I watched a video about the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die and someone built a web app to help you listen to them all with a daily recommendation. I think I’ll give it a shot as part of my #TodaysAlbum project.
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📗 Want to read How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell ISBN: 9781612198552
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Chase sends 8-digit 2fa SMS codes, which seems excessive compared to the 6 that most other places use, but even weirder is that the first digit of them has always been the same, effectively making it a 7 digit code. Anyone know what's up with that?
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Got even more snow overnight!
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Finally ran out of the August/September batch so time to make some more habanero sauce! This was about one pound of habaneros and made 16 bottles!
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Didn't do much other than the livestream today and prepping a video to publish tomorrow. Oh, and lots and lots of sorting files on my giant stack of hard drives.
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"html": "<p><img src=\"https://coffeebucks.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/elsalvador5.png\" alt=\"El Salvador Bitcoin Adoption\" /></p>\n\n<p>Bitcoin failed. J.P. Koning notes in <a href=\"https://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-end-of-el-salvadors-bitcoin.html\">The end of El Salvador\u2019s bitcoin payments experiment</a>:</p>\n\n<pre><code>But here was a government that was going to champion the stuff, nullifying all of the headwinds against bitcoin in one stroke! The government meddling hypothesis would be put to test.\n\nThe Salvadoran government used a combination of sticks and carrots to kick-start adoption. First, let's list the carrots. The capital gains tax on bitcoin was set to zero to remove the hassle of buying stuff with bitcoin. The government also built a bitcoin payments app, Chivo, for all El Salvadoreans to use. (Chivo also supports U.S. dollar payments.) Anyone who downloaded Chivo and transacted with bitcoin would receive a $30 bitcoin bonus\u2014that's a lot of money in El Salvador. Gas stations offered $0.20 off of a gallon of gas for customers who paid with the app. People could also use Chivo to pay their taxes with bitcoin.\n\nThe biggest carrot was zero-transaction fees. Any payment conducted with Chivo was free, as was converting bitcoins held in the Chivo app into U.S. dollars and withdrawing cash at Chivo ATMs. These Chivo ATMs were rolled out across El Salvador and in the U.S., too, to encourage the nascent U.S.-to-El Salvador bitcoin remittance route. Bitcoin ATMs are usually incredibly pricey to use, but in El Salvador the government would eat all the transaction fees. What a fantastic deal.\n\nAs for the stick, Bukele introduced a forced-tender rule. Beginning in 2021, businesses were required to accept the orange coin or be punished. This was costly for them to comply with. They would have to update point of sale software, signage, train employees, and set up new processes for handling bitcoins post-sale.\n\nBy all rights, this combination of sticks and carrots should have led to a flourishing of bitcoin payments. But it didn't.\n</code></pre>\n\n\n<p>Koning concludes:</p>\n\n<pre><code>The saddest thing about El Salvador's bitcoin experiment is that all sorts of time and resources have been wasted. El Salvador is not a rich country. The money spent on building and operating Chivo, compliance by businesses, bitcoin signage, and subsidies could have been better deployed on more important things like health and education. One hopes that other countries learn from this experience and avoid going down the same route that El Salvador did.\n</code></pre>",
"text": "Bitcoin failed. J.P. Koning notes in The end of El Salvador\u2019s bitcoin payments experiment:\n\nBut here was a government that was going to champion the stuff, nullifying all of the headwinds against bitcoin in one stroke! The government meddling hypothesis would be put to test.\n\nThe Salvadoran government used a combination of sticks and carrots to kick-start adoption. First, let's list the carrots. The capital gains tax on bitcoin was set to zero to remove the hassle of buying stuff with bitcoin. The government also built a bitcoin payments app, Chivo, for all El Salvadoreans to use. (Chivo also supports U.S. dollar payments.) Anyone who downloaded Chivo and transacted with bitcoin would receive a $30 bitcoin bonus\u2014that's a lot of money in El Salvador. Gas stations offered $0.20 off of a gallon of gas for customers who paid with the app. People could also use Chivo to pay their taxes with bitcoin.\n\nThe biggest carrot was zero-transaction fees. Any payment conducted with Chivo was free, as was converting bitcoins held in the Chivo app into U.S. dollars and withdrawing cash at Chivo ATMs. These Chivo ATMs were rolled out across El Salvador and in the U.S., too, to encourage the nascent U.S.-to-El Salvador bitcoin remittance route. Bitcoin ATMs are usually incredibly pricey to use, but in El Salvador the government would eat all the transaction fees. What a fantastic deal.\n\nAs for the stick, Bukele introduced a forced-tender rule. Beginning in 2021, businesses were required to accept the orange coin or be punished. This was costly for them to comply with. They would have to update point of sale software, signage, train employees, and set up new processes for handling bitcoins post-sale.\n\nBy all rights, this combination of sticks and carrots should have led to a flourishing of bitcoin payments. But it didn't.\n\n\n\nKoning concludes:\n\nThe saddest thing about El Salvador's bitcoin experiment is that all sorts of time and resources have been wasted. El Salvador is not a rich country. The money spent on building and operating Chivo, compliance by businesses, bitcoin signage, and subsidies could have been better deployed on more important things like health and education. One hopes that other countries learn from this experience and avoid going down the same route that El Salvador did."
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The cats wanted to hang out on the couch with me for my very long work day
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"html": "<blockquote>\n <h2><a href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5135530-trump-directs-treasury-to-stop-making-pennies/\"></a></h2>\n\n <p>The cost of making a penny was nearly 3.7 cents in Fiscal Year 2024 and the coin has cost above face value to make for 19 consecutive fiscal years, according to the U.S. Mint\u2019s annual report. Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who has been tasked by Trump with cutting waste in the U.S., targeted the penny in a post on X last month.</p>\n\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>In the grand scheme of things, this doesn\u2019t seem like a big deal to me. I can\u2019t remember the last time I actually <em>used</em> a penny\u2026they just sort of accumulate. The least value I tend to reach for is a dime. Other than the loss of seeing President Lincoln\u2019s profile on a copper, I won\u2019t miss the humble penny.</p>\n\n<p>That being said\u2026this seems like a pretty goofy thing to make like it\u2019s a huge win for \u201cDOGE\u201d. But at this point it goes without saying: we\u2019re not dealing with serious people here. <strong>They are all clowns of the tallest order.</strong> And either way, 1\u00a2 coins are inconsequential compared to the assault on our fundamental democratic freedoms and way of life.</p>",
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📗 Want to read Relationality: How Moving from Transactional to Transformational Relationships Can Reshape Our Lonely World by David Jay ISBN: 9798889840541
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