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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-17 13:34
Demographic Trends - Western Europe faces challenges with Italy and Spain having the lowest birth rates [1] - These countries simultaneously experience the highest pension growth relative to salaries [1] Economic Implications - The sustainability of pension systems is questioned due to the demographic shift [1]
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-17 13:26
RT Henri Fjord (@henri_fjord)“I wanted to come back here to Israel and let you know that I served you as the mayor.”- NYC Mayor Eric Adams https://t.co/sBypIxFNyq ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-17 13:14
RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)@War4theWest A Silicon Valley VC whose favorite country is professedly India, not the United States.How do we know that in time of war, Silicon Valley technology will be working for the United States and not for India? ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-17 13:13
RT Bitcoin Teddy (@Bitcoin_Teddy)Saifedean gives CNBC a two-minute master class on money. https://t.co/XeorPurg66 ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-17 12:58
RT Avinash Kale (@avnashX)Crypto isn’t a magic anarchist shield. It’s trust-minimized plumbing that survives because it avoids unnecessary attack surfaces. The industry keeps overestimating its immunity and underestimating how wide the legal blast radius gets when random data hits the protocol. ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-17 07:28
RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Anarcho-capitalism is a wonderfully abstract ideal that can inspire innovation. It helped inspire me to help invent cryptocurrency.But real-world cryptocurrencies are not trustless -- they are trust-minimized. Each cryptocurrency has a legal attack surface, representing the kinds of ways governments and/or private entities can practically use law to disrupt their operations. The layer 1 of a good trust-minimized cryptocurrency like Bitcoin can withstand much more interference than ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-17 07:21
RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)@War4theWest A Silicon Valley VC whose favorite country is professedly India, not the United States.How do we know that in time of war, Silicon Valley technology will be working for the United States and not for India? ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-17 06:38
Political Commentary - The report suggests Vivek Ramaswamy avoids discussing immigration, which allegedly harms the American Dream for lower and middle-class white individuals [1] - It claims Ramaswamy's rhetoric about American ideals is designed to accommodate a large influx of Indians into the US [1] - The report criticizes the perceived revisionism of American history within Ramaswamy's campaign [1]
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-17 06:36
Surveillance Technology & Social Control - The report highlights the implementation of an AI-powered surveillance system, referred to as the "Urban Brain," in Shanghai, China [1] - The system enables real-time monitoring of residents, tracking building occupancy, elderly residents living alone, movements, and behaviors [1] - The system uses cameras to detect violations such as incorrect trash sorting and illegal parking, automatically assigning punishments and dispatching enforcement teams [1] - Residents are encouraged to report on each other, feeding information into the central AI system [1] - Chinese state media claims the system can identify any person on the street within one second [1] Global Implications & Concerns - The report suggests that this "China model" is being studied by global elites, including the EU, WEF, and UN [1] - Western governments are allegedly implementing similar digital architectures under the guise of "smart cities" [1] - The report warns that this system represents an "automated dictatorship" and could be implemented in Western cities like London, Ottawa, Berlin, and Auckland [1]
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-17 06:34
RT Matt Carr (@QCI_GP)Hard to argue against this. Something for all of us to think deeply about. ...