Cykros

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psyche_eros@iris.to

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cykros@speed.app

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2024-11-17 18:03:27

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Though that said, you ARE thinking in terms of fiat at today's prices. Give it a decade or two of inflation while BTC adoption expands and we may well hit quite a bit higher.

2024-11-17 18:01:42

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I must have lost a zero -- this is what I get for posting before the coffee's had time to work.
And yea, I paid around $100,000 for a month of rent at one point, so I feel the same pain. Especially since it turns out I was eligible for unemployment during that period where the restaurant I worked at was temporarily closed as they moved locations.

2024-11-17 16:39:13

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2024-11-17 14:50:57

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Thousands? Damn, that's a bearish take...

2024-11-17 10:37:29

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The reciprocal of Twitter. Progressive purity spiral all distilled onto one neat platform the rest of us can comfortably ignore, never worrying about having missed anything worth reading.

2024-11-16 05:02:07

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Looks like someone decided a modern wallet was probably a good idea -- something quantum proof, or perhaps looking for multisig. Why it took til now of course is the question -- perhaps just out of prison?
The crazy thing is, this probably cost them ~$20 when they bought it, assuming it wasn't mined...on a CPU.
Thanks #nostr for not being like Twitter where everyone's patting whoever this was on the back for "taking profits."

2024-11-16 04:29:36

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Yikes, with that much money even the 0.13% expense ratio is eating money that adds up. You'd think Goldman Sachs could afford to set up a reasonable multisig wallet for themselves.

2024-11-15 20:46:46

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It's right on schedule based on previous cycles around halvenings. If anything the political timing may well have to do with politicians noticing that and looking for some memory of prescience. Also, Satoshi timing things to coincide with US election years was either genius, or ridiculously coincidental.

2024-11-15 20:44:02

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For most assets I'd probably agree. I'm not sure there's that much supply side liquidity for this to hold up though. As someone always happy to expand my stack though, I do hope you're right.

2024-11-13 11:56:16

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I enjoy being able to customize feeds on Coracle.social to slice and dice what I'm looking at. Sometimes I want to see my follows, sometimes meet my followers, sometimes peruse tags, and sometimes look at other curated lists. And sometimes like right now, I throw on Global and see what the broader network has going on.

2024-11-10 11:26:40

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This is one of the places that price does sort of matter, as Lightning is constrained by liquidity based on how much actual BTC is available. Same BTC worth more dollars = more dollar based value that can be transferred via Lightning.

2024-11-09 05:18:05

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I bought Bitcoin years prior, but Nostr definitely solidified some principles and got me resolved to ditch my Ethereum. It's nice if people pick up Bitcoin the right way first, but Nostr makes it easier to share all of the potential pitfalls that so many of us already hit so others don't have to.

2024-11-09 04:51:08

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If anything the signs are more useful than ever, now that people might finally be going "welp, time to learn about this butt coin that orange guy on TV is talking about..." The universe really has a sense of humor given that our first bitcoin president is also our only orange president I'm aware of...

2024-11-08 19:50:10

#ProofOfWork.
Feels like cleaning up fiat bills. Though something tells me the leaves make better soil than the bills would.
https://image.nostr.build/4d9eb805d34c812a2c353141d5b468836866d2d33fb98bcff0109bb35dea9eb6.jpg

2024-11-04 11:17:19

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I never eat as much zarusoba as I want to. We have sushi everywhere, but things like zarusoba, oden, and other Japanese staples just don't seem to get picked up by the various restaurants in the area -- probably a function of most of them not being owned and run by Japanese people to begin with. It has been a good motivator in learning my way around the Japanese pantry though, particularly with the help of https://www.justonecookbook.com . Amusingly though things like zarusoba, despite being so simple, end up being the ones I make the least, because it just feels like so much attention (to avoid a sticky mess of buckwheat) for such a small but delightful snack.
Guess that's a long way of saying you're making me hungry.

2024-11-03 11:42:02

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Not sure when influencers became something people wanted to chase. I've gone out of my way to *BLOCK* advertising for decades, but somehow I'm supposed to be going out of my way to watch people live their life online AS an advertisement?
Yea, thanks but no thanks.

2024-11-02 17:43:21

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She's almost as dark as my Italian father during the summer.

2024-11-02 17:28:02

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Is hiring Elon to target government inefficiency like hiring Joseph Kennedy to target financial fraud? Seemed silly until I remembered that's how the SEC was founded. Hire bank robbers to regulate banks,and welfare queens to regulate government waste

2024-11-01 17:07:10

Frozen matcha latte sweetened with honey. Too hot for a hot drink today. #Matchastr
https://m.primal.net/LpVo.jpg

2024-11-01 15:25:24

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Seems like kh7 as black's response would avert mate in 2. H7 is safe, albeit pretty hemmed in, but black has other pieces to come rescue. kf8 is greedy.

2024-10-29 07:04:44

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I'm spending my time scrambling to get more BEFORE ngu, because my paychecks are denominated in ngd.

2024-10-22 15:47:20

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The functionality of discovery outside of those you're following varies heavily between clients. Personally I'm pretty happy with Coracle's approach. Between hashtags, and looking at extended networks, I can slice things up to my liking.
That said I'm not opposed to client level algorithms for curating a feed if it's what people want to opt into. At the end of the day Nostr being a protocol will almost certainly ensure that these remain optional, rather than enforced. Personally I won't be opting in, but I get that not everyone is interested in tinkering with their filters to find what they want.

2024-10-22 12:14:49

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I have somewhat marveled at the apparent scarcity of sex workers on Nostr so far. Wasn't sure if that's a product of something at the relay level or what. I do assume there will be a bit of segmentation that may arise when they do finally show up as relay operators may not be terribly comfortable hosting adult content that they have no verification of the legality of in much the same way people are particularly cautious running Tor exit nodes (but perhaps more worrisome due to the hosting...and can you blame them?). But I do have to assume that some with some brass cojones (or operating solely over Tor or other anonymization channels) will spring up, and likely operate without necessarily being linked into the main mesh of relays.
Though I suppose there's another alternative, which of course is linking to the hosted content elsewhere and using CW's so as to not bother the relay operators because they're not, at the end of the day, actually hosting anything. Truth be told I don't understand enough about how actual media files work with the Nostr protocol to begin with, because it does seem like media, at least above a certain size, gets treated a bit differently than text notes.

2024-10-22 12:09:33

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It depends what the recent past has been like for me. If I'm burnt out, I'd really just love to stare down an indefinitely long period where I can just do whatever comes to mind at the moment, with nothing hanging over my head I need to worry about.
Give me a bit of that, however, and the boredom or at least lack of direction can get to be nagging. Usually that's when I'll either welcome an outside project, or start crafting a regimen for myself to get SOMETHING done that's bigger than day to day amusement.
Truly not having anything going on can be pretty crushing at the end of the day. Even when I'm looking to be able to just go on long walks without worrying about anything else, the walks ARE the project, be it for fitness or just burning off anxious energy. Even when it's video games, there's the built in goals. And even when it's watching TV or movies, it's working through seasons, or some other list I've composed for myself. Once these structures of goals fall away, it seems only natural to reach out for something on your plate. Man does not live by bread alone...

2024-10-21 12:21:19

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Not sure I'd call the lunatic asylums particularly compassionate.
Prisons lock you up. Asylums actually lobotomized people. Never mind the sort of human experimentation they did. Radioactive oatmeal being one phenomenon that comes to mind from a nearby institution.
Eugenics was often so widely embraced because compared to these institutions IT was seen as the more compassionate approach.

2024-10-07 11:59:34

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The Betsy Ross flag, the Gadsden flag, and the revolutionary war symbolism have always been terrorist in nature, for those standing against the British Empire and the Bank of England that it serves. They're terrified of not owning and controlling the planet, and we're here to give them their worst nightmares.

2024-10-06 13:43:47

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Second reply here. Two state solution...well, best of luck there. I don't see the state of "Israel" to likely be a thing in 5-10 years, as they seem pretty hellbent on self destruction. But that's speculation after watching quite a bit of analysis, and it's certainly not a sure thing, nor worth much argument.
My ideal would be a single Palestinian state without the apartheid system, which is the stated goal of the various resistance factions. Though I have to say after this genocide it's going to be hard to bury the hatchet and stay neighborly. Post-apartheid South Africa wasn't without it's bumpy ride (and still isn't), and that was without the wholesale slaughter of hundreds of thousands of people, forced displacement, and utterly inhumane living conditions. It'll likely take some brave Jews to stick around and try to help patch things over once the state falls, if that is to be the path. Strange things do happen sometimes though.

2024-10-03 17:54:29

Today's playlist https://soundcloud.com/bcusi3imcikj/sets/jxnhgg7vtflf
#FreePalestine

2024-09-28 01:07:10

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But really it'd help to know what you're in the mood for genre wise. That movie was a good one easy to overlook though.

2024-09-28 01:05:14

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5 cm per second
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Centimeters_per_Second?wprov=sfla1

2024-09-28 01:03:43

Just rode in the passenger seat of my car while my 16 year old drove home on the highway for the first time.
(⊙_⊙)

2024-09-25 09:59:45

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The scam donation pages are disgusting. Aside from those I've spent quite a bit of time talking to who I didn't meet through such requests (which is a small handful), I've resolved to only direct funds to UNRWA and other well known, reputable organizations.
Pulling at heartstrings is something scammers are particularly good at. Better to aid an organization with systems in place for vetting the veracity of recipients of aid, and who can benefit from scaling as well, than to risk sending money to these swine.
Scaling isn't to be discounted either -- 100 individuals spending $10 on food isn't going to go as far as an organization spending $1000 on food. Keep your head on straight, even if your heart is rightfully freaking the fuck out.

2024-09-25 09:45:07

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I picked up showers as cold as I can make them about a year ago and while it took some time to get used to, I find warm showers a bit of an oddity at this point. You strip less of your natural oils, and while I do start my day with matcha (and more, depending how much sleep I've had), nothing wakes me up like the shower.
Curious how cold the water really is of course, as I have done a pool on New Year's Eve in the mountains, which definitely stepped it up a notch. But I haven't stacked enough sats to buy a dedicated cold plunge in my house.
I feel silly making suggestions because of how put together your regimen is and has been as documented elsewhere, but ever look at the StrongFirst kettlebell material? If deadlifts are bitcoin, kettlebell swings are the lightning network. The one might be solid, but the other makes you solid AND fast. 30 min a day is plenty to work in 10 sets of swings (5x each arm) and 10 Turkish Get Ups, after which most any other working out is just icing on the cake.

2024-09-24 21:35:38

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Lightning isn't all that broadly understood yet, even if you've followed the news from a distance. Seeing it in action on Nostr really stepped up my ap'reciation of what it means.
Gotta get George on #Nostr and #Fountain.

2024-09-24 11:53:12

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Personally, the lack of an algorithm, and the control over what I see (be it through follows, hashtags, or follows of follows) leaves me fairly unconcerned with the overall cruft that'll undoubtedly arrive as the network grows. Twitter isn't a cesspool because it's big; it's a cesspool because you get shoveled garbage you don't want to see designed specifically to instill division, and you get blocked from seeing stuff you want to see because it's deemed to be wrongthink.
But yes, there's something nice about being able to just throw on the "latest Global" feed and still mostly seeing stuff that at the very least doesn't make you hate humanity.

2024-09-24 11:49:46

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It's a good time to Note, but it's also a good time for Other Stuff too 😉.

2024-09-23 12:52:51

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Looks delicious. I lament how many Japanese restaurants we have around here, and yet how few actual Japanese dishes they tend to serve. Only a single one that I've found even serves oden 😪. It does tend to make me strive to learn to cook more of it for myself. Thanks for sharing ☺️.

2024-09-23 12:28:24

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You mean make it Twitter?

2024-09-23 10:50:33

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Found this glossary of sci-fi technology terms on HackerNews today.
Thought it might prove useful.
https://gist.github.com/FL33TW00D/2cf10abfb468bddcb585d3c282d0b133

2024-09-22 09:20:12

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Watching hubris filled tyrants follow their inevitable path to ruin. Wherever they be found.

2024-09-17 12:28:06

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Jamie Dimon, meanwhile, predicted 'worse than a recession' is coming.
My money's not on the words of a politician. Especially a globalist politician.
https://www.cryptoglobe.com/latest/2024/09/jpmorgan-ceo-jamie-dimon-warns-something-worse-than-recession-remains-a-risk-for-the-u-s-economy/

2024-09-16 10:51:30

After Saturday I can finally check off 'take part in a mosh pit at a wedding' from my bucket list.
Mischief Brew definitely belongs at more weddings. #Punk
https://youtu.be/qjD8I_snahE

2024-09-16 10:46:45

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I have no hate for Gentoo but Slackware works just fine and always had the best sysvinit set up around. If Pat ever gives it up Gentoo (or a derivative) would likely be my only option before jumping to a *BSD.

2024-09-16 10:44:26

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I like their writing anyway. Gibson's one dimensional Democrat politics on Twitter tend to give me a different opinion. But I listen to black metal and am used to separating art from the artist.

2024-09-11 09:54:25

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I tend to agree. And while her affiliations with Scientology are amusing I can't say I ever cared about Linkin' Park on that level for it to bother me. Chester's vocals were always worthy of a degree of admiration, and they've done him justice with by bringing on Emily.
That said, careful calling her his replacement; not everyone's so keen on that terminology due to some loaded meaning, even if it is on some levels technically accurate. Successor may be more apt.

2024-09-11 09:51:36

Careful what you're installing out there, and how much you're casually accessing on a mobile device. Separated wallets for spending/saving is prudent.
Found: 280 Android Apps That Use OCR to Steal Cryptocurrency Credentials
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=24/09/10/1122206&from=rss

2024-09-10 00:44:46

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This is a stick up, zap me all your sats!

2024-09-10 00:40:59

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Linux did turn lame on MOST distros, thanks to systems and the general degeneracy of Lennart Poettering, so I see how that arc might happen. And the BSD's are fine but not really the most polished as a desktop experience. As far as I'm concerned though Apple is still the Fischer Price of technology.
Slackware is still true to form and I don't see any reason to switch.

2024-09-09 11:47:58

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Price up is great, if you're looking to sell or spend. It'll go up in time -- it's deflationary in nature after all. Not sure I share the enthusiasm for rushing it. The uptrend is at least motivating for walking more with the sMiles app and finding other ways to stack sats though.

2024-09-09 11:23:50

Ahh, an experiment to find out at what point the costs of draconian crackdowns on dissent outweigh any gains held onto by failing to divest in #genocide. I applaud the students at #ColumbiaUniversity for putting together this experiment.
#FreePalestine
https://theintercept.com/2024/09/05/columbia-students-arrested-palestine-protests/

2024-09-09 10:43:26

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I'd throw in the caveat that it may be even more beautiful that you don't have to choose -- you can use as many of them as you like!
That's the magic of protocol level design.

2024-09-09 10:40:05

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I could see a use case in the breakdown, but I'd push back that that's a bit like backing out any BTC on the Lightning network because things on Lightning are generally presumed to be "in use" rather than pure investments.

2024-09-09 10:37:42

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I love anyone that suggests otherwise. I can only think to ask, "Were people who got online in 1983 (15 years after the advent of ARPANet) 'late' to the Internet?"
Make Lightning simple enough that grandma can do it, not lose her savings because she misplaced her keys, and watch things go parabolic. Especially alongside the crumbling of the Eurodollar system.

2024-09-09 10:34:27

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It definitely went downhill years ago when it got less about finding what you WANTED with hashtags, to seeing what was prescribed for you by the algorithm. When even the Followed feed is cultivated by the algorithm, rather than showing you what you asked to see, and there is no override aside from manually looking up what you're looking for, things are very, very broken.
The early days were nice. I'm not planning on leaving terribly soon if only because this is still a fairly undiversified crowd, but definitely scrolling more here, less there.

2024-09-09 10:12:27

Anyone else using #Fountain? Having issues linking Nostr. Signing in on android with my email. Tried signing in with key instead, but found I couldn't interface with lightning that way. Every time I try to link on the app it says something went wrong, and if it persists, to contact support.
Interestingly enough, on my browser it says I was able to successfully link but nothing has worked to make that appear on the app side of things, including clearing app cache, logging out and back in again, or even joining the beta on the play store.
I know it's super new to the #Nostr world but if anyone knows how I can get it working I'd appreciate it!

2024-09-08 20:22:37

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At $1MM a sat is worth a dime. At a billion it's $100.
Don't mind me, I'm just going to go walk a few hundred miles with the sMiles app...

2024-09-08 19:33:24

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I'm deeply considering setting up Umbrel but it's a non-trivial cost at the moment. Gotta learn more about how backing up wallets works; maybe I'll just set up a node on my Slackware desktop.
Speed wallet is working as I did get 30 sats but it feels less functional than things like Alby appear to be.

2024-09-08 19:30:31

Well that was weird. Opened up Amethyst and my profile had been wiped, followed/followers gone, but my notes still there. If I did something dumb I'd love to know what...

2024-09-08 15:08:00

Depressing to see so many Lightning wallets unavailable in the US. Speed Wallet seems to work with Amethyst but doesn't tie in so well with other Nostr apps. Was hoping to try Alby but having a hard time finding a custodial wallet to link it with. Any Americans got recommendations here? Aside from self custody -- thats an eventuality but just looking for quick and dirty at the moment as I feel out the ecosystem. #wallet #lightning #alby

2024-09-08 09:21:13

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Or a thriller amid their downfall as things get quite turbulent for those stuck with fiat denominated liabilities amid late-stage dollar milkshake (fiat-denominated) deflation.

2024-09-08 02:50:40

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Welcome to the power of money.

2024-09-07 21:08:40

It's always a good day when Sammy uploads something longer than 2 minutes.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ma6__MNiE6Y&si=Fb0TBs0UUFlJXYvK

2024-09-07 15:45:05

1. They'd be less likely to break in, at least, all other things being equal.
2. Privatized police is a loaded term, given that police normally have privileges that the average civilian doesn't have. Try putting a siren on your car to see what I mean there. we have examples of privatized police forces, such as on university campuses, and at the end of the day, it becomes about who is and who isn't a stakeholder in the outcomes of their interactions.
Community policing is or at least can be another matter. it may not appeal as much to the absolute hardliner libertarian capitalists as it does still have a police force that answers to a LOCAL community assembly directly, cutting out abstract notions of representative governments, often nested into local, state, and national levels.
We can look to the EZLN in Chiapas for examples of outcomes with this sort of model.
Then finally we can question, what privileges are ultimately required for a police force to begin with, particularly where the populace is appropriately armed? The extent to which we do away with things like qualified immunity and other similar privileges, the less police and civilians separate into a two-tier society.
Personally my preferences do lean a bit to community policing in moderately sized communities where appropriate combined with limiting privileges. But I can't say I think it works in all communities -- particularly large cities. Traditional private police forces ARE workable, but it is imperative that incentives be aligned such that they are defending justice rather than just a gang with badges.
As for those incentives, that gets into how you address courts in a minimal/no government environment. Perhaps a question for another note.

2024-09-07 06:16:48

Made a few posts and replies already but should probably throw out an #introductions post and not just slink in all sketchy like.
I'm cykros. glad to have found the place, and especially glad it's not a web3 platform as I had assumed based on the context I was seeing in my periphery on twitter.
I'm into scifi, geopolitics, economics, philosophy, religion, and freedom.
#FreePalestine

2024-09-07 05:48:13

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Signal has for years been an issue in that it is only distributed officially on the official repositories for Android and iOS. And this opens you pretty wide up to have an update pushed, as these repos are tantamount to a root kit.
Moxie Marlinspike has had this issue brought to his attention for years at this point, and his unwillingness to truly address it speaks volumes.
At the end of the day it all depends who you're trying to ensure privacy from. If it's the NSA, you really should consider using One Time Pad cryptography, which is unbreakable when implemented correctly, but is far from convenient. Anything else should be considered to be taking short cuts -- which are always going to be worth weighing the risk/benefits of.

2024-09-07 05:32:34

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It helps that there's no margin calls. If anything, in many states you can just send jinglemail and only be out the cash you've put down while the RMBS holders scramble to recoup whatever they can with a house they never wanted to have to sell -- usually amid a falling market.
The way risks are distorted by the political machinations of the mortgage industry makes it pretty painfully obvious why the housing market is such a mess. And then they have the audacity to blame expensive housing on "capitalism."

2024-09-07 05:18:25

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Given the "our" in that sentence, probably fairly foolish. But then, my wife was never fond of camping, particularly for months on end, over winter. Some people like creature comforts.

2024-09-07 03:27:24

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Might be motivation to look into FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early).
Personally I've learned I prefer one boss I can understand rather than trying to work for customers directly (ie, having a whole bunch of bosses). We all pick our poison I suppose. Shave down your wants, however, and you'll shave down the extent to which you'll be beholden to your income streams.

2024-09-07 03:15:41

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Can't speak too much to that as I'm new myself. Finally realized that despite it being crypto folks talking it up this wasn't yet another application needlessly using web3 to make something cost money that needn't. Glad to have realized it wasn't!

2024-09-06 19:16:35

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Doing it as preference is probably the only way to effectively do this given the decentralized nature of the platform. Disappaearing content requires centralized control,and Imus why there is no disappearing email.
Relays ignoring the preference would be akin to someone screenshotting tweets or snaps. Once you share something it's never 100% under your control anyway.
The one alarming thing with Nostr though is that while screenshots can be fabricated, and thus aren't always trustworthy, your Nostr notes are cryptographically signed, so you lose that deniability.just worth being aware of.

2024-09-06 13:13:44

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Snowshoes. And black metal.

2024-09-06 13:12:24

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Podcasts and audiobooks have made something that used to seem like a time consuming activity without much intensity into a much more worthwhile task. Especially complex trading or economic podcasts which don't lend themselves as well to a more distracting activity such as grocery shopping or even cooking.
Bring along a kendama to hone fine motor control and hand eye coordination while you go. Though walking rather than standing does add additional difficulty to kendama.