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2023-10-27 23:06:30

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In the same way that monetary scarcity increases what can be purchased with that money, scarcity of goods increases the amount of money those goods can "buy".
If you save when goods are plentiful, and attempt to spend when goods are scarce, you will find that your "real" purchasing power has likely declined.

2023-10-27 16:14:18

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That's not a dollar, that's an nft.

2023-10-27 16:12:31

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Beautiful

2023-10-27 13:26:20

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Completely agree with this. To over simplify... the % of the money you want to spend now roughly equates to the % of the stuff that's available to buy now.
Savers increase the spending power of current spenders by reducing the amount to be spent now, producers increase (or decrease) the spending power of money being currently spent bu producing more or less goods for sale.
If available for sale goes to 0, purchasing power of money being spent goes to 0.

2023-10-27 12:05:15

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It's decidedly less efficient for everyone who benefits from the manipulations (possibly unpopular, but I'd argue most Americans benefit at the expense of the 3rd world).
I do think btc is objectively more fair.. participants have a much stronger expectation of being treated equally.. but to your point. Whether or not you think fairness is good is a different matter. Most would say they think fairness is important, but they betray themselves quickly by talking about who NEEDS to be excluded.

2023-09-02 05:15:26

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Maybe they'll fork btc and we'll get a nice airdrop.

2023-08-28 00:28:10

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Doing good 👍, having lots of fun learning about ctv, apo, csfs, sighash

2023-08-28 00:24:11

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Hey there.

2023-08-24 23:54:39

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Men who stare at goats is a great book. The author also wrote them... another great book.

2023-08-13 12:13:27

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Nostr right now is a bit too much people who have the same ideas of the world.. there's no one to argue with.
When some government gets stupid and tried to shut some bit discussion down... alot of people will probably flee to nostr, and that wave will be half insane.

2023-08-13 12:11:39

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It is satoshis worst take.

2023-08-11 12:44:17

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Good analysis of ctv vs drivechains, a bit dense but very helpful.
https://app.sigle.io/polydeuces.id.stx/9PHVc0PWHk_skP15_cYOb

2023-08-11 05:07:37

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The why not boils down to MEV that's difficult to predict how it will behave. Since drive chain anchor transactions can be very high value, it could become routine that optimal miner behavior is to attempt a re-org to capture more blocks (as an example).
OP_CTV, OP_APO, OP_CSFS (I am way out of my depth here) are more interesting covenant options imo. @4moonsettler and @polyd_ on X are sharing a ton of educational content about how those things could work. Recommend reading up on it.. it's pretty mind blowing.

2023-08-11 04:51:11

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Umm.. honestly I'm not sure.. IRL I work with alot of different models, but mostly risk models.. I have little to no experience with language models.
However, content recommendation algorithms can be quite useful, Netflix is really good at recommending shows I might like. Pandora good at recommending songs I might like. Etc.
I think the danger is a single algorithm out of user control pushing the narrative top down... I imagine that if there were many competing algorithms that clients could kind of download and plug and play in to their client they could be a really useful tool.

2023-08-11 04:33:14

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I'm still a user of both.

2023-08-11 04:30:00

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Lol, hi Elon 👋 when will you be making part of x's offerings being a nostr client?

2023-08-11 04:27:41

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Global works sometimes for now, especially of you only use paid relays..
Ultimately though, you'd hope nostr will have a ton of content out there.. and sifting through it would be prohibitive.
I am thinking some kind of algo.. but like client side... am algo that enables the client to pull more of what they want more efficiently, not push where you see what somebody else wants to show.

2023-08-11 04:24:49

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Lol, if only I was that smart :)

2023-08-11 04:24:36

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Interesting.... I haven't tried primal yet.

2023-08-11 03:16:42

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Could be interesting to train an LLM on "stuff you like" and then have it search the relays for related content.. or something like that.
Maybe from a data efficiency standpoint.. relays could broadly categorize the content the host and service queries of content by category.. could do ot client side as well but that feels really computationally heavy.. and requires the client to download and scan all content only to discard most of it.

2023-08-11 03:13:09

I think what nostr really needs is a way to deliver content to you that is reliably interesting to you and also not just the people you follow.
The joy of Twitter was often expanding your circle to include other stuff and people that you didn't know to look for, introduce you to something different.
Who's working on building something like that?

2023-07-30 23:42:09

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The effect of NOSTR will not be to eradicate those services necessarily. If NOSTR networks effect grow those platforms have an incentive to adopt the standard and gain access to all of the other content published in this format.
They can still compete on brand recognition, general UI UX, user experience, etc.
I expect some of them will probably try and do something like "we'll show you content published through nostr, but not write your events out that way" in an attempt to maintain their monopolies (I think this will fail).

2023-07-24 12:30:53

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I am pretty sure it's more than that? But maybe not.. for sure you cannot interact with the separate space from your main profile (can't see files, can't copy paste between them)..
Some of the "bad" reviews for it are people pissed off that they forgot the password and now the files in there are completely unrecoverable.
I think it's fully segregated / encrypted... but I'm not an expert so could be wrong.

2023-07-17 13:44:41

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2023-07-17 13:42:13

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Good morning, welcome to nostr

2023-07-13 20:33:26

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Commenting for future reference.

2023-07-13 20:29:22

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I love my btc content.. but nostr definitely needs non-btc content too.

2023-07-11 17:16:34

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I'm not a hater of custodial solutions for small amounts etc... but the reason to use them dry up quickly if their beta can deliver as promised on this.

2023-07-11 17:10:54

https://twitter.com/PhoenixWallet/status/1678781368309018624?t=EnuDyaYbOarwKYsIjQBvWQ&s=19
Phoenix wallet implements splicing in to the channel management. I know it's twitter but read it.
Fantastic work from those guys.

2023-07-06 13:46:06

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Didn't thread block your first post? Or was that someone else?

2023-07-04 23:27:45

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Followed back :).

2023-07-03 03:06:32

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Udi is pure noise... Eric wall has alot of good insights on bitcoin and how it works, I read his stuff... also fun watching him go after Richard heart and hex / pulse.

2023-07-03 03:03:42

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A VPN is definitely a good idea, you can control which relays you connect to (they could capture IP) but linked media is definitely a bit trickier.
There were a few relays over TOR... would definitely be nice to see more of that.

2023-07-03 03:01:15

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Also.. a few tips.
Your feed will mostly be people you follow. So follow alot.. if you find someone you like you can check the list of people they follow, and their followers.. should find alot of familiar faces.
May want to try a few paid relays as well, they aren't expensive (couple dollars) and cut way down on spam, so if you toggle just the paid ones on and go to global feed you can find conversation outside your circle without much spam.

2023-07-03 02:57:25

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Capitalization table.. list of investors in something.

2023-07-03 02:56:38

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I'm android so no idea how the damus UI works / looks.
NOSTR is basically a publishing protocol, you publish events to your relays which are basic social media actions.. publish, follow, like, set a relay, etc.
To collect the list of people following you, you have to check everyone else's events (not just your own, and the people you follow). You also have to check the relays that they may have published that follow to.
For these reasons.. the lists of who is following you are fairly unreliable, and can jump around alot (not sure of that has gotten better recently).

2023-07-02 13:39:40

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👋 welcome

2023-07-02 12:02:28

#[0] welcome to nostr.

2023-07-02 11:44:30

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After some research it seems that all the nostr users are effectively scraping content from relays!!!
The only solution is rate limits.

2023-07-02 11:38:14

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Ehh.. mostly yes, my point was that nostr is these two things, those others don't really

2023-07-02 11:16:11

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Ehh... he actively encourages people to pirate his book and makes it available for free.. tough to call it a money grab in those circumstances.

2023-07-02 11:14:24

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People always overlook open and decentralized.

2023-07-02 04:14:03

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Been curious myself.. I think that the stock2flow model is broken.. but given that it may have had a severe handicap I'm the form of paper btc last round and wondering what it would look like of those were accounted for.

2023-07-02 02:54:20

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Nostr doesn't host images, so every post thay shows an image links you to another server. If I wanted to capture a bunch of people's ip addresses I could self host an image, include that image in a post, and then capture the ip address of the people that look at it (when they query it from my server).

2023-07-02 02:34:07

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To add: since nostr doesn't host media, if someone posts a picture they are self hosting, they can get your ip address when you load the picture, a VPN is recommended.

2023-07-02 02:09:11

Quick PSA for new nostriches.
NOSTR is excellent at being a decentralized / censorship resistant way to broadcast information.
NOSTR is quite unprivate, and what you broadcast is permanent (no take-backs).
DMs are private as long as both parties private keys are secure, however everyone can see who has been talking to who.

2023-07-02 01:21:45

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Snowden was big.

2023-07-02 00:10:29

Elon really making the case for nostr these days 😂.. $44B self sabotage.

2023-06-23 12:40:48

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Curious about your thoughts on btc.d here.

2023-06-14 00:13:47

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Pixels are good because you can go completely FOSS and run graphene or calyx os. Samsung is also nice.. their secure partitioned space is good for privacy (like a secret computer within your phone that can't communicate back to the phone part).

2023-06-13 16:22:27

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Is mutiny "semi-normie" friendly yet 😂.

2023-04-22 15:38:19

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No.

2023-04-22 15:11:53

So btc teleports looks super interesting... are their smart people that can ELI5?
I kinda understand how it's supposed to work.. will it actually work?

2023-03-25 05:20:21

If you were going to stop bitcoin, how would you do it? Any attack vector that either destroys economic value or destabilized the network sufficiently is game.

2023-03-18 14:54:14

Lots of talk about #[0] and this vaccine card app.
Don't be too quick to draw unwarranted conclusions.. 2 points to make.
Vaccine cards and other things like this were / are a reality... a consumer facing app that helps them manage those is not exactly supporting them, it's giving people who are stuck with them a tool to manage what has been forced on them. I don't know the full extent of the app so I can't say for sure that this applies.
As a young man I believed many lies.. I joined the navy and had a job very similar to Edward Snowden. I believed I would be protecting freedom around the world, and only learned later over several years the falsity of my beliefs. People can have their worldviews altered and should be given space to do so.

2023-03-18 05:08:41

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He will have paid 1 million actual dollars for it since he escrowed the usdc today. If he didn't have to escrow now, then yes he could have upside from usdc collapse.

2023-03-18 05:04:16

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I don't believe that the bet is #btc will be worth 1 million usdc, I think the bet is on the true dollar denominated value... and since he's locking the isdc in escrow today he's spending $1M on it even if it goes to 0.. the usdc downside isn't his gain, it's the other parties loss.
Either way, I don't believe he really expects to win this bet money wise. He wants engagement.. question is what does he intend to do with the engagement, and why is that worth $1M.

2023-03-18 03:38:33

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He's buying engagement... bet is only downside for him.
He will give $1M usdc to an escrow party, person who takes the bet will give 1 btc today ($27K value). In 90 days.. if btc is over $1M then he will get the usdc and the btc (now worth $1M so it satisfies the bet payment) if it's not worth $1MM the other party will get the btc back with $1M.
Whoever gets to take that bet is one lucky mofo.

2023-03-11 14:33:19

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What's that?

2023-03-11 14:32:43

That feeling when you wake up with no counterparts risk.

2023-03-11 05:23:57

Is ministry of nodes on nostr?
I'm on video 3 of their Ubuntu nodebox series and it is absolutely awesome.. I'm ssh'ing in to an Ubuntu server, making and editing text files from command line.
Seriously, go to you tube. Watch the videos. Support their work.

2023-03-11 04:58:08

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That powder shopping fast now... $0.93 on a bunch of exchanges

2023-03-11 04:17:23

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It's floating independently at each exchange, coinbase could be in real bad shape since they guarantee 1:1 conversion.. you can buy on an exchange that allows it to float, xfer to coinbase and take advantage of their guarantee....
Coinbase could be left with a bag of devalued usdc, but... they just paused swaps, so they may continue to display $1 since no trades between dollars and usdc are actually occurring.
Gonna be interesting.

2023-03-11 04:11:28

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Coinbase has historically always offered 1:1 conversion of usdc to dollars, on other exchanges it is floating as low as $0.96 today.
Re-reading I can see how my statement could be misleading.. don't mean to say that's where it's trading, mean to say that's what it's current backing is.

2023-03-11 04:03:38

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Oh shit... 'defi' gonna get a serious wake up call on how much decentralization there actually is... even the most 'de' option (dai) is mostly backed by usdc.

2023-03-11 03:26:18

Circle just confirmed that they lost about $3.3B of their $40B reserves due to SVB.
1 usdc = $0.92

2023-03-11 02:44:54

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Uhh... not sure, but yes.. if usdc goes down Dai goes down. Looks like coming back to peg now though.

2023-03-11 02:23:17

Usdc is depegging - exchange rate on gemini.
https://i.imgur.com/UBouxO2.jpg

2023-03-10 18:23:06

Letting banks fail effectively results in the uninsired balances getting deleted from the economy..
Perhaps forcing bank failures is part of the strategy to fight inflation.

2023-03-09 16:15:54

Pretty wild that the silvergate collapse is being used by politicians to try and ban institutions from using any crypto (including #btc).
So far at least... the silvergate collapse has been the model of how this should happen.. business unsustainable, depositors unharmed, stock holders taking the loss... perfect wind down.

2023-03-05 22:28:40

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Lol, you've posted the soundtrack of high-school for me.

2023-03-05 21:43:31

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Tolkien's imagination/ world creation was second to none... but God he was hard for me to read.. the geographic descriptions take hours to read.

2023-03-05 19:52:53

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The funny part is even if you accept the premise that #[2] is a bad actor; I don't, but even if it's true... what is he going to do? There is no control mechanism, fear of control is completely irrational.

2023-03-05 19:11:45

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Lmfao.. ya.. I don't think I want my physical house security attached to a social media profule...

2023-03-05 19:04:05

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What is i2p?

2023-03-05 19:00:34

Arguing with people holding out on twitter because they "don't trust #[0] .. he ruined twitter and will ruin nostr next"
Probably not worth it... Have Fun Staying Controlled I guess.

2023-03-04 17:35:57

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I have some economic arguments for btc over monero that I find convincing.. but no issue with monero users and am forced to agree that in certain cases its use is preferable.

2023-03-04 13:25:20

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I discovered crypto in 2021, and at first would say I was an eth "maxi"..
Bitcoin as an actual currency was kind of a foreign concept (deflating monetary supply?) It was alot to wrap your head around... eth and defi were less a revolution and more an evolution of the fiat systems. They made alot more sense to me where btc didn't.
Took me a year or so to re-wire, see how the revolution could work, and decide that's what I really wanted.

2023-03-04 12:54:13

Seeing lots of FUD criticizing NOSTR about revealing your IP address (mostly on the bird app).
I'm not a privacy expert so want to make sure I understand the tradeoffs correctly to respond.
Clients or relays could capture / store your IP address, but no more than other website or app you would use.. you also have the option of running clients locally such that the the client couldn't capture this information.
A relay capturing / tracking your I.P. address is a risk, but relays can choose to not store this data and you can choose which relays you want to use. If you use a VPN you aren't revealing your IP address.
Regular users of NOSTR have no more ability to capture your IP here than on any other app.
#[0] .. does this sound accurate?

2023-03-02 20:50:55

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Lmao... It can't be real!!

2023-02-26 16:12:06

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Been wild watching left and right narratives flip flop the last few years.. Respective supporters also changing on a dime without batting an eye. Seems like most just have a leader, and few have any actual principles.

2023-02-24 19:58:46

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This is actually the plot of a black mirror episode..

2023-02-20 22:00:50

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Welcome, glad to have you.

2023-02-20 19:06:15

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Nostrgram.co has a pwa now too that works quite well.

2023-02-19 14:35:26

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#[2]

2023-02-19 06:31:12

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I am digging grapheneos a lot... Way easier than I was expecting.

2023-02-19 06:29:36

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I guess it is a bit true... Before NOSTR I only used the non-custodial ones.. Phoenix mostly... And I got WOS cause I couldn't figure out how to make an LNURL non-custodially.

2023-02-19 05:06:12

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Not quite following why i t would drive centralization, you can use your own node on nostr just as easy as anywhere else ya?

2023-02-19 04:11:26

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Welcome my friend!

2023-02-19 01:22:43

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Yeah, I use nostr wine, works well.

2023-02-18 08:23:44

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Beautiful app. Love it.

2023-02-17 15:44:37

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To state it ultra simply... how hard is it for you to estimate what your money is really worth now? Or estimate how much it will be worth tomorrow (should I save or spend). That question is largely predicated on existing liquid money supply, future rate manipulations, future liquidity injections via QE etc.
Is a corporation with political ties and influence more likely to get those answers right? Or you? And does that information imbalance give the corporation an advantage in recognizing when you're off the mark and willing to pay more than you should?
I cannot point to any proofs of my suppositions here.. but they make sense to me. And bitcoin fixed this. No one has any different information about existing or future supply.

2023-02-17 14:15:12

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Its tricky because it is partly true.
Because the money supply is so heavily manipulated, price discovery needs to take in to account both changes to the availability of the good or service, and fluctuations of money now and in to the future.
Corps clearly have a much better understanding of what the fed may do in the next two meetings, have a lot more data about what their consumers are spending.. This information imbalance creates the conditions that allow a corporation to overcharge (exacerbated by the fact that the government helps ensure they have limited competition).
Typically if I'm having this conversation with right leaning people, we can just blame the govt.. With leftists I fine if more productive to talk about how the fed creates the conditions that allow for that exploitation.

2023-02-17 06:27:06

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Test passed.

2023-02-17 06:00:26

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Charging for you labor is the only signal you have to know if your time is well spent or not. Working for no pay is a vanity.. Not a "bad" one per se .. But there's no way to be sure it is the best use of your time, or that it's providing the most value to the world.

2023-02-17 05:50:20

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IMO... One of the fundamental failures of anti capitalists is to understand the cost of producing and consuming information and factor that it to their calculations.
You will often see criticisms to the effect of "capitalism only produces market efficiencies with perfect information". I reject this argument.
It may be true that I could purchase a similar good for less nearby (we'll use a pen, sold by neighboring stores for $0.50 difference in price) however.. Researching all alternative purchasing paths is a significant time cost and likely to only produce minimal value, so I don't.. And maybe overpay for the pen.
Information has to be produced by someone (they should be compensated). And potentially benefits me (I have a marginal gain to be shared with the producer).
I think this plays our in reality... People shop for houses where gain is potentially significant, not for pens.

2023-02-17 04:00:40

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Thanks, I talked about it with reardencode on twitter a bit and it seems like it may just not be that useful of an idea.. No real gain from the existing methodologies. Appreciate the response!

2023-02-16 20:59:57

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Interesting.. I don't see that note in these responses... Perhaps your client cached it and displayed it to you? But the relays rejected it?

2023-02-16 20:53:43

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Interesting idea.. Wouldn't this depend a lot on common relays though? If the users intersection is low (maybe 1/10 are shared) the experience could still be quite different.

2023-02-16 20:12:48

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Interesting.. Can confirm its not visible to me, wonder if you only have it on a relay we don't share.... If you initially added it when you were using only 1 or a few reLays and we don't have those on common it could explain it.