derisking #web3 world. footnote:hat-value=a common measure of statistical leverage, values above 2(P+1)/n

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There is no real liquidity to be taken out of M-BTC. Our recent analysis of @MerlinLayer2's M-BTC revealed that most of the pools had a heavily unbalanced TVL. The ratio for M-BTC to WBTC was 88:1, with $18.12M in M-BTC available, but only $0.206M in WBTC. Shown in the following pools:
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just because it's called "vibe coding" doesn't mean the "vibe" will be good
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📢NEW PAPER! Where @davidthewid, @sarahbmyers & I unpack what Open Source AI even is. We find that the terms ‘open’ & ‘open source’ are often more marketing than technical descriptor, and that even the most 'open' systems don't alone democratize AI 1/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Replying to @PDXDAO
Technologies that will avoid becoming obsolete are those that account for the real material embeddedness of their effects. Technologies that will avoid becoming obsolete are those that account for the real material embeddedness of their effects. tinyurl.com/yparudnd
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It's just going to get weirder and weirder and weirder ... and finally it's going to be so weird that people are going to have to talk about how weird it is. - Terence McKenna (1998)
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by creating models that generate surplus, public goods can be profitable while being generative for the communities they serve
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crazy how we automated poetry before clothes folding
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web3, just like everyday life is impacted with cronyism. This creates inefficiencies, poor performance, complacency, lack of meritocracy, social inequalities, unethical behavior, limited opportunities, and weakening of institutions/ organizations among many other issues.
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Concept 154: Etherscan Dating
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These 15 countries (those with the highest % of crypto users) have a combined population of ~2.37 billion people, or about a third of humanity
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Nature is healing
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@PopBase20 Apr 2023
BuzzFeed News is shutting down.
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we are the ones we've been waiting for (royal we)
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Replying to @DisruptionJoe
I mean +1 to all the valid points in this thread- capitalism incentivizing forfeiture of privacy is disgusting etc- buuut really, maybe, tbh it's just the trashy color scheme + design that makes us think '84 instead of brave-new-world-nft-launch-party........
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gotta respect the longevity of microsoft word. nothing about it works and it's still the standard. want to move an image? go to hell. edit a pdf? edit your expectations. ignore a spelling mistake? how about suck my dick. that'll be 150$
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daily reminder that the moral character of cryptographic work should be required reading
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