Folks will work 100k hours in their life but won't even spend a day a year to manage their own savings throughout their lifetime. They'll spennd money every day but think "someone else can do it, money's not my kind of thing"
Crazy to think they'll spend a day a year keeping a node reliable! 🤣
This isn't a dig on the LN protocol; there are Uncle Jim islands everywhere using their channels well. It's aimed at "lightning" the nebulous term that means "all things not-onchain regardless of how custodial or nonprivate or poorly designed or thought out"
"Assume someone is stupid on their own, but is now distracted by a mob of other stupid people.
Now assume that person is writing your software."
Javascript...fixes this? 🤔
Stopped watching music (except live) when they felt they no longer needed to credit directors & producers at the end of the video, about 20 years ago. The 80s & 90s had some wild music video productions; modern videos, even the best are all just meh 🤷♂️
The first one is kind of absurd on its face.
Like saying "my government is the most flexible, so the entire human race will coalesce here, and that'll be that, the end." Humans just ain't that enlightened! 🤣
It's more art.
No one wants to hire a software architect that's really good at reproducing existing architectures. No one pays top dollar for a "just released!" Mona Lisa either 🤣
All art requires experience, but experience alone won't cause a person to become creative.
You can make a child draw a hammer every day. Some will dutifully do it and eventually produce excellent facsimiles of hammers; others will eventually produce good enough hammers but innately want to draw something else.
In software architecture, the degree to which a person wants, and can achieve, the latter is a measure of artistic ability. IME, without it everything looks like a nail, and you get paintings of very good quality, maybe even impressive multi-purpose hammers...but you'll certainly never get a Mona Lisa, unless that person evolves while they're with you
Not all projects need a very artistic/creative architect; artistic ability is a spectrum people are on throughout society, and different projects have variously different needs.
If you don't pay to leave your vehicle or trash or whatever on someone's land, then the landowner owns the stuff, and in their mind, you don't exist. Thinking otherwise is statist behavior.
Who operates it is irrelevant; it's about who owns it.
The state or anyone else owns anything you leave on their land, and since in this scenario you didn't pay them anything, if they decide to keep it, you have no natural right to get it back without forcefully taking it back from their land.
If you did pay them, then forceful retrieval is justified (but infeasible against the state); if not, you'd simply be the asshole in the situation. Statists would argue that the latter is actually okay, and the state is always available to help you get your stuff back, in case the landowner gets grabby with the things on their land (ie. exercises their right to liberty) 🤣
It's up to the landowner (municipality, homeowner, business owner) whether the tax/transaction contract includes "vehicle storage in designated areas"
Paying taxes doesn't automatically give a blank check right to everything the government owns; it's (ostensibly 🤣) a social contract with terms that both sides understand, agree, and adhere to.
I apply a high standard to invoke this phrase, but...few understand this.
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30 years ago, most people were *uninvolved* with digital technology and couldn't even work a mouse. Today, everyone with a modern electronic device, tv, car, anything, is involved, so the cypherpunk battle may be waging on, but the pool of Hearts & Minds today is far more complex
They're already used all over the place, but for decades, getting end users comfortable enough to effectively use keypairs was too difficult. It's still necessary though so the complexities were hidden (somewhat greedily) away from the users, and replaced with "trust us bro" logic.
Nostr & Bticoin, while relatively difficult compared to existing alternatives, definitely bump the usability of digital signatures in daily online interactions for typical users.
In hindsight...SatoshiDice was insidious 🤣
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Eat a sufficiently large (low or no carb) meal 3 or 4 hours before you sleep every day. No more morning hunger. This was how I kicked a decades-long caffiene habit without even noticing or paying attention 😏
The widening gap between a halving and a subsequent election will I think change the nature of election year narratives for at least the next couple halvings
We go out to a restaurant. They pay with their credit card, I send my half of the bill to them in BTC.
In their mind, arguably, they didn't buy BTC; they just overpaid for a fun night out, and ended up stacking in the process.
Meanwhile I work, earn, and daily DCA (for my nonprivate stack at least), so I know I'll be getting that corn back soon enough
I give the necessary disclaimer that...the IC pretty much knows who my IRL friends are already, sometimes before even I do 😏. The sats I send them are still effectively KYC'd in our view, until they can break the chain on their side going forward (swaps, coinjoin.. a much bigger orange pill than a "split the bill" transaction at a pub 😉)
But that stuff doesn't stop me.. we can definitely be friends! 🤝
LN helps but that's only one angle of many.
I'm more worried in the US about the justice department being used to try to execute a 6102 than the tax collector. But either one can feasibly ask the IC for support. Up until now, those asks have IMO been reserved for legitimate cases (with some exceptions), so I'm not particularly worried, but I'm not convinced the exceptions for those asks won't start to outweigh the legitimate cases in the future.
Some risks though are big, exciting, global, permanent enough that they're worth pursuing 😎
Yes, but it beats waiting indefinitely until non-KYC options are accessible to everyone. The cat & mouse game of cybersecurity never ends, there will never be a winner, only imbalances, but mass ignorance is a major handicap for the freedom-tech side in the current state of the game.
Relays don't grow on trees
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No, it's not okay. If you've spent a dozen years in public school & 4 years in college, it's not okay to "not be a math person." There are 2 or 3 things school should teach every human, and math is one of them.
These are fumdamental parts of daily social life. One way or another, every person should learn about themselves (language), their environment (math), and cooperation with others (economics). It doesn't need to be school that delivers those lessons, many learn them later in life. But it's impossible to live a successful life without grasping the basics.
It's hard to not retain something that you need to deal with daily. It takes time & energy to create adults who can't balance a budget or answer the question "what is money?" but go and spend money every day
"Green" is Roy G. Biv's middle name 😎
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This is why I get frustrated by politicians (and society en masse) cheering for impossible things that won't work and come with heavy costs & consequences to our species.
The realm of possible things is already astronomically vast!
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Politicians en masse don't care about power; with a few exceptions, they're actors who care primarily about celebrity.
I will say though...I do think a lot of "low time preference" bitcoiners will be in for a shock when they realize just how unbelievably patient the actual generational power brokers of our era really are.
No you don't. The greatest societies in history were maybe coincidentally ones where alcohol was normalized; dry societies tended to fade into the background.
What you probably want is just to have better people around you. Cut some slack to those you have now, but not too much.
🤝
You're conflating the two & ignoring the nuance nostr:nprofile1qqsth7fr42fyvpjl3rzqclvm7cwves8l8l8lqedgevhlfnamvgyg78spz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuegpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqj9swg4 just explained. There's a difference in architecture between twitter & telephony. But if folks understand you when you tell them to "DM my cell" I guess it's a non-issue for you.
Agreed. Ten years ago, the DSM listed surgery as a last resort. Today, it's more like "do what the patient thinks they need". Like maybe magic skinny pills for an eating disorder, or recommending a girl get her tits done to treat her modern depression 🙄🤦♂️
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