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2024-09-16 13:36:15

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Im so out of the news, I wouldn't know this if I didn't see it here.

2024-09-13 12:20:55

Today's religious shit post comes from A random flip of the Bible to Haggai.
Have you gone to the barn and only found 10 chickens when you had 20. In non-farm terms, Is the chart of your credit score looking like the Bitcoin price chart? Perhaps small changes are in order.
A renewed focus on what is important. A rebuilding of the public temple.
What a break from my reading campaign through Joshua, in which valiant people are doing superhuman tasks. It's a multi-decades long military campaign, saving women from tumbling city walls.
Joshua is a daunting read as a competitive person. I end up comparing my success at reducing caffeine consumption to fighting Anakin. I needed a break and Haggai is such a breath of fresh air for an aspiring armchair warrior. Maybe the divine ask is just renovating a tumbling public worship house. A renewed focus on the collective will see our individual fortunes imrove.
I went to church last week so now I'm going to go out and count the chickens again and load up this FICO chart...

2024-09-11 18:58:47

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And there is an opposing race of soulless gray AIs who are responsible for abductions. The cycle repeats if AI investment beats Bitcoin and soul denying humans create AI in their own image

2024-09-09 09:52:29

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so are you saying that there's nothing too particularly worrisome about today versus 80s/90s, 20s etc ? like we've all been down this road before?
except maybe the pharmaceutical industry is stepping into the space whereas it was just clothing industry before?

2024-09-07 18:41:32

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oh, interesting. i'm daunted just personally figuring out multi sig custody, so figuring this out for a company must be crazy stressful.

2024-09-07 14:32:08

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agreed.
but do you know how enjoyable packing moving boxes is?

2024-09-07 12:04:35

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i went through the school of Saylor. I like his wisdom. I needed his metaphors to understand a lot of things.
the only reason to for me to not like him is that he has silly multiple choice aptitude test for his technical job openings which I failed. I have taken a lot of tests, and his test questions literally sound like he wrote them himself. It made me realize how insufferable of a person he probably is to work for.
then again, I wouldn't trust the company to invest in if it had hired me. so i'm back to square 1.

2024-09-07 11:51:14

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transversal? i thought i heard of everything, but what's that?!

2024-09-07 11:48:24

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what is LEI?

2024-09-07 02:41:39

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hah, it's a big tent. we'll welcome him in as long as he's not too much of a smart-ass

2024-09-07 01:37:34

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the Italians get all the sexy mafia bad guys, just let us have our one scotch-irish bad boy hero fleece us even if the rest of the world thinks he's a doofus...

2024-09-06 22:19:00

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cheap and cheesy is exactly how 5 cent reduction on a price like $0.95 makes me feel.
there's part of me that's like "but he got shot at". clearly some element of the blob is not happy with him. what if he puts a stick in the spokes of whatever machine he's involved in. or at least he will be such a circus that TPTB will ignore us.
or maybe it's Wall street banks + Trump + red silicon valley against government bureaucrats +KH + blue Silicon valley.
either way we'll have more tech surveillance. but you choose which way there will be more comedy!

2024-09-06 21:22:08

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Does it make sense that the US Fed is trying to squeeze the capital out of Europe? I suppose that the ECB and US Fed are competing at a certain level, although maybe they don't want to take it to the point of wrecking anything major?

2024-09-06 19:50:30

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i've never heard about Go before so I will have to look it up. If it's anything like the game, it should be really hard to learn.
you have a refreshing take on Javascript. I did a "Free code camp" course that uses javascript. I do not care for it much compared to PL/SQL that I see on the daily.

2024-09-06 19:29:22

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yeah, thank you for noticing. oracle pl/sql. i mostly run SQL queries, not much programming, in the field of OLTP "Online Transaction Processing".
i took the Oracle exam 3 times and failed, even though i could pass the written practice tests in a workbook no problem. there is something about this format of multiple choice in an online test like this that is soooo confusing;
I. answer 1
II. answer 2
III. answer 3
A. I & II
B. II & III
c. I

2024-09-06 19:13:40

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thanks friend, one of these days I'm going to crack open the NIP 1 and try to learn how this all works.
these little code tidbits that you devs posts are always beckoning "come learn something new"

2024-09-06 19:10:23

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hah, i'm noting that I may have a touch of the syndrome. even though I never voted for the dude!
yes, the sneakers and the Bible are all part of a mastermind scheme to make him look like a fool... ;-)
$59.95? i dislike the $9.95. it feels so cheap. why can't it just be $60.
especially when food has $0.99, I feel like, are they cutting corners with my food?

2024-09-06 16:47:20

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yah, i'm just yakking, hoping something original will come out.
One Nostr-related thing I'm wondering about is, when replying to these Notes, i can "x" the people who aren't in the conversation, and I wonder if that really prevents them from being notified. There are some threads on here, where I'm trying to just reply to the one person, and I don't want to notify a whole thread of 30 people.
I've tried to remove the other NPUBs from reply, but when replying a 2nd time, i see all the people I deleted from notifications are back.
I once accidentally spammed the entire NY city hiking meetup list serve with a question about the upcoming hike, so trying to prevent that from happening again.
As a test, I'm removing everyone from these notifications.

2024-09-06 15:31:19

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"it's more error than malice"
someone I know is constantly complaining about the stupid power struggles in goverment. to the point of big bosses making underlings who threaten their position do stupid stuff.
These are the guys that are supposed to be taking over the world, and they think that they are flexing by having an underling attend a meeting on a Monday, or submit itemized receipts for a business trip instead of just giving them a daily amount.
I had a "hard faced" boss once who made me cry so many times. I had to be at work before she got there, and she would come around to my cube and pick apart the last email I sent or my latest failures. She was like Ellen Degeneres version of Miranda Priestly from Devil wears Prada.
She actually did me a huge favor. 1 year of Liz's bootcamp trained me for the world. I left on good term. mutal respect.

2024-09-06 15:16:40

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if one was a Democrat lawmaker, there is a motive for letting this scam run as long as possible, let DJT rug middle America, before fining DJT. Collateral damage to Bitcoin.
Hopefully people are smart and DTOR. it could be a great funnel for middle America to discover bitcoin.

2024-09-06 15:12:34

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i like how you are thinking about this. I was fired once from a company that had mostly married guys with kids. The manager vaguely mentioned this to me. It's probably "discrimination" under some sort of law, but I like your framing better.
He can see that I didn't fit in and didn't enjoy working there, and it's not "because" of anything, it was just not a good fit!
getting fired however never feels good so, it's just hard to manage. I thought I was cool and could fit in with an office full of married straight men with kids!

2024-09-06 15:05:23

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with what your suggesting, does the UTXO have to be dedicated for the Nostr identity or can it just be a stache of bitcoin that is used for other stuff?
and will the client be able to see the size of the UTXO, and allow users to see the size of the UTXO, or is all that cryptographically hidden somehow.

2024-09-06 14:49:17

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as a nostr wine/filter customer it did speed up Amethyst to near instant, and Coracle to pretty fast. Primal is still really slow, but maybe that because it has other filters in there.
i just downloaded NOstrudel yesterday and it also seems fast. but i makes me hungry for pastries everytime i click on it so, i'm back to Amethyst

2024-09-06 14:44:38

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i have a theory that right before these massive jumps up, everyday people sense that something is wrong and tend to hoard cash, what they feel is the safest thing. so scarce assets like bitcoin can temporarily look cheap until they don't.

2024-09-06 11:56:22

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hilarious dream.
I always have the one where I'm can't get dressed or stay dressed while trying to get out the door for a vacation or appointment, and for the life of me the luggage I'm packing keeps getting strewn about and I misplace it, and while searching for it something else always interrupts and I never get to where I'm going, or if I do actually get out the door, then I'm getting in a car or a train and then the car or train shrinks to a size that I can't fit into.

2024-09-06 11:47:26

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that's what that guy Peter Zeihan used to say, that alot of Tech companies are just a zero interest rate phenomenon. It was one of the things that I think he got right.
I'm still left wondering if technology is the key to an abundant future or is technology just the cherry on top of abundance.
I'm pretty sure technology is helpful with a lot of agriculture/medicine. however, then there's doubts like is modern medicine really all that, is the internet all that.
The Romans lived as long as we live today. So is all the medical tech just a fancy way to further drain the working class of their hard earned money.
i woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. I do know that anti-biotics are pretty amazing as well as penicillin.

2024-09-06 11:25:17

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is that because minimum UTXO size would determine the amount of verified identities possible?
100,000 sats = min UTXO
100,000,000 *21,000,000 / 100,000 =
100,000,000*210 =max 21 billion identities possible?

2024-09-05 13:35:01

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I'm hoping for the bandaid problem. I'm getting ready to pop open the code now.
It's a DB... I think it's a DB because it's interfacing with web pages that could be open in different locations by multiple people at once.
I'm not a native computer programmer so I wouldn't know what another solution would look like. I just take the code as it was created by others and assume it's the best solution and just try to find the bandaid problems.

2024-09-05 12:14:03

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Welp, you're right. Sounds like a design flaw.
Perhaps it's made this way bc only step 5 knows if it should continue to additional step 6, and only step 6 knows if it passes criteria already or needs to go to step 7, etc.
Hmm. The way it overall knows it's finished is when there are no incomplete subtasks. But the criteria for propagating subtasks is at the subtask level.
I probably can't actually change whole structure, but I can recommend moving a "commit" around.

2024-09-05 10:58:15

so I've been using Nostr as an escape from a problem I can't figure out at work.
Today I'm flipping this on its head and talking to myself on Nostr to solve my problem:
Workflow logic Bug:
main task contains 5-10 sub tasks, all of which need to complete for the main task to complete.
Error: every day a couple hundred (out of 100,000) main tasks are marked as complete even though they should not be because all required subtasks have not been created and/or marked as complete.
How it works:
Main task gets created (Status incomplete)
-->sub task 1 (status incomplete) starts, ends (status: complete) creates sub task 2
-->sub task 2 starts, end & creates sub task 3
-->etc
every 3 minutes, a separate procedure checks main tasks:
if all sub tasks are complete, main task is updated to complete.
So, for this error to occur, either:
1. the chain of sub tasks fails to create the next incomplete subtask (look in log)
2. the commit for the completed sub task happens before the commit for the insert of the new incomplete subtask, and the main task is updated to "complete" in this short window of time
3....
Questions to look up:
Are all Subtasks marked as complete? for the incorrectly completed Main Tasks?

2024-09-05 10:28:40

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do you mean for NSECs or for bitcoin?

2024-09-05 10:04:24

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ok, I'm reading your post and realizing I need to forgive Dave Ramsey for confusing people I care about that Bitcoin is a scam for criminals and not doing even the most basic research into it while also directing people to "approved" real estate advisors.
at some point i'm like , you're a discredit to your religion, your state, your city, your listeners!
ok i haven't forgiven. okthis is why i'm probably going to hell. grudge against ramsey.

2024-09-04 18:55:52

interesting:
"the Spirit of God enters our hearts and gives us the ability to declare Jesus as Lord (1 Cor 12:3)"
is one the sign of the other?
#nevent1q…jrvq

2024-09-04 15:49:04

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I like the Bitcoin memes, and when I discovered I could have them with a side of Novela on Nostr, I was hooked.
Whoever you were tussling with on the daily and the behind-the-scenes tech network bootstrapping were all so entertaining. It's an art you practice that probably doesn't have a name :-D

2024-09-04 15:15:34

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Awwww! Your posts back then are why I am on Nostr

2024-09-04 12:18:22

Jesus looked across the conference room table at the Holy Spirit: "For God's sake, Ghost, at least get a profile pic"
"That's not the essence of who I am though," the Holy Spirit replied.
"It just grinds my gears," Holy Spirit complained to God,"I made a Nostr profile with no profile pic, and Jesus has a profile pic on the water. The same guy who follows him, won't reply to me."
Jesus explained to God "It doesn't help that He freaked him out." Addressing the Holy Spirit again, "What were you doing whispering to people in the morning before they've had coffee?"
"How did you approach him," God asked the Holy Spirit.
"It was 4am, he was barely awake and stumbled into the kitchen to make coffee. He was already telling himself how bad he was and why he could never be a Follower. So I spoke to him, 'Are you God?' I asked, 'Your sin is not against you, it's against Me'."
"You know the rules, his sins must be atoned," God answered.
"Yes, and you know that we made the executive decision to recruit first and ask questions later," HS answered
"We are preemptively onboarding as many folks as we can before the start of the next business cycle." Jesus explained.
"It's called 'Labor hoarding', all the big tech firms are doing it nowadays" Jesus explained to God, "In the last low interest rate cycle, the best and brightest ended up in small apartments in big cities. They didn't have kids. They couldn't afford them, and they just started going nihilistic, sharing porn and dressing up as furries."
God looked thoughtful and said, "There is a strong reproductive and farming drive in the human species. We always get to this point of the simulation, and I can't figure out how to get to the next level of humanity cooperating in urban environments.
The Holy Spirit replied, "I think we found the key this time, first we used the pandemic to introduce remote work, and now humans are dispersing back to their villages so they can go back to gardening, raising animals and having kids".
God sighed, "If this doesn't work, it's game over. We're going to have to shut off the internet again and start over at the stone age."

2024-09-04 01:37:51

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humans might just be scarcer than satoshis.
if i calculated correctly 1 human per 200,000 sats.
if people are correct about 100,000 sat UTXOs, we could double the population and each one could still have a UTXO.
i might have gotten the math screwed up.

2024-09-04 01:20:11

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oh, interesting. so it was similar to the Golden Spike on the Transcontinental railroad across the US in Utah

2024-09-03 19:58:42

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This reminds me that now I have no longer pay for YouTube premium, I'm starting to get very generic ads that seem AI generated. One day the word "galavanting" was in my head. Within a couple days, I noticed that I was getting an ad where the character was using the phrase "galavanting about".
Today I'm getting an ad where the main character explains she likes her coffee black with no sugar, just a day after I wanted to write to someone the same thing.
I'm told that it's just LLMs predicting things, but it sure feels like Google/Android phone read my mind.

2024-09-03 18:45:29

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sometimes I admire the Italians or just truly passionate people who just let it all out. maybe this is why. i was always surprised how by how many French couples would be kissing in the grocery store aisles.

2024-09-03 18:36:06

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who was she talking about? ELon or Trump or someone else?

2024-09-03 18:27:08

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"those who already express their folly will not be thrown by love"
That's a good reason to act foolish on the daily.
I thought Eros was more sexual. i was thinking just love in general. hmmm. Reproduction does require Eros.

2024-09-03 18:01:28

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what is the Last Spike

2024-09-03 18:00:35

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" It was conscious intention stored up somehow like potential energy and it did work in the real world."
I like this idea very much. It resonates with a lot of "law of attraction" stuff.
I haven't proved how this all works to myself yet, but my hunch is that it boils down to one word which is love.

2024-09-03 17:53:59

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that whole region is great for road trips in the winter. i never liked road trips before driving in New Mexico, AZ, Colorado. and to lesser extent Nevada/Utah.
the vistas are never ending. Colorado especially has a different biome/landscape every 1 hour that you drive.
New Mexico has a special place in my heart although it's poor compared to the rest.
I drove from Tahoe to Reno to Salt Lake City, Reno to Salt Lake was least favorite part of the region. It got really interesting again south of Salt Lake CIty in Bryce Canyon.

2024-09-03 17:50:17

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i was just watching this... eye opening. i'm too chicken to watch the part about S** worship tho. i will just be peripherally aware

2024-09-03 16:47:32

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Nevada is soooo dry. Unless it's Reno/ Tahoe area. In that case it's a very nice place. Utah is also horribly dry.
The good thing about Texas is that it sets your expectations so low that when you travel anywhere else on vacation, you will think it's beautiful

2024-09-03 16:09:18

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wyoming and montana were on my list of places to drive through this summer. I'm sure they are beautiful... but maybe you should also consider Texas. I'm not even from Texas, but it really has grown on me.
Texas has its own electrical grid, and it's close enough to Colorado that you could drive overnight up there. There are 2 hub airports for United and American Airlines plus we are a short bus ride/drive from Monterrey, Mexico with all of the Mexico destinations.
There's the ports along the Gulf Coast, and fertile gulf coastal plains. and then there is the Hill Country with it's cold fresh water springs in the middle of the state. Beautiful deserts to the west, and acres and acres of plateau farmland to the Northwest.
It's also very windy here, tons of windmills everywhere. It's just a hot wind from June to October, but you could drive up to New Mexico or Colorado for a break.
Maybe put Texas in your evaluation matrix...

2024-09-03 12:28:44

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don't you have to be crazy rich to live in wyoming tho. or is that Montana

2024-09-03 12:09:08

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oh man, i love these cookies

2024-09-03 11:43:25

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I haven't read these stories in a long time, so first of all I'm surprised at how readable the whole first 6 books of the Bible are.
Secondly, since I grew up in church and I was just taught these miraculous stories as fact, I'm surprised at how easy it is for me to "believe" something.
I'm at the point where I'm wondering what the word "believe" even means. Can an action that is completely unseen alter real world stuff like a soul's destiny.
It's hard for me to tell, do I believe something or not.
I'm also trying to look at my beliefs from point of view of someone who wasn't trained in this stuff from a young age. Atheists are so refreshing. And I can see how they might be frustrated with someone with beliefs that create a disconnect with the world that they understand.
can you imagine if a company or country hires you, and your beliefs interfere with the job? they might be super angry that you some sort of belief system where you're doing charity instead of making money.
but as far as Jericho in particular, is it miraculous? was there a technology involved that we don't understand? was the walking around purely ceremonial? is there a link between the ceremonial, the miraculous, and technology?

2024-09-02 21:19:44

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Are you making airplanes?

2024-09-02 20:42:31

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It does seem that humans are really sturdy, and it's all the bad stuff combined in the last few decades that just does us in. it's hard to not consume up to the limit of what we can tolerate.
My great aunt at 98 still drinks a glass of wine before bed. I would sleep horribly if I did that. if i had a squeaky clean diet, i could probably go back to it.
she also ate a donut for breakfast and sausage & eggs (not saying this is bad).

2024-09-02 20:31:19

I'm mystified by this disappearing note that I thought i published this morning.
#nevent1q…vgtk

2024-09-02 17:42:55

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Aspartame sounds especially bad.
I started avoiding any fake sweeteners a couple years ago due to the "leaky gut" problems they cause. Apparently they kill a lot of good gut biome.
Couple that with alcohol (just 1 or 2 drinks at lunch) and unhealthy American food, I had nightly heart burn.
Thankfully avoiding alcohol (except for the occasional drink) fixed the heart burn

2024-09-02 17:07:54

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Yes, I ended up with Sparrow. I should have added that.
Sparrow wallet is my favorite. It's a good teacher as well

2024-09-02 16:30:47

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Yeah, it would be cool if the disruptive part of the technology could be leveraged to make the world a fairer place.
I'm overestimating how brave I would be in their place. I'm pretending to be willing to stand up to a whole country when it's hard enough just to tell a friend that I disagree :-)

2024-09-02 16:14:53

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Cutting caffeine & fasting at the same time? You are very hard on yourself.
Caffeine is extremely powerful for me. If I go without for 24 hours, I will get a headache and throw up around 36 hours around 48 hours I start coming out of the fog but it takes 3 weeks to get back to feeling normal without caffeine.

2024-09-02 15:32:28

"when you introduce into that setting, a national security state, as we did at the end of WWII, where we set up a central intelligence agency where their job is to deceive people and engage in an avaristic world domination endeavor,and view themselves in this dialectic with the Soviet communists who they think are trying to take over the world too and they project their shadows on each other, you start to distort reality..."
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxZ1dJO5H8U3W6B0V3P4QNQ4_xxdcr7iGu?si=HjA_uKlXpJlit8ul

2024-09-02 13:47:09

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Well said, good reminder. We have the answers, and it takes some individual work to get there. I'm fortunate to have this fun challenge to tackle.

2024-09-02 13:21:03

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yes, I wrote it off as a Giffen good.
even buying it initially on an exchange was still not enough to understand what Satoshis were.
when i finally tried cold storage (actually it took a few months more because I first got a Ledger, and their software doesn't make it clear that there are separate UTXOs so i ended up with Blockstream Jade ) and understood what Satoshis were, someone on here said:
"Satoshis don't exist, they just measure UTXOs"
So that further accelerated the fall into the rabbit hole
I'm sorry I like to take out all my aggression on Ledger. but why did they leave me in the dark for so long about UTXOs? I'm sure I clicked around in their software enough to have discovered where they showed individual UTXOs, but thankfully I was adventurous to try another product (Jade) and that clearly showed different "coins" and the cost to combine them.
I'm having the same issue now with BitKey. I don't know what it does with individual small UTXOs on the wallet. Does it just automatically consolidate them for me when I send transactions? will i be left with unspendable chunks in the future?

2024-09-02 13:12:47

"and the walls came tumbling down" all the kids shouted the last line of the song.
they didn't realize they were referring to an actual event, which occurred right around the time that God ended his "Universal Basic Manna" program.
Joshua 5:12 And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
So, the charismatic young leader Joshua somehow convinced all his warriors to march around a city for a week, and blow a trumpet on the 7th day, and 13th time total around the city (yes, # 13 was unlucky for Jerico).
6:2 And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour.
6:3 And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
6:4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
6:5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.
As a young person, a charismatic young Bible teacher convinced me to believe this is real, and an entire classroom of my peers. I believed that they blew a trumpet and the walls came tumbling down.
The only thing that blows my mind right now is, why don't other military generals use this strategy? what do they not understand?

2024-09-02 13:03:20

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wow, bizarre. it's the Christian flag. i've never given it much thought but I've seen it in the 90s in a 200 year old church that's not even "conservative".
this reminds me of a convo i had with a friend who thought Harley Davidson brand was "right wing, extremist, conservative, christian". I've always thought of that brand as being hippy, rebellious, sexually liberated.
maybe the authors writing the article are putting in hints that their articles are actually just propaganda. it's a trapdoor to escape the matrix if you notice it.

2024-09-02 12:53:51

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Amazon nostr client prime? :-D

2024-09-02 11:43:04

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I met a gal who said she would never date a guy with tattoos. She had tattoos herself. I think her reason was "because he thinks too much of himself" or something.
i had a roommate who was a tattoo artist and he was constantly zapping himself with the laser thing, adding to the art. he explained that it was addicting at a point. he was black so I had to look close to see the tattoos

2024-09-02 11:36:46

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so, after years of feeling sorry for these situations, all the big bullies sucking them dry...I do have 1 question:
why in hell can a people who have for sons and daughters the bright minds of people like Saifedean not take the simple step of following their advice and just doing simple thing like buying Bitcoin.
do they not trust their own intelligent sons and daughters? do those sons and daughters not care enough to try to rescue their people?
how much of the blame goes to the bully and how much goes to the victim. I know I'm "victim shaming " here, but tell me how horrible I am.

2024-09-02 11:21:28

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"gonna go full steam punk in my golden years" :-D

2024-09-02 11:17:40

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i'm mainly talking about restaurant menus and the "what are you getting" loop.
What are you getting?
IDK, want to share something? What are you getting?
IDK, what are you getting?
I asked you, what are you getting?
And then there's those couples that order exactly what they want and their forks never stray across the table to the plate of the other person.
and then there's those people that look at the menu like a battle. you can do some damage to the flanks by skimming the appetizer menu, or if there's a happy hour. otherwise you gang up to tackle the main dishes.
but you need to be knight the general before going into the restaurant so you don't end up bickering about strategy in a hungry state

2024-09-02 10:58:59

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Oh wow, is that how that works.it's like bouncing a ball off of a wall and it comes back at you.
The moment I said " I wish you weren't so codependent, I realized I was the codependent one."

2024-09-01 23:08:29

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Same! I thought they were some kind of rare Internet collectible for rich people

2024-09-01 15:45:38

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As your fellow human, I agree!
I am speculating that humans in powerful government positions will follow their incentives too, which means centralize and control Bitcoin.
But as I think it's ultimately a losing game as everyone should win in the long run. In the short term they might use it to extract more power or something. IDK.
Sometimes I like to pretend to be a dictator and extrapolate from there.

2024-09-01 15:29:50

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i like your analysis. I think if any president voluntarily undermined the US dollar in favor of any other currency including Bitcoin, they could be considered a traitor and promptly gotten rid of by TPTB.
after all isn't that what happened to JFK when he unilaterally tried to get rid of nukes? TPTB took him out as in their eyes he was traitorously putting the US at a disadvantage vis-a-vis CHina/RUssia?
That said, Trump did say "let's make Bitcoin here" which makes good business sense if people globally are buying the stuff, let's at least make sure they are buying it from us.

2024-09-01 14:09:15

When coming into the presence of God, what do you expect him to say...?
"Take your shoes off!"
5:13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries? 5:14 And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my Lord unto his servant? 5:15 And the captain of the LORD’s host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.
And also prior: get circumcised... yikes!
5:2 At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.

2024-08-31 18:38:11

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Oh, Lloyd Austin. he does have the eyes of someone who is lowering their forehead towards the viewer, as if he's going to charge. I can't tell if it's just from a lifetime of being a charging bull to get to that position or if it's more. I didn't realize he was in charge of a pentagon. Why is it a pentagon.

2024-08-31 14:09:38

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also would mean spaceships on the moon that the astronauts are rumored to have seen are just rumors?

2024-08-31 14:05:31

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tu veux que je te corrige? je ne suis tellement machiste comme ca

2024-08-31 14:01:54

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your explanation takes a lot of loose ends and figures a way for them to all coexist and make sense.
my only rusty wisdom on the Revelation stuff is that it is subject to many interpretations such as "pre/post/ amillenial". and some of those camps have a lot of sales/money/fame invested in them. The less popular a-millenial version (also prob sells fewer books) suggests that it's more metaphorical and in the words of a poet (Lowell?): "The choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light".
However interpreting everything metaphorically leaves the question of technology on the table. I'm at the point where i prefer to think of everything as technology, and I like the freedom to speculate into the magical. I am also not going to publish best selling end times stuff and start a cult.
As you say" the power in question is one of causing obedience, and those who are marked are effectively proofed against their powers of suggestion". That works already, whether or not there's something magical underlying.
How would you fit the mushroom trips/DMT into this paradigm?

2024-08-31 12:26:51

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D'accord je m'en vais ailleurs... Tu peux jouer toute seule s'il te veux.
jk jk, the coffee was strong this morning.

2024-08-31 12:16:42

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No, are you? let me guess. You are going to tell me IDK what i'm talking about

2024-08-31 12:14:50

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The tidal explanation makes a lot of sense to me too, esp since we know it's a phenomenon that actually occurs.
There are these secret UFO base stories where at least one gov contractor whistleblower states that he saw a large boulder hovering when he walked past, and then it was gone the next time he walked by.
Why would someone use advanced tech to move big stones. I almost want to believe the story because it makes no sense!

2024-08-31 12:09:05

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ok dokie, i'm replying to you because i absolutely have to even though i have no idea of the next word ...
i will politely agree to disagree. if you agree that is.

2024-08-31 12:03:46

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i read one of his books. There were a lot of good geopolitical insights.
I could even take his statement about bitcoin as a joke. But he is unwatchable now. I also don't think i would read anything written past 2016.
However, I start to call into question his negative outlook for China... I mean it still seems pretty negative for their population. But i'm hoping the power of positive thinking might prop up their civilization.
At some point his thinking stopped reflecting observations of the world and started conforming to some nebulous religion that people who are closed to government military funding sources sort of maintain. Especially since he's GenX and probably participate in any of the wars.
I'm sorry if you're GenX, and I hurt your feelings. But GenX really got to check their privilege.

2024-08-31 11:52:11

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but there's a handshake where the past and present meet and you can move that up or down, just slightly

2024-08-31 11:39:17

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Texas is such a big place. Looking for Arlington on a map. I'm guessing that's near DFW

2024-08-31 11:35:17

When you have magic on your side
"Gather 12 stones from the Jordan".
Aren't they just going to get lost in a little heap among all the other stones and weeds
Are we talking stones the size of Stonehenge?
4:20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.
4:21 And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? 4:22 Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
4:23 For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over: 4:24 That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever.

2024-08-31 11:29:50

https://youtu.be/1JhibIvu4HI?si=lDnzINJYGMmrFYOI

2024-08-31 02:45:23

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It took me a few minutes to realize UTA is UT Austin. Austin is a beautiful place. everyone eats, drinks and runs around the lake til they have 6-pack abs. The I really like the architecture of the buildings. They have big sofits and sort-of California mission style.
I also studied engineering, although I wish I had studied computer science instead.
Korean and Russian! You remind me of someone I know who would read language books inside of his other textbooks in class because he was bored at the pace of the classes.

2024-08-31 00:16:30

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Ahh, I see. I like your strength and the principled approach. How did your ex feel about it?
I don't have any experience in such things other than a friend tell me that she will never touch that one in particular because of an experience she had. She said a spirit followed her and she couldn't get rid of it for several months.
The same friend also read Tarot cards for me for the first time ever, and to my surprise she spoke of several concepts that had been overwhelming my thoughts at the time.
So I would normally just roll my eyes and say it's just silly, but there does seem to be more to it.
So I heed your warning.

2024-08-31 00:04:55

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I was afraid to click that button on Google for the longest time. Maybe after having some wine.
I thought that it took you to random web pages. But I believe it just opened the first link the returned in the search
Or was it the TARDIS?

2024-08-31 00:00:37

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Was there a particular bad experience? I feel like most people just write things off as silly without a strong opinion.

2024-08-30 23:56:44

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What if they fine 8000 a day to use Nostr?

2024-08-30 23:54:39

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What happens when they are messed with?

2024-08-30 17:47:23

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A small businessperson I knew would judge people on shape of eyes, length/shape of eyelashes, shape of lips.
I was like na, cant be true.
They were pretty successful

2024-08-30 16:50:10

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fyi when i try to zap you i get :
Something went wrong while paying invoice: no_route

2024-08-30 16:35:30

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YES! is it another assymetric thing? is it possible that in my lifetime, I got lucky on 2 exponential technologies.
IDK, but I'm feeling lucky

2024-08-30 14:40:06

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Pretty amazing. Hey should I pay nostr.wine or can I pay the same fee for your server. Or do I need both

2024-08-30 14:37:08

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Wow, actually Nostr is fast!

2024-08-30 14:36:39

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It's good to stand in shade in desert. It saves water. Water is heavy.
Perhaps he can use it to sled down sand dunes to the next desert hot springs or where there are figs.
I can't remember the word for place in desert with water. Not mirage. dammit. Brain fog after eating sugar and caffeine.

2024-08-30 13:59:20

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https://image.nostr.build/614eb5d47167b945d46b1acdd3079fac1433a5b14dd3b3655c958b74cae5f18c.jpg

2024-08-30 12:50:31

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I only know of one other person who majored in economics in college. He was the smartest person in my dorm and said he was "libertarian", from Texas. I was blissfully unaware of politics back then.
What inspired you to learn about economics? it seems like a very researched discipline for a high school kid to want to study. Did you learn about it from a first-principles approach, and do they explain inflationary boom/busts?
I had 2 economics courses, and hated both of them at the time. I couldn't understand them, and they made me feel stupid. Now I think it's because it was treated as religion and explanations didn't make sense. The class example was the inflation in Brazil before it switched to the newer Real currency. The hyperinflation was blamed on people "expecting" higher prices the next day. It was completely a psychological phenonemon, the professor explained. But the government was smarter than the silly people and just switched the former Brazil money to the stable "Real" overnight. Voila, problem solved. smart government, silly people.
It sounds like you had a Near Death Experience...I listened to a few of those in the past year out of curiosity. It sounds like yours was very unpleasant. I've only heard of one story that the person had a bad time, but he also was living a life like the Grinch. After the experience he changed. Dreams can be really weird sometimes, I assume a dream when you are near dead or dead could be even worse.
One of the points in my personal journey the last 2 or 3 years was also having weird dreams. after many years of not having any, some of the dreams brought back sentences or wisdom that I hadn't thought of in 10 years. It was another weight to add to my worries that maybe life doesn't just end and we have no responsibility for the morality of our actions.
Yesterday, I just realized the dog has dreams too and sometimes his little paws are wiggling like he's chasing deer through forests. Other times, he's whimpering like he's reliving when we being him behind on vacation. So i've proved this theorem to the point where either the dog has got to go through the Akashic hallway too or nobody's immortal.
When you said "Thanks for reading my book", I was like, what book, where is it, I want to read it.
You mentioned "sin traps you in compromise". That was exactly the case for me as well. The friends I had, the events I had scheduled led me like a lamb to the vaccine. I had the intelligence to know it was unnecessary, but too much ego and just enough ignorance.
Your experience sounds quite awful. I hope you can figure out how to build back. I had no idea what what "myocarditis" was. I was young and healthy and nothing had ever slowed me down until shot # 2. It left me feeling like I aged 10-20 years. Now I'm taking naps in the afternoon.
The worse part was, there was one day about a year after booster#2 where I felt like someone had hit the restart button on me. I don't know if I can blame this on the booster shot, or if I accidentally ate weed butter. For 24 hours I wasn't even sure that I knew how to find my way home, wasn't sure what was going on in my brain. I can't remember if it was a dream or a thought i had while just laying there hoping my brain would re-stabilize, but I distinctly remembered the story of the "writing on the wall". The implication of it was that I could be crazy king nebuchadnezzer eating grass for 7 years if I didn't have the humility to just pray and ask for help. so i started praying at that point.
I really like your explanation , "A wounded or diseased state of your spirit, where the wound specifically is a superimposition of ego, aggravated by ignorance." This makes a lot of sense to me.
Anyway, you gave me a lot to think about and respond to, so sorry for going on and on