2024-05-18 10:09:25
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by npub1acg…p35c
I'm going to make a second comment, this time about the USD. While I may have moral issues with fiat currencies, and with the direction the US is going both militarily and economically and in some way socially too... I try to be dispassionate about assessing the situation. And I'm not so sure the USD is going to collapse at all.
All my life Libertarians have predicted the imminent demise of the US dollar. Every world event makes it seem closer and closer. But Imminent has already meant 50 years and I think it could probably take another 20 years before people will generally agree that it is even starting to collapse.
US government debt carried via treasuries (27 billion) is owned mostly to other US parties, in fact 21% of debt (6.9 trillion) is owned to other agencies of the US government itself! So it is an intra-governmental accounting. 17% (5.5 trillion) is held by the Fed, which could also be considered intra-governmental in a way. After state and local government, next is to Americans: mutual funds, banks, private pension funds, insurers, and private holders (10.6 trillion as a group). As for foreign holders, the largest is Japan at 1.1 trillion, and China is then at 834 billion. That's about 3%. Even if China doesn't buy US treasuries anymore, I don't think it matters much. And if China dumps theirs it makes no difference who holds them from the US point of view... somebody buys them for China to sell them. When the US needs to sell more, they can always sell them to the Fed (sneaky tricksters).
Of course inflation is the result, so expect it.
But how long can that happen? A long long time. As of 2022 Japan was at 260% GDP, Greece was 2nd at 177% GDP, the US is "only" at about 120% of GDP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_government_debt
So yes, the world will move away from the USD, the USD will lose value over time, but I guess "collapse" isn't the term I would use because relative to a lot of other countries it will probably hold up just fine.
I expect fiat currencies to all fall together, slowly, forever, without any sudden collapses, barring those exceptional events that come from time to time.
Add to that the 10 year trend of USDCNY has been upwards, which doesn't make any sense if the USD is collapsing.
Anyhow I don't really know what I'm talking about, but all the information I've presented leads me to doubt.
2024-05-18 10:06:08
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2024-05-18 09:42:35
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by npub1vwy…zugd
Real-Time Lightning payments embedded in the license file.
I used to manage the Digital Media Studio at Texas Tech University and we had a plethora of licenses that allowed usage of Adobe Suite, Autodesk Suite, etc.
I always thought that instead of paying the monumental fee for a single seat licence of, say Unreal Engine (pro), there could be a streaming payment of sats every time the program sensed mouse movements/button clicks/click and drags/rendering inside the active window of the application.
A "pay per use" if you will. Could be implemented in damn near everything. Problem with this is that it bolsters the "subscription model" of the big company apps. Still, I think there is something there until we replace all this shit with the old "Buy once, pay for upgrades" model.
2024-05-18 09:41:49
by npub1zwa…ursu
My new Release on Wavlake:
https://wavlake.com/album/79389841-fa28-49d9-8d47-eae45551c2d9
Song Description:
"Data Man" is a song that I play with my band. It is part of an indie rock project, and the band's first releases will also be available on Wavlake. However, I am now releasing a remix of the song first, which is a bit unusual.
The remix is essentially based on the original "Data Man" demo. The full band version has a more organic and rock-oriented sound. Nevertheless, I think the remix turned out quite cool, and I'm curious to hear your comments.
The song deals with the topic of big data and the new digital world.
2024-05-18 09:35:56
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by npub1cvw…ehyg
VPSfree mám taky a spokojenost. Nejlepší killer feature mi asi přijde sandbox VPS na měsíc na testy, která se dá libovolně prohazovat s tou produkční. Takže udělat clon, vyzkoušet změny a pak je prostě prohodit je luxus. Nevýhoda je, že to není plná virtualizace, ale pouze na společném kernelu, což má i nějaké svoje nevýhody, ale jinak cena výkon paráda.
2024-05-18 09:35:35
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by npub1sml…np04
Nimm Dir mal (je nach Verkehrssituation natürlich) Kreide und Maßband. 1,2m vom Außenspiegel geparkter Autos markieren, dort dann weitere 60-100cm (je nach Fahrradbreite) abmessen, dann wieder 1,5m.
Und dann 2,1m Breite eines Autos. Und dann 50cm Mindestabstand beim Vorbeifahren an den Autos, die in der Gegenrichtung parken.
Wenn ich mir die Straßen in meiner Umgebung ansehe, lande ich da in diversen Wohnzimmern - Fahrräder dürfen also auch bei 1,5m schlicht nicht überholt werden.
2024-05-18 09:32:16
by npub1mhe…wzcz
GM/PV☕️✝️
Peter turned and saw the disciple following whom Jesus loved,
the one who had also reclined upon his chest during the supper
and had said, "Master, who is the one who will betray you?"
When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, "Lord, what about him?"
Jesus said to him, "What if I want him to remain until I come?
What concern is it of yours?
You follow me."
So the word spread among the brothers that that disciple would not die.
But Jesus had not told him that he would not die,
just "What if I want him to remain until I come?
What concern is it of yours?"
It is this disciple who testifies to these things
and has written them, and we know that his testimony is true.
There are also many other things that Jesus did,
but if these were to be described individually,
I do not think the whole world would contain the books
that would be written.✌️💜
2024-05-18 09:26:01
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by npub1xw7…r9m5
it's deeper than that
fascism is always there in every society
forever
all it requires is ignorance and indecency, which is never in short supply, and a demagogue to yoke them and ride to power
that threat never ever goes away
voting, at the very least, is simply the maintenance function to hold this latent fascism at bay
and if enough don't vote, then fascism wins
2024-05-18 09:22:27
by npub1fjq…leku
https://i.nostr.build/7GE9D.png
this is why programmers are the major part of the #nostr early adopter userbase - we are already used to using secret keys, and in recent years they have been short and sweet elliptic curve keys, which are tiny
i do think that there is a major hole in the way most clients are using keys though, even the signer extensions and apps - BIP-39 word keys https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki
and another thing that is missing is the use of hd keys and xpubs, which can create associated identities that enable async key rotation
anyhoo, i don't actually understand how xpubs work tbh but i wannan word key, i could really see myself practising every day to log in every time using it
2024-05-18 09:12:16
by npub1mxq…fcal
“He Was High as a Kite”: Trump Says He’ll Demand a Drug Test for Biden Debate
From Infowars
Trump suggested President Biden would be on performance-boosting drugs at the two presidential debates unless he is tested Donald Trump said he would demand a drug test on Joe Biden as a condition for debating him, at a GOP dinner in St Paul, Minnesota on Friday. “I’m gonna demand a drug test,” Trump said, to […]
May 17th 2024 10:05pm EDT
Source Link: https://www.infowars.com/posts/he-was-high-as-a-kite-trump-says-hell-demand-a-drug-test-for-biden-debate/
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2024-05-18 09:03:45
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
What happened is that everyone was stuck at home during Covid (even where there were no lockdowns, people still stayed home), and they were bored and did some shopping, instead of going out or taking vacation.
But they already have their new e-car, laptop, and washing machine. And interest rates are still too high for most home buyers and renters are frozen in place, so no new kitchens or Ikea furniture.
We only pulled demand forward; there was no net-increase. The factories ramped up and now demand is back down, so deflation and recession incoming.
2024-05-18 09:02:59
by npub1fjq…leku
https://youtu.be/2oKafyk7MQA
I was just watching this and it stood out for me as he went through the list of regions of the world with the best chances of survival in a massive pole shift tsunami doom event is the region around mongolia
well, i'm not so into mongolia, though mongolia is cool, but i've been wanting to go to Siberia for a long time
in 2012 i had a girlfriend who led me to moving to europe, and we had a running joke about mongolia
https://i.nostr.build/kZ4Pl.png
well, never mind mongolia, right next door is siberia, and the high mountain region of Altai is one that has featured in numerous of the throat singing music videos i have posted lately
novosibirsk and krasnoyarsk are the two large settlements in the valley below, novosibirsk is probably a bit higher up where krasnoyarsk is closer to the low lying area of Baikal
calling them "low lying" is a bit of an exaggeration because they are still higher altitude than most of the world
what charms me about the region of siberia is that it's so low density population, and so much wilderness, that land prices are going to be extremely low and the chances of finding a spot with springs, even thermal springs, and caves are pretty high and there is actually a program running, at least it used to be, to make it easy to migrate to siberia and get yourself a bunch of land to set up there, the main criteria is that you learn russian (already know a bit, no problem from me about this)
the other thing is this part of russia is full of northern asian people, darker skinned, hardy people who ride horses and do winter swims in the ice cold water, hard as nails, and good natured people, beautiful, as well
sooo... i'm just gonna keep stackin sats until i can make the jump to siberia 😁