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Yes, political narratives are usually bullshit and used to expand state power.
I dont know what you mean "ignored", I imagine you mean that the mandates only happened after a considerable amount of political support was leveraged for it? So, the vaccines were politicized before they were mandated. If thats what you meant, then I see your point and am inclined to agree; but then we are talking about speech that was calling for all manner of force to be applied, mandates, forced injection, concentration camps, isolation etc... I don't think that applies to bitcoin as a tool to opt out of other systems, though if you support those violent measures to force bitcoin through then you would be making it political.

2023-12-31 18:24:25 UTC

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I would argue that something is political if it utilizes political (violence) means. The vaccine became political when attempts were made to force people to get it; letting people opt out is almost the definition of non-political. Controversial maybe, but I dont think bitcoin is political, fiat is political.

2023-11-21 00:21:50 UTC

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I have no doubt everything you said is correct, and it is underpowered if you need to do anything more than streaming videos in their native format (transcoding is a total waste of time), but depending on what you need it for its not a terrible pick. Its proved to be as/more reliable for me than anything else I have.

2023-11-21 00:05:36 UTC

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My synology 4 bay has served well, but its going to depend on what you are after. Frankly I appreciate the work it does in the background to keep my data whole, ive had enough trouble losing my kernel on linux and other bizarre issues to trust my own computer skills with doing it the hard way; I slot in a new drive, I assign it to the main pool through the UI, and it does everything else to configure it for raid 5.

2023-10-30 10:40:06 UTC

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Democracy is a no more just governmental structure than monarchy, both are revolts against your human rights. The idea that monarchy alone is unfair in providing its politicians tax avoidance, influence over public policy, and legal cover is easy to dismiss when you look at the last few years of american
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-Politicians enjoy ultimate influence over government, case and point you have congress persistently at its lowest approval rating of all time and yet they dont get voted out, individuals in congress enjoy even lower approval ratings, yet they still vote on bill after bill.
-Look at the obscene amounts of money our poloticians are worth, how do you make that on a relatively modest salary? Its legal for them to insider trade, just like its legal for the government to rob you or kidnap you, they have legal cover to do whatever they want to you.
-the tax code is designed to be impossible for plebians to figure out, tax breaks and credits change constantly and no one will tell you the truth unless you are paying them. While I dont think taxes are ever moral, and I think the rich are generally over taxed, the tax code is designed to grant the wealthy and politicially connected a way to dodge taxes.
These are all problems today with democracy, tomorrow the problems will be hyper inflation, endless war, and the tyanny of the mob voting to steal all your stuff and put your head on a pike. Of course, "democratic™" rarely means "democracy", it means *whatever I like and nothing I dont*; its amorphous, it changes based on the motivations of its user, there is no universifiable moral values that can be defined. There is only a vague idea about a social contract, something no one has signed, something that cannot be (re)produced, that cannot be signed, has no legal basis, and includes no instructions for what forms of aggression are, and are not permitted under it.
So, you can say monarchy is all these evil things, but its not obvious that democracy is preferable.

2023-10-29 21:27:47 UTC

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Could also just be preference, im right handed but shoot left

2023-10-15 15:08:20 UTC

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Had the same issue with my start9, im tired of raspberry pi. Nothing touched it, I logged in to ensure my vaultwarden was secure before wiping my PC and none of the servoces were running and wouldnt start.

2023-10-15 01:00:07 UTC

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Of course, now if your government is responsible for terrorist attacks against you, with the intent of gaining your consent to a war, then your first action in self defense should be removing the government. In the case of certain members of the Israeli government, charges of treason and aiding/abetting terrorism are in order. I could care less what happens to hamas, but its worth pointing out that the israeli government has every incentive to continue supporting terrorism; the idea that these attacks on Gaza would, or are even designed to limit further terrorism seems doubtful.

2023-10-14 11:46:59 UTC

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You commented last week that theres no evidence the Palestinians would accept a two state solution, perhaps but its possible that those efforts are actively sabatoged. Maybe a two state solution isnt even the answer, but what seems clear to me is that israel is likely responsible for their own problems with terrorism, and is not justified in their response.

2023-10-14 02:56:13 UTC

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I have trouble reconciling you knowing that and your posts from last week on the conflict. It sounds like members of the israeli government are sponsoring terrorism to justify the israeli militaries assaults/occupation of Palestine.

2023-10-13 15:32:58 UTC

@npub1qfk…j6kq
“Those who want to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state should support the strengthening of Hamas and the transfer of money to Hamas,” Netanyahu said at a Likud party meeting in 2019.
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/10/12/poll-majority-of-israelis-blame-government-for-hamas-attack/

2023-10-10 10:41:20 UTC

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By bank transfer do you mean ecash mint to mint transfer?

2023-10-10 07:55:43 UTC

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Do you believe terrorists hijacked planes and flew them into the twin towers? If you do, thats a conspiracy, if you dont, thats also a conspiracy. Conspiracies are ubiquitous, some are accepted as mainstream history and others are not regardless of whether they are true, the only logically consistent way of dismissing conspiracy theories is to say *everything* happened by accident, the Japanese sub we sank prior to the pearl harbor attack was an accident, oswald tripped and blew Kennedys head off, lyndon b johnsons wife got lucky being a major shareholder for defense contractors during the war in vietnam, bushes administration thought there really were weapons of mass destruction in iraq despite all intelligence to the contrary, the bankers going out for a secret party and waking up to having created the federal reserve while binge drinking.

2023-10-10 00:16:36 UTC

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"They dont know initiating violence is wrong"
"We dont care"
"We're getting rich"

2023-10-10 00:07:12 UTC

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You might like vinnie paz or immortal technique then

2023-10-09 23:49:24 UTC

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I know not why I have to be alerted to someone not liking me (i suppose its considerate), nor why I find myself in fair company, but it is not mine to know. 🍻
https://image.nostr.build/3f49d31f3e300470415b2eb1b1ab857ffbb51e91016353ec32da00a5dc31b53e.jpg

2023-10-09 17:49:40 UTC

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So, its all a matter of prespective, and if I run that past who benefits from any of this I can reframe your statement as "everyone says that so flippantly until they are a dictator taking money from the IMF".

2023-10-09 11:22:43 UTC

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Can you name a time when international intervention didnt cause more problems than it fixed?

2023-10-09 09:49:19 UTC

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So, what, israel is to absorb the Palestinians wholely?

2023-10-09 09:46:08 UTC

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Projection, you live in germany, a country premised on a superposition between self hatred and ethnic superiority, ruled by leaders who hate you, on a continent that will devolve into eating each other soon. Whether I am right or wrong about israel, you throwing "ngmi" around is ironic.

2023-10-09 07:40:18 UTC

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I believe bin laden when he says 9-11 was blowback for sanctions and supporting israel. I believe hamas when they say this attack is blowback for shooting up a mosque.
Its also possible to believe both, that hamas is dangerous, and that this will never be fixed until israel takes their boot off Palestinines neck. How can you expect the taliban to stop fighting when we actively occupy them? The stronger side has to inititate concessions, or you are expecting the palestinians to lay down their arms and accept the domination by israel and hope that, what, netanyahu decides hes going to start playing nice? Im skeptical that will ever happen, so without israel initiating concessions you are seemingly conceeding that there will never be a solution until the last palestinian is dead and that it has to be this way.

2023-10-08 16:20:17 UTC

Everyone with strong opinions about the israeli people, their history, and their relationships with others, seems to believe everyone else is so ideologically convicted and in defense of everything historically associated with that side.
Like damn, you say hamas is a terrorist group, I say israel is oppressing them, and we move the fuck on. Im not going to jump down your throat because I dont know fuck all about it, you shouldnt jump down my throat...because I still dont know fuck all about it, its an opinion and I have a right to it.

2023-10-08 10:58:49 UTC

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As someone who works with evaporative coolers, this is an interesting rabbit hole.

2023-10-07 00:40:38 UTC

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More advanced L2 stuff, its above my paygrade, but as I understand it they would allow multiparty channels.

2023-10-06 10:24:08 UTC

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Could you explain what hes saying here in more detail? It seems like the arguement is
1. Drivechains make miners more money so they are harder to bribe
2. Liquid could create MEV too, so its hypocritical to not accept MEV from drivechains.
Assuming thats accurate,
To 1, I assume we all accept the economic principle that prices fall to the marginal cost of production. If drivechains cause hash prices to fall, all that does is drive out miners that cant compete on MEV. That would make you feel very secure and "powerful" if you were the top pool operator, and that appears to be what Paul is referring too, but why that is a "good thing" eludes me. Again, miners arent getting bribed, they arent getting paid, they are directly collecting the fees because they will be building sidechain blocks. The idea that miners wouldnt jump at the idea to make more money just because they are making enough is thus an irrational conclusion, if they do not then they will be overtaken by a miner that will because of the affect on the hash price.
To 2, again, an arguement about something you dont like about bitcoin today doesnt justify aggrevating the situation. Pauls tendency to resort to these arguements is troubling, either drivechains are a good idea or they are not, when a hole gets poked in his game theory and he immediately starts pointing the finger at someone else it discredits him. At the very least he needs to do a better job defending his arguements, rather than this and the patronizing language from the first link. That aside, he says in-text that liquid hasnt implemented MEV as described, so evaluating that as an arguement is difficult.

2023-10-06 07:52:48 UTC

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More!
https://image.nostr.build/b8f68ffd6ad69f33d1b6d5fa4326f77a360b2474c3f6b971c528dc5086f0cfed.jpg

2023-10-05 14:12:56 UTC

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Id be fine with opctv now that I know what its doing, I would just like to see more debate between that, op_return, and a new proposal that I heard about recently, I forget the name. I wish jeremy the best, I just wish I could coach devs a bit on how to talk to people LOL.

2023-10-05 14:08:17 UTC

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I knew much less about the incentives and workings of bitcoin at the time, and what effect ctv would have. I was concerned about recursive vaults, which jeremy said were impossible, but I felt that should be subject to scrutiny/debate before just accepting it. I really dont like the way some of these devs conduct themselves though, trying to ram something like ctv through when many of us had never even heard of it can only be met with resistance.
We need a conference or podcast circuit for new proposals, everyone should be hearing the best arguements from all sides.

2023-10-05 13:50:19 UTC

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I was initially very skeptical of opctv, I didnt like the way jeremy rubin went about pushing it. Since, clearly we need a covenant implementation, im neutral on whats best.

2023-10-05 10:55:11 UTC

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Sorry for the late response, I read it at your suggestion, I think all these points are argued against by shinobi in his recent episode with stephen livera.
The article presupposes that sidechain blocks will be built by proposers, rather than miners. The miners have an economic advantage in creating sidechain blocks because they are already bringing the hashpower, so they dont need to pay what the proposer would to get that block approved, winning a higher profit, so I would expect that the sidechain block production will be dominated by mining pools. Pools that have better tools to exract value from mining sidechains will dominate the mining industry, and make it unprofitable to mine without sidechain mining, let alone mining for anybody but the top pools.
The miners have an enhanced ability to reorg the sidechain too, and proposers lose their spent bitcoin in that case, but miners never needed to pay to create sidechain blocks because they mine it themselves.
You could say, as this article does, that every miner is engaged in finding these side hustles that effect the profitability of mining for everyone. Its not a *good* thing that mining companies are finding economies of scale or side gigs that screw with the economics of bitcoin, it causes miner centralization. We shouldnt look at that and step on the gas pedal, like "ah fuck it, lets just go full send because load shedding is a thing".
Further, these side hustles or tricks like having newer miners all revolve around having more hashing for less electricity. MEV presents a novel price incentive to mining that cant be compared to load shredding or mining on curtailed energy, because those grid issues are everywhere. Mining on ercot has been lucrative for iris, but eventually the texas grid will evolve to not need the miners and the incentives will evaporate, replaced by incentives posed by other grids like microgrids in africa.
When these discussions picked up the line was that it doesnt pose a risk, it seems clear that it does pose a risk. Maybe you consider the risk worth it, but I don't; it adds too many unknowns to the incentives around mining, the lack of clear explanation of why miners wouldnt create the sidechain blocks is the most obvious issue I see.

2023-10-05 08:54:15 UTC

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The quote, though im just grabbing this off reddit
The current system where every user is a network node is not the intended configuration for large scale. That would be like every Usenet user runs their own NNTP server. The design supports letting users just be users. The more burden it is to run a node, the fewer nodes there will be. Those few nodes will be big server farms.

2023-10-05 08:24:11 UTC

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Well, it was what satoshi envisioned actually, they said a few large data centers would comprise all the "nodes" (synonymous with miners at the time). Its important to remember satoshi wasnt infallible, because I gemerally agree with your vision and if thats not the trajectory we are on then we should change course.

2023-10-03 19:08:31 UTC

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A curve the nsa came up with they could have an advantage in cracking, bitcoins curve is particularly special in being (relatively) easy to validate as secure, though I dont understamd the math.

2023-10-03 09:55:41 UTC

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Im concerned about the issues laid out by shinobi. These drivechains could expose the miners to MEV, meaning the best capitalized miners win. The existence of outside incentives necessitates miners to participate or they wont remain in profit as the hash price gets cut by miners that can operate in the red. So, mining gets centralized as only a small cohort of mining pools can compete on MEV and everyone else gets washed out of the market. Any criticisms of that take?

2023-10-03 08:48:09 UTC

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Am i fucked up for wonderimg what peoples last thoughts were, was this guy like "oh shit I never thought this could happen to me!" Or was it "this doesnt prove anything, i am more likely to die from covid!"

2023-10-03 04:39:26 UTC

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Maybe, or mayve ill just be happy that 150 people who dedicated their lives to villainy are packing their bags.

2023-10-02 11:51:09 UTC

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Unironically accurate, just not intended by the author.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinhead

2023-10-02 11:44:06 UTC

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Presupposing the love of money is the root of all evil*

2023-10-02 09:08:04 UTC

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Id visit, hard to say if I could say, its a lot to move your life even if the freedom is that good. People on podcasts talking about fleeing for freedom must not have grumpy spouses.

2023-10-01 20:05:53 UTC

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Its coming and theres little I can do to stop it, but learning from your mistakes will be good for us, like not relying on exchanges the way the truckers did. And when your coubtry splits, which for your sake I hope it does, we can look to you for a way out of this mess.

2023-10-01 18:45:37 UTC

How convenient we have canada ahead of us so we can see whats coming, maybe theyll lead the way on national divorce too.

2023-09-30 17:32:49 UTC

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Still less stupid than trying to get me to not eat meat.

2023-09-29 18:15:36 UTC

"Media-splain", peter st onge. Im using that, mediasplaining why the vaccine isnt working, mediasplaining why its ok the pentagon has lost trillions of dollars.

2023-09-29 17:19:22 UTC

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Probably for the firehose of bitcoin memes. I wonder how much traction the conversations tab gets, its disorientating to look at sometimes, and I dont think you would have seen this before today if you kept to the posts page. There are plenty of racists on here if you dig a bit, whats interesting about nostr so far is by not following those accounts I dont really see it, the "web of trust" keeps that content out of my feed.

2023-09-28 17:14:02 UTC

https://fair.org/home/npr-report-on-depleted-uranium-shells-for-ukraine-was-a-one-source-dud/

2023-09-28 15:55:24 UTC

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Of course, and I return to the existance of public property being the first crime, because its onlu possible with the theft of private property.

2023-09-28 01:44:31 UTC

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"Blaming immigrants" isnt something im interested in, I just stuck my neck out recently to get an immigrant from ghana the job he dreamed of, I catch a cup of coffee with security guards from somalia and south africa nightly, I shoot the shit with DCOs from pakistan, afghanistan, and iraq when the nights going slow, I turn over with a dayshift from mexico. Dont assume my intentions.
You are glossing over the social effects of dumping masses of immigrants in concentrated areas with no regard for the people living there; its the difference between you inviting someone to stay at your home with the promise that they are getting a job and will pay your generosity back and be self sufficient, and me dropping a van full of homeless people in your living room and saying "dont worry, the free market will figure it out".
The "free market" would necessarily imply property rights are being respected, which they arent at the level of public property existing, and they arent at the level of public property not being maintained in line with how you would treat your own private property. The mass migrations are in fact an act of aggression, because the property rights (at the latter level) of citizens are being violated the same way as if I violated your home. You wouldnt invite these people onto your property so how is it ok to invite them to public property?

2023-09-27 20:33:58 UTC

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I think that would be accelerationist in the statist direction. Thats like encouraging people to burn down cities and steal from stores, and saying we will get less government as a result; no, I think that just gives the government the political influence to expand its power. Mass immigration is a plot to destabalize society, as things get worse it justifies authoritarian measures, but those authoritarian measures will only really be used to remove intellectual critics of the state.
Where does the free market come in to fix anything when the government holds the monopoly on violence? If they want to destabalize society then they would shut down any attempt at private law enforcement.

2023-09-26 22:53:01 UTC

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They are hosting the servers, so they are more like a small twitter/facebook than nostr.

2023-09-26 19:32:07 UTC

Poland gets mad and says they are pulling support from ukraine, 2 days later were giving them a $2 billion bribe https://news.antiwar.com/2023/09/25/us-announces-2-billion-loan-for-poland-to-spend-on-military/

2023-09-26 11:46:21 UTC

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Well the political party is just a political party so treat them as such. That said, the libertarian position is that public property can only exist through the theft of private property, so the government has a mandate to maintain that property inline with how it would be maintained as private property. In this context that would imply 1. Build a wall, as you would around your house in a bad neighborhood 2. Evict tresspassers 3. Establish invite only immigration proceedures 4. Stop engaging in activities that cause mass migration.
By comparison, red team and blue team have spent the last several decades overthrowing governments and starting civil wars in central/south america, africa, the middle east, and eastern europe. Red team has failed to enact stricter border security, and blue team has failed to enact better immigration policy, they both win votes by blaming their problems on the other side.
I would then conclude that the libertarian position is actually the only one that offers serious solutions to real problems.

2023-09-26 06:46:38 UTC

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I was always in the former category, cant let a wo-man distract me from my sacred task. Just steal all the plates and pile them up next to you while you do curls in the squat rack, assert your dominance.

2023-09-26 06:23:26 UTC

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Go to a smaller gym and wear sweats, theyll treat you like a fellow musclehead.

2023-09-26 06:20:12 UTC

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What does that even mean? "Exploiting oil into the international market", you mean trade? Like, they are selling oil? Why are you saying exploit instead of trade?

2023-09-26 05:36:05 UTC

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Those priests must know how to turn up.

2023-09-26 05:34:33 UTC

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Its just luck, sometimes blocks get solves in seconds, other times its taken around an hour. If you roll a dice you have a 1/6 chance of landing on 1, but maybe you have to roll that dice 100 times to actually get there, just luck.

2023-09-26 05:27:53 UTC

Going to day shoft soon™, I feel like after a couple weeks ill have forgotten about the last couple years like it was all a weird dream. Good luck to those of you stuck living in the darkness.

2023-09-26 03:27:48 UTC

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Its gotten better with the beefed up features for content filtering and self selection. Its really not, but then I work nights so there arent a lot of people around. Its one thing for me to scroll past some boobs at night, itd be another thing if management walked in when im home and saw them displayed on my computer screen.

2023-09-26 03:17:08 UTC

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Well, it was the word I was looking for, "stern" doesnt convey the metaphorical ass-fucking id get for having this as my screensaver at work.

2023-09-26 03:14:39 UTC

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Would you post this as your screensaver at work? i would get a stiff talking to if not outright fired, its definitely NSFW.

2023-09-25 23:01:18 UTC

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Very poor allignment? I cant see how thats possible, unless you are running like 20° negative camber or something. Are they the wrong part?

2023-09-25 22:32:47 UTC

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Started a war in Ukraine

2023-09-25 19:53:48 UTC

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Think of moving bitcoin like wire transfers, lightning is like a debit card or cashapp, it lets you move bitcoin instantly for low fees.

2023-09-25 07:28:30 UTC

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My uninterruptible thoughts on a reasonable punishment are so severe I wager im bound for hell should such a place exists, writing out my antisocial personality disorder on nostr would do little to calm my nerves, its easier to just say guillotine.

2023-09-25 04:46:56 UTC

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I love the framing of these innocent civil servants who need our support and love and who have no way of protecting themselves; we must protect them, they are our precious little civil servants and you are trying to take their right to exist away, they deserve to collect government paychecks without scrutiny waaaaahhh

2023-09-24 23:18:37 UTC

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So incredibly blinded by their hatred of Russia, they applaud a literal member of the nazi SS from a time when Russia was our ally against the nazis. Theyre given the command to clap like seals and they do, later they will feign remorse over a $80 tub of ice cream while their citizens cant afford food and are seeking assisted suicide.

2023-09-24 23:06:08 UTC

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Microsoft uses linux for everything behind the scenes.

2023-09-24 20:16:06 UTC

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Funny how that works, there is no limit to the amount of violence they would have supported against us, getting us fired, preventing us from going to the grocery store, witholding medical care, sending us to camps, i know plenty of people whod have gone farther and many more who turned a blind eye. Were supposed to forgive and forget that with no appology, but you saying there should be consequences? Banned.

2023-09-24 20:10:19 UTC

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Are they bitcoiners though? Im tempted to scan (or whatever?) my wallet for "rare sats" and dump it on these dofuses if they are paying more sats in return.

2023-09-24 18:55:08 UTC

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Make sure you get an unlocked version!

2023-09-24 11:11:22 UTC

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Racist terms and penisbutter.

2023-09-24 07:40:13 UTC

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Doesnt sound real, you saying they are ditching brics?

2023-09-24 01:23:14 UTC

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DN? DC is quiet if thats what you meant, nothings happening here tonight.

2023-09-24 01:16:57 UTC

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Mmmm no? Not that I can see, no big global events and DCO says its quiet, what region are you?

2023-09-23 22:48:52 UTC

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What are you talking about? Your definition must be "no one knows i exist". Just because your phone tells everyone your secrets doesnt mean the rest of us have that problem, when I connect to public wifi they have no idea what device my phone is or what im connecting too, my phone spoofs its mac address by default every time I connect and im on an always on VPN. Of course there are people that know things about me, but those are only exactly what I tell them, quit with this victimhood ideology that you cant take personal responsibility for your own privacy.

2023-09-23 22:35:28 UTC

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I wish this were real, hes looking like mcafee 😂

2023-09-23 19:52:29 UTC

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You dont know anything about "my place", and you are trying to deflect from the absurdity obvious in your statements when tested. Things like minimum wage, child labor laws, and rent control have all been proven as total bullshit, and its intellectually dishonest to use them in your arguements. Its fine if you dont want to come for dinner, see I wont force you, nor will I force myself upon you, thats called morality, something you should try out rather than jumping to conclusions abouy how great your utopia would be if "everyone just agreed" to do whatever you intend to force them into.
https://image.nostr.build/60163e0ca00a34a82db794550e3e1b362e4302ac18b019a023fa93cd9ddcdb08.jpg

2023-09-23 18:58:04 UTC

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You *dont* send yout kids to work in the coal mines, as society became rich, people sent their kids to school instead, laws about child labor didnt come for decades after kids left the workforce.
How about a mutually accepted boundary that I have my house and you have yours, I dont tell you how to live and you dont tell me how to live? See, anything else REQUIRES violence, so you arent saying "mutually agree", you are saying "do what I say ot else".

2023-09-22 17:19:33 UTC

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I might try that out today, need to spice things up

2023-09-21 18:14:58 UTC

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Avast deamon, show thyself!

2023-09-21 18:14:32 UTC

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Okay, what sorcery is this

2023-09-20 20:36:24 UTC

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There rai stones of yap had no industrial case yet were a functional money until their supply could be inflated. You can say its not real, even though it takes real work to create, but im skeptical that this matters. What about individual use case? I bought my vpn sub with bitcoin, there is no other feasable way to anonymously get a vpn subscription, thats useful to me.
Does regression really take precedence over monetary properties? With bitcoin i can send it across borders to someone ive never met, know that the transaction is secure, while preserving my privacy, and knowing that the quantities are a fraction of a fixed supply. Those qualities will never be replecated in fiat, they cant be copy/pasted to another shitcoin, and I cant see any way theyd ever be replecated in gold. Yet, none of that matters because I cant put it in a machine as a raw material, none of those other use cases matter compared to melting it down to make a computer chip?

2023-09-20 16:54:45 UTC

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Yea I think you got some bad information bud, cant say for certain but the SEC owning assets would be new to me.

2023-09-20 08:09:18 UTC

Seems like the new covid scare couldnt find traction, power depends on peoples willingness to accept it.

2023-09-20 08:04:54 UTC

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Arguably not, their only strategy is to lie themselves deeper until they cash out their influence for a payday. If they told the truth only god could save them at this point.

2023-09-20 07:43:29 UTC

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You dont need to dox yourself, I have a totally anonymous proton account.

2023-09-20 07:42:24 UTC

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I wouldnt call him a troll, his basis seems rooted in mises regression theorem, i dont agree with him but gold bugs are our closest cousins. Though he did seem to be confusing bitcoin with being a liability today, that one doesnt follow.

2023-09-20 07:25:25 UTC

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Probably because you could make an infinite number of aliases with lnurl auth (i think)? I paid in bitcoin that i coinjoined on wasabi.

2023-09-20 05:01:50 UTC

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I try too and then I listen to another 5 minutes of the creature from Jekyll island or think about how weve been robbed and im breaking clipboards at work.

2023-09-20 04:58:49 UTC

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They couldnt get him on murder for hire because there was nothing there, and at least or or 2 of the agents that was after him were also convicted for good reason. The government doesnt just not prosecute you on something just because theyve already got you, they would have hit him with the broadside of the book if they were capable. The judgement against him literally cited his political leanings as justification for his sentence too, hes locked away for forever because they dont like people believing in freedom.

2023-09-19 23:59:53 UTC

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UTXOs today are as uniform as gold was before the minted coin, before which the gold could have been better traced to origin by its melt and form. Coinjoins and payjoins strip identifiable information out and can provide uniform outputs. Upgrades to the network will bring cross input signature aggregation, allowing these functions to be performed in a very decentralized manner.
You could say that the total supply of fiat is limited at any single moment, but I would argue this does not constitute scarce.
-Scarce would imply a marginal cost of production that fiat does not have, more can be created by political means.
-your definition of scarcity here would imply that nothing is *not* scarce, a jpeg may only have been copied to a million harddrives, but could be copied to 10 million more at essentially zero marginal cost.
Bitcoin on the other hand cannot be created without the marginal cost of production, determined by your computing power (linked to physical cost by your price of electricity) and the total computing power of the network. Further, even taking your arguement at face value, fiat still fails in its centralized issuance and control.
I would be highly skeptical that you could find a crypto that offers these points in better spades than bitcoin. Monero for instance could be said to be more private, but your privacy set, the total number of transactions yours is hidden behind, is limited compared to bitcoin. You would be better off using a coinjoin, a payjoin, or even liquid, compared to using cryptos that lack the economic activity to properly hide amongst the crowd. Further, any additional feature set you find in a crypto will sacrifice a more fundamental feature that bitcoin has, like decentralization, monero would not be able to maintain any sense of decentralization if there transaction volume did go up, because their scaling solution is allowing bigger blocks.

2023-09-19 22:59:58 UTC

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Having been created as opposed to found, the initial distribution is produced through a subsidy on recording transactions to the blockchain. Admittedly this isnt ideal, but of the ways to manage the initial distribution without a central authority this is probably the most honest, and provides a security budget for bootstrapping the network until fees alone can fund mining.
It is a ledger system, in that I agree, bitcoins are comprised of the record of transactions that created them, the UTXOs. However, there is an important distinction between this and traditional ledgers in that the total supply and record of transactions is continuously verified by anyone with a node.
Since there is no central issuer, no trusted counterparty, there is a provably scarce supply, and the asset itself can be held in self custody, I would argue its not possible for it to be a security.
As to defining a commodity, I think, and its not a crystalized definition:
-scarce
-uniform
-primary product
-no central issuance/control
-can be used in trade.
Fiat fails in all but the last; cryptos fail in their inability to resist a central issuance/control and scarcity; physical commodities like oil and gold pass for obvious reasons; bitcoin passes all of these too. I dont think I have ever seen a single perfect definition of a commodity, maybe you have one to cite, but classifications that categorically reject things because they dont manifest in the physical world seem logical prior to bitcoin, but with the advent of true digital scarcity its maybe worth revisiting.

2023-09-19 22:09:05 UTC

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This is based on the idea of bitcoin being a liability, a promise for some other item of value akin to a paper promise for gold. Bitcoin doesnt need a backing, it doesnt require reserve assets, it is the backing, its not a security or liability to anyone, it is the commodity itself. Now, of course you believe in regression, so you could argue bitcoin has no value of its own, but I dont think you could argue that it is a security.

2023-09-19 20:08:12 UTC

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"Fuck you, fuck you, you said we couldnt do it fuck you, youre kinda cool lets trade, fuck you"

2023-09-19 11:55:11 UTC

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The asbestos, the energy efficiency, the cost of a controlled demolition under legal methods, the ability to collect insurance, and more ive heard. This film only briefly covered the incentives, it was more about the technical analysis of how the planes manuvered, the characteristics of the collapses etc.
Ill need to find another one that goes in depth on the characters involved if you have any recommendations.

2023-09-19 09:29:07 UTC

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Ive always known aspects of it were an inside job, but I assumed it was also a "never let a good tragedy go to waste", it now seems clear it was fully orchastrated from the top down.

2023-09-19 08:54:36 UTC

So I finished watching september - 11 the new pearl harbor (its 5 hours worth watching). My honest takeaway was "was bin laden in on 9-11?". Seems kind of silly to say, we have the writings of bin laden saying why they attacked the towers, we have the al queda declaration of war, yet something doesnt seem right. The movie lays out a compelling enough case that not only was a controlled demolition possible, not only probable, but that it would have been seemingly impossible to have happened any other way.
Bin laden had a lot of creepy family connections that I cant speak much too, and he was trained by the CIA. But theres more, Scott Horton has repeatedly detailed how the US basically let Bin Laden escape to Pakistan, and how the Taliban was ready to give up Bin Laden and help combat Al Queda, the natural conclusion I originally came to was they wanted a war in Afghanistan for other purposes; what if its deeper than that?
Maybe, its a thought, Bin Laden was our asset and on board with the CIA to carry out 9-11, and we let him escape because his survival justified the war. At some point he became politically inconvenient so we had him killed to tie up loose ends.

2023-09-19 06:40:40 UTC

Its not an $100 million jet, weve spent $1.7T on less than 300 of them, its a $5.5 billion jet.