a heavy dependence to their patents, not so chemical but behavioral and psychological, which they call patient bonding.

This world view is extreme, not true, and directly harmful to your mental health.

You should consider talking to a psychotherapist about why you feel that way :^)

In all seriousness, the world is a much more pleasant place when you discard extremist views and accept the good with the bad.

I have a morning routine. Usually I go for a walk and read for an hour before doing anything else. But I almost never eat breakfast. I'm just not hungry in the morning.

By midday I'm on an adventure. Some days, it takes me in a direction where it makes more sense to skip lunch than to stop and have it.

When I'm hungry and it's convenient, I eat. When I'm not, I don't.

It's almost never the case that I'm hungry for a meal three times a day.

Another thing is one meal days are far easier after you do it couple of times.

It's mind-boggling to me that multiple "one meal" days don't incidentally happen to everyone over the course of a year.

I would think most people have those days where they skip breakfast and lunch due to some or other exigency and only get to eat dinner.

I was talking about gold ETFs.

The blockchain in this context has no bureaucracy, no ability to freeze your assets, and no delays.

Fiat brokerage and banking accounts suffer all those properties.

What incentive does Bhutan have to cater to foreign investor interests?

Bhutan is actively encouraging foreign investment for obvious reasons. For example, see Gelephu Mindfulness City [1]. The King and his government have published their reasoning.

Who/what determines the token values? Is it based on market demand for tokens or the market price of gold? If the price of gold increases 50%, are token values guaranteed to follow suit?

Yes. Presumably there is a redemption mechanism, providing arbitrageurs opportunities to close price discrepancies between the token and spot gold for a profit.

I'm trying to understand the advantage here over ETFs

The vast majority of Earth's population doesn't have access to US-based ETFs. Second, if a significant amount of your assets are already on chain, it's painful to move them back to a fiat-based brokerage account to buy a gold ETF; you risk the whims of an arbitrary bureaucracy, frozen assets and delays over which you have no control.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelephu_Mindfulness_City

You can buy an ETF that wraps spot crypto and get all those guarantees you name in exchange for a small fee.

That's just patently false.

Importantly, HyperCore does not rely on the crutch of off-chain order books. A core design principle is full decentralization with one consistent order of transactions achieved through HyperBFT consensus.

HyperCore includes fully onchain perpetual futures and spot order books. Every order, cancel, trade, and liquidation happens transparently with one-block finality inherited from HyperBFT. HyperCore currently supports 200k orders / second, with throughput constantly improving as the node software is further optimized.

Key part:

fully onchain perpetual futures and spot order books

1 diamond = 1 cent

Prices are about to drop dramatically. Many of the models dropped >80% in price since initial launch. Any time I have a reduction in cost, I pass the savings directly on to users.

https://gametorch.app/sprite-animator

Create video game sprites and animations via prompts.

Pretty excited because I've started to get high volume, repeat customers.

Yes, and this dichotomy has been analyzed by political and economic theorists for centuries and everyone except autocrats and slave owners has agreed that the conditions surrounding the "work_output : labor_cost" jobs you describe are a huge miscarriage of justice and ought to be discarded with the past. Whether that is predicted to occur via bloody revolution or capitalist accelerationism is a matter of your particular economic and philosophical taste. But every ethical human being says we shouldn't treat people like that.

Why do you care?

Basic human decency says your workplace environment should be chill enough to let you take breaks as you, yourself, dictate. If you're underperforming because of it, you're fired. Enforcing a rule as you claim strips the employee of what little respect they have left. To be honest, your suggestion is sickening to me.

https://gametorch.app/sprite-animator

AI sprite animator for 2D video games.

Amazing idea and execution.

If, in the generated notes, you could link back to the original source (timestamp in video, slide number, etc.), I would use this all the time. I love LLMs but when extreme precision matters, like when studying for tests, I would love to be able to quickly reference the original source to verify the information myself.

I'm attempting something similar.

No spine support, but very good, consistent, high quality animations. BYOS (bring your own sprite) is supported.

https://gametorch.app/sprite-animator

ReLU, commonly used in neural networks, is not differentiable at zero but it's still able to be approximated by expressions that are efficiently FHE-evaluable. You don't truly care about differentiability here, if you're being pedantic.

Very insightful comment, though. LLMs run under FHE (or just fully local LLMs) are a great step forwards for mankind. Everyone should have the right to interact with LLMs privately. That is an ideal to strive for.

Tangentially related — sending everyone in a company a slightly different document can help catch the person leaking confidential documents to the press.

Smart contracts are deprecated all the time and you can even recoup the Solana you posted as rent to upload the smart contract initially.

Think about it this way: 99% of these protocols are DeFi related. In all of those protocols, you ultimately have makers and takers, regardless of whether the protocol is literally an orderbook or an AMM (automated market maker) or something else entirely. The point is, you have two sides: someone making and someone taking. But blockchains, even the fastest ones, are still multiple orders of magnitude slower than TradFi. We're talking milliseconds vs nanoseconds. Remember, there's three orders of magnitude of microseconds between the two also. Anyways, it's basically impossible to update your quotes fast enough as a market maker on a blockchain to not get picked off. It's hard enough to do this in TradFi nanosecond land, let alone on chain. Yes, there are differences. Yes, it's nuanced. But market making on chain is fundamentally very hard and 99.9% of people who try, fail, or they "succeed" but eventually realize they would've made more by just bagholding the collateral they posted to make markets. So the liquidity (market makers) in all of these protocols eventually dries up. At which point the protocol is useless because no taker can come and trade. At which point the protocol is abandoned. At which point, if deployed immutably (this is the only truly trustless way), there's nothing you can do. If NOT deployed immutably, you can just close the program and recoup the money, could be thousands of dollars, you posted as rent to upload it in the first place.

You can absolutely "delete" a protocol if you own the Solana program.

It's not deleted in the sense that all of its history is still on the blockchain. But it is deleted in the sense that the account storing the Solana program no longer exists / is empty and you cannot interact with it. In fact, if you haven't immutably deployed a Solana program, you are heavily incentivized to delete it if it is unused, because then you can recoup the Solana you posted as rent to upload the program in the first place.

I watched a locksmith pick someone's apartment door in 10 seconds and then charge them $80. Then everyone commented on how easy it looked and the locksmith was very friendly about it.

If they're paying $1000/month at 30c/kWh, they could quite nearly run the latest over-the-counter bitcoin miner 24/7 with that amount of electricity usage.

They have terrible insulation.

I used Clozemaster effectively to learn Russian. It's not exactly what out describe, but you can fly through many "clozes" to ingrain the patterns into your brain.

https://gametorch.app

It's an AI video game sprite animator.

I'm so so so glad I didn't spend my twenties working and saving.

I've lived a thousand lives, spent most of the time as true quality time with people I love, and I still have a few years left in this decade of my life.

And I'm still further ahead, financially speaking, than >99% of other people my age. (To those asking, I tripled down on life after getting a remote job.)

The one year I spent 9-5 in an office as a traditional SWE was by far the quickest and least eventful year of my life. Also probably the saddest.

I'm very glad I just said "no" and walked away and simply lived. It was absolutely worth the risk. I would never trade these years for the ability to buy a house in the Bay Area suburbs.

I probably will be able to do that anyways, if I want to, even though I don't.

That would be ideal.

I also considered making my own. But then I thought that rolling your own chemistry could prove to be more fatal than rolling your own cryptography.

There's no way for the average person to know it only contains 4-aco-dmt though.

I did 4-aco-dmt multiple times in high school.

Luckily, I just tripped and was grateful to be alive on the other side.

At least half, if not 15 out of 20 of my friends went completely into psychosis and a good majority of those people had persistent negative symptoms for weeks after.