Sid Ravikumar (sidravi)

when my 4yo son grows up it'll be amusing to him that we all used computers that couldn't understand us, and that we could either click buttons or learn to write instructions in special computer languages, which was a lucrative profession.

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I keep seeing smug takes about crypto not having "real" use cases or adoption. But that's like saying voting machines have no use case in the Soviet Union. It's not an incremental evolution, it's a complete system reset. And it will have a use case when people will it. https://x.com/SMTuffy/status/1730724053135024226

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I have a love hate relationship with Beff and the e/acc cult, but damn those journos are out to dox the fuck out of everyone they hate.

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why have you framed the aspiration for network states as one culminating in territorial sovereignty in a westphalian sense? i would think the big unlock that NS bring is the blurring of the boundaries and formalisms of the westphalian system of statehood.

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They create market distortions distortions and get unfair regulatory and fiscal treatment, but I think they can absolutely create desirable competitive pressure. Case in point: BSNL vs private telcos in India.

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There was an interesting discussion about there being an overabundance of infrastructure astronauts building web3 infra to handle theoretical demand when there's no indication that web3 usage is bottlenecked by transactions per second anymore.

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Accelerationism

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