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@Rewkang2 min

The Exponential Horizon

For those that have experienced atleast one market cycle, you build an instinct to be wary of price appreciation that greatly outpaces the historical rate. Seeing the Dot Com bubble, 2008 GFC, all the

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@gdb3 min

Towards securing the internet

My first programming language was PHP. I remember discovering the joy of creating software while learning to build in such a beginner-friendly and accessible language. That's one reason I've felt a

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@cdixon2 min

The long game for crypto

It’s fashionable right now to declare that “non-financial use cases of crypto are dead.” Some people also claim that read write own has failed. These conclusions misunderstand both the thesis and the

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@Fables_Governs

$FABLES Rewards Date Proposal Now Live!

The $FABLES Rewards Date Proposal is live, and one thing is on the table: the date rewards go out. Register, read the options, and vote. The outcome is whatever the community lands on. The rewards

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@DrJimFan4 min

The Second Pre-training Paradigm

Next word prediction was the first pre-training paradigm. Now we are living through the second paradigm shift: world modeling, or “next physical state prediction”. Very few understand how far-reaching

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@shellenberger11 min

With Billions In Subsidies On The Line, Mining Titan Pours Millions Into Government Censorship Push

Twiggy Forrest hosted government’s “eSafety Commissioner” at policy retreat at his home, funded an ABC documentary, and financed a feminist think tank that makes false claims about media and violence

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@scottsantens3 min

In Memory of a Man Who Hasn’t Been Born Yet

Jean-Luc Picard will be born in 2305 in La Barre, a village in French wine country. He will defy a father who distrusts machines, leave Earth for Starfleet, and spend his life commanding starships. He

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@CryptoCred2 min

The Cost of Confirmation

Introduction Confirmation is a nebulous concept in trading. It is often presented as a risk-free way to enter a trade. At first glance, it seems quite sensible. After all, buying a dip when the market

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@ChrisMWilliams4 min

Dear SEC: Nobody made you do this

We made it to mid-October. Miami is No. 1 in the AP poll. BYU is No. 2. Texas Tech and Utah are in the top 10. After everything that has happened to the Big 12 over the last couple of

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@jon_stokes17 min

Apocalypse Prepping: From Temu to Gucci

A few years back, I quit prepping -- I quit doing it, I quit writing about it, I quit doing press about it, I quit being part of the scene, and I generally just hit eject on anything and everything

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@awaisahmedna9 min

Some Thoughts on Deep Tech in India

There is an interesting irony in the way we sometimes talk about innovation in India. We celebrate the extraordinary growth of fintech, quick commerce, grocery delivery, and consumer internet

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@CryptoCred2 min

Trading Buckets

As a discretionary trader, it's useful to categorise your trades into buckets. Systematic and discretionary aren't binary or mutually exclusive states. At the extremes you have a fully automated

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@namanjn19988 min

Voice agents aren't listening. They're reading.

While they're thinking, it's almost like they're deaf and blind. They cannot perceive anything else about what's going on. - @miramurati It baffles me that most voice agents still make decisions from

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@paulavaynshteyn13 min

More games worth playing this Steam Next Fest (October 2026)

Well, yesterday's post shot straight out of the atmosphere and shows absolutely no signs of slowing down, and I love that for the games I listed! By incredibly popular demand, we're back with round

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@cramforce2 min

Cloudflare forked just-bash and they really, really should not have

Sunil and I talked on the phone about this. He's sorry that he didn't ping me before publishing. I'm sorry that I didn't ping him before posting. It's all good. My colleague noticed yesterday that

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@thisisdjen9 min

you have to expose yourself to luck.

During my first few years in this space, I used to hear a certain type of comment that, although not necessarily ill-intentioned, would bother me a little. "Man, you got so lucky." "How did you manage

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@RyanHoliday2 min

Really Long Books That Are Worth Every Page

Oh man, there is nothing I love more than a big, long, thick biography. Last month, we talked about short books you could finish on a plane, well I’m talking about the opposite of that now, the ones

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@YourAnonCentral14 min

Putin ordered sabotage campaign against NATO countries, intelligence assessment concluded

U.S. agencies traced an escalated campaign of sabotage and covert action against NATO states to a direct order from Vladimir Putin, European officials briefed on the findings told the Wall Street

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@RyanHoliday2 min

This Hobby Can Change Your Life

I have a hobby and it’s weird. It started in a pretty normal way. I’d always liked taking walks and then I had young kids. Because it was often the only way I could get them to sleep–or to keep them

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