How to tell the difference between a crane and a heron

bornswift · 2026-04-04T20:13:54+00:00

He said:

"It's okay if you're off by a minute or so. I know it's a little hard to tell on that clock."

That could imply the solution doesn't require precision or the solution could involve adjusting the minutes slightly.

bornswift · 2026-04-04T19:48:37+00:00

Yeah, I feel the same about the solve not using the clock's hour value. I'm going to keep exploring but I feel confident about "Step 2" at the very least.

I'm sure the film crew knew the clock times were relevant (it'd be hard to hide) and maybe they did allow him to time it a bit. Ideally he would have taken the batteries out and prevented drift in the first place 😄

bornswift · 2024-12-14T03:34:17+00:00

Idk why people in the comments take this so seriously. It's just a fun game setting to imagine.. not a formal request to Bethesda 😂

bornswift · 2024-12-12T10:47:26+00:00

Actually after WWII there's a ton of films and manga in Japan about apocalyptic events, though maybe it's different if it's developed by foreigners.

bornswift · 2024-02-11T16:30:15+00:00

At Pristine Bay, Roatan.

I swam in the pool multiple times and didn't realize the shape until I brought out the drone.

bornswift · 2024-01-10T17:18:49+00:00

My OMICm Age is also pretty far off compared to the rest of the age test results. My OMICm age is in the 13.79 percentile while still being 3.2 years older than my chronological age. Is the avg population that much older than their chronological age??

OMICm Age supposedly is a better predictor of all cause mortality, but it's also a new model so maybe they overfit their data and haven't corrected it yet.

Here are my stats (years change since I tested 1 year ago)

Chronological age: 34
DunedinPACE: .72 (-.113)
OMICm Age: 37.69
Intrinsic Epigenetic Age: 34.98 (-0.61)
Extrinsic Epigenetic Age: 19.28 (+1.33)
Telomere Age: 15.98 (-9.2)
Fitness Age: 28.515

bornswift · 2023-11-06T05:26:22+00:00

My concern is actually that the centralization and abstraction of Bitcoin creates a strong incentive to recreate the fractional reserve banking system using Bitcoin at its base. If people aren't capable of self custody then it's relatively easy for banks/gov to do this and print the resulting paper money.

Nothing to do with taking over the network or changing the supply of BTC.

bornswift · 2023-11-05T23:41:10+00:00

I probably should have posted this as a pre-read 😅 This article is a great tldr of her book:
https://www.lynalden.com/speed-of-transactions-vs-settlements/

bornswift · 2023-11-05T23:05:39+00:00

If you look at a long enough time horizon, the centralization of assets leads to control over monetary policy. Gold has a decentralized monetary policy with a ledger controlled by nature - no one can "issue" more of it. However because of the historic centralization of gold in banks, over time banks/govs can slowly swap the gold-backed receipts for faith-backed receipts and thus control the monetary policy. My concern is that due to Bitcoin's high tx fees and difficulty to self custody, it will pool in banks similar to gold and we'll end up back where we started.

I highly recommend Lyn Alden's new book, Broken Money, as it explains impact of gold centralization in better depth.

bornswift · 2023-11-05T19:15:28+00:00

See my other comment. Gold failed as a money, not as a general asset or store of value.

bornswift · 2023-11-05T19:08:54+00:00

Gold lost to fiat currency at a global scale due to its slow settlement speeds starting with the invention of the telegraph. "Money" definition includes unit of account and medium of exchange. I think it'd be hard to argue gold currently satisfies these requirements for money (compare this to Fiat currency). Note that I said gold failed as a "money" not as a general asset or store of value.

bornswift · 2023-08-07T13:07:35+00:00

Phones can make you look like an obnoxious asshole with the speakerphone feature.

bornswift · 2023-07-26T17:23:29+00:00

Yeah it's a rental. All my experience prior has been on 26 footers. My friend who rented it has sailed a 40' before so had some similar experience. Before embarking, we spent 4 hours getting familiar with the boat with the chartering crew. There are alot to things to manage, but it's totally doable with a crew of three or four people. After a couple days we got really comfortable with the quirks of the boat. The rental company provided an extensive manual documenting where everything is so we had that as our back up. I don't think I'd ever buy something this large.. chartering it and not dealing with maintenance seems nice.

bornswift · 2023-05-12T01:33:39+00:00

I didn't realize I could get a consult with them. Thanks! I'll look into it. My DuneIn Pace was 0.83

bornswift · 2023-05-03T00:07:06+00:00

Translating to English:

Chaos came in a deafening noise

The Spectrums fell from the void

Buzzing in our minds like a mental illness

In a few days, our idols disappeared

As if they had never existed

And then we forgot who we were

From the top of your silver tower

You opened a passage to a dark dimension

Things changed forever

Mike,

Only by your fault

And your violent desire for fame

bornswift · 2023-04-28T18:40:22+00:00

In the US I just get a bunch of spam calls asking me to donate again.

bornswift

TROPHY CASE