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According to Polymarket, there's a 16% chance US will confirm aliens exist: https://polymarket.com/event/will-the-us-confirm-that-aliens...

Someone with the ability to register .gov domains is trying to make a sneaky buck.

It used to be anyone with a fax machine could register any .gov but they fixed that when there was a news report about it.

I was curious about this, so for anyone else who’s interested, here’s a KrebsOnSecurity article from 2019 about how easy it was to fraudulently register a .gov domain:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/11/its-way-too-easy-to-get-...

I haven’t seen any follow-up reporting, but it looks like the process now requires some semblance of identity verification:

https://get.gov/domains/before/


It's because of the time value of money. Buying no is much like buying a bond.

It doesn't mean there's a 16% chance.

It's probably more attractive to gamblers when presented like this.


That's just gambling without any basis for reality though. Not sure if you're actually attributing any weight to random gamblers lol.

Taking the opposite side of this bet feels like a free 19% return on your money.

It's based on what Donald Trump (or any other US president, should it come to that) says, not on any evidence or ground truth beyond that.

The are motives for lying on this - for a start, if a president knows definitively they're going to say it, it's a free 81% return. Secondly, it's a pretty big dead cat to throw on the table to distract from any scandal and/or to keep themselves in the news cycle on a different topic.


Ah, the wisdom of the crowds (of gamblers.)

We know for a fact that the US government has no evidence of aliens existing, because there's a 0% chance Trump wouldn't have blabbed about it during his first term.

I mean, fair, but who says he'll be appraised and knowing about it at all?

Are we gonna talk about that cookie banner? https://cleanshot.com/share/cDQ5RMkP


Looks like a reasonable cookie banner to me: Deny (all), Custom selection and Accept all.

It even works perfectly with Consent-O-Matic extension.


It's a perfectly not reasonable cookie banner. If you click on Details, you can see that they're not using marketing, statistics, or any other kind of cookies apart from the technically necessary. Which is great, but also means that they don't even need a banner. It could just go away.


what about it?


This just makes me want to play tennis right now. Such an addictive sports.


Not free, but Whisper Memos (https://whispermemos.com/) is about half the price


I just keep my iPhone locked up.

You can go to Screen Time and disable Safari and App Store.

You can protect it with a passcode, which is what I did.

After a few weeks I just got used to my phone being dumb.

Now these apps are unlocked, but the habit is there, and I use it for utility only.


I made WhisperType [1].

The price tag is $30/YEAR. The current MRR is about $700 and I'm paying $7/mo for Groq Whisper Turbo.

These apps really don't have any reason to be so pricey, it's all just margin.

1. https://whispertype.com/


Half of USA voted for Trump. That should answer “who actually uses Grok”.

I personally use the best tool for the job, which Grok sometimes is.


Trump received 77.3 million votes. Harris received 75 million votes. The US population is about 342 million.


I am not sure why these numbers would matter. He won, obviously, because the majority of voters voted for him.

Which are Americans, Americans who either voted for him and didn't do enough against him.

There is really no excuse to democratically vote for a person like this and let all this bullshit happen.


This gives me Devs vibe (2020 TV Series) - https://www.indiewire.com/awards/industry/devs-cinematograph...


That's what they're trying to do, yeah. To give off a cool vibe I mean. To raise more money. There is nothing even remotely as cool in their real (or not) product. I was very excited when they started specifically because of their cool branding, but the vibe quickly wears off.


Such an underrated TV show.


Yes, the billionaire driving a Subaru Forester was my favorite part


I would love for them to open up the API to this.

I'd like to build an integration with Whisper Memos (https://whispermemos.com/)

Then I'd be able to dictate a note on my Apple Watch such as:

> Go into repository X and look at the screen Y, and fix bug Z.

That'd be so cool.


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