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Company is registered anonymously in another country. I also offer crypto payment options.

Really? What country are you connecting from? It should be accessible in China, US, Europe etc.

I'm developing Wallpunch, a censorship resistant VPN for people in China, Iran, and Russia. Userbase is pretty small as I'm still polishing things up, but I hope to expand my marketing efforts a lot in 2026!

https://wallpunch.net/

It's amazing that they have remained around for so long. I guess they're cheap?

The whole "developers developing development tools for developers to develop development tools for developers to..." ouroboros is exhausting.

Cool video! I think it would have given the entire video more structure and a "plot" to engage the user if you started with the original "Jeremiah Johnson" clip, and then explained why it's a lot harder in real life and how you plan to do it.

It's definitely a useful code assistant for some tasks (Bash scripts wow). Search-wise I think it's just brought us back to the level Google results were at before the SEO apocalypse, but it's slightly worse because I can never trust the AI summaries directly. I have to click the link into the authoritative sources to make sure.

It's an interesting idea, sort of a more persistent Omegle. For me though 48 hours would be far too much time. I'll either make a connection and want to remain in touch (on some other platform) within 15 minutes of the initial conversation or I will want to talk to someone else.

You get a rejection email: 'Write a rejection email. Make the message sound particularly caring and empathetic. Make no mistakes'

That part actually made me LOL.

You have to be willing to be direct and to the point. Beating around the bush only shows you don’t believe that what you need to say is valid or worthy. Stuttering or dancing around the topic at hand conveys uncertainty and undermines your position. You must be intentional and explicit in what you say, if you want the other party to fully grasp where you are coming from.

I don't know about the premise of the article but this suggestion definitely resonates with me. It's easy enough for misunderstandings to arise even when people are trying their best to communicate what they mean. Once you start beating around the bush it's almost guaranteed the other party is going to hear something completely different than what you intent.

15, I beat the chimp!

This is awful. How about instead of increasing traffic by generating mountains of useless "humanized" filler content you create some novel, useful content?

But he is both recursing and xenodochial, apparently

I don't need them to convert it into fiat immediately. Even a single lump sum at the end of the month would be acceptable if it allowed more users to pay.

That's an interesting idea! Do you think it would be easier (for the user) than adding a crypto payment link on my website?

Wage growth has severely lagged compounded capital, causing ordinary people increasingly see their best shot at real upward mobility in negative EV jackpots. Online gambling, 0DTE options, retail meme stocks, sports betting, and crypto memecoins all testify to the phenomena of exponential wealth preference. Technology makes speculating effortless, while social media spreads the story each new overnight millionaire, luring the broader population into one giant losing bet like moths to a light.

I don't think exponential wealth preference is the cause. For many people doing nothing is already (or at least feels like) a losing bet. At least if you YOLO what you've got into a losing bet there is a chance you come out ahead.

I feel like the celebrity owners with multiple jets should be combined into one!

To clarify, they are discussing ending the "Direct File" program, which assists low-income people from certain states in submitting their tax returns.

The "Free File Fillable Forms" program does not appear to be on the chopping block (yet).

It may be that the "denialists" persist and are so vocal because of the excessive hype, most of it marketing driven, around AI. Personally I think it's good to hear some counterpoints, even if both the denialists and the hypsters are way off the mark.

Those early machines really were impractical. From the Wikipedia article:

"The typewriter employed 36 keys divided into four banks: the first was numbered 0 through 5, and the other three were numbered 0 through 9. To type a character, the operator simultaneously pressed one key from each bank. Each four-digit combination corresponded to one of 5,400 Chinese characters, punctuation marks, numerals, letters of the English alphabet and other symbols etched onto a revolving drum which had a diameter of seven inches and a length of 11 inches. The drum made a complete revolution once per second, allowing the operator to achieve a maximum typing speed of 45 words per minute."

After all, [gaming] was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player’s real-time movements.

So A.I. is just any sort of algorithm now?

While my company relies heavily on cloud infrastructure (we offer a VPN service) I made it my goal from the outset not to become dependent on a single provider for any one piece of that infrastructure. I think it helps strike a balance between efficiency and resilience.

The Find My Sketchers collection starts from $52, rising to $58.

That's a tiny price range

Would be nice to see a few more details about the content of the webinar. Hard to tell if it will be actually useful or just marketing fluff.

Start with your current, biggest pain point, adding the minimal amount of automation that will improve things. Step-by-step things will get better over time but you don't run the risk of wasting a bunch of time and money on an automation that doesn't actual improve things in the end.

The article I'm commenting on is pretty clearly heavily biased against the entire field, possibly for good reason. I'd like to get my foundational understanding from a more neutral source so I can better consider the arguments put forth in TFA.

It's interesting that I saw the title and immediately guessed it was a new Veritasium video. He's certainly defined a unique style for his brand of content.

people are either still too afraid of looking like they don’t understand, still too deferential to Silicon Valley’s supposed technological expertise, or still too busy doing other things, to voice any skepticism about blockchain-based solutions

I'm not afraid of looking like I don't understand - I simply don't understand. I've tried reading a few "yellow papers" for crypto projects and they are so abstract and full of jargon that I never come away knowing more than when I started reading.

If anyone has a good resource for getting into the technical details of crypto please let me know. I would like to gain a full enough understanding that I can finally decide for myself if it's revolutionary or overhyped.

I think the market would punish Apple sufficiently enough for something like that and government intervention wouldn't be required...

What about a small, local ISP? Should they be able to refuse to provide service? At what size can/should the government step in a force companies to do things?

If I'm the sole owner and only employee of a small business, should I have the right to choose my clients? If so, at what size/scale/level of market capture should I lose my rights?