Sir Jeff Garzik
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#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 Prev: early #Linux kernel, #Bitcoin Core. Now: energy/acc humanist, network plumber @hemi_xyz
Atlanta, GA, USA
Joined December 2009
Energy abundance is the root of the policy tree, the big unlocker. With energy abundance, you have factories, jobs, national security, energy security, food security, water security (desalination), GDP and so much more. With energy scarcity, you have foreign wars over scarce.
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RT @Robotbeat: There are some small NASA satellites that lost funding literally years ago but are still operated on a "white space" basis u….
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I once looked into private jet ownership, as a business venture. No one in the industry could begin to describe a scenario where this is profitable. It's all loss-leaders, tax loss harvesting, and simple expense all the way down.
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My father was a fan of Ross Perot; he had worked for Perot at EDS, and knew he was a highly competent leader and CEO. That didn't translate fully into politics, though Ross made a good showing. To history: There were many accusations that Perot split the vote and had <this> or.
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RT @matthew_d_green: This battle will keep playing out over and over again until they achieve something that their own citizens have made i….
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One of my pet peeves, as a crypto head! 👇. Just build great [crypto] businesses. 💪.
It's wild to me how there are so many weird crypto monetization schemes, and yet somehow it's never just creating a product or service people want and which is profitable, and distributing the product by deploying a fraction of the profit (ads, rebates, etc). Somehow never that.
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RT @DaveShapi: Neurologically, reading a summary doesn't do the same thing. Less retention, less comprehension, less contextual anchoring….
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RT @Empty_America: Many people on this site have a childish and irrational refusal to believe that any foreign country might use social med….
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RT @DrPhiltill: Putting it in terms of Technology Readiness Level, research is TRL-1 to 3. Tech development is TRL-4 to 6. Product developm….
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Beds do not need more than two pillows. 🔥.
Bed sheets are a pysop. Have a duvet and a mattress cover. Why this arbitrary sheet in between that only gets lost in the nether regions of your feet?. This is the hill I die on.
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Tucker has gone full Tokyo Rose.
Meanwhile, N Korean regime and Maduro in Venezuela reaching out to request an interview and figure out what kind of investment is required in his OpCo.
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Actually, a small-value end-to-end test including recipient spendability is quite useful and derisking across multiple dimensions.
Anyone who understands the UTXO model knows that a transaction completely destroys and then recreates your money, thus the idea of a "test transaction" is laughably naive. Just make sure you verify the transaction details on dedicated hardware.
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