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2026-03-26 16:08:41 UTC

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And that is why homeschooling in The Netherlands was soo difficult. You had to hide the fact that you were homeschooling and there was nobody that you could connect to IRL.
People in the USA don't really know how great they have it with all the homeschooler communities.

2026-03-26 16:06:01 UTC

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I can only speak from my experience. Do not plan to far ahead. You will have to adapt to the child, which is the advantage of homeschooling.
First phase is to get them to be able to read and do their lessons independently.
Second phase is to get them from 1st to 8th grade.
Third phase is the last four years, which is different for each child. They will be more serious about finishing all the must have subjects including exploratory subjects they want to take.
For the first you want to spend time reading, writing and just fun with them. Hooked on Phonics worked well with most of our children. Reading books to them. All our kids love classic audiobooks & classic movies https://canonplus.com/.
For the 2nd & 3rd phase we used:
- Ron Paul Curriculum https://www.ronpaulcurriculum.com/
- Maths from Teaching Textbooks https://www.teachingtextbooks.com/
- Hillsdale Open Courses https://online.hillsdale.edu/
For the 3rd phase we use https://westriveracademy.com. They help you with the transcript in California even if you do not live in the USA. English, Science, Mathematics, History & Physical Education is mandatory. The rest is all optional, but you need 6 credits minimum.
Our strategy was that you must complete the mandatory subject and discover what you love and are good at and lean into that.
First child leaned into languages and wrote her JLPT exam.
Second child leaned into maths and finished high-school math in 8th grade.
Have structure, but with flexibility for the child to experiment.

2026-03-26 10:18:08 UTC

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Watching MIT 15.393 Nuts and Bolts of New Ventures

2026-03-26 07:26:51 UTC

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You can tell people the truth and they will filter what they want to hear or just not hear it.
I had a argument with a baby boomer American here in Europe. He believed that Europe has better freedom of speech. So I asked him which politicians or citizens were locked up or fined because of something they said. I gave him concrete examples of people that were locked up, but that didn't vibe with his lefty world view.
He couldn't give any concrete evidence, but held that view that he was correct as if it was a lifebuoy.
The First Amendment is way stronger and broader than Article 10 in the EU that comes with clauses about 'responsibility' and 'democracy' which is always used to suppress free speech.

2026-03-21 15:27:14 UTC

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I made this joke with my son until he finally got the joke.

2026-03-21 14:05:40 UTC

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There is one big hurdle to the CBDC which is that they will have to destroy the current credit based banking system. 80% of all bank income on average is received from credits (interest income). You deposit money in the bank and they can rehypothecate it and lend it out, which is what allows them to exist in the first place.
Currently you deposit your money in the bank and your money gets added to the banks balance sheet as an asset and you get a IOU plus a guarantee from the government up to a certain point.
You holding CBDC does not (currently) count as a bank asset and they can't rehypothecate it. For this reason they are looking at limiting how much CBDC you can hold. All CBDCs are at the expense of of the banks balance sheet, which means there is a point where too much CBDC's will destroy the current banking system. Banks will not survive without rehypothecation and interest income on credits.
https://blossom.primal.net/ccf4e2a6bc276d4d1a4ace579c53dd11c396c54d40aa00a4e17bf5277f44885e.png
Source: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/how-it-works/html/index.en.html

2026-03-20 13:59:15 UTC

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Tried Dutch and it subtracted marks for me answering a bit to slow and then thinking about what to say.
Telling about a book I read and what I learned did make me think as I answered. It seem to be a bit hasty on that part. It also didn't recognized a few words correctly. Not sure why.
Tried it a second time and with different answers but the same results.
What I didn't like was the stacking of questions.
What is your name? How are you?
What are you doing? Why are you doing it?
It doesn't come over natural if you get what I mean.
https://blossom.primal.net/07d071a52db09493f7003d845e1edb0f9aef889b2e0a100d92a0c549fa9669bd.png

2026-03-20 13:41:49 UTC

Thinking out loud:
If Bitcoin was around in 1776 the Continental Congress couldn't have issued Continentals (aka printing money). Without money printing it seems very unlikely that they would have been able to fund the rebellion and thus freedom would not have been gained.
Does that mean that America's founding is in part thanks to printing money?

2026-03-20 10:22:57 UTC

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Been meaning to read this book.
https://fountain.fm/episode/EgUYrZ5zf3hvczdU8r1A

2026-03-20 01:56:24 UTC

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Naive take, because the petrol price you see is set by a government and not the free market. A price-control system always suppress information so we have no idea why it has increased. The government could just see this as a good opportunity to blame the price hike on outside actors.
Take a good look around while you are there. Most of them couldn't afford petrol to begin with. And that is all thanks to the Ndebele and the Shona's swallowing communism and white racism hook line and sinker.
The fact that a country or group of people are poor is not due to a far off war, but how well they assign their own resources and protect property rights of their citizens.
'Whether the people in a given economy will be prosperous or poverty stricken depends in large part on how well their resources are allocated.'
Sowell, Thomas. Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy (p. 3)

2026-03-19 12:39:46 UTC

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No idea

2026-03-19 07:48:45 UTC

I probably need to get some work done.
https://blossom.primal.net/c788626c6066515576f144a470730fada86994835d9bdde0eecfc44917170a61.jpg

2026-03-19 07:46:53 UTC

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To be fair to him. He did tell Nixon not to do it ;)

2026-03-19 07:44:55 UTC

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Yet civil government is ordained by our creator.

2026-03-19 07:42:23 UTC

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They suddenly changed their ‘Death to America’ stance? Trust me bro!
They were peaceful all along. Them funding Islamic radicalism is a peace mission to bring the religion of peace to you by force.

2026-03-19 07:37:03 UTC

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My word. 10 years!

2026-03-19 07:30:39 UTC

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Wonder why does Trump not eat with a mullah that shouts ‘Death to America’?

2026-03-19 07:26:53 UTC

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Im sorry

2026-03-19 07:24:01 UTC

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As if any of those were flying before the Aussie flag on the land?

2026-03-19 07:21:27 UTC

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Not to have a nuke seems like a reasonable goal

2026-03-19 07:20:48 UTC

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This is not consistent with their actions since their existence. I call BS on this. Why would they suddenly change stripes?

2026-03-19 07:17:59 UTC

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Yeah let’s leave all these ‘America must die’ countries alone. Whenever they attack you can always still blame the jews.

2026-03-19 07:12:13 UTC

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No surprise there.
Hijack Charlie Kirk from the dead for your movement.

2026-03-19 07:09:20 UTC

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You’re stats are better than mine ;)

2026-03-19 07:03:43 UTC

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Any data that I should be worried about storing in my house? My surname isn’t Biden, so I won’t get a pardon.

2026-03-19 07:00:24 UTC

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And just like that trans violence is now also the jews fault. I would never have guessed that is what he was going to say.

2026-03-18 08:15:16 UTC

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I only know of Reformed Christians living more concentrated and actively trying to limit the reach of the left in society.
One reason is that the Reformed Christianity is an encompassing world view, which guides and bind them together.
I honestly don’t think Bitcoin Libertarians have enough of a philosophical overlap to replicate this. Libertarians have a too diverse view on things. Just take marriage and you will get wildly different ideas on this.

2026-03-18 08:05:18 UTC

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Bitcoin will not be used by the majority until:
-most of the technology is abstracted away
-compared to you FIAT Bitcoin’s volatility is acceptable
-other external factors are removed, such as capital gains on bitcoin

2026-03-18 07:49:47 UTC

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'The atheist regimes, by their actions, confirm the truth of Dostoevsky’s dictum: if God is not, everything is permitted.'
D'Souza, Dinesh. What's So Great About Christianity (p. 222).

2026-03-18 07:46:39 UTC

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This favors the females.

2026-03-17 07:49:37 UTC

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Wait what?

2026-03-15 20:11:41 UTC

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I usually have to hold back. Not on Nostr. Nobody sees my posts anyway. ;)

2026-03-15 07:49:04 UTC

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Reformed theology on predestination brings me peace of mind and also prohibit me from thinking I deserve to be saved.
It gives you boldness while keeping you humble.

2026-03-15 07:38:36 UTC

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I don't know that much about the Jesuits, but that they were formed during the Reformation as a Catholic Counter-Reformation. Most Protestants don't know much about them either. Since I am from French Huguenot descent I do know about their involvement during the French religious wars.
The current anti-semitism is coming from two other Catholic groups. The integralist and ethnonationalist. They are really well funded and organized.
'the replacement of evangelical Protestant political theology with a Catholic integralist or ethnonationalist framework that views Jews, Israel and Protestants not as covenant partners but as adversaries of Christian civilization.' Source: https://x.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/2029681200189636717
So in essence it is a fight to remove the Protestant world-view from the Republican party and America.
At the founding of the USA the population was 99% Protestant and the first Amendment was created to prohibit the Federal from choosing one Protestant denomination over the other (even though it wasn't prohibited on state level). For the Catholics to live in this world-view they were relegated to being just another denomination. This is one of the major objections of the integralist see this as a Protestant error to be corrected. They basically want to return to a pre-Vatican II era.

2026-03-14 17:23:57 UTC

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The irony of this war is that Iran sold their drones to Russia. Russia shoots it at Ukraine. Ukraine shared the drones with USA. USA improves the drone and makes it cheaper to manufacture. USA is now using these drones to attack Iran.
I have concluded that the department of war has already adapted to this new type of warfare and it seems like they are having great success. Nothing has been able to penetrate their defenses yet, which is indeed surprising.
But to me the strategy is clear. Keep on killing leadership until you get to somebody that is less fanatical.

2026-03-14 12:47:19 UTC

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The humans (oracles) building the model.
'In an extension of Gödel’s incompleteness theorem—where the axioms of a system cannot be proved within that system—Turing showed the limits of computation: All computers are dependent on outside programmers that he called “oracles.” He wrote, “We shall not go any further into the nature of this oracle apart from saying that it cannot be a machine.”'
George, Gilder. Gaming AI: Why AI Can't Think but Can Transform Jobs (p. 21)

2026-03-14 11:37:03 UTC

South Africa with their Anti-American stance is currently in the FA phase. I can't wait to see when FO stage hits them, since I don't think they will change their ways.
https://youtu.be/nd-HCp04UTQ

2026-03-14 11:26:44 UTC

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And the revisionist history is crazy to hear.

2026-03-14 11:14:45 UTC

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Talking smack without any basis to follow through. The reality is that the USA controls the seas. They are the only one that is able to prevent or allow sea traffic. And the current administration is willing to use that power.

2026-03-14 10:44:11 UTC

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My youngest stops the video if he spots something he wants to build. Then off he goes and builds it. Tankers, plains, trains, space ships. He sees it. Inspiration hits and then he has to build it.

2026-03-14 10:17:49 UTC

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Blaming a small identifiable group for your despondency is a cop out, but aligns with this new victimhood mentality. None of this is new and young men without a good understanding of history is being led astray.
'No small part of the historic anti-Semitism of Europe (and corresponding anti-Chinese feeling in many Asian countries) is due to the Jews’ role as middlemen. Legally—that is, forcibly—denied access to many occupations in the production of goods, Jews could survive in Europe only by finding interstitial services not covered by the sweeping discriminatory bans against them. They became middlemen in the movement of goods and money over time and space—time because the Catholic Church’s moral prohibitions against charging interest did not apply to them. The virtually universal dislike and suspicion of middlemen focused on an ethnically-identifiable group of people, separated by religion and customs from the rest of the population, and therefore a perfect target. The economic success and political vulnerability of the Jews over the centuries has been paralleled by that of the Chinese middleman minority throughout Asia.'
Sowell, Thomas. Knowledge And Decisions (p. 69).

2026-03-14 10:06:53 UTC

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I can almost smell the cold fresh air.

2026-03-14 10:05:33 UTC

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Never understood why people like Oreos.

2026-03-14 09:26:33 UTC

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Bitcoin, if utilized correctly, can change many things. But this is to simplistic and is a optimistic utopian outlook not grounded in reality.
How is Bitcoin going to influence the normal distribution of IQ?
People are poor individually or as a group due to how well they are allocating their resources. Bitcoin doesn't change the allocation of resources.
'Whether the people in a given economy will be prosperous or poverty stricken depends in large part on how well their resources are allocated.'
Sowell, Thomas. Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy (p. 3)

2026-03-12 21:37:30 UTC

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I remember back in the day the ‘The Making of a Fly’ glitch

2026-03-12 14:54:12 UTC

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I’m so normie I have no idea what either of you are talking about

2026-03-12 12:11:56 UTC

3 groups that will thrive in this new economy:
1. Work creatively & well with intelligent machines (AI)
2. The best craftsman
3. Capitalists
'In this new economy, three groups will have a particular advantage: those who can work well and creatively with intelligent machines, those who are the best at what they do, and those with access to capital.'
Newport, Cal. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

2026-03-12 10:46:27 UTC

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'So give me more money...'

2026-03-12 10:44:48 UTC

I agree with Doug here. A country does not have a right to exist, but does have a right to defend its existence.
https://youtu.be/VTfTN4Ifamk

2026-03-12 07:49:16 UTC

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These glitches happen on Amazon frequently. It usually happens when two algorithms collide unknowingly.

2026-03-12 07:43:09 UTC

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Hate the man who utilizes his resources better than you.
'Whether the people in a given economy will be prosperous or poverty stricken depends in large part on how well their resources are allocated.'
Sowell, Thomas. Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy (p. 3)

2026-03-11 07:43:30 UTC

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I still have to finish the big print. It is an easy read.

2026-03-11 07:23:13 UTC

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Internet of Money

2026-03-09 19:31:32 UTC

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https://youtu.be/gn2MwHGbP1A
https://blossom.primal.net/f90cc59348f5185650800da519bb00c55e999f00252f3cd416b1788c23064d3b.jpg

2026-03-09 18:27:28 UTC

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Local is better

2026-03-09 09:50:26 UTC

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Always love listening to the historian Victor Davis Hanson
https://fountain.fm/episode/uDhqh3qBG0oBa6Fl1LxC

2026-03-09 09:04:35 UTC

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Not anymore.

2026-03-09 07:29:38 UTC

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"The right people don’t need to be tightly managed or fired up; they will be self-motivated by the inner drive to produce the best results and to be part of creating something great." — Good to Great by Jim Collins
This is part of a strategy that says you get the right people on the bus and the wrong people off the bus.

2026-03-08 18:46:44 UTC

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The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz has a chapter on ‘How the culture of abundance robs us of satisfaction’. You need to embrace some constraints

2026-03-08 18:34:24 UTC

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Oath of enlistment ‘…and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me…’

2026-03-08 18:28:21 UTC

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Ignoring prices for the good of humanity is never a good idea.
https://blossom.primal.net/6e7ee039e37cea42cc20d33f315a274024a0458ce9e37699e8ffac8fc0a3bf5a.jpg

2026-03-08 15:47:44 UTC

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Then I won’t have time to spend talking with you ;) .
My point is you can only spend time once and outsourcing things is natural in society.
I did spent time blocking NSFW people or topics. I would have loved to outsource that and have them keep the blocked list current.

2026-03-08 15:41:04 UTC

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Also true

2026-03-08 15:40:40 UTC

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Also true.

2026-03-08 15:39:49 UTC

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There has never been enough to satisfy everyone completely. That is the real constraint. That is what scarcity means. Even millionaires can have a hard time making ends meet if they try to live like billionaires.
My notes from Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell

2026-03-08 15:08:37 UTC

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Maybe the Bots is a blessing in disguise

2026-03-08 15:07:45 UTC

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Yeah im just too busy and probably would choose a curated WOT and look at trending.
The advantage of Nostr is that you are in control of how use. So you can tweak it if you want.

2026-03-08 11:42:53 UTC

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https://fountain.fm/episode/b67BHf5IMCZvjiznxHce
#nevent1q…448u

2026-03-08 11:42:20 UTC

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Give it a listen
https://fountain.fm/episode/b67BHf5IMCZvjiznxHce
#nevent1q…frku

2026-03-08 08:23:21 UTC

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Phil Collins

2026-03-08 08:19:57 UTC

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I have the TV remote vs you have it is the dift

2026-03-08 08:18:35 UTC

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There is more turds floating in the drinking water then.

2026-03-08 08:17:07 UTC

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Politics is always a package deal with things you won’t like and should be compared to the alternatives.
I also expected more of Bondi & probably Patel also.
I am, however, glad Iran is being addressed. From 1992 they have actively supported armed terrorism in Southern Africa and help destabilize the region.
Even the European are glad, but won’t always say it out loud. I know my Iranian friends in the Netherlands are really happy.
The thing that Americans will have to realize again is something that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams also had to learn the hard way during the Barbary wars era. And that is that it is Islams right and duty to attack non-believers that do not acknowledge the profit. In my experience none of this has changed.

2026-03-08 07:53:43 UTC

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Takes a dump in the drinking water and then leaves for another village.

2026-03-07 15:25:44 UTC

This last sentence cracked me up…
‘When our poodle starts eating people to survive’
https://blossom.primal.net/a7199fdb988c78645f12f3a700a1b1e24b575147f8e4f9da079644342dfaba6b.jpg

2026-03-07 15:24:33 UTC

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I forgot where the postage stamp is supposed to go.

2026-03-07 15:14:37 UTC

Master yourself. Get closer to home and focus on your own success.
https://blossom.primal.net/bce0655484a1228a690c580c5c364f8c1b8880b25dd7641c7d7b633dfb676f5f.jpg

2026-03-07 15:07:56 UTC

Can you review our product review… mom?
https://blossom.primal.net/a1b257fae9714091d62126ace8d5144fdc0a18e40320d9e026a38ed487d00347.jpg

2026-03-07 13:57:48 UTC

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Appreciate the info in this episode
https://fountain.fm/episode/b67BHf5IMCZvjiznxHce
#nevent1q…u7zm

2026-03-07 13:45:50 UTC

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Nice one. I always think of Bitcoin minting as a staircase going down, but this is a good view and also is an indication of the cost of mining blocks.

2026-03-07 11:32:43 UTC

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Easy to conquer also.

2026-03-07 11:31:34 UTC

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I thought the Mac Studio was the cheapest at the moment?

2026-03-07 11:27:59 UTC

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If you torture your data long enough it will confess anything.

2026-03-07 11:27:10 UTC

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I grew up on raw milk. The amount of fat you get from milk directly from the cow is way different than store bought fat milk. Good times.

2026-03-07 09:09:51 UTC

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There are more great founders that never used LSD or drugs.
I am still not convinced it is a good thing for everyone. Just like some people can handle alcohol and others totally go off the rails.
It is more important to have the ambition to do something great. This is the core of what drives you.
Asking what are you in it for.

2026-03-07 08:54:17 UTC

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My youngest son can’t get enough of Daft Punk and the Tron album. He gets to play games every afternoon and asks for the album to be played.

2026-03-07 08:52:03 UTC

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Is it only made possible via grants or also through sales or a combination of?

2026-03-07 08:50:21 UTC

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"In an extension of Gödel’s incompleteness theorem—where the axioms of a system cannot be proved within that system—Turing showed the limits of computation: All computers are dependent on outside programmers that he called “oracles.” He wrote, “We shall not go any further into the nature of this oracle apart from saying that it cannot be a machine." — George Gilder

2026-03-07 08:40:01 UTC

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I am just selling to live life.
Come on you win more than you lose in Bitcoin. 3 out of 4 sales is in profit if you DCA in and DCA out.
Don’t give in to the dark side, just live life.

2026-03-07 08:37:00 UTC

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WE CANNOT PREDICT the future. But we can create it.
Collins, Jim. Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos and Luck - Why Some Thrive Despite Them All
https://blossom.primal.net/0d9c3b7552c4673782b208da5d2644dc75824ff0789dec353c8b255010646dc2.jpg

2026-03-07 08:31:16 UTC

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‘War is a bankers war’ is a Categorical statement.
So what was war before central bank or in countries without their own currency?
The Zulus had neither and yet they waged many wars up and down Southern Africa.

2026-03-07 08:25:24 UTC

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She is also probably being paid for speaking

2026-03-07 08:23:27 UTC

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Everything that has a beginning has an end

2026-03-07 08:22:30 UTC

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I won’t live anywhere near the Islamic middle east. History repeats there. Your life is worth more than tax saving.

2026-03-07 08:03:23 UTC

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Said no Amish ever!

2026-03-07 08:00:39 UTC

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I think the dead Americans might not agree with the this statement ‘rather than as a war of aggression against a nation that posed literally zero threat to their homeland’. It is not gard to find the attack by Iran or them stating their intentions.
She clearly has a bone to pick with the West and Israel. Why not just move to an Islamic country if they are a zero threat?

2026-03-06 23:05:18 UTC

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It is an honest question.
I was just wondering how do people fund working on free software. Is it by getting grants or by giving the software away and then having people pay for support?

2026-03-06 22:52:48 UTC

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I spent 1999 part of a team converting 200k lines of code every six weeks to Y2K compliant code for a airline. Was pretty cool to see and comb through so much code.

2026-03-06 21:10:03 UTC

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Yeah is something you have to deal with in Portugal.

2026-03-06 17:11:55 UTC

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Where do you find out about all this? I didn’t see nothing on the orange app.