English programmer, libertarian,UNIX, bookworm, space, crypto centralist, sane transhumanism, space, Tesla, Radical Thatcherite, go/nvim/Linux/BSD

Joined April 2023
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While I appreciate a £200k salary is rare in Britain Calling managers in banks & tech companies on PAYE “wealthy” and pulling them in for a face to face is absolutely wild
🚨NEW: HMRC's letter to wealthy Britons demanding detailed information about their financial arrangements has been revealed
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Milton Friedman: “Keep your eye on one thing and one thing only: how much government is spending, because that’s the true tax.” “If you’re not paying for it in the form of explicit taxes, you’re paying for it indirectly in the form of inflation or borrowing.”
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JS will run on the Bussard Ramjets that reach Proxima Centauri. You or your kids will know, because “[object Object]”.
Omfg the car name 💀
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Heaven is where the compile speed is from Go, the safety from Rust, the performance from C++, the libraries from Python, the macros from Lisp, the stability from Java, the types from Haskell, the ubiquity from JavaScript, and the error handling from Elm. Hell is where the compile speed is from Rust, the safety from C++, the performance from Python, the libraries from Lisp, the macros from Java, the stability from Haskell, the types from JavaScript, the ubiquity from Elm, and the error handling from Go.
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Margaret Thatcher: “Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance.”
🚨 BREAKING: John Healey will announce at the Budget that HMRC will be given powers to seize money directly from the bank accounts of people who fail to pay their tax
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"I am a computer program!" Embodiment is basically irrelevant for consciousness, so says @DavidDeutschOxf... and he brings the proof.
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The only thing that stops a bad guy with an abliterated LLM is a good guy with an abliterated LLM.
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On Monday, Oct. 26, HRF and @iealondon will present the Tyranny Tracker in London. The event will showcase the Tyranny Tracker’s methodology and examine global trends in authoritarianism. Lord Daniel Hannan will deliver introductory remarks. Venezuelan opposition leader and former political prisoner Jesús Armas will be the keynote speaker and a panelist. HRF’s chief legal and policy officer, Javier El-Hage, will provide an overview of the Tyranny Tracker and moderate the discussion. Joining the panel are HRF Director of Policy and Research Malaak Jamal, HRF Senior Policy Officer for Africa Mohamed Keita, and HRF Research Fellow Luciana Fortuna. Join us at 3 p.m. at the Institute of Economic Affairs, 2 Lord North St, London SW1P 3LB. Learn more about the Tyranny Tracker → tyrannytracker.org/
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“The battle for freedom must be won over and over again. The socialists in all parties to whom Hayek dedicated [The Road to Serfdom] must once again be persuaded or defeated if they and we are to remain free men.” — Milton Friedman
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Margaret Thatcher explained this perfectly back in 1983 The government doesn't have money of its own. Every time politicians promise to spend more, someone has to pay for it And people somehow still think it's someone else's money “There is no such thing as public money. There is only taxpayers’ money” And sooner or later, that someone else they expect to pay is YOU
As Thatcher said, the problem with socialism is that eventually they run out of other people’s money to take and they come for you
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we’re well on track to have 25% of all CVEs reported in this year alone cve.0xosprey.com
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LBTC:BTC swaps full service again. swap @liquid_btc to/from mainchain BTC on @side_swap. swap @liquid_btc to/from lightning on @AquaBitcoin. xitter.cf/Liquid_BTC/status/2112…
Liquid Network Restoration Update With key technical milestones completed and network operations stable, user swap functionality is now restored with semi-automated swaps for Federation members. Normal peg and balance validation will be reinstated soon. The Liquid Network’s members appreciate the broader Bitcoin community’s support and advocacy as we work to not only provide the restoration, but also harden the network’s security structure. blog.liquid.net/liquid-netwo…
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My microblog 𝘖𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘵 revisits a famous meeting between Arthur C. Clarke, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien: a contest of minds that resulted in an amicable draw: you can read it on the @BIS_spaceflight website: bis-space.com/out-of-the-sil… #scifi
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Milton Friedman: “I’m not an anarchist. I believe that government has a very important role, but it’s a limited role. Because we’ve been trying to extend the role, we haven’t been doing what government ought to do as well as it should.” “We’ve been doing a terrible job on what ought to be the first function of government. The first function of government is to protect the nation against foreign enemies and to protect individual citizens against assault by their fellow citizens.” “We’ve been doing a terrible job on both ends.”
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"Deirdre McCloskey’s books about (British) economic history and liberty have had an outsized impact on me and my intellectual development for almost two decades. After a publishing streak worthy of some sort of award, there ought to be only so much more for this academic and public intellectual to say; only so many ways to deliver the remarkable, honest, simple, and powerful message of liberalism — the good old-fashioned one of free minds and free markets (to invoke the tagline of libertarian magazine Reason), not the modern liberalism of The New York Times." thedailyeconomy.org/article/…
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When Science Fiction Believed in the Future There was a time when science fiction looked toward the future and saw somewhere worth going. The road might be dangerous, the machines might break, and the aliens might be unfriendly, but mankind was still expected to pack his bags and make the trip. Much of the genre carried this confidence almost without thinking about it. Stories by Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke assumed that human beings would continue to invent, explore, build, and occasionally make spectacular mistakes. The mistakes mattered, but they rarely invalidated the entire enterprise. That attitude can seem almost strange today. Modern science fiction frequently gives us futures defined by ruined cities, oppressive governments, environmental collapse, murderous machines, or corporations that apparently employ everyone except a competent safety inspector. Older stories certainly had their nightmares. What distinguished many of them was the belief that a nightmare was something to overcome rather than mankind's inevitable destination. Full article can be found here. buff.ly/ob8caAW
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The NSA's Clipper chip wasn't back doored via S-Box as suspected in the 90s, but was poorly designed.
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Read this powerful article by @thetimes , and reflect on what has been shared.. This is not just “persecution by (extremely clumsy) process” imposed upon active-duty SAS operators fighting to detain vicious ISIS thugs in an active war zone, but also an example of performative self-immolation initiated by the most senior UK Special Forces officer at the time (G Jenkins) as self-serving exercise in what HE calls ‘transparency’…… So, if someone, anyone (quite possibly an enemy) within an active war zone says the SAS killed an unarmed man, then the so-called ‘senior leaders’ (some, as in this case, with near-zero combat experience) within the Whitehall-based ‘UK system’ desperate to demonstrate something that they call ‘transparency’ (or whatever else floats the MOD’s boat), will automatically launch an aggressive RMP operation to detain the SAS men involved…. Not on the basis of any hard evidence (there is no crime scene, no bodies, no bullets etc), but purely on distant, uncorroborated hearsay and remote, delayed analysis of operational reports; all supported by desk-bound, chinless leaders that seemingly care more about how they will (personally) look in an MOD promotion board than trying to properly understand the circumstances faced by the SAS men and defend them accordingly. What a gift this utterly pathetic weakness, low threshold investigative process and twisted self-defeating system gives to our many enemies….and what an awful message it sends to those that still volunteer to fight on our all of our behalves….
🔺 EXCLUSIVE: How did a secret mission in Syria lead to a crisis within Britain’s special forces? Insight, The Sunday Times investigations team, can reveal the full story behind an SAS operation in Syria in 2022 — and its aftermath thetimes.com/uk/defence/arti…
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