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Filter on anything below a certain threshold WOT score npub1dyw3dr3qzs4estmf5v4hje0z6deweqczuslyjchkak2k5u503y8q2x2wkx DecBytes 'The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can answer sensibly.' npub1dyw3dr3qzs4estmf5v4hje0z6deweqczuslyjchkak2k5u503y8q2x2wkx DecBytes How is my first question? npub1dyw3dr3qzs4estmf5v4hje0z6deweqczuslyjchkak2k5u503y8q2x2wkx DecBytes This is pretty funny. npub1dyw3dr3qzs4estmf5v4hje0z6deweqczuslyjchkak2k5u503y8q2x2wkx DecBytes And that is why homeschooling in The Netherlands was soo difficult. You had to hide the fact that you were homeschooling and there was nobody that you could connect to IRL. People in the USA don't really know how great they have it with all the homeschooler communities. npub1dyw3dr3qzs4estmf5v4hje0z6deweqczuslyjchkak2k5u503y8q2x2wkx DecBytes I can only speak from my experience. Do not plan to far ahead. You will have to adapt to the child, which is the advantage of homeschooling. 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Dream on or use AI is what I am thinking. https://blossom.primal.net/476ced84f4b39d1dc667d81d1ff2ef5e9651b74c6048f3b03dae0ff61a37107a.png https://bitcoinerjobs.com/job/2243862-broadcast-news-anchor-bitcoin-magazine npub1dyw3dr3qzs4estmf5v4hje0z6deweqczuslyjchkak2k5u503y8q2x2wkx DecBytes I made this joke with my son until he finally got the joke. npub1dyw3dr3qzs4estmf5v4hje0z6deweqczuslyjchkak2k5u503y8q2x2wkx DecBytes Not sure which groups are all pushing for this, but it for sure more than the central bankers. The issue is that each CBDC Euro in circulation will be at the expense of the rehypothecation Euro, which is the cornerstone of the banks income model. So they will have to limit the CBDC usage for Retail and use CBDC mostly for bank settlements etc. That at least is my understanding of their initial plan. One more thing that I notice is that they say that they are changing regulation from 2026 onwards in order to implement the Digital Euro. My guess is that they will say that banks can provide you with a digital wallet for your digital euro. And that if you have money in there then they can rehypothecate this digital euro. npub1dyw3dr3qzs4estmf5v4hje0z6deweqczuslyjchkak2k5u503y8q2x2wkx DecBytes Good presentation and valid points. #nevent1q…74kk npub1dyw3dr3qzs4estmf5v4hje0z6deweqczuslyjchkak2k5u503y8q2x2wkx DecBytes There is one big hurdle to the CBDC which is that they will have to destroy the current credit based banking system. 80% of all bank income on average is received from credits (interest income). You deposit money in the bank and they can rehypothecate it and lend it out, which is what allows them to exist in the first place. Currently you deposit your money in the bank and your money gets added to the banks balance sheet as an asset and you get a IOU plus a guarantee from the government up to a certain point. You holding CBDC does not (currently) count as a bank asset and they can't rehypothecate it. For this reason they are looking at limiting how much CBDC you can hold. All CBDCs are at the expense of of the banks balance sheet, which means there is a point where too much CBDC's will destroy the current banking system. Banks will not survive without rehypothecation and interest income on credits. https://blossom.primal.net/ccf4e2a6bc276d4d1a4ace579c53dd11c396c54d40aa00a4e17bf5277f44885e.png Source: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/how-it-works/html/index.en.html npub1dyw3dr3qzs4estmf5v4hje0z6deweqczuslyjchkak2k5u503y8q2x2wkx DecBytes The more socialistic the EU gets the more extreme it will get... 'Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and naziism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.' Hayek, F. A.. The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Volume 2) npub1dyw3dr3qzs4estmf5v4hje0z6deweqczuslyjchkak2k5u503y8q2x2wkx DecBytes This is good news for those that stood their ground. https://blossom.primal.net/a12175f8146fcc0a842913631cc9fdce085d0713d4de54b21f47b8464f7fbc82.png https://www.war.gov/Spotlights/COVID-19-Reinstatement/ npub1dyw3dr3qzs4estmf5v4hje0z6deweqczuslyjchkak2k5u503y8q2x2wkx DecBytes TULIP I=Irresistible Grace So that no man can boast. npub1dyw3dr3qzs4estmf5v4hje0z6deweqczuslyjchkak2k5u503y8q2x2wkx DecBytes I am so glad this is changing (in the US). In my career I have declined to work at companies exactly because there was no way I, as a engineer, would be allowed into management. You knew they were going to choose management from finance. So I just never bothered getting on the ladder. https://x.com/a16z/status/2035109806986641637 npub1dyw3dr3qzs4estmf5v4hje0z6deweqczuslyjchkak2k5u503y8q2x2wkx DecBytes Really enjoying the Reformed Series. https://blossom.primal.net/b3c57bd547dd78bfef5b07128c40421ba84076300e2c5440648ff62c9eb10ef4.png Especially this episode on the 4 types of government. https://youtu.be/HQFkaIrvUhE npub1dyw3dr3qzs4estmf5v4hje0z6deweqczuslyjchkak2k5u503y8q2x2wkx DecBytes Makes me think of this... 'But life does not ask what we want, but presents us with options.' Sowell, Thomas. Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy (p. 4) https://blossom.primal.net/9b532dafd516f7e3675eabf820c9818397818f45993045462d1aad5bba71d5fa.png npub1dyw3dr3qzs4estmf5v4hje0z6deweqczuslyjchkak2k5u503y8q2x2wkx DecBytes I would bother at the moment. I can get used to it. This is more like a nice to have. npub1dyw3dr3qzs4estmf5v4hje0z6deweqczuslyjchkak2k5u503y8q2x2wkx DecBytes Good info. I didn't know that the soldiers refused it at some point. Between 1775-1776 almost all spending was by money printing and over the total course of the war it was 77%. It is estimated that the British spent 10 times more than the Continentals. If I compare the Continentals with the two Boer Republics of the Anglo-Boer war. The Boers mostly self-funded their effort with Gold and almost no money printing. The British spent a 100 times more than the Boers did. President Paul Kruger toured western Europe for material and financial support. He got very little, since countries were afraid of repercussions. So I am not sure Europe could have filled the money gap easily. It seems to me like a necessary evil even though it rightly could destroy your effort in the process. Anyway... just a interesting thought experiment. npub1dyw3dr3qzs4estmf5v4hje0z6deweqczuslyjchkak2k5u503y8q2x2wkx DecBytes Positive take on how you working with AI can be symbiotic way of working. https://youtu.be/5DP0az1q_8M npub1dyw3dr3qzs4estmf5v4hje0z6deweqczuslyjchkak2k5u503y8q2x2wkx DecBytes One dec created 150k lines of app code and 150k lines of test code in 45 days. There is no way a human can review that amount of code. Doing this without proper guardrails and processes is borderline stupid, but definitlely risky. https://youtu.be/tPlIHBcpGt8 npub1dyw3dr3qzs4estmf5v4hje0z6deweqczuslyjchkak2k5u503y8q2x2wkx DecBytes Tried Dutch and it subtracted marks for me answering a bit to slow and then thinking about what to say. Telling about a book I read and what I learned did make me think as I answered. It seem to be a bit hasty on that part. It also didn't recognized a few words correctly. Not sure why. Tried it a second time and with different answers but the same results. What I didn't like was the stacking of questions. What is your name? How are you? What are you doing? Why are you doing it? It doesn't come over natural if you get what I mean. https://blossom.primal.net/07d071a52db09493f7003d845e1edb0f9aef889b2e0a100d92a0c549fa9669bd.png npub1dyw3dr3qzs4estmf5v4hje0z6deweqczuslyjchkak2k5u503y8q2x2wkx DecBytes Thinking out loud: If Bitcoin was around in 1776 the Continental Congress couldn't have issued Continentals (aka printing money). Without money printing it seems very unlikely that they would have been able to fund the rebellion and thus freedom would not have been gained. Does that mean that America's founding is in part thanks to printing money? npub1dyw3dr3qzs4estmf5v4hje0z6deweqczuslyjchkak2k5u503y8q2x2wkx DecBytes May you all be blessed with freedom and variety. This from a book published in 1907. 'Blessed is he who has variety in his life: thrice blessed is he who has both freedom and variety:' Dawson, William J.. The Quest of the Simple Life (p. 5). npub1dyw3dr3qzs4estmf5v4hje0z6deweqczuslyjchkak2k5u503y8q2x2wkx DecBytes 'It is not until one is tied to a locality that its defects become apparent.' Dawson, William J.. The Quest of the Simple Life (p. 3). Good advice for those moving to other countries. You will have a honeymoon phase and only after living their for a while will you see the reality clearly.