Alex Miller
@alexlmiller
that cast iron pan guy. builds stuff on a "ranch". also builds stuff like @hirosystems and http://chaotic.capital. Partner to @almostmedia
Reminder, join me and the Stacks Explorer team from @hirosystems for office hours on Monday to chat about the new explorer!
“Slappin fannies and killin grannies” is my new reply to “how’s it going”
Sliwa: Eric Adams is damaged goods… Andrew Cuomo is a creep. Slapping fannies and killing grannies. Everybody likes Curtis Sliwa
I am Nate Anderson, the founder of Hindenburg Research referenced repeatedly in this bizarre and fantastical interview. During my career, I helped expose numerous financial scams, including over a dozen Ponzi schemes and numerous instances of public companies lying to and…
Live @hirosystems Office Hours with @alexlmiller x.com/i/spaces/1ypKd…
The libertarian part of me hates to it, but online/mobile betting should almost certainly be banned
US News survey of Americans who've placed a bet in the past 6 months: - 25% have been unable to pay a bill because of gambling - 30% have debts they attribute to gambling - 15% have taken out a personal loan to fund their wagers - 52% say they carry a credit card balance from…
Damnit, curiosity got the best of me Hey @grok who was the most famous person to visit my profile in the last 3 years? It doesnt need to be a mutual, don’t tag them, just say who it was using handle without the @ sign
Disintermediating PBM middlemen would save Americans $100b a year says USC research. They nailed it academic.oup.com/healthaffairss…
EWR to Manhattan I wonder why more people don’t take public transit in America?
My new favorite tactic when I accidentally answer a telemarketer call: pretend I’ve never heard of “Alex Miller” or “Hiro Systems”
i just remembered that actor edward norton took time off acting to co-found a board meeting software startup. the guy from fight club founding a board meeting software company
Howard Lutnick's investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald is offering to buy the right to businesses tariff refunds, basically betting that the courts will overturn the tariffs.
I used to work in a factory with a middle aged cambodian guy who I talked to at lunch. his story of arriving to the US started with being five years old and hiding in a pile of bodies to avoid being killed by the Khmer Rouge
The most bizarre sort of fantasy. The markets don't want this. Utilities don't want this. Frackers certainly don't want this. No one who breaths air wants this. Drill baby drill, while vacuous, at least nods to commodities in demand.
I was just scammed by a @Hyatt hotel — and what I’ve uncovered so far points to a *much* bigger issue. A 🧵 (1/13)
Hey @grok, can you rank my mutuals based on who is most likely to do something that gets me a visit from the FBI?
Office Hours next week featuring our explorer team talking about the major revamp, how we did it, and what is yet to come
The @Stacks community passed SIP-031 with over 310M STX in favor. A record-breaking vote with >97% approval. This proposal creates a new Stacks Endowment to fuel long-term growth and support the ecosystem with capital for marketing, integrations, DeFi, developer & founder…