Excited for @DenverBitDevs tonight at @SpaceDenver!
@robertwarren will be talking about the death of bitcoin mining.
You won't want to miss it! And as usual, please come an hour early if you want to socialize.
https://t.co/NiE5WOQFz0
“It is also in the interests of a tyrant to keep his people poor, so that they may not be able to afford the cost of protecting themselves by arms and be so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for rebellion.” - Aristotle
In the UK, members of protected minority groups can carry a literal sword, while ordinary British citizens can go to prison for carrying a Swiss Army knife.
I understand there shouldn't be an 'Us and Them' in our society, but politicians have turned it into 'Us vs Them'.
In most professions, when you hit the 90th percentile in technical skill, the best use of your time is getting 90th percentile soft skills
the best barbers are therapists
the best photographers are comedians
the best engineers are iconoclastic cult leaders that inspire their team with a vision nobody else can see, and even fewer can beleive
stop maxing out your CAD skills, and start dreaming bigger!
“…we shall not defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall relinquish the beaches, we shall abandon the landing grounds, we shall surrender in the fields and in the streets, we shall flee to the hills; we are already defeated…” - @Keir_Starmer, probably
I keep playing with data from @tomselliott's reality https://t.co/tSEArn0uYs and using Grok. Here I isolate 2019 and track purchasing power from 1 and down. It reveals a 50% fall since lockdowns. Jaw on floor.
almost every city in the country now sits atop a system in which a minority of highly-productive young people are expected to work away their best years around the clock, just to cover rent, while giving away half their income to crazy people, criminals, and bureaucrats.