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2025-05-08 15:17:21

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I don't think the Greens per se *want* manufacturing to leave .. but they'd accept it as an assumed necessary evil.
They seem to not be aware of how important the exports are as the basis for prosperity and ability to import stuff. And it will be hard for Germany to build up a replacement for the manufactured goods they exported by trying to export services instead. What services would they export?
Apart from that, there could be tourism bringing in money .. but who would want to rely on tourism?

2025-05-07 15:54:53

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Stable PostmarketOS build for some boring off the shelf smartphone

2025-04-18 22:21:01

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Makes me think of Liu Cixin's "The three body problem".

2025-03-30 12:06:22

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Wondering how you got MATE to consume so much RAM.
It was the slimmest a few years back when I was choosing.
Could it be that it depends heavily upon which applications you use? With some sets, DE A might slimmest, with other sets DE B might be?

2025-03-30 11:34:58

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Any sound literature/sources/studies at hand on how exactly LED light is harmful or worse than incandescent?
Sure, it's not a spectrum but only isolated frequencies/wavelengths, I know.
But plants apparently grow fine with a few wavelengths. Why shouldn't humans be fine with a few important ones instead of a full spectrum?
I'd assume that physiological/biochemical processes do not depend on the full spectrum.

2025-03-30 07:10:42

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Vorschlag: statt pauschal das _Ganze_ abzutun. Wie wäre es damit, einzelne Aussagen zu betrachten (natürlich inkl Kontext) und dann jeweils Widerspruch oder Zustimmung zu äußern?
(Nur weil ein Teil der Aussagen vielleicht falsch oder Blödsinn ist, sind nicht automatisch alle Aussagen so.)

2025-03-01 10:55:36

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Isn't the executive order 6102 risk there, regardless of whether people self custody or use custodians?
As long as there isn't very widespread adoption, with a relevant fraction of voters/lobbyists (say > 15 %) holding Bitcoin (custodially/non custodially), then a state, seeking to get a sound basis for the coming monetary paradigm by building a reserve, will just issue a 6102 order or make holdings unviable by imposing an astronomical unrealised capital gains tax.
Many people will comply, unwilling to leave the country. At least that's what I'd expect to happen.

2025-02-23 11:13:45

This whole travel rule and MICA thing in combination with an unrealised capital gains tax on BTC holdings is IMO what is currently the greatest threat to BTC ever reaching wide adoption.
Any opinions on this?
A high enough unrealised capital gains tax can make DCA'ing that would otherwise make sense to many ordinary people mostly uninteresting or even financially entirely unviable. (These people will then be forced into the ordinary finance sector, DCA'ing ETFs instead)
And since until now only a minuscule fraction of voters hold a significant share of their wealth in BTC, political parties just aren't incentivized to oppose these taxes.

2025-02-23 11:03:11

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AI was apparently trained on too much Cartoon content.

2025-02-22 19:58:46

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Well sometimes when I review some prior work of mine, which was done in a highly caffeinated state .. it does feel https://image.nostr.build/92561895455e54e6829e60dc3c7abe1f6d52af97f1352071e42fb072c068410a.jpg a bit like the web on the bottom.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caffeinated_spiderwebs.jpg

2025-02-09 14:22:47

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Before .. plenty of white, plastic looking stuff everywhere already.
Coating natural materials is - almost generally IMO - a downgrade.
As soon as coatings that were once whole wear off even just a little bit, the coated object will look blemished.
Natural materials like wood, stone that come with inbuilt textures mostly don't suffer from this effect.

2025-02-09 13:09:46

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Maybe lifetimes are just a bit too short to realise one's own big errors/mistakes?
Maybe it'd be different if lifetimes were 50 years longer?
Then people would also be much likelier to experience and process subtle political/societal differences between periods of time.

2025-01-28 23:43:25

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The last few dots in the first chart make it look (to me) as if were slowly approaching the flat part of a sigmoid, rather than getting steeper.

2025-01-18 21:09:02

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Kind of retarded way to remove ice.

2024-12-26 00:00:45

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TLSR (too long, still read):
claim: western car companies haven't really pushed productivity/efficiency of factories close to the limits, because they didn't need to. Because they've been utilising cheap labour in China or elsewhere to get enough margin.
Tesla is changing this.

2024-12-15 13:26:00

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> lack of electricity
They claim a faulty transmission line is the cause.
https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/tuebingen/stromausfall-in-tuebingen-betrifft-innenstadt-mit-weihnachtsmarkt-und-verkehr-auf-strassen-100.html
> Die Stadtwerke gehen davon aus, dass ein Schaden an einer Stromleitung im Tübinger Westen zu einer Kettenreaktion im gesamten Netz geführt hat. Die Analyse der genauen technischen Hintergründe dauert noch an.

2024-12-14 00:15:44

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Energie ist eben (natürlich zusammen mit Technologie und Menschen und Rohstoffen) der "enabler" für .. alles.
Aber Energie ist nach meinem Verständnis esswntieller als die anderen Faktoren (Technologie, Menschen, Rohstoffe). Wenn man keine Energie hat, kann man mit anderen Faktoren sehr wenig anfangen. Ohne Energie ist menschliche Arbeitskraft sehr ineffektiv. Ohne Energie kann man mit Rohstoffen wenig tun.
Aber viel Energie und ein bisschen primitive Technologie, und ein paar Rohstoffe/Menschen, damit lässt sich durchaus einiges nützliche anfangen.

2024-12-13 23:59:12

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I always read it as: "Well .. guess I'll look to the side awkwardly .. because the situation is an awkward situation."

2024-12-13 06:33:25

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Is it really that surprising? If they barely manage to reach reproductive age and have offspring, that's all it takes to continue to exist.
The fact that they manage that much doesn't tell us anything about their level of health though.

2024-12-07 14:38:37

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If syncing via network becomes too slow, one could resort to ordering/sending/receiving an SSD with a blockchain that's a few days/weeks old via mail?
Exporting the blockchain to another SSD from a running node should be fast/easy.
So only a few GBs would be left to load via network.

2024-12-07 13:49:43

Thesis: large "social" media companies have the data and possibly already statistically significant correlations (drawn from it) between the sex of an embryo and the behaviour of the mother/parents.

2024-11-30 11:07:06

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Maybe one could build some expandable transparent dome and put a selection of species like algae, tardigrades and some extremophiles in there to kick start a biosphere?

2024-11-30 09:14:08

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Prodding the cat 🤔

2024-11-24 19:24:05

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Did you happen to go on a stroll through any western city's business district?

2024-11-24 18:09:15

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The "fiat collapse" can only happen, if there are enough people (regular people) using Bitcoin, thus forcing states/institutions to also use Bitcoin.
Majorities of voters (motivated by their incentive to preserve the utility/usability/legality of their Bitcoin holdings) will have to basically force pro-Bitcoin policy.
Otherwise, institutions/states won't be under any pressure to even care about Bitcoin. They'll just happily continue using fiat currencies as a tool to get more leeway for setting policy.

2024-11-18 12:11:10

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Another Example for a feature:
Somehow help with categorising followed npubs.
Categories could be:
A, new info npubs (news bot or heavy poster, never replied to any of my replies, not following me back)
B, high volume poster (not news bot like A, but frequent posts in discussions)
C, low volume poster (but is following me back, replied to a few of my notes)
D, ...
And for each category I'd like a separately scrollable feed.

2024-11-18 11:27:01

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The slow evolution of each npub's follow list is where I'd like more tools from the client devs.
I'd like features that help me with systematic management of my follow list(s).
Example:
Give me a single button on each note (accessible without _any_ additional tap/click, so that it's minimal effort) to mark the note as "interesting/relevant to me".
Then show me statistics from these marks so that I can directly see for all my followed npubs:
- number of notes seen in the last x days
- % of these notes marked as relevant
- ...

2024-11-18 11:17:14

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This may well be an accurate description of the current status of the nostrverse.
But, I don't think it's the big Npubs' fault.
I rather think this is mostly the inevitable dynamic that occurs in a system that's designed in this way (no feed algorithms at all).
And I think it's kind of a bootstrap dynamic that mostly characterises the beginning of the network.
After this initial phase I'd assume that other dynamics will evolve. New social circles/ sub communities will form around high impact accounts that have nothing to do with the initial big Npubs.
So I think we need patience and we'll get slow evolution, because every npub is slowly bootstrapping their way according to their interests.

2024-11-17 15:00:43

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RFK gathering evidence by personal experimentation.

2024-11-17 14:59:11

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Evidence?

2024-11-17 14:29:23

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> We seem to be approaching the point where a rebalancing of extreme asymmetries is at hand, and so we have to choose between policy changes and social upheaval.
🤔 Social upheaval? I don't see it happening anytime soon. At least not as a phenomenon of social class, transcending the political spectrum. Why? Because unlinke with examples of upheaval in history, one very powerful if not the fundamental motivation for it - because it is so visceral - mostly isn't there in the developed world: hunger. (Or am I missing something? Yes food banks are becoming ever more prevalent, but we're far away from mass starvation.)
That, combined with all the contemporary circuses (bread and circuses) like digital games and fake social engagement possibilityies that have a dulling effect.
Almost as Aldous Huxley described in Brave New World.

2024-11-17 14:16:01

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Well, the claim that fracking gas has a lower climate impact than coal is AFAIK wrong.
All the leaking methane from bore sites and processing plants, combined with the efficiency losses from having to compress/regas the stuff bring LNG to the same order of magnitude of emissions as coal, if not higher.
Good for the U.S. economy, for sure, cleaner than coal, probably not.

2024-11-17 14:03:58

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How so many people, who talk about "improving domestic business" as a remedy for a faltering economy, don't seem to understand the essential difference between sectors (like manufacturing) that are absolutely necessary to access any kind of foreign goods/services and other sectors that do nothing in that regard (like health care), is beyond me.

2024-11-17 13:54:48

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Just curious, what do you then make of the following way of looking at pension systems?
Regardless of any financial considerations, the very young and the very old _always_ have to be taken care of by those of working age. There's no way around it, it's just physics/biology.
The intergenerational contract, as they call it.
It may well be that the financialisation of this inherent aspect of human societies has introduced pyramid dynamics. But that just exists in the higher layer. The base layer (physical/biological) only depends on demography and technology and will somehow continue to work, regardless of how price tags develop.
The question that intrigues me is: is the number of at least 2.1 children per woman (allegedly necessary to get a stable system) derived through financial considerations? If so, then it might be false, too high. Because deflationary technology should bring it lower, right?

2024-11-10 00:34:59

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Can they reliably destroy underground facilities?

2024-10-13 20:10:42

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Have you already tried the following concept?
Giving your body small amounts of carbs _most_ of the time. Not even keto, but just at most maybe 100 g of carbs (dry mass) per day.
But every few days or so having quite a bit of carbs (maybe half of total calories).
The idea is to not let your body think it needs to slow its metabolism because there's restrictions.

2024-08-22 21:07:34

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So you don't buy into this whole "atherosclerosis is actually caused by inflammation and seed oil plant lipids" theory, proposed by eg Paul Mason?
I'm just like your average lazy thinking YouTube watcher, who found this quite in depth talk very interesting and compelling:
Dr. Paul Mason - 'The Clotting Theory of Atherosclerosis and Seed Oil Toxicity (updated)' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lRXZfs6Sjs

2024-05-18 18:28:37

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Just came across basically what you described with the FPGA:
https://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/BTCP/
> My goal is to build a Free/OpenSource computer from the ground up, so I may completely trust that the entire hardware+software system's behavior is 100% attributable to its fully available HDL (Hardware Description Language) and Software sources.

2024-05-16 15:24:58

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> My thinking was "the most likely commercially available fast processors to not be backdoored would be new ones in new areas of technology".
May be right.
There really ought to be a RISC-V based module for the MNTReform.
Although they claim that this one is "Fully open hardware design", which would imply it could be audited by third party:
https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-reform-ls1028a-module

2024-05-12 20:28:28

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What's your view on PostmarketOS?
Mentioned here: #nevent1q…mutq

2024-05-12 20:16:51

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Which RISC-V processors/boards do you find trustworthy?
Wouldn't gov agencies go to great lengths to try to inject hardware backdoors especially in open-source hardware projects out of fear of people actually getting almost secure devices?

2024-04-28 19:05:20

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That'd be outrageous. 🤔 what you describe is totally different from how wikipedia defines the concept.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_mortgage
> Reverse mortgages allow older people to immediately access the home equity they have built up in their homes, and defer payment of the loan ...
Where can I read about this being discussed like you wrote?

2024-04-14 21:05:06

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To be the spoil sport .. yep, fish is delicious .. but .. everyone who's mostly eating it for this reason should really cut back on it or even stop.
Apparently marine life isn't exactly striving right now.
Unfortunately the book I just read about the dreadful situation with the oceans and fishing isn't available in English .. but it references the following book .. might give it a read.
Isabella Lövin - Silent Seas - The Fish Race to the Bottom
https://image.nostr.build/81411556c07eb4a7ba1821e6c7b7bfb4f42d0e03572a5fb93c9ab40d766ff753.jpg