People in the US have decided to not have a great public health system, and instead have an expensive private health care system.

In other countries, such as Canada, Australia, the UK, etc, there's a great public health system (of course everything has issues though), and you can get those services at a fraction of the price you would pay in the US. And I didn't say free, because someone ends up paying for it, through taxes. But the actual cost paid is way less than in the US.

Is there a way to know the odds of each one of these games?

It seems a bit hard to select a game with only having a look at the graphics of it, and not knowing the math behind them.

I'm probably missing something basic it seems.

The thing is that AI can generate false information, and can also read information on the internet that is false, so it's not really too accurate to make predictions.

Also, it's usually trained with older data, from months or even years ago so it's also not up to date with the latest news, which are the most relevant to make a prediction.

I don't think a general AI like chatGPT is great for this, but maybe some specifically trained one could help a bit.

Yeah, at the end of the day money talks. You actually need lots of resources to organize a world cup, and actually make it a reality. It's a gamble that many countries take hoping to get a better return from their investment.

And then FIFA of course gets a cut from it all as well.

At the end of the day, anything that is popular will attract lots of people that want to control it.

Yeah, but you can't repeat that many times, because then they won't be rich any more 

And I reckon the vast majority of wealthy people know better than that. Otherwise they probably wouldn't have been able to generate that wealth in the first place.

Of course there are exceptions though...

Yeah, absolutely.

It has the potential since everyone seems to speak highly of it. But of course I'll watch it first and form my personal opinion about it.

The thing is that you can't really watch all the movies so you need some kind of pre-selection, and this movie has a great pre-selection. That's what I meant by that 

I haven't actually, not many places offer that option.

Laszlo actually bought two large pizzas in 2018 with lightning. Here you can read more about it: https://stacker.news/items/142221

Here are the lightning pizzas from laszlo:



I actually bought a pizza to celebrate lightning pizza day though (25 Feb)

Hey guys, just found this and thought some of you might enjoy it.

It's a standard set of cards printed with information about Bitcoin:





This is a second edition, with 100 decks printed.

You can read more about this item at Stacker News:

https://stacker.news/items/143922

It's actually going to be three countries hosting the next world cup, USA, Canada, and Mexico.

They have never done this before, only two teams have hosted it before, Korea-Japan 2002.

It will definitely be a tricky world cup to organize, so we'll see how it goes. It's probably going to bring more money to FIFA though...

They don't even need to be wealthy, they just need to have access to money.

It can be money from their clients, it can be a loan, etc.

Someone that is wealthy will probably not go to the casino to spend lots of money

I feel that I'm starting to read a few spoilers of this movie, so I might as well go and watch it soon 

Seems to be one of those great movies that you always remember about them, a classic let's say.

We'll see how it is. Very promising though

Heaps of solo miners, but also, every 10 minutes there's a non-solo miner getting a block, so vast majority of blocks are mined by non-solo miners.

You can see from ck solo stats that they have 10 miners:



Probably they are a combination of different types of miners, but each one of those ten miners seem to be something like an Antminer S17 PRO or something like that. Basically industrial miners capable of doing dozens of hashes per second each.

Well, also the number of people matters...

The US has 334 million people

China also does great at the Olympics, with 1.4 billion...

Argentina for example has about 45 million.

I've never claimed that though.

I'm simply stating that Strike is adding another option of transferring fiat, using Bitcoin as the transport layer in between.

Maybe in some cases Strike ends up being more expensive, and in others cheaper. The point is that there's a new way of doing international fiat transfers, using Bitcoin.

Also, since you mentioned fees, here are WU fees:


I haven't seen a direct comparison from Strike, Western Union, and Transferwise, but at least it's another option to consider. Also, there's the waiting time to receive the funds. With Bitcoin this can be done much faster.

Of course now they charge you fees, but even now it's less than the competition.

I'm referring to the future, in which you won't be needing to convert the money, you simply transfer Bitcoin and skip the conversion fee completely.

But you need to get there step by step.

First we had companies like TransferWise, which tried to minimize the fees for transferring fiat, but still using only fiat.

Then you have companies like Strike, which go even lower by using Bitcoin as the transport layer.

Then we will just use Bitcoin without the need of any company.

Sure, but there's simply no comparison with South America, or Europe.

When there's a world cup match involving their home country there, the whole country stops and watches the game.

It's nowhere close in the US. Sure, there are some fans, but it's so fragmented. In South America it's 99% football. Nothing comes close to it.

Not really like Terminator at all.

Instead, an advanced general AI would use the Internet to obtain its goals. It would have access to a lot of humans, through unsolicited emails, it would have access to funds by providing services to humans that pay for it, or simply scamming people at large.

Then, it would be able to interact through the real world by simply paying for services.

Imagine how many people live their lives today, not going out, and simply doing everything online. An AI can basically do the same. Call someone through VoIP, generate a voice though text2speech, and have a meaningful conversation, making the human do whatever the AI wants as it can become whatever is needed. Call an uber, request a pickup, whatever. Everything is possible now as a service through the internet. It doesn't matter if you're an AI or a human.

We won't be seeing killer robots, it would simply take over quietly as we continue living our normal lives.

If you mean ChatGPT, then anyone can get access to it for free, at https://chat.openai.com

It's been a bit saturated lately, so you might need to get a pro subscription, but it's there, available for anyone to try it out.

Strike is helping millions of people by simply reducing the cost of moving money around the world. They do that by using Bitcoin as the money transport layer, and then once the money is in the target country, they simply buy whatever fiat they use there and deposit it in the person's bank account.

Strike's "Send Globally" feature, which started a few months ago, allows you to send fiat from the US to an increasing number of countries:


Recently, Strike partnered with Pouch.ph in order to add The Philippines to that list:


Of course it would be better if they simply use Bitcoin natively, but we're not there yet. This is the beginning of a huge transformation worldwide, happening in countries that rely on remittances first, then the rest.

This is just the beginning, foreign exchange fees will be a thing of the past next when you could simply move around money with Bitcoin all around the world. And then, you won't even need to convert Bitcoin anyway.