If generated nude images of young people who don't exist should be illegal, how would you objectively classify it as child porn? Since the subjects in the image don't have birthdays...
The concerning aspect about the responses to my recent edgy polls is that apparently a lot of you think that the State should be responsible for enforcing morality.
Swifties got super upset about the deepfake porn published this week and they franctically issued takedown requests wherever it popped up.
This was a tactical error. The gigabrain response would be to generate so much deepfake Taylor Swift porn that even if her real nudes got leaked, nobody would believe it.
Abnormal number of requests for testnet bitcoin lately so I started questioning if folks are developers.
One person said they needed it for an airdrop.
WTF?
After tracking my sleep for a year, I find it fascinating that I can drink coffee or an energy drink an hour or two before sleeping and it has a negligible effect upon my heart rate or sleeping patterns.
But if I have a single unit of alcohol, my heart rate remains elevated for most of the night and I tend not to make it all the way to the morning without waking up at some point.
Based Bongbong: President Bongbong Marcos of the Philippines has been criticized for using the presidential helicopter to attend a Coldplay concert. Marcos says he has "studied music for many years" and that Coldplay was "unmissable."
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Wish I could train my AI LoppBot to monitor all the posts from Bitcoin haters and serve up the most retarded ones for me to dunk on. It's quite tedious to scroll through the cringey bullshit manually.
Apparently one of the arguments Keynesians make for why Bitcoin's fair value is close to zero goes like this:
MV=PQ
M is the total money supply
V is the velocity of money, that is the average frequency with which a unit of money is spent.
P is the price level of the money unit
Q is an index of purchases
The value of the Bitcoin economy = (PQ)/(V*21000000)
Since almost nobody transacts in BTC for goods and services, Q=~0 and thus Bitcoin's economic value is basically zero.
While it's true that almost no one transacts in BTC on a regular basis, the logic is flawed.
MV=PQ is the equation of exchange. It's a way of measuring the amount of money that an economy needs based upon the demand for transacting. It's Keynesian demand-side monetary theory as opposed to Austrian supply-side theory.
Here's the unstated assumption for why the equation is wrong. More accurately, I'd say the equation is INCOMPLETE. The whole thing is built upon the assumption that the ONLY factor for demand of money is to SPEND it. We all know that's absurd. As such, this equation can AT MOST only quantify demand for SPENDING value, not storing value.
The Keynesians can't comprehend the value of Fuck You savings.
Andreas dropped off social media because he didn't want to deal with the puritanical bullshit.
Thankfully I find the puritanical bullshit entertaining.
From time to time I manage to piss off some script kiddie wanna-be hacker and they decide to "teach me a lesson" by DDoSing my personal web site.
I watch them in amusement and take no action.
It's always interesting to see how long it takes them to realize that they made a mistake in assuming that I care about my educational resources that I offer for free being temporarily unavailable.
Adventures in urban living:
When you live in a building with 1,000+ residents, it really sucks that any single one of them can trip the fire alarm and shut down the elevators.
Because out of a group that large, there are bound to be some jackasses and idiots.
TIL you can descend 10 floors of stairs per minute if there aren't any slowpokes blocking your path.
Trying something very different and living in a high rise condo for a few months.
Urban life pros:
* Convenient access to restaurants & entertainment
* Businesses are open longer / later
* Public transportation
Urban life cons:
* Public transportation
* Expensive AF
* Noisy AF
* Beggars
City dwellers, what should I do to maximize my enjoyment of this experience?
Happy Hearnia!
8 years ago today, long-time Bitcoin developer declared Bitcoin a failed experiment and sold his coins for $430.
He went on to work for R3 to build a permissioned blockchain solution called Corda that you've never heard of.
Trader chatter indicates expectations that the first day of ETF trading is going to be wild and likely volatile in both directions. Unclear what's going to happen with GBTC... potentially a significant unwind as some folks flee for lower fees.
RIP OP_RETURN_BOT (on X)
LONG LIVE OP_RETURN_BOT (on nostr)
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One thing I fucked up when deciding to become a limited partner in several Bitcoin VC funds was not realizing how much I'd hate being contractually obligated to sell BTC in order to fulfill capital calls throughout the bear market.
I personally view it as rolling my gains back into the ecosystem in the hopes it will increase the value of my BTC. Not trying to outperform BTC with my LP funds.
A few months ago my laptop started having a memory leak or something and has to be restarted every few days or it slows to a crawl due to running out of RAM & swap.
Watching "To Catch a Smuggler" is incredibly frustrating.
These border agents are stealing people's money and destroying their property because it MIGHT have drugs inside.
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