Matt Warren ⚡

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Objectivism🔸Capitalism🔸Computer Science🔸Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Czar🔸 Not related to Elizabeth Warren

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2024-09-14 11:09:21

I've seen some opinions on Bitcoiners getting wealthier by providing no value. I can't speak for everyone, but here's how I am getting wealthier by providing no value:
I go into my emergency medicine job and get verbally and physically abused (called names, hit, choked, threatened), serve an ever increasing number of patients with resource increases that don't keep up, do things that fundamentally change who I am in ways that can't be undone (work on dead babies with parents screaming in my ears), get exposed to dangerous pathogens frequently, work nights so someone is there to respond to your emergency (changing this because the pay isn't worth it), act as a social worker because that's my job now apparently, pick up extra shifts to fund my investments, and spend a lot of time maintaining my education and licensing.
Outside of that, I've spent literally thousands of hours studying a variety of topics covering the financial system, government, all sorts of investment topics, technology, philosophy, and other areas.
After all of that, I landed on Bitcoin and chose to store my extra wealth there. It's paying off.
I think some people are just fucking envious. I could have spent my time hating people who figured something out before me. Fortunately, I spent thousands of my hours learning from them instead.
Most of my focus and work in 2025 will be on providing value for those who also value freedom and Bitcoin. #Nostr and #Bitcoin are the way.
Anyone saying people like me produce nothing can fuck right off. I produced value and stored it in Bitcoin and all Bitcoin has done is what it was supposed to do. Full disclosure: a very tiny portion of my stack was bought out of spite using stimi money during Covid. I've since v4v'ed way more than that to devs and producers in this space.
It seems like people are called geniuses for doing this with anything else (Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, etc), but people who do it with Bitcoin are somehow different. It's all built on an internal image of what people will value in the future and betting on that thing. It turns out that people already value Bitcoin. You really don't have to be a genius to take a look around and conclude that the world needs Bitcoin. The fucking up and right chart can be understood by any simpleton.
Envy is evil and destroys people.

2024-09-12 19:57:09

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Cool, but not my primary point. My issue is with asking devs (like Amethyst) to create for a worse stack and trying to convince people to switch to what is currently Apple only software. It seems more prudent to support the ones building on much more open stacks than to go in reverse, again, if one's goal is to escape those types of systems.
I just think it's bizarre to do things that strengthen a system you're trying to escape.

2024-09-10 04:06:21

I still encounter people who think the US dollar is backed by gold.

2024-09-08 12:30:12

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This in itself is a great meme that I will be using.

2024-09-05 16:00:22

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Or some bot becomes multibots. 💀

2024-09-05 07:47:06

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Yeah, I'm sure I'd want to erase a country that is constantly fucking attacking me too. That's the whole point of having a government. The problem is that they haven't ever actually eliminated the threat. I'm not saying that Israel has been perfect. No country is. But there's a lot of one sided bullshit propaganda coming from Palestinians as if they aren't getting what they keep asking for. The people there should eliminate the people attacking Israel if it is actually such a minority of them. Otherwise, yeah, they will all eventually die. That isn't genocide. That's called war. And if you won't quit attacking a more powerful enemy then you should be prepared to be completely eliminated. I don't think that's controversial. You keep getting stung until you stop fucking with the bees. They could have spent their time and energy making life for Palestinians better, but they chose war instead. That's on them and so is all of the collateral damage that results. Israel is not responsible for that. I wish the killing would stop. I don't like that. It's awful. But acting like a victim while you're killing people in another nation is absolutely retarded. I'm willing to bet that most Israeli people don't want to keep living like this either. There is no peace with people who will accept nothing less than all Jews leaving the planet. And I'm absolutely in support of bombing them until they accept reality and stop attacking others. Then I would of course want Israel to stop and continue forward peacefully. But that's never worked. The attacks always continue.

2024-09-05 06:05:18

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A client developer or relay can prevent you from seeing certain things (and should, actually). But they can't force every other client and relay to do the same thing. That's my point. I want clients and relays to hide certain things from me. I don't want to see child porn or things like that. I saw an AI generated child porn image in a client I used to use. I don't want to associate with relays or clients that don't try to filter stuff like that. The idea that zero filtration is good is simply nonsense and I wouldn't use Nostr if there was no way to shield myself from stuff I don't want to see. But I have options if I think filtration goes too far (like filtering a specific political party, etc)

2024-09-05 04:38:13

I don't really understand the point anyway. We already know this happens with the other side. The Nostr side at least gives one options if some censorship is tried somewhere (client, relay, etc).
So all I hear is:
I will lose doing X, and since I could temporarily lose a little doing Y, I'm going to stick with X and for sure lose.
????
#note1x5t…gtk8

2024-09-04 04:38:50

I tried and left Nostr twice before going Nostr only with this npub. Everyone has a different tolerance for developing technology. People will come in their own time.
#note1e9z…x2l4

2024-09-04 04:34:07

People ultimately have to do what they think is best, but it would be really cool to see some of the people on YouTube list their Nostr npub alongside their X handle.
Some of the accounts I follow have Nostr but don't list their npub on videos. People have unique reasons for doing things, but it is worth considering in my opinion.

2024-09-03 13:51:01

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In reality, I'd actually just go back to a dumb phone or some Gnu/Linux phone, but I mean IF I wasn't willing to do that or it wasn't an option.

2024-09-03 13:48:50

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The main incentive I can see for them to keep Android open is that it's open, while the alternative isn't. If I had to choose between iOS and stock Android on a Pixel, I'd probably choose Apple. For context, I'm a hardcore GrapheneOS/AOSP maxi and have been since Android was created.

2024-09-03 13:46:42

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They have already slow motion done this with the major apps in AOSP. Go look at the SMS app, for example. Google doesn't owe us anything, so not a criticism. Just an observation. It isn't a leap to imagine that they may do this with the OS at some point.

2024-09-03 10:42:06

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Not that I'm perfect. I'm far from it.

2024-09-03 10:06:31

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Yeah, but I really would like to see Nostr succeed. I hope the right people see this and care. Because frankly, most people aren't going to deal with the things that people like us are willing to. I ultimately just want to make it as clean as possible for the people who aren't as ideological or technical as me.

2024-09-03 09:56:40

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This is largely why the companies I worked at mostly kept the developers hidden from clients. Starting my own company forced me to actually interact with clients and users as a developer. It was really fucking hard, and I quickly learned why companies usually have a bridge between the two. It's a unique skill that seemingly isn't valued here.

2024-09-03 09:50:28

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I've mostly stopped giving feedback on my experience as a user of various apps for the reasons you listed. I have experience working with directly with clients to build web applications and typically use that experience to tell devs what average people are likely to think about certain UX, bugs, etc (because I used to make money doing that).
The problem for me has been that my feedback is usually taken personally and it gets fucking exhausting. I just don't care to do it anymore. My experience professionally had the benefit of economic incentives. Companies lost money from UX that didn't work. I figured out what the customers didn't like and fixed it. There was an economic feedback mechanism. Here, it's just "what have YOU done?" or some variation of being told to basically fuck off. It honestly feels like you don't matter unless you're specifically writing code on something (I have, just not for Nostr yet). The messaging has been super elitist in my experience. And I'm not getting paid (I actually send sats to devs), so it's pretty easy to fuck off.
/rant

2024-09-03 09:08:01

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If they intentionally want it to be in secret or limited in scope then that's indeed a different issue that won't be changed by this. Nostr is at least the one thing everyone should have in common though, so it should help if they aren't intentionally making the chats exclusive. I'd say at a minimum that those who do communicate on Nostr owe nothing to those who don't since it naturally seems like the best fit for the official channel. You will never be able to force people to not use other channels. But at least having a Nostr option leaves the ball in their court instead of everyone else to use a number of comms outside of Nostr.

2024-09-03 08:29:28

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What a fucking world though. Imagine spammers having to pay you to spam you. It's perfect. Their ability to spam will cost more over time.

2024-09-03 08:28:15

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Lol I've had that happen too. I call it SatSpam or ZapSpam.

2024-09-02 13:36:08

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The sat is the only unit that means anything to me. I actually get quite annoyed at UIs that only show me decimal values. It's so fucking useless and annoying, especially when it's like 5000k sats. I'm okay with seeing 100,000,000 if I had to move a "whole coin." I'm sure most people are.

2024-09-01 09:08:04

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I'm not willing to do this, but I will contribute some sats to any trustworthy person who is.

2024-08-30 03:34:47

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Word count isn't the only indicator of good writing. Using more words than necessary is bad writing. A book can contain more than a single thought, and some people have reason to dig beneath the headline for some topics.
Rehashing what has already been written elsewhere is a waste of time, hence the book recommendation.
I've read many great books that were absolutely worth being written and read.
I use such knowledge to prevent people from dying at work, for example. It turns out that some topics need to be deeply understood and require more space than a tweet to teach. However, that doesn't mean a book should be 200 pages if 100 pages would do.

2024-08-30 03:20:46

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On Writing Well caused me to rebel against minimum word counts in college. Shorter is better when it comes to writing. 🫡

2024-08-30 03:18:08

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On Writing Well is an excellent book on this topic lol

2024-08-30 03:09:45

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That said, the individual must decide which tradeoffs to accept and when. For example, sometimes I just use Mullvad because it's faster and I'm okay with the tradeoff.

2024-08-30 00:40:32

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Because high yield crypto companies have a long history of being perfectly fine.

2024-08-28 10:23:24

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It looks like someone could have been watching that squirrel in 1751 lol

2024-08-28 04:02:36

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Enjoy.

2024-08-28 02:28:55

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I don't really see the point anymore either. People are going to do what they want to do, as they should. Also, I don't think we really need them to get it anymore. The train is already gaining speed. I'm not trying to convince people anymore. I just tell them what it's done for my life, share some resources if they want them, and then move the fuck on. It's a calmer life, and I've actually convinced more people this way than when I'd carry on about how stupid fiat is. Bitcoin speaks for itself once curiosity is sparked.

2024-08-28 02:22:33

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It seems that Nostr has something similar to Bitcoin cycles. Maybe that's just the natural path of these things.

2024-08-23 06:26:31

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Time is not a mental construct.

2024-08-23 06:22:00

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I didn't say you could. Only that your premise isn't true for all of us. Some of us can't handle things like that for various reasons and I would be just as pleased having the option to turn it off. I wouldn't really care in that case, which is why I clarified "if it couldn't be disabled."

2024-08-23 05:10:45

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That would encourage me to not use it if it couldn't be disabled.

2024-08-23 05:07:58

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Death penalty cases are a lot more expensive than life in prison. It makes more sense to just use prison for cost, but also because false convictions are real. You can't unkill someone. You can sometimes at least release innocent people from prison though.

2024-08-23 00:38:07

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That's not the same thing as just making an announcement.

2024-08-21 08:12:21

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McCarthyism was destructive too, which is the result of using fear to rile people up. Collectivism is always dangerous regardless of the mission. Ayn Rand had the correct approach to this issue. I'd rather teach people to think than be afraid. Reason is better than fear.

2024-08-21 08:06:30

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Stay proud and stack sats.

2024-08-21 06:31:13

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I have used Alby exclusively, but practical currently comes at a cost, unfortunately. I'm trying to come up with the most practical way of not relying on something like Alby.

2024-08-21 06:14:07

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All things I was hoping to learn in testing. Testing myself wouldn't reveal something like a Minibits delay since I don't use it. I appreciate your time and effort. It's looking like this isn't the solution I was hoping for. Self-custody Lightning is still kind of a pain to be honest.

2024-08-21 05:55:24

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It's making me manually 'redeem' zaps in the app for some reason. Not sure how to get it to just accept anything that comes in. @npub1xnf…lpr5 I appreciate the test.

2024-08-21 05:41:20

Testing an always-on Zeus setup for receiving zaps. Using an old Pixel phone with CalyxOS and Obtainium. If this goes well, I'm going to look into improving the setup in various ways.
Would appreciate small test zaps and feedback on whether errors occur. 🫡
https://m.primal.net/KGRL.jpg

2024-08-21 03:27:30

Social Security is a scam in my opinion, but if you're going to have such a scam, you should at least avoid using the unique ID for fucking everything else that has nothing to do with social security.
Bitcoin is my social security now, but I still have to worry about bullshit being opened in my name (I have frozen my credit at all bureaus, but that is not 100% safety for me) because my data is held outside of my control under piss poor security models. The only moral option is to allow people to publicly opt-out of this shit show and be done with it.
I don't want credit. I don't need AT&T to front me a month of service. I don't want to pay into government Pozi schemes. I want the government, companies, and criminals-the only people actually benefitting from this system as far as I'm concerned-to take my social security number and shove it right up their asses.
*End quarterly social security/data breach rant.*

2024-08-20 17:01:10

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And their content is mostly just complaining about Bitcoin and Nostr content. They're all fucking complaining yet not really posting anything different.

2024-08-20 16:30:53

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Don't worry. They'll be around to tell you how lucky you got at some point.

2024-08-20 16:25:14

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Isn't it already?

2024-08-19 02:14:53

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You must think you're very important to tell someone else what not to buy, what their objective is, and which web browser they should use.
I hate ads as much as the next guy and certainly agree with preventing cross site tracking (Firefox Containers, for example), but YouTube isn't free to run. They offer me a way to avoid ads so I take it. I'm not going to be a thief while still using their product.
People bitch and moan about ads yet aren't willing to pay either.

2024-08-18 13:46:34

Welcome.
#note1qm5…h9hf

2024-08-18 13:46:21

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One key thing to understand is that Nostr isn't a platform. It's a protocol, and that's what sets it apart from something like X or Facebook. Those are platforms.

2024-08-18 13:41:29

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A thing being better than something else doesn't make it good or just. I have no doubt that the surrounding states are awful, but that doesn't mean that anarchy is good. That's a fallacy. I would agree that a state should be minimal and unintrusive (prevent men from using force against one another, or provide mediation before or after they do). But that doesn't mean that having no state is somehow better. That's a false dichotomy. It's entirely possible to have a moral state. I define that as a state that exists only to defend my property rights. That to me is far better and more realistic than just having everyone do whatever the duck they want simply because they have the bigger gun.

2024-08-18 13:30:44

Writing a book doesn't make a subject complicated, nor does it mean that you're correct or that everyone will agree with what you write.

2024-08-18 13:28:36

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Premium solves that.

2024-08-17 01:31:21

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The N64 was dope, but so was the GameCube. Last things I cared for from Nintendo except for some of the GameBoys

2024-08-17 01:28:03

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Lol I just need to tuck in an orange dress shirt and go door to door on a bicycle.

2024-08-17 01:26:30

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Well, this issue wasn't a PIN issue. I'd be okay with it having a brick feature for security, but it allowed me to login and started having issues when I was using it THEN turned off and bricked itself. It has the green blessed light and everything. No one else touched it. Probably a weird hardware issue, but not one I've seen on any other device.

2024-08-16 14:32:52

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Every government is a reflection of the people and culture from which is came.

2024-08-16 14:16:47

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Protocols may enforce some rules across the internet, but try that theory out in some of the places in Africa where these silly ideals have played out in the physical world. Not everything in life happens behind a keyboard, nor can a digital protocol enforce all rights.

2024-08-16 13:34:22

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To be clear, you can't "fix" these problems. But you can mitigate them or make it easier to recover from mishaps. That's all I'm saying. The current model is pretty much as bad as it can be in my opinion. But we are still early, which is why I think it's a bad idea to start using Nostr for critical things right now. I think people should only use it for non-critical things until it's more mature and secure.

2024-08-16 13:09:57

Posting notes on #Primal has gotten really slow for some reason.

2024-08-16 13:09:01

How private are #Nostr direct messages?

2024-08-16 11:13:22

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So a bunch of little governments everywhere. Lol That's even worse than what we have now. That can't work without an ultimate arbiter. You essentially end up with the warlords that result anytime anarchy actually occurs. There is no actual anarchy in the real world. Humans will always form governments because there will always be humans that don't play by the fantasy rules. Should government be extremely limited? Yes. But having none with this many people is just fucking retarded. We still have rape, murder and theft even with a government. That isn't going to magically go away by having a bunch of micro groups all over doing things their own way. And there will always be groups looking to grow and impose their ways.

2024-08-16 10:43:23

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Anarchism doesn't allow for the organized defense of property rights by definition. Otherwise, you're right back at government. Using licenses and legal systems to protect products or property rights is a pretty shitty example of an anarchist. You don't even own products under anarchism for the aforementioned reasons. There's no real way to enforce such a concept as product ownership.

2024-08-16 09:16:46

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Do you think the cozier spaces will be paid relays?
On a side note, I've been thinking this about societies in general lately. That seems to be the general direction of humanity. I don't agree with the citadel concept necessarily, but I do think a divergence is happening broadly. I think we will see a lot of weird stuff in the coming years as the soft collapse continues, and people like us (those who saw it coming early and will therefore benefit greatly) will have to work together.
What you describe for social media is probably just a reflection of what's happening in the real world in various ways.

2024-08-16 07:10:17

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They are probably using certain flags to determine potential or likely maliciousness. I doubt this is as insidious as some of you are making it. Don't use Play Protect if this is really that big of a problem. Systems like this will never be perfect in a world with so many applications and bad actors. Some good software will inevitably be caught up in the net like this.

2024-08-16 07:02:21

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I also use GrapheneOS, but isn't this the whole point of Play Protect? I'm assuming it was installed outside of Google Play, which is likely a red flag to this software. The average user probably is better off with this behavior. Although, users should be able to disable if they can't already.

2024-08-16 06:35:51

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Trezor (Model T and Model One - These have actually been the most reliable of the ones that aren't the SeedSigner)
Blockstream Jade - the software was total dogshit.
ColdCard MK4 (just had one brick for no good reason during normal use after only several months of owning it).
ColdCard Q - This one has had issues with cameras picking up the QR code on the screen due to the poor backlight quality. The SeedSigner has worked every time with ease. I have to resort to micro SD transfers with the Q. The QR scanner works great, just not the reverse. One of the PIN entry features also completely failed when I tested it. So much for the best in security.
I've spend a lot of money on this shit and the @npub17ty…3mgl has been the only one to not get in my fucking way and make using hardware signers annoying.

2024-08-16 05:46:36

The more I use expensive hardware signing devices (most have been shit quality), the more I appreciate @npub17ty…3mgl

2024-08-16 00:47:53

I hadn't thought about it until now, but I don't worry about a central authority hiding what I say on #Nostr like I do on YouTube (etc). I intentionally obfuscate certain words on YouTube, which is absolute trash. I'm not about it.
Fuck.
Word blocking is totally possible on Nostr, but it's at least decentralized. Besides, I'm never going to have a meaningful relationship with someone who can't handle the word "fuck." We just won't vibe and that is cool.
Peace and fuck.

2024-08-15 04:15:23

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People have worn hats, wigs, head garments for centuries. Are you more old fashioned than that?

2024-08-15 01:30:37

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I went ahead and froze my credit with the US Bureaus. Fuck 'em.

2024-08-15 00:35:22

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I won't regret stacking sats if it catches on, but I almost certainly will regret half of my notes lol

2024-08-14 13:37:30

After years of frustration, I'm convinced that the laws of physics do not allow for a smooth Nextcloud update.

2024-08-13 10:10:05

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I think we all do. I feel this way about my vehicles too.

2024-08-11 11:54:11

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Working on it.

2024-08-11 11:40:55

I'm glad the world has @npub1cn4…3vle

2024-08-07 05:13:54

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I understand that most don't, but most also aren't verifying downloads...

2024-08-07 05:13:14

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Do wallets need to be distributed by Google? It seems like people who want to avoid this issue would go directly to the repo.

2024-08-07 05:09:58

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There is a difference, which is why she makes it explicitly clear in this video that she wants everyone to end up in the same place via equity. Equality of outcome is the stated goal. You can't have that in a free society.

2024-08-07 05:00:12

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You can call it whatever you want, but you're using semantics to skate around the fact that she wants to steal property from some people and give it to others (equity, everyone ending up in the same place). I don't really give a shit what you want to call the violation of property rights. The principle evil remains.
You can't have a society where everyone has property rights AND everyone ends up in the same place. There will always be those who achieve more and earn more. The only possible way to achieve (in theory) what she claims to want IS communism.
I consider Trump a mixed-economist with socialist tendencies, but I don't hear him saying that the government should make everyone exactly the same, which really means to reduce everyone down to the lowest common denominator in the interest of 'equity.'
You're trying to use terms as a distraction from the actual issues at hand. She's absolutely a socialist, and her ideas could only be serious pursued under a communist regime. Otherwise, producers wouldn't go for it.

2024-08-07 04:45:09

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Chadette.
https://m.primal.net/Jqoi.gif

2024-08-06 21:57:25

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Fair enough.

2024-08-06 21:56:51

'Individual right' is redundant. No other kind exists.

2024-08-06 21:48:35

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I hate when people unnecessarily use more words than necessary.

2024-08-06 21:45:09

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How is the equity she speaks about being implemented? Where does the more given to some people by the government come from? How can everyone end up in the same place without government force and control of property and economics?

2024-08-06 21:28:08

Because Washington leeches should be running businesses. That will fix everything.
#note1kwr…7v66

2024-08-06 21:25:53

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Buy the streets and the blood running through them.

2024-08-06 14:32:19

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It looked like it was a full shutdown situation. That's the most confusing part for me. I suppose funding could be an issue but would like to know for sure why it isn't being taken over if that is the case.

2024-08-06 14:27:04

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I was starting to like it and always thought the web first approach was smart. That's actually what attracted me to it. Frankly, I treated it like beta software but wanted to use it and help grow it in my own way. I am confused as to why having a different team wouldn't be the first option, assuming it wasn't.

2024-08-06 14:19:06

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I also know nothing about their financials. I just meant in general from what I've seen with grants

2024-08-06 13:56:20

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Most grants I've seen are paid in stages exactly for this reason. Quarterly, monthly, etc. I doubt there are any strings attached if that's the case here. It's likely not worth pursuing regardless, other than maybe to take ownership of the project and branding to appoint new people. I'd like to see that here. They shouldn't be able to take and have the sole choice in closing the project entirely. The grant holder should be able to take the project over if they choose to.

2024-08-06 13:52:56

I had the same thoughts. I just switched over to Mutiny because I liked their general philosophy and direction. I'm left wondering what the point was.
It's cool that they want to explore other products, but I won't bother with any of them (assuming they're relevant for me) out of fear that I'm just going to be rugged again.
It's so bizarre and unexpected. I also don't understand why the entire project had to die because one person is burned out.
I'm glad I didn't convert anyone over yet. Shit like this makes onboarding people really painful and risky for me.
The team should have been more transparent and made it clear that the project was a toy. I understand that people sometimes need to leave a project, but stuff like this impacts those who provide support financially and by helping others with adoption.
#note19xs…xdx2

2024-08-06 02:22:24

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Mine is worst when I'm excited or passionate about something. Although, I've embraced it at this point in my life.

2024-08-06 02:08:04

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I can understand that some people don't want to mix money and social media or whatever use case, but that's just hippie bullshit. Money has to be involved somewhere. The difference is that some Nostr clients just make it explicitly clear and give users a way to support one another instead of the dominant model of centralized control that turns users into the product. I use the zap button instead of a 'like' button to support things I get value from.
No client is forcing people to adopt the value for value model. The bigger issue seems to be that certain people don't like that many Nostr users are Bitcoiners. Sorry, but those principles and people are what have fostered this. It certainly wasn't the fiat and Twitter maxis.
I don't buy that Bitcoin is keeping people off of Nostr. Most people simply don't value freedom or at least don't show it in their actions.

2024-08-05 23:06:31

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Most people who think #Bitcoin is stupid aren't going to put up with the shit I put up with as a Nostr user. That's just reality. I only get Nostr because I get Bitcoin. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't be using it either. Maybe growth in numbers in an arbitrary timeframe isn't as important of a metric as you think. The whole point from my perspective is opt-in freedom software. Not everyone cares about freedom, and those who do may never make it here unless certain big names do after being booted from most/all of the centralized platforms. People don't tend to make changes or deal with things like Nostr until they have to. It isn't even ready for average users in my opinion. It would likely cause more damage than good for the average Joe to use this stuff with how buggy and relatively complicated it is for them right now.

2024-08-05 22:44:21

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I look forward to a day when most people use Nostr and have no idea what it is or at most a vague idea. The reason being that I likely won't have to see STR after uninspiring names for apps and what would otherwise be normal words.

2024-08-05 22:37:37

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I don't know what this means.

2024-08-05 14:12:09

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The instinct to panic sell is indicative of how bullshit our economy is now. Everyone knows it's all bullshit, but they stick around for the good times as long as they can. The buck has to end somewhere. I've opted out.

2024-08-04 00:10:17

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American tax law is fucked so I gave up on trying to keep up with DCA accounting, unfortunately. It's been easier for me to do large buys once a month. Hopefully things change, but we seem to make all the worst decisions before we do the right thing.

2024-08-04 00:06:44

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DCA can be done with or without credit. When I say cashflow I mean paying up front for any I buy using excess cash from my income sources. How you choose to make buys is a separate issue from whether or not you use credit.

2024-08-03 21:08:54

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I'm so glad I made the decision to cashflow my Bitcoin. To each their own, I just value not stressing over leverage. Cashflow, hodl, and chill has been a winning strategy for me, even if it is less sexy. I guess it's like investing in water or something boring to some people out there. Sadly, many will get rekt in the coming years.