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New comment by smashem in "As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise"

smashem — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:01:15 +0000

Face-to-face social gatherings - parties, dinners, clubs, meetups

Membership organizations - country clubs, professional associations, alumni networks, charitable boards

Personal introductions and referrals - being introduced through mutual acquaintances

Cultural and civic participation - involvement in local institutions, community organizations, religious groups

New comment by smashem in "x402 — An open protocol for internet-native payments"

smashem — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 18:25:22 +0000

Also ex-Base! Gee whiz.

New comment by smashem in "x402 — An open protocol for internet-native payments"

smashem — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:26:27 +0000

18 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/6hc3w/comment/c03udg0/

> "This code is reserved for future use."

> For when AT&T, Comcast, TimeWarner, et. al. have succeeded in their plan to make the interweb a toll-road. "Oh, you want your packets to go to reddit.com? That will be $0.00015/per."

Redditor had the right idea, just wrong names.

New comment by smashem in "x402 — An open protocol for internet-native payments"

smashem — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:16:48 +0000

> It's really difficult to build agentic applications on top of Bitcoin.

That's because brain power is being corralled around entities that seek to maintain their control as toll keepers of financial transactions. They have to modernize and they must do it through centralized blockchains to maintain their control.

New comment by smashem in "The Bitcoin Social Network"

smashem — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 23:25:42 +0000

Ethereum is a scam.

New comment by smashem in "Do high interest rates fix high inflation?"

smashem — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 00:40:19 +0000

Low interest environments exist because liquidity is growing in the financial system. As that liquidity escapes into the consumer system, which it always does, it causes inflation.

New comment by smashem in "Most Bitcoin Inscriptions belong to a single person"

smashem — Tue, 30 May 2023 01:17:46 +0000

That's why there's layer 2 solutions like Lightning to scale bitcoin's usability.

And application-level solutions like Cash App.

New comment by smashem in "Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption"

smashem — Mon, 22 May 2023 23:15:36 +0000

I don't use E2E encryption to evade my government. I use E2E encryption to protect myself from criminals and malicious actors. Oh, government == malicious actors ??

New comment by smashem in "Bank Failures Visualized"

smashem — Wed, 03 May 2023 03:22:51 +0000

And how about relative to M1 money supply?

New comment by smashem in "Engineer distributes resume via IPv6 traceroute"

smashem — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 01:30:17 +0000

You've earned yourself a promotion.

New comment by smashem in "The Merge"

smashem — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 21:58:52 +0000

> National governments are the source and the only legal creators of money.

And those closest to the money printer benefit. And hint, the average joe is furthest from the printer. The future of the average joe is stolen via currency debasement and inflation, but those closest to the printer get richer.

New comment by smashem in "The Merge"

smashem — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 21:56:02 +0000

You really believe that the USD, as the world's reserve currency, doesn't require its military to keep it that way.

New comment by smashem in "The Merge"

smashem — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 21:41:25 +0000

There are server farms within the military, so by proxy, the USD does require server farms. Then the private financial institutions have server farms.

New comment by smashem in "The Merge"

smashem — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 21:39:32 +0000

True, the USD just requires violence and cohersion.

New comment by smashem in "The Merge"

smashem — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 21:36:38 +0000

End the FUD https://endthefud.org/

New comment by smashem in "Impacts of lack of sleep"

smashem — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 00:16:17 +0000

Tangentially, anyone tried dry sauna therapy sessions at night before bed? It's helped me tremendously with sleep and more. It's a bit considered a luxury, but maybe you can find a gym or spa membership that's low cost.

New comment by smashem in "There are too many video games"

smashem — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 22:59:37 +0000

Sounds like an interesting theory. Who will be the ones that do the productive work that pays for UBI?

New comment by smashem in "Reduced-hours software development engineer position at Amazon"

smashem — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 22:53:45 +0000

4 weeks of primary on-call.

New comment by smashem in "The Great Resignation? More Like the Great Renegotiation"

smashem — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 17:07:21 +0000

It's systems + networks analysis.

Factories, ports, and transportation were limited or shuttered completely. Warehousing and storefronts saw the same.

Impairing these network nodes, all at relatively the same time and in great numbers, had gigantic consequences.

And if the supply network is severely damaged, it ultimately means supply will go down.

New comment by smashem in "Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest chip plant"

smashem — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 16:47:03 +0000

Excellent. Hope it works out long-term.