Leo Fernevak

Impressive real life nebula.
I made a couple of nebulas with FilterForge back in 2018-2019 to challenge myself.
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No AI involved, just connecting nodes of Perlin and Worley noise and setting up a ton of sliders for procedural generation.
The last image show the node graph before I had it cleaned up, quite a creative mess.😄
#FilterForge #Nebula #Perlin #Worley #Noise

2024-09-28 18:48:25 UTC

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#Meme #Liberty #Global #Warming #Climate #Alarmism #GlobalGovernment #Government #1984 #Tyranny

2024-09-28 02:07:31 UTC

Bitcoin is the only viable solution against moneyprinting. Knowledge is just not distributed evenly.
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#Bitcoin

2024-09-18 07:05:19 UTC

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#Meme #Leftism #Socialism

2024-09-15 14:16:57 UTC

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Great decision. Better to have non-AI tools for those who have skills or want to develop skills.
Sovereignty starts and ends by being able to create something on your own, without crutches.

2024-09-15 05:23:07 UTC

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"The welfare state reduces a citizen to a client, subordinates them to a bureaucrat, and subjects them to rules that are anti-work, anti-family, anti-opportunity and anti-property."
// Anonymous
#Welfare #State #Socialism

2024-09-14 19:21:13 UTC

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Yes, depending on the situation. I generally prefer to go into specifics since metaphors do not translate perfectly from one domain to another.

2024-09-14 17:45:01 UTC

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Agreed. And we may also divide contests into niches where individuals with similar ability can have a meaningful competition. This makes sense in terms of male vs female boxing as well as different weight classes.
The equality aspect is that everyone is playing by the same rules. When someone needs different rules this encourages the creation of new sport categories.
I also support equality of opportunity. Nobody should be held down and/or prevented from achieving their potential.
The only problem is when "equal opportunity" interpreted as creating an equal starting point for everyone - which is impossible. There is nothing wrong with helping and aiding others to have a better starting point.
Yet the variability in passion, creativity, experience, determination, skill, focus, stamina and ability are so great that equalizing the starting point may inspire some people to cut down the high achievers to achieve some kind of equality utopia.
Example of when equal opportunity becomes harmful:
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2024-09-14 06:17:46 UTC

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Yes, they are impossible goals that lead to a central planning tyranny as they are attempted in practice. I'm not sure that there is a practical difference between a goal and a destination thar can't be reached - they both represent a directional vector.
If I tell people that equality of outcomes is my goal, you can expect all kinds of restrictions that cages and incapacitates individual liberties in an attempt to prevent different outcomes. We can also predict that there will be groups of people that are given special privileges. In short: a recipe for totalitarianism under the banner of pretended justice.

2024-09-13 20:03:24 UTC

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Absolutely.
The "equality of outcome" is a lie that cannot be achieved.

2024-09-13 17:51:54 UTC

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Yup.
Since the position is illogocal I suspect that it is often a disingenious concern voiced by envious minds who would rather want their altcoin to have Bitcoin's dominant position as a store of value.
Yet from basic logic we can expect that the hardest money will be popular as a store of value, both for companies and ETF providers.
Those who understand hard money better than others will necessarily accumulate more of it and earlier.
There is no alternate timeline where the hardest money does not become desirable.
If we could restrict and prevent individuals and companies from buying a certain amount of Bitcoin, it wouldn't be an open and fair protocol.
Only under communism is equal outcomes desirable - and it requires totalitarian measures to even aim at approximately achieve such a result.

2024-09-12 10:14:55 UTC

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#Meme #Memes #Philosophy

2024-09-12 08:11:20 UTC

Bitcoin is the remedy
which Hayek was looking for.
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"We must find a new limit for the activities of government, a limit which leaves ample scope for sensible experimentation but which secures the freedom of the individual as the mainspring of all social and political activity."
// Friedrich Hayek
#Quote #Hayek #Friedrich #Bitcoin #Liberty #Austrian #Economics #Free #Markets

2024-09-11 19:03:39 UTC

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"The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force."
// Milton Friedman
#Quote #Milton #Friedman #MiltonFriedman #Capitalism #Free #Market #FreeMarket #Austrian #Economics

2024-09-10 08:41:14 UTC

Stephen Ituruka delivering the truth.
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"If you love in a country where the government is the largest employer, you live in a centrally planmed economy with vestiges of the free market."
// Stephen Ituruka
#Free #Market #FreeMarket #Austrian #Economics #Central #Planning

2024-09-07 10:12:08 UTC

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Sure. But that's common here also. Most people are not very creative.

2024-09-07 07:36:06 UTC

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Compelling content requires interesting humans so that's something that code can't substitute. Humans are always a step ahead of language mimicry models. Keep up the good work.

2024-09-07 07:31:43 UTC

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I'm a bit curious, how would you know that they haven't changed their views? And how would that relate to Nostr?

2024-09-06 17:58:47 UTC

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Interesting. Japanese must be quite a challenge. I also studied German + Spanish in school but much of it has evaporated due to neglect so I am trying to recapture some of it. It is absolutely easier once the path has been trodden before.

2024-09-06 17:52:43 UTC

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Well done.
This is the way.

2024-09-06 17:47:39 UTC

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I focus mostly on improving my Polish but I practice some German and Spanish also. How about you?

2024-09-06 17:41:04 UTC

When your language score in DuoLingo finally reaches higher than the price of Bitcoin. ☀️🌟⭐️✨️
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2024-09-06 10:38:31 UTC

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GM. Happy weekend everyone. ☀️

2024-09-06 10:29:40 UTC

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Absolutely. I wrote a thread on why KYC/AML regulations are a violation of property rights.
#nevent1q…52h7

2024-09-06 10:11:28 UTC

The whole "terrorism" crime category was always trap.
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Since 9/11/2001 and Homeland Security regulations, it became evident that the threat of terrorism was a method to sell surveillance and restrictions by pulling the strings of fear.
We always had laws against all kinds of crimes before we adopted anti-terror laws. The difference is that terror laws don't require the same legal protections.
In order to reject the abuse of anti-terror laws we must reject "terrorism" as a valid crime category.

2024-09-06 07:07:24 UTC

Bitcoin has gravitas.
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#Bitcoin

2024-09-06 06:55:15 UTC

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Cool to hear.
I found this gem recently.
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2024-09-05 21:52:45 UTC

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Right.
All effective spam prevention comes with tradeoffs.
Web of trust models should make it very hard for spam to pass. If an algorithm assigns weight to our social network nodes, filtering out spam would be relatively easy. The problem is designing a mechanism allowing newcomers into the web of trust that doesn't come with negative tradeoffs.
A cost-to-post is a possibility that can also help fund relays, yet will add an obstacle for new users and may reduce interaction depending on the costs.
We also have to consider that future censorship mechanisms will likely utilize anti-spam functionality as the primary methods of justification. It is therefore important to consider the possible censorship risks in a given anti-spam strategy.

2024-09-05 19:02:38 UTC

Central planning ideas may sound bizarre (and they are) but they are not random musings without a history.
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In Plato's Republic, Socrates proposed that in his idea of a utopian city state, children of the Guardian class should not know who their parents are and they should be brought up collectively. The goal was an attempt at eugenics; to produce the perfect citizens.
Let's dive into Plato's Republic.
"It follows from what we have said, and from our whole previous argument - that our men and women Guardians should be forbidden by law to live together in separate households, and all the women should be common to all the men; similarly, children should be held in common, and no parent should know its child, or child its parent."
// Plato - The Republic, Book 5, part 6, 457.d
"... our Rulers will have to employ a great deal of fiction and deceit for the benefit of their subjects" // 459.d
"We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we're not to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and bring up only the offspring of the best.
And no one but the Rulers must know what is happening, if we are to avoid dissension in our Guardian herd." // 459.e
"And we shall have to devise an ingenious system of drawing lots, so that our inferior Guardians can, at each mating festival, blame the lot and not the Rulers." // 460.a
"These officers will take the children of the better Guardians to a nursery and put them in charge of nurses living in a separate part of the city; the children of the inferior Guardians, and any defective offspring of the others, will be quietly and secretly disposed of." // 460.c
As we can observe from the above reasoning, Plato laid the philosophical groundwork for authoritarian central planning based on eugenics, secrecy and deception, for the assumed "common good". The road to hell is paved with a lot of well-sounding justifications.
While Aristotle opposed this idea of having wives and children in common, he made the observation that *if* this were to be done, and since slavery was the standard at this time, it would be better that the husbandmen class had this arrangement:
"This community of wives and children seems better suited to the husbandmen than to the Guardians, for if they have wives and children in common, they will be bound to one another by weaker ties, as a subject class should be, and they will remain obedient and not rebel."
// Politics, Book 2, Chapter 3, 1262.a.40
It is important to mention here that Aristotle argues several pages against Plato's idea of shared wives, children and also against shared property. This is not a scenario that Aristotle wants to see. He just considers that *if* it were to be done in theory, it would result in a weakened subject class that cannot rebel.
From here it is not hard to see the trailing impact of Plato's ideas on Fabian socialism and the general eugenics movement in the early 20th century.
When we are confronted with ideas of abolishing the family, or the gradual introduction of the State in handling family matters of education, we are tracing the roots of authoritarian central planning back to Plato.
Below, Katherine Timpf's article from 2015:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/05/professor-if-you-read-your-kids-youre-unfairly-disadvantaging-others-katherine-timpf/
#Plato #Republic #Aristotle #Eugenics #Family #Central #Planning

2024-09-05 07:02:00 UTC

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Yep. And the point with communication is to reach an audience.
Nostr will have better reach in a few years. It is easier to attract people to Nostr if we demonstrate confidence. Confidence means that we don't have a need to lash out at other communication channels.

2024-09-05 06:18:44 UTC

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1. He seems to be critical - not of Nostr - but of the activism of funneling people away from channels that are efficient at reaching an audience in 2024. Why is it so important for some here to adcocate for a Nostr-only position when our reach on Nostr vs the general public is still extremely limited.
2. He is saying that Elon has better funds at his disposal vs Nostr app devs. Jack Dorsey was unable to bring free speech to Twitter because he lacked the funds necessary. Capital matters.
Of course, Twitter/X can still be overtaken by government pressure under Elon, so it makes sense that we have a presence on Nostr.
Instead of a Nostr *only* mentality I prefer a Nostr *also* outlook. Multiple communications channels is the way.

2024-09-04 10:27:08 UTC

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GM.
Fantastic summer afternoon here in Poland.

2024-09-03 22:32:24 UTC

😅🤣
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#Meme #TTRPG #DnD #Dungeons #Dragons #RPG

2024-09-03 20:25:25 UTC

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I assume that it means 9% into the current halving period, so the numbers are apples-to-apples in that regard.

2024-09-03 11:07:14 UTC

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GM. Beautiful day up for grabs.

2024-09-03 08:54:28 UTC

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We can read a book and not become the content of the book.
Liberty principles bring a directional compass and action provides acceleration.

2024-09-03 07:20:28 UTC

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Socialism is a spectrum.
My family are largely social democrats, i.e. socialists. They would either vote for social democrats or the communist party in Sweden (VpK). The communist party changed name to V in the early 1990'ies but kept the ideology and their main principles remain - the government should run everything in society. That's what communism ultimately is about and which explains why it is adjacent to fascism.
Communism is simply principles, which in turn leads to policies and practices.
The principle of equal outcomes *is* a communist principle and it necessitates a totalitarian regime for it to be implemented. It requires all wealth to be redistributed, via taxes, moneyprinting, regulations, subsidies and so on.
There is no way to achieve equal outcomes except through tyranny. We can expect the use of CBDCs and social credit score systems as standard solutions to reach such utopian goals.
Of course, equal outcomes can never truly be achieved, which leaves us with a worsening totalitarianism as it is attempted.
Kamala Harris is on board with the UN Agenda 21 climate and anti-energy policies, so there is every reason to assume that she supports the emergence of a global government under the UN.
That is communism, if we understand the neo-communism from 1978 where Deng Xiaoping absorbed corporatism into the communist framework.
Similarly Sweden adopted some light free market reforms in the 1990'ies, yet remains highly centrally planned, with a general socialist ideology that permeates the political landscape.
We can see socialist policies represented in state-owned media, government schools, restrictions on homeschooling, restrictions on firearms, high progressive taxation, KYC/AML regulations, hate speech laws, gender-bender ideology, mass-immigration policies, apartment queuing systems, redistribution of wealth in all sectors, often as bribes in favor of certain political beliefs.
Socialism, corporatism and neo-communism are hard to separate because they are a part of a central planning structure with expanding government power and erosion of individual liberties and private property rights.

2024-09-02 13:03:10 UTC

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Absolutely.
What solved my critique of the risk of whitelisting loops was when I considered that a court may force exchanges to return user-owned bitcoin - even if that means buying new bitcoin from the free market at a higher exchange rate. This makes the strategy of closed whitelisting loops completely toothless.

2024-09-02 12:47:21 UTC

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Agreed.
While I think that Bitcoin will survive the potential risks of CTV, I never liked the idea of increasing unknown factors.
Perhaps I am wrong in my opposition to CTV and perhaps CTV might be overall beneficial for Bitcoin. Still, we need to think adversially regarding potential risks that could be used to harm the network.
1. Expanding the scripting capabilities. We can expect pros and cons here and it is hard to foresee what these will be.
2. The possibility of creating closed whitelisting loops.
After thinking the second point through over the last few weeks, I am no longer concerned with this scenario. Yet I will share my general thinking process of why I have changed my mind.
As for point 2, if I were to steelman the pro-CTV position, we could argue that all functions that improve security for decentralized Bitcoin users, also can be used by governments to increase the security of government-owned bitcon.
What secures *our* bitcoin as liberty advicates also secures government owned bitcoin, and vice versa. This is an unavoidable and fair situation that benefit Bitcoin.
A hypthetical worst case scenario:
The US, Canada, EU and Australia joins together to prevent bitcoin withdrawals from all exchanges within their respective jurisdictions.
This would not impact the Bitcoin network and sovereign Bitcoin users, but a lot of customers at exchanges would suffer.
Let's say that in this tyrannical scenario, the users of exchanges are only allowed to withdraw their capital in the form of CBDCs, while the exchanges end up holding the exchange-stored bitcoin.
We could then formulate multiple strategies for this alliance of the US and its partners to keep the mentioned exchange-stored bitcoin from being returned to their rightful owners.
One strategy could be via multi-sigs, which of course already exists. If a multi-sig requires signatures from both the US, Canada and the EU, it could be hard to overturn this decision via changing the laws in a single jurisdiction such as the US or the EU.
Another strategy could be to lock in the exchange-stored bitcoin into an unbreakable whitelisting loop, where the US, Canada, EU and Australia all include each other's addresses in a closed whitelisting loop system. If the government of the US is sued and ordered by the supreme court to give back user's bitcoin, it may not be able to.
On the other hand, if this were the case, the US could be forced to buy new bitcoin from the market in order to satisfy customer demands. This would make the whole closed whitelisting loop pointless, apart from it being ineffective from a global trade perspective.
It seems to me that my previous concern over closed whitelisting loops is not valid since it cannot function as a strategy for governments to abolish private property rights of bitcoin users.
My conclusion therefore is that closed whitelisting loops cannot become a threat to Bitcoin.
I am still critical of CTV, but less so than before.

2024-09-02 12:05:04 UTC

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Yeah.
Inspiration is where the magic happens. Nagging things to death will always be unsuccessful. As it should be.

2024-09-02 11:25:56 UTC

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🙏
It's refreshing to hear normal and nuanced takes. There are so many people that have made it their signum to tell others what to do, which inevitably fails and causes a backlash.

2024-09-02 11:23:31 UTC

Ironic.
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#Meme #Memes #Starwars #Acolyte #Irony

2024-09-02 11:19:34 UTC

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This is the way.
An efficient message must aim at being realistic.

2024-09-02 07:33:06 UTC

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Dzień dobry!
Wspaniała pogoda dzisiaj.
Great summer weather today in Poland this early autumn.

2024-09-02 07:28:46 UTC

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GM folks.

2024-09-01 19:29:07 UTC

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Thanks!
It's an interesting language, albeit complex. Even names are impacted by inflection.

2024-09-01 19:12:24 UTC

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Nie gadaj bzdur.
This language rocks the valleys of Mordor. I'm two years in and it's a challenge.😄

2024-09-01 18:37:49 UTC

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They are ramping up to rig the US election via media control.
This tells me how much more the establishment prefers one candidate over the other.

2024-09-01 18:28:25 UTC

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Me: I will eat pizza.
My cat: we will.
#Meme #Polish #Learn #Language

2024-09-01 09:42:36 UTC

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I remember that Myspace added new visual designs and the community was unhappy with the changes, combined with a ton of bugs.
There was a couple of times when I would write to some person I knew on Myspace and it was unclear if they had received the message.
Before the updates, Myspace had worked good enough and after the updates the platform was a disaster so people stopped log in and there was an escalating migration.

2024-09-01 08:07:36 UTC

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From my experience Myspace bled users because of bugs and problems after some updates.
For example, someone sent you a message and you didn't get a notification, so you didn't know that you had a message to respond to.
The technical failures made Myspace completely useless for communication. I suspected that Myspace was sabotaged but it is possible that it was merely mismanagement and poorly tested updates.

2024-09-01 06:43:27 UTC

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Absolutely.
The only problem is that while we consider these concepts with nuances, governments have vested interests in promoting an ideological case for why limited freedom is desirable. And they have in mind a very different set of restraints than we do.
One example of positive restraints are free market commissions. Most of the exceptional art in history was funded via commissions, where the commissioner was a kind of co-creator or producer in more modern terms, hiring artists and musicians for grand scale projects that would take years to finish.
That is the kind of boundary-breaking restraint and incentive structure that push creatives beyond their comfortability horizon.
A restraint that helps us to break boundaries and push through new grounds is possibly not a restraint technically but perhaps more of a voluntary calling, a journey challenging a mountain of our choice. We will forever need mountains to climb.

2024-08-31 21:52:55 UTC

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Code runs the world.
Governments run on policy, determined by ideology.
The UN Agenda 21 was signed by 179 nations in 1992 and is the deeper operative system that persist between old and new governments.
The deep state is the persistent state.

2024-08-31 18:41:08 UTC

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🌟✨️⭐️💫
Same same! ☀️

2024-08-31 15:52:53 UTC

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🙏
Jay is amazing and it is an honor to have him here with us on Nostr. I used another of Jays compositions to accompany my wife's art. Shout out to @nprofile…pxuh .
https://youtu.be/aaVlXVVF64o

2024-08-31 12:23:11 UTC

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Appreciate your quality content Logan.
I put together a meditational journey with art I have made combined with the piano music of Jay here on Nostr. No AI of course. Shoutout to @nprofile…nr8y .
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ptSmpBownz4
Art should come at us as a force of nature, as wind, sun and rain - neutral and non-political.
Abstractions are a creative rest for the mind. Not everything should be explained or stamped with a logo.
⭐️🌟💫

2024-08-31 11:08:13 UTC

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GM. Cheers to new horizons.

2024-08-31 11:02:12 UTC

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Completely rational.
Add the bonus of longer summers.
The regulatory state will always be in conflict with productive individuals that value liberties and quality of life.

2024-08-31 10:54:48 UTC

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We live in a different city several hours away. Mieszkamy daleko od Warszawy i nasza podróż zbyt długo by trwała.

2024-08-30 10:49:48 UTC

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Thanks for the invite!
Me and my wife have complex work schedules in the coming months so we won't be able to travel.

2024-08-30 10:39:34 UTC

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GM folks. ☀️🌞🌻

2024-08-30 06:43:08 UTC

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Yes. And the worst part is that I have seen some Norwegians excuse the law and say that vaccine mandates will never happen.
Yet the law explicitly allows for mandated vaccinations and unlimited restrictions of the unvaccinated, as determined by the municipality per a carte blanche.

2024-08-30 06:34:06 UTC

A Norwegian law from 2023 allows for mandated vaccinations of "either the whole population or parts of the population".
The law also allows the discrimination of unvaccinated individuals where they may be subject to quarantine within an area and obliged to follow every edict of the municipality.
These are clear violations of the Nuremberg laws that were signed after WW2 where the informed consent for every medical procedure was determined to be absolutely necessary in order to prevent future crimes and abuses against human rights.
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Norwegian law document source:
Paragraph 3-8:
https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/1994-08-05-55/KAPITTEL_3#%C2%A73-8
#!Norway #Norge #Vaccine #Mandate #Forced #Vaccination #Law

2024-08-29 20:42:15 UTC

Imagine.
Imagine a better world.
No more central banks.
No more moneyprinting and wars.
No more WHO or United Nations.
No more BIS and IMF.
No more EU and WEF..
https://image.nostr.build/66ecb0de28ccdf2831c3bfabfbba17906ffa804fa8fa7209a0e8db37286f9a86.jpg
You may call us dreamers.
And we are legion.
#Bitcoin #UN #UnitedNations

2024-08-29 15:16:22 UTC

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This is the way.
Bitcoin will open up a world where people have the option to retire early or move on to chase their passions at 30-50, instead of waiting indefinitely.
This will free up vacant spots for the young generation and young adults will find matching jobs more easily, allowing them to start family building at a younger age.
Next piece in the puzzle is developing cheap and abundant energy, which could happen within 10-70 years, with new physics such as QI by Mike McCulloch.

2024-08-29 14:59:11 UTC

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Well said Logan.
I agree about the potentials for cultural innovation and revitalization on a Bitcoin standard. It's one of the most inspiring dimensions of hard money - when we no longer need to think about money and inflation and can focus on more important matters of culture.
I was curious some time ago to explore how much of our savings are lost due to inflation.
As I went ahead and wrote a short program, I found that at 2% yearly inflation and zero taxes, we experience a ~35% loss of purchasing power on our accumulated savings over a 45 year career.
Since we are aware that the CPI figures are politically cherrypicked and don't measure the actual cost of living, a ~7% yearly inflation will better matche the expansion of the money supply (M2) and the value increase of the stock market.
At 7% yearly inflation and zero taxes, we lose ~71% of purchasing power on savings over a 45 year career.
Add taxes and we lose more than 80% of our purchasing power on savings during a normal career.
Below are four different examples of cumulative inflation visualized on a year-by-year basis.
By showing the data I hope to visualize the problems of inflation with some additional clarity. When we have ~3% left of our savings from 45 years ago, we enter mindboggling territory of theft.
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#Inflation

2024-08-29 11:02:09 UTC

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GM. Sunny late summer afternoon here in Poland.

2024-08-28 19:44:11 UTC

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2024-08-28 18:41:01 UTC

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The Matrix likes the orange coin.

2024-08-28 18:39:06 UTC

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My savings would have melted away if it wasn't for Bitcoin.
Also, no way I'm crossing borders with painfully hidden gold watches.😄
When humanity develop cheap and abundant energy, gold will be fabricated at low cost while Bitcoin chugs along more decentralized than ever.

2024-08-28 10:06:50 UTC

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Followed!

2024-08-28 07:46:31 UTC

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Absolutely. But for relays relaying a ton of users I have to expect that my notes may not persist indefinitely.
Yes, for users that worry about theit notes being deleted, running their own relay is a solution.
I responded to claims that notes are persistent. They might be, we don't know that yet.

2024-08-28 07:42:27 UTC

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Agreed. Then there is the problem of a single private key. If that key is compromised, we are no longer in control over our identity. This is particularly problematic for companies that need to share their private key with several people.
If Nostr were to have two private keys, one of them a master key with admin capabilities for the identity, the protocol would need a new architecture.
As a result, whenever a Nostr spin-off architecture solves this problem, every company, corporation and security-minded user will migrate to the protocol with higher security. That's just how things work.

2024-08-28 07:07:42 UTC

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Sure, but storage is costly.
We don't know yet how long we can expect Nostr notes to last. I have some Nostr notes that are 1.5 years but for all I know they could be deleted tomorrow.

2024-08-28 06:53:18 UTC

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When I joined Nostr it was said that we shouldn't expect notes to last longer than 6 months, due to relays needing to free up space regularly.
I like the idea of notes surviving for 10+ years but I'm not sure how realistic that is.

2024-08-27 15:23:21 UTC

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Great to have you here Logan. It is uplifting to see more focus on literature and art.
I reposted an earlier text I wrote on Aristotle, art and poetry.
#nevent1q…ftxm

2024-08-27 15:16:37 UTC

Aristotle: art and poetry, based on his book Poetics. (Repost from early 2023)
The below quote is from Will Durant as he attempts to encapsulate Aristotle's view on art:
https://i.imgur.com/tJYuxa6.jpg
When I came across this statement from Will Durant I decided to re-read Aristotle's Poetics to see how representative it was.
Aristotle studied at Plato's Academy in Athens, which brings continuity from Socrates -> Plato -> Aristotle.
Plato:
"And when someone honors beauty more than virtue, this constitutes nothing other than a real and thorough dishonoring of the soul" // Plato, Laws, Book B, 727d.
Socrates and Plato held an often times contemptful view of the poet or artist, expressed on several occasions in Plato's Republic.
This is likely because the artist was viewed as an imitator, in the negative sense. Reality is of course of higher value than any imitation. We might add to this that Socrates was sometimes ridiculed by contemporary poets.
Another point of irritation for Socrates was when poets celebrated and waxed sentimental over unethical men and portrayed them as heroes. It is possible that this latter case was Socrates' primary annoyance with the art of poetry.
Aristotle:
"What aims at reality is better than what aims at appearance".
// Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book I, 1365-b.
While there is overlap here between Aristotle and Plato there is also a clear divide. Plato is mainly concerned with ethics whereas Aristotle is more fascinated with analysis and substance. The ethics is obvious to Aristotle, what interests him even more is the practical considerations that can be made.
Aristotle continues:
"What a man wants to be, is better than what a man wants to seem (to be), for in aiming at that he is aiming more at reality".
Here Plato would focus on the ethical reasoning of 'being rather than seeming', while Aristotle is primarily occupied with the alignment to reality. For Aristotle, actions define us and it is through action that we realize our potentials. This in turn requires aims that are followed through - a fully practical process that does not involve pretense, but instead work and sweat. The point for Aristotle is not to spend time despising others for being unethical, but to inspire the proper practical achievement.
"And it is also natural for all to delight in works of imitation."
/ Aristotle, Poetics, Chap 3, 1448-b-9
Aristotle's remark here relates to delighting in realistic representations of things. He points out that we learn something from observing a realistic imitation.
Aristotle continues by observing that 'learning' is the 'greatest of pleasures'. He expands to say that 'gathering the meaning of things' is a part of what he is referring to by learning.
There is in Aristotle a focus on substance that isn't isolated to exterior appearance, but rather to attain some form of understanding of what we are observing.
In the artform of Tragedy, Aristotle counts six parts, where he highlights the Plot.
"And again: the most powerful elements of attraction in Tragedy, the Peripeties and Discoveries, are parts of the Plot".
/ Aristotle, Poetics, Chap 6, 1461.33
He continues:
"We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot".
Aristotle then lists Characters as the second most important part of the Tragedy art form:
"Characters come second - compare the parallel in painting, where the most beautiful colours laid on without order will not give one the same pleasure as a simple black-and-white sketch of a portrait".
There is in Aristotle a focus on actions, meaning and realism. Beautiful, decorative details are less important than capturing the true essence of something.
It is the plot and characters that makes the story significant to us, not the dramaturgical expressions on a stage; the Spectacle.
"The Spectacle, though an attraction, is the least artistic of all the parts, and has least to do with the art of poetry. The tragic effect is quite possible without a public performance and actors."
/ Aristotle, Poetics, Chap 6, 1450.b.16
"From what we have said it will be seen that the poet's function is to describe, not the thing that has happened, but a kind of thing that might happen."
/ Aristotle, Poetics, Chap 7, 1451.a.35
There is attention to realism in terms of artistic plausibility, while not necessarily an exact imitation.
He continues:
"Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars".
Art builds upon timeless principles that can be understood intuitively and metaphorically, whereas history is locked into specifics.
"It is evident from the above that the poet must be more the poet of his stories or Plots than of his verses".
Again, Aristotle is looking at the meaningful significance of actions, plot and characters, rather than the exact outward format of the verse.
"Of simple Plots and actions, the episodic are the worst. I call a Plot episodic when there is neither probability nor necessity in the sequence of its episodes".
Improbable elements in a story are serious flaws for Aristotle. This is also an extension of his realism.
"The Plot in fact should be so framed that, even without seeing the things take place, he who simply hears the account of them shall be filled with horror and pity at the incidents."
/ Aristotle, Poetics, Chap 14, 1453.b.3
This is worth some reflection. Aristotle attempts to identify some kind of markers at this point by which we can identify a gripping plot. In short, it must stand on its own legs. This is yet another example of Aristotle's focus on the inner workings of a story or plot over the outward expression.
His realism is attuned to the inner, psychological motivations and plausible depictions of these, rather than merely ornamental or visual effects.
"The tragic pleasure is that of pity and fear, and the poet has to produce it by a work of imitation".
This perfectly encapulates Aristotle's positive use of the term imitation. The imitation he is talking about is an alignment with realistic internal realms, and how those can extend to the audience and create a meaningful experience.
"A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
The story should never be made up of improbable incidents; there should be nothing of the sort in it."
/ Aristotle, Poetics, Chap 24, 1460.a.26
"Any impossibilities there may be in his description of things are faults.
But from another point of view they are justifiable, if they serve the end of poetry itself - if they make the effect of either that portion of the work or some other portion more astounding"
(1460.b.23)
This is where Aristotle shines, as he's playing the devil's advocate against his own argument.
While he is not yielding from his fiercely anchores principles, he is offering an alternative solution. If the artistic expression benefits it is possible depart from these strict guidelines.
At the end of the day, a compelling result is what matters.
In conclusion, I think it's fair to attribute the quote to Will Durant, as an interpretative summary of Aristotle on art. The inward significance is clearly highlighted in Aristotle. With some nuances.
Thank you for reading.
#Aristotle #Plato #Socrates #Writing #Plot

2024-08-27 12:07:30 UTC

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Nowadays 21 is a normal zap but in the beginning there were many 1,000 - 20,000 sat zaps.
Kinda cool to think about that 1 sat will be worth more than $1 at some point.

2024-08-27 12:02:26 UTC

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G'day.

2024-08-27 11:08:49 UTC

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I'm on Amethyst (Android).

2024-08-26 21:30:29 UTC

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Good ideas and interesting project you have going.
I was considering a secondary form of hashtags: funded hashtags.
Funded hashtags would be funded with let's say 10 sats. This would act as a cost barrier that reduces spam. Perhaps the relays that pick up notes with funded hashtags could gain a percentage of the sat funding.
While I hate pay-to-win features, spam will become an increasing problem and if the cost for funded hashtags is not expensive it might work.

2024-08-26 08:32:49 UTC

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I understand their strategies which is why I focus on the UN Agenda 21. It's not hard to understand once you study the code (Agenda 21) and put your mind into their shoes.

2024-08-26 07:43:40 UTC

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From a European perspective, I think that the establishment found it easier to implement the UN Agenda 21 under the banner of Social Democracy + alliances with Green parties.
As a result there is a general overlap between social democrat parties and the establishment, vs populist parties and anti-establishment movements.
This makes sense when we consider taxes, schooling, environmental policies, property rights, media control, moneyprinting in exchange for votes et cetera. These are all easier to achieve from a social democrat platform, even if there are authoritarian overlaps with the more extreme religious conservatives.

2024-08-26 07:26:16 UTC

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Yup.
Add that we would need at least two private keys to have proper control over our Nostr identity.
One key for regular login/signing and the master key for admin privileges that override the general key in case our regular key is compromised.
I never understood why the Nostr devs decided for risking a single point of failure.

2024-08-26 07:04:23 UTC

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This is just irrational.
Muted for being controlled opposition.

2024-08-26 06:37:33 UTC

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Sorry, that doesn't even make strategic sense.
If I wanted to implement Agenda 21 + Agenda 2030, I would install a candidate like Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. Not someone that is pro-energy and antithetical to the climate alarmism agenda.

2024-08-26 06:35:08 UTC

Chris Pavlovski, the founder of Rumble, has safely departed Europe. The attacks on free speech in Europe are deeply concerning.
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#Rumble #Pavlovski #Europe #EU #Censorship #FreeSpeech #Durov #Telegram

2024-08-26 06:27:12 UTC

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Don't you find it hard to believe the logic that the media in a dozen Western countries would demonize Trump for 8+ years, charge him with crimes, only to give him a political victory over a political candidate that the establishment controls?
Sorry, I find this extremely implausible. Even if we assumed such a scenario, wouldn't there be a risk of unknown candidates that could beat Trump?
Spending 8 years demonizing a person that you secretly support is not going to happen across a dozen nations, their governments + government owned media.
We can probably find a number of flaws with Trump but he is obviously not favored by tge establishment. If it were up to me I'd rather see a Vivek Ramaswamy in charge of the US.

2024-08-26 06:06:29 UTC

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There are a couple of things here to unpack.
1. In Sweden, the Social Democrats governed for over half a century until 1974. This made them + their collaborating party VpK (the communist party) the uniparty of Sweden and their dominance has since then been held by its control of institutions, education and government owned media.
2. If we are discussing Trump, he has been notoriously demonised by the governments + media in most Western countries for 8+ years. If yoh haven't lived in Sweden, Norway or other European countries you wpuld probably not be aware of how coordimated the establishment is across continents.
I wrote a note where I bring up some of the reasons why Trump is viewed as an enemy by the establishment. One major reason is him pulling the US out of the Paris climate accord in 2017. This combined with his pro-energy stance set him on a collision cpurse with the UN Agenda 21 establishment.
3. Boris is a part of the establishment, correct.
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2024-08-26 05:57:38 UTC

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I could add that a single private key is not how I would design a free speech protocol.
If it were up to me I would use a set of at least two private keys, one for regular Nostr use and one for admin control of the identity. If the regular key is compromized, the admin key could be used to regain control over the content.
I hope Nostr will become the free speech protocol we need.

2024-08-26 05:49:56 UTC

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Perhaps, but if we look at the data above, the rejection of MSM sources extend over decades.
I'm not American so the 'Republican' label here in Europe would overlap more with populists and the anti-establishment movement.
The UN Agenda 21 was signed by 179 nations in Rio de Janeiro back in 1992. If we want to analyze the operative system of the "establishment" we can simply review the policies (code) that Agenda 21 involves. It is a very comprehensive plan for the 21st century involving a false "sustainability" program, which was inspired by Club of Rome as they were searching for reasons to implement global regulations. A climate scare fitted the bill.
Since it was easier for the establishment to achieve the Agenda 21 goals on a social-democrat platform, this is likely why we are seeing an overlap between republicans/conservatives and anti-establishment movements for the past 30+ years.

2024-08-26 05:29:44 UTC

Free Pavel Durov.
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#Pavel #Durov #MSM #Telegram #Robert #Malone #1984 #Propaganda

2024-08-26 05:25:59 UTC

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#Media #MSM #Matrix #Propaganda

2024-08-26 04:25:59 UTC

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The benefit of Nostr is the long format, over the compacted micro format of Twitter.
A few books I can recommend before I head out with my wife.
1. Time's Arrow, 1991 by Martin Amis.
The story in this book takes place in the reverse. The protagonist is a doctor that is introduced to the reader at old age and he is experiencing a backwards aging every day.
His relationships may start with a painful feeling on his chin, until he meets a lady at a restaurant that he never saw before, experiencing how she removes the pain on his face with a reversed slap.
It has a number of humorous parts in spite of the serious topics. The book opens up a different way of thinking about causality. Everything we do is filled with what we fill ourselves with.
2. The mirror in the mirror, 1984, by Michael Ende.
This book reads like an abstract painting and reaches out with a number of short stories that leaves pause for reflection.
Michael Ende is perhaps more known for his book The Never Ending Story but here he compacts his visual thinking into a series of poetic and dreamlike meditations.

2024-08-25 13:59:18 UTC

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I believe that Vivek is the absolute best part of the new republican constellation. He needs to be in charge of reducing the size of government.

2024-08-25 08:19:28 UTC

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It was also interesting to see the polling results from the Republican side.
https://image.nostr.build/87c11486596b6eefe5892b283d39410fd06d17b8d809562214c3fd9331377c55.jpg
While both sides have vested interests in presenting polls that put them in a favorable light, the most rational approach is to present the figures as they are in order to device strategies to improve the ratings. Skewing the poll numbers is a risky tactic that only makes sense for the MSM.
The high number of undecided voters are more likely Trump- (or RFK jr) aligned than Kamala-aligned since there is tangible establishment-crafted stigmatization associated with Trump (8 years of smearing in a dozen Western nations) but no MSM-created stigma associated with Kamala.

2024-08-24 15:45:37 UTC

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Nostr suggestion.
2 layers of security:
Full-key (24 or 48 words)
Half-key (12 or 24 words)
Half-key would mean the first half of the words of the full-key.
At half-key level of security we can sign messages and do most things we can now.
At full-key level of security we can flag our profile as compromised, as well as deleting all half-key-signed notes after a date yy-mm-dd.
I guess we could also allow the deletion of all our notes at the full-key level.
Usage: the regular user would normallt use the half-key to access their Nostr profile and sign notes.
When/if the half-key is hacked/stolen, the user can flag their profile as compromised and set all new half-key-signed notes to be deleted. The user can now post messages with their full-key and explain what happened, create a new Nostr profile and guide their friends there.
The thief with half-key access would have their half-key-signed notes deleted due to the compromisation flag.

2024-08-24 14:20:56 UTC

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I'm not competent in regards to cryptography but on the top off my mind I would ask this:
Would it be secure enough to use a 24 word seedphrase as a "master key" while allowing signing posts and accessing data using the first 12 words?
Alternatively, to double the security: a 48 word seedphrase master key with a 24 word signing requirement.

2024-08-24 12:39:24 UTC

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Disagreements without hostility are always the most fruitful exchanges.
I appreciate the work that Samson Mow has been doing over the years and he is also a highly critical thinker that often listens to and consider nuanced feedback. He may not agree with the feedback but he is able to entertain multiple possibilities.
We will all disagree on the timing when
$1.0M bitcoin happens and that's fine.

2024-08-24 12:13:51 UTC

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Hans, you are misusing the term high time preference here.
Samson has been working with nation state adoption for several years. That's the opposite of high time preference.
Perhaps just sit down a bit when you are entering a subject where you have not built up credibility as an analyst.