Patrick Collison

Cool release from @p0. I think this use-case (agents paying content creators for access via @mpp) will be very big. Micropayment walls haven't worked (as Clay Shirky anticipated many years ago) because of human cognitive overhead, but agents can make arbitrarily granular #Micropayments #ContentCreation #InnovativeSolutions #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.

Owing to a variety of historical reasons (including, but not only, protectionist lobbying), the U.S. is the only G7 country where regulated payments companies can’t directly access government-run settlement rails. Yesterday's EO from the White House calls for that to change. #Payments #G7 #Regulation #US

Nothing (Original: Which are the most common everyday phenomena that we don't properly understand? Off the top of my head: • Lightning (how does it happen?) • Sleep; dreams (why do they exist?) • Glass (thermodynamics of formation) • Turbulence (when does it start?) • Morphogenesis (how does) #EverydayMysteries #ScienceCuriosities #NaturalPhenomena #Thearticledoesnotreferenceanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

I'm interested in "trapped buildings": those that couldn't be built today (because of zoning and code changes) but also can't be substantially modified or demolished (because of historic protection rules). One of those phenomena that really makes one wonder what exactly we're #HistoricPreservation #UrbanPlanning #ZoningLaws #Thearticledoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

We just announced a large raft of improvements at @Stripe Sessions. My meta reflections: • It feels that the entire economy is replatforming right now. • Many charts at Stripe are inflecting in quite dramatic ways. What GitHub recently reported for commits we are seeing in #Innovation #Economy #Technology