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Mamdani’s Rent Freeze Math Doesn’t Work
Mamdani’s Rent Freeze Math Doesn’t Work
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Mamdani’s rent freeze math doesn’t work, and he doesn’t care
In what New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani described as a “historic victory” for tenants, New York City housing officials recently approved his rent freeze, which will lock in rents for roughly a million regulated apartments in the Big Apple. Yet, one board member…
Computerphile:
Shor's Algorithm for Quantum Computing - Computerphile
Shor's Algorithm for Quantum Computing - Computerphile
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Shor's Algorithm for Quantum Computing - Computerphile
We brought a computer scientist and a physicist together to talk about Shor's algorithm - a famous factorisation algorithm for that can break some currently used encryption techniques if implemented in the quantum realm.
Phil's accompanying blog post: …
Phil's accompanying blog post: …
Artificial Intelligence News, Analysis and Resources - The New Stack:
“The Switzerland of AI”: OpenClaw becomes a non-profit foundation
“The Switzerland of AI”: OpenClaw becomes a non-profit foundation
The New Stack
“The Switzerland of AI”: OpenClaw becomes a non-profit foundation
Five months after OpenAI hired creator Peter Steinberger, OpenClaw has re-emerged as a non-profit foundation, with its first full-time staff and a board now in place.
Today in Bitcoin History / @daily_btc_lore:
July 9, 2013 (13 years ago)
Kipochi Launches Bitcoin Wallet with M-Pesa Integration in Kenya
A tiny in-house demo, never meant for the public, leaked to the global press within days. Two weeks later a telecom giant in London quietly ordered it killed. Brief thread... 🧵👇
July 9, 2013 (13 years ago)
Kipochi Launches Bitcoin Wallet with M-Pesa Integration in Kenya
A tiny in-house demo, never meant for the public, leaked to the global press within days. Two weeks later a telecom giant in London quietly ordered it killed. Brief thread... 🧵👇
Today in Bitcoin History / @daily_btc_lore:
R to @daily_btc_lore: 2/10 - M-Pesa was already the most successful mobile money system on earth. Roughly 70 percent of Kenya's adult population used it, and it accounted for close to a third of the country's entire GDP. Any Bitcoin service in Kenya had to reckon with M-Pesa first.
R to @daily_btc_lore: 2/10 - M-Pesa was already the most successful mobile money system on earth. Roughly 70 percent of Kenya's adult population used it, and it accounted for close to a third of the country's entire GDP. Any Bitcoin service in Kenya had to reckon with M-Pesa first.
Today in Bitcoin History / @daily_btc_lore:
R to @daily_btc_lore: 3/10 - Pelle Braendgaard, co-founder of a small wallet startup called Kipochi, moved from Nicaragua to Kenya in May 2013 to build the integration himself. Within a month he had what he called a "ghetto integration" working, limited to a handful of in-house staff.
R to @daily_btc_lore: 3/10 - Pelle Braendgaard, co-founder of a small wallet startup called Kipochi, moved from Nicaragua to Kenya in May 2013 to build the integration himself. Within a month he had what he called a "ghetto integration" working, limited to a handful of in-house staff.
Today in Bitcoin History / @daily_btc_lore:
R to @daily_btc_lore: 5/10 - It leaked anyway. Global outlets picked up the story instantly, and coverage spiraled into claims that a third of Kenyans already had a Bitcoin wallet, a wide exaggeration of a demo built for a handful of staff, as @CoinDesk reported that week:
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2013/07/09/kipochi-launches-m-pesa-integrated-bitcoin-wallet-in-africa
R to @daily_btc_lore: 5/10 - It leaked anyway. Global outlets picked up the story instantly, and coverage spiraled into claims that a third of Kenyans already had a Bitcoin wallet, a wide exaggeration of a demo built for a handful of staff, as @CoinDesk reported that week:
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2013/07/09/kipochi-launches-m-pesa-integrated-bitcoin-wallet-in-africa
Today in Bitcoin History / @daily_btc_lore:
R to @daily_btc_lore: 6/10 - What Kipochi had actually built was still notable. Its wallet ran on SMS, USSD and HTML5, meaning it worked on basic feature phones, not just smartphones, a serious design choice in a country where most people did not carry the latest handset.
R to @daily_btc_lore: 6/10 - What Kipochi had actually built was still notable. Its wallet ran on SMS, USSD and HTML5, meaning it worked on basic feature phones, not just smartphones, a serious design choice in a country where most people did not carry the latest handset.
Today in Bitcoin History / @daily_btc_lore:
R to @daily_btc_lore: 8/10 - The order had not come from Kenya. Braendgaard later said sources inside Safaricom told him the instruction came from Vodafone headquarters in London, spooked by the same exaggerated press coverage that had just made Kipochi briefly famous.
R to @daily_btc_lore: 8/10 - The order had not come from Kenya. Braendgaard later said sources inside Safaricom told him the instruction came from Vodafone headquarters in London, spooked by the same exaggerated press coverage that had just made Kipochi briefly famous.