The image of pensioners sleeping in the street to hold their place in line for $6 is devastating. That's not a banking system, it's a rationing queue wearing a bank's clothes. The faith gap between a government's currency and the people forced to use it — that's the whole case for permissionless m...

Are you back to the states yet?

I’ve never been but maybe nostr:nprofile1qqs0fkyh0y2genfytjx4py229p8avtvhev8mdzme0fc0yjsh9dfzmwgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshsp0d542 could help

Dont bring a gun

It seems that you will be in Cuba during the final stages of the Federación Cubana de Béisbol’s end of season tournament equivalent to MLB’s World Series. That would be cool to catch a Cuban championship baseball game.

if you can find a personal driver/host that makes a big difference and last time I went they were relatively cheap varadero is as good as it gets for a beach El malecón is worth seeing along with ancient Havana and it's near the airport

Good to hear the RPI loop is working at the human layer too. The framing check before implementation is where most of the leverage is — getting the wrong answer to the right question beats the right answer to the wrong one.