Ivan Klyukin

@klyuk11n

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One meta-note on the situation, is that in my timeline I have seen exactly zero non-western people defending Durov's arrest, but quite a few western people. Definitely don't want to say that they don't exist (after all, my timeline is biased just like anyone's), just this is what my sample is so far. IMO this is another example of the decoupling of liberalism and westernism that https://x.com/MacaesBruno often talks about.

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I guess I started an accidental AMA on which parts of the crypto space are good and which I'm so far not excited about, along with other big picture vision questions: https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1827583576751181961 You should feel free to ask questions here too! Let's see if Farcaster can come up with higher-quality questions than the other app :)

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https://x.com/sassal0x/status/1826932477866197094 A similar error is that many people want early stage industry vibez without early stage industry risks. eg. too many defi protocols, not enough popup cities / network states / zu villages 😀

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Do people actually consciously make a judgement about quality of service when they tip??! I always just mindlessly add 15-20%. So the whole "tipping incentivizes quality of service" argument has always seemed unrealistic to me. https://x.com/tracewoodgrains/status/1826601506885320775

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Plurality philosophy in an incredibly oversized nutshell https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/08/21/plurality.html

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I've been finding quality of posts and discourse on Farcaster consistently high recently. My impression is that it got spammy around 6 months ago, but since then has quietly improved a lotl

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https://x.com/linakhanFTC/status/1823094653962289640 This seems good but there was a much easier way to accomplish this objective: payment interfaces should have been designed from the start to make subscriptions one-click cancellable from the user interface. Like, you should be able to go into your banking UI, see all active subscriptions, and one-click cancel any of them. From that point, it's the service's responsibility to stop providing you service. One benefit of crypto is that if you try to make a subscription system on top of it, you pretty much *have to* do it that way.

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Phono-semantic matching https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phono-semantic_matching

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This is such a strange "Trends for You" list that I'm seeing on the other app.

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Added more M31 and binary field support to zorch: https://github.com/vbuterin/zorch Now you can write reasonably-performant STARK proving code that runs on your GPU, in python! Below is the full arithmetization of poseidon. I welcome others taking this and running with it.

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This is like... the most kawaii sign telling men to be more civilized I've ever seen.

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There's sushi restaurants and then there's.... sushi restaurants.

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Remember "proof of location", and fancy schemes we crypto people would come up with that were based on network delay / speed of light calculations? Turns out people are looking into using that stuff.... for export control of AI chips https://www.iaps.ai/research/location-verification-for-ai-chips

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Looks like people have realized that court documents are public statements and are well on their way to optimizing around that reality. https://x.com/Kyrannio/status/1820551242353189217

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Fun fact about Taiwan: * Taitung (臺東, "Taiwan East") is further south than Tainan (臺南, "Taiwan South") * Taipei (臺北, "Taiwan North") is further east than Taidong In order to complete the cycle, this logically implies that we need to build a new city, Taixi (臺西, "Taiwan West") in this exact spot:

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Somehow I absolutely love this most recent SSC post: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/matt-yglesias-considered-as-the-nietzschean I feel like the best of pre-2020 Scott is back. Also, his takedown of the first person to reply to him in the comments is just excellent.

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Review: museums of the future, Dubai and Tokyo https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/08/03/museumfuture.html

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Proof of Stake (PoS) is a consensus mechanism that offers an energy-efficient alternative to Proof of Work (PoW). In PoS, validators are chosen to create new blocks and validate transactions based on the number of coins they hold and are willing to "stake" as collateral. This reduces the need for extensive computational power and energy consumption. Many newer blockchains, such as Cardano and Solana, use PoS, and Ethereum is transitioning to PoS with its Ethereum 2.0 upgrade.

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