AbstractEquilibrium
Abstract Equilibrium

Shadowy Super Coder; #BTC only; #nostr is the killer app

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npub17fnzd22p3xu5tg8sz343d38c5m8dxxe4npyyx0akxphc6mhvxessuw5ksh

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abstractequilibrium@mjex.me

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abstractequilibrium@mjex.me

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nos.lol

relay.damus.io

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2024-09-12 16:40:59

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"Will you take the Key? Or will you take the Peele?"
🔑 or 💊

2024-09-11 18:18:42

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Does the opponent know which answers the player accesses? At what rate can the player digest the answers they didn't already know? Can the protocol still be successful if for some reason the player provides an incorrect answer in both lists?

2024-09-10 06:17:02

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If you're a responsible relay operator invested in the ethos of this space...that first sentence really hits hard.
If one of my users wants or needs to change their pic URL in this space, I don't wanna be one of the assholes that gets in their way.

2024-09-07 23:45:51

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I don't think I'll ever forget white-orange, orange, white-green, blue, white-blue, green, white-brown, brown. That's where I started out moving data. 😉

2024-09-06 10:21:29

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Lets throw "money laundering" in the mix too for crimes that are totally made up.
Might as well add "conspiracy to commit" terrorism or money laundering to the mix too 🙃
(The third part of the "holy trifecta of evil," human trafficking, child trafficking...gets a pass in my book though when it comes to the law. You need real victims, and this one almost always fits that bill)

2024-09-01 13:26:16

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Because boobs obviously. You a human? 😏

2024-08-31 22:10:28

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Everything in computers is encoded in binary with 1s & 0s.
But to answer, the extension doesn't give your secret to apps at all. The other way, apps will say to the extension "sarah wants to post this recipe, please 'sign' it so I can post it to the relays and they know its from the right account"
The secret never leaves the extension. Once you paste the secret into the extension to store it, you really shouldn't paste it into anything else (except another trusted thing like amber).

2024-08-31 22:02:59

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It depends how you use your account. I'd say browser extensions like #alby are fine for most. #Amber on android serves the same purpose for android apps, but is more private (no 3rd party account).
The idea is to only paste your secret key into one trusted place, and let every other app ask that app to sign your events for broadcast.

2024-08-29 23:57:10

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oh shit, power cable 😔

2024-08-29 23:56:27

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fix it up. leave the data disconnected.

2024-08-28 18:23:22

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https://image.nostr.build/a22d806d044b8bed4a387581b7eedc13aa7b57bcb2332eab7db353179766affc.gif

2024-08-28 14:05:29

This is why I built a Spring Meadow in my living room!
#nevent1q…av67

2024-08-25 13:56:06

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Feels like "Monero's too private; let's add a ton of distributed personal metadata around it!"

2024-08-24 12:09:23

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We've never had a global slave rebellion before. Another fake US election would help get us there. Should be fun!

2024-08-24 07:22:18

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If I could act freely, I'd strip naked & fly away from the Milky Way right now! 🤣
Humans & LLMs operate under common constraints; we have identical capacities to act freely. We both make decisions; sone deliberate, others random. I really see very little distinction besides the emotion humans undeniably attach to the word "human"

2024-08-23 14:54:10

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I'm seeing 1625 sats/usd 🤷‍♂️

2024-08-23 14:43:58

A peek into the mind of a modern day narcissistic sociopath:
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3w0qD6Atvo4

2024-08-21 16:43:09

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For all I know, the universe is the strum of a guitar string, and we're still only in the first few moments of the note 🤷‍♂️
I'm not here to know the electron orbits on the guitar string. I'm not even here for the oscillation of the strings note. What I'm really here for, and what I know is out there, is the music.

2024-08-20 13:23:19

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Literal spread of ignorance, in a nutshell 😔

2024-08-20 13:16:32

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Telescopy limited by ophthalmology is a tragedy

2024-08-20 12:56:44

Most worthwhile solutions are similarly hard to articulate, even if the solution is simple.
#nevent1q…h8d3

2024-08-20 11:23:50

"Freedom tech" is following the same patterns as "legacy tech"
what's next?
#nevent1q…0dv2

2024-08-20 11:09:02

So #holesail doesn't seem to work for serving a connection from inside a #QubesOS appVM (works from proxmox lxc though).
Unless I'm missimg something...Nice Work, #QubesOS!

2024-08-20 01:38:40

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Nice!
How is this querying the xpub history for watch only wallets?

2024-08-19 16:11:47

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Good line to end on; don't think the humor of the meme would survive the next line

2024-08-19 13:35:32

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One divided by 1 yields 1 of a thing.
One divided by 2 yields 2 of a thing.
One divided by 3 yields 3 of a thing.
One divided by zero yields nothing, obliteration.
It may be mathematically undefinded, but I feel like there's an opportunity for a valuable childhood economics lesson about the nature of absurd infinities in there somewhere 😏

2024-08-19 10:33:29

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Watch out for the creepy grabby Uncles Jim!

2024-08-19 09:44:37

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I've been all over the US including the midwest; I was hit twice in my life by a tornado...once in Massachusetts and again years later..in Maryland near DC 🤣
Not quite ready to leave the country to seek out the land of the safest trees. Multisig is so much more practical!

2024-08-18 21:56:33

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Dudes a bitcoiner but clearly never lived through a tornado 🤣

2024-08-18 20:43:54

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Pro tip: Use what you have now to make your kids' lives easier later. 😉

2024-08-18 18:40:35

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You see it in the beginning of the video; simple locks. Submerge the channel horizontally to fill it, *seal the locks*... and LIFT.
Once it's sealed, it's effectively a solid object that can be moved with people pulleys & leverage, to any location & any orientation necessary to float rocks.
And let's be real...No one can argue that the Egyptians of all ancient cultures were bad at sealing things (but they may have been bad at treating their workforce like real people, who knows?) 😉😅

2024-08-18 13:06:54

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Lift one big pool of water a few times, instead of lifting each and every stone individually. It's still a huge feat.
I find it extremely questionanle that Egyptians, in the presence of even primitive hydraulic technology, would have gotten the pyramids done relying on metabolic energy alone.
https://youtu.be/rxFXsoqbfrk

2024-08-17 23:00:18

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As long as he's not going back to being employed, let him do whatever work he wants!

2024-08-16 22:41:29

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Most truths are self evident, but most people are inadequate comminicators of truth. Best to just align yourself with nature and laugh at the absurdity that humans generate along the way.

2024-08-16 08:39:49

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Sight correction, you say? 👀

2024-08-14 21:06:04

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You will think differently when there are only 10m people left on earth. It'll simply be "reasonably rare"

2024-08-14 12:41:23

"As mentioned in the comments, the top answer should never be used in production. Instead..."
Can't count how many of those literally-underrated answers saved my skin
#nevent1q…5u44

2024-08-13 12:10:55

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As I save in bitcoin, I find I work harder... because the days when I could reasonably charge 25m sats/hr for my services are long gone!!
Remarkably, this doesn't bother me at all, it still feels like winning, slowly, the hard way, but ultimately the optimal way 😏

2024-08-13 03:11:56

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It's funny there are only 3 women

2024-08-11 14:26:22

"The world...can't get better"
...presumably because "now is better than before", no matter how bad now actually becomes.
The hardest part about orange pilling is breaking this dogma
#nevent1q…pml3

2024-08-10 14:38:39

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GnuCash? One of my criticisms is that it's not workable as a multi-user app. It's one book; one perspective. What might nostr add?

2024-08-10 11:26:26

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Whatever you were going to do, try to do 1% more. With everything. Continually. For decades.
You'll be surprised how things pan out after time does it's thing😏

2024-08-10 11:17:10

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I do pretty much the same thing. It helps to also have a separate "travel phone" that you never turn on near your home area, with a data-only sim from silentlink, public wifis, always-on, block-if-disabled wireguard/VPN for encryption and exit nodes while online.
Pro tip: use a card or something similar between the phone & your phone case to physically block the camera
#Opsec #IdentityManagement #Graphene 🤝

2024-08-09 14:57:48

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My first employer: "We'll give you pans; clean them for cash"
Me: "Cash sounds great, but...really?"
*It took me a while to figure it all out*

2024-08-08 19:27:49

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I have a node, I invoice strike for DCA, and occasionally replenish the Strike balance (optional, because they'll pull the funds from ACH either way). Every few months, I swap out of my node for a UTXO 😎

2024-08-07 20:26:06

This is a man who understands value in scarcity 🤝
#nevent1q…lsqd

2024-08-07 19:52:55

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I like this show a lot!
Like to the point that I actually *heard* this meme, both because these actors put unforgettable personality into the characters, and the characters easily could've had that dialogue in the show as if it's nothing 🤣

2024-08-07 18:20:38

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Can't host alby (except the browser extension maybe) on a personal server without an alby account and a bunch of their infrastructure unfortunately.

2024-08-07 16:58:36

...but also geo- and timelocked-multisig, in case the firearms prove ineffective. Both are underrated. Only one helps with a lot of other things than cold storage.
#nevent1q…4gfd

2024-08-07 14:17:12

tl;dr Eat Meat & Don't Stress, you'll be fine
#nevent1q…lq3q

2024-08-07 13:47:39

It's already simple enough.
Today the medical community thinks that high LDL, high BP, and insulin resistance are the 3 primary risk factors of developing cardiovascular disease.
They also think that, of all combinations of those three, having none of them and having only high LDL statistically pose the same risk.
The nutrition industrial community on the other hand... 😔
#nevent1q…rjey

2024-08-07 13:19:37

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Self-defense *is* murder.
The implication of making that point is... that a person should be more restrained & deliberate when considering whether to defend their own life...?

2024-08-07 13:15:26

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You can use the word however you want. I would just answer: Yes, it's something *like bitcoin*
Bitcoin & Crypto are novel nouns; we're defining them now as we go, hence the follow up question you mentioned when folks hear the word crypto is very typical. If you try to coalesce them into one thing, IMO you're not doing this space any favors failing to highlight bitcoins uniqueness.

2024-08-07 11:57:31

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If you really want to get literal, the meaning of crypto is hidden, secret. Bitcoins ethos and practical implementation are open, distributed, transparent.
If bitcoin is crypto for using cryptography, then so is every other form of language including things like the feeling of hunger at a biochemical level.
Weird hill to die on.

2024-08-07 11:49:29

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"Bitcoin is not cryptocurrency" makes literal sense.
But I don't agree with your last part, as I see crypto only as a prefix, if it can't be a proper noun defined by "cryptocurrencies that aren't bitcoin" 😉

2024-08-07 10:04:41

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1000 dollar sell everytime it bounces 100 sats... 😏😎

2024-08-07 09:29:06

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Don't be so literal. Unless you know of another way to convey bitcoins singular uniqueness from everything else that came before or since in 4 words or less... 🤷‍♂️

2024-08-07 02:24:28

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Temporal & spatial distance matters 😉

2024-08-06 23:55:55

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You have to know the nix language to setup a system; the same language builds packages for the package manager (one of or maybe the most expansive package manager across linux). It's not hard to build packages. Pop a nix file in your repo, and anyone can pull & use your app nix style. Submit a PR and it'll be included in the main public package repo cache.

2024-08-06 21:26:50

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Aside from the maintainer drama, I've loved #nixos.

2024-08-06 13:39:44

Easy peasy lemon squeezy
#nevent1q…raph

2024-08-06 13:21:34

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We may all be the same or whatever, but we were certainly not all born in the same decade. It's stupid to ignore that fact.
I refer to generations as decades if I'm using that angle to make an argument about technology or human experience, so everyone is objectively on the same page, and doesn't get emotional. It works.. a little 😏

2024-08-06 10:41:15

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I assure you Japan is real

2024-08-05 22:35:47

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Look super real but act fake. Get some of that icecream gang gang monaayyy

2024-08-05 20:45:07

There are three pilots arguing about who is better to fly your plane, when you're really just better off taking all of them on the plane with you. Especially if it's a long flight, and an uncertain journey 😎
#nevent1q…lauy

2024-08-05 13:47:33

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Japan cut rates; USDJPY price reacts; folks sell stocks to get USD so they can cover their USDJPY forex trades & unload those positions.

2024-08-05 13:14:32

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That's not what the marketing account posted above...and "probably"? 😡
Alby seriously needs to be better 😔

2024-08-05 10:30:08

Par for the course in 20th c. society & economics 😔
#nevent1q…ws2p
#nevent1q…ws2p

2024-08-04 22:22:59

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Folks will work 100k hours in their life but won't even spend a day a year to manage their own savings throughout their lifetime. They'll spennd money every day but think "someone else can do it, money's not my kind of thing"
Crazy to think they'll spend a day a year keeping a node reliable! 🤣
This isn't a dig on the LN protocol; there are Uncle Jim islands everywhere using their channels well. It's aimed at "lightning" the nebulous term that means "all things not-onchain regardless of how custodial or nonprivate or poorly designed or thought out"

2024-08-04 20:47:52

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"Assume someone is stupid on their own, but is now distracted by a mob of other stupid people.
Now assume that person is writing your software."
Javascript...fixes this? 🤔

2024-08-04 20:43:19

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Stopped watching music (except live) when they felt they no longer needed to credit directors & producers at the end of the video, about 20 years ago. The 80s & 90s had some wild music video productions; modern videos, even the best are all just meh 🤷‍♂️

2024-08-04 19:33:59

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At the full service gas station: "Fill 'er up, please. No no, wrong hole!!"

2024-08-04 19:15:00

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It's up to the landowner (municipality, homeowner, business owner) whether the tax/transaction contract includes "vehicle storage in designated areas"
Paying taxes doesn't automatically give a blank check right to everything the government owns; it's (ostensibly 🤣) a social contract with terms that both sides understand, agree, and adhere to.

2024-08-04 17:53:34

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The first one is kind of absurd on its face.
Like saying "my government is the most flexible, so the entire human race will coalesce here, and that'll be that, the end." Humans just ain't that enlightened! 🤣

2024-08-04 17:30:31

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Who operates it is irrelevant; it's about who owns it.
The state or anyone else owns anything you leave on their land, and since in this scenario you didn't pay them anything, if they decide to keep it, you have no natural right to get it back without forcefully taking it back from their land.
If you did pay them, then forceful retrieval is justified (but infeasible against the state); if not, you'd simply be the asshole in the situation. Statists would argue that the latter is actually okay, and the state is always available to help you get your stuff back, in case the landowner gets grabby with the things on their land (ie. exercises their right to liberty) 🤣

2024-08-04 16:24:21

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M: "Listen to your heart"
W: "Uhh, that's not my heart..."
M: "You've gotta go with your gut"
W: "Uhh, that's not my gut..."

2024-08-04 15:13:30

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All art requires experience, but experience alone won't cause a person to become creative.
You can make a child draw a hammer every day. Some will dutifully do it and eventually produce excellent facsimiles of hammers; others will eventually produce good enough hammers but innately want to draw something else.
In software architecture, the degree to which a person wants, and can achieve, the latter is a measure of artistic ability. IME, without it everything looks like a nail, and you get paintings of very good quality, maybe even impressive multi-purpose hammers...but you'll certainly never get a Mona Lisa, unless that person evolves while they're with you
Not all projects need a very artistic/creative architect; artistic ability is a spectrum people are on throughout society, and different projects have variously different needs.

2024-08-04 13:28:11

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It's more art.
No one wants to hire a software architect that's really good at reproducing existing architectures. No one pays top dollar for a "just released!" Mona Lisa either 🤣

2024-08-04 09:00:46

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If you don't pay to leave your vehicle or trash or whatever on someone's land, then the landowner owns the stuff, and in their mind, you don't exist. Thinking otherwise is statist behavior.

2024-08-03 13:06:09

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Yes, but it beats waiting indefinitely until non-KYC options are accessible to everyone. The cat & mouse game of cybersecurity never ends, there will never be a winner, only imbalances, but mass ignorance is a major handicap for the freedom-tech side in the current state of the game.

2024-08-03 01:59:58

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The convenience of KYC networks today is worth more than the damage I'd incur if a 6102 fully wipes out my KYC UTXOs

2024-08-02 18:50:02

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https://image.nostr.build/606eb764a69e4b07f62f7206e9aad379710580edc26e7fc08a88c5b701c38d1f.gif

2024-08-02 14:18:24

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Email me at abstract@pop3.google.com!
(jk 😉)

2024-08-02 13:54:28

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Most read LTR and most don't care about directing their focus to their own messages before replies 🤷‍♂️

2024-08-02 12:50:08

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I'd rather go ride to space in the rockets they launch a few miles from the park, but beggers can't be choosers

2024-08-02 12:43:19

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Not costing money isn't the same as being free, but it definitely trims a lot of overhead 😉

2024-08-02 12:38:44

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They seek energy; the sun isn't required.
But still, good point 🤝

2024-08-02 12:29:13

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30 years ago, most people were *uninvolved* with digital technology and couldn't even work a mouse. Today, everyone with a modern electronic device, tv, car, anything, is involved, so the cypherpunk battle may be waging on, but the pool of Hearts & Minds today is far more complex

2024-08-02 10:38:53

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LN helps but that's only one angle of many.
I'm more worried in the US about the justice department being used to try to execute a 6102 than the tax collector. But either one can feasibly ask the IC for support. Up until now, those asks have IMO been reserved for legitimate cases (with some exceptions), so I'm not particularly worried, but I'm not convinced the exceptions for those asks won't start to outweigh the legitimate cases in the future.
Some risks though are big, exciting, global, permanent enough that they're worth pursuing 😎

2024-08-02 10:19:59

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Use a different keyboard? Disallow network permissions. 🤷‍♂️

2024-08-02 10:12:54

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Graphene on android is off the table?

2024-08-02 10:04:21

I apply a high standard to invoke this phrase, but...few understand this.
#nevent1q…2dw9

2024-08-02 09:59:54

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The review at the top by "Chris Evans" sold me
https://image.nostr.build/c322a0f984dbf99b8a1fcd9522a3c4cb7d57131aa2fadb61ff0654a932dde749.gif

2024-08-02 09:43:27

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I give the necessary disclaimer that...the IC pretty much knows who my IRL friends are already, sometimes before even I do 😏. The sats I send them are still effectively KYC'd in our view, until they can break the chain on their side going forward (swaps, coinjoin.. a much bigger orange pill than a "split the bill" transaction at a pub 😉)
But that stuff doesn't stop me.. we can definitely be friends! 🤝

2024-08-02 09:32:14

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Agreed. Ten years ago, the DSM listed surgery as a last resort. Today, it's more like "do what the patient thinks they need". Like maybe magic skinny pills for an eating disorder, or recommending a girl get her tits done to treat her modern depression 🙄🤦‍♂️

2024-08-01 18:38:24

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Lots of tinned fish is the same. They stamp a best by date on the tins, but is it tuna? Herring? Mackerel? 🤷‍♂️🤣

2024-08-01 16:16:57

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They're already used all over the place, but for decades, getting end users comfortable enough to effectively use keypairs was too difficult. It's still necessary though so the complexities were hidden (somewhat greedily) away from the users, and replaced with "trust us bro" logic.
Nostr & Bticoin, while relatively difficult compared to existing alternatives, definitely bump the usability of digital signatures in daily online interactions for typical users.

2024-08-01 15:50:30

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The American Psychiatric Association disagrees that it's not a mental illness.
https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/gender-dysphoria/what-is-gender-dysphoria#section_1

2024-08-01 14:37:16

Find a family that looks at you the way Vin Diesel looks at Paul Walker.
https://image.nostr.build/70b4b1a7b902f37177c7cfcec59627629c3a040f9c6ec4ea75b46b1313f03839.gif
#nevent1q…4j2g

2024-08-01 13:49:36

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Eat a sufficiently large (low or no carb) meal 3 or 4 hours before you sleep every day. No more morning hunger. This was how I kicked a decades-long caffiene habit without even noticing or paying attention 😏