Most people won't state this so bluntly, but if the choices are: 1) kids sometimes access pornography on the internet 2) a federal ID system to access the internet Then #1 is the better choice.

Do any companies or organisations operate on a Bitcoin standard, i.e. treasury + salaries in BTC?

The fact that every person has to think about how to allocate their hard-earned money is a problem that something is broken. If you're not a professional investor, you should be able to easily save and simply focus on earning, saving, and spending. Bitcoin fixes this.

American-made technology creates American culture.

.Spotify please add an LLM to help me query my play history to help me answer questions like “what was that Swedish track I was listening to last month?”

German innovation 💀 bbc.com/news/articles/…

A family home (for 6 kids) in outer Sydney used to cost only 70% of one parent’s annual income.

In a way it's crazy the group of people getting the tax money also chooses how high that tax can be? Like shouldn't it be some neutral party that isn't dependent on that tax that chooses if it goes up or not? Absolutely wild

Now this is some clever Nikita Bier design detail: when you screenshot or record a post on iOS, the follow/subscribe button turns into an X.com watermark 👨‍🍳

What is Horizon?

“Up to 10,000” is not an accurate number at all. It’s assuming 100% of Woollahra homes in the new zone will happily give up their home to be redeveloped to max occupancy. The real number will be far less.

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When is someone going to make an Autocad/Revit killer?

Dear @x Nikita Bier, please auto-load images in 4K when I open them.

A perfect description of Australia: “With a lowered birthrate, we have begun the negative flywheel of immigration to boost GDP, the continued devaluation of the average salary while the inflation of asset prices … destroy the psychological prospects of any man in the nation to

Australia absolutely does have a culture: it’s an Anglo-Celtic liberal democracy, influenced by indigenous and migrant layers. Thinking it’s just “foreign culture” or “no culture” just reveals how little someone has travelled.

Thank you EU for your protection

Immigration adds to rents, but it’s not the root cause of the housing bubble. The real driver is credit creation: banks issuing ever more mortgages. Even the Bank of England admits: “When banks make loans, they create new money.” bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bull…

Something can be true, but directionally false

.Figma designers only want one thing and it’s disgusting