They don't behave as if they're forced to reform when faced with competition. Rather, they convince, compel or coerce folks to remain bound to their services (even intellectually it seems)
As far as where all the money comes from to do those AND prevent competitors, well, it's taxes but also, they alone have a monopoly on printing money, enforced with threats of imprisonment & lots of munitions. so... 🤷♂️
Better to ignore all of it. Don't eat government sponsored food or act based on government funded facts.
Anyone else here mute the word "debate" last week? 😎
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Just take payments. There's a long way to go and a lot to be undone before money-themed fashion accessories are a good look again, even if the money itself is the best money in human history.
It's not really "gif keyboard" they're after; it's in-app gifs. Shouldn't need to leave the app just to enhance the expressiveness of your note through memes
Heading into the first part of the third quarter of 2024, what are your goals?
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"Up here is a camera, where..hehhehe...so they can watch you...for safety ya know to make sure you're safe" 🤣
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Don't give in to the fact that polititians hijacked & bastardized the word "progress" from under us. I'm not a political progressive, but I still listen 😉
The most fiat-headed countries, folks
#BNPL
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If you need to ask someone else to pay for something on your behalf, don't be shocked if they refuse.
I like strike. I use it as a bridge between my banks and my own self custodial apps...that's it! I can't speak to their P2P or payment stuff, because I use my own apps for those things
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Is CSW consulting for the NYT?
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Use bitcoin as your base money and prices will go down, you'll be happy, and complaining about the economy will become moot except in service of others
I wouldn't recommed playing the game because your adversaries have the advantage of being able to change the rules on their whims
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Congress needs to get its shit together and counterbalance the powers of the executive branch, not delegate their legislative role to them! 🤦♂️
"Congress knows that it does not — in fact cannot — write perfectly complete regulatory statutes," she wrote. "It knows that those statutes will inevitably contain ambiguities that some other actor will have to resolve, and gaps that some other actor will have to fill. And it would usually prefer that actor to be the responsible agency, not a court."
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...who are celebrating a 2 year olds birthday party
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You can apply whatever policy you want to yourself if it's your relay
Like leaking documents to wikileaks, if you push notes to other relays, you implicitly trust them with those notes
Religion/Fiat (the VR we work in with global real stakes) is the biggest fraud by scale (so far). I think KYC is far more disingenuous.
Religion is a net positive across time IMO, albeit a civilizationally retarded one in the literal sense of the word. There are other more direct, less abstract ways to progrwss human affairs. Though they may be more difficult (slower).
Any time a client (like a web browser) makes a request to a server (like twitter or iCloud) to return some content, feed, or app data over HTTP, we can now ask ourselves: "could this benefit from replacing the "server" with a "decentralized & configurable relay pool"?
It's not just socials that nostr can disrupt; plenty of M2M cases are up for grabs too 😎
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In 1968, leading credit bureau Retail Credit Corporation President Lee Burge told Congress that the “availability of record information imposes a discipline on the American citizen. He becomes more responsible for his performance whether as a driver of his car, as an employee in his job performance, or as a payor to his creditors. But this discipline is a necessary one if we are to enjoy the fruits of our economy and the present freedom of our private enterprise.”
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If the environment is their goal, they have things completely backwards
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Implicitly validates the leaked documents. The fact is now embedded in public legal archives for the forseeable future. Dumb.
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"If you're going to spend 40000 hours of your life [earning] money, you probably ought to invest a hundred hours of your life to keep it."
I listen to saylor mainly for the quotes 😏
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