Bertram Gilfoyle
@BertramBtc
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I debate arguments/opinions on tech using first principles approach and sarcasm. Trust nobody, always verify.
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Joined September 2021
How to grow your twitter following and raise seed to series A for your startup idea without getting lucky and without building a product?🧵
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How YC thinks when they invest in AI code editor startups
Wanted to clear something up. I have donated to both the Harris and Trump campaigns. Roughly equal amounts. It allowed my wife and me to meet both candidates and make a more informed decision. I have come to the conclusion that both candidates have their hearts in the right
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AI consultants thrive under complexity so they can sell simplicity. They will preach to the choir about how python is all you need but will drumroll the shit that is langchain cos it attracts them to the VC funded startups. Incentives drive outcomes. Trust no one, always verify.
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A moment of silence to all those VCs who invested $35M into an over engineering poorly designed, over abstracted framework that’s trying to make money by building another product to help devs debug the abstraction mess they created in the first place.
guess it turns out that langchain was just a fad – something that we all tried and appreciated, but eventually lost our zeal for, such as tamagotchis, silly bandz, cup stacking, etc.
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Waiting for everyone to STFU when banks start failing and @balajis is proven to be right… once again
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Taleb - please take the L ser
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Lol this idiot has just made sure no one takes money from him ever.
YOU SHOULD BE ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED RIGHT NOW — THAT IS THE PROPER REACTION TO A BANK RUN & CONTAGION @POTUS & @SecYellen MUST GET ON TV TOMORROW AND GUARANTEE ALL DEPOSITS UP TO $10M OR THIS WILL SPIRAL INTO CHAOS
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How execs think of organizational structure
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Not Boring is coming out a little later in the week. It's been a rough weekend. We've been in the hosptial w Dev since Saturday. Still here. Luckily, he'll be OK, but obv newsletter wasn't 1st prio. Meanwhile, I'm getting crushed for a brain fart, which I want to talk about.
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Key take away here is - “full nodes replay the entire state transition history to validate a new transition”. Hammer this into your head!
this is by far the most prevalent misconception in and out of the blockchain space. the correct answer is “false”. block producers cannot make full nodes accept invalid state transitions, because full nodes replay state transitions and will reject invalid ones regardless
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Also backed up by a bunch of web2 bosses
I HAVE BEEN RELIABLY INFORMED FROM THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA THAT CRYPTO IS DEAD AGAIN.
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Wonder why that would be? Hmm
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I would ask to be get paid in BTC or ETH.
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The fact that it takes the worlds richest person to strong arm a public tech company like twitter and then question about their public filings and have their CEO tweet out a half baked explanation means that Crypto and Web3 are here to stay.
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Big daddy Jeff Bs twitter game is on point
In fact, the administration tried hard to inject even more stimulus into an already over-heated, inflationary economy and only Manchin saved them from themselves. Inflation is a regressive tax that most hurts the least affluent. Misdirection doesn’t help the country.
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