sister_sam

voluntaryist, techno-optimist, privacy nut

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2025-03-31 07:41:17

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A medley of tools and techniques applied well not pronouncements.

2025-03-29 07:43:22

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There are Github sanctioned regions? Who knew?

2025-03-29 05:28:24

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Why? I had machines back then. Pretty miserable. Hot at the time but not now. Maybe modern machine but set display to your color scheme?

2025-03-29 04:58:47

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Sell 1000. Buy a house or two. Start a vanity business/foundation or two for things I care about but may or may not make money. Buy my own AI farm. Travel. Convert some of the rest to other mainly privacy coins. Invest in the best longevity program I can find. Figure out what the hell I really want to do when money is not a problem.

2025-03-29 04:53:19

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I don't trust Apple all that much after working for them over a decade ago for some years. I trust X or rather Musk even less.

2025-03-29 04:49:15

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More proof of just how corrupt the State is.

2025-03-28 08:29:33

Apparently the Trumpster thinks he is the measure of American Ideological Purity now. Such a sad fellow.
Trump order targets ‘divisive narratives’ in Smithsonian museums
President Trump signed an executive order targeting funding for Smithsonian programs that he claims have "divisive narratives" and "improper ideology."
Trump stated there has been a "concerted and widespread" effort over the last decade to change American history using a "distorted narrative."
Vice President JD Vance will oversee the effort to remove "improper ideology" from the Smithsonian Institution, including its museums.
The executive order emphasizes that museums should be places of learning, not venues for "ideological indoctrination or divisive narratives.

2025-03-28 06:53:12

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I love cats but it hard getting used to ones without fur.

2025-03-28 06:39:47

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I think it is pretty much all #3. These are rulers. They want to rule over the rest of us. It is the nature of government. It is good to admit it.

2025-03-28 06:24:37

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Twisting? It is what the dogma says. I never looked at God that way. But it is what the creed says. Being born guilty is not the act of loving or rational God either. More silly dogma. Eternal punishment with no chance of reprieve is pure evil torture for nothing. If that is your God or your conception of God then perhaps you are deranged.

2025-03-28 03:23:40

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Because humans are better at reading where a human is at and where they are stuck and at understanding what is important to them. Show me an LLM with any real theory of mind.

2025-02-13 17:43:07

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IIf you are right about what eventually happens then in the short term there is a quite viable business opportunity helping people and companies incorporate AI in their business. The AI itself will not do this for them as this requires quite a bit of the human touch. Even in conventional software many of us have made our living for decades integrating the capabilities afforded into various businesses. AI is even more new and more complex to understand and right scale. There will be need for human experts in this for some time.
There is also a very strong need for AI entrepreneurs - those that see value that can be offered and is desired using AI and can deliver it consuming less value than is produced. Note here that most customers are human. I don't believe that AI is anytime soon going to have such a fine theory of human mind and the multiple skills that go into being a successful entrepreneur.
But are you right? It is not an easy slam dunk from here to AGI - at least not what has long been thought to be meant by that. While today's AI can emulate what seems to be general abstract thinking, concept formation, general learning and so on any sort of deep dive into how these AIs work show that it is not so. This is part of why hallucination and spewing of what might follow probabilistic but is not so and makes no sense at a conceptual level is common.
As long as this is so there is very much room for and need of human actual general intelligence.

2025-02-13 09:22:22

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Personally I think the very idea of a Loving God that would condemn a person to eternal torment for one human lifetime of not managing to believe the right dogma is completely and totally absurd and contradictory. God created us imperfect. To then punish us forever for being imperfect would be completely psychotic.
I doubt people as knowing "The Way" that have such a twisted theology.

2025-02-12 10:22:10

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Be foolish however you like.

2025-02-12 10:16:26

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Linux and grapheneos allow control of any AI you chose to have on your device. Won't protect you from the uncaring on proprietary OS and platforms though.

2025-02-10 07:01:23

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I have to spend some time there. I here lovely things about it.

2025-02-09 10:20:05

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Scrum teams have sucked so deeply as just another silly silver bullet that I am surprised it made the list. Until you have actual AGI which LLM CANNOT be you can't have AI do everything.

2025-02-09 10:18:04

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People think the blockchain is some wish granting jewel. Or that Bitcoin after everything good about it has been sucked out is going to save them. Pathetic.

2025-02-09 09:44:39

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Airpod would be able to do shit with EMF effectively to your brain. There are ways to stimulate your brain activity but not through something at your ears. This is a dumb theory.

2025-02-09 09:41:52

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Awesome to have a relationship where that is a good thing.

2025-02-08 10:13:24

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Unfortunately mynymbox VPS has far tor many restrictions for my needs.

2025-02-05 02:07:19

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And governments claim they are against XMR or self-custody wallets generally because of money laundering. Hilarious.

2025-02-05 02:06:29

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Many many banks including big US banks have done the same thing provably as they paid fines over and over againg when caught.

2025-02-01 08:16:12

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We need more reaction emojis. Particularly a steaming pile of shit one for what Trump is saying here.

2025-02-01 08:14:40

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We don't need an bloody permit from the Grand Boobus. He is such a dictatorial POS.

2025-02-01 08:06:11

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Yep. I used to be nonplussed with how people would come to church and sometimes manage to be much more civil to one another and even now and then open their hearts and be different for a weekly dose. Then as soon as they shook the preachers hand they were back to being as mean as snakes to one another. Blew my mind.

2025-02-01 08:02:20

Funny how not much more than half of eligible voting age American citizens voted for POTUS at all and only around half of them voted for Trump. But somehow this is YUGE support of Americans for Trump's entire agenda. 25% that voted for him, a large percentage of which merely thought him better than the alternative and felt that had to vote for somebody to be good little citizens?

2025-02-01 05:40:02

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You can pump a gay guy full of testosterone and he will just be a much more horny gay guy.

2025-02-01 05:38:52

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That is not at all how sexuality works and that has been proven long ago. Read up and stop being an idiot.

2025-01-30 00:32:17

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*shudders*

2025-01-25 23:08:02

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Well the worry I have is that software stack that scans for CSAM can easily be repurposed to scan for anything else. Also CSAM scanning has proven to give way too high false positives sometimes resulting in very bad consequences for the poster.

2025-01-25 22:05:35

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Well I have had the cynical opinion for most of my career that 80% of the employees in medium to large companies are there to avoid having them on welfare.

2025-01-25 10:35:27

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What? Creating new unique life and placing in situation where it can grow over time to its fulli unique potential isn't good enough just because you as type of this unique life form experience some unpleasantness, even if it is essential for your growth to your potential over lifetimes, along the way? Rather provincial POV is it not?

2025-01-25 07:51:24

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He isn't cool and he certainly isn't a wish granting jewel.

2025-01-24 02:58:13

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It is not secure when your every transaction is tracked and governments can and do shut down entire wallets. Watch and see how the new lauded regulations when they come give government and the likes of Blackrock more control over what transactions are accepted. Government and banksters are seeking to embrace and suffocate the promise of crypto. I don't think the first successful crypto technology is the best that can ever be done. That is extremely unlikely in any technology space.

2025-01-24 02:52:16

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Agree they need a hook that enough people will bite to win. However people are well indoctrinated to bite certain types of hooks/lures. Trump first election was an anamoly I would agree. He did some pretty disgusting things with it including releasing COVID Tyranny. This time around he campaigned on old slogans of his, freeing Ross, 100% absolute support for Israel and then immediately cozied up to huge technocrats and billionaires. That doesn't look accidental to me. I think we are in for a very bumpy ride.

2025-01-24 02:46:00

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OK, say you built the next great private online market. How do you get it known by enough of the people and used by enough to get good network effects? How do you do that and retain enough anonymity/pseudonymity for all involved to be reasonably safe since actual free markets without seeking government permission or giving government a hefty cut are illegal? It is not at all an easy set of problems to solve. How would you say make a remote work software consulting house that paid only in say XMR and completely under the table/ off all government books work? How would you guarantee payments and find businesses, especially those not in gray/black market that would take a chance getting some of their software done through you? How will you handle disputes? Where are the underground DROs, attorneys, detectives to make these things work at any real world business scale?

2025-01-24 02:40:22

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Many are. Where did Nostr itself come from, crypto that actually works, privacy coins, free and open source, internet buildouts of various kinds, cryptography? We have a lot left to do to support full circular economy and get out from under the thumb of the State and banksters.

2025-01-24 02:36:37

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HAHAHAHAHA. What rock have you been hiding under?

2025-01-24 02:33:11

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Do you think they are going to play any more above board with BTC than they have with fiat and with gold?

2025-01-24 02:20:30

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I have seen that pattern on both the left and right many times. Few seem to actually listen to one another at much real depth. There are package deals and snap reactionary judgments on both sides.

2025-01-24 02:14:50

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I am so glad he is out and this travesty of justice is over. But I don't give so much credit to a Autocrat, especially one that kept in him prison during his first term.
Can't imagine how it would feel to be free after 11 years in a cage. Mind blowing. I was once in a hospital for many months and was blown away by being out. This much be that times a trillion.
Congratulations Ross!! So glad you are back among us.

2025-01-21 10:11:34

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How exactly? Are they going to do DNS blocking and do it selectively based on whether you have a license or something? I am sure that will go down well. What about people learning and learning techniques against the APIs using langchain and such? Are they going to lock themselves out of all the productivity and innovation that is coming from there? What about using huggingface models on your own machines?

2025-01-20 13:08:43

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Why not? They aren't going to learn nothing like this.

2025-01-17 08:23:35

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Remember that any such thing is done by stealing from the American people directly or indirectly. Don't celebrate this just because Price-Go-Up.

2025-01-12 11:43:00

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Sounds like some MKUltra folks warped his brain pretty hard. Think about how much would be scads easier and cheaper and how much money could be made if we had gravitic propulsion. Not believable. And even he did believe it doesn't explain why a Special Forces guy would think a believable bomb was achievable with fireworks and gasoline. Or why and how he would shoot himself with a freaking Desert Eagle while setting it off. Something is fishy here.

2025-01-12 11:36:40

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Gotta love articles that require lots of googling to see what the terms really mean and perhaps a perplexity.ai session as well. Electronic bandstructures I understand but what the heck makes them in any way "relativistic"?

2025-01-12 11:15:57

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You mean like these?
https://giphy.com/explore/swat-team

2025-01-12 11:07:18

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Does US helping rebuild Japan and doing a lot of trade with it while still sanctioning the hell out of Cuba have anything to do with it?

2025-01-12 11:04:35

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At least the Mafia actually does protect when they demand protection government. Supreme Court says the government goons can be expected to protect you. It isn't really paying them if it is not a voluntary payment. They just take whatever they want and will toss you in a cage or murder you if you resist.

2025-01-12 10:53:37

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So why pick on TikTok? Facebook and all the Meta horde collect as much or more and much more assiduously. China? CEO is from Singapore. US three letter agencies gobble much more data and worldwide than China. Pot, kettle? Jealously? Or is it really about a lot of the anti-Gaza Israeli genocide being called out there first. Until then the energy to fully ban it was lacking. It upset the Israeli lobby?
When this started rattling TikTok went out of its way to give all its data to the US goons.
I think it is also a toe hold for US government to have unconstitutional power over all of tech and tech companies. They tried this a while back. The TikTok bill I saw would give the President and maybe Secretary of Commerce power to shut down the operations of any company at their sole discretion and impose drastic penalties on users and other companies that in any way supported their operations including cloud providers. This would effectively give US government the power to wipe out anything that had an online presence at will.
This is the real significance of the TikTok noise and their real goal.

2025-01-12 06:48:36

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It is known that several parts of the brain during fetal development are influenced by sex hormones in a se differentiated way. That is there are differences in male and female brains. Some of this development is at different times than other parts of sex differentiated development. Various factors like the mothers hormone balance can tilt it one way or the other - more male or female. This is laid down before birth. A common explanation of trans people is that this brain development is tweaked substantially enough toward that common for the other sex than chromosomal sex.
The basic structures do not change substantially over time. This explains a LOT about why trans people experience being gender other than apparent secondary sexual characteristics and many from a very young age and it is not changeable with life experience. It also has no strong correlation with sexual abuse etc. All of those theories were exploded long ago.
Besids trans folks there are also various types of intersex fetal development which also happens more than most know.
Medical transition is not so expensive compared to many medical treatments. Hormones are cheap. Many surgeries in the $15K to $50K range. Many many things more expensive.
People who are trans consider transition a life saver that gives them a chance at a more fulfilling life. Rate of regret is far lower than for most elective surgery. Those who are not trans have difficulty understanding the depth of the conflict and the relief transition can bring. Saying it is only a way for hospitals etc to make money is absurd and incredibly crass and cynical.
I should know. I was born trans. I tried to explain it way for 30 years, or believe it was some psychological kink, or that I was just gay. I tried everything including just ignoring it and living in the external apparent gender. Every year I wondered if I could survive another year living contrary to my inner gender setting. Finally I stopped running and faced it. I transitioned 33 years ago. It sure as hell wasn't "trendy" or well supported back then. It saved my life and gave me room to get on with life.

2025-01-11 11:25:35

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If I buy BTC on KYC does government have legal means to insist I prove I still own it instead of having sold it? The wallet is trackable and a problem. So because it is trackable if you are known to own with high probability ANY wallet that receives BTC whether acquired via KYC exchange or not you are sort of screwed for however much is in or was in that known wallet.

2025-01-11 09:05:14

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I am not sure I believe this. Though I do see some truth that only by working through our fears do we get free. But without knowing something of the light how would any have the strength?

2025-01-10 11:11:12

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Under random mutation and natural selection this is clearly not so. Because any mutation that is not bad enough to hurt dependable reproduction much can be carried along.

2025-01-10 10:04:44

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Yep. And what is with so much "modern UI" being low res kid toy colors candy-ass nonsense that looks like it was lifted from Windows 8?

2025-01-10 10:02:05

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So much was retarded. Lock downs themselves are medieval unscientific nonsense for how to handle a pandemic. Zinc, hydrochloroquine, ivermectin early onset therapies would have saved countless lives. Yet all were dismissed on made up criteria that made no sense. Instead respirators that were a death sentence if/when case was bad enough. People being told their livelihood was "inessential". This was an exercise in tyranny not an attempt to protect health at all. And look, US just elected the guy who set all this is motion in the US. Most people do the Stockholm Syndrome thing and don't even want to remember how horrendous it all was. So I don't have a lot of faith that many will stand firm when it or something worse is rolled out again.

2025-01-10 01:34:25

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RFIDs have very limited power and range. How on earth can they be scanned while you are driving down the road by someone roadside?

2025-01-10 01:29:14

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Not so private from Apple itself is the take home. I would much rather have my grapheneOS phone that has been my daily driver for some time now.

2025-01-07 08:53:22

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With modern technology including cryptocurrency the true free trade is not restricted to a local geographic area.

2025-01-07 08:50:08

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So you don't believe in untrackable private financial transactions or what?

2025-01-07 08:12:53

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Yeah, his apologetics were pretty busted.

2025-01-07 08:08:15

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Not that it was hard to get the data from Telegram before except maybe encrypted direct messages. This is what arresting tho founder was for. Send a message and lay hands on the rest of the platforms data. 1984 is real and in progress.

2025-01-07 08:03:33

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The biggest threat is the legacy financial system.
Money Laundering - voluntary financial transactions without asking government permission or giving government a hefty cut.

2025-01-07 08:01:10

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Fuck FATF and other busies. Time to go Dark. Privacy coins only. Let them eat vacuum.

2025-01-04 10:32:24

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That shit is really scary. In effect the Apple and Microsoft version are doing full keylogging and screen recording and analysis of everything. This is client side scanning. Everything is scanned in the clear even if you used a lot of encrypted products. Obviously very dangerous if used against you by Apple, Microsoft, any hacker that breaks in.
I would love a full Jarvis like digital assistant as much as the next technophile but ONLY if open source and deeply vetted and on a platform I trust. NOT on some PRISM implicated Big Tech platform!

2025-01-04 10:29:11

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Reminds me of one of the most helpful books I read in my early teens titled "You are NOT the target". It has saved me much pain many times when I just remembered that title.

2025-01-04 10:26:23

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Maybe he will appreciate more what it is to be the brunt of so much anger and butt hurt as is often released and magnified there.
I like it here much more. So far less shit storm flame wars where no one seems to hear anyone than on X.

2025-01-04 10:22:59

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But I am but an egg and sometimes I think even that is rotten.

2025-01-04 10:22:12

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Can they be truly understood until they are replicated in us? I love it so much that Buddha said to prove what is truth to oneself instead of the faith and repeated dogma of so many paths. I mean can that which is far beyond words or normal knowledge be captured in mere words or memories or ancient writings about or from illustrious enlightened founders? Can those mere captured memories and imaginings, even the most sublimed focused contemplation of these enlightened ones do it justice? Can it ever be captured once and for all and the rest is merely derivative? Can the infinite be held in even the most sublimely pure thimble?

2025-01-04 09:55:30

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As I began muting his tweets before this I had missed some of the details. X became almost pleasant after muting him and some of the loudest Trump trumpeters.

2025-01-04 07:09:19

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Why should being able to seek and find out be limited to "special" beings 2500 years ago. Is it an excuse to do no seeking for yourself?

2025-01-04 07:05:00

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Always seemed strange to me that so many say so many things about God or what they believe God demands. Yet they don't seek to know Got. They even think it is somehow sacrilegious to even conceive of such a thing. Very strange.

2025-01-04 06:55:52

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Tradition is meaningless if we don't inquire, learn or practice anything discovered for ourselves. The only true path is within.

2025-01-04 06:54:08

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Obviously this is false.

2025-01-04 06:49:35

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Many like it because it is not theistic and has no dogma or thinks to have blind faith in.

2025-01-04 06:36:54

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Odd how people thing something is worth more or more attractive if it has a fixed price tag on it.

2025-01-04 06:31:25

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Ain't no accounts attached to mobile or my computers to start with.

2025-01-04 06:30:39

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Never paid much attention to the rankings anyhow.

2025-01-04 06:28:06

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I am thinking another pretext to scare people but for what end? Can't trust anyone domestic terrorism scare? Surveillance or worse excuse? What?

2025-01-04 02:59:45

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Ah. I am "on the spectrum" enough I often miss that. :)

2025-01-04 00:22:16

I am very confused about something involving cryptocurrency. I occasionally see things talking about tracking some coins. But my understanding is that a "coin" in bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency is a quantity rather than some labeled and separately trackable thing. So while it is possible to track spends and transactions among wallet ids it is not possible to track a particular coin. Yet I often see articles that seem to say otherwise.
Do I have this wrong somehow? If so then exactly how?
#asknostr

2025-01-03 21:43:07

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So you thing government pumping your coin and Blackrock running an ETF on it is going to lead to something good beyond a temporary plausible price spike? What other good do you think it will lead to?

2025-01-01 02:06:06

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Of course that brings up the classic "what or who am I?". So much of what we think of as "myself" is actually a construct we form to interact with the self-construct of others. You find this out if you do enough meditation or perhaps watching self-construct dissolve on certain psychedelics and reform as you come off the psychedelic piece by piece.
#nevent1q…pxn6

2024-12-31 22:44:50

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Well it requires at least two to trade. :)
I do think there is a big need for more infrastructure supporting more aspects of business than just more direct or high value trades. Thinks like agorism support contract and property records, legal stuff, agorist dispute resoultion, insurance. pseudonymous reputation systems and so on. I am surprised to not find more gray market contracting houses for instance in software and other easy to do remotely occupations.

2024-12-31 22:40:12

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I would need to see data that proved it. Even with solid support the path of being trans for instance is no cake walk that anyone would do as simply a matter of popularity. And indeed the data I have seen says that social contagion is patently false for being gay or trans. Also before you perhaps get to that regrets later after surgeries among trans people are far lower than for most medical treatments including things like knee surgeries.

2024-12-30 23:06:50

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Main chain is slow as hell by design so we get ligthning. Lightning is costly to make multiple channels own if you self host so people use custodial. New protocol on top makes multiple transaction at once to main chain possible to fix the lightning and other problems. How many different solutions tried to have some privacy of transactions on Bitcoin? On and on it goes.

2024-12-30 20:12:24

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I did a contract in Calgary one year. Freaking -34 for nearly a week was "fun". Nice thing about Calgary though was it didn't get much snow and what it did get was the almost crystalline powder stuff that was barely slippery. Not like Edmonton a bit to the north. But the summer was glorious!

2024-12-30 20:09:23

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Not upset at all. But many do note how complicated it often is to patch it to get some privacy or a bit lower transaction cost due to core problems.

2024-12-30 20:06:01

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There is no legitimate question it was tinkered with in labs today to the best of my knowledge.

2024-12-30 20:04:40

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Dunno. I knew a teenager that build a computer half adder circuit with legos. :)

2024-12-30 20:03:13

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Nice psychedelic imaginings I guess. Fortunately not the world we inhabit.

2024-12-30 20:01:39

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I have a bridge in Arizona to sell those that believe this. Google is one of the most rapacious data stealers and data miners on the entire planet. Their business model requires it. Your data may be secure from non-Google others but not from Google itself or all its "trusted third parties". If you care about your privacy do not use Google Chrome.

2024-12-30 19:54:52

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DVM? *googling* Data Vending Machine? Sounds cool. Will have to study up. Any links.

2024-12-30 19:51:46

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Maybe AI can clean up what the hell "fairness" really is. Seriously. Why should human rights be threatened by more intelligence in the world? Why should due process?
Seems to me humanity could use as much effective intelligence on the planet as it can get to deal with the challenges of today.

2024-12-30 19:49:35

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What for? Deflation in that prices in X whatever X is goes down is actually a good thing.

2024-12-30 19:47:16

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It is not a dog eat dog world. It is not zero sum. More value is created than was consumed creating it. The incentive is that human beings get to flourish. Our means of survival is use of our brains to think and decide what is best for achieving our goals and values, to think on what our beyond mere survival goals and values are for that matter. The maximum flourishing of each one depends on the freedom to do that and act on our decisions. That is it depends on voluntary choice and only voluntary interactions with others. Predation on others destroys much of the value they could have brought into the world. It is in our best interest to inter-cooperate and exchange the value we produce for the values others produce. The game is not won by the one that instead makes human beings into relatively dumb disgruntled slaves at all. The rules are not arbitrary but based in Natural Law - grounded in the fundamental needs necessitated by our nature.

2024-12-30 09:58:05

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"I want to glow! Break me!"
Uh, with that I think it is past my bedtime.
GN

2024-12-30 09:56:38

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Thanks! I know about Wifi and Bluetooh triangulation and use of ping receivers to pick up the noise from these protocols. I don't know as much about NFC yes. But isn't the range on that really short by design?

2024-12-30 09:54:17

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Thank you is one of the best prayers/meditations. Puts you in the magical gratitude place.