AbstractEquilibrium
Abstract Equilibrium

Does the opponent know which answers the player accesses? At what rate can the player digest the answers they didn't already know? Can the protocol still be successful if for some reason the player provides an incorrect answer in both lists?

2024-09-11 20:13:08

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What's the definition of success? The opponent gleans on which topic the player has expert knowledge? Or the player convinces the opponent that they have full knowledge of both?
In a vacuum, I'd say the protocol would be to lock both players in a room until only one remains, but I sense that's not the essence of what you're asking 🤣

2024-09-10 08:02:04

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Orbot utilizes android's VPN API so I assume it controls the full applications network stack (or full device if configured that way).
Still I think androids VPN stack has some holes.
@nprofile…pyug Can the in-app component cooperate with an ambient orbot? Best of both worlds?

2024-09-08 01:45:51

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I don't think I'll ever forget white-orange, orange, white-green, blue, white-blue, green, white-brown, brown. That's where I started out moving data. 😉

2024-09-08 01:34:53

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FWIW I use nostdress to receive (ln address) & bankify to send (nwc)

2024-09-07 11:34:04

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There are only ever two parties: me...and my environment 😏
Three or more parties is infeasibly difficult for humans to comprehend. I keep it simple; I seek to fully understand my environment. Sometimes, there are other people there! 😅

2024-09-07 11:15:14

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Surge protectors add too much clutter!

2024-09-07 10:48:19

Can't have tools without technology, can't have carpenters without tools, and can't have a new testament without a carpenter. 🤷‍♂️
Nature keeps everything balanced (with the notable exception of time). Human arrogance would keep things "growing" as fast as humanly possible forever. Stay humble.
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2024-09-06 00:02:15

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Just to be clear
If it ain't in the chart, it doesn't exist; your words don't really add anything useful to the chart. You made the USD bit up from nowhere, but you put it in 2 places where they cancel out 😅 Folks don't usually look at a BTC-EUR chart and think "ahh yes right, USD denominated! Let me just make this math a bit more difficult for myself..." 🤣

2024-09-05 23:36:39

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Do both. A business nym that's a curated brand, and a private nym that's more for a stream of your thinking.

2024-09-05 23:33:45

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if the images are hosted on *your* relay, they won't be removed (until you're arrested).
many images go into nostr.build or primal, and it's completely their choice to remove them for any reason (relays wouldn't know the URL in the notes are suddenly dead though, so do your part & report the notes if you see them)

2024-09-05 23:08:23

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CNN skips straight over guilty and I guess assumes he's as good as pardoned
https://image.nostr.build/bf9bf49caaadcae085cc3cad5fb1ba2a4bfda3119e175db58dd9f44bb27d818a.jpg

2024-09-05 01:04:19

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I'm a sucker for stories that play with the Player/NPC dynamic

2024-09-01 16:35:38

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used laptops that have batteries & native durable storage vs adapted for USB 😉

2024-09-01 15:26:16

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Because boobs obviously. You a human? 😏

2024-09-01 00:02:59

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It depends how you use your account. I'd say browser extensions like #alby are fine for most. #Amber on android serves the same purpose for android apps, but is more private (no 3rd party account).
The idea is to only paste your secret key into one trusted place, and let every other app ask that app to sign your events for broadcast.

2024-08-31 23:56:13

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Your **super super secret key number** can only ever be "seen" through some "mask"
nsec is one kind of mask, the default for nostr keys. hex is another. binary, english, etc, other possibilities. Humans in our heads default how we mask stuff to base 10, decimal, in our routine thinking & daily affairs, because of fingers I guess 😏. For nostr, nsec makes more sense for a bunch of reasons
It doesn't matter which mask someone sees the ***I can't stress how secret it is*** number through; they can always translate it once the secret is seen through any encoded form! English to binary is how computers work today after all, they can do a lot more "mask switching" than that 😉
Keep the secret, secret!

2024-08-31 23:38:28

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2 ways of expressing the astronomically huge **secret** number.
Binary, base 2 is another. Hexadecimal is base 16, thats another. English would be another; this is how bitcoin keys are expressed as 24 words!

2024-08-31 23:02:39

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Be careful where you paste your nsec. It's more sensitive than a traditional online password.

2024-08-30 14:58:53

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They're still an identity provider, like apple or google. If you're gonna build/verify/self host your devices OS and your wallets, why not your identity/email/cloud too?

2024-08-30 14:16:54

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One of these things is not like the others...
But there are FOSS P2P alternatives...
So why proton? 🤔

2024-08-29 13:11:28

When you are #fasting, your body will panic and start to find stored #glucose wherever it can. It finds the glucose in muscle tissue, which weakens as the glucose is transported to the cells that need it. Not great, but seemingly necessary in the moment.
But, in parallel, your body will start to ask "should I be using something else for energy than glucose? Something that not only won't be cut off so easily (this has happened many times before!), but also offers even more energy density than glucose?" This is #ketosis, and your body uses #ketones in your fat tissue primarily for energy over the glucose in your muscles. It won't (can't really) stop using glucose, but it won't need to destroy muscle to get at th glucose faster than you can regrow the muscle!
Anyone else think this arrangement works remarkably well? Anyone else see an analogous dynamic between #fiat currency (glucolysis, short-term, risky, reactionary) and #bitcoin savings (ketosis, long-term, sustainable, not *fully* sufficient)? Sometimes I get the feeling that these emergent systems are screaming to be kept in balance by players like us who, by cosmic chance, find ourselves interacting with them here and now.
Maybe it's just me being a bit too abstract 🤷‍♂️

2024-08-27 18:25:39

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"I reset quick"

2024-08-25 15:56:06

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Feels like "Monero's too private; let's add a ton of distributed personal metadata around it!"

2024-08-25 10:35:17

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Nixpkgs is the main package repository in the package manager for NixOS.
nix-bitcoin is a set of bitcoin-related packages & services written for NixOS. Many of them already support "<service>.onion.enable" which will create the hidden service and make the URL available to the operator user. So adding holesail support might be trivial and very easy to bolt on.

2024-08-24 10:21:51

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#holesail is also pretty cool for punching service holes through NAT, although I don't think it's nixified anywhere yet. Eould be a nice addition to #nix-bitcoin: "electrs.holesail.enable = true;"
#headscale is an open source coordinator for a tailscale tailnet. It's in nixpkgs. Limited compared to the closed source company coordinator, but good enough if metadata privacy is a concern.

2024-08-24 09:22:18

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If I could act freely, I'd strip naked & fly away from the Milky Way right now! 🤣
Humans & LLMs operate under common constraints; we have identical capacities to act freely. We both make decisions; sone deliberate, others random. I really see very little distinction besides the emotion humans undeniably attach to the word "human"

2024-08-23 16:56:49

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https://image.nostr.build/666262cac2c85f7f5db0fa1f73f9814db1f3fc7d53002affddfe371c9ea8e84e.gif

2024-08-23 16:54:10

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I'm seeing 1625 sats/usd 🤷‍♂️

2024-08-23 16:43:58

A peek into the mind of a modern day narcissistic sociopath:
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3w0qD6Atvo4

2024-08-21 18:58:26

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Lomborghini knows it's upcoming addressable market well. Can't have a boating accident without a boat!

2024-08-21 18:43:09

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For all I know, the universe is the strum of a guitar string, and we're still only in the first few moments of the note 🤷‍♂️
I'm not here to know the electron orbits on the guitar string. I'm not even here for the oscillation of the strings note. What I'm really here for, and what I know is out there, is the music.

2024-08-21 01:29:28

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I'm genuinely curious if someone was paid to check the boxes on that label 🤔

2024-08-20 15:23:19

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Literal spread of ignorance, in a nutshell 😔

2024-08-20 15:16:32

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Telescopy limited by ophthalmology is a tragedy

2024-08-20 15:09:11

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2024-08-20 14:56:44

Most worthwhile solutions are similarly hard to articulate, even if the solution is simple.
#nevent1q…h8d3

2024-08-20 13:23:50

"Freedom tech" is following the same patterns as "legacy tech"
what's next?
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2024-08-20 13:09:02

So #holesail doesn't seem to work for serving a connection from inside a #QubesOS appVM (works from proxmox lxc though).
Unless I'm missimg something...Nice Work, #QubesOS!

2024-08-20 03:38:40

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Nice!
How is this querying the xpub history for watch only wallets?

2024-08-19 18:11:47

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Good line to end on; don't think the humor of the meme would survive the next line

2024-08-19 15:39:16

This is why people are generally unafraid about the impending vertical asymptote we'll need to deal with (are dealing with?) on our economic timeline.
Folks don't realize that an asymptote crossing a timeline implies a nonexistent future!
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2024-08-19 15:35:32

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One divided by 1 yields 1 of a thing.
One divided by 2 yields 2 of a thing.
One divided by 3 yields 3 of a thing.
One divided by zero yields nothing, obliteration.
It may be mathematically undefinded, but I feel like there's an opportunity for a valuable childhood economics lesson about the nature of absurd infinities in there somewhere 😏

2024-08-19 12:33:29

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Watch out for the creepy grabby Uncles Jim!

2024-08-19 11:44:37

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I've been all over the US including the midwest; I was hit twice in my life by a tornado...once in Massachusetts and again years later..in Maryland near DC 🤣
Not quite ready to leave the country to seek out the land of the safest trees. Multisig is so much more practical!

2024-08-18 23:56:33

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Dudes a bitcoiner but clearly never lived through a tornado 🤣

2024-08-18 23:39:10

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Why is the audience not filled in? It's almost like they're not really there

2024-08-18 22:43:54

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Pro tip: Use what you have now to make your kids' lives easier later. 😉

2024-08-18 21:49:58

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These were not prehistoric people, they were fully evolved creative innovators like we are today. They could have lifted blocks one by one, but I seriously doubt they didn't also think to lift any tools, machines, animals or water to help the job get done before the emporer dies. 🤷‍♂️
For kicks, ask AI to generate some possible solutions besides pure slave labor that could conceivably have taken place, given Idunno, 50 or 100 years to beat the deadline of the kings death?

2024-08-18 20:40:35

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You see it in the beginning of the video; simple locks. Submerge the channel horizontally to fill it, *seal the locks*... and LIFT.
Once it's sealed, it's effectively a solid object that can be moved with people pulleys & leverage, to any location & any orientation necessary to float rocks.
And let's be real...No one can argue that the Egyptians of all ancient cultures were bad at sealing things (but they may have been bad at treating their workforce like real people, who knows?) 😉😅

2024-08-18 15:06:54

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Lift one big pool of water a few times, instead of lifting each and every stone individually. It's still a huge feat.
I find it extremely questionanle that Egyptians, in the presence of even primitive hydraulic technology, would have gotten the pyramids done relying on metabolic energy alone.
https://youtu.be/rxFXsoqbfrk

2024-08-18 14:42:59

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Totally.
Who's taking care of the house & kids while she poses & stares at a stack of paper?...
...his wives. 😏

2024-08-18 01:00:18

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As long as he's not going back to being employed, let him do whatever work he wants!

2024-08-17 14:59:58

If we were looking for a planet like our with 30 billion humans all at a peak standard of living... 9% of the planets land would need to be capturing solar energy.
At our current technology, we can only detect such a planet if it was covered with 23% solar capturing.
Of course, it's a pretty fucking big presumption that our "advanced" energy technologies (solar, nuclear) are the end state of a civilizations energy innovation 😏
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2024-08-17 00:41:29

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Most truths are self evident, but most people are inadequate comminicators of truth. Best to just align yourself with nature and laugh at the absurdity that humans generate along the way.

2024-08-16 10:39:49

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Sight correction, you say? 👀

2024-08-15 06:48:35

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Cash, cache, a place to *store* valuable things. Cash isn't meant to *lose* value. Bitcoin puts things back in order.
It's a bonus that bitcoin also works P2P over a wire like fiat monopoly credits.

2024-08-14 23:06:04

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You will think differently when there are only 10m people left on earth. It'll simply be "reasonably rare"

2024-08-14 14:41:23

"As mentioned in the comments, the top answer should never be used in production. Instead..."
Can't count how many of those literally-underrated answers saved my skin
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2024-08-13 16:37:02

Expiring unpaid notes is a great idea, but it's such a big departure from what social media users expect ("wait, I can't even search my old notes? they're 'gone' gone?").
We need to get folks thinking of paid vs. unpaid as a first class component of each & every service, not as an attribute of an entire service by itself (nothing is unpaid, there is no such thing as a free lunch).
#nevent1q…7vqd

2024-08-13 14:14:26

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Run your own email server & filter your own emails. SMTP is a decentralized protocol!

2024-08-13 14:10:55

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As I save in bitcoin, I find I work harder... because the days when I could reasonably charge 25m sats/hr for my services are long gone!!
Remarkably, this doesn't bother me at all, it still feels like winning, slowly, the hard way, but ultimately the optimal way 😏

2024-08-13 05:11:56

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It's funny there are only 3 women

2024-08-11 16:26:22

"The world...can't get better"
...presumably because "now is better than before", no matter how bad now actually becomes.
The hardest part about orange pilling is breaking this dogma
#nevent1q…pml3

2024-08-10 17:51:19

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"Cache" --> "Cash"
(Storage place for valuable things) --> (Monetary storage that ironically loses/destroys value)
That new "cash" word for our currency (we called them dollars before 🤷‍♂️) was quite an effective psyop

2024-08-10 16:47:06

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That's another big criticism with GnuCash. I had to automate each data source however well I could. one by one.

2024-08-10 16:38:39

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GnuCash? One of my criticisms is that it's not workable as a multi-user app. It's one book; one perspective. What might nostr add?

2024-08-10 13:26:26

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Whatever you were going to do, try to do 1% more. With everything. Continually. For decades.
You'll be surprised how things pan out after time does it's thing😏

2024-08-10 13:17:10

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I do pretty much the same thing. It helps to also have a separate "travel phone" that you never turn on near your home area, with a data-only sim from silentlink, public wifis, always-on, block-if-disabled wireguard/VPN for encryption and exit nodes while online.
Pro tip: use a card or something similar between the phone & your phone case to physically block the camera
#Opsec #IdentityManagement #Graphene 🤝

2024-08-09 16:57:48

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My first employer: "We'll give you pans; clean them for cash"
Me: "Cash sounds great, but...really?"
*It took me a while to figure it all out*

2024-08-09 14:51:40

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It's always hell 😏

2024-08-08 21:31:31

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Ahhh...I was a little confused 😅

2024-08-08 21:27:49

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I have a node, I invoice strike for DCA, and occasionally replenish the Strike balance (optional, because they'll pull the funds from ACH either way). Every few months, I swap out of my node for a UTXO 😎

2024-08-08 21:23:02

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Invoive yourself, dummy! 🤣

2024-08-07 22:35:40

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Send them to a new wallet or node from mutiny.

2024-08-07 22:26:06

This is a man who understands value in scarcity 🤝
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2024-08-07 22:05:20

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Community 🙂
Here's a clip if sitcoms are your thing: https://youtu.be/_y0zQxLDiMY?feature=shared

2024-08-07 21:52:55

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I like this show a lot!
Like to the point that I actually *heard* this meme, both because these actors put unforgettable personality into the characters, and the characters easily could've had that dialogue in the show as if it's nothing 🤣

2024-08-07 20:20:38

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Can't host alby (except the browser extension maybe) on a personal server without an alby account and a bunch of their infrastructure unfortunately.

2024-08-07 18:58:36

...but also geo- and timelocked-multisig, in case the firearms prove ineffective. Both are underrated. Only one helps with a lot of other things than cold storage.
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2024-08-07 18:49:13

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You must work for a dictionary! It certainly depends where & when you live. If not, then murder has always been either naturally legal or naturally illegal.
Can't understand anyway why you're hellbent on correcting folks who are otherwise simply trying to deliver a lesson to a person: bitcoin is singilarly unique, don't get distracted by the flashy lights at the crypto casino.
Folks will hear your point about the falsity of the phrase, and digest the idea "bitcoin is indeed just like the rest" before they consider that you were just talking about the semantics of comma placement.
Then, they'll feel better about their gambling. 😔

2024-08-07 16:17:12

tl;dr Eat Meat & Don't Stress, you'll be fine
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2024-08-07 15:47:39

It's already simple enough.
Today the medical community thinks that high LDL, high BP, and insulin resistance are the 3 primary risk factors of developing cardiovascular disease.
They also think that, of all combinations of those three, having none of them and having only high LDL statistically pose the same risk.
The nutrition industrial community on the other hand... 😔
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2024-08-07 15:19:37

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Self-defense *is* murder.
The implication of making that point is... that a person should be more restrained & deliberate when considering whether to defend their own life...?

2024-08-07 15:15:26

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You can use the word however you want. I would just answer: Yes, it's something *like bitcoin*
Bitcoin & Crypto are novel nouns; we're defining them now as we go, hence the follow up question you mentioned when folks hear the word crypto is very typical. If you try to coalesce them into one thing, IMO you're not doing this space any favors failing to highlight bitcoins uniqueness.

2024-08-07 14:48:07

Bitcoin-only & Bimetalism are mutually exclusive, and a lot of cypherpunk-minded folks really do not like the bitcoin-only future that we've been trending towards since genesis. It's too familiar... 😕
I kind of like seeing bitcoiners open up to Monero (and, crucially, nothing else). It's not like they're going to panic dump all their BTC or hurt bitcoins progress, except maybe very indirectly, and if they're even mulling over the issue, it's a good step.
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2024-08-07 13:57:31

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If you really want to get literal, the meaning of crypto is hidden, secret. Bitcoins ethos and practical implementation are open, distributed, transparent.
If bitcoin is crypto for using cryptography, then so is every other form of language including things like the feeling of hunger at a biochemical level.
Weird hill to die on.

2024-08-07 13:49:29

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"Bitcoin is not cryptocurrency" makes literal sense.
But I don't agree with your last part, as I see crypto only as a prefix, if it can't be a proper noun defined by "cryptocurrencies that aren't bitcoin" 😉

2024-08-07 12:04:41

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1000 dollar sell everytime it bounces 100 sats... 😏😎

2024-08-07 11:29:06

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Don't be so literal. Unless you know of another way to convey bitcoins singular uniqueness from everything else that came before or since in 4 words or less... 🤷‍♂️

2024-08-07 04:24:28

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Temporal & spatial distance matters 😉

2024-08-07 01:55:55

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You have to know the nix language to setup a system; the same language builds packages for the package manager (one of or maybe the most expansive package manager across linux). It's not hard to build packages. Pop a nix file in your repo, and anyone can pull & use your app nix style. Submit a PR and it'll be included in the main public package repo cache.

2024-08-06 23:26:50

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Aside from the maintainer drama, I've loved #nixos.

2024-08-06 15:39:44

Easy peasy lemon squeezy
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2024-08-06 15:21:34

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We may all be the same or whatever, but we were certainly not all born in the same decade. It's stupid to ignore that fact.
I refer to generations as decades if I'm using that angle to make an argument about technology or human experience, so everyone is objectively on the same page, and doesn't get emotional. It works.. a little 😏

2024-08-06 13:35:03

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Didn't know canada could still afford holidays!

2024-08-06 13:22:26

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Shouldn't have slept through Monday... 😉😅🤝

2024-08-06 12:41:15

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I assure you Japan is real

2024-08-06 00:35:47

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Look super real but act fake. Get some of that icecream gang gang monaayyy

2024-08-05 22:45:07

There are three pilots arguing about who is better to fly your plane, when you're really just better off taking all of them on the plane with you. Especially if it's a long flight, and an uncertain journey 😎
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