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LordMelkor

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2025-01-31 03:35:55 UTC

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Did no one else hear his comments about dangers of Wi-Fi, and his mini rant about the dangers of “electromagnetic radiation” (is he aware that visible light falls into that definition?)

2023-11-29 17:01:25 UTC

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Having to mine BTC on specialized ASIC hardware as opposed to being able to do so on hardware that is widely affordable/accessible doesn’t feel like a particularly democratized system no matter the types of tricks used to link the devices together… https://image.nostr.build/e4eed691415201551008a3201fd62fa77327ab62c5bad9eaaed2aa25cc3fac4c.jpg

2023-08-31 17:55:50 UTC

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🫂

2023-08-30 13:28:55 UTC

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Seems as though things take off regardless of whether they’re open/closed if there’s good product market fit.
Open/Closed seems to matter more in terms of whether platforms can achieve/maintain scale, but even then it seems like it’s a required attribute. See examples of wildly successful closed platforms: Apple, Facebook, Twitter
A lot of “open platforms” seem like they’re putting the cart before the horse.
Sure if strong PMF sudden appears by chance for an open platform, it will be more likely to catch the wave and be successful. But it’s also in just as likely that the PMF never materializes

2023-08-30 13:17:05 UTC

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Is this overly reductive? My understanding is that ARPAnet started as what most would call a “closed” platform, and it later became the underpinnings of modern internet.

2023-08-18 17:31:30 UTC

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Hasn’t Meta been doing fantastic things for the open source community lately via their FAIR division?
e.g. Llama
All other big AI players in the space seem biased towards proprietary control under the guise of safety.
Why signal anti-Meta sentiment at this particular juncture?

2023-07-31 21:44:10 UTC

Wild. Insurance companies using car telemetry data from manufacturer services, without explicit permission, to deny claims… https://cdn.nostr.build/i/c44100f8e5f390efb3d41fe913f2f06ea884f53511c4e7c72da2b0a2beabd1c0.jpg

2023-07-27 02:29:36 UTC

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The iOS app does

2023-07-27 02:27:23 UTC

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https://cdn.nostr.build/i/cfe4dc6c94df54ca7d6fcad2b5cc9c03d3a67a7e5428d1b93f5bf212f24ecf66.jpg

2023-07-20 03:02:19 UTC

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gaAiz it’s dA aGeNda!!! 🤪 https://cdn.nostr.build/i/03a0ef683811d65a6df9588557686fb754ebcf563a863635cc389897b0e4a8cc.jpg

2023-07-10 13:32:03 UTC

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If everything is encrypted/pseudonymous what purpose is transparency serving, if everything is obfuscated?

2023-07-10 12:30:06 UTC

Rationale take
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-world-is-big-and-no-one-is-listening

2023-07-09 00:47:19 UTC

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If every interaction is visibile does that mean that everyone can see everyone else’s vote? Seems like a great way to target people for intimidation and voter suppression.

2023-07-06 20:05:57 UTC

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Romans 14:10 ;
Ephesians 4:31-32

2023-07-06 19:52:59 UTC

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🫂
https://damus.io/note1hj4f890n0guruwk4znnl8fp4au495elx837x3tc562gk0874h0gq080zzn

2023-07-06 19:50:05 UTC

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Ironically, creating the same issue via self-censorship as is created with external censorship. 🙃

2023-07-06 19:46:39 UTC

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Maybe. But I’m not sure I agree with the idea that censorship is the root cause of the “mess”.
I think it’s more likely an ugly symptom of ill-conceived attempts to try and mitigate hyper-polarization that arises from recommender systems blithely applied to large networks.
I feel like portability inherent to fediverse may be enough to at least somewhat challenge that paradigm?

2023-07-06 19:27:49 UTC

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@npub1sg6…f63m such a shocking contrast to the overwhelming optimism and positivity that we’re seeing on Thread. What do you think the driver is?
Starting to think anonymity is a secret scourge to free speech.

2023-07-05 18:27:12 UTC

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True true.
Was doing exchange arbitrage, though. So needed to have the coins on exchange for at least one leg of the transactions. The coins got stuck once they hit gox.

2023-07-05 18:16:30 UTC

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@npub1sg6…f63m very vibrant free speech community here on #nostr 🙄

2023-07-04 21:36:41 UTC

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I mean the lede is a factual statement? Why do you seem so upset?

2023-07-04 21:23:09 UTC

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Need the review asap!

2023-07-04 21:22:16 UTC

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I just want a high quality twitter alternative, damn.
Been over BTC since I lost all of mine to Mt Gox in 2014

2023-06-28 22:23:54 UTC

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I mean… for them to have gotten those roles at black rock indicate that they are pretty well qualified from a purely meritocratic standpoint, no?

2023-06-21 15:36:57 UTC

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“But Kennedy, too, has used his prominence to unnecessarily scare parents about the safety of vaccinations.
Kennedy’s case for this frightening assertion is that since 1989, two things occurred together: there has been a rise in neurologic and autoimmune diseases; and, we give children more vaccines. In the interviews I have listened to, he doesn’t take the argument much further than this, and I find it to be entirely lacking. It is low-quality causal reasoning, and is unpersuasive.”
This kind of ‘low-quality causal reasoning’ is not the kind of decision making entity we want to drive towards a position of power that is often presented with rapidly developing information or nebulous intelligence reports, where jumping to conclusions based on faulty reasoning can directly impact the lives of millions…

2023-06-06 12:55:27 UTC

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Wasn’t there reporting from 2013-14 suggesting that Tor had been compromised by the NSA?

2023-05-08 16:54:18 UTC

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How are you sharing from the PS5 to nostr?

2023-04-18 12:10:56 UTC

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If you want to spend as little as possible, and don’t mind tinkering a bit for good results, get a creality.
If you care about open source, but want good support, then go with Prusa.
If you want cutting edge features, and top notch print speed and don’t mind proprietary platforms go with Bambulab.
If you’re feeling adventurous and love building things, build a Voron.

2023-04-18 12:06:00 UTC

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None of these suggestions have any content. 👎

2023-04-11 14:43:55 UTC

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iPhones actually let you default to this search engine in safari! I’m up to 21 trees 🌳

2023-04-08 12:12:27 UTC

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Human attention is bounded and can be saturated though. Nostr seems to be distributing the responsibility for the mechanism to filter out the garbage. Hard to tell if that’s good or bad yet…

2023-04-08 12:02:17 UTC

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This is an interesting perspective. Hadn’t thought about it in that way.

2023-04-08 11:45:28 UTC

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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aap9559
“Contrary to conventional wisdom, robots accelerated the spread of true and false news at the same rate, implying that false news spreads more than the truth because humans, not robots, are more likely to spread it.”

2023-04-08 03:39:25 UTC

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Also, why the implicit (explicit?) disdain for marketing. That’s a crucial function/step in any scaled value creation chain.

2023-04-08 03:35:18 UTC

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Is no one else bothered by the fact the piece of content that’s gotten the most zaps on nostr recently, is a sensationalist hot take? Nostr doesn’t seem to be solving the fundamental issue plaguing modern media, that sensationalism will drown out balanced content any day of the week.

2023-04-08 03:07:01 UTC

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Your post lacks objectivity. Elon Musk certainly a founder. He founded SpaceX. Also, Tesla has been profitable for a couple years now. While you’re right that he’s primarily a marketer and not an engineer, and he certainly shouldn’t be deified, you could have done that without the extraneous, erroneous, and biased commentary.

2023-04-06 13:23:45 UTC

Well this is disheartening.
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow

2023-04-04 14:29:38 UTC

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I love the idea of Nostr as a twitter alternative, but content discovery is so challenging… at least via Damus. Also, Twitter still has critical mass by a large margin of active experts in interesting subjects… e.g. AI, Medicine, Economics (non-crypto focused) ☹️

2023-03-23 17:00:55 UTC

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Not blocking user SSNs when their accounts got originally blocked, for example.

2023-03-23 15:29:03 UTC

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For at least some of the points mentioned, their information is out-of-date/obsolete.