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Aug 9 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Should you learn to code?
Is coding for everyone?
Can learning to code make you more employable?

We ask @amasad, founder of the incredible @replit, which is teaching millions worldwide to code and build powerful products!

saifedean.com/podcast/125-le…
Find out how @amasad learning to code in #Amman, #Jordan gave him the idea for @replit, which went from an open source project to a start-up with a huge ecosystem of active developers, which turned down a $1b acquisition offer in 2019!

We also discuss @amasad's journey with bitcoin, why he integrated into @replit, and why he thinks programmable money and lightning are important innovations.
+ Do intellectual property laws help advance computer engineering or hold it back?
+ Does the value of coding decline with innovations in artificial intelligence?

@amasad's insights from his replit experience are highly valuable!

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Aug 10
Primitive and barbaric pre-bitcoin fiat tribes employed extremely moronic and transparent mathematical tricks to allow the priest class to live off the lifeblood of plebs without the plebs noticing. It worked on 90%+ of plebs.
#JustFiatThings
Fiat man, after a century of Keynesian brain damage:

"In order to produce & consume things we need to let sociopaths & monopoly bankers create money for free, and it'll be ok because every month they'll give us a report about how much they've devalued our money."
The Science clearly shows that if sociopaths can't print money to kill foreigners & enrich banksters nobody would consume anything & it becomes literally impossible for me to produce anything or feed my family. If you hate inflation you want my kids to be hungry!"
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Aug 7
If you're looking for the SEC to protect morons from stupid scams like bitconnect, xrp, or eth, you're going to be disappointed. They will simply creat an oligopoly for shitcoins, where only a few shitcoin tycoons like @a16z can make new stupid shitcoin scams.
Unlike market regulation, govt regulation faces no market test, so can be very easily corrupted to benefit regulator & regulated at expense of consumer. Rather than protect consumers, regulatory bodies are captured to protect producers by granting them some element of oligopoly.
This is why some nobody might go to jail for decades for making ~$10k insider trading some stupid jpegs, whereas big shitcoin funds will never even be investigated for making hundreds of millions dumping the Luna scam as their CEO went on TV to tell suckers to buy. ImageImage
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Jul 30
The most important IQ test in the world today is one simple question:

If there a climate crisis?

If you answer yes, you are not fit for joining civilized society and need to be kept where you belong: at a fiat university or in front of a TV screen.
By any stretch of the imagination, the climate is becoming safer for us precisely because we use modern fuels.

"Climate crisis" believers are all cattle stupid enough to be made to believe we'd be safer if we try to fix the weather by giving up the technology we need to survive.
The main reason we can survive cold, heat, rain, snow, tornadoes & hurricanes are the modern fuels & infrastructure they allow. TV viewers think giving the fuels up will magically fix the weather and save us from nature. Just coz you're a moron doesn't mean you're not a criminal
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Jul 19
Can bitcoin fix renewable energy?

We host @danroberts0101, CEO of @irisenergyco, who mine exclusively off renewables, to discuss whether Bitcoin mining can help renewables and alleviate the many problems they cause for grids.

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Can mining on renewables be profitable given difficulty adjustment is always culling the least efficient miners?

How do miners deal with the inevitable downtime of renewable sources?

Can adding more load to overstretched grids make them more reliable?
open.spotify.com/episode/7ivSSJ…
Is making renewables profitable a good thing? Wouldn't grids be more reliable if renewables are removed instead of bitcoin mining being added?

Is courting ESG investors with their favorite buzzwords helpful for bitcoin long term security?

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/122…
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Jul 12
Unlike almost all fiat scientists, Richard Lindzen & William Happer have the intelligence & integrity to not go along with the insane hysterical anti-human cult who think CO2 is ruining the weather & only destroying civilization can fix it.
dailysceptic.org/2022/07/11/top…
“Misrepresentation, exaggeration, cherry picking or outright lying pretty much covers all the so-called evidence marshalled in support of the theory of imminent catastrophic global warming caused by fossil fuels and CO2.”
So many gems:

'peee review' should be called 'pal review'

IPCC is not a scientific report, it's government opinion

“Reliable scientific theories come from validating theoretical predictions with observations, not consensus, peer review, government opinions or manipulated data”
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Jul 5
What is the future of stablecoins?

We're joined with @Tether_to & @bitfinex CTO @paoloardoino to discuss:

How Tether redeemed $7b in 48 hours
What would happen to a fiat bank in the same situation
How regulators will react to stablecoins growth...

saifedean.com/podcast/120-th…
As their US Treasury holdings increase, will stablecoins become geopolitically important to the US?can their holding overtake major central banks?

Can stablecoins replace non-US fiat central banks as providers of dollars to the world?

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/120…
Can stablecoins be built on lightning?

Can lightning eliminate high and volatile transaction fees from basing tether on networks that cannot scale?

Are stablecoins a gateway to bitcoin?

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