How can you relate to something else than your construction of someone? I guess the most important is to update your construction based on the person's feedback, rather than based on your wishful thinking
Agreed, and that's pretty much what I meant by bitcoin being anarchic: it's an enabler of private property, which would be very difficult to capture/control by anyone. However, it is not anarchy per se, because pretty much any bitcoiner is still beholden to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) they reside and/or have citizenship in. (Note: unlike many people here, I don't think it's realistic that this will change any time soon, nor do I think the outcome would be utopian)
Snow Crash has been on my reading list for a while, I might bump it up to the top now that you mentioned it!
Ah ok, you don't have a specific need? Scale-free networks tend to occur in social networks (probably in Nostr too), so they're important to know about if you want to do network analysis on such a network
In the context of a network, "scale-free" means that the degree distribution follows a power law. Degree distribution is math speak for "how many followers does a typical npub have", and a power law is a distribution with so-called fat tails, meaning that some npubs have a huge number of followers, BUT many npubs (the tail) have non-negligible numbers of followers to.
I just went into X for the first time in a long time, to take a look around. It seems to have turned into a video platform. A good two thirds of my feed is video.
Idea: would it make sense to build a report on a bona fide FULL COST/BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF KYC? On the "benefits" side, all documented foiled criminal activity, plus estimated avoided criminal activity. On the "costs" side, the staff & infrastructure required for KYC, the estimated costs of criminal activity (e.g. identity theft) enabled by leaks/hacks of personal data, as well as estimated loss of privacy.
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There are plenty of coercive rules that parties acting privately with their own resources must follow, I don't think that will change any time soon. The report I am thinking of is something that could actually be taken into consideration by governments/lawmakers.
Apple mail has an "undo send" button for a few seconds after clicking send (obviously under the hood it just delays sending the email, but I think it's a great UI)
Looking it up, apparently they have a mode of operation where the seed is decrypted with the help of an oracle server, the goal being to increase the security in case someone gets hold of the hardware wallet and tries to extract the seed
I've been listening to Lunduke's recent stuff for the past few days, and it's looking grim for freedom tech. The Linux Foundation is all but ditching investment in the Linux kernel, and Mozilla is turning into an ads company (rolling out to a Firefox near you). Thoughts? #asknostr
I'd be very surprised if there were any big announcements from Kennedy/Trump at the Nashville conference. It's probably just another campaign event for them
Depends, which corporate media are you referring to? Any for profit news organization?
Many media have biased or even false reporting, but the same is true of Twitter/Nostr tbh
Agree, this is awful, code hardly ever gets simpler.
Same for legislation.
A rewrite is an awful amount of work/pain, hence rare. And cleanly simplifying something complicated is much more work than just throwing an ugly patch on top, so technical debt accumulation is almost inevitable without a strong quality culture
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