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"1K$/month UBI is not enough to live on" say some, but there are places in US where u can perfectly live on that amt. The keyword is: live.

UBI might encourage moving to cheaper more sparsely populated places, and that might not altogether be a bad thing.

@woj_zaremba

"Dota bot is one of the largest RL nets in the world. However, its number of neurons is still less than that of an ant’s brain." ‏ @F_Vaggi

More Federico Vaggi @ ICML Retweeted Wojciech Zaremba

"Ants have 250k neurons which is less than a tiny neural network actually"

Art is very much funded in America, but thru dif ways. See Culture in America by Frederic Martel.

Have to add: money printing tied to Congressional sausage making is as bad as a single executive deciding when to print. Politicians should not have this ability, period. Otherwise you are Zimbabwe, Venezuella.

Why was Kurd terr. leader given to TR by US in 90s? So TR's worries on N. Iraq would be minimized, Kurd issue would become an internal issue, saz Davuto. Makes sense. Relay it to the dude. Journos try to find mystery where none exists. U cant think in headlines.

Booyah

@zacharylipton

Perhaps what's most remarkable about the @OpenAI controversy is how unremarkable the technology is. Despite their outsize attention & budget, the research itself is perfectly ordinary—right in the main branch of deep learning NLP research

Got curious while watching this

https://t.co/2IrWIMeyuO

"The Nile Valley [..] stretching the length of Egypt [..] occupies 3 percent of Egypt's land but is home to 96 percent of its people [..] The majority of Egyptians live around the Nile. For them the desert is almost as alien an environment as snow-capped mountains"

Poor cat... he is being experimented on.

"Recordings were made from forty acutely prepared cats, anaesthetized with thiopental sodium, and maintained in light sleep with additional doses by observing the electro-corticogram. Animals were paralysed with succinylcholine to stabilize the eyes"

He is like "if I ever get out of here I will get on a communic. system and let ppl know of my plight, thru this thing I'll call a meme".

I dont know why this makes me laugh

I are crying cuz I are out of focuss

Yang running on UBI.. it's a small miracle actually.

That's one less thing I have to read up on now. Wanna know abt UBI? Go to Yang.

[relief]

What makes Bitcoin the king? It's all in the network baby.. Huge #of nodes that no other cyber$ can match - for now.

NY is not suitable culture for AMZN. Place is a dump. Concrete jungle. Glad they r not going there.

@yoavgo

Replying to @mark_riedl

"We never overpromised. It was you who overheard."

♫ Shake...sh-sh-shake that ass girl ♫ ♫

At an island. A big one.

@DanielJHannan

"Your regular reminder that, for roughly the first third of WW2, the USSR was working with Hitler, and most British Communists went along with it"

Come to think of it, it's year 2019, decades into the digital revolution, and u still cant f--king send micropayments, fast using fiat. If u asked me abt the future during 80s and such payments I'd have said "of course!". "That'll happen in a jif son".

Never underestimate the old. How arthritic, how entrenched it can get.

@911PSY

Making a million friends is not a miracle...the miracle is to make such a friend who can stand with you when millions are against you.

More focus needed on artificial hydrocarbons, methanol, ammonia. We can already transport energy by molecules over long distances. No need for "ultta grid" architecture.

Just realized Iran has two big countries on its SE with known hard core Sunni fighters in them. Not a good geography to be in as a Shite.

"At least 20 members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards were killed in the south-east of the country"

What we do NOT want is the congressional sausage making process called budget preparation tied to money printing. That will be a disaster.

Trump net approval -8% up from abysmal -20s. But; now that we know growth will suffer, with 0% growth DJT 2020 chances are btw [49.25% 52.0%], with -2% growth it is [48.6%, 50.37%].

If growth were around 2% I'd throw Biden into the fire and let him burn, by extension centrists.

@Fonta1n3

"Hugely underrated comment and what ive been saying all along. The masses will never adopt #Bitcoin willfully. It will happen in the background forcefully without their knowledge. You wont even know your using it."

Sure they can. It will be similar to the way millions got on Facebook - bcz all your friends were on it.

Ha ha.. Hesla.

https://www.thedrive.com/sheetmetal/15797/meet-project-hesla-the-first-hydrogen-powered-tesla-model-s

"Meet 'Project Hesla,' the first Hydrogen-Powered Tesla Model S"

@Suhail

'The hardest part in a startup is that you wake up one morning, and you feel great about the day, and you think, "We're kicking ass." And then you wake up the next morning, and you think "We're dead." And literally nothing's changed.' - @jkraus

@ricburton

"Two options for crypto projects:

1.) Sit on your hands for 50+ years and wait for the holy “hyper bitcoinization” so everyone thinks in Satoshis.

2.) Accept that the dollar is actually pretty great and start building with Dai today.

The next few years will be fascinating."

@starkness

Replying to @ricburton

"False dichotomy. Most bitcoin users in the future may not even know they're using bitcoin."

Right. Bcz with current fiat we still cannot make micro/fast/frequent payments, BTC/LN could provide that service to fiat.

Having said that, fiat is not "pretty great", so its replacement will not be a total loss IMO.

"A survey of 1000 executives in the automobile and #technology industry has concluded overwhelmingly that #fuelcell EV’s will be the next real break-through for electric #mobility."

NYT can flourish as MSM, but in a niche form. Huh? So in the multiplicity of choices and offerings, reporting on mainstream events can only survive as niche. I am sorry, this is the new tech. 4 mil subs is great, but can u beat FORTY MILLION watching one I Love Lucy episode?