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2024-09-20 09:43:50

playground kids in 10 years: "your mom is training data"

2024-09-20 09:23:18

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i'm not really a "close the schools but collect the taxes" kind of guy

2024-09-19 17:48:35

"27 people who left money to the chancellor in their will.
It has bolstered the national accounts by £4,729,091.92 since 2003, equivalent to 0.00004% of total government spending this year"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgdn3134w1o
on deathbed: "I want .... the produce of my life to go to... 0.00004% of government spending..."

2024-09-19 10:35:43

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@npub1s05…eyhe I would like your view: there is a view that humans are no longer under evolutionary pressure, yet many people "make the choice" not to have children for economic reasons. These people then do not contribute to the genetic diversity of the species.
My thesis is that, with industrialisation, money is the selective pressure, and humankind is being shaped by how we acquire, preserve and distribute value in our communities.
Your points 1 and 2 describe a new ecological competition among humans. (which has already been running for ~100 years).

2024-09-19 10:23:26

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it's hard

2024-09-19 10:07:41

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dude, this is like tankman images on the blockchain. "Just cause"

2024-09-17 14:33:21

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rookie numbers! 35T is only 2^45, so if we took each dollar as a guess of a bitcoin public key (2^256) we would still need another 2^211 US national debts to compute all guesses.
In summary, Janet Yellen cannot bruteforce my private key with her printer.
But... let's wait and see.

2024-09-17 14:13:54

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they just pull off quite easily. It's crazy. The whole thing is single use, what difference does it make if it's in two parts or one?

2024-09-17 08:49:13

The no-free lunch theorem is fascinating, and basically says "you have to work to get results" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem
Apply it to markets and returns from momentum funds (as an optimisation process) you can see why people who invest their life into these strategies will struggle in the long term, as the Law of Large Numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers kicks in. The question is, how long do they have?
NB: you can spot a free-lunch theorem issue by asking "what work has to be done?" and "how much does that work cost me?". If the cost is zero, the risk is high. If the cost is high, the risk should be low.

2024-09-16 23:50:27

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that's what i thought. In the nostr.json we could put an "event" (as defined in NIP-01); the content field should be the domain claimed by the profile. The signature of that event is computed in the familiar way, so it shouldn't require any special work, and clients can ignore that data if they wish. (In my view, the profile is "notes and other stuff" and it should be signed, it seems an oversight that it is not).
can even bring over the blue ticks just for those "validated" profiles ha

2024-09-16 14:26:40

Who will buy your #bitcoin? Important to think about.

2024-09-16 09:42:50

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I don't understand why NIP-05 isn't signed:
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/05.md
"""
Identification, not verification
The NIP-05 is not intended to verify a user, but only to identify them, for the purpose of facilitating the exchange of a contact or their search.
"""
but we could easily add a signature field, otherwise the profile process is less secure than the signed-event model. Unless I missed something?

2024-09-13 12:20:20

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I don't understand how the game theory of mining works when states can destroy physical power infrastructure. It seems you can effect a 51% attack with a nuclear strike, when then makes a nuclear strike more beneficial, rather than less.

2024-09-13 07:21:25

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"dashboard". Just get a horse and watch your phone.

2024-09-12 10:08:42

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Powerful. A return to physical keys. Q: does it need to be an app? Could this functionality be available in browsers?

2024-09-12 10:04:30

Taylor Swift commenting as a cat lady on the US election is such a clear expression of a huge unspoken issue: Everybody gets a vote, yet not every person is invested in the future of the country (via assets, land, or children).
Those without may act with best of intentions, similarly, those who are invested may act with the worst of intentions. The difference between the two groups is time.
The future of the self, the family, the community, the nation are on different scales and not always self-supporting.
In the UK, from the 1960s people realised the self could be supported by the state, resulting in a massive state which provides everything, and a nation with does nothing.

2024-09-11 05:22:39

That moment when you realise peter schiff is right: #bitcoin has no intrinsic value, and it might go to zero, but you use it because you value fair trade above the ability to steal other peoples time.
The intrinsic value of bitcoin is that it makes everyone an honest participant.

2024-09-11 05:22:39

2024-09-11 05:15:47

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i love the web client, thank you for making it.

2024-09-11 05:14:21

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I read an interesting view on the three body problem: "proper" sci-fi is not about characters, but about people, and not about situations, but about events. So it tends into world building and "looking forward", exploring those worlds more than traditional fiction, which "looks back" and reflects.
seemed like a good insight.

2024-09-10 10:04:49

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Blauimus Checkimus led the sacking of Rome in 243AD.

2024-09-09 19:59:35

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the fiat side of the trade is such a ballache

2024-09-09 19:40:29

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In the UK we get told the buildings were paid for by the empire or slavery, etc. But you see that architecture all over Europe; the balkans, baltic states, all over.
Imagine the number of workers taking pride in those buildings.

2024-09-09 19:36:43

The absolute state of twitterhttps://m.primal.net/KlLt.png

2024-09-09 01:01:50

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Bitnoir! Blockpunk?

2024-09-09 00:57:39

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fun fact: the "rules based international order" replaced the previous Realpolitik system after ww2. Various international bodies, mainly enforced by the US, created rules to mediate between states.
is the ukraine war a return to realpolitik? i would say maybe! 50/50.

2024-09-07 21:57:25

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not tucking the left arm up is such a flex.

2024-09-06 10:36:06

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nostr phone coming soon

2024-09-06 09:14:49

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"Soros was 13 years old in March 1944 when Nazi Germany occupied Hungary."
hard times.

2024-09-06 09:11:10

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I really dislike this approach being called "Marxist". This is old fashioned religious dogma. Karl Marx lived a good life, trying to understand the world around him and change it for the better.
These people are insane.

2024-09-05 12:23:40

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secret ballot = secret police

2024-09-05 10:00:17

translating Western technology into Eastern usage:
organ transplant = organ harvesting
information systems = surveillance systems
open market = one-sided market

2024-09-05 09:52:33

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The free market says what interest rates are, the central banks says what interest rates the government wants. When the two diverge, the free market participants use free market money; but those forced to engage with the central bank demand higher and higher interest rates.
The fiat users are incentivised to control the supply, allocation, and utilisation by the general population. The cheap money drives out the good by price fixing (tariffs and capital controls by the governing class).
The economy diverges into two classes: governing-owners and non-participants. There is no way out.

2024-09-05 05:40:24

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one of those bitcoiners that starts "believing in stablecoins"

2024-09-04 22:02:02

"bitcoins teeth" is the sha256 algorithm, preventing any other sha256-based blockchain from surviving (all others use different algorithms, or get 51%d). cryptography is the defensive "wall", algorithm is offensive "force projection" in cyberspace.
two consequences: 1) cyberspace is partitioned by algorithm (sha256, randomx, etc), 2) blockchains which can transfer hashpower to other algorithms can attack other blockchains.

2024-09-04 22:01:30

Bitcoin is the currency of the future because nobody will ship gold to orbital habitats.
And those orbital habitats will be populated by the most intelligent, creative, and productive people from earth who can afford to be there.
why would they take fiat.
Imagine how fiat would warp the incentives of the environmental controls:
"Oxygen and soil production is up 20%, but we jettisoned all new production and purchased all outstanding supply with newly issued bonds, price go up!"
"we're rich!! ...Quaid?! I can't breathe!!!"

2024-09-04 22:00:31

Bitcoin is not money, bitcoin is governance. Money is the fruit of governance.
Good governance = predictable inflation,
Bad governance = unpredictable inflation.
No-one cares about inflation until it's unpredictable.

2024-09-04 22:00:12

Ray Dalios cycle nonsense is such a load of propaganda.
Money use is driven by technology:
Agriculture -> seeds
Craft -> beads n shit
Industry -> fungible metals
Information -> digital money
"global reserve" is nothing, TRADE is everything.
The boundaries between technology change is where massive exploitation happens.
Ignore those who profit from you being on the wrong side of the line.

2024-09-04 21:59:20

"not your keys not your coins" is the digital version of "not your laws not your land"

2024-09-04 21:58:53

#bitcoin uses too much energy!!! fr, it's draining telling people it needs to use more.
how else are you going to use that energy? build a hospital? you gonna eat those amps? no.
Energy is scarce and valuable. People forced to recognise their poverty blame the competition.

2024-09-04 21:58:29

#bitcoin and #AI will each use "more electricity than the Netherlands".
Driving investment in energy infrastructure, making energy more abundant and increasing production from green sources.
Also reinforcing: The only counter to AI generated content is cryptographic signing.

2024-09-04 21:57:53

No #bitcoiner says "I can't afford a family".

2024-09-04 21:57:18

UK Dragonfire laser (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfire_(weapon)) gives insight to the next arena of great power contest: electrical power generation. Directed energy will defeat mass produced weapons. Encryption energy will defeat offensive hacking.
WW1 was manufacturing and logistics, WW2 was information theory and statistics, the next display will be around application of electrical power for self-defence and economic security.
what percentage of power generation do you need to defend yourself? what can you afford?

2024-09-04 21:56:36

#Bitcoin is worthless, private keys and access to the network is all that matters.
fork'n'dump strategies incoming as the rich will need to relearn this lesson.

2024-09-04 21:56:21

The #UkraineWar is a demonstration of why governments built empires: to secure supply chains for materiel to defend your land.
The #PalestineIsraelwar is a demonstration of why good governance prioritizes the defence of their citizens against all threats - internal and external.

2024-09-04 21:55:39

When currency is manipulated price signals are distorted; 30 years of manipulation meant governments invested into people instead of infrastructure.
Building pensions and benefits instead of bridges and schools.
Thus we are now broke with the only payoff being entitlement.

2024-09-04 21:54:49

controversial: #bitcoin only goes parabolic in "scam cycles" (2014: forks/new chains, 2017: ICOs, 2020: paper exchanges).
This scam-cycle is going to be sick... definitely states and stable coins.

2024-09-04 21:54:32

ai generated content must be costing companies a fortune in storage, and costing a fortune in generation.
how long until web 2.0 is crushed by gen ai?

2024-09-04 21:53:53

governments should run on tax; holding assets for gains puts the tax payer in competition with the asset.
at some point the government will ignore the tax payer because they can get money elsewhere. Just like MMT.

2024-09-04 21:53:31

Millennials in a life-long bull flag.

2024-09-04 21:52:55

inflation compounds more consistently than stock market returns.

2024-09-04 21:52:21

politics: one mind, one vote
financial markets: one currency unit, one vote
social media: one account, one vote
The #trilemma of the modern world.

2024-09-04 21:44:56

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"Is there a magic trick that allows you to go from 0 to 100000 by gaming the algorithm these days and then scam your followers"
only fans, twitch, all that kind of stuff right? "the content economy" requires "a community"

2024-09-04 16:39:42

boss