I don't see how taking free contributions from Russian contributors is supporting Russia's political aggression. Unless they were being paid or there's some other law not being mentioned here...

I believe there are some export laws that cover certain types of software, but it isn't as clear to me as he implies it should be. 

 It was for me too at first compared to the SeedSigner or Trezor Model T I've been using.

The SeedSigner has by far been my favorite and the most reliable, but all of them have tradeoffs somewhere.

The Q has some interesting potential. The physical scanner is amazing, but my laptop camera can never scan the display in reverse (works perfectly on my SeedSigner though).

It definitely needs work, but has a lot of potential for advanced users (in my opinion). 

 I don't mean to say that spreading someone else's ideas is necessarily a bad thing. Only that it can easily become religious or tribal once people start deifying influencers (like Saylor) or participating in the latest drama. People can do whatever they want. I'm just bored with it and don't think it deserves my energy.

Bitcoin is the best money I've found and I just want it to be that. I don't need it to be my religion or sole focus in life. The whole point for me was to free up my mind to focus on important things, and Bitcoin X isn't it. Unfortunately, I can't escape it even here. 😁

Life goes on. ✌️ 

 You essentially are making those investors take the bus if you copy their product and sell it a price they can't compete with. There's a difference between an idea and a usable product that has been developed at an expense. Plenty of people have ideas, but that isn't worth shit unless someone is willing to invest their energy into making it real.

We protect intellectual property so investors can recoup their investments rather than just being eaten by people who didn't take the initial risk. If you want to give away what you invest in and create then fine. But you don't get to say that forcing everyone else to do that isn't theft.

This seems like it was written by a mentally delayed child in a communist country. 

 Product development doesn't just fucking happen. It's an invention for people who want to live in a civilized society where investors and innovators aren't just sacrificial animals who get no reward for their effort.

You can't compete with someone who gets the benefit of your labor without bearing any of the cost for it.

The mental gymnastics to justify stealing is quite incredible. 

 I can't remember who it was now, but I warned someone on X about investing their time, money, and energy into this and got a snarky response about my intelligence or some other ad hom I think.

Fuckem.

I don't try to save people anymore. It's a waste of MY time and energy, which is far more important to me now (as it should be).

Hopefully we both learned valuable lessons.

#Nostr is the way for me.

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 Fardisaster 

 All roads politicians are willing to take do. But there are roads we could take that don't just prolong the illness and let it grow.

It's like the scenario of ripping a bandage off vs pulling it off slowly, except in this case the bandage never comes off and actually grows in surface area and stickiness over time.

That's what you get for having politicians rather than leaders. 

 Head bleeds are a bitch. Hopefully the doorway is okay. 😉 

 Alright, I'll stop being an asshole after this one https://image.nostr.build/08c625faa2e60b7d804b8316693c0595b0b95f3bde22f9eccec43cbaaba1befb.jpg 

 Oof. 

 "...Fed to offset..." is all I needed to hear.

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 Never is a very long time. 

 I don't owe him shit. 

 Un-memory Hole: Engaged
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 Tuta has been good for me. 🫡 

 I don't think it's the same concept as selective breeding. 

 Meh. It's like pretty much everything else. A lot of the science will be wonderful, but you will also have weirdos who go way too far. I have ethical concerns about some of it. It's something we will definitely have to figure out. 

 Yeah, I think it's an example of some people taking something too far. It happens with everything. I can definitely see this becoming a racist type thing, but I can also see it doing a lot of good for normal people. It'll be a spectrum of normies all the way to fucking weirdos. 

 On my selective breeding point, I meant that it will likely be more precise than getting a pug out the deal lol But, only time will tell. We definitely need ethical debates on the shit for sure. 

 Selective breeding of dogs, plants, etc has historically been a try and see approach (a best guess) by discarding the undesirable offspring and only breeding the desirables. That is not the same thing as targeted gene modification.

Having sex with a partner who looks good with the hope of having a pretty baby is selective breeding. That's not a new idea.

Editing the genes directly is totally different.

https://royalsociety.org/news-resources/projects/gm-plants/how-does-gm-differ-from-conventional-plant-breeding/ 

 Or in this case looking at the genes directly and deciding all is well and changing nothing.

This isn't a binary issue. There are benefits to these advances beyond just having a baby later in life.

It's totally awesome that parents can learn beforehand that their child will have a terrible disease, etc, for example. I tend to find the whole eye color, gender, etc thing weird and something we should discuss, but the medical application for prevention and treatment are amazing and should continue.

Most people tunnel vision on one use case, and either discard everything because of that or some other ridiculous religious belief. Both are equally dumb. 

 Gr8 b8 m8 

 I think we use the wrong measuring stick sometimes. Indie software is a great example. 1M per year in revenue is basically nothing to a company like Google, but it is quite significant to an indie developer. So you may not attract a VC or buyer, but that doesn't make it worthless. 

 If I were a judge, I would destroy this mother fucker to the greatest extent allowable. You would very much want me as the judge in a countersuit. He'd be living under a fucking bridge by the time I finished. 

 I don't know what villain arc means, but I'm proud of you for putting work into something you value. I need to work on my health. Great to see. 

 What some people fail to realize is that hope and numbers do have meaning, even if they don't immediately change every wrong you see in the world.

It could be the case that someone else sees how many people care about people like Ross, Bitcoin, etc and move us in a better direction politically down the road. Humans have a hard time appreciating how little decisions today can matter decades from now.

Yielding to politicians with absolutely no pushback isn't going to help things more than voting even if you don't see the impact right now. Sometimes just being a wrench in a gear is enough to change history for the better.

You are responsible for politics whether or not you participate, so you might as well participate strategically. 

 Yeah, I've figured that it's about the best I can hope to get out of the election. Freeing Ross would be the most I've gotten out of any election up this point in my short 31 years.

It's just fucking sad that this is the state of our politics and justice system. Quite pathetic really.

And if Kamala cared about even 1% of the shit the left cares about she would have already freed him while wearing a Satoshi shirt. At least orange man went to a Bitcoin conference to patronize us lol 

 Rather, what the left claims to care about. 

 If it must be a binary issue, I usually ask myself who I'd rather rather my family be captured by. That always helps me pick a side if nothing else will.

I'm an atheist, but I'd pick the Jews over any militant Muslim group. They're both retarded, but I'd rather live in Israel. 

 I'm not going to back down from people professing their hopelessness from the back row, and neither should you, nostr:nprofile1qqsp4lsvwn3aw7zwh2f6tcl6249xa6cpj2x3yuu6azaysvncdqywxmgprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctvq9n8wumn8ghj7enfd36x2u3wdehhxarj9emkjmn99ah8qatzx9e8gmr3vdsnsu3kv96hjcthx4hr26pnds6ngv3jv3kngumj0y6kg7nxv4jngd3exen8zefcwvm8zem4v34hxdmydf6xvuelvfex7ctyvdshxapaw3e82egpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejs5mzk3a.

There is no shame in voting for what you think is the least shitty option. Making the best of an awful situation, even when you know the odds are stacked against you, is exactly what being American means. Some of the people in your comments would have yielded to the Brits on "principle."

Just sitting in the corner pouting while politicians run wild definitely isn't going to change anything either. Fuckem. At least we will have tried to correct at least one wrong. 

 Damn.
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 Perhaps, but they are competing against 25-30% humans who aren't as optimal probably, which makes it profitable still (and the bot technologies are still improving).

I don't see the point as it's closer to 100% bots, which is the incentive obviously. You'd eventually end up with bots so good that the gains and losses are a lot closer to zero (less profitable).

I think the long term result is the end of such things, and the beginning of actual prosperity IF we fix the money. Just speculation, but I think the average human lifespan would already be 200 years if Bitcoin had existed when the Federal Reserve was created. I can imagine 100-200 years from now looking wildly different. Financial trading will probably seem retarded. 

 But who uses it? That's always the problem with messengers. Getting people onto Signal is hard enough. I'm not totally sure how to even say that name. It seems niche and that's fine, but WhatsApp has a network effect, and Signal is so easy that normies don't have to think about it. Frankly, I've largely given up on trying to convert people, especially after the Signal SMS rug pull on Android. Of course, I'm in the US where SMS still dominates, so it was easier to convince most of the people I know to use it as default app (most of them have uninstalled and went back to SMS).

I have like six friends on Signal (one is my wife) and it took a lot of work to get that many. Lol The messenger things feels hopeless to me. We need an industry standard that works seamlessly across platforms.

/end rant that is hardly relevant to your post 

 I do agree with the corporation point. My primary issue with Signal is that it isn't at all simple to self-host even, and if you do, you're essentially disconnected from everyone who uses Signal. It would be cool if they had a way to add someone's self-hosted server when adding a person in Signal. So the app would connect to that instance with that person. But then you do have the domain issue and all that. Maybe a bunch of different apps for different cases is the best scenario we will ever have. 

 I will definitely look into both though and see if I can get some Nostr peeps to use it with me. Silos like that probably is the future anyway, unfortunately. It's the only way I can see to keep things decentralized. 

 Many are. However, there is a seemingly small number of engineers (I consider them different than developers) who still care about computer science and making actually good software.

Seemingly very small. They've probably mostly retired. 

 My coffee cup was probably brewing the next global pandemic. 😬
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 Me too, but I still slip occasionally. Far less often that I used to though. It was essentially constant before I went Nostr only. 

 To be fair, they did give us five minutes between classes to use the bathroom and rush to the next class, with a 30 minute meal break that included the time it took to get your food and find a place to eat it. No food or drinks in most classes. Thank god for the 5 minutes between classes (if you weren't late - punishment!)

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 Agreed. That common framework for me was the first half that I mentioned (US school). I was already reading and comprehending at a college level by then and could learn anything I wanted. I obviously don't speak for everyone. Just using examples that applied to me. 

 I have considered exploring a digital version built on Nostr. It's quite a task though. Certainly one that would require many minds coming together. 

 I'm thinking more of a hands on approach than something like Khan, Udemy, etc, but I agree.

Similar to physically going to a class except it's virtual. Synchronous I think is the term. It wouldn't be totally on Nostr, but parts would be. More would be over time I'm sure. 

 Nice. 

 To be fair, he did say 'need.' I think his point is that most people can have the use of things without the headaches of owning them. That obviously doesn't apply if your value is to keep the same house for your entire life (or while your children grow up). Owning it would be the surest way of achieving that want.

But I do agree with your sentiment. I hate it when people tell me I shouldn't spend my Bitcoin. Fuck you. The whole point of money is to express my values. Otherwise, what are we here for? 

 Rather, that I shouldn't spend my Bitcoin to buy X. 

 Making such a thing easy would be suboptimal for me because of my reasons for having a separate account. That's my point. A good middle-ground would be to just have account switcher settings. I say 'just' without understanding the complexity of doing such a thing. 

 So that is a problem for you but the whole point for me. I can see something like a long press that has a popup for which account you want to boost for or whatever, but I'd prefer to have that as an option that can be disabled. 

 No. I can tell that I'm entering addresses in, but for what purpose? 

 I also don't know what a Lightning offer is though. Like I said, I may be missing important context. 

 Just looking at this image, I have no idea what the purpose of this is. All I see is four boxes that have something to do with addresses. 

 Lol

Side note, excellent actor.
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 It's an obvious standard if a company gives a fuck about its customers. Hardly any do, hence my surprise.