It all assumes the candidate is the queen bee. They are now the worker bee. The superpac sets the rules, the candidate follow to get elected. That is the example in thw article, well actually more meta: it was a flex by crypto to show them they are a new mafia. They get many for the price of one.

Is a voter more like a VC: invest in the person not the idea (aka policy). Although the policies and how they are communicated are of course part of how you judge. I think everyone knows election promises are just promises.

A superpac has no bidders. It influences voters.

To even get power you now need to nod to crypto, nod to a certain middle eastern country and so on. Eventually politicians will be entirely impotent suits. Look at the current "choice" the electorate has.

Crypto people care about the price. They know it cannot be a mainstream currency because of how wasfeful, slow or insecure it is (pick 1+ depending on the coin) so really BTC/USD number goes up makes us richer is the game. Also encouraging degen gambling is the game. As is Ponzi. All of which makes insiders money.

The best coup would be Bitcoin as a gold that backs USD. This would force the price up well above a million. It might also make the world dark. $1 per kwh. $10 per kwh and so on.

Other coups would be lebanon style power interruptions while energy is diverted to mining with various subsidies.

Read from every server is not necessarily possible, unless we assume no network partitions.

"Are Betteridge headlines dead?"

"Is this the one weird trick to rule them all?"

Emergency blanket requires no training but people need to know it exists and how well it can solve the problem of being cold. And also yeah you get soaked in your own condensed sweat.

In a car where space and weight aren’t major concerns probably carrying one of those blue tarps is more useful in general. I’ve basically never seen the stuff being listed in a standard first aid kit though. Certainly not the one that came with my car. In winter just want some spare warm clothing too.

Reminds me I need to go through the winter kit I carry.

A bit of crackle and you wanna throw out AM?

No, AM is never used. So there is no station, just some loud hammering noises. The urge to get rid of that makes driving more dangerous.

I wonder how many apps could get by being front end only (static site) and delegating auth+storage to dropbox (and similar).

Yeah, that's a good question. Did the jamstack folks solve this?

https://www.reddit.com/r/JAMstack_dev/comments/haf3h0/user_a... seems interesting in this context.

Allauth is great. It has so many feature flags for all the microdecisions you want to tune. Social account merges with email account or not... it is configurable! Email confirmation required? Configurable! And it just works.