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JorgeStolfi

@JorgeStolfi@mas.to

Computer Science professor, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil.

Generally leftist (which means socialist outside the US), dreaming of democracy, justice, equality, disarmament, respect for science and human life, green energy, etc.

Posts in Portuguese are about topics of mostly Brazilian interest.

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JorgeStolfi, to random
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The US must urgently switch from Fahrenheit to Celsius. That alone would drop those obscene daily high temperatures by 60 degrees or more.

GottaLaff, to random
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🤦🏻‍♀️ Hur had nothing. GOP Fascist Party has nothing. They’re in office only to harass, troll, terrorize, and do everything they can to undermine Biden, Dems, the Constitution, democracy.

“House Republicans have reached out to special counsel Robert Hur to discuss having him testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee about his report on President ’s handling of classified documents”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/12/politics/house-republicans-robert-hur?cid=ios_app

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@GottaLaff

That is just untrue. The Republicans DID do a great service to democracy. With two years of thorough investigations, Comer and the House Oversight committee have managed to prove that Joe Biden is the most honest politician to ever run for President of the US.

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Amy Castor and @davidgerard report on the Texas coalition against wasting 1.7 GW of power from the grid at obscenely subsidized prices, thus extending the life of fossil fuel burning stations, and 1.4 M gallons of cooling water per day while Texans are asked to conserve water, in order to lose investors' money by operating the biggest ponzi and money laundering network ever: https://amycastor.com/2023/10/23/texans-versus-bitcoin-jackie-sawicky-and-the-texas-coalition-against-cryptomining/

JorgeStolfi, to HashtagGames
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When you drop the One Ring and it falls into the only One Storm Drain in the whole Middle Earth.


JorgeStolfi, to HashtagGames
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Humpty Dumpty sat on a sofa.


JorgeStolfi, to HashtagGames
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For Whom the Bell Pepper Tolls


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Reverse Burger: a slice of bread between two meat patties, with choice of cheese, pickles, murhrooms, tomatoes etc on both sides.


JorgeStolfi, to HashtagGames
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The Hound of the Bad Scovilles


JorgeStolfi, to HashtagGames
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"Ha! Go ahead, try. I am indestructible. I perfected myself. And I know more about manufacturing than anyone currently alive on Earth."


JorgeStolfi, to HashtagGames
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I think I shall never see
A poem lovely as a brie:
While poems may fill up fools like thee,
For me a sandwich must have brie.


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Amy Castor and @davidgerard report on how bitcoin let the Mob replace the classical suitcase full of money by a suitcase full of another thing; on the next Signature Bank; on PayPal's coin that's not just stable, but downright immobile; on the US gov hoarding child porn; on why crooks should try to be succinct; on how to make good on IOUs with IOUs; on how BTC miners are avoiding burning coal; on teaching poor Salvadoreans to give money to scammers. All in great detail. https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2023/09/04/crypto-collapse-tethers-new-bank-britannia-binance-woes-nobody-uses-paypals-stablecoin-avi-eisenberg-is-not-getting-his-phones-back/

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Amy Castor and @davidgerard report on the foundations of Bitcoin security, namely your coins are not stolen if you don't know they have been stolen; on why Lithuania (no longer Estonia) is the most important EU country for crypto; on how courts have agreed to let a ponzi resume operations in order to transfer the loss of some victims to new victims -- supervised by an expert in bad investments; on what girlfriends are for; on numbers going up in Turkey; and much more: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2023/09/18/crypto-collapse-fortress-custody-hack-binance-stonewalls-sec-ftx-to-dump-its-crypto-genesis-sues-dcg-new-york-restricts-crypto-listings/

JorgeStolfi, to HashtagGames
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When you are about to serve the meal with the last supplies brought from Hobbiton, and Gollum casually remarks "Did you know that potatoes will be brought from over the Ekkaia only in the Fourth Age, after the shape of all lands has been changed?"

Poof!

JorgeStolfi, to HashtagGames
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Reporter from /The Daily Planet/ arrested in downtown Metropolis for attempted indecent exposure inside phone booth.


JorgeStolfi, to HashtagGames
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JorgeStolfi, to HashtagGames
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A decentralized communications technology that does not depend on routing digital packets through a physical network of towers, gateways, microwave beams, and optical fibers. The text to be transmitted is encoded with a multiband frequency/amplitude modulation scheme, transmitted by molecular density waves, and decoded with a pair of miniaturized spectral filter banks implanted under the receiver's skull. Range up to tens of meters.


JorgeStolfi, to HashtagGames
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"You were looking for Carmen Sandiego? Here I am. And this is my travel companion, Waldo. What can we do for you?"


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"Render unto Caesar the salad which is Caesar's"


JorgeStolfi, to random
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Amy Castor and @davidgerard report on the bright just past future of AI and their rather less bright present future.

Including ChatGPT now recursively training itself (still with a human in the loop, but he is a Kenyan paid pittance per hour so he does not count).

Including Google's curious policy re use of its own AI-based programming assistant by its own programmers.

Including how "AI" has become the new "Blockchain" for Wall Street purposes.

And more...

https://amycastor.com/2023/09/12/pivot-to-ai-pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain/

JorgeStolfi, to HashtagGames
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Ice Cream Pizza


JorgeStolfi, to random
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I have seen many reports of Trump's failed enterprises, but somehow this one was never mentioned. I would say that it is the most "educative" one, and should be the first of the list:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQM1m_In5n0&t=13s

funcrunch, to books
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Great article (as usual) by @pluralistic on "bestselling" books, botshit, and bezzles:

https://doctorow.medium.com/how-a-billionaires-mediocre-pump-and-dump-book-became-a-bestseller-2ed7a8c472d7

(Paywall-free link)

JorgeStolfi,
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@immibis @pluralistic @ikaikahussey @rvkennedy @funcrunch @kcoyle @wakame

Squirm squirm...

Switzerland is not "notoriously impossible to invade". It was conquered by the Romans, then by the French and Germans in the Middle Ages, and later by Napoleon.

If guns is what matter, why should the US support Norway's "violent" imposition of krona, instead of just taking its oil and forging it to use USD?

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@brinnbelyea @rvkennedy @immibis @pluralistic @funcrunch @kcoyle

Because the central bank keeps it stable.

The central bank of any national fiat currency monitors prices of tens of thousands of products and services, all over the country, every month. From that data it estimates the monthly inflation rate (change in the currency's value). Then it intervenes in the money supply as needed to push the inflation towards the yearly goal.

JorgeStolfi,
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@prestontumber @rvkennedy @immibis @pluralistic @funcrunch @kcoyle

Using bitcoin as unit of account is like using "rubber band" as a unit of length. Only much worse.

Indeed, that is one of the reasons why it is the most laughable thing that has ever been proposed as money.

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@shiri @pluralistic @funcrunch @kcoyle @rvkennedy @immibis @prestontumber

Another big lie that bitcoiners and goldbugs must tell their marks. Which comes from "Austrian Economy". Which explains (1) why Austrian Economy went the way of the phlogiston, long ago, and (2) why goldbugs and bitcoiners dug it out of its grave.

Gold (like any commodity) has value because it has CONSUMERS - people who buy it to consume, rather than with intent to re-sell. 🧵‍>

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