A few thoughts on the postmodern criticism of John Locke.

John Locke was born in Somerset, England in 1632. He lived most of his life in England, with some time abroad in exile in France and the Netherlands.

The ideas of Locke would after his death in 1704 come to have significant impact on the abolition of slavery and in contributing to the liberty ideals of the American revolution of 1776 and the Declaration of Independence.

In order to understand Locke's position on slavery it is necessary to return to his opening salvo of Two Treatises Of Government, published in 1690:

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"Slavery is so vile and miserable an estate of man, and so directly opposite to the generous temper and courage of our nation, that it is hardly to be conceived that an "Englishman" much less a "gentleman" should plead for it." (Two Treatises Of Government, part 1, chapter 1.1)
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There is no doubt regarding Locke's adamant stance on slavery here, unless we assume that we possess a mindreading capacity and insert words and meanings into his statements based on our own twisting of his words.

However, this book was published in 1690, at which time he would have been 58 years old, a mere 14 years before his death in 1704. It is possible that he gradually developed this firm position over the course of his life and it is not self evident that he always held these values.

One allegation against John Locke was that he owned stocks in an English trading company called The Royal African Company, that was involved in the African slave trade. Let us look closer at this involvement. I don't have access to the documents regarding his shares ownership so I have to rely on the information available, which may or may not be accurate.

Holly Brewer writes that Locke worked as a secretary to the Council of Trade and Foreign Plantations between 1672 - 1674, and that he was paid during these years in the form of stocks from the company Royal African Company.

While the original purpose of the RAC was to trade for gold in Gambia, it later became involved in slave trade. In 1675 Locke sold his shares in the RAC, after 3-4 years of share ownership.

Together with Shaftesbury, Locke wrote a tract in 1675 condemning king Charles II for absolutism and the enslavement of subjects. Locke fled to France that same year, while his co-author Shaftesbury, ended up imprisoned.

A few years later, in1679, Locke returned to England but had to escape his native soil yet again, this time together with Shaftesbury, to the Netherlands where he would work on his Two Treatises of Government. Several years would pass until he was able to return to England.

Locke's publication of his book Two Treatises in 1690 reflected his opposition to slavery and abusive power, a theory which he had developed over the years.

In the past, slavery had been a part of the concept of property rights. Locke, with his groundbreaking book Two Treatises of Government, turned this notion on its head.

The new concept of property that Locke formulated was founded on the premise that all humans are born free, without masters, and that every man owns himself and the fruits of his labor.

This was a revolutionary concept of property rights: suddenly, according to this new doctrine, slavery had been turned into a violation of property rights. You can't own a person who owns himself - this is impossible.

To respect property rights in the new Lockean sense now involved respecting every individual as a sovereign person who owns himself and his labor.

It is hard to imagine a stronger and more convincing foundation for rejecting slavery:

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"Every man has a "property" in his own "person". This nobody has any right to but himself. The "labour" of his body and the "work" of his hands, we may say, are properly his. (Part 2, Chapter 5.27, page 130, Two Treatises of Government)
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The brilliance of Locke's reasoning was that respecting this new idea of property rights, it cannot simultaneously be combined with the idea of slavery, it is a logical inconceiveability.

Locke also cemented a strong case against authoritarianism, colonization and oppression:

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"And hence it is that he who attempts to get another man into his absolute power does thereby put himself into a state of war with him." (Section 2, chapter 3.17, page 125)
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"So he who makes an attempt to enslave me thereby puts himself into a state of war with me." (Chapter 3.17)
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"It being reasonable and just I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction" (Chapter 3.16)
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In summary, the philosophy of John Locke has been instrumental in the ideological rejection of slavery and for the advancement of a civilized approach to property rights and free markets, with respect for individual rights.

Those in power that may seek to establish a 1984 society in the future will always be at war with John Locke's theory of liberty, property and human rights. And to be more precise: any manifestation of a tyrannical state is a declaration of war against the citizens of such a state. No wonder that future and contemporary tyrants will be lining up to discredit John Locke.

From a bitcoin perspective, John Locke was a rehabilitated shitcoiner that sold his lousy stonks and wrote an instrumental treatise that changed the future in favor of liberty.


15 years. https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf


Forced action cannot be virtuous or moral. Freedom is the only path to anything good.

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It's the same picture. 😅🤣

https://image.nostr.build/87d9663c05296a2bb28ee44c3aa1f1a21c9b8c3454b5e5f4802f5620acd4d702.jpg


Here is the same 3D model without glass and with an added elevator shaft. The idea is having the main apartment below deck and a ladder or elevator in a protected shaft that can access all three levels.

https://image.nostr.build/ef5c6b012f5c261e7577df1fdbfc815c9651c836d19d4dd8402ea42f9404743f.jpg


I've made some concepts for seasteading in 3D a few years ago. They aren't fully practical and would need some re-design, but the gist is having floating platforms that can be anchored by the coast, forming voluntary communities that can be connected and separared at will.

https://image.nostr.build/650d766b3bc64845dc6f2fcbc21cc6bae158e3c504a22fcb68e1e6b126763772.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/29cd040a21b80d337bec5f61db83f322f9fc60efa7a10d13517d1b6f3d0e24ec.jpg


Opt out. #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/f3bb4789d588efbf42782ddbe73926098a342bdb70cb8086314050abaefdd86b.jpg


Never saw that person before.
Now, let's see them doing the same plastic surgery for the female hobgoblin also.


Agreed.
I view voluntarism as the compass.

Small , voluntary jurisdictions can work when there is no central bank or moneyprinting, and as long as people are free to use use hard money (Bitcoin) and have several options to vote with their feet.

Game theory predicts that sound policies such as low taxes, property rights, self defense, individual rights, etc will be selected for when people can easily vote with their feet and bring their property with them across borders (Bitcoin).

Central banks and moneyprinting are incompatible with informed consent since only about 1 in a million people will understand how inflation harms them and society at large. When people fail to understand the system they are in, there can be no informed consent under such circumstances.

A voluntarist society is a society based on voluntarism and informed consent, with options to vote with your feet if your rights are not respected. It requires a world of options, a world of different and competing jurisdictions that are not acting as a cartel under a global regulatory or agenda system. Only through competition, local sovereignty and experimentation can we achieve protection of individual rights and freedoms.


#Memes #Bitcoin

https://image.nostr.build/108fcd143565b11fbad2e9f25862ff01a48d069cab56084ceda1de900a0789e9.jpg


#Memes #CentralPlanning

https://image.nostr.build/63fa880812639d85f8d72c3f0d1bf83e320c800ea8463114df5d0efa84a2c127.jpg


Heh. While I am not American, I'd say that 100% of decisions and sovereignty should be at the county or municipality level, with some room for variance here for practical purposes.

With the Dunbar number at 150, adding too many orders of magnitude to that number in population size for a jurisdiction will naturally have negative consequences. We may not know the exact cutoff point where a sound population size turns into a negative in regards to jurisdiction size, but that lack of precise knowledge doesn't change the inherent problems involved.


Yes, and in addition:

1. Introducing central banks and moneyprinting will corrupt any system of governance, and democracy in particular.

Politicians buying votes with promises of expensive benefits, aid or relief, paid for with printed money, is a race to the bottom toward totalitarianism, with ever rising cost of living and centralization of power.

Every regulation comes with downstream calls for increased surveillance in order to enforce the regulation. The regulatory state is the surveillance state.

2. Democracy requires a jurisdiction small enough that the voters know the representatives they are voting for and that the distance is sufficently small that there is accountability; harmful decisions must have severe consequences.

3. In a small enough jurisdiction, who wins an election is not the end of the world when you can just vote with your feet and travel a few hours to a nearby jurisdiction where your work and your savings are better appreciated.

I think the last point here is crucial. If jurisdictions are small enough, it doesn't matter that much what type of governance it has, as long as people can vote with their feet with a plethora of options.

Small competing jurisdictions under a Bitcoin (free market) economy will lead to lower taxes, greater individual rights and freedoms, regardless of its ruling system, since any government will need to consider the cause and effect of any particular policy.

- Will a policy cause productive people and valuable skills and resources to move in or out of the jurisdiction?

That's the ultimate evaluation of how deeply a policy is anchored in voluntary consent.

Over time, I believe that long-lasting governments that implement neutral, fair, free market policies with strong property rights protections will have an edge over governments that change every 4 years, since uncertainty is a gamble for entrepreneurs while a positive certainty is a magnet for entrepreneurs.

Imagine a solid government with sound policies that will not change for 20 years, versus a solid government with sound policies that may change in the next 4 years. Which is more attractive?


It's ironic that the cause of many of the world's problems (excessive government spending) will also likely be the most popular solution offered by politicians in years to come.

Humankind is hopelessly drunk on fiat, doesn't want the party to stop, and is demanding more booze despite being too incapacitated to even get up, never mind walk straight.


In the past month I’ve travelled from Vancouver to LA, amsterdam, bali and now tokyo. at each stop I was able to pay and zap people in every part of the world with 0 friction. Bitcoin is borderless. When you hold bitcoin you have the ability to store and teleport value to any person on the planet. At some point we were convinced we need permission to do this, but not anymore. #Bitcoin the closest thing we have to true freedom, and its ours 🌏🧡


He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens to hunt, the birds who spend such strident effort on teching their fledglings to fly—yet man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child's education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile & evil, before he has started to think.

From the fist catch-phrases flung at a child to the last, is it like a series of shocks to freeze his motor, to undercut the power of his consciousness. "Don't ask so many questions, children should be seen & not heard!"—" Who are you to think? It's so, because I say so!"—"Don't argue, obey!"—"Don't try to understand, believe!"—"Don't rebel, adjust!"—"Don't stand out, belong!"—"Don't struggle, compromise!"—"Your heart is more important than your mind!"—"Who are you to know? Your parents know best!"—"Who are you to know? Society knows best!"—"Who are you to know? The bureaucrats know best!"—"Who are you to object? All values are relative!"—"Who are you to want to escape a thug's bullet? That's only a personal prejudice!"

Men would shudder, he thought, if they saw a mother bird plucking the feathers from the wings of her young, then pushing him out of the nest to struggle for survival—yet *that* was what they did to their children.

-Atlas Shrugged


Although it was predictable ahead of time that so many Palestinian civilians including children would die as a result of Israel’s response to the attack on Israel by Hamas, as the numbers continue to add up it is increasingly hard to watch.

Half of Gaza’s population is under the age of 18. There is not much more sad in this world than children, cut off from electricity and communication, violently dying from air strikes in darkness.

And sadly this happens in other places of the world too.

For much of human history, people were only aware of their own local area. Now we have awareness of large swaths of the world, and so we can keep track of tragedies in real time. We then desensitize ourselves out of necessity. Like, the sheer amount of negative information and unsolvable problems hit us through media, and in order to productively do something to add value to someone else, there is little choice other than compartmentalization it. An electrician can’t be caught up in the troubles of the world as he goes out each day and fixes things and building things, for example. In order to add order to his small part of the world, he can’t be fully caught up with its global chaos.

And then, I see these crazy protestors tearing down flyers about kidnapped Israelis, as though that activity could possibly be the best use of their time. People have a strong tendency to want to be part of something bigger and longer lasting than themselves, whether it is their religion, their community, their ideology, or their work. But some people chose such fruitless ways of doing it. Yes, you can and should advocate for not bombing children. No, you shouldn’t try to erase what happened to murdered or captured Israelis either. It is not rocket science.

The world is an increasingly polarized place, and my biggest concern is for those polarizations to be used to take rights away in a more broader context, or to wage war between larger opponents. Politicians will propagandize any small share of “crypto funding” to bad groups to justify more restrictions on those technologies and privacy in general. As countries go through sovereign debt crises, having some sort of enemy to point to helps their narrative for capital controls and keeping their citizens in currency and bonds as they are inflated away. I’ve studied the 1940s financial environment too much to be unaware of this.

Always look through to the bigger story, and ideally with a perspective of empathy toward many sides of any complex issue. Strive to be able to articulate your opponent’s view as well as they can, so that your counter argument can be most effective and surgical in its nature. And then, when there is nothing you can do about something globally, try instead to bring order and reason and improvement and kindness to whatever small portion of the world that you can.


I respect the ethos of competition and applaud that. I might create a separate private key for browsing Nostr in various clients

Personally I will avoid subjecting my private key to a lot of clients. Until we have a solid method of account transfer for compromized keys I will keep my risk exposure limited.


Where do you spend most of your time and energy?

A system trying to control you with fear and division? (And is it getting worse?)

Or

A system based on truth, hope and abundance? (And is it getting better?)

The world is a mirror reflection of our thoughts, words, and actions.

Ps - this is not a question for most people here on #nostr and #Bitcoin but more of question for your friends and loved ones who think you’re crazy. 😂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn2H-XKEN98


#Memes #Mask

https://image.nostr.build/d9f5f991cda68434270832fd14967aa5f2cee9c6d99c31145b41b8fdbd991027.jpg


After further consideration, my idea probably can't work as I described it, due to the risk of bots instantly removing the deposit after posting notes with the special tags and then using those sats for the deposit of another account. If this was automated thousands of times per day, the resulting spam would still be immense and the special tags would be useless.

To combat this, the deposit needs to be locked in place for some amount in time before it can be emptied. Let's say that an account deposit must stay in the account for 7 days before it can be emptied.

If the deposit is, let's say,10,000 sats and we can't access it for 7 days, that would still be long enough to prevent bots from gaming the mechanic.


In recent clinical tests, most climate alarmists freeze at -60C, and even the control group that was given 55 boosters. Please help the funding of more extensive testing.

Picture: "Latest seasonal values below -60 °C on the Antarctic Plateau. On October 26 the threshold was broken at JASE2007 AWS with -60.6 °C and at Dome Fuji AWS (in the pic) with -60.4 °C"

https://image.nostr.build/991dc7d6e21db991f993511fd1d852750d819eaaffa128fa3af3f78461b9abac.jpg


There is a reason why a story that follows a similar pattern has been held up as the north star of western culture for thousands of years. When telling the truth means being tortured & killed society is headed for destruction.

https://i.nostrimg.com/4c6b0dde6a4afe2e4053eb787d6a0d67c3c8a90811279d95af842884eb2c670e/file.jpg


Congratulations!


There are literally zero freedoms that can be meaningfully protected if you are forced to use a money that someone else can alter, freeze, print, or surveil at their discretion and without your consent.

It's the total and complete revocation of anything even resembling free market forces & property rights.

CBDCs will be the nail in the coffin of the free world... whatever still remains of it.


#Memes

https://image.nostr.build/c9e9ed7137629e6520878e512c7c4bb64d46ad23023e83e1575d7be090a4dced.jpg


Good suggestions.
I have one idea, not sure if it would work:

1. Let's say we can tag our note with for example: [Meme], [Picture], [Politics], [Sport], [Philosophy], [Photography], [AI-Art], [Art-No-AI], and so on.

One problem that we would face is bots falsely self-tagging their notes for unwarranted classification.

2. What if we could voluntarily embed into our profile, let's say 1000 sats as a deposit, and as long as we have that deposit there, we could utilize special tags for our notes that makes them easy to find and index based on those tags. The deposit would exist in a wallet that we could empty when we want, although then our special tag clearance would disappear.

There are certainly problems with this. How do we set a 'fair' minimum amount of deposit. Is there a risk that we alienate those who don't have 1000 sats to spare. What if the deposit was 10,000 sats. What if the price of Bitcoin increases so much that 1 sat is too high.

Just something to reflect on.


Agreed, well said.

Nostr has tremendous potential. How long it will take to reach its potential is still unknown.

Dissing other social platforms only lead people to close down. People mindreading and assuming other people are chasing dopamine hits on other social media, is just frankly irrational overreach in conclusion.

Besides, what could possibly give a better dopamine hit than receiving sats on Nostr. Until we acknowledge that there are genuine challenges involved we won't make progress by assuming the worst of the people we are asking to join us here.

Finding content on Nostr is still a challenge. Finding good engagement on Nostr, unless you are part of a tight group of friends, can take time. Sometimes when I post, I don't know if anyone is reading my note, and I don't know if that's because the quality is not good enough, or if my reach is bad due to having the wrong relays activated, or something else entirely.

I think adding Lists to more clients can be helpful, I know some clients already have that. Finding content by search can be very hard.


Reminds me of last year when I didn't renew my domain. I rarely used my blog and it had become a chore. It was one extra burden less.


I see the image, but the link can't be accessed from Amethyst.


No, this is wishful thinking.

From my experience, Nostr is often 'dead' when you post things and there is generally little engagement, so the impression many users get is that nobody is interested. If nobody is interested in engaging then people feel that they are wasting their time.

This could in some cases be related to relay problems. Also sometimes the notifications don't work so you might not see a response someone wrote. So the impression for many users is that there is little response.


Hmm, my response was to a different post, seems I clicked reply to the embedded post.


Jack Dorsey: The big class of use case that selfishly I’m interested in — that I think this [Nostr] protocol will eventually help address — is: Block bought Tidal just over a year ago, and streaming has a bunch of issues that need to be rethought. But the specific use case that I’m thinking deeply about in intersection with this protocol is the musician side — the obvious one is around payment for artists: the current system is just criminal in the way the artists get paid and the way that they enter into contracts, and all their life’s work is taken from them without any sort of financial education to put them in a better position. But the collaboration side for artists — especially new artists — is just wild, and it’s a complete gap in the world. There are very little tools — there’s so many artists that collaborate over iMessage, and a lot of them over TikTok or Instagram DM — and that problem itself has I think a lot of intersection with what this protocol enables, because you do have this fluidness between a social layer and a money transmission layer, and eventually a commerce layer. And for a new artist to really get established, they need to have some sort of confidence that they’ll be able to be paid for their work, and they can leave whatever job that they’re currently in because they can see the horizon of not only getting listeners, but actually those listeners exchanging value for their for their value.

https://chowcollection.medium.com/bitcoin-review-podcast-br018-nostr-deep-dive-panel-with-nvk-ft-c9e43c260679


Rebels unite on reckless typing. 😋


https://i.nostrimg.com/1b8ee0cd4dd33f18274a7e2c4bd15b0ec3180467c52ee072eaa4d1c4ad4e5bdd/file.jpg

813,760🤙💜 #meme #memestr #nostrmemes #memes


Second verification post on Twitter/X:

https://twitter.com/fernevak/status/1717106458251215037


"Before the Federal Reserve, if the government wanted to spend money, we could veto it.

Not just by voting against them, but by refusing to buy their bonds.

That's why they created the Fed: to remove the market's influence on policy."

🤮🤮🤮🤮

https://video.nostr.build/492906cc375e1e2395b2c843c5e711dd01330537af4495d7f7efcd195f2b2de8.mp4

#fuckfiat
#bitcoin


The idea of whitelisting an npub for account migration would be brilliant. However I can imagine that the implementation may require some deep pondering by the devs.


Verifying my Nostr backup account, in case my main private key gets compromised.

------- Bacup Account #1 --------
nostr:npub10zc33xkmfem467vpaj53uve4zsaqtdqcpxmvecs0mezt9zg8m80qpem883
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https://twitter.com/fernevak/status/1716868529973264577

#Npub #MyNpub #MyNostrBackup #LeoFernevak #MyNostrLeoFernevak #MyNostrBackupLeoFernevak #NpubLeoFernevak


For now, I verified my Nostr backup account via Twitter/X, until a proper solution is in place. Link:

https://twitter.com/fernevak/status/1716868529973264577


Yes, that's why a whitelisting is a good idea.


Good idea.

I've been thinking about this also. For now, before we have a technical solution, we could post a note and keep it in our public bookmarks.

Below is the Npub of my account backup #1. I have set my main account to follow my backup account. I will keep the robot avatar for my backup until I use it.

Possible hashtags to find the note:

#Npub
#MyNpub
#MyNostrBackup
#LeoFernevak
#MyNostrLeoFernevak
#MyNostrBackupLeoFernevak
#NpubLeoFernevak

nostr:npub10zc33xkmfem467vpaj53uve4zsaqtdqcpxmvecs0mezt9zg8m80qpem883


For years now, every time a govt agency or politician says they need to do something to “protect democracy” or “bring freedom to…” blah blah, I instantly know they are full of sh*t. Whatever they want, it’s a lie & it’s going to make things worse and it’ll give them more political power.

Literally every time.


TL;DR: Start resisting.


#Bitcoin just has to double plus a bit and then we have a new ATH. If you think that’s not possible, then you’re new here.


Are you TheBTCTherapist on Twitter/X?

If not, it is standard practice to give the author credit for the text.

Link:

https://twitter.com/TheBTCTherapist/status/1716153848895582441


Good advice, I will try to keep that in mind.


Yes, this is how many of us feels about savings in Bitcoin. Similarly the psychology functioned the same throughout history in relation to gold and silver.

Hard money savings brings certainty where there is uncertainty.


Saifedean Ammous [2:05:00]: I think you’re more likely to be taking the leap in the unknown when you have a little bit of gold in the mattress than when you don’t — I think this is the thing. Like, if you look at the late 19th century — and I discussed this in The Bitcoin Standard — that was arguably the most innovative period in human history. There’s qualitative evidence: look at the world around you today — pretty much everything that we use was invented in that period — the car, the airplane, the telegraph, the telephone, the camera. Pretty much modern life, the late 19th century, the period between 1870–1914, because the whole world was practically on a gold standard, the whole world was using the same money, and the whole world could save in the same currency. That meant that two bicycle shop owning brothers in North Carolina could go and try and fly, even as all the scientific experts in 1903 were confirming that the possibility of flight has been debunked as unscientific. Thomas Edison said, Not in a million years we’re going to be flying. Lord Kelvin also said it’s never going to happen. The New York Times said it’s never going to happen the same month in which the Wright brothers did it, and they continued to deny that it was going to happen, even two years after they did it. But why could they do that? Because they had savings in gold. They had the security with something that you know is going to be there, and then you can take a risk with the stuff that is extra. I have, say, three years expenditures in gold under my mattress, and I know that I could take a risk with everything else because whatever bad things happen with all of my dreams like even flying — think about how insane that is — I still can go back to the three years of gold that I have saved.

https://chowcollection.medium.com/saifedean-ammous-bitcoin-anarchy-and-austrian-economics-lex-fridman-podcast-284-38fa04b12a31


https://i.nostrimg.com/d50f070805214658cbca25305527449ad9da2a293bbb3a2ff698ecd77085cc1c/file.jpg
#meme #memestr #nostrmemes

Some extra, unrelated info to keep us, the #Bitcoin nerds in the loop:
Current block number is a sweet 813,331 and the highly anticipated next #halving is estimated to go down on 24 Apr 2024 16:50:06 UTC. That's just 26,669 blocks away from that milestone. As my granny used to say: [Tick tock, next block; timechain doesn't stop 🤙💜](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0BMg_70fo8)

Now, I'm here to serve you, so let me know if you're craving more or less of this #BTC intel alongside the #memes. Appreciate your support and keep that pura vida spirit alive, #plebchain fren. Without you, #Nostr is just a pile of sad code.


A few thoughts on free will.

Free will involves self sovereignty, from the simplest of organisms to the more advanced species.

When we ask if free will exists, we are asking if sovereignty and free agency is possible.

Free will can be viewed as a spectrum, from low degrees of sovereignty to higher capacity for autonomy.

If we are intoxicated, our freedom of deliberation is clearly impacted. If we had a brain implant that forced us to carry out someone else's command, we would basically have zero free will, hence no sovereignty.

Considering this spectrum then, from lower to higher degrees of sovereignty, it makes sense to define the higher echelons of self sovereignty as free will, as contrasted by its opposite; complete subjugation to the will of another.

If I would sum up the arguments against free will, in the most favorable way I could steel-man it, what I hear is this: you are the sum of your parts. Hence you must act within the confines of your personality.

This does not contradict the definition of free will as self-sovereignty. We are free to build and change our inner environment to our heart's content. We are free to build positive or negative responses to our experiences. We are free to explore any subject and press beyond our previous boundaries. This doesn't mean that we are without flaws and limitations, just that we have the potential to be sovereign.

We know that colors exist because we can observe a whole spectrum of colors that can be differentiated. Saying that colors doesn't exist gives us no practival advantage when we are dealing with colors, quite the contrary.

Free will is a spectrum that defines the extent of our self sovereignty and free agency. It makes little sense to claim that sovereignty and individual autonomy doesn't exist, unless we want sovereignty to not exist.

It would be a disastrous mistake to claim that an obedient cog-in-the-wheel, who is requiered to follow its commands without the chance of refusing, is equivalent to a free-willed individual with the capacity to break free from its bonds and challenge every command.

Free will exists because we can observe a spectrum of free agency and the more of it we have, the more sovereign we are.

Free agency exists.
The opposite is slavery.


Yes, decisions must be made with a cool temper. However, if we go back to classical battles, the time when the light and mobile units are charging the enemy and causing them to flee is not a fully rational operation but a flow that overcomes mental barriers of what is possible. The opposing army flee because they meet with the overwhelming force of an avalanche coming their way, a force of nature.


Congrats, hope for the best.


You are the entity sorting your thoughts, arranging, restructuring, testing, evaluating, considering and meditating.


FinCEN’s proposal to outlaw all crypto privacy is a huge overreach. They apply a section of the Patriot Act on a “class of transactions” in a new precedent. Doesn’t matter if it’s custodial or noncustodial- merely using certain type of code can be an illegal act.

People are caught by the potential spot ETF, meanwhile this is proposed. Now they fight you.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/fincen-wants-to-outlaw-certain-bitcoin-on-chain-transactions/


Both attachment and detachment are important. Balance is knowing when to engage each.


Love this idea from Lugano Plan B

Free Assange

Freedom stairs https://image.nostr.build/bb5e95a2ec273f631c6b6bb5ee9b37dc8863b229a445db8b028dc916320433d8.jpg


Ironically, the only place where they would be allowed to tattoo themselves like this, is in a society with some amount of free markets (free agency).


It's the same battle.

Truth can only emerge in a free marketplace of ideas.


Yes, apart from meditation, this is also a fair description of what programming teaches; to put aside our assumptions and look at what works vs what doesn't work based on experimentation. To not invest all our emotions into something prematurely before we have tested it. Evaluating a theory based on its practical results rather than its appearance.

Also in modeling, the mind is trained to observe, rotate, interact and become one with the process of modeling that particular thing you are modeling, to align with its nature from a perspective of curiosity.

Curiosity is the best path before assumptions.


Trying to get my fiat fren Christine to join #Nostr. Any ideas?

#Bitcoin #Plebchain #asknostr

https://image.nostr.build/40da2cefc958cb702c57e6323d17eb6477abe7988ea4406bb7e3d0bca2b259df.jpg


Ouch.
Tough love lessons I see. 😄


Nice work by Yury, well balanced.


Lightning ⚡, Liquid 🌊, and good old on-chain #Bitcoin all in one place. nostr:npub1excellx58e497gan6fcsdnseujkjm7ym5yp3m4rp0ud4j8ss39js2pn72a talks nostr:npub1ajlrwgfj4yerhqf7ady03h7wmtk2qr3gs7h3sxcx83k05yld36sswpzx3q and why its unique capabilities will make it the ideal wallet to orange pill your friends.

Besides swaps, what AQUA feature are you looking forward to the most? 👀
https://v.nostr.build/YvWq.mp4


Welcome. I used to participate on Reddit a long time ago. What I didn't like was the downvote function that got increasingly abused by political activists.

I got kicked out from a subreddit I had been on for years for simply replying on a controversial thread and arguing for decentralization as a path forward.

At that point, there was just so many political activists that had overrun the place that it didn't seem a meaningful use of my time.

Here on Nostr we don't have downvotes and nobody can cancel you. People can mute you (block) although this doesn't prevent you from participating, you are just not visible to them. (Unless they click 'show message' on your note)

We are a happy bunch of liberty-addicts.


Predicting emergent, complex behavior on an honest ledger is extremely difficult if you’re measuring it from a dishonest, manipulated ledger.

#Bitcoin
#Nostr


Hey Jack! Reddit rugged their Moons token used by the /r/Cryptocurrency subreddit. Moons were essentially community points on Ethereum. They gained traction this past year and even got listed on Kraken. Lots of people started to buy them, trade them, horde them, etc. Reddit announced recently that they were sunsetting the program and all of the whales dumped their bags. Lots of people feel betrayed.

So, I figured that since these users appreciated creating content and getting paid for it, why not tell them about Nostr, highlight Zaps, and how we're building a value for value decentralized economy here.

I made a post on Reddit in their cryptocurrency subreddit. It's currently at 50K views and 400 comments. It's doing really well. I've been answering questions all afternoon and on-boarding people to Nostr. 🤙🏻💜🫂

Pura vida.


This is gold.

#Bitcoin fixes the money which is the root cause of all the problems we have today. https://image.nostr.build/f07188978f296c0cd27116c28fdc42ea840a8b9888ea07a0559404027319bef7.jpg


My expectations for every update:

Less RAM
More surveillance

Yippee..


Charging $1 a year to Tweet and Retweet may not seem like a lot, however optics matter. It sets the stage to charge more in the future, it makes the service no longer free, and most importantly, it makes Twitter no longer the public square where anyone is able to freely talk - a point in which Elon likes to state, but continues to erode.

While on the NOSTR we happily Zap developers more than $1 worth of sats quite often and some could agree that it's a similar task to paying a measily 4000 sats, it's not. It's not a requirement. It's not forced. The NOSTR is completely free and open. The openness is the difference. The NOSTR is the public square.

 https://fortune.com/2023/10/17/twitter-x-charging-new-users-1-dollar-year-to-tweet/


Bitcoin adoption:

Bitcoin de-funds moneyprinting in the U.S.
Bitcoin de-funds moneyprinting in Russia.
Bitcoin de-funds moneyprinting in China.
Bitcoin de-funds moneyprinting in Africa.
Bitcoin de-funds moneyprinting in Australia.
Bitcoin de-funds moneyprinting in India.
Bitcoin de-funds moneyprinting in S. America.
Bitcoin de-funds moneyprinting in Europe.
Bitcoin de-funds moneyprinting in Israel.
Bitcoin de-funds moneyprinting in Middle East.

Bitcoin is a neutral force of nature defunding the economic capacity for extended wars across all nations and continents.

Wars end when the funding ends.


Bitcoin’s design:
Even if people are only in for „number go up“ and don’t care about human rights their participation strengthens the system and makes „freedom go up“ for those, who need it.
 - nostr:npub1tjkc9jycaenqzdc3j3wkslmaj4ylv3dqzxzx0khz7h38f3vc6mls4ys9w3

#BitcoinTwitter
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Yes. The flow of causality will have its way regardless of our opinions. Good principles are more likely to lead to favorable outcomes vs flawed principles and we will rather seek to calibrate our principles toward a better flow of events.


"The Adjustment Bureau"


5. The Adjustent Bureau (2011)

Not exactly that plot theme but similar. This is also a memorable movie.


4. "12:01 PM" (1993)

This was also a good movie on the theme.


I found a new usecase for ChatGPT:
Finder of forgotten movies.

I described the plot of a man who wakes up every morning and relives the same day, over and over again. After asking 3 times and narrowing down the year of production, GPT got it right. Source Code from 2011 was what I was looking for.

In case anyone is interested:

1. Groundhog day (1993)
2. Edge of tomorrow (2014)
3. Source Code (2011)


My wife says Trzecia Droga wanted all Polish to be obligatory vaccinated. They are pro Agenda2030 climate alarmism.


Trzecia Droga are left-wing.
You can call the turd drug.😄


Well written, I agree.

Just read it quickly for now but will re-read in a while.


Meme credit: Thomas/Heyapollo

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Meme credit: Trent Steele

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Final results of the Polish election 2023. While the conservative PiS recieved most votes, Poland might see a left-wing and pro-EU coalition under Tusk.

The Left in Poland have previously argued for mandatory mRNA injections for all. The conservative liberty-oriented party Konfederacja is against vaccine mandates but only received 7% (18 seats) in the election. Due to hostilities between PiS and Konfederacja, it is unlikely that they will be able to collaborate in the near future.

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Youth on MetaFace in the year 2060:

- I'm not a number, I'm a free man!
Contact me at FreeMan37187112.


Correction: European lefties.


Let's start here:

“Yet a closer look at the alleged benefits of intellectual property shows that they have been massively exaggerated."

If he claims that the benefits are "alleged', then this informs me about some of his assumptions.

Intellectual property is about property rights. Property rights are the benefit. The right of authors, product developers, game developers and musicians to own the fruits of their labor is not anything 'alleged'.

The core of IP is to protect products, not ideas. IP is primarily about securing the rights to commercially distribute products that you have crrated. Without IP, the game developer has no right to own his/her game and to own the commercial distribution of it. Hence, no property rights to the fruits of his/her labor.

The abuse of IP is in regards to protecting ideas, features, words and such. That is abusive red tape. It should be possible to condemn abuse and overreach without dismissing IP.

In a fully free market the primary means of protecting IP would be via reputation. One can respect people's right to own their product, and their commercial distribution,without assuming that we must have a monopoly structure that secures IP. Enforcement is separate from the theory of rights.


Seems like a very shallow take where he leaves out the positive aspects of IP and only focuses on the red tape overreach.

I agree with cutting away the harmful aspects of IP, but I can't take him seriously until he treats the subject seriously.


Thank you.

I decided to go over my book markings and wrote a short overview of how I interpret Locke's position:

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A brief exploration on Locke's position on both slavery and property rights.

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"Slavery is so vile and miserable an estate of man, and so directly opposite to the generous temper and courage of our nation, that it is hardly to be conceived that an "Englishman" much less a "gentleman" should plead for it." (Two Treatises Of Government, part 1, chapter 1.1)
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I would say that this introduction to his book gives a clear oposition against slavery. While he is also simultaneously patting his fellow Englishmen on the back with assumed virtues, I would read this flattery as a form of sugar to allow the medicine of the message to sink down. He makes an allusion to gentlemen and sets a determined tone that anyone aspiring to be a civilized English gentleman, must not argue in favor of slavery.

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"The fruit or venison which nourishes the wild Indian, who knows no enclosure, and is still a tenant in common, must be his, and so his -- i.e., a part of him, that another can no longer have any right to it before it can do him any good for the support of his life." (Two Treatises Of Government, part 2, chapter 5.26, page 129)
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This seems to be a general acknowledgement of some form of 'first right of land use' to american natives in regards to their territories, including both that which grows and the animals of the land. Locke was living in Europe and he seems to have only given the subject a cursory glance. But if we follow his next principles, we can keep in mind that he attributed the same rights of property to all humans.

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"Every man has a "property" in his own "person". This nobody has any right to but himself. The "labour" of his body and the "work" of his hands, we may say, are properly his. (Chapter 5.27, page 130)
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Following the meaning of this statement, it becomes evident that slavery is an attack against property rights - an attack against the right of every human to own themselves and to own the fruits of their labor. Slavery understandably disallows a man the fruits of his labor.

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"As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivates, and can use the product of, so much is his property."
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While this is an incomplete definition that leaves room for interpretation, it seems it would include native americans using land for cattle hunting, foraging and homesteading. If he fails to describe all manners of land use I wouldn't assume that his intention was to dispossess other people living on another continent from himself, but that it would more likely be an omission based on his cursory treatment of this narrow subject. He assumes that natives have the same property rights as everyone else, so it isn't something he dwells on.

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"Men living together according to reason without a common superior on earth, with authority to judge between them, is properly the state of Nature.

But force, or a declared design of force upon the person of another, where there is no common superior on earth to appeal to for relief, is the state of war" (Section 2, chapter 3.19, page 126)
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So, what did Locke mean with a state of war?

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"And hence it is that he who attempts to get another man into his absolute power does thereby put himself into a state of war with him." (Section 2, chapter 3.17, page 125)
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Next, another similar passage:

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"So he who makes an attempt to enslave me thereby puts himself into a state of war with me." (Chapter 3.17)
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"It being reasonable and just I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction" (Chapter 3.16)
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This is clearly a general defense of anyone who is being abused, to have the right to stand up against the abuse and enter into a state of war against the aggressor.

To sum up, contrary to some claims that Locke was hostile to native americans, I think that Locke's principles would have supported the rights of american natives to fight back - to enter a state of war - if their liberty and natural rights to use their land was at stake.

Thank you for reading.


If I consider his rather strong position against slavery and his controversial defense against exploitation, via his term 'state of war' against oppressors, then I find it hard to believe that he would want to dispossess people. It seems that such a task would be more fitting for the philosophers of his time that he criticized.


🧠’s https://image.nostr.build/43b37b8c062f1c39550f2bc76b4aa97e6bec286c4e50edbc17a8d05716c63fcb.jpg


Locke's approach to property rights was an early attempt at a definition, demonstrating that we can own a house, property, some land that we worked, but we can't own other people.

There are naturally flaws in his definitions of property, yet he was one of the first philosphers to clarify a consistent position against human slavery. Socrates dared at most to suggest that Greeks should not enslave fellow Greeks, and that was perhaps bordering a controversial stance at his time.


Good question. Regional settlership I assume. Roots. Connection to the land. Generations born or buried on the land.


Awesome. 🧡


A monopoly in money creation is a more terrifying weapon than Sauron's Master Ring.


In my view, music, art and poetry are streams of life experience from the author to the recipient.

We may vibe with it, or we may not. On the surface there are some objective properties and some subjective qualities.

Yet, at the end of the day we feel it in the gut when something reaches into us and connects, across the bridge between one mind and another, across time and space.

Music and art that vibe with us at a deeper level is akin to the Interstellar scene, where a father communicates with his daughter via physics from a place far, far away, seemingly against all logic and reason, and yet they connect.


GM beautiful Nostriches ☀

Freedom is winning
#Bitcoin is winning

Building on protocols is the future

Bitcoiners are pioneering an unstoppable movement towards a better world

Thank you all for what you do

I Love you ❤


Violence is their product.

And Bitcoin sucks the soul out of violence.


Yes.

In the view of John Locke, the initial state of the world was a free-for-all in terms of land grab. Then as we mixed our labor with the soil, it became ours. That which we worked on and improved, was our property.

Warfare introduced a different ownership mechanic: the winner writes the rules. As warlords conquered regions, they primarily forced taxation upon the subjects, while later they would also coerce religious conversion. Contested land and property was always a trigger for warfare.

As empires grew, civilization and innovations spread more rapidly. With higher energy density new methods of production could catapult innovation.

As our capacity to prosper increased, ethics begged the question - why do we need to conquer, when we can trade? Trade is the voluntary exchange of property.

Yet, our new ethics has no simple answer of how to address historical claims through conquest. Land so and so was conquered, then people mixed their work with the land and it became their property over time. We end up inheriting a complex weave of centuries and millennia, with people mixing their work with the land.


Maybe, Daniel.

(AI voice)


This quote from Feynman met some critique on the blue/x bird in relation to quantum theory.

To that I would like to respond that the mechanics of allegory is not dependent on quantum theory.

One obvious point of Feynman's allegory is that ethical direction is more important than velocity. Going at full speed toward destruction is not a preferable outcome, while heading slowly in a favorable direction is still progress, or improvement.

If we continue the argument, progressivism is the assumption that about half of a population can define the optimal trajectory of improvement. How could that possibly be biased. Of course it is. We can't assume that a vote will perfectly determine the nature of reality or ethics.


I think both the religious and atheists attempt to align with the universe and its principles based on their understanding, while involving a great spectrum of human assumptions.

For some that is God, for others it's simply reality.

The positive path is the message that truth and reality always wins. This in turn imposes a moral imperative to calibrate, error-correct and align with truth.

In short, this explains why confidence, i.e. faith, in the victory of truth over time is evolutionary important. A deep rejection of a 1984 society, or in the religious sense 'mark of the beast', is a pivotal battle line.


I forgot that you are on the x-blue-bird. Yes, I agree. Here's Mike's response:

https://twitter.com/memcculloch/status/1713857342289137670


Mike McCulloch, my mistake.


Very interesting Lauren.

I asked physicist Mike Mccolloch (Quantized Inertia theorist) a minute ago if insects may have developed some form of anti-gravity QI thrust.

Mike's response:

"I'm aware of him, thx. It is not impossible that insects may have evolved a #QI nanostructure to give a little levity. Not proven of course, and some of G's claims were a little out there!"


Direction is more important than speed.

// Richard Feynman


Yes, I would like to hear his position on intellectual property rights.


*distribute. Late night fat finger.


Yes. And this also addresses the value of intellectual property. Without voluntary contracts and licenses, and without product-developers owning the right to commercially distrubute their products to cover the costs of production, that production may not see the light of day.

May we also get rid of the overreaching IP laws that attempt to monopolize ideas, words and features. A product is IP, while an idea or feature must not be IP.


Freezing bank accounts
Printing money
Quantitative easing
Quantitative tightening
Raising rates
Increasing debt
Abolishing income tax

They’re pulling on all the levers of the legacy system with a desperation never seen before. Failure is imminent.

Buy #Bitcoin. Opt out.


Ah, dawn.


Fantastic sunset.


The current Argentinian government’s ploy to abolish income tax and prevent Milei from being elected president just accelerates the failure of the legacy system. If they can abolish it in an instant, they can reinstate in an instant. I hope the people of Argentina see through it. It’s all a game. If you can make “ultrasound money,” you can undo it just as easily.


“The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.”

// H.L. Mencken


Yes, it's tragic. When two groups of people can't live together in peace there needs to be some form of territorial divorce. I wonder why the surrounding Arab states claim to be supportive of palestinians, yet have no willingness to accomodate them. Egypt reinforcing the border to Gaza to make it harder for palestinians to enter.


#meme #memestr

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Absolutely agree, Karnage.


It has been a tragic avalanche of violence unfolding. Yet if we point to the start of the avalanche many will say; but what about further down?

I acknowledge the rights of jews and palestinians to live safe from harm, and this probably requires two separate regions and jurisdictions.

The U.N. partitioning of land after WW2 caused deep enmities that are hard to solve. In Turkey, the Kurds ended up without a Kurdistan, which would have included small parts of Iran, Iraq and Syria, iirc.

Historically Judea was renamed Palestine under the Roman occupation. For some reason the left have insisted that the people who lived in Judea before the Roman occupation are new occupants. I acknowledge that the history is complex, but the Hamas sloganeering that jews should be removed from the river to the sea is deeply troubling. That's not an acceptable outcome.


Allen Farrington:

"when you go from the UK to the US and you sell your pounds for dollars, you aren’t “speculating”, you’re just pretty sure the people there are gonna prefer them in exchange for stuff.

bitcoin is like that except when you are going to the future."


Not bad as a starting point. The tattoo artist can likely adapt them to a good tattoo based on the references.


Agreed. Yet I often hear people throw around the term 'statist', but it doesn't form an argument by itself.

I don't have a problem with individuals voluntarily forming a state. If I respect their voluntary statehood, then that would be enough to make me a 'statist'. I.e. respect for voluntarism becomes statism.

Being practical, I think the idea of complete anarchy is interesting and deserving to be tested, but I can't assume that it will work before the code is run and evaluated, so to speak.

If we have a plethora of small jurisdictions competing for capital, entrepreneurs, skills and workers, that would be a perfectly fine voluntarist solution, even though it qualifies as 'statist'.


I meant to write 'opinion- and behavior engineering', to be more precise.


I'm sure we will see subscription models on Nostr if we don't already have that, paid in sats of course.

The problem is getting the traffic to Nostr to make zaps + subscriptions matter. I'm sure we will get there eventually.

Twitter/X will likely evolve into a social credit system in the coming years, since an 'everything app' is a giant honeypot for government opinion-engineering.


Absolutely. I was discussing this topic on another platform and for me the most compelling angle is the liberty dimension.

#Bitcoin is an investment in liberty.
That's the only investment we truly need.


A few reasons why Bitcoin is not an investment.

Bitcoin represents a gradual replacement of the catastrophic fiat money monopoly, based on inflation (expansion of the money supply).

Buying Bitcoin is a vote for neutral money that can't be printed, corrupted or confiscated.

Bitcoin is the 'sly roundabout way' by which property rights can be secured in the 21st century, without relying on or trusting a State, corporation or third party.

It represents individuals owning the fruits of their labor, in contrast to owning government-issued coupons that can be frozen and confiscated at any time. This is particularly true in light of Fiat 2.0: CBDC's.

As hard money outcompetes inflationary money over time, and as millions of people align with property rights for all on an open, decentralized network, we both avoid the emergence of a 1984 society, are able to decentralize power and in addition benefit from the network effect of replacing corrupt money.

The long term network effect of replacing corrupt money is prosperity and higher spending power of each unit of money.

Liberty and property rights for all just happens to lead to prosperity. Freedom is more profitable than slavery.

Hence, investing in liberty is the real investment.


Hitting your kids just teaches them that coercion & violence are justified if someone makes them angry & that you just have to be bigger & stronger & have some position of authority to get your way.

Parental abuse is the root cause of violent cops & other forms of govt tyranny.

https://i.nostrimg.com/e6d69c1d091f40d48accf78ec77e45008346da0c4f237e4417748372bdd9aeb4/file.jpg


If anarchy involves voluntarism, and voluntarism allows free association, it seems to me that free association leads to at least small jurisdictions due to competitive benefits. Minarchism therefore seems as a more likely goal to move toward.

1. Individuals form families
2. Individuals form communities
3. Individuals congregate into towns or cities

The anarchist term 'statist' simply denounces the voluntary congregation of individuals into a jurisdiction.

Personally I believe in small, competing jurisdictions, between the size of a town, upward to the size of a municipality or county.

We can never solve deep divides such as the matter of abortions. The only possible outcome that I see is having competing jurisdictions either allowing or disallowing abortion, while adults vote with their feet.

In terms of practical matters of defense, that's a more complex dimension since it involves future uncertainty, which will differ from geographical regions.


Leo Tolstoy on #Bitcoin 🧡☮✌😂🤣😂 https://image.nostr.build/714cf04e9c58f0a131d0dc0e7ed195d0d3ce3b9b6e46c953e90c10a0ca6a9f3e.jpg


Nostr is the integration of free speech and free trade.

It’s a world changing idea.

- nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9


On this day 5 YEARS ago…

Jamie Dimon: If you are STUPID enough to buy bitcoin, you’ll pay the price for it one day.

Bitcoin price: $5,128 💫

#bitcoin https://video.nostr.build/edcdea7b3b414c6fe8bd6214790f75765bbf2a46b301d48c000a97f55ddc453c.mov


Revenge of the Sith I meant, I have recently quit coffee. 😄


Interesting, I wasn't aware.
Luke was also initially named Starkiller, iirc.

I wrote an analysis of Return of the Sith and the corruption path of Anakin, if anyone is interested:

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So grateful for this man. https://youtu.be/H-fQ7i8q5C8


nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9 is bullish on nostr.

https://youtu.be/H-fQ7i8q5C8


Eva Vlaardingerbroek:

“If you don’t see the upside of [Bitcoin]…then why would you be here?

Why aren’t you at some ETHEREAN conference or something?…

I’m really eager to become a FULL BLOWN bitcoiner. LASER EYES, EVERYTHING, LETS GO!”

LFG! 🚀🚀🚀
#bitcoin https://video.nostr.build/0ca344687579e9205e920063b6ae5b31d4072f850a18887313b91ed0c3aac0c7.mov


Bitcoin makes everything feel better.

I stopped with coffee recently, had cut it down to half a cup before. It feels as if I wake up more rested now, as many coffee quitters have reported, though it's too early to tell.


Can be tough. Where I lived close to the sea in Norway, many apartments available for a reasonable rent had mould, even some expensive ones. Have had my share of bad apartments over the years. On the positive side, more sats saved.


Yup, not good at all.


I'd like to follow Stella Assange, do we have any confirmation that the account belongs to her?


Alignment to reality trumps intelligence.

The practical results of not aligning with reality is always detrimental over time.

This is one of the reasons why we say that Bitcoin is for everyone. Aligning with reality is not the exclusive privilege of the theoretical class or the pedestal-born.

Reality is the compass.

To be fully to the point, this statement is not about favoring any political viewpoint.

I respect sovereign individuals to form their own conclusions. Our conclusions are tested over time by reality.

It is not up to us to be arbiters of truth;
reality is the final arbiter.

At the end of the day, even a cat or a dog can be more reality-aligned than a prestigious academic. A child with a modest IQ can reject imaginary genders as evidently false while a professor with a genious IQ can fall into a theoretical trap for decades, or even longer. The pivotal point is the reality alignment, not the IQ.

The intersection between theory and hard reality is engineering, with truth as its sole guide. Bitcoin therefore appeals to both the theoretical and the practical mind, where theory and real world results overlap in a natural flow of truth.


Beware of exchanges that are not doing anything to advance #Bitcoin adoption, for they may have sold Bitcoin that wasn’t theirs or that even didn’t exist. Remember SBF/FTX fudding Bitcoin? He was motivated to do so because he had to keep the price down.


Assange: "Nearly every war that has started in the past fifty years has been a result of media lies"
https://video.nostr.build/53052de950430274d48285da4145c1569a1e87cea14882dfe40c1fdc069cb993.mp4


You may have a point technically, perhaps a different scenario can highlight your point better.

We are not responsible if someone we know gets hacked or change their views. Those are not our opinions.

The media will happily portray someone as a bad person via guilt-by-association, but that is true regardless.


Soaring growth in the African Bitcoin ecosystem 🚀

20+ new entrants in just 3 months!
https://void.cat/d/VdoSA2KnVNYGprHWjuV2aH.webp


“Capitalism weaponizes human reason in the service of innovations that benefit humanity, and it rewards it to the extent it succeeds. If fiat allows governments to capture the beating heart of civilization, capitalism is the brain fighting back by incentivizing reason to find a solution to this problem.”

Principles Of Economics by nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak

https://saifedean.com/poe


I would add that a free market is free agency and property rights for all. Following the ideas of John Locke, every individual owns themselves, their mind, body and the fruits of their labor.

The process of a free market is voluntarism and competition, without the initiation of the use of force.

Following from this, central banking and moneyprinting is a corruption of capitalism, an inversion of a free market.

Under a free market there is competition in money and individuals are free to choose, without pressure or coercion, the money that serves them best. Over time, hard, neutral money that can't be printed will be favored in the market due to the inflation of the printable monopoly money. The demand for worthless paper will trend toward zero.

This is not an instant process under a system of exploitative central planning. Because in a central planning system there is always deep uncertainty regarding what kind of new, oppressive regulations might be waiting around the corner. This uncertainty of how the government's use of force is going to impact markets in the future will naturally cause irrationality and misallocation of capital.

Bitcoin solves the problem of moneyprinting and central banks, over time, by outcompeting them and making their monopoly money irrelevant.

As moneyprinting becomes less and less profitable for the exploitative class, wars will no longer have limitless funding and citizens will reject paying for extensive wars via taxation. When the costs of war increases and it can no longer be used as a profitable machinery of governmental money laundering, the case for warfare becomes a difficult narrative to manage.


"The moral justification of capitalism is man’s right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself."

    – Ayn Rand

Definitely more than one moral justification for capitalism, but this is certainly a top one.


Privacy is not secrecy.

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#Bitcoin rewards those that think for themselves.


When we buy a cd, we are agreeing to buy the cd + the accompanying license that allows us full personal use of that CD, but not the right to commercially produce more of those CD's to sell. We can do whatever we want with the CD, but we have not bought a license to sell new copies of it.


That's not what I said though.

Intellectual property is the claim of a product developer to own the commercialization of that product.

If you develop a product and I want to sell your product to the market, we enter into a voluntary deal to accomplish that.

If I just start producing your product commercially without a deal with you, then I'm operating on the fraudulent (non-voluntary) side of things.


Intellectual property is that, and more.

It is the right to commercially produce the product you have developed.


You are wasting my time.

Of course the CD information is sellable. You can literally print and sell CD's from that information.

However, if you don't have a commercial license, i.e. a deal with the IP owner to sell that product, but still decide to print and sell those albums,  then you are operating on the fraudulent side, which in a free market results in a loss of reputation.


You are evading the subject and making nonsensical claims.

How is a book or an album not sellable?


Again you are avoiding the subject.

A CD is intellectual property because you can produce an endless number of copies.

When you buy a CD, you have not entered into a voluntary contract with the artist to sell that product commersially. You have instead bought a license to own that product for personal use.

Same with buying a book. Owning a book does not give us the right to print that book and sell the copies on the market. We need to enter into a partnership with the product developer if we have commersial goals.


Imposing?

A license is a voluntary agreement between a seller and buyer. The type of license determines the price. A license to commersially sell an album will be much more expensive than a license to own your own copy of that album.

I am questioning individuals that don't believe in voluntarism.


I don't believe in copyrighting features.


I would say that you fundamentally don't understand what intellectual property means.

The 3D model that I have modeled is the intellectual property, just as a book or a music album is intellectual property. I will explain how it works.

For example, if you buy a book, it comes with a license to do what you want with that book, except for printing and selling it for profit. Same with the music album.

If you buy a 3D model, you either buy it at a cheap price with a standard license, which grants you full right to 3D print it for your private use. This however is not the same as a commercial license to produce and sell a product.

In regards to upholding intellectual property, that is a different matter. As a free market proponent I believe that reputation is the best arbiter in most cases. If I rip someone off, my reputation will suffer.


First of all your definition is incomplete, ergo false.

Intellectual property is that which you create. When you write a book, compose a song or sculpt a sculpture, that is your intellectual property.

Below is a helmet I have modeled in 3D. It is my intellectual property. This doesn't prevent you from modeling your own helmet like this.

In a free market, intellectual property is primarily arbited via reputation. If I steal your book and publish it under my name, the market will likely find this out and my reputation takes a hit.

Instead of attacking intellectual property, adress the far-reaching regulations and extreme forms of IP laws where companies can copyright mere words.

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Yup.

The underlying problem is government + central bank moneyprinting. Without fixing that first, wages can never keep up with cost of living.

Moneyprinting is like a time-bomb, obliterating all wealth until it migrates toward hard money.


Seems sufficient as it is, well balanced.


“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation.”

- George Orwell


1980'ies reference:

It feels like your memory is a VHS tape that expands out from the video casette in chaotic whirls of misfiring synapses.


Heh. 😄 Yes, it's a memorable movie. It feels like you are watching two different films at the same time and they start to overlap into a stream of impressions where the time dimension is glitching and looping.


Rewatched Mulholland Drive today. (David Lynch, 2001)

Hadn't seen it in 15+ years and it felt fresh.

A blue key unlocking a memory that is seemingly gone. It evokes the feeling of being locked out of your apartment, with only a thin door separating you from normality. An insignificant barrier, yet sufficient to keep you out. Our memories are our fibrous, neural connection to that which is.

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As I outlined above, the history of the area is not a rainbow unicorn story.

The Persian kings conquered neighboring tribes. The Greeks under Alexander the Great conquered Persian cities. Later the Romans governed the area, under which Jews lived in Judea under Roman laws. Yet later the Ottomans gained control, and so forth.

The partitions after WW2 was a centrally planned allocation of land that ended up causing millions of people to not have an official homeland.

Whatever we think of historical or military claims to the region, cultural roots and religious roots, the WW2 partitioning borders have left deep conflicts in the area that are not easily solved.


The region has a long and complex history. From early Persian kings, Alexander the Great, Ottomans, later UK claims, Balfour declaration, WW2, and then partitions after the second world war. Add historical claims to the list. The borders that were drawn up after WW2 left millons of people without a homeland.


You guys know what to do! nostr:note1a3rz520f5y83lxvjdlheu98vadcvcc5nzlfaylfqu0ge5cup852qz5kg4v


zbd is not nostr.
you have been fooled by a KYC app to let them have your keys and therefore the privilege of reading all your DMs and post as you forever while locking you in and not being actually decentralized.

your account is compromised.


Repeating vs. learning.

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100%.

One of the worst features of central planning that causes a torrent of economic instability, is the uncertainty of a 'flexible' monetary system where the rules can change at any time and we can't predict the future supply of money. Such a system will inevitably lead to misallocation and false price signals.

The reason why Bitcoin is successful lies in the carefully designed protocol, including the supply limit to under 21 million bitcoin. Other coins have tried more 'elastic' approaches and they can't attract capital to the same degree for a reason. Capital allocation requires certainty in fixed rules, voluntarily consented to, that applies to everyone and which can't be bent under pressure. Good architecture requires exactly that - reliability and predictability.


Pay attention to the words used here.

Optimal level = subjective
More effective = subjective
Real-world needs = subjective

Bad actors will inevitably want to co-opt #Bitcoin and turn it into something they can control by adding vague subjective requirements.

We already have that with fiat money and it’s clear that experiment has failed.

Bitcoin’s value lies in its resistance to subjective determinations and the whims of weak minded individuals. https://image.nostr.build/e786c4ae5d1eb4a1d614fdc05968a8568892bed18eee739636468f1596397267.jpg


Both the system Left and the system Right have unnerving totalitarian values.

Over 40% of Democrats wanted to send the unvaccinated to camps in January 2022, with just over 20% of Republicans agreeing.

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A good standard is to work 95% in silence and be picky about what to mention.


😅🤣

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Looking great. 👍


In just over 100 hours of work, I have completed my drawing 'Bitcoin - The Safe Haven' with block 806555.

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Nooooo!

The gender code is binary!

Call the programmers to fix it! 😄


Yup!

And the hilarious part is that in gender-bender Sweden, we only have one word for sex/gender: kön.

We don't even differentiate between them because they are the same thing.


When you go to cbase in Berlin and people are paying for drinks with their bitcoin nfc rings on an LNbits android PoS 🍻
This has made my month 🤯

https://video.nostr.build/6746b5d689a9e5e9138076ab9f45d8545432c1bed95ad34fe6e25f73edbcb48c.mp4


Agreed. I would say 'individuals with lacking competence'. Value is a complex term with a plethora of meanings.


It is the only way for incompetent people to gain power. I believe it is why so many were so quick to follow COVID mandates. All of a sudden they got to sit at desks at the hockey rink, deciding who could and could not enter. They got to play “spy” on their neighbours and report their whereabouts. They got to peek over fences to see if there were too many people in their neighbour’s backyards.

The scary thing is, the world is rife with incompetent individuals who crave power over others.


Spot on. 👍

The best asslickers are unrivalled in their narrow domain of specialization, simply because it's their only path to power and influence.


A good heuristic for separating the shallow from the deep is paying attention to who gets mad when you ask them honest questions about what they support or believe.

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Bitcoin is the future of money and it's not worth gambling with.

I met a guy some years ago who had bought a full bitcoin at $100 in the past and then he sold it at 5x. That must have seemed like a great trade then and there, but zooming out we can acertain that it was not.

Trading is particularly treacherous because small amounts don't make a dent, and large amounts involves dangerous gambling.


Agreed. Add then the cost-benefit calculation involved. As GPU hardware gets outdated every few years, it is expensive to keep replacing decent GPU's with new GPU's, simply because of a few titles that require them.

The resulting pushback will be gradual, but people have more important priorities than to play complex, overhyped games that inevitably involve microtransactions and require the time of a second job when it comes to multiplayer titles.

The pushback then, is back to basics and also back to the outdoors, similar to how we lived in the 1980'ies and 1990'ies, with some extra dimensions of technology available at an ad-hoc use.


Well said.

Truth wins in the end because reality wins in the end.

This is true in the same sense that in programming, functional code wins over dysfunctional code, over time.

Align with the universe as it is, and you stand on the right side of truth.


I was asked on dinosaur social media why I am critical of IP laws and why I don't want to legislate against AI art.

I support intellectual property in the free market sense where arbitration is primarily achieved via reputation. Steal someone's art and your reputation suffers.

However, I see massive dangers in having the government regulate art and software.

1. Let's say that I publish an artwork somewhere that I created. My artwork is mine but it is not registered in a database anywhere.

2. Someone else right-click and save my artwork and then proceed to register it as their own artwork at a central art authorization platform.

I can't prevent anyone else from registering my artwork as theirs, and unless I know they are registering my artwork as theirs, I can't file a complaint.

So now, my artwork belong to someone else, unless I can file a successful complaint.

Let's continue this further:

In order to protect my artwork then, I need to send every artwork I make to a central authorization platform, before anyone else sends it there.

The central authorization platform would be necessary in order to detect and prevent unlawful use of someone's art.

However..

This forces me as an artist into a system where I have to trust this central authorization platform to be in charge of basically all my artworks, from cradle to grave.

Let's consider this for some moments.
What can possibly go wrong here.

What if this centralized system of authorization gets corrupted?

What if my access to this system requires me to log in with a digital ID?

What if my access is terminated for political reasons?

This is just scratching the surface.

A centralized system of art copyright authorization comes with a host of *deep* problems that are far from obvious or unproblematic. Anyone underestimating these problems have not given them much thought.

First of all, why should I as an artist be forced to register my artwork in a central database? And yes, I would be forced, since if I don't, someone else can register my artwork as theirs.

When that database is tied to digital ID, I'm stuck in a system that I have to trust, even if I most likely can't trust that system and have every reason to expect it to be corrupted.

3. Identification of unauthorized use of art.

When a central authorization database is set up, it is toothless without a system to detect breaches of intellectual property laws.

So, how will unauthorized use of art be detected?

This requires monitoring (surveillance). All regulations require monitoring to be efficient. There is no point of a regulation if it can't be enforced.

Therefore, all regulations will be increasingly enforced via monitoring, as the technology for monitoring improves.

Next; regulations on code (software):

4. Regulations on code/software will require very deep intrusions into the workflow of programmers.

It basically requires the government to monitor all software and to authorize software based on a central authorization platform.

The government will then allow or disallow code.

A logical next step is to require all software to be centrally authorized, on the pretext of protecting IP rights. If you have nothing to hide, why would you object?

At this point, government controls all software via the central authorization platform.

What can go wrong here?

5. As an artist I have deep interests in protecting my art from theft or unauthorized use.

However, we live in a society where I clearly can't trust the government or judiciary system to be in charge of my art, just as I can't trust the government to be in charge of money.

So, knowing that I cannot trust the government to not print money and debase the currency via inflation, how can I possibly trust the government with full power over the art I create from cradle to grave?

This is why I oppose IP laws pushing us toward a 1984 dystopia, while I at the same time believe in intellectual property - secured via reputation - not government force.

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Books vs screens.

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#Bitcoin is the only safe haven asset. Period.


George Orwell wrote his book 1984 in 1948. He probably had no specific year in mind other than to reverse the year of its conception.

As I played around with the numbers today, I found an interesting relationship:

1984 - 1948 = 36
1984 + 36 = 2020

2020, as in perfect vision. 2020 as in the year of covid, authoritarianism, lockdowns and censorship.

Probably just a coincidence, yet via simple math Orwell's warning is still ringing relevant. 1984 is the enemy of liberty.


Silence isn’t always empty. Sometimes it’s full of answers. https://image.nostr.build/80228255144a04c0621b72f8e2175b178e4a646106e8a7b3532e375dd48c8840.jpg


This video gives a good overview of why you don't want to get into a knife fight. Best option is to gain a distance and escape. A long wooden board or something equivalent could be useful to maintain distance while looking for an opening to run.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-s7E-PsMJRI&pp=ygUaa25pZmUgZmlnaHQgZGVmZW5zZSBtYXJrZXI%3D


I was not talking of pollution.

If the rich climate alarmists are sent to Pluto, we will have a slight reduction in pollution, but we would have a great reduction in tyranny.


Robert Malone responding to the suggestion that the Nobel prize for inventing the mRNA tech should have been awarded to him, its inventor:

"Probably not because the technology has still not been proven to be safe." / Robert Malone

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The problems of overpopulation can be solved.
Reduce government size.

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Do not underestimate the scarcity of #Bitcoin
https://youtube.com/shorts/2K7abiz-QTg


Good observation.

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In a single day, the US added more than half of #Bitcoin’s entire market cap in debt. That’s something like 10 million BTC. And yet there are still people that are unsure if $27k is a good price to buy. https://image.nostr.build/02e8d0900a5c2c2f9704b1758a2bf1b67e0eea125429e37f8de7e67a4dc79413.jpg


🧡Citadel Islands🧡

Music: nostr:npub1jw63d0ykym7rpd3n6cme7p3rghc77se3ql8drg78p55c5xe3npdscrh29m
Liberty art is #Bitcoin art

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ptSmpBownz4

#Liberty #Art #Bitcoin #NoAIArt #NoAI


Thanks! Great to connect.👍


Nice to meet you Nustr, love your artwork!🧡
Here's a 3D helmet I have designed in Blender.

Liberty art is Bitcoin art.🧡🧡🧡

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I didn't make this meme.

When we see this meme, we associate it with Bitcoin because it represents a vision of liberty, autonomy and sovereignty. We don't need to see the Bitcoin symbol to make the connection.

Liberty art is Bitcoin art

I think many artists often prefer to not incorporate a Bitcoin logo in their piece, since art is supposed to be neutral, a force of nature, just as Bitcoin is neutral, and a force of nature.

We naturally connect a vision of liberty with Bitcoin in our minds, regardless if there is a symbol there that tells us the connrction.

Liberty just is.
Beyond words.
We feel it.

We feel Bitcoin without seeing it in print.


Nice work!


#MakingOf Bitcoin is Love: Lovers Running From Fiat Storm https://video.nostr.build/24be86e949b81fdb9d9ff4992f7faddef97ffae9bd1fa4f1ccac6b4bbff665ce.mov


Excellent work! 👍


ป่า (Forest)
Acrylic on Canvas
Size : 30x40 cm.

#siamstr #artstr #art #paint #acrylicpainting https://image.nostr.build/1cab6856133675abe900222ca066d36ee6e14e7425bc46d20cb93e0d8a83b644.jpg


Not Bitcoin related.
Yet, Bitcoin related.

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I see 3 separate distinctions:

A) Audience focus
B) Content focus
C) Attention content

In the case of A, the audience drives the content. In the case of B, content is published based on interests of the content creator. C would be more attention-oriented content.

It seems that you mix B and C as a single category.


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#meme #memes #memestr #nostrmemes

Some extra, unrelated info for us, the #Bitcoin nerds:
Current block number is 810,244 and the next #halving ETA is 25 Apr 2024 19:20:55 UTC. Tick tock, next block and pura vida, #plebchain fren 🤙💜


I'm probably out on thin ice here, but is the CPU sufficient for the power requirements?


Why Linux is more secure than Windows

Open Source
First, Linux is open source, meaning anyone can view the code. Because of this, Linux does not have malicious tracking or anything that works against you.  Because the code is readily available, Linux gives huge numbers of participants the ability to test security flaws. The operating system improves through the contributions of decentralized individuals looking over the code.  Decentralized open source initiatives then progress through a merit based system, in which changes are adopted as they are shown to be needed.

Windows has less of an organic feedback loop

Linux is in sharp contrast to Microsoft Windows, for which management dictates what changes will take place. With Windows, only those within the company or those that the company hired can view the source code for security flaws. So by trusting Windows, you are essentially betting that these Microsoft employees are better and smarter than the entire rest of the IT community.
Management dictates Windows.  On the other hand with an open source project like Linux, it is a constant feedback loop of the community finding flaws, and then the development teams responding. Linux has good code because it’s stood the test of time of thousands to millions of eyes looking for security flaws in it that were then corrected.
Linux is built by a spontaneous voluntary decentralized ecosystem

It’s unknown what security flaws could be found from looking at Microsoft’s code, but there certainly are many instances of viruses and data breaches in the real world.

Windows is vulnerable to viruses

Linux is more resilient to computer viruses for a number of reasons. In fact, Linux is so secure that you don’t even need anti-virus software. (As an aside, anti-virus software on Windows is another way that you are being spied on. Every file it scans is reported back to the anti-virus company.)
Some say Windows has more viruses because it’s more widely used. This propaganda is only applicable to home users because Linux is actually a LARGER share of the enterprise cloud market. And they don’t get viruses because it’s extremely difficult to compromise.

Windows has a flawed design

Microsoft Windows is vulnerable to viruses by its flawed design of allowing programs either all or nothing access. When you download and run a Windows .exe file, you have to trust the creator because it can do anything once it is run.
In sharp contrast, when you get software from outside the package manager’s approved software, it’s usually an AppImage or Flatpak which are automatically sandboxed only have permissions related to that software itself and not the entire system. However, these sandboxes are relatively weak and not as strong as a full-blown virtual machine for isolation, but it’s still better than Microsoft Windows or nothing.

This AppImage and Flatpak sandbox system helps provide some security but remember it is a weak sandbox so any untrusted software should be run in a full virtual machine. The goal of any sandbox is to stop malicious software from spreading across your entire computer.

Linux software is better vetted

Another way that Linux differs from Microsoft Windows is in how you get applications. Every type of Linux (which is called a distribution) has a centralized free app store. The nerdy technical word for this is “package manager”, but it is very similar to an app store on phones.  You can easily and effortless install software from your “app store” package manager. This software installation method will dramatically increase your security, since all software is being vetted by the operating system’s creators as being safe.

The app store (aka package managers) have most of the basic programs that you’d need when you get started, such as an office suite, picture and video editor, and a web browser.

But then is it decentralized?

You might be thinking “But Linux is not really decentralized if the operating system’s creators get to pick which apps are in it’s app store” (aka package manager). There’s a few replies to this.

The first is that different versions of Linux (called distributions) compete with each other. Anyone could make their own version of Linux, so if you don’t like the contents of one app store, you can go to another one. This competition forces Linux developers to want to have desired software and not to censor.

The second reply is that just like Windows, you can download Linux software directly from the website of the creators, if you choose to do so. And if you do this without the app store (aka package manager), then the program itself is sandboxed like we outlined earlier in this article to only be able to modify files related to its own software.

Linux Software Updates Easily

Not only is Linux software more safe when you get it, but it stays safe over time. With flawed systems like Windows, the user has to update each piece of software individually over time. Since this is extremely burdensome, most users don’t do it, and then they are vulnerable to new security bugs.
Updates on Linux are easy

On the other hand, Linux lets you update all your software at once in a single typed command. This easy to apply update ensures you will effortless be able to resist the latest hacking bugs across the whole system effortlessly.

Follow on Nostr for more decentralized security tips!


So as the definiton of property matured over time and there was a realization that we cannot own another person without invalidating our own liberty and property rights, the old conceptions of property rights became anti-thetical to our new understanding of what property rights means.


True, some of the left-right spectrum was a mixed bag of contradicting ideas.

In antiquity, slavery was conceived of as a part of 'property rights', whereas later philosophers like John Locke changed our understanding of slavery and concluded that we cannot own other people as property.

Classical slavery was from the Lockean perspective the anti-thesis of property rights and the primacy of every individual to be sovereign and own themselves.

If the individual can't own themselves, then property rights doesn't exist. Hence slavery undermines the basis of property rights; every individual owning the fruits of our labor.

A slave is not allowed to own the fruits of their labor, because they are not recognized as the sovereign masters of their own mind and body.


The free thought of the individual, is the Universe becoming decentralized.


I honestly don't know the solution.

On the one hand, free markets (capitalism) is called 'right', while at the same time nazism is falsely called 'right'.

This is a trap that undermines the ability to have a liberty-focused discussion.

We can use a top-down spectrum instead, where the higher spectrum is liberty, free markets and property rights for all, while the lower spectrum is central planning and authoritarianism.

But as long as the left falsely ties nazism to capitalism, we have a conundrum, since capitalism is the opposite of nazism. When we defend free markets and liberty for all, we are attacked as extremists.


Yes! And we protect our humanity by protecting ourselves against corruption.

In Lord of the Rings, Smeagol failed to protect himself and his values from corruption.

When our values are corrupted, our internal architecture is corrupted. As a result of corrupted internal values, the architecture around us is corrupted and we end up in a prison system that ultimately harms us.


Right.

Though, if central planning and collectivism is far left, then individualism and free agency is 'far right', since they are polar opposites.

The problem is that national socialism was defined as 'far right', while it is clearly a totalitarian, collectivist central planning ideology, and therefore opposite of free agency, free markets, individual liberty and property rights for all.


The downfall of 1984

Every engineer or programmer tasked with building the digital architecture of slavery will be confronted with his/her understanding of code and the downstream results of code.

This is why in fiction, the engineers of the Death Star intentionally introduced vulnerabilities.

The reason is simple.

The engineer or programmer can read code and blueprints. They can put together in their mind a map over plausible risks and outcomes from a given set of digital architectures.

A good programmer understands the far downstream implications of a given code.

As a result, we should expect that a certain percentage of engineers and programmers will defect from totalitarian projects, either visibly or cunningly, by introducing vulnerabilities to the totalitarian architecture, once they understand the inevitable outcome of that code.

Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 can be likened to destructive computer viruses or malware.

Investigating their code, a programmer or logically thinking person can reasonably well predict their outcome.

Every programmer understands what a 1984 society leads to:

When you have a highly complex archipelago of code, such as a society, centrally planning that code is an extremely risky strategy.

If you are also prevented from fixing bugs, errors and obvious harms in the code, the code will spiral downward toward greater and greater harm.

Next, add that in a 1984 society all words are redefined to their opposite.

Imagine being a programmer trying to fix a code while every term you use have the opposite meaning in relation to its practical result.

Every programmer will realize that this approach is 100% doomed.

Not to mention all the dependencies in a centrally planned 1984 architecture.

Every harmful piece of code in the governing architecture will propagate to every other part, since they depend on the central authorization.

Corrupt the core and everything gets corrupted.

While an array of programmers will continue to work for the system, many engineers who understand cause and effect enough to read the code sufficiently far downstream will join the liberty side.

One day we will be thankful for the vulnerabilities in the 1984 architecture.

Bitcoin represents the vehicle for replacing the 1984 central planning architecture with decentralization of power, liberty and property rights for all.

When every individual can protect their own person, family and property, power is decentralized and harmful dependencies are deconstructed.


This is why in an advanced society, artists are commissioned on large scale art projects that take months or years to finish, and the artist have the time to pour all their soul into a single artwork without compromise.

But this requires vision and funding, as well as a high bar for quality among both the artist/s and the commissioner. If the commissioner's bar is low, the artist will only work to satisfy his/her compensation, and not more.

Since at the end of the day, an artist doesn't have time to produce a result that outshines the compensation he/she receives for the work, in light of the bills and expenses that need to be paid to sustain living and family.


💯

Profit is surplus.
There can be no prosperity without a surplus.


“But markets do not tend toward monopolies, except through the use of coercive violence. Quite simply, individual producers who charge exorbitant prices cannot stop competitors from undercutting them—unless they resort to force. In decades of examining this question, I have never come across a single example of a monopoly provider whose monopoly status was secured on the market peacefully rather than through coercive intervention. It is always government rules and regulations that create monopolies, as they are the only barrier that can stop peaceful private enterprise. The irony here is that government mandates turn specific industries into monopolies, which then normalizes the idea that this industry inevitably can only function as a monopoly, making it a “natural monopoly.””

Principles Of Economics by nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak


“Sound money allows people to think about the long term and to save and invest more for the future. Saving and investing for the long run are the key to capital accumulation and the advance of human civilization.”

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