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Is Bitcoin "Tokenized Compute"? Jason Lowery's AI Argument, Checked
…security researcher Jameson Lopp, who read all of it, counts about 385 pages, more than 200,000 words…
Article ·Bitcoin Didn't Start in 2008
…Prehistory" timeline.* The usual telling of Bitcoin's origin has the shape of a magic trick. Nobody, then…
Article ·The Chashu at Ramen Ryoma
…Ryoma's can. ## A short word on ramen, since this is a notebook Almost every argument about ramen…
Article ·A Good Burger and a Locked Gate, at Dick's Primal Kitchen
…The reason that's worth quoting is the word *finished*, which appears in the header just above it…
Article ·Gold Is Still Fixed Twice a Day. It Just Stopped Using a Phone.
…And a 100,000-ounce single-order cap exists, in the sheet's own words, as "fat finger…
Article ·A Twenty-Five-Minute Window, and Why I Split the Key
…A Coldcard is supposed to generate the twelve or twenty-four word recovery phrase behind everything it holds…
Article ·A Dry Ribeye and a Long Wait, at Black Angus Steakhouse
…Room temperature is close to the honest word for most of what showed up, each plate a little…
Article ·4.7 Sigma, and a New Kind of Spooky
…Letter to Max Born, 3 March 1947, published in *The Born-Einstein Letters* — origin of "spukhafte Fernwirkung" ("spooky…
Article ·How Many Bitcoins Are There, Exactly?
…But due to a quirk in Bitcoin's original code, that specific coinbase transaction was never added to…
Article ·The Egg Coffee at Trung Nguyên Legend
…wall by the register that spells out the word *coffee* in a dozen languages: *kávé* in Hungarian, 커피…
Article ·Did archaeologists just find Noah's Ark? What the new dig near Ararat actually found
…the Hebrew word for the ark, *tevah*, means a chest or box — not a ship. It's built…
Article ·How Ivermectin Actually Kills a Parasite
…though both end up filed under the same word, "dewormer." ## A Channel Vertebrates Mostly Don't Have Nematode…
Article ·XRP, Basel, and the 1,250 Percent Number
…None of the three was originally about cryptocurrency at all; Basel III is a response to the 2008…
Article ·Fifty-Two Weeks, No Remainder
…Cropped from the original negative.* A study by **Prof. Eshbal Ratzon** of Tel Aviv University's Department of…
Article ·Why the Washington Supreme Court Struck Down I-2066
…severed and the remainder — which, in Mungia's words, "exclusively relates to protecting consumers' access to natural gas…
Article ·The Trick with the Peppers, at In-N-Out
…Baldwin Park, where it started, is worth a word too. The original 10-foot stand at Garvey and…
Article ·Same Price, Same Coin Count
…The original Founders' Reward ran through the first halving in November 2020; the direct dev fund through the…
Article ·The Escape Valve
…The strait is, in the words of one tracking site, closed on day 193. 