So Iran likely spent over $100M attacking Israel and Israel spent over $1B shooting down nearly all of Iran's drones and missiles.
What a fucking waste.
I'm starting to think that one of the big problems with America's Constitution is that the penalties for violating constitutional rights are insufficient.
For example, if you violate the constitutional rights of millions of Americans, perhaps that should be worthy of the guillotine. Even if you're the president.
Just spitballing; all I'm sure of is that those in power are not sufficiently afraid of violating our rights.
A reporter emailed at 5 pm on Friday requesting a comment for their article. They gave 3 hours to respond before publishing.
I honestly don't know why you'd even bother reaching out unless you wanted to be able to disingenuously print "he didn't respond when asked for comment."
The days of needing third party moderators should be coming to a close.
I see no reason why it shouldn't be possible to train an AI agent on what types of content and replies you prefer not to see, and hand off the heavy lifting to the AI. And if the AI screws up, you simply give it more training!
The State says it can't tell us why it needs to keep violating the rights of citizens to be secure against unwarranted surveillance.
If the State's surveillance regime was successfully stopping terrorist attacks, wouldn't they be boasting about their success? Please, I beseech you, show us evidence!
From what I can tell, just from civil asset forfeiture and TSA burglaries alone, agents of the State commit far more crimes while violating our rights than they prevent.
The more likely scenario is we're talking past each other due to holding different definitions or assumptions.
For example, the claim that "no more protocol changes doesn't equate to no more protocol maintenance" doesn't compute for me.
It sounds like a conflation of maintaining client software implementations and actual protocol development.
Software has to be constantly maintained. Protocols don't. But there's always room for improvement.
It's amazingly cringe arguing with non-developers about why ceasing work on the base Bitcoin protocol is retarded rather than a genius way to eliminate risk.
Archive is a reliable service, the problem is that it seems their domains get taken away regularly.
I fixed all the links by updating to their latest domain. If you find more broken links, please open an issue on the GitHub repository so that I don't miss it.
Right, it's unprecedented for a protocol to be DECLARED ossified. No one can authoritatively state that development is done until we're far enough in the future that we have hindsight.
Ossification is an inevitable result of a protocol becoming so widely adopted that it becomes impossible to coordinate updates.
It's probably safe to say that most of the things claiming to be "Bitcoin Layer 2 networks" are of a questionable nature.
But on the flip side, one should not automatically dismiss all second layer projects as scams.
DYOR!
My favorite way to fund Bitcoin development is to make tax advantaged charitable donations to entities that issue grants. This ensures a double bonus of keeping more money out of the hands of the government.
https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information/charity.html#developers
OK I think I figured it out.
Since singular persons are allowed to identify as plural, we also allow plural entities like gods to identify as singular.
Got it.
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4 years ago I set up my primary lightning node hosted server.
I funded it with several coins, figuring better to have too much liquidity than not enough.
I opened dozens of channels under the same assumption.
Over the years I've barely touched it other than to update release versions.
Today it only has half a dozen channels due to peers disappearing or closing channels, but the value of my liquidity is higher than ever, so I don't see a need to open more channels.
Which begs the question: is this centralization? 🧐
The natural result of operating in this system with the value regularly going up over time results in disincentive to spread out your liquidity amongst more counterparties.
Bitches still haven't found my money.
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Bitches have found $500 of my $50,000
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Any nostriches out there taking peptides to stimulate production of human growth hormone?
Interested to hear experiences with specific peptides and sources for them.
My (tiny) 401K provider seems to have misplaced $50k I instructed then to send to Fidelity and Fidelity has no clue what I'm talking about.
Fucking trusted third parties!
Bitches still haven't found my money.
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