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What % are for non-violent drug related charges that we could expunge by making marijuana legal?

It's crazy to me that this hasn't been done.

Does China have the right idea with respect to kids and the internet? Should we effectively ban kids from social media and restrict their usage at the ISP level?

Would like to see the arguments for and against.

That is an extremely well argued and important thread. It's really worth reading the whole thing.

1Password has raised almost $1B. Surely they could put at least $1M toward a critical bounty?

That is terribly low for such a critical issue. There are Ethereum L2s that pay out $2M bounties.

https://twitter.com/saurik/status/1491821215924690950

The article says that only accounts for 1 in 7 homes though.

I don't get how people are still buying houses at these prices. Are they paying beyond their means? Wiping out their savings? Or what?

They could store it in the form of digital energy (Bitcoin). With that you're able to capture what would otherwise be wasted energy.

"The gas, which would otherwise have been burned off, is instead routed to a bitcoin processor.

For years, oil and gas companies have struggled with the problem of what to do when they accidentally hit a natural gas formation while drilling for oil. Whereas oil can easily be trucked out to a remote destination, gas delivery requires a pipeline. If a drilling site is right next to a pipeline, they chuck the gas in and take whatever cash the buyer on the other end is willing to pay that day. But if it’s 20 miles from a pipeline, drillers often burn it off, or flare it. That is why you will typically see flames rising from oil fields.

The process reduces CO2-equivalent emissions by about 63% compared to continued flaring.."

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/15/conocophillips-is-selling-ex...

Interesting. They have the right idea (using a black rectangle) but in the wrong program. I can see how this could trip up non-technical people.

There's a lot of people who don't want to admit (to themselves even) they were wrong about Bitcoin 12 years ago and are still grasping onto that belief for dear life. Hoping that it will fail and prove them right all along. See, I was right Bitcoin wasn't worth $10 and is a useless technology!

So the cognitive dissonance is getting worse the bigger crypto gets and the longer it lasts.

> He has a crypto fund that he needs to make returns on, so he has been shilling crypto / web3 / "decentralized" / blockchain hard with his personal brand.

That's unfair. What if the reason he has a crypto fund in the first place is because he genuinely believes it's the future? That seems to be the case with everything he's said for years and how he makes investment decisions.

His response to some of the reactions he's getting:

Even after all these years, Twitter still surprises me. This is the tweet that makes people accuse me of lying and announce that they're unfollowing me? People are that attached to business plans and balance sheets? How completely mystifying.

The reason I don't care about business plans is that I can learn more from 5 minutes of interrogating the founders than from 10 pages of fluff they've written.

The reason I don't care about balance sheets is the same reason I don't care who's leading 100 yards into a marathon.

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1492694430129672194

That was fun to read. It was a different time:

Secure server software ($5000). This does not seem to be an absolute necessity; there are a lot of sites on the web where you can send your credit card number unencrypted, and to date there have been no reports of the numbers being stolen. But catalog companies may believe that a secure link is necessary, and spending this $5000 would give Webgen a much more professional look.

The younger generation may see that as a feature given our cancel culture climate?

It is nicer to use in that respect, but isn't it really just a copy of Ethereum with less security?

At least Optimism is smart enough to offer huge bounties. They awarded him $2,000,042 for this.

https://twitter.com/saurik/status/1491821215924690950

Source?

Is there a good way to test one's own gut microbiome? To determine how healthy it is or isn't, and to track how it changes over time. Basically I want to be able to tell how my diet and things like antibiotics affect it.

It was only a question of time before the all-out war on Rogan began. He's way too big and off-key to permit him to keep going. The concept of free speech in the US is a mirage: you have it right up to the line where it matters or can threaten power centers, then you don't.

Every major institution is united to destroy Rogan, including the WH. The Press Secretary -- speaking on behalf of the US Govt -- demanded Spotify do more to stop him, and this is treated as normal and benign. Ask Julian Assange if effective dissent is permitted.

The power derived from controlling the flow of information is immense. That's why every tyrant and authoritarian wields censorship power. Tyranny can't exist without it. And as Orwell and Chomsky have both said, the most effective form isn't jailing dissidents but doing this.

Read what Orwell said about why censorship in the UK during the war was so much more effective than the overtly autocratic regimes that just imprisoned dissidents.

We're at the point where we also arrive in these cycles. If you object to the attempt to silence Rogan, then you will be instantly tarred with the same brush used to try to destroy him: You're a racist, anti-vax, etc. etc. That's the enforcement mechanism to keep everyone quiet.

-Glenn Greenwald

Take it or get fired. That is being forced for all intents and purposes.

Shaq said it well: https://twitter.com/ginacarano/status/1489421001918083073

You're getting caught in the weeds and missing what's actually happening. It's not just about Spotify and Joe Rogan. If Spotify dropped Rogan and he goes elsewhere, people will still be trying to silence him. If Rogan is silenced, the mob isn't going to suddenly drop their pitchforks and go home. The corporate media isn't going to stop attacking independent media.

This is a larger cultural question and will determine where we go from here.

Are we still a society that values free expression and open debate?

I'm surprised to see these talking points still being repeated. They were plausible a few years ago, but now? Just silly.

> The people who find themselves “cancelled” almost always still end up with large platforms.

Survivorship bias. Most of the people who get cancelled just disappear. They don't have FU money or a big following. We only keep hearing about the few who are too big to cancel.

Plus you're not taking into account how much of a chilling effect all of this has. Many people are now self censoring. That has a regressive effect on society. We can't progress without free and open exchange of ideas.

That's kind of a misplaced thought since the show isn't a monologue. It's a dialogue hosted by a friendly and intellectually curious person.

Joe Rogan is the new Howard Stern.

Most of their net income was from the Rivian investment?

Net income increased to $14.3 billion in the fourth quarter, or $27.75 per diluted share, compared with $7.2 billion, or $14.09 per diluted share, in fourth quarter 2020. Fourth quarter 2021 net income includes a pre-tax valuation gain of $11.8 billion included in non-operating income from our common stock investment in Rivian Automotive, Inc., which completed an initial public offering in November.

Even though Musk was saying that it's not really meant for cities and wouldn't be a serious competitor there?

"the SpaceX CEO argued that Starlink won't be a major threat to telcos because the satellite service won't be good enough for high-population areas and will mostly be used by rural customers without access to fast broadband."

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/musk-...

Vitalik warned about cross-chain bridge risk just a few weeks ago:

My argument for why the future will be multi-chain, but it will not be cross-chain: there are fundamental limits to the security of bridges that hop across multiple "zones of sovereignty".

Note that cross-rollup apps within one zone of sovereignty are still fine. Not also that this also is a limit to the "modular blockchains" vision: you can't just pick and choose a separate data layer and security layer. Your data layer must be your security layer.

https://twitter.com/vitalikbuterin/status/147950136619213209...

An underappreciated improvement.

That looks really nice.

Does the ISP cover your expenses or is it supplemental?

In crypto you can add insurance if you want. It's an optional service. With credit cards it's baked in and you can't opt out. I want to opt out. I've never used a chargeback in my entire life and it's a source of profit for the credit card corporations. They pay out less than they charge, of course. I'd rather have a lower transaction fee and not feed Visa's bottomline. With crypto I'd want to just add a transaction insurance when doing something risky (like bridging cross chain).

From the same place that also overinflated the stock market: The Fed's money printer.