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Yeah, see - people keep thinking him and his ilk are trying to solve problems. They’re not. They haven’t been for decades upon decades.
They’re enriching themselves. This allows them to buy power (until it doesn’t - but that’s for another day).
Now, you see, it all makes sense.

2025-05-05 13:56:38

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And taken years away from proper fellowship.
We need small, tight communities with common values more than ever.

2025-05-03 18:56:38

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Sometimes… the puzzle is just easy to solve or chance happened upon double zeros. Doesn’t mean you worked harder, you just got lucky that time.

2025-05-03 18:32:32

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Almost like there’s a blossoming market for every coin out there - even the new ones.

2025-04-29 14:26:07

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“How do you control a cluster of nodes I own that run on tor in different parts of the world?
How do you know which transactions belong to whom?”
Admittedly, I’m not an expert. But I haven’t figured out the above yet. So if I’m wrong, maybe I learn something.

2025-04-27 18:26:58

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The problem is that the correlation is far from 1.

2025-04-27 17:23:35

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I agree that the *dollar* value of utxos will increase.
I’m just disagreeing that that means the sats will go up, too. I think it goes down. And the trend supports this.
It means the value of 1 sat will be astronomically higher.
This is important to project some minimum number of sats per utxo with an eye on the future.

2025-04-25 17:16:07

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Ah. This old debate again.
Been around long enough to know that this is just another bit of education normies are gonna be forced to learn if they want hard money - and eventually, they will.

2025-04-24 14:09:18

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Aliens. Obviously. And for the new one, clearly he’s controlling the weather. Er, I mean, climate. He needs a tall antenna because, while the world is obviously flat, it’s still got some bumps and ridges.

2025-04-14 01:28:32

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You've got to remember that these are just simple influencers. These are people of the TikTok and YouTube. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.

2025-04-12 02:57:37

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Yes. Fuck, yes. Amen.

2025-04-06 22:18:49

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Not good.

2025-04-05 20:57:20

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It’s not funny because it’s true. There’s always only 21M. It’s the fiat that’s volatile as shit.

2025-04-04 14:25:20

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This things have been toyed with for a long time. They’ve found some optimizations, but it isn’t going to power anything large - even when scaled - without some kind of profound sci-fi leap forward. People have been talking about 1w of power for a loooooong time.
These things are going to be awesome for IoT sensors - active sensors that you can embed in stuff like concrete, soil, you name it. Where you can have something the size of a large pack of gum to produce 10mw and it’s OK.
But your phone? Nope. Not unless you want to attach an actual brick to the back of it.
RTGs of significant size - like in space probes- still produce tiny amounts of wattage. They build it up continuously and also make use of the heat to warm the electronics.
Oh, they didn’t mention the heat? Well… sure. At .0001w, it’s nothing. But 1000x to get 1w? Spicy meatball!
Nah, the future is neighborhood sized tokamak fusion reactors and good ol’ lithium.

2025-04-03 14:19:43

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And the war between narcissists begins. Buckle up.

2025-04-03 14:17:24

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Not a trump fan - I’m a bitcoiners with popcorn.
But the best argument I’ve heard for tariffs is to FORCE the IS economy into contraction, eventually forcing the fed to lower rates. Lower prices and rates then paved the way for a combo of deregulation and lower taxes to make manufacturing here in the US very attractive. And people will be desperate to work.
Overseas, due to reserve status / Cantillon effect, they feel the tariffs harder and are, in some but not all situations, forced to spend more dollars.(but wouldn’t they just sell treasuries??)
Supposedly attempting to roll back the Triffin Dilemma.
Whatever. It’s all good for the corn. There may be an initial dip, but it’s going to rip afterward. In fiat terms and adoption.

2025-03-24 14:44:02

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The military tried it.
You should totally try it. I’m sure it’ll be fine. It’s only 300,000 years of trial and error - there’s room for improvement.

2025-03-24 14:40:38

Ordering online is easy and convenient… until you realize how risky it all is, either for you or the merchant. The only guaranty of profit is to the money middlemen.
Buy things online in bitcoin or lightning. Immediately, you can feel the trust involved. You can feel the lack of options if the other side screws you.
It seems to me that in a bitcoin standard, online shopping will be much more scarce and reputation-based.
People will prefer shopping in-person. Brick and mortars will be preferred for common goods. You may even get to know the patron/customers.
Local economies will be stronger. Global economies weaken as imports/exports slow way down.
People are forced into caring more about their local environment - its people, its merchants, its crime, its poverty, its health, its overall attractiveness to outsiders so that it can grow. If it gets too big, at some point it naturally partitions and neighborhoods form.
Money without middlemen would unwind most of the last 80-100 years of commerce.

2025-03-17 14:31:21

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I get that. And one part of me likes it.
The other part thinks, “no, my posts are my data. I should be able to revoke access to my data at will.”
This gets into whether notes are a matter of “public record” or freely shared data.
If it’s on the internet, it can be repeated, copied, screenshotted - a million ways to reproduce. But to prove whether or not you wrote something - should that belong to you or everyone?
It feels very much like using nostr is then submitting to the whims of the crowd and whatever groupthink du jour is occurring.
This is a terrifying thought, and I’m not a scammer. This creates a security risk and incentivizes wiser people to not contribute on nostr - as they lose control - without extreme measures of anonymity being taken. Nakmoto levels.
Is this the way we want to create community? With fear? There is the idea of merit - which again, a part of me loves. But the finality of the access to a note takes it to an extreme.
I’m pretty conflicted.

2025-02-17 19:12:33

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And I appreciate this. The “move fast and break things” approach is a fiat mindset, enabled by AI.

2025-02-17 18:52:11

I’m not saying the scope of the SSI corruption isn’t this big or can’t happen…
But maaaaybe whomever collected the data and/or built the spreadsheet is just an idiot? I mean, this is the government we’re talking about.
And they’re using AI to find/collect this data, which is naive at best in its discernment.
And then the DOGE + Musk has an incentive to keep the headlines coming.
Musk has never proven to be a source worthy of trust. Why start now? #note13d8…rnjk

2025-02-17 18:52:01

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2025-02-06 03:11:57

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…and completely in character. There are no surprises here.

2025-02-02 18:13:16

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All those dollars..lost. Like years in the rain.

2025-01-30 15:29:53

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Really interesting point…!

2025-01-30 15:24:56

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Never have I ever…
Said “I’m cold. I think I’ll turn on the lights.”
Never have I ever…
Heard anyone say anything like that.
I do love the warmth of an incandescent, tho. And old school sodium and magnesium lights.
And remember when headlights were yellow?

2025-01-28 15:22:25

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The administrative overhead will continue to increase until the insurance companies start facing effectively denial of service attacks from PA counters.
This ends only one way IMHO. And I’m already starting to see it where I live: doctors refusing insurance and accepting direct payments only.

2025-01-27 00:08:02

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100%. Food is such a bigger threat than heating up your balls via milliwatts of RF. This kind of thinking is coming from the same people who would endorse sunning their balls.

2025-01-25 19:22:14

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This is why we have NAT and subnets…
lol - agree, tho, why isn’t ipv6 more prominent?

2025-01-25 19:16:03

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Only dying civilizations use less energy with time. If we build/find new sources, it’s immediately allocated. Thus, supply almost never overtakes demand.

2025-01-22 15:29:49

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There is no problem. Everything is operating normally.
It’s completely natural that the bitcoin community, which embraces decentralized options, took to it first. It is, therefore, the largest community.
Other communities will take to it, as well, unto their own needs. We are seeing this play out in real-time. Their communities will naturally be smaller, at first, versus the more established bitcoin community.
It’s not an either/or. There isn’t a limitation preventing the growth of any community - that’s what makes part of the nostr protocol great. It’s just early days.
Early adopters of nostr (from a community) should really be seeing this as a time of opportunity. They get to help build their community, and their influence will play a key role.
It makes me think that the people complaining are those less interested in community and more interested in selling something. And one thing I’ve seen over and over again, from the radio ham community to bitcoiners to homesteaders - its community over shilling products. V4v, sure - but that’s not what’s making nostr thrive right now.
Eventually, there will be more robust stores for them to sell their products via nostr directly.
But this is not your typical algo-driven social media. People here talk to others because they like what they have to say - not because it’s rammed down their throat.

2025-01-20 18:22:34

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How do you feel about a section to load other kinds or notes with certain content in an alternate app?
I imagine a future where we have a great e-reader, photos app, video, etc, and allow the user to point notedeck to use those applications in certain contexts (defaulting to notedeck, itself).

2025-01-11 17:56:00

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Excited! Need to port over everything from Project Gutenberg - maybe allow participating relays to act as mirrors, too.

2025-01-11 17:48:46

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Came here to say this.
And then there’s all of the C-like languages in existence that are a hairs breath away from PHP syntax.

2025-01-11 17:02:00

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Hell yes. I mean, that they are abandoning their “values” is no surprise. That they are following the changing of the winds in order to remain in profit/power is also no surprise.
What I can’t wrap my head around is the speed with which it is happening. Trump isn’t even in office, yet.
My guess is that they are realizing the DEI crowd has always been the minority and that the general populace is increasingly very, very pissed off. They want to try to avoid being burned at the stake.
Do they even have this much awareness? Or is this part of the playbook to swing the pendulum to the other side as hard as possible? To create more and more anxiety until people beg for a central authority over everything?

2025-01-09 22:37:34

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💯
No renters insurance?
Living in a high risk location?
Sorry. This is what real accountability looks like.

2024-12-23 18:21:25

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You mean like posting memes for zaps? 😂

2024-11-23 16:26:35

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…for 2016 blocks.

2024-11-23 16:20:02

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Then all communication between the two parties, leaving you with effectively a hard fork. But that doesn’t mean that bitcoin is for earth, only.

2024-11-18 15:10:23

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Fun fact: the sun emits more harmful “EMF” waves in a day than all of humanity could in a year - and you can feel it when you walk outside.

2024-11-16 19:52:40

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I like monero, as shitcoins go.
But isn’t “monero GFY” free speech? Nostr is working just fine.

2024-11-16 19:49:43

Ugh. Abbot, who is paying you?
Also, how is “stop murdering Palestinian women and children” an “antisemitic” statement? If anything, is discord with zionists - not Judaism.
Starting to feel like an inverse nazi movement.
If there was something that would catalyze WWIII, this is it. Pure irrational fear. #note1js5…geh9

2024-11-16 19:40:33

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Slowly working on it.
What’s needed is a suite of tools so that any kind of video app can be built on top of nostr - from TikTok streams, progressive VODs, to event streams.
The tools need to allow for a ton of ways to market/charge for the content, while still being optimized for content ownership. This is tough, but I’ve got some theories I’m testing out.
Finally, I think to truly make a lot of the incumbents obsolete, there needs to be a mechanism for managing the consumption of content. This means tracking - but it doesn’t have to mean divulging your identity!
My goal is secure, anonymous video distribution that decentralized over time via consumption.
I want to kill the media industry by putting their power in everyone’s hands. And I want to do it for free.

2024-11-16 01:58:47

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…and if you use a manual espresso press?
FreeBSD and ports.

2024-11-11 19:21:42

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Yes, but it depends.
If your plan allows for you to invest 50% or more of the contributed funds into a ticket of your choice, go invest it into a spot etf, miner, or something else that scales with bitcoin.
If you plan to leave the company quickly enough and you’re match is immediately invested, you can roll that into your own IRA and direct the funds towards corn.
Otherwise, time is against you. Even with a 1:1 match (100% immediate return), the shackles on that money will cause you to lose inflation/bitcoin price appreciation.
You basically need to be able to buy something that grows with the corn at a rate that’s faster than your taxes - otherwise it’s a loss.

2024-11-05 14:52:25

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Ah, I could use some help!
I’ve been experimenting with espresso. Using a manual press (flair). Grind seems good - as fine as I can get it to still allow a good pull and not choke the press. Beans are also roasted by me - around full city or full city+.
Doing 17g -> 44g, about 1:2.5.
Flavor for days. But it’s quite bitter. How do I lower the bitterness? Even with milk, it comes through.

2024-11-01 21:13:19

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Boundary-setting is such a critical skill. It has taken me too long to recognize its importance.

2024-11-01 20:52:06

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I don’t give a damn who agrees or disagrees with me. That’s the point of nostr.

2024-11-01 20:47:19

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What a total shit take. Bitcoin is freedom. I’ll use my corn however the fuck I want. And if that means chilling in cold storage while I blow through fiat shitcoins, I’ll do it.
If a merchant only charges in corn, and I want what they have and value it more than my corn, I’ll part ways with my sats. If not, I’m keeping my sats. It’s the Austrian way.
If you think selling your sats for things you don’t deem as more valuable than your sats - merely for the sake of adding to the number of transactions in bitcoin - is “good” or “noble”, you’re an idiot who is bearish on bitcoin at large.
Bitcoin doesn’t need more transactions quicker in order to win. Any one of the main pillars is enough to defeat fiat. We’re going to win no matter what.
Trying to shame people into parting with their hard-earned sats because you have a bearish outlook on bitcoins future without immediate adoption? Go fuck yourself!

2024-11-01 20:27:11

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I mean… Bitcoin was built to preserve purchasing power. As long as fiat exists, which loses purchasing power no matter what, why the fuck am I going to spend my sats?
Why judge people for using one of the primary pillars of bitcoin - SoV?
And who the fuck is anyone to judge how I use and spend my stored energy? They can fuck right off.

2024-10-30 18:22:42

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💯passkeys are a Trojan horse.

2024-10-30 13:35:19

Been a lot of #detox posts… wanted to remind people of scourge that continues to plague us to this day:
dihydrogen monoxide.
Often used:
- as an industrial solvent and coolant.
- in nuclear power plants.
- in the production of styrofoam.
as a fire retardant.
- in many forms of cruel animal research.
- in the distribution of pesticides - even after washing, produce remains contaminated by this chemical.
- as an additive in certain "junk-foods" and other food products.
- is a potent solvent
- literally corrodes most metals
#detox #bandihydrogenmonoxide

2024-10-28 14:08:31

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Have you heard of the Fair Tax plan? It had a lot of steam for a while.
Consumption-based tax, with exclusions for necessities.

2024-10-24 22:41:42

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Is this a start9 / recipe issue or a knots issue?

2024-10-24 22:38:44

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…? I have the chain data and indexes symlinked. When updating core, I just reenable the symlinks and pick up where I’ve left off. That assumes a whole new installation. Often it’s just a binary update.

2024-10-15 17:09:21

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Ok. Have you tried a capture from VLC?

2024-10-15 17:01:52

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Ah, ok.
The m3u8, if you have it, *may* be all that you need. It’s a text file playlist - based off of the original m3u playlist format. This is called a “manifest”.
It contains a list of files for the player to play, in order of playout. The files could be audio, video or both (muxed).
Sometimes, the manifest will actually be a playlist that links to other playlists instead of media files, often called a “master manifest”. This will be obvious, because it will reference different video resolutions and codecs. You likely want the highest quality, if so. These files exist to allow a player to jump between qualities (called variants/layers/renditions) if bandwidth changes.
A “container” is a file that holds the encoded content and metadata about that encoded content (codec, duration, audio/video timing, captions, etc). It’s the “TS” or “MP4” part of a video. Think of it as a sort of zip file (tho the compression happens on the encoding within the container).
So to download, grab the m3u8 manifest. If it’s a master, grab the highest quality m3u8 referenced within it. Then grab all of the ts files within the appropriate manifest. Now you just have to combine them. That, unfortunately, may be a bit complicated to go over in this post. FFMPEG can do it, I think. But I am not sure of all of the flags needed.
Now you said this was a live stream? Or is it a recording of a live stream? This matters because a live stream often only has a snapshot of the latest TS files. Ie, it gets rid of old ones and adds the new ones. If it’s a recording, it will contain it all.
Clear as mud?

2024-10-15 16:45:20

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Are you re-encoding? Because it’s TS, I’m guessing it’s muxed audio/video? If so, you can just stitch the underlying encoding inside the TS into a single TS container. This is much “simpler” (in terms of operations) and can be done as fast as you can download.
Is there encryption?

2024-10-14 17:42:26

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For that last part, your trust can’t invest in your startup without invoking the IRS’ scrutiny.

2024-10-14 17:41:09

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You’re conflating bitcoin with money in the eyes of the US. They are not the same. Assets can exchange hands as often as a trust trades stock.
A distribution only occurs when the beneficiary of the fiduciary receives dollars (or any legal tender) from the value of assets managed by the fiduciary.
It’s only a taxable event if the dollars (or legal tender) have not yet been taxed as income. Penalties are a different matter altogether and have to do with the reasons behind the distribution as well as age and amount of distribution.
The trust can “spend” funds in any matter it wants so long as it meets the fiduciary responsibilities agreed upon by the beneficiary. If they’re both YOU, this is never a concern.
The only things you can’t do - or are a legal grey area - is have an entity “invest” funds in another entity controlled by the same person.

2024-10-14 17:27:26

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Wrong on all counts. A bank account and bitcoin hard wallet have nothing to do with assets managed by a fiduciary of a retirement account.
Saying “fact” doesn’t make it right - you don’t know what you are talking about.

2024-10-14 17:24:10

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Banks do not hold assets. Banks are NOT usually the directors of tax advantage accounts. The banks typically hold the *funds* prior to allocation into the tax advantaged account. They have nothing to with this.
Tax advantaged accounts belong to a custodian on behalf of a person - this part you have correct. What you don’t understand is that the custodian can be an entity controlled by the same person who is the contributor to the account. There is no law against this. This entity can take on a myriad of forms, but the easiest is to just set up a trust fund.
The fund has a checking account. The bank controls the checking account. The fund controls the allocation of, management of, and record keeping of the fund. This means that if the fund was investing in barrels of oil or artwork, it would be responsible for the storage, security, and maintenance of those barrels and artwork until it divests from them. There is no difference between an entity storing artwork in some rando warehouse or their garage vs storing corn in cold storage. All that matters is that the entity remains in control over those assets.
If the contributor and the owner of the entity are the same person, it’s irrelevant. They are two distinct “things” in the eyes of the law. In reality, however, you are effectively controlling your keys.
You need to spend some time reading up on how this works, amigo.

2024-10-14 17:08:22

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What are you on about? There are zero penalties or taxable events for rolling over any amount that is eligible per the plan. Zero. Nada.
All that’s required is that it’s vested and remain in the control of a tax-advantaged account. That account is under SOMEONE’s control. Could be Vanguard OR it could be a trust you set up where you are the director of it.
Educate yourself.

2024-10-14 17:05:59

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A self directed IRA with assets in cold storage is NOT a distribution. There are zero penalties.
It’s even more open and shut if it’s with a 3rd party involved but you still hold the majority of keys (like Unchained).

2024-10-14 16:51:54

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Almost no one has been building the same 401k plan for decades. That is dying with the boomers (out of a necessity they created).
This means most people should have 401k funds from prior plans that they’ve left available, IF they haven’t rolled them over to their current plan (in which case, they ought to know better).
For those funds that haven’t been rolled into an active plan, go create a self-directed (this is key) traditional IRA (or, if your tax burden is low enough, a Roth IRA), and roll the funds into that. Then, take said funds, buy corn directly, store corn in cold storage of your choice. Chill.
Anyone with retirement accounts is not likely to stay at their job for very long. When you leave, this is the first thing you do.
Just started a new gig or rolled over prior funds? Most plans allow a partial rollover as well as a rollover of contributions outside of your employer. Use this to do the above with the IRA.
There are even more options if you’re savvy. You just need to put in the work to learn.
Don’t feel like putting in the work? Cool.
We all buy at the price we deserve.

2024-10-13 19:33:15

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Lonely road, sometimes. But difficult to let it go - takes so much work, let alone passion, to remain in the edge.

2024-10-11 17:49:16

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If this isn’t remotely operated I’ll eat my fucking hat.

2024-10-09 23:09:55

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YES. But not limited to code, but problems in general. Have been doing this (unintentionally) since I was a child - like a semi lucid state. It kinda sucks cause I sleep like shit.
When I’ve asked others if they’ve ever done this, I get responses like “do you levitate, too?”

2024-10-09 22:00:45

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2024-10-09 17:46:10

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What’s your take on CRE? Lot of potential to blow up, but seems like servicing all of it is going to be just fine (for now) if rates go lower.

2024-10-08 20:53:50

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Good news! Most people are broke as fuck with nothing to take out.
…and now I’ve made myself sad.

2024-10-08 03:46:36

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When you say “WiFi” and “router” - which is it? Pick one. You won’t find something that excels at both.
For routing, big, BIG fan of mikrotik and open firmware.
For WiFi, ubiquiti shit is a hassle to get your own controller running, but still pretty nice once it’s done.

2024-10-08 03:40:00

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It depends on the chip - sometimes you win the silicon lottery, sometimes you don’t. I just keep going in clockspeed until it’s unstable, then add power until it stabilizes, and if not start slowly removing clock.
They should at least give you 650gH. At least. I average around 700. With a good cooling solution, you should be able to do this with temps in the 40s.
Best to go with ckpool, imo, if not running your own. I have way less rejected shares.

2024-10-04 21:42:47

Can’t help but think about the last 200 years of Rome, and how the illusion of an army propped it up as further debasement of its money and abandoning of its people continued.
Eventually, there will be enough opposing forces smelling weakness that they end up taking action, be it financial, political, or kinetic.
Really hard not to compare to other empires.
US is not like the UK - it can’t shrink its empire by relinquishing control over land and its products… the US only has finances and violence to let go of.
Not saying it’s imminent, or even going to happen, but it sure feels like something’s brewing… and it’s getting harder to dismiss. #note1vjr…fj88

2024-09-29 16:38:34

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“And we ain’t gonna wait on the fuckin government, either. “

2024-09-24 16:34:51

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Judging by the government’s actions, the USA doesn’t want its own citizens, either.

2024-09-23 16:19:36

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The relay the spammer is posting to.
The issue is that clients will need to adopt/be updated to handle PoW reqs from relays that implement it.
But, at the core, each relay is sovereign and dictates what it finds acceptable from actors. It can try to track spammers (by ip, npub, traffic patterns) or give up on that idea and just raise/lower difficulty of the PoW for all users at once.
The spammer can and will move to another relay.
Most likely, the spammer will be using their own relay.
You just want to be on the right ones. Maybe those that have PoW and each post shares the nonce.

2024-09-23 16:05:06

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Agreed on all counts.

2024-09-23 13:40:25

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Like bitcoin, nostr either becomes resilient or it fails.
Good parents encourage their children to be exposed to the world. It’s how they build immunities and learn to adapt.
It’s the helicopter parents that breed weak adults.
You don’t have to praise reply-guy to be happy that this kind of attack finally happened, as it’s clearly (visibly, as you say) having a long term positive effect. And if not? Nostr doesn’t deserve to survive.
Shit take, man.

2024-09-23 13:36:37

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lol. Who says reply-guy is benevolent? How do you know this isn’t a test run for tooling that they’ll later sell?

2024-09-23 00:01:29

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Do you have a list of HWWs with shitty / no SEs?

2024-09-22 17:58:36

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Right? WTF is he even talking about?

2024-09-22 17:53:27

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100%!
That people are questioning whether or not it will have any efficacy shows how little they know about the components of bitcoin and the backing history - let alone experience with those components.
*Of course* it will help.
People wanting a panacea are in for a rude awakening, and are showing their inexperience in building public systems at scale.
I mean - why the pushback against PoW? Is this some kind of shitcoiner propaganda?

2024-09-22 17:02:08

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Obviously there is more to this than an “investigation”.
Anyone with half a brain can determine whether or not a nuke was used with a $30 Geiger counter. An investigation is not needed.
Hell, it’s clear from the video to anyone who is watched enough footage of early, weak nukes that that explosion wasn’t nearly big enough.

2024-09-22 16:53:41

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Are you constantly replying? If not, then no.

2024-09-22 16:52:37

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Yes. We don’t even need to prove it, it’s common sense:
If a spammer can programmatically submit any number of requests before PoW, and then after PoW they have to spend even just 5% more compute resources to send the same amount of spam, their costs increase by at least 5%. If they can’t afford the costs, the spam is reduced.
Other rate limiting techniques generally incur more costs on the host than the spammer (captcha, tracking, forensic analysis)… thats the wrong direction and eventually leads to centralization (only those with money run public relays).
A relay can _combine_ techniques, if they can afford to do so, for best results.
The goal isn’t elimination, it’s to incur costs on the spammer. We don’t need to outrun the bear, just the slowest runner.

2024-09-21 16:50:48

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Preach! ✊

2024-09-21 16:42:52

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Yeah. They don’t have to be elastic IPs.

2024-09-21 16:41:20

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Maybe temporarily block all AWS: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/aws-ip-ranges.html
You may be blocking some good relays, but not all of them. And certainly not clients.
You could then whitelist specific relays. Eh?

2024-09-21 16:38:22

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Those are AWS IPs. No need for a vpn. They can (programmatically) recycle them faster than anyone can block them.

2024-09-20 18:20:36

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Bad parsing of the relay you’re using.
You could try double escaping it - “\\n”.

2024-09-20 18:18:42

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The ol’ fav of RC enthusiasts for decades:
A long, long string attached to a tennis ball / baseball. Get the line looped over the general branch area, then one person on each end take turns see-sawing the branches until it falls out.
If the drone has the capability, running the props in reverse to try to unhook them can sometimes help.

2024-09-20 18:04:59

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YES. Depression-era survivors knew what was up. My grandfather was a fucking saver. No education, hustled in a trade job, retired with no debt and still had $500k in the bank by the time he died in his 80s (20 years ago).
My grandparents had freezers stuffed full of food that they only bought on big sales. They lived comfortably, but frugally. They travelled at cheaper times, saw the world.
My parents (boomers) died with debt and < $250k. They thought I was radical / fanatical about no debt and saving.
Bring the old ways back. Built and perfected by hard men and women.

2024-09-18 17:12:34

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Why is having the framing of an 11 year old body desirable in the fashion world?
Even the masters sculpted matured and healthy ladies and men. What changed?

2024-09-18 02:03:26

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Yeah, no. You waaay underestimate how powerful modern devices are. And, they have GPUs, too, you know. The difficulty will adjust. The goal isn’t to wholly block the attempts - that’s impossible on an open server. It’s to impose costs and make the ROI not worth it.
The PoW need not just be a hash - there are a ton of techniques: url relay races, guided tours, factoring… each impose their own limitations. Just good old internet latency can reduce time-to-post with the guided tours.
And then, PoW necessarily requires that it be dynamic. The whole point is to monitor both connections to the relay AND server resources. If an attack may be occurring, the difficulty (or difficulties if doing a combo of techniques) goes up.
If what you say is true, then PoW is effectively obsolete in all use-cases outside of consensus. Clearly, that’s not true - as evident by numerous papers and their math showing otherwise.
And besides, the real goal isn’t to block it, but to no longer be the low-hanging fruit.
If everyone had to pay some sats to post, the spammers number of posts WILL be reduced. If the spammer can be temporarily identified, the difficulty just for them can require a higher cost to post. If they can’t be identified, everyone’s costs go up. Rinse, repeat until the spammer finds a better target/platform/protocol.
I will submit that PoW is not a panacea and shouldn’t be used on its own, but it’s too powerful of a tool to dismiss with such obtuse statements. “Millions” of times before a single phone can run a PoW? Really??? Have you even tried it? I have. Implemented in a large media application with 100s of millions of users that you might even use yourself.

2024-09-18 01:31:22

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Mail Drop. Do it cheap by getting mass prints then target the neighborhoods and manually paper each mailbox.
This is what “boots on ground” actually means.

2024-09-17 16:25:51

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Replace the captcha with a difficult PoW, make it programmer friendly still. The PoW will be the means to disincentivize use.