That's very uncharitable. Crypto has been extremely useful for all sorts of grifters and enabled separating fools from their money at true web scale.

Indeed, it would be difficult for Iran to receive payment for passage through the straight or Hormuz without crypto or fir North Korea's ransomwwre economy to be so lucrative.

You're speaking complete nonsense, considering there is no evidence of anyone having paid Iran in crypto. Iran had been receiving payments in the Chinese currency.

It's a bit unfortunate that [1] doesn't seem to mention Fleece[2], since Fleece is an already existing, solid format with very similar properties (JSON-compatible data format, uses offsets for sharing, allows for cheap updates, and uses binary search on arrays to achieve O(ln n) lookups in large tables or arrays, etc.)

[1]: https://lite3.io/design_and_limitations.html#autotoc_md31 [2]: https://github.com/couchbase/fleece/

That's what Twirp (https://github.com/twitchtv/twirp) is about. Protobuf or JSON, over any HTTP, with a simple URL schema. It's fairly simple.

highly recommend twirp, even in current year. connectrpc seems to have stalled so there isn't a ton of languages w/server support, and because of the grpc interop on top of their own protocol it's a bit of an undertaking to roll your own.

the twirp spec however is so simple you can throw together your own code generator in an afternoon for whatever language you want.

I'm worried this person is going to experience a Yak overflow, honestly.

Coincidentally, I discovered this glorious page literally five minutes ago:

https://github.com/SerenityOS/yaksplained?tab=readme-ov-file...

What a wonderful term. I love it!

So many little things for parents. Your list is good. I was also struck by "early baby", for example, for subtext children will only get when they re-watch in 20 years.

Lighters cars, electric bikes, more trains on steel tracks...

So you can't even debug or check the LLM's output for correctness? Good luck with that.

If anything, the best use for LLMs is to produce code in very strong languages like Lean, where correctness of the code can be established. Just trusting machine code output would be irresponsible.

Thank you for sharing. What a terrifying experience. I hope you get some help to deal with the trauma.

Where do you see sunshine? Are the "audits" public at all? It's indistinguishable from just having Musk kill every agency he dislikes with no further proof, while siphoning data to some unspecified server. The timeline also hints at no serious audit taking place.

Can you point to a country that publicly releases everybody's tax returns, as a policy? I know some countries that release elected officials' returns, but not those of common people.

Finland for example: https://www.vero.fi/en/About-us/finnish-tax-administration/d...

> Individual income tax information for 2023 was released on 7 November 2024. Public information can be browsed on tax office workstations and requested by telephone: How to search the public information on income taxes and real estate taxes

> The following data is included in the public information on individual income taxes:

> name, year of birth, county earned income subject to state taxation

> capital income subject to state taxation, income subject to municipal taxation, income tax, municipal tax

> imposed taxes and charges in total, amount of back taxes or tax refunds

Thank you, not surprising it's the nordic countries. I can't imagine this in the US but I'm glad to learn some places pull it off.

Norway allows you to see / search almost everyone's personal tax record (including name, birth year, postal code, net income and net wealth). You can do this online here: https://www.skatteetaten.no/en/forms/search-the-tax-lists/

A quick google search tells me Finland, Norway, Sweden, Pakistan

Sweden - public records.