I've been all over the US including the midwest; I was hit twice in my life by a tornado...once in Massachusetts and again years later..in Maryland near DC 🤣
Not quite ready to leave the country to seek out the land of the safest trees. Multisig is so much more practical!
Lift one big pool of water a few times, instead of lifting each and every stone individually. It's still a huge feat.
I find it extremely questionanle that Egyptians, in the presence of even primitive hydraulic technology, would have gotten the pyramids done relying on metabolic energy alone.
https://youtu.be/rxFXsoqbfrk
You see it in the beginning of the video; simple locks. Submerge the channel horizontally to fill it, *seal the locks*... and LIFT.
Once it's sealed, it's effectively a solid object that can be moved with people pulleys & leverage, to any location & any orientation necessary to float rocks.
And let's be real...No one can argue that the Egyptians of all ancient cultures were bad at sealing things (but they may have been bad at treating their workforce like real people, who knows?) 😉😅
These were not prehistoric people, they were fully evolved creative innovators like we are today. They could have lifted blocks one by one, but I seriously doubt they didn't also think to lift any tools, machines, animals or water to help the job get done before the emporer dies. 🤷♂️
For kicks, ask AI to generate some possible solutions besides pure slave labor that could conceivably have taken place, given Idunno, 50 or 100 years to beat the deadline of the kings death?
If we were looking for a planet like our with 30 billion humans all at a peak standard of living... 9% of the planets land would need to be capturing solar energy.
At our current technology, we can only detect such a planet if it was covered with 23% solar capturing.
Of course, it's a pretty fucking big presumption that our "advanced" energy technologies (solar, nuclear) are the end state of a civilizations energy innovation 😏
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Most truths are self evident, but most people are inadequate comminicators of truth. Best to just align yourself with nature and laugh at the absurdity that humans generate along the way.
Cash, cache, a place to *store* valuable things. Cash isn't meant to *lose* value. Bitcoin puts things back in order.
It's a bonus that bitcoin also works P2P over a wire like fiat monopoly credits.
"As mentioned in the comments, the top answer should never be used in production. Instead..."
Can't count how many of those literally-underrated answers saved my skin
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As I save in bitcoin, I find I work harder... because the days when I could reasonably charge 25m sats/hr for my services are long gone!!
Remarkably, this doesn't bother me at all, it still feels like winning, slowly, the hard way, but ultimately the optimal way 😏
"The world...can't get better"
...presumably because "now is better than before", no matter how bad now actually becomes.
The hardest part about orange pilling is breaking this dogma
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"Cache" --> "Cash"
(Storage place for valuable things) --> (Monetary storage that ironically loses/destroys value)
That new "cash" word for our currency (we called them dollars before 🤷♂️) was quite an effective psyop
Whatever you were going to do, try to do 1% more. With everything. Continually. For decades.
You'll be surprised how things pan out after time does it's thing😏
I do pretty much the same thing. It helps to also have a separate "travel phone" that you never turn on near your home area, with a data-only sim from silentlink, public wifis, always-on, block-if-disabled wireguard/VPN for encryption and exit nodes while online.
Pro tip: use a card or something similar between the phone & your phone case to physically block the camera
#Opsec #IdentityManagement #Graphene 🤝
Expiring unpaid notes is a great idea, but it's such a big departure from what social media users expect ("wait, I can't even search my old notes? they're 'gone' gone?").
We need to get folks thinking of paid vs. unpaid as a first class component of each & every service, not as an attribute of an entire service by itself (nothing is unpaid, there is no such thing as a free lunch).
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I have a node, I invoice strike for DCA, and occasionally replenish the Strike balance (optional, because they'll pull the funds from ACH either way). Every few months, I swap out of my node for a UTXO 😎
This is a man who understands value in scarcity 🤝
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I like this show a lot!
Like to the point that I actually *heard* this meme, both because these actors put unforgettable personality into the characters, and the characters easily could've had that dialogue in the show as if it's nothing 🤣
...but also geo- and timelocked-multisig, in case the firearms prove ineffective. Both are underrated. Only one helps with a lot of other things than cold storage.
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It's already simple enough.
Today the medical community thinks that high LDL, high BP, and insulin resistance are the 3 primary risk factors of developing cardiovascular disease.
They also think that, of all combinations of those three, having none of them and having only high LDL statistically pose the same risk.
The nutrition industrial community on the other hand... 😔
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tl;dr Eat Meat & Don't Stress, you'll be fine
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It's already simple enough.
Today the medical community thinks that high LDL, high BP, and insulin resistance are the 3 primary risk factors of developing cardiovascular disease.
They also think that, of all combinations of those three, having none of them and having only high LDL statistically pose the same risk.
The nutrition industrial community on the other hand... 😔
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Don't be so literal. Unless you know of another way to convey bitcoins singular uniqueness from everything else that came before or since in 4 words or less... 🤷♂️
"Bitcoin is not cryptocurrency" makes literal sense.
But I don't agree with your last part, as I see crypto only as a prefix, if it can't be a proper noun defined by "cryptocurrencies that aren't bitcoin" 😉
If you really want to get literal, the meaning of crypto is hidden, secret. Bitcoins ethos and practical implementation are open, distributed, transparent.
If bitcoin is crypto for using cryptography, then so is every other form of language including things like the feeling of hunger at a biochemical level.
Weird hill to die on.
You can use the word however you want. I would just answer: Yes, it's something *like bitcoin*
Bitcoin & Crypto are novel nouns; we're defining them now as we go, hence the follow up question you mentioned when folks hear the word crypto is very typical. If you try to coalesce them into one thing, IMO you're not doing this space any favors failing to highlight bitcoins uniqueness.
Self-defense *is* murder.
The implication of making that point is... that a person should be more restrained & deliberate when considering whether to defend their own life...?
You must work for a dictionary! It certainly depends where & when you live. If not, then murder has always been either naturally legal or naturally illegal.
Can't understand anyway why you're hellbent on correcting folks who are otherwise simply trying to deliver a lesson to a person: bitcoin is singilarly unique, don't get distracted by the flashy lights at the crypto casino.
Folks will hear your point about the falsity of the phrase, and digest the idea "bitcoin is indeed just like the rest" before they consider that you were just talking about the semantics of comma placement.
Then, they'll feel better about their gambling. 😔
Bitcoin-only & Bimetalism are mutually exclusive, and a lot of cypherpunk-minded folks really do not like the bitcoin-only future that we've been trending towards since genesis. It's too familiar... 😕
I kind of like seeing bitcoiners open up to Monero (and, crucially, nothing else). It's not like they're going to panic dump all their BTC or hurt bitcoins progress, except maybe very indirectly, and if they're even mulling over the issue, it's a good step.
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You have to know the nix language to setup a system; the same language builds packages for the package manager (one of or maybe the most expansive package manager across linux). It's not hard to build packages. Pop a nix file in your repo, and anyone can pull & use your app nix style. Submit a PR and it'll be included in the main public package repo cache.
We may all be the same or whatever, but we were certainly not all born in the same decade. It's stupid to ignore that fact.
I refer to generations as decades if I'm using that angle to make an argument about technology or human experience, so everyone is objectively on the same page, and doesn't get emotional. It works.. a little 😏
There are three pilots arguing about who is better to fly your plane, when you're really just better off taking all of them on the plane with you. Especially if it's a long flight, and an uncertain journey 😎
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Par for the course in 20th c. society & economics 😔
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Expiring unpaid notes is a great idea, but it's such a big departure from what social media users expect ("wait, I can't even search my old notes? they're 'gone' gone?"). We need to get folks thinking of paid vs. unpaid as a first class component of each & every service, not as an attribute of an entire service by itself (nothing is unpaid, there is no such thing as a free lunch). nostr:nevent1qqs0zv757suya06a82zmhjj2328mdn5vxw4kymw3g9mc3rv36g7xd4gpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3qgcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqxpqqqqqqztu7vqd