Chris Walker @chris_walker_ Twitter profile

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7 months

@Johnie Modern washing machines teleport dirty clothes to a centralized cleaning facility and then return them after cleaning. Lost socks are dropped packets.

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Chevron deference is over! @ToyotaMotorCorp : please bring the 70 series to the US.

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@SustainableTall Little-known Idaho law: if you see a contractor do this you can challenge them to mortal combat by nailgun. (And you'll likely win because they obviously don't know how to use one.)

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@mattwridley The framing they use is telling. Trump "says he was shot" -- really? It's just like, his personal opinion?

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@eyeslasho This is a reasonable take except for the: - history of tendentious headlines & reporting - incredibly silly wording - e.g. "Trump falls" without hint of a somewhat-important cause for said "fall" Is this "just the facts, ma'am" reporting? Unlikely. Not a "fast one" - just bias.

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@Melt_Dem @aubreystrobel @Airbnb @AirbnbHelp Use them to back up your Ledger (one fragment of the seed phrase to each camera). Social recovery!

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2 years

Apparently @akashnet_ can reduce compute costs by ~80% relative to AWS, GCP, etc: seems useful!

Akash Console

Deploy docker containers on the decentralized supercloud Akash Network.

console.akash.network

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Auth Deco - An Architectural Manifesto 1/ Great architecture serves people by placing them within a beautiful reality. The name hearkens to Art Deco, or arts décoratifs, the last style of an ascendant civilization.

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@contractorkeith No! Brick is often more moisture permeable than paint. Use lime wash instead. That lets the bricks breathe and rather than peeling off in ugly flakes the coating will age gracefully.

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@JesseKellyDC Coeur d'Alene Lake. Cliff jumping, boating, next to a great downtown, resort, golfing, etc. Lake Pend Orielle Bigger, colder, clearer, majestic mountains, good sailing, etc.

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1 year

This thread is a great explanation of why I am in crypto: it is the best tool for civilization to regain the commons and rebalance the relative power of individuals and entities.

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1/ On Taxis Or how the world is centralizing all around you, but why you, fellow citizen, have probably not thought about it at all. (NYC, 2007 below)

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Few people understand why the Pantheon is still standing after two millennia and modern concrete will be lucky to last one tenth as long. (It's the steel.)

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4 months

Ready to have your minds BLOWN??! I've been dying to post this podcast with Phillipe Block, coming out Thursday. Here's a teaser. An incredible example of blending the best of old and new to pioneer something truly groundbreaking that could change the nature of construction.

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@Snowden @InsiderEng Ser I have played the Scotland Yard board game and hiding next to the river is a good move because you can take the ferry and detectives cannot.

Scotland Yard (board game) - Wikipedia

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3 months

@WillManidis Another demo video with even more deadpan expressions.

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@k9_reaper Your posts are all straight out of a zombie or horror flick.

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@ToyotaMotorCorp @ToyotaMotorCorp just consider how much better this rugged Idaho road trip would be in an LC70.

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Gearing up for an American classic: the summer road trip.

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@ByrneHobart Luxury is getting other people to do nice stuff for you. Craft is doing nice stuff yourself. That's craft.

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2 years

Every part of this exchange is bad. • Government demanding powers it has not earned • Corporation providing services that should not exist • Blockchains failing to protect basic human rights • Senator blinded by motivated reasoning cannot understand clear answers

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Watch as @jony_levin tries to answer Sen. Warren’s questions about a hypothetical oligarch with $1 billion already in crypto

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@aaron_renn I wouldn't even build something like this in Sim City.

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@pronounced_kyle Lasers. So hot right now.

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@ZachWeiner About to tilt my head sideways to read that page: "this better be really good"

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@Austen It's incredible how many people do not see what is happening and absolutely refuse to find out.

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@bcrypt Where do you think twins come from? A 120% chance of pregnancy just means you have a 20% chance of twins.

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4 months

@DJSnM Plot twist: Kerbal Space Program was Ender's Game the whole time.

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2 months

@AustinTunnell I think Christopher Alexander is spot-on that a raised entrance gives you a chance to pause and appreciate the transition from outdoors to indoors.

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@Mike___Kilo @ToyotaMotorCorp For anyone who didn't catch the satire: THERE IS NO SECOND BEST.

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As an outsider I thought El Segundo was ugly, but I am glad to see the love these guys have for their city. Reminds me of this quote: “Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.” -- GK Chesterton. It is time to build.

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If you move to the Gundo I’ll greet you with a fresh canister of preworkout and a soldering iron

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@walkadm @ToyotaMotorCorp Yes, it's reputed to be the ultimate rugged SUV.

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@jonathanrawles If I were zoning king for a day: kill the 5 acre minimum! Make it a village with a small but real urban transect. 1. Walkable core with commercial & multifamily 2. Single family 3. Remainder dedicated to green space or agriculture. Parking / transit on edge of core. Done.

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How far we have fallen. Compare any Sears kit home from a century ago with any prefab home from Home Depot. The decline in aesthetic and material quality is obvious. (Let's not even discuss price!)

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@DarrenJBeattie I am the biggest Apollo fan but this is just wrong. Starship (full reusability at > Saturn V scale) or Raptor (first full flow staged combustion cycle engine) or the economics (~100x reduction in launch prices) are all huge improvements. NASA, though - definitely sclerotic now.

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@ilyasut I know a guy. Krisenabwendungszusammenwiedervereinigungsgefährlichkeit.

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2 years

@eigenrobot Are you winning, son? Son:

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@BritMartinez Undyed organic linen. THERE IS NO SECOND BEST. (As long as you like taupe and wrinkles)

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@HomericFuturist @untappedgrowth Apparently wool blankets work well. Hudson Bay blankets are Lindy.

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@Swamp_Fawkes @ToyotaMotorCorp Why not both?

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"I will just shoot the drone with my shotgun" bros in ruins. Quantity has a quality all its own. And that's before each drone gets full autonomy.

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Oh hey look it’s the future

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2 years

Russian natural gas is to Europe what Chinese manufacturing is to the United States: dangerously convenient.

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3 months

@Inv3ntive15 opens every time. hope that helps. 😂

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9 months

3/ Most current architecture resides in an uncanny valley between clear forms. The problem is not that builders reach too high or settle for too little: they don’t know how to tell a consistent story. Their ahistorical constructions are grab-bags of half-hearted grandiosities.

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@girdley Do airlines offer any last-minute discounts for unfilled flights? Have never tried this.

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@jnyboy Should be -122, they clearly just wired the box backwards.

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"Fire everyone attached to the State Department -- tomorrow." Great panel on the unserious state of US defense policy with ⁦ @realErikDPrince ⁩

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2 years

@jespow In some sense this was inevitable. Having discovered the tool of cancellation, elites will use it until it breaks the entire petrodollar world order.

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@contractorkeith With due respect (you are a pro builder, I am not, and this is your house!) WWII killed a lot of building experts. Post-WWII building trades replaced trad expertise with novel materials, e.g. long-lasting but high-skill structural stone -> short-lived but low-skill concrete. At

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@concodanomics This was an excellent joke.

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4/ How can we build well again? Authenticity. Choose a story for a building and stick with it. The narrative you aim to communicate must ring true as a bell throughout the structure.

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Presentation is king. Is it trash or a Ralph Lauren Writer's Chair? Its context and your vision decide. I haven't even cleaned it up yet!

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@YIMBYLAND It's a nice airport.

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@JonathanRawles Revealed preference.

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Classic productivity paradox: the Walker clan increased headcount by two this week and yet we don't feel any faster!

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3 months

How could those Romans possibly forget the recipe for concrete?

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1/2 This is how civilization ends. "Due to the dwindling supply of quality machine shops and very poor quality aftermarket parts as well as a lack of people interested in learning the engine building and machine shop trades, I regret to inform our many followers and current as

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@Iron_Man_Actual High stakes skeet shoots are still possible for now. But extrapolate current trends - drones will get faster, guys with shotguns will not.

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@HVNYrefugee The postmils:

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@prestonjbyrne Preston, laptops are securities. They cost money, the Apple ecosystem is a common enterprise, and we all have an expectation of profit from software improvements provided by Apple. The answer is simple: register your MacBook with the SEC.

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@girdley It's easier to find parking at Costco with this one if you are OK with a bit of scuffing on the paint.

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@NecktieSalvage The spandex pants aren't helping. (Sure, those pants are probably only 1-5% spandex or similar and the rest might be natural denim, but stretchy menswear doesn't drape well, it clings.)

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@thisisfoster This is only true if the COVID tyranny was the cause of the resettlement. But if the causes for resettlement have been present the entire time and COVID was simply a catalyst, the resettlement will be permanent.

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@KobeissiLetter Those aren't homes, not really.

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How far we have fallen. Compare any Sears kit home from a century ago with any prefab home from Home Depot. The decline in aesthetic and material quality is obvious. (Let's not even discuss price!)

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Claude 3 (PhD grade-AI) BTC at $66k (the beginning of another bull run) LK-99 replication (room-temperature superconductors?) All on the same day? Yeah I think we are back.

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Every second spent reading the Fed Tea Leaves like a daytrading Trelawney burns energy that could have been used to create real value. We must fix this. So we will.

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Unintentionally clear illustration of traditional cultures being flattened into an unsatisfying digital simulacrum. This is one reason the world feels a bit broken.

Tim Cook

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Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we’ve ever created, the most advanced display we’ve ever produced, with the incredible power of the M4 chip. Just imagine all the things it’ll be used to create.

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@JoshuaSteinman Hey GPTSiri! Print me a copy of this tweet, shred it, and then tell Joshua why he's wrong in the style of Vannevar Bush. (j/k you are right)

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@bscholl Usually I lobby for aesthetic maximalism, but I don't understand the concern here. I see functional, modular, lightweight components. Building the interior trim like a monocoque seems more expensive and less flexible. It's a bus, not a yacht.

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@bendreyfuss Four-year-olds everywhere are calling this list "dated," "exclusionary," and "blissfully ignorant of the refined simplicity of mac and cheese."

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2 years

catastrophe unfolding for the next decade

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@ID_AA_Carmack @sdamico Batteries? Tiny diesel generator will heat for a lot longer and provide flavor.

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@sarah_cone The most luxurious software is no software. Why? Zero-marginal cost distribution means developers distribute it as widely as possible (my iPhone works the same as Elon's). Personal software worth $10k on the luxury market makes probably more money sold for $100 to everyone.

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@Austen That man studied his Ikegai chart.

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5/ Authentic Materials These put the observer at ease because they are at ease: there is no artifice to discover. Fake materials, on the other hand, create tension between what is, and what is asked to be perceived.

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Assisi is a great example of a city on a hill. The only thing stopping us from building this way in the US is a lack of imagination.

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The US definitely needs to learn how to build on hillsides so we can leave agricultural valleys in cultivation. And it makes for fascinating urbanism, but it’s completely different with buildings thin to slopes but broad along streets. Been working on how-to for years.

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@Shpigford No. The symbolism of traditional cultures being collapsed into an unsatisfying digital simulacrum is true.

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Gearing up for an American classic: the summer road trip.

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@joeviewtiful22 Just think: repost could have been riposte.

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Happy Easter. He is Risen!

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2 years

Power available is power grasped. This nightmare was predictable. Want to fight authoritarian evil? Build crypto.

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@contractorkeith Give it time.

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@seanw_m Yep flashing seems like an obvious omission. I like this silvery-grey weathered look but have seen some rot/delamination on vertical faces of exposed glulams after a couple decades.

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@mattparlmer Isn't the root cause the fountain of burning hydraulic fluid rather than metallic dust?

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Kids are wonderful. The twins are now sleeping through the night at ~7wk old! Sleep is also wonderful.

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3 years

@novogratz @brucefenton The exact reason we need an alternative is that Twitter "doing its best" got us here, where ISIS and the CCP are treated far better than our own scientists, technologists, and politicians who dare say uncomfortable things.

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2/ Some day Art Deco may return as the style of dominance. But now we need principles that are scale-, cost-, and context-invariant, equally suited for a villa, town square, or starter home. Auth Deco structures tell a good, internally consistent story within realist bounds.

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@untappedgrowth Someone wise: "wherever you go, there you will be" Can't escape your problems with physical distance

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Held the device - was impressed by build quality. Hardware is hard!

FOAM

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Introducing Cycloid: Ethereum Transactions Over Radio Cycloid is a next generation hardware wallet. Pocket sized, a screen for NFTs and radio for offline transactions 📡⛓️🔐 Join the waitlist below. Launching this summer on @Optimism Superchain! #DePin

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9/ Read the full article here.

The Auth Deco Manifesto — Walker Studios

Great architecture serves people by placing them within a beautiful reality. Auth Deco structures do this by telling a good, internally consistent story within realist bounds.

ckwalker.com

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There is no big secret plan to fix the US. But we all have more freedom to act on our little plans now. Good.

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CHEVRON DOMINANCE Technology is about to accelerate. Because Chevron deference is over. And regulators can't just make up laws anymore. So, countless new startups just became feasible. This is often spoken about in the abstract, so let's do three examples and two visuals. THREE

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First Christmas tree at the new house. (I prefer thinner wild grand fir to farmed noble/doug fir)

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@TravisMWhitaker @theBrogrammar I haven't used NixOS before but reading the docs this is how package managers should works: pure immutable 100% reliable values. It's hilarious to see JS devs boldly proclaim that is an impossible standard.

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US immigrants often get the gravity of America's political fractures because they have seen a wider range of state capacities. We may not feel it, but relative to the rest of the world, American life ~1988-2007 was anomalous - an echo of earlier strength that we no longer have.

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Just saw a phenomenal work truck (diesel, gigantic dump bed, good mileage, smaller than a crew cab) branded FIDO. Asked the owner where he found it. Answer: I built it. FIDO stands for Ford / Isuzu / Dodge / <?>. If this were legal to mass-produce it would sell!

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Let's be real here, our current form of "private" banking is anything but. At least FedAccounts would lay bare the true nature of the system. If the Feds were trustworthy they might work better too. But none of that matters to the future we are building.

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6/ Authentic Forms Rather than build a lifetime of mediocre work starting from nothing, use the forms purified over time by others’ efforts. Master a few dialects by studying specific designers and structures. Do you want to build a Victorian Rowhouse or a Contractor's Special?

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@nikstankovic_ Observe South Africa to see where this trend will get us in ten years "for the win."

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7/ Respect for Authority Accept the boundaries created by higher authorities -- physics, psychology, economics, and context -- or create structures that are ugly, uncomfortable, or even unusable.

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Before trying to directly compete with mainland China on consumer hardware, I beg you to just watch one (1) youtube video showing their process in detail so you understand how high the bar has risen.

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Every businessperson I talk to comes back from China talking about A) how bad the economy is, and B) how Chinese manufacturing companies are going to outcompete every other country in every product category and take over the world

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What would you create if you could mint tokens for free? On-chain receipts? Activity tracking? Credentials? Comment here:

Draft EIP: Abstract Token Standard

What if we could securely and freely mint tokens off-chain? What if token holders could trustlessly migrate these tokens on-chain as desired? What if token contracts included a built-in mechanism to...

ethereum-magicians.org

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@grayzoneintel There is a way (engendering universal fear and admiration), but the path for hedge fund manager types is narrow.

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