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int32_64··on White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released
Is there an arms race of payment infrastructure for international LLM providers? A common payment gateway so that people can pay providers anywhere for tokens will inevitably emerge if the US is making moves like this.
int32_64··on GitHub Is Down
At least people are gaining knowledge of how to use the git remote command.
int32_64··on SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin
A better project would be to take the exact key generation function at the time Satoshi started it and mine possible PRNG parameters.
int32_64··on Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores
Is haggling an individualized price? What's stopping companies from allowing arbitrary bids on any item they can choose to reject? What if the future of the grocery store is eBay, a true nightmare.
int32_64··on U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back
Is there any technical solution to these centralized ID authorities doing sybil attacks and minting identities out of nothing to manufacture consensus on supposedly "human verified" sites?
int32_64··on Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom
"quantum grifting" has hit the cryptocurrency space brutally.

Scammers can take an old defunct coin or create a new one, buy up/create supply, strap ML-DSA on to it, and pump their shitcoin claiming it's quantum safe, then they can unload.

Eventually low information retail will get wise to this, I honestly don't know who this even works on right now.

int32_64··on US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid
There will be derivative contracts of prediction markets to predict if an insider is indicted for betting on a specific prediction.

And those prediction markets will have derivative markets to predict if an insider in the prosecutor's office bet on that contract.

And those prediction markets will have derivative markets to predict if a special prosecutor will prosecute the other prosecutor.

And those prediction markets will have derivative markets to predict if an insider in the special prosecutor's office bet on the other contract.

(additional derivative markets will exist up to the divine wrath of god).

int32_64··on US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid
It seems like it would be highly demoralizing to US soldiers that they are prosecuted for betting on the outcomes of the battles they are risking their lives for but those insider trading commanding them aren't.
int32_64··on SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
>acquire Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for our work together.

This seems like an elaborate Elon rug pull. A Windsurf situation 2.0

int32_64··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
I still sometimes miss the Samsung Galaxy I had that had a microSD slot, a removable battery, and a headphone jack.

Phones have lost so much in a decade.

int32_64··on The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe
Are there any projects focused on getting 'creative' software to work well on Linux? Valve solved Linux gaming but it seems tools like DAWs and video/photo editing is still terrible on Linux.
int32_64··on Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war
>You're claiming the U.S. government is impotent against holding Polymarket to account?

Yes, if US regulators quash Polymarket their lunch will be eaten by a global competitor HQ'd in a country the US can't touch.

A lot of the insider weekend trading of oil is happening on hyperliquid, a DEX associated with developers in Singapore, what can the SEC or CFTC do to them?

int32_64··on Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war
It's deeply American how so many of these articles about Kalshi or Polymarket frame the issue as something that can be solved on the American end with the stroke of a pen, especially in a multipolar world where American sanctions increasingly fail.

These markets are global with global demand and many of the insiders are on the receiving end of American foreign policy. If an Iranian with a starlink sees a b-2 spirit fly over their house that information will find its way to somebody who will profit from that knowledge, it's just part of the new information economy.

int32_64··on Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now
By using these services, you're also exfiltrating your entire codebase to them, so you have to continuously use the best cyber capabilities providers offer in case a data breach allows somebody to obtain your codebase and an attacker uses a better vulnerability detector than what you were using.
int32_64··on US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf]
The Lavabit case years ago was quite scandalous, things have only gotten worse. There should have been much harsher limits on what companies can be compelled to do.
int32_64··on US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf]
Are there any model providers that don't log chats? It seems like a good market opening.

I wonder if anybody has gone all the way and made a darknet LLM service with no logs served only over TOR with XMR payments.

int32_64··on Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning
Nvidia restricts gamer cards in data centers through licensing, eventually they will probably release a cheaper consumer AI card to corner the local AI market that can't be used in data centers if they feel too much of a threat from Apple.

Imagine a future where Nvidia sells the exact same product at completely different prices, cheap for those using local models, and expensive for those deploying proprietary models in data centers.

int32_64··on Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator
Satoshi's email accounts were presumably hacked in 2014 and the emails sent from them later were presumed fake because they lacked PGP signatures.
int32_64··on Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator
If you've ever seen Back's twitter you would know he's not Satoshi. I'm still firmly in the Finney camp.

Every couple years one of these articles shows up focusing on one of the core Satoshi suspects, at least do a Wei Dai one next time.

int32_64··on Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools
> the Bitcoin community has tried, for years, to claim that quantum computers will be another other than a complete break.

Who specifically is claiming this? Satoshi literally mentioned the need to upgrade if QC is viable on bitcointalk in 2010.

int32_64··on Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies Against Quantum Vulnerabilities [pdf]
Is there any field with as big of gap between theory and experiment than QC? You read papers like this and think they will be harvesting all Satoshi's coins in a couple years and then you remember that nobody has even factored 21 yet on a real quantum computer.
int32_64··on Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD
It's good to see science confirm what anybody who has accidentally taken too large of edibles dose understands.
int32_64··on Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot
Remember when Singapore buyers were an abnormally high percentage of nvidia's revenue? You have to wonder if these companies are this brazen because they know the DoJ will have political pressure not to nuke the bubble which is more important than being China hawks.
int32_64··on What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable
"The change may cause policymakers to misjudge the economy’s health, investors to lose confidence in the reliability of the data, and the public to disengage from participating in official measures altogether."

Many neoliberal Western countries with good data have completely fumbled their economies post-GFC and post-Covid, just look at Canada's disastrous GDP per capita growth.

int32_64··on Digg is gone again
I would pay cash for access to a social site that bans all US politics, the astroturfing associated with it is simply unbearable.
int32_64··on Anthropic sues to block Pentagon blacklisting over AI use restrictions
A pointless publicity stunt because of state secrets privilege that will lead to more extreme actions from the Trump admin against Anthropic like the DoJ pulling the trigger on a selectively prosecuted company ending copyright/hacking case for stealing all their training material.
int32_64··on Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets
The prediction market trend will "work itself out".

It will become common knowledge that these platforms are exploited by insiders so people "trust" apparent flagged insider bets, so people will try to piggyback insiders, then it will be revealed that a sophisticated party with infinitely deep pockets burns massive amounts of cash to manipulate odds and these piggybackers will be burned badly, so in the end classical gambling and sports betting will resume as preferred ways for gamblers to lose money because of their disgust with the manipulation.

int32_64··on War prediction markets are a national-security threat
Lindsey Graham candidly admitting to being the agent of a foreign country is a National-Security threat.
int32_64··on Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
Anthropic wants regulatory capture to advantage itself as it hypes its products capabilities and then acts surprised when the Pentagon takes their grand claims about their products seriously as it threatens government intervention.

This is why people should support open models.

When the AI bubble collapses these EA cultists will be seen as some of the biggest charlatans of all time.

int32_64··on Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance
Qwest tried and many believe the CEO went to prison as retaliation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio

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