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I do think the phenomenon of people who have $10m but are too lazy to figure out how to upgrade their internet is very real, and of course each one of them solo staking means up to $10m not in the hands of an institutional staker or LST, so I don't want to lean on the argument *too much*. But I think even despite this, on balance reducing min deposits is more important than reducing min performance reqs, and we haven't quite appreciated this. /base

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Cross-posting a thought on staking from the other app: ---- Perhaps we should recognize that 32 ETH is much more of a barrier for stakers than bandwidth reqs, and temporarily do a trade where we up the bandwidth reqs a bit and in exchange drop the staking deposit minimum to eg. 16 or 24 ETH. It's net-good for both staking accessibility and scale. Then once we figure out peerdas, bandwidth reqs go back down, and once we figure out orbit SSF, the deposit minimum can drop to 1 ETH.

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What about the other two? ie. how would you answer a worried Ethereum person arguing that "Base is not Ethereum" because if Base ends up taking over most crypto activity then it's clear how Coinbase economically prospers but it's not clear how the Ethereum community economically prospers?

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There's some really fascinating stuff lurking in the data, eg: Top 5 items most correlated with "Cigarettes": Kamala Harris: correlation = 0.7325 Alcohol: correlation = 0.6183 Ethereum: correlation = -0.5631 Wealth Taxes: correlation = 0.5542 Nuclear Power: correlation = -0.5255

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Doing an experiment: Balaji's network state ideology vector quiz, but for zuzaluans. https://bafkreigiakz326teebrwa4cgsr7jqiprjybwdpiaj2bf6dgacmmmadjcni.ipfs.w3s.link/ I'm curious to see how network school and the various zuzalu communities differ. Paste your answer strings in replies!

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Making Ethereum alignment legible https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/09/28/alignment.html

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Why is the aesthetic of gyms, even the good ones, always so lifeless? Always black and grey and white everywhere. I want fans blowing air in my face at 12 km/h and a simulation of running along a forest path in a magical fantasy world … or at least some plants.

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Update on this: I feel like this problem has decreased by ~50% since (my memory of) pre-covid, more and more breakfasts have vegetables, especially in East Asia. Still far from ideal though. https://warpcast.com/vitalik.eth/0x90db9be9

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wat no that's just a google pixel 9 running grapheneos

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We need more secure hardware asap. Hopefully the crypto space, with its inherent pragmatic and ideological interest in trust minimization, will be able to do a lot to help.

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The challenge with finding people who share goals but have different perspectives, is that the axes on which they have different perspectives may well not even be axes you think about when building the questionnaire.

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Easier than ever to make your own! Al tools seem to be getting quite good already

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I do think channels need to be decentralized asap. To me the feature is a key part of what makes farcaster a unique experience compared to twitter, and having only warpcast support it is a big tax on the viability of alt clients.

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memecoin twitter 最近好神奇...

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I have sympathy for filtering for alignment: if you want to live 1000 years, then you want a community that will eagerly work together to live a thousand years; you don't want people who keep trying to back-to-square-one philosophize about whether or not we even have the moral right to interfere with natural processes

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The challenge with finding people who share goals but have different perspectives, is that the axes on which they have different perspectives may well not even be axes you think about when building the questionnaire.

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I was just standing beside someone who ordered a literal soy latte. I think until this point I didn't even realize that soy lattes exist as an actual drink; my mind only recognized the term "soy latte" as a standardized culture war slur that the opposite tribe sometimes uses against my archetype.

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I'm okay with small and startup communities using them, I would not want the upper echelons of mainstream society to be gatekept by them?

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I think metaverse as used in the public imagination has a connotation of combining (i) high immersion, (ii) persistent worlds with long lasting duration, (ii) scale. Surgeon training has (i) but not really the other two?

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My timelines have increased. https://chatgpt.com/share/66e53d42-482c-8012-b884-f8fe4c7feb6a

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