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A manager should be intercepting requests for your time and prioritizing your work. There are always more things that need doing than there are hours for you to do them in. They should know what is important, and steer the ship appropriately while you're out gathering requirements, analyzing, building, and iterating based on feedback.

They should also, depending on the engineer, periodically be checking in to make sure that you're on track and not spinning your wheels.


You don't think professional soccer teams are an organization whose main goal is to make money?

If it is, and it probably isn't, they are really not very good at it.

You mean like a multi sig wallet? Has been a thing on ethereum for about a decade now. There are also a variety of systems that allow trustless social wallet recovery and other nice creature features that are required in the real world. The programmable nature of ethereum makes these sorts of systems readily buildable.

But its not bitcoin, so somehow its the shitcoin and the glacially frozen development environment that is bitcoin is what all the get rich quick cryptobros obsess about. I will never understand.


Such things don't count for much if they're not in use. The trick will be getting people to use them effectively. It's more of an education problem than a tech problem.

Also it's not clear that that would work. If I got a call:

> They're gonna kill me if you don't sign this transaction.

I'd probably sign it rather than let my friend die to prove a point to the bad guys that you don't kidnap people on FooChain.


Ok, so you make one of the other parties someone who has a fiduciary duty but not an emotional one. "We don't negotiate with terrorists" is a common enough phrase.

I still don't think it's enough. Then you just figure out who the fiduciary is and kidnap their kid instead. It's gotta be something where the coins are useless once stolen because you can't fake a convincing enough history for anybody to risk touching them. And not because maybe the cops show up, but because the recipient is equally concerned about finding people to accept their coins. The value of a given token has to be tied to the acceptability of its externalities such that a theft is just a destruction of value, not a reappropriation of it.

Or at least that's the only way I can see it working. It's gotta be based on consent, not scarcity.


Given an infinite multitude of parallel universes, perhaps one exists where TempleOS was in fact the sole and exclusive conduit to divinity and Terry was it's prophet. I hope that is the case.

This instance was that timeline.

Well yes and in that timeline and shall we say warped logic, Terry stated that the random number generator is the direct connection to god in his TempleOS.

I just want to thank you for wireshark. I use it almost every day when I'm troubleshooting why this or that piece of industrial controls hardware springs a leak in its bit plumbing.

You have the rare distinction of developing a tool that will probably outlive us all. So, thanks!


I don't think I buy this. He doesn't need to care about citizen votes anymore, and how big is the libertarian with a capital 'L' true believer block in Congress? Is there any? I'm not sure there was ever any political support for Ross Ulbricht.

Has to be something else going on here, none of the explanations in this thread are hitting it on the head for me.


He doesn't care anymore, but he kept his promise.

There was the free Ross movement, they promised to vote for him if he pardons Ross and he did.

He apparently tweeted about how much Ross's mum supported him during the campaign.

But my source for all this info is reddit


If he wants to make the most of his next/last four years as president, then he needs to keep his supporters happy enough to vote in Republican congressmen in two years. Many of his supporters are the type to not vote at all because they think politicians are all two-faced liars, so it's important to keep them sufficiently moralized to vote in 2026.

he promised to free Ross at the libertarian national convention. promises made, promises kept. https://x.com/CroissantEth/status/1856551964156342303

He rarely keeps his promises, so he must still want something from libertarians.

Well what do they have? Lots of guns and determination.

Maybe they make good allies, after the presidency somebody needs to protect him if he commits too many crimes.


If your knee jerk response to any political discussion even remotely critical of 'your guy' is to snap into whataboutisim instead of participating in the conversation you might need a outrage pornography detox for a while.

Literal 'new world order' stuff here. Alex Jones and crew got so excited that their guy was in the driver's seat that they didn't notice the actual illuminati lizard people space lasers being deployed.

I'm not sure that's how capitalism works.

You had less voltage, but whole lots more current than parent post.

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