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2025-04-25 19:50:36

😂😂😂
Google's AI Overview completely hallucinated the existence of "unsafe" for the Zig language.
Grok 3 correctly says that Zig doesn't have unsafe blocks.
https://image.nostr.build/838a63846bf6f47771f15764fc12a82d04e69378bc371ad667d5238f340b3b8d.png

2025-04-24 17:40:42

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/contributors/2025/04/23/a-cashless-society-risks-leaving-millions-behind-opinion/83217122007/#
I was on a panel recently in DC with one of the sponsors of this bill, State Representative Warren Davidson.
He's awesome. I didn't need to push the ideals of freedom. He did it for me.
Ensuring that you can always pay cash is essential for financial freedoms; this bill is a very good start.

2025-04-24 16:33:54

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Ukraine is slowly winning. Slow is obviously bad here, as far too many innocent Ukrainians are dying in the process. If they had more support they could win faster, and fewer good people would die.
That is obvious to any reasonable person. Clearly you are just a troll.

2025-04-24 16:31:37

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“I don't see any difference between Russians and Ukrainians” 😂😂😂
She is Ukrainian:
https://image.nostr.build/2b46bd50fb37b9edcc63817b8799c68153cd97688b9678a9d5e4708e3380923f.jpg
Ukraine isn't doing that. Ukraine didn't invade Russia.
As I said, you're just a psychopath saying bullshit for social media points.
Anyway, clearly this is a waste of my time.

2025-04-24 16:22:06

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Ukraine wants the constant stream of murders to stop. Russia is using attacks on civilians as a way to try to crush Ukraine and force them to surrender, precisely because Russia is not having success on the battlefield. And more generally, because Russians are hopelessly evil and have absolutely no sense of honor.
https://image.nostr.build/2b46bd50fb37b9edcc63817b8799c68153cd97688b9678a9d5e4708e3380923f.jpg
I know you know this. Which goes to show you're just a psychopath who is saying this crap for social media points.

2025-04-24 15:51:37

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You don't get a choice how this ends. Getting angry because good people are using drones to kill bad people doesn't stop bad people from using drones to kill good people. It just means that good people won't be able to defend themselves when they get attacked.
Hell, if Ukraine hadn't gived up their nuclear weapons most likely _none_ of this would have happened. Ukraine would have been able to threaten Russia with annihilation, and not a single Ukrainian child would have been murdered.
Peaceniks like you have blood on your hands.

2025-04-24 15:29:33

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The "peace" being proposed by Trump is a high-time preference surrender in disguise.
Ukraine has already been through this before, many times over. Russia proposes a "peace", regroups, and attacks again. Russia did the exact same thing with Chechnya in the 90's: Russia lost the first war, signed a peace treaty, and just spent the next three years rearming to attack again. This time winning.
European countries know this, especially ones bordering Russia. To achieve an actual peace Russia needs to be thoroughly defeated and permanently disarmed. Fucking up their economy is the most realistic way to do that.
Fortunately, Russia makes its money via highly flammable oil and gas infrastructure:
https://video.nostr.build/73d389454b6fe45c8a6f9b0893ee3b7a9a3191a6f2be6f83cd2010ea80de868c.mp4

2025-04-24 15:11:14

https://image.nostr.build/4eae94b14d7cb026c5cb8d802db96c83e79255b49c33ae7bae78e22782e3fff0.jpg
Trump is hopelessly weak here. But one thing in particular is how he keeps on both-siding losses.
Most Russian soldiers are dying from drones, like these men. Look at their faces:
https://video.nostr.build/0f623a747fe1293a18f3d4dc97aed0038a5b622fffa70a7912ac4066b58d4b12.mp4
They're not young boys forced into war. They're older men who knowingly signed up to help slaughter Ukrainians for money. A lot of money. Enough of them survive to make it worth it.
It's a good thing when these psychopaths are kille and injured. And Putin and Russian society in general don't give a fuck about their deaths. Trump appealing to humanity just goes to show he has absolutely no control over the situation.

2025-04-23 23:38:49

10 years after I pointed out the risk of a Ripple backdoor due to Ripple not PGP signing their software or providing any other way to get it securely... there's a a Ripple backdoor due to an npm compromise. 😂
https://github.com/petertodd/ripple-consensus-analysis-paper/blob/master/paper.pdf
https://image.nostr.build/550b7f806d3e02fa054601c999b5959743a5aa49fe5a4dcd80ae4bdc27e8ed38.png https://image.nostr.build/2910d114fd064fbfe0b42d3b06dde40feabd9cf40450ac0a4b42df6f9ec4ec39.png https://image.nostr.build/f26f74239d7b45f0cbaf4861b49cebb605366b069e29559fe547a55f15434e29.png

2025-04-23 03:57:02

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...and an Iraq that isn't a threat to anyone else. For the rest of the world that's a win.
I wouldn't be so quick to argue they were better off with Saddam either. He and his regime were monsters that much of the population hated.

2025-04-22 23:39:10

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Neither is really pro-war.
Trump is pro-war. He's trying to appease Russia for a short term political “win”, an action that will inevitably lead to an even bigger war later.
Appeasement does not work. Killing scumbags does.

2025-04-22 23:10:56

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Cope.

2025-04-22 22:43:37

https://video.nostr.build/c0a482198dc85b5c320b668c64f1e43f845cf8f85e2c40d8528ef17ba99ddb7b.mp4
Best video so far of the Russian ammo depot that Ukraine blew up today, 65km _north-east_ of Moscow. Not even the main explosion. Just a secondary.
A 5km radius was evacuated, and Russians in the area complained of impacts from debris thrown by the explosions. NASA's fire monitoring satellite system shows an enormous fire:
https://image.nostr.build/dffbad934ccc98e90a96286e71fa1828513cc51c778323b65645223d687ec7bd.jpg
Fact is, if Ukraine can successfully, repeatedly, hit ammo depots right by Moscow they can destroy the Russian “civilian” economy and end the slaughter of Ukrainians. The only obstacles are funding, and the scumbags who keep complaining about the safety of Russian “civilians”.
There is zero reason why Moscow's four airports should still be operating. At the very least, blow up the fuel tanks and destroy the ATC towers and radars. Shutting down convenient travel to Moscow would be a big hit to their economy.

2025-04-21 21:57:36

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Note that her salary is $250,600, and her husband's is $1.1 million. The off chance of having $3000 stolen isn't a big deal for her.

2025-04-21 21:54:47

Notable how she was carrying around cash rather than putting everything on cars. Financial privacy FTW.
Spending that amount of cash all at once is outright illegal in a lot of EU shitholes, like Spain.
#nevent1q…ch77

2025-04-20 20:25:32

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I personally know people in the Ukrainian military; I've been to Ukraine plenty of times during the war. This isn't propaganda. It's a big part of why I can reasonably safely visit.

2025-04-19 20:59:59

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I know.
If I didn't pay my taxes I'd eventually get arrested. This is the wartime version of that. He refused to cooperate with conscription and unsurprisingly got arrested. Other people are risking their lives to keep him safe – the onus is on him to do his part too.
Probably best I don't say more details at this point. But in general, crypto tech people keep on getting themselves in trouble with this because they're selfish idiots.
Of course, if he were Russian it'd be an entirely opposite situation. All Russians have a moral ditu to evade their government, e.g. by leaving Russia, or sabotage. Paying Russian taxes and contributing to their economy is a deeply evil act.

2025-04-19 19:50:42

https://youtu.be/CRRYmT6hhQA
The US could lose the next war if it doesn't learn from Ukraine's mastery of drone warfare.
There's 1000+ Russian casualties per day right now, about 75% of which are due to drones. Ukraine has been able to push back Russian supply logistics 50km+ from the front lines with drones – anything closer gets destroyed, fast. Russia is advancing slightly in some areas. But at a truly absurd cost.

2025-04-18 16:31:13

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Basically yes.
_But_ from what I've read pardons are not valid unless you accept your guilt, specifically. Which means the Fauci pardon may be invalid unless he starts admitting things. And only Fauci was pardoned, so lots of people around him could still be put in jail.

2025-04-18 16:13:36

https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-covid-19/
Now that the truth is finally admitted, next step is investigations and criminal prosecutions.

2025-04-15 15:20:38

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This.
If universities are going to have federal funding it's pretty obvious that they should allow Jews to attend their classes without violence and harassment from Islamic extremists who hate Jews.

2025-04-15 15:00:04

As I said, find me an example. You haven't yet. Trump says a _lot_ of stuff. Let's see what is actually done.
That said, deporting US citizens who got their citizenship fraudulently is reasonable. And using El Salvador for extra prison capacity can be reasonable too.

2025-04-15 14:23:05

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COVID at the beginning was a potential emergency. But we should have figured out quickly from the overwhelming scientific evidence that it wasn't actually an emergency, and lifted all restrictions.
Instead, we artificially turned it into an emergency by fucking up society – and the medical system – for political reasons.
Getting the psychopaths responsible for this out of society is it self an emergency. Because they're probably going to do it again; they already tried to before with the H1N1 fraud.

2025-04-15 13:57:31

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Find an example of someone _not_ from El Salvador who was deported to El Salvador. I haven't actually found one yet – there's been claims. But they turn out to be El Salvadorans when their background is investigated more fully.
There probably will be the occasional mistake. But that isn't proving to be very common.

2025-04-15 13:36:22

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Dunno if you've noticed but the US is in debt...
And lately, who are they bombing? The Houthies clearly deserve it. If anything, the US is making the mistake of spending too much money on carefully targeted attacks rather than just wiping out the Houthies cheaply.

2025-04-15 10:59:31

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“The money can be found/printed if required.”
Nonsense. Money isn't magic. There just aren't enough judges and lawyers out there to make it happen. Printing unlimited money would not change that.
The fact is _all_ systems make mistakes. Due process doesn't entirely stop innocent people from being harmed either.

2025-04-15 10:56:36

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You realize how _high_ that ratio is if taken literally: almost 10% of people found guilty will be innocent.
In practice, the west probably does more like 1% or 0.1%; El Salvador has released ~6% of those arrested. Though that figure also includes plea deals, and cases where people argued for clemency. And they're probably incorrectly releasing people who are in fact gang members too.
These kinds of numbers are easily justified when you take into account the fact that criminals repeatedly commit crimes. In the case of El Salvador, literally hundreds of lives per year are being saved, and an entire country is being transformed for the better.

2025-04-15 09:53:16

Due process costs money, a lot of money.
El Salvador had to compromise on due process when they rounded up the gang members. When 1% of your population are murderous , violent, criminals who need to be locked up, there simply aren't enough judges or lawyers to give everyone full due process.
The West faces the exact same problem with illegals. We've allowed in literally tens of millions of violent, unproductive, people who need to be forced out, and fast. There aren't enough judges or lawyers on the planet to give every one of those people trials.
The compromise is some innocent people will be wronged. But overall it's the right compromise to make. Fighting violence and criminality at this scale is closer to fighting a war than it is a policing action.
#nevent1q…sknp

2025-04-13 18:01:27

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Yup. Fiber drones are a relatively new thing. But Russia and Ukraine are both using them extensively already.
Frontline areas are getting covered in fiber... Gonna be a huge mess to clean up when Russia is finally defeated.

2025-04-13 11:51:29

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I've yet to see any Ukrainian made drones in person. But Wild Hornets is one of many entities mass producing them. Photos here: https://linktr.ee/wildhornets
As well as a on-chain Bitcoin donation address.

2025-04-13 11:46:47

Downed Russian suicide drone on display at an outdoor sports store in Kyiv, IIRC a Molniya-2 model.
Notable how cheaply made they are. Just balsa wood, vacuum molded plastic, tape, and hobby-grade servos and other electronics. Still, these kill people.
https://image.nostr.build/96fb097ccaae73219e8b257066678a8e21c07858be369fbe6078724f28fa8990.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/8add1b668ab905a8f95ad0975190366e508aac7cad3a4818c253f341949d5d55.jpg https://image.nostr.build/61152b28584a8ee7a57300663f223965ce45ea04350fb9694ec3b85385efee27.jpg https://image.nostr.build/9d2a58dcf600d1b803fb70340bfae465262c1fd86ee7f15740f6f692c278ddfd.jpg https://image.nostr.build/71182d51d6eb87c207e36657eac06e5767d14228efc993ef4f3dd69feb271ba3.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ec83fb9fafd0ca3f6d945da106a3fe91cfb1450efaf22f4855e9626e0ced4e56.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/4b6c816edb883fdef11c5b8c0f55f809e0d15b0f1d73a872f1160b6add3264e2.jpg

2025-04-12 02:28:20

https://image.nostr.build/07949b83fc07cd8b33f781db2052930f9431e1d83cd1383ea4144cc9c5c22756.jpg
https://x.com/ApostateProphet/status/1910321521907716220
https://image.nostr.build/18596f704170bfd6b26ba3bd46327abfaa99b23fa499c302336078f2459359c6.jpg
https://x.com/ApostateProphet/status/1910768024338018476
At some point the EU will go after nostr image hosts and relays. That'll be interesting!

2025-04-07 08:09:50

This is the sort of drone that Ukraine is successfully using to attack Russian targets, in this case a fiber optic plant in Saransk, about 1000km from the border.
Basically a cheap Cessna-like small plane, built in Ukraine, fitted with a droppable bomb. This particular plane already dropped its bomb elsewhere, and was using the airframe itself to crash into the electrical switchgear outside the facility to destroy it. (Ukraine has actually developed automated bomb dropping software for its drones)
Russian anti-aircraft defense is in a sorry state... Ukraine could absolutely win this war by destroying more economic targets in Russia like this and crashing their economy. The main issue is the psychopathic "anti-war" "peaceniks" who care more about Russian "civilians" than Ukrainians.
https://video.nostr.build/d20f19bc26542353c22578bc0a4860f872a76e8d2d626e8791fc64fc59acd630.mp4

2025-04-05 10:38:54

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Indeed. The Iron Dome saves lives in the short run. But it allows politicians to ignore the root causes of the problem – e.g. the fact that Hamas still exists – and punt the solution until later.
Israeli lives are still collectively lost too despite the Iron Dome: if the population of Tel Aviv, 500,000 people, hide in bunkers for 15 minutes collectively they've spent 14 years wasting their precious time on earth in bunkers. Just in terms of time lost, a few air alerts is equivalent to a human life.
...also, that math is exactly why so many people ignore air raids in Ukraine. The raids go on for much longer, and not enough people die per raid to be worth hiding.

2025-04-05 08:43:45

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Actually it would be fine! The creation of timestamp proofs is both very cheap, and scalable. The hashing of the data is done client side, so all that the servers have to do is build a merkle tree of all requests. That part scales well as we have aggregator software that can build different parts of the merkle tree on different servers.
At the moment demand is low enough that I only need a single aggregator per calendar. But if load increases we'll just spin up more.

2025-04-05 08:38:35

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Thank God for the Iron Dome. Miracle of engineering. Though hopefully they can make it cheaper!
Yeah, Ukrainian air raids are much longer, often hours. Just a few days ago there was a 5 hour one.

2025-04-05 07:48:29

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Good video of the attack. Just an arbitrary residential neighborhood.
https://video.nostr.build/c14f929ce7458a26bd46a24b6f0371cd913ece18fe8bd3afa9c5fe63a57253d9.mp4

2025-04-05 07:47:09

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Of course, the danger is real. Just diffuse. Just I took that video Russia targeted a playground in a residential area with cluster bombs in a different city, killing a bunch of kids:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wxe5g4z9yo
They're just evil and want to murder you. Fortunately Ukraine is a huge county, so your chances of getting murdered in any given one of these random terror attacks is low. But it's not zero.

2025-04-05 07:36:50

https://video.nostr.build/d9b2986815c5dd75beb594ab2cf4f0dd62235caa0f68b56cc0199cc8fdaa92da.mp4
One of the _very_ few places that actually enforce evacuation for air raids in Ukraine is some of the big malls (at least in safer cities like Kyiv and Odesa).
It's quite funny though being in one of the restaurants: the waiters quickly run around getting everyone to pay their bills first, and box up any remaining food and drinks to take away. Takes a good fifteen minutes to get everyone out. 😂 Of course, this has been a pretty much every day or two event for multiple years now.
I'm curious: how do they handle this in Israel? All the videos I've seen indicate they take the sirens much more seriously.
Also, if you're in Kyiv, I'm speaking at the bitdevs meetup about my recent work on scaling OpenTimestamps next Tuesday. Gonna make it a fairly technical presentation – the audience in Kyiv is pretty good.

2025-04-02 21:57:00

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https://image.nostr.build/b544b9779f2bca8bda45e62ef5812814537c06dd1288a04c32c5769815eb9c9d.jpg

2025-04-02 04:55:27

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Funny how Jews and Asians don't seem to have this problem...
Not everyone is the same. Culture and genetics do matter.

2025-04-02 04:27:09

Barcelona police accuse conservative party spokesman of hate crime for simply accurately reporting on the fact that Muslims are an overwhelmingly high % of people getting arrested: https://theobjective.com/espana/politica/2025-03-30/policia-portavoz-vox-extranjeros-detenidos/
Reality is racist.

2025-03-31 17:53:29

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Why make an exchange? You can just force them out and let Jews continue to live where they've lived for thousands of years. Indeed, Israel can expand.
Gaza owes Israel an enormous amount of money in damages. Gaza giving up land to pay for those damages would be fair.

2025-03-31 17:29:36

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Look up the number of Nobel prizes awarded to Muslims vs Jews. We have _far_ more to lose if the Jewish population is driven out than if a bunch of people with a social media history of anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism get their visas cancelled.

2025-03-30 15:38:29

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"no noticable secondary explosions"
Dude, we have solid evidence there was a massive shockwave that damaged buildings hundreds of meters outside the base. Just look at the videos. Obviously, Ukraine blew up a lot of Russian explosives; nothing Ukraine can deliver has that much punch.

2025-03-30 12:22:05

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There's plenty of geolocates footage of the attack and its consequences. Not hard to figure out how much explosives likely went off and compare it to likely sources.
https://video.nostr.build/fa520739eaf3c21eb839e4735ccb93eb7bdeee584c4628c6b8d1ada7741fa206.mp4
https://video.nostr.build/474ce69fa1c3172e296ad42aad217b76db76dace6451be53098dea11e3c0bcb1.mp4
https://video.nostr.build/c9f474ac0922e2f60ffd616637ca8227418bec096c03767631db1ab243c7de87.mp4

2025-03-30 10:10:29

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2025/03/27/the-triple-tap-raid-on-the-engels-bomber-base-cost-russia-96-billion/
$960 million worth of equipment destroyed, so 0.7% if Russia's entire (official) military budget lost in a single set of attacks.
In fairness, getting to the point where Ukraine could repeatedly hit of Russia's biggest and more important airbases certainly took a lot of preparation destroying anti-air systems between Ukraine and that airbase. But still, impressive.

2025-03-30 03:30:06

https://image.nostr.build/6fe8e824f11ef59bce179b693e5eed56022dc4f02bd0f5c632caebc7421b7800.jpg

2025-03-28 09:21:48

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😂😂😂😂

2025-03-28 09:21:14

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Huh? No-one uses escalators for air stairs. The purpose of the motor is just to raise the stairs into position to match the height of the plane.

2025-03-28 08:58:39

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I wouldn't be surprised if solar powered air stairs actually save money: being self-refueling you don't have to pay someone to go around with a gas can periodically. And they're probably less maintenance than having an engine.
But green? 😂

2025-03-28 08:45:57

“100% electric stairs for a green future”
Yeah... that jet engine in the background probably puts out more CO2 in a minute than gasoline powered air stairs use in a year.
https://image.nostr.build/5c0408ccdc673ca95479e809df51bd5785186a5f9a2fe6461bb139534f15dfec.jpg

2025-03-26 19:03:46

Central banks could entirely remove the risk of this all collapsing over bank failures by offering zero risk euro accounts... They're obviously not going to do that to prop up the banking industry.
#nevent1q…58t8

2025-03-25 05:17:05

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The thing is with keys alone you're not proving that data was created by an _device_. But rather, just by a key. That by itself doesn't mean anything. To actually prove something about a device is a difficult key validation problem.

2025-03-25 04:35:29

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Basically no. That is a _much_ harder problem than time-stamping...

2025-03-25 04:15:42

Pro-tip: if you want to prove that Pete Hegseth actually leaked you details of US strikes on Yemen hours ahead of time – rather than you just faking a few screenshots – timestamp those screenshots with OpenTimestamps.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/

2025-03-22 20:32:20

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They might not have it. Also, topology data is often pretty coarse.

2025-03-22 05:35:00

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On a hill or not?

2025-03-19 23:49:43

010000000001011a559447098aaa14dec0c62ea55f43f9ce6bda07d1759f11b634334ab9da939b0000000000ffffffff010000000000000000076a05616e6e657802406840b6fa27a00ba001cc92797ce4f3ab7b7a32c21d1fce49e893b42e506bd92e8db187966a84ef799915cf671334cc59779915b192bfb66b2afcf384bb61d0f422500049276d20616e20616e6e6578212041726520796f7520616e20616e6e65783f0000000000

2025-03-17 21:22:37

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I'm not sure exactly. But I was in the gifted program in Ontario when I was a kid; admission is in part based on an IQ test. So look up the 1995-era standards and I must have done better than that. 😂

2025-03-17 21:21:15

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Have you ever taken an IQ test? They're designed to test reasoning irrespective of education.

2025-03-17 13:23:39

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...which is an important use-case for IQ tests: figuring out raw intelligence, before training.

2025-03-17 12:46:39

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People who tolerate being trained in abstract reasoning are the people with high IQ... No amount of training is going to make dumb people understand abstract thinking. People have different intellectual capacities. That's just the ugly reality.

2025-03-17 12:00:44

https://image.nostr.build/80409f351318bfa27fa524010bd4dce66133b5f117393cd10dcb823cc37b0357.jpg
Graph of Canada's population vs worker productivity from FT.
Unsurprisingly, if you rapidly expand your population by importing millions of third worlders, per-worker productivity will go down.
The fact is we're not all equal. Canada's population is significantly smarter than the world average. Importing the rest of the world en-mass will inevitably degrade that advantage.
Making IQ tests a requirement for immigration would be a good start.

2025-03-15 21:39:50

https://www.covra.nl/en/radioactive-waste/the-art-of-preservation
https://www.covra.nl/en/radioactive-waste/the-art-of-preservation/
Storing museum art amongst radioactive waste.
“This is, actually, a place of honor.”

2025-03-15 14:41:42

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https://image.nostr.build/8fe4338503ce97f7d525917b45c3e95d6e0acf364db9260e8d4d36e7e5a7e883.jpg
If Ukraine can successfully build these things in hidden basement workshops, stopping production is going to be hard.
The engines are Ukrainian made turbofans too – Ukraine has a much more sophisticated manufacturing industry than many realize.

2025-03-12 16:52:08

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Have you ever tried paying a shop with USD coins?

2025-03-11 16:11:15

A FOIA'd conversation between Clinton and Russian president Yeltsin, from 1999:
https://image.nostr.build/9c47d2598b72388f60f900a21331dc9bab947def9cf1ca525cc41f2ef88009ec.jpg
Psychopathic culture.
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/20592-national-security-archive-doc-06-memorandum

2025-03-10 19:24:13

It's impressive how rapidly Elon Musk is fucking up his businesses with absurd Putin supporting nonsense. The rumors of him abusing drugs may very well be true. These are ridiculous fights to pick.
https://image.nostr.build/1d8ef01163380a4c1640f4ab05f6f8a07cdebbf32881fe8a776aba750bdfabb6.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/dd0b4006aedce3c4277ffbd39a42281abef9b7306dc7cb4298d90d4157921c5b.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/6e7d0fa5acbcc3b9095c21f9baf9ad15245f3778c9475eac15f5adb43591cd76.jpg

2025-03-10 15:17:49

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Nah. 1kg × c² = 9×10¹⁶ Joules.
The largest nuclear weapon ever tested was the Tsar Bomba, at 50megatons of TNT equivalent. That works out to 2.1×10¹⁷ Joules, a bit over twice as much energy (it weighed 27,000kg, so only a small fraction of its mass was turned into energy).
The Tsar Bomba only managed to produce a fire all 8km in diameter. That's _so_ many orders of magnitude away from wiping out all life.

2025-03-09 22:11:22

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Of course it's taxable. It's income.

2025-03-09 20:53:06

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The tax problem is easy to solve for the sender: get some AML/KYC Bitcoin and just don't report it.
For the receiver, it'd be regular income, so just sum it up and report it.

2025-03-09 15:04:04

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https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2007-09-18

2025-03-09 14:59:08

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/announcement-2
SMBC comics parts ways with their ad provider, leaving them without any income.
I really wish I could just pay with lightning to see content. Are there any easy to use lightning paywalls? Surely someone could write some simple JavaScript to do this. It doesn't need to be completely secure.

2025-03-07 11:22:04

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A surprisingly common answe to the question "WTF did I just see in the sky‽” is it's a spaceship!

2025-03-06 23:58:56

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I think the main point is that you have a known company standing behind their work, and documenting it properly.

2025-03-06 23:57:07

https://video.nostr.build/142378a7b4525471e343da551aa0ccad80886d6a48a40c0135cc2e7e8c81b59d.mp4
Neat video of Starship Flight 8 just after the upper stage exploded. It's sufficiently high and fast that we see the explosion quickly moving across the sky with no appreciable air resistance.

2025-03-06 20:41:06

Interesting service: https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/fully-bootstrapping-java-from-source-in-wolfi

2025-03-06 18:34:53

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Obviously Russia is doing badly now and can be thoroughly defeated. But at the same time, obviously Russia can rebuild their forces over time if we get another ceasefire. Which is exactly what they've done time and time again.
I know you know you this. Why are you trolling?

2025-03-06 10:49:21

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“This explains why Russian troops have barely moved in February, coming to a near halt in the past two weeks.”
A much simpler explanation is Russia is losing. They've been having severe economic problems, in part due to oil and gas infrastructure getting blown up by Ukraine. Rusisa does not have infinite men or equipment, and they've been clearly struggling. Hell, they're using lots of civilian vehicles due to a shortage of military vehicles. They've even started using horses and donkeys:
https://video.nostr.build/e13b6a458fb52422508af9c2273878060e06137b1c59cc732fcc62ea6639f2bf.mp4
Russia hasn't "barely moved" in February. They've barely moved for much longer than that. They can't even get Ukrainians out of Kursk.
That's a much simpler explanation than deal to "carve up" Ukraine. How do you think the US would "get the east"?
And it's obvious that Europe has a seat at the table. They've been providing more weapons and money than the US, and Europe has nukes (France and the UK). Most recently French fighter jets were donated and are already flying missions, and the donated F16s came from the EU, not the US.

2025-03-05 18:26:16

Second time that OpenTimestamps has been used to secure election results in the US: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/bitcoin-blockchain-used-to-secure-results-of-tennessee-countys-republican-convention-vote

2025-03-05 00:02:05

https://video.nostr.build/59ca75ae96eb394a398008137279304197563d85cbd4d062a9cfa391f7e184d8.mp4
“When you see that “cloud” seeming to “settle” fast, realize it isn’t a cloud and it isn’t settling. It is a supersonic sandblasting spray flying ballistically away from the camera at 2-3 kilometers per second, crossing the horizon and impacting many kilometers across the Moon.”
https://x.com/DrPhiltill/status/1897043829917929838

2025-03-04 22:19:25

https://www.state.gov/designation-of-ansarallah-as-a-foreign-terrorist-organization/
They want to sanction your Bitcoin wallet.
Yet until today the US didn't even bother designating the Houthies as a terrorist organization.

2025-03-04 12:18:20

OTOH making the signers private reduces risks of them being compromised by force.
Same as how Tether refusing to release details about their bank accounts was arguably a good thing.
#nevent1q…wrsl

2025-03-04 12:15:20

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That's an exceptionally hard problem without whitelisting.

2025-03-04 12:11:59

"[My Twitter replies were] just a puke of bots…”
Only because nostr is tiny. If nostr gets bigger it'll be overrun by bots too.
#nevent1q…ev8a

2025-03-02 17:15:37

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https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114093946326587357

2025-03-02 17:14:28

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It's politics. The crypto reserve including XRP doesn't mean they lobbying didn't work. It means that if we didn't lobby, BTC wouldn't have been included at all.
https://image.nostr.build/67ad98d481aaa9bd7465e57786c9c7a62c40b408a6994c94741b9f13f5d95ebc.jpg

2025-03-02 17:06:58

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#nevent1q…fukm

2025-03-02 17:06:43

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Anyway, it's easy to understand why the strategic reserve is going to contain XRP, ETH, and SOL in addition to BTC: every one of these coins had people lobbying to be included. It's easier for centralized ones like XRP to do that.
If bitcoiners hadn't lobbied, good chance that ₿ wouldn't have even been included.

2025-03-02 17:04:10

https://image.nostr.build/67ad98d481aaa9bd7465e57786c9c7a62c40b408a6994c94741b9f13f5d95ebc.jpg
Good time to remind people of my Ripple paper: https://github.com/petertodd/ripple-consensus-analysis-paper/blob/master/paper.pdf

2025-03-01 20:05:53

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"Bitcoin power couple"
Dude, they've been together long enough to be a Satoshi suspect.

2025-03-01 20:04:34

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"will you continue to suck Zelenskyy's cock"
What do you think Zelensky should be doing right now?

2025-03-01 20:02:54

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For the record, I think Hiroshima and Nagasaki were both entirely justified. Same with firebombing Dresden, Tokyo, etc.
It would also be entirely justified for anyone to nuke Moscow, or any other Russian city. Sadly a lot of kidnapped Ukrainian children would die in such an attack. But that's an acceptable loss to try to end that invasion.
If you've got a nuclear weapon handy, we can test your theory re: "things they'd never do themselves"...

2025-03-01 02:45:22

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btrfs is great to exactly that same use-case. I've been running it on my laptops, desktops, and (some) servers for years.

2025-02-28 16:31:06

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https://youtu.be/9Fr3oLZnmvc

2025-02-28 10:33:01

https://watcher.guru/news/sec-meme-coins-are-generally-not-securities-under-federal-law
“The offer and sale of meme coins does not involve an investment in an enterprise nor is it undertaken with a reasonable expectation of profits”
😁😁😁

2025-02-28 10:29:29

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That's still a bit assumption...
If old-timers are selling coins they could easily be selling from newer, hotter, wallets first.

2025-02-27 18:00:06

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“These people are not selling the dip.”
Big assumption.

2025-02-27 06:15:51

This hack reminds me of the audit I did on a Bitcoin custodian a while back.
They had a fancy multisig setup. But the source code for that setup was stored on AWS, and they didn't PGP sign it, let alone verify it.
#nevent1q…56fn