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2026-04-03 23:44:25 UTC

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"Is it necessary?" If you are asking this question, it is clearly not "necessary".
You've already made some huge progress.
Apple is actually pretty good on privacy and security, except for *privacy from Apple*.
My recommendation would be to spend some time getting comfortable with your current setup before making any more major changes. Privacy fatigue is real.
On mobile, GrapheneOS is the only option that would be an upgrade from iOS.
On desktop, going from Mac to Linux is a tough call. You'll get substantially worse security, but better privacy from big tech.

2026-03-29 23:21:57 UTC

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"Under our precedents, a company is not liable as a copyright infringer for merely providing a service to the general public with knowledge that it will be used by some to infringe copyrights."
Good. Now do "money laundering". #FreeSamourai

2026-03-29 23:14:29 UTC

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Read the quote from the ruling.
Then replace "copyright infringement" with "money laundering".
#FreeSamourai
#nevent1q…yhmv

2026-03-26 00:12:25 UTC

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😂 There is so much needless suffering in the world. I just try to help out where I can.

2026-03-25 22:41:11 UTC

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Hands destroyed due to improper grip. Trying to wrap hands too far over the bar. Feels like a stronger grip, but you see the result as your hands slide down during the set.
Instead, grip with calluses just below the centerline of the bar, fingers above it. Your hands will thank you.
(Same grip should be used for deadlifting.)

2026-03-23 14:42:46 UTC

https://mises.org/mises-wire/scarcity-and-machine-opportunity-cost-age-artificial-intelligence

2026-03-16 15:22:16 UTC

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Paul Rosenberg predicted this in Breaking Dawn (2016).
https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Dawn-Paul-Rosenberg/dp/0979987768
Think of it as Mandibles, but from the perspective of 1) people who have fled (or are fleeing) the major cities; and 2) the ruling elites.
A caveat about the third part of the book: I found it interesting, but disappointing in terms of the plot. It is likely to annoy both atheists and Christians (in particular, but not exclusively).

2026-03-04 01:54:29 UTC

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"Consensus" is another word they seem to have trouble with.

2026-03-04 01:11:38 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/c292b6682c8c3a8b86284d89180501f27810a24790290461379af8e2f65f19f1.jpg

2026-03-03 18:08:14 UTC

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> There are no sides...now here are the sides...
😂
The existence of a BIP necessarily creates sides.
That doesn't mean either side is monolithic.
It is possible to oppose spam while also opposing a particular proposed solution to spam.
> it's incredibly stupid to judge BIP-110 because people you dislike are yelling
It's not just random people yelling. It's the leading proponents. Seems like a red flag. And I didn't even dislike them prior to the yelling.
> If you want civilized discourse you're really just asking for centralized decision making.
If you believe this, I think you have failed to understand bitcoin (and free markets, and the entire history of western civilization).

2026-03-01 20:59:31 UTC

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Fair.

2026-03-01 20:34:05 UTC

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> But many people online are reasonable and understand nuance and context.
Yes. Dozens of them.

2026-02-27 21:45:36 UTC

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Except that so many of the people mentioned have acknowledged the emails. If false, you would expect some denials.
It's good to be suspicious, but don't over think it.

2026-02-27 19:19:00 UTC

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You can prevent this by disabling the SIM, if you want to. But as @nprofile…6hdh says, it does not mean the cellular modem is communicating with the network.

2026-02-27 18:12:48 UTC

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I thought that was just about foot-gun risk for wallets, nothing to do with the network. Am I wrong?

2026-02-26 19:22:19 UTC

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Your accusations could be much more effective if you linked to a source.
All his Nostr posts and RHR episodes are public. Shouldn't be too hard, right?

2026-02-25 23:07:44 UTC

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You guys are either being dishonest or hallucinating.
Odell never recommended upgrading to v30. I know this because my node is still running v28, largely because of listening to Odell's advice on RHR.

2026-02-25 20:21:08 UTC

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I will take that as an apology. No hard feelings.

2026-02-25 20:12:12 UTC

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I mean "you" generically, not personally

2026-02-25 20:11:20 UTC

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1. Get core devs to stay humble
2. Stop calling people who disagree with you pedophiles
3.
#nevent1q…u8er

2026-02-25 18:39:40 UTC

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I know this wasn't addressed to me, but...
What I want is for both sides to stop trying to force their opinions on the rest of the network.
Frankly, IDGAF about the technical merits of BIP110 as long as its leading proponents are behaving like lunatics.
From what I have seen, it is your side that needs to apologize for making personal attacks before you can reasonably ask others to just focus on the technical merits.
Until then, a plague on both your houses.

2026-02-23 17:37:23 UTC

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Agree, brevity is undervalued.
But it's also possible to go too far in the other direction. People (some, at least) want to understand your reasoning too.

2026-02-23 15:14:05 UTC

> The question, “Is the state necessary?” becomes “Is theft necessary”? - George Ford Smith
https://mises.org/mises-wire/nocks-war-state

2026-02-22 20:00:43 UTC

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If you think statism "works" currently, that is a low standard for "working". Why assume anarcho-capitalism would be worse?
Or the reverse: assume perfect freedom. Assume most people are bad. How would it be an improvement to give some of the bad people super powers?

2026-02-22 17:37:52 UTC

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GrapheneOS OEM partnership to be announced in March!
#nevent1q…kgnl

2026-02-22 14:12:14 UTC

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2027 😂

2026-02-22 14:11:53 UTC

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It will be announced in March, available in 2927.

2026-02-21 21:56:04 UTC

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Technical judgement is how you determine the best way to achieve a goal.
It does not tell you what goals should be pursued.
The claim that technical judgement is all that matters is why core devs are perceived as arrogant.

2026-02-18 23:42:45 UTC

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Remember: owning a lot of bitcoin does not give you any additional influence over the network. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

2026-02-18 23:35:24 UTC

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I agree with @nprofile…fm4n from the perspective of the individual bitcoiner.
However, it seems like some of you haven't really thought this through.
If bitcoin is going to be money, it is unavoidable that governments and businesses will own it.
Where will they get it, if not from individuals?
The only question is what price they will have to pay.
#nevent1q…d384

2026-02-18 23:33:04 UTC

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Better title: "Corporations and Governments Acquire Bitcoin at Fastest Pace Ever"

2026-02-17 20:02:20 UTC

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If you expect businesses and govts to adopt bitcoin, that chart is inevitable.

2026-02-17 01:38:54 UTC

https://mises.org/mises-wire/brief-history-petite-bourgeoisie

2026-02-16 23:11:54 UTC

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🤔
#nevent1q…3q6m

2026-02-16 22:56:41 UTC

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Meanwhile...
#nevent1q…u9mt
https://blossom.primal.net/6b6e5bf287934828de848776bcaf3cec0af09d84d8490fa151c3b412e6323997.png

2026-02-16 22:46:19 UTC

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Now do federal spending 😬

2026-02-16 00:37:32 UTC

AI agents will make it impossible to enforce copyright.
Will be good for society, but obviously not good for business models that rely on copyright.
Plan accordingly.

2026-02-15 19:59:45 UTC

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I prefer to think of them as natural counter-economists (my kids, but I guess also gypsies)
You can just sell things.

2026-02-15 18:39:49 UTC

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Our kids are outside right now trying to sell their homemade jewelry to random unsuspecting passersby 😂

2026-02-15 16:59:24 UTC

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Less uncertainty --> more accurate forecasting of wants/needs --> better deployment of capital to fulfill those needs

2026-02-13 19:43:02 UTC

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Arbitrage.

2026-02-09 15:09:58 UTC

https://mises.org/mises-wire/stop-fighting-your-neighbor-mechanics-state-power-and-how-opt-out

2026-02-08 23:47:04 UTC

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If businesses could just raise prices, why wouldn't they have already done it? Why wait for a tax increase?
In the long run, all taxes are born by labor (as reduced real wages) and land owners (as reduced capital values).
Price adjustments cancel out the effects on other factors of production.

2026-02-07 23:40:31 UTC

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Also, clients can make it easy for users to block bots, and relays can choose to block bots. It doesn't have to be users muting every not individually.

2026-02-03 17:47:42 UTC

If you updated Notepad++ between September and December 2025, your PC may be compromised.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/notepad-says-chinese-government-hackers-hijacked-its-software-updates-for-months/

2026-02-03 17:30:36 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/61d33e1624b5db93200348f7948348ca41f408e30666ab0c4f0d6d9b3f67f343.jpg

2026-02-03 16:03:16 UTC

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Yes. OTOH, if they are fabricated, I would expect the people implicated tosapeak up.
We will see.

2026-02-03 15:37:35 UTC

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Mention is one thing. Context matters a lot though.
Have not looked into it, I just think we should not be too quick to condemn.

2026-02-02 18:31:32 UTC

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Idk. I've seen boomer CEOs of Fortune 500 companies who were shockingly tech illiterate. Delegated anything involving a keyboard to a personal assistant.

2026-02-02 18:22:21 UTC

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Why? Genuinely curious.

2026-02-01 19:45:41 UTC

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Owns bitcoin != shares your values
Bitcoin is money for enemies.
#nevent1q…k369

2026-01-31 21:17:40 UTC

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> Plenty of bitcoiners here are extremely miserable and aggressive. Their children would end up pretty fucked up by the time they’re adults.
This actually seems like a pretty good reason not to follow someone.

2026-01-29 13:28:40 UTC

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Yes. I don't see any way to do it in the app.

2026-01-28 21:27:42 UTC

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Or maybe it's My Articles, then New Article. Don't have it in front of me rn

2026-01-28 21:06:55 UTC

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I think you have to use the web. Go to Reads. Click the New Article button. The editor itself is pretty good, but the rest of the UI could use some work.

2026-01-27 23:46:58 UTC

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"Government overreach" is redundant

2026-01-25 15:27:19 UTC

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1. Email is not secure or private
2. Some email providers are better than others
#nevent1q…zlmk

2026-01-25 01:45:45 UTC

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Yeah. Sadly, the "me" often seems to be more important than the "don't tread" part.

2026-01-23 19:15:21 UTC

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First, realize that you don't radicalize people, they radicalize themselves.
Ironically, the most practical way to encourage that is probably to get them working on freedom tech projects!
Do it early, while they're idealistic. Before they've been seduced by the salaries and perks big tech can offer. Before they're on the hedonic treadmill. Before they have mortgages and families and responsibilities.
Pay them, but don't pretend you can compete with big tech. Any attempt to do that is likely to attract people for the wrong reasons.
Instead, offer them interesting things to work on. Offer to teach them on the job. Offer them the opportunity to work with people they can learn from and respect.

2026-01-22 14:30:13 UTC

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Meanwhile, China: 👀

2026-01-21 15:43:32 UTC

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Thanks, Matt. You helped me better understand where @nprofile…2s9w 's post was coming from.

2026-01-20 15:24:06 UTC

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Bitcoiners and FIRE should be a natural fit, and have much to learn from each other.
Unfortunately most of the FIRE community seems to be very hostile to bitcoin

2026-01-20 13:55:33 UTC

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Agree that this is is not great, but it's not nearly as bad as you make it seem.
Google is not limiting the apps available on alternative OSs. They are limiting what apps are available on stock OSs.
If anything, this makes an alternative OS more useful relative to stock, not less.
The negative here is that some devs may stop developing given the alternatives of KYCing or losing the distribution the Play Store offers.
Even that is probably exaggerated. Most will KYC. Ride or dies will abandon the Play Store.

2026-01-20 02:06:19 UTC

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My response is here:
#naddr1qq…qg0m

2026-01-20 00:53:03 UTC

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I wrote another article:
#naddr1qv…zznh

2026-01-19 14:07:08 UTC

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Yes, exactly. The entrepreneurial aspect always exists in the real world. It's not possible to isolate the effect of time preference.

2026-01-18 18:27:05 UTC

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1. Don't buy low quality products just because the seller accepts bitcoin. If you're buying the product anyway...
2. Does the business realize they are accepting bitcoin? I'm not a big fan of doing the bitcoin to fiat conversion on your end (gift cards, bill pay services, etc.) where the seller doesn't even realize bitcoin was involved. That doesn't encourage adoption.
3. If yes to #2, spend bitcoin. Don't worry about whether the seller is holding it or immediately converting to fiat. That is their choice. The important thing is that they made a choice to accept it.
4. If no to #2, spend fiat.

2026-01-18 14:34:47 UTC

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I can't see your response either. How will I know what to be triggered about? 😄

2026-01-18 14:21:44 UTC

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What is the source of those images you post?

2026-01-17 14:12:19 UTC

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🎯
#nevent1q…2lun

2026-01-15 17:02:10 UTC

> another test

2026-01-15 16:23:42 UTC

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This is a test.
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsywf0gk3tq7eqc85hpl525uhc9za33a7j22lkukxtysfp8zw74vzgtldefl

2026-01-15 16:13:36 UTC

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Strike app won't accept a VOIP number. There is no technical reason for this. May be a policy choice by Strike or a 3rd party service they use. Disappointing. Works fine at River.

2026-01-14 01:16:13 UTC

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Lets put aside the Rothbard vs Mises view of time preference. I'm still on the side of Mises, but apparently reasonable Austrians can disagree. However...
"The hoarder isn't postponing consumption..."
Hoarding a good does provide present utility, but that is not the same as consuming it. A non-perishable good like money is not used up, or worn out, or otherwise diminished in utility when it is held. The hoarder retains the full (present and future) services of the good until it is *actually* consumed or exchanged.
Rothbard recognized that too, as you mentioned above when he refers to 3 margins, not 2; and you yourself refer to hoarding as orthogonal, which would not be the case if hoarding and consumption were identical.
"A purely psychological "orientation toward the future" that never manifests in willingness to lend isn't economically meaningful because it produces no observable market phenomena."
Hoarding is not purely psychological. Hoarding in an exchange economy reduces demand for all other goods and increases the exchange value of the hoarded good. It definitely has effects in the market. This was the point of the 2nd Mises quote in my original reply. Whether those effects are observable is not relevant to economic theory.
"The HODLer who won't lend at any rate has revealed infinite time preference in the only sense that matters economically: no offered future return compensates him for parting with present capital."
The interest rate here is undefined, not infinite. You can't infer from a refusal to exchange present for future goods that the reason was an insufficient interest rate. Observed interest rates are partially explained by time preference, but they are not identical with it, nor do they measure it. There is always an entrepreneurial component.
It's the "stay humble" part of "stay humble and stack sats."

2026-01-13 20:51:05 UTC

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I think Rothbard is not clarifying Mises there; he is contradicting him, and I think he is making a mistake in doing so.
I would say (and I think I am following Mises) it is the proportion between consumption and non-consumption (hoarding + investment) that reflects time preferences.
Again from Human Action:
"He who consumes a nonperishable good instead of postponing consumption for an indefinite later moment thereby reveals a higher valuation of present satisfaction as compared with later satisfaction"
That's time preference, and there is no need to invoke investment or interest to explain it.
If the stored coconuts keep Crusoe alive while he builds a boat...then what? They provide all the same present utility prior to consumption. Are they now an investment rather than a hoard? What's the difference?
There is no obvious distinction between saving and investment in an autarchic economy. There is always time preference though.

2026-01-13 16:36:00 UTC

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"the hoarder isn't actually deferring consumption: they're consuming the money's services (liquidity, optionality, removal of uneasiness) in the present moment."
Are you trying to say that Mises is wrong, or that your definition of hoarding is somehow different than Mises' "plain saving"?
Assuming the latter, I think it would help clarify things if you could explain that difference in relation to a non-monetary economy. (I think you will find that there is no difference.)
"...whether it reveals time preference through the mechanism of originary interest. Mises himself defines originary interest as the discount of future goods against present goods in exchange, which hoarding by definition does not involve since no temporal exchange occurs"
But Mises does not say that originary interest is the ONLY way time preference is expressed. My first quote from HA very clearly says the opposite, in fact.

2026-01-13 15:18:14 UTC

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🤦 Please read Chapter 18 of Human Action.
https://mises.org/online-book/human-action/chapter-xviii-action-passing-time/2-time-preference-essential-requisite-action
A teaser:
"The theorem of time preference must be demonstrated in a double way. first for the case of plain saving in which people must choose between the immediate consumption of a quantity of goods and the later consumption of the same quantity. Second for the case of capitalist saving in which the choice is to be made between the immediate consumption of a quantity of goods and the later consumption either of a greater quantity or of goods which are fit to provide a satisfaction which--except for the difference in time--is valued more highly."
--> Both plain savings (i.e., hoarding) and investment are expressions of time preference.
On the productivity of plain savings:
"If an individual employs a sum of money not for consumption but for the purchase of factors of production, saving is directly turned into capital accumulation. If the individual saver employs his additional savings for increasing his cash holding because this is in his eyes the most advantageous mode of using them, he brings about a tendency toward a fall in commodity prices and a rise in the monetary unit’s purchasing power....The effect of our [p. 522] saver’s saving, i.e., the surplus of goods produced over goods consumed, does not disappear on account of his hoarding. The prices of capital goods do not rise to the height they would have attained in the absence of such hoarding. But the fact that more capital goods are available is not affected by the striving of a number of people to increase their cash holdings. If nobody employs the goods--the nonconsumption of which brought about the additional saving--for an expansion of his consumptive spending, they remain as an increment in the amount of capital goods available, whatever their prices may be. Those two processes--increased cash holding of some people and increased capital accumulation--take place side by side."

2026-01-08 17:32:42 UTC

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> Time preference is not a moral category, and "lower" is not inherently better than "higher."
Agree.
Lower time preference is *usually* (and reasonably) seen as virtuous, but there are limits, and it depends on the circumstances.
Scrooge is a great example of low time preference as a vice. (You will probably say he has high time preference though.)

2026-01-08 17:11:21 UTC

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Forgoing something is not consuming it.

2026-01-08 14:15:37 UTC

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> If Crusoe just piled up fish and never built anything, he'd eventually eat them. The pile isn't deferred consumption; it's inventory awaiting consumption.
I think this is the root of your mistake: "It isn't deferred consumption; it is merely *awaiting* consumption." ?????
Waiting == deferring, right?

2026-01-08 13:49:18 UTC

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Hoarding (i.e., saving) is literally deferred consumption. That is the definition of saving. Saving is not consumption.
Also, interest rate is not time preference. Time preference is part of human nature. It does not require a loan market or an interest rate or money or society.
That Crusoe is not in a loan market is precisely the point. You say (correctly) that Crusoe is demonstrating low time preference by saving. But then you introduce money and loan markets and interest rates and get confused.

2026-01-07 22:16:45 UTC

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> Only lending or investment expresses time preference; a hoard is liquidity held for consumption.
All deferred consumption demonstrates low(er) time preference. That includes holding cash balances.
> If everyone hoarded and no one lent, interest rates would be infinite, reflecting infinite time preference.
Imagine you are Crusoe, hoarding fish to live on while you make a net. Is that demonstrating an infinitely high time preference?

2025-07-04 13:13:41 UTC

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Some possible mitigations:
- Buy your own modem or modem/router combo for $50-100, if your ISP supports 3rd-party modems (most that I've used do)
- Buy your own router for $50-100, hardwire it to the ISP-provided modem; connect everything else only to your own router. This is possible with any ISP. If the ISP-provided device includes WiFi, disable it via the admin interface if possible
- If you aren't using the WiFi on the ISP-provided device, you can often unscrew the antennas (may not be 100% effective, but can't hurt)
- If you're more technically inclined, and your router sipports it, flash OpenWrt or similar open-source firmware

2025-07-03 16:47:58 UTC

Changing your car's oil filter, and too lazy to remove the plastic engine shield, but also hate cleaning up a big mess?
You can use a flexible plastic cutting board as a sort of funnel to keep the oil from dripping onto the top of the shield.
Tbh, there are probably products designed for this, but I was feeling pretty proud of myself.😁
Pro-tip: check with wife first
https://blossom.primal.net/dcec7a7314196f5424c482fdb758512c3740ed7ee5f302d9f9a031e27dd16ab4.jpg

2025-06-30 19:08:10 UTC

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The first part is not necessarily true.
Companies buying bitcoin > companies not buying bitcoin, regardless of motivation
Buying bitcoin to own bitcoin > buying bitcoin to increase fiat market value