Electrician. Eternal student. Bitcoiner. If I Liked your post, it was an accident; Zaps only.
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Last Notes npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure The desire to get paid for sitting around doing nothing is what leads people to retarded shit like "digital credit." npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Hard times create strong men. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Nice, let the games begin. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Allowed... hmm. What's your opinion on Second Amendment rights in America? (I'm Canadian BTW) I work in construction so it's just a fact of daily life that essentially everyone I work around carries a knife at all times. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure The Fiatization of My Job I am an electrician, broadly speaking. Four years ago, I was an apprentice. Today, I am a foreman. For a few years in between, I was just a standard-issue journeyman. That I was promoted to foreman after just a few short years could optimistically be interpreted as proof of my superior intelligence, or just as well as a sign of the increasingly scant quality human resources in the skilled trades. There weren't many options to choose from when the 30 year vet they had lined up pulled out, and they had to take whatever they could get, even if it wasn't ideal. I sure didn't feel ready to run a crew of 20, wiring a 100-unit apartment building as my first project in charge (what experience I have has largely been in concrete commercial construction; wood frame residential is an entirely different ballgame). Before my recent promotion into the dismal ranks of middle management, I had ideas about how I would run things when I got here. Notions of improved professionalism, quality-of-workmanship, efficiency, and education for apprentices. Like so many of the recently promoted (or elected, I would imagine), I have now had the full weight of my naivité impressed upon me by the human-logistical constraints of the job market, and a race to the bottom for competitive bids. The tradition of apprenticeship in the trades, or craftsmanship generally, is one that goes back for centuries, even millenia. Divine origins notwithstanding, someone had to teach young Jesus the art of carpentry. And long before him, uncountable generations of of elder masters have been handing down the techniques of shaping and assembling the useful materials of our world; wood, bronze, iron, all the way back to the crude stone hand axes at the dawn of proto-humanity. Education in the material arts is inherently physical, and can be accomplished only by doing; poorly at first, then a bit better, and a bit better, and so on. There is only so much armchair philosophizing one can do about smithery; sooner or later you need to go hammer on a piece of steel and see how it reacts. The role of the apprentice is, and has always been, two-fold. The apprentice is: 1. A student. 2. A source of cheap labour. The two are inseparable. The cheap labour is how the apprentice pays for their education, and frees up the older, experienced master to do the more complex aspects of the job. Contrary to some journeymans' opinions, it's not about "earning the right to not do hard labour anymore." It is merely an economic calculus. The boy cannot yet be trusted to terminate the high voltage connections, but he can haul in the heavy cables, and perhaps faster than the older man by benefit of his youth. But if the boy is not there that day, the man will haul in the cables. No one is above the hard physical work. There are many on modern jobsites who seem to have forgotten this. From my vantage point working for a particular company in a particular trade, it seems that these two aspects are very frequently out of balance. Namely, I feel that we (I speak now for my company, specifically, but it's a problem in the industry broadly) are failing to give our apprentices a proper education and leaning on them too much for their cheap labour. This ultimately leads to poorer quality journeymen in the future, who do poorer work and give the next generation of apprentices an even poorer education than they received. It is a recursive spiral of degradation, created by the delusion that competent journeymen can simply be produced by fiat, without proof-of-work. This is a yet another example of enshittification brought on by high time preference. On any given day, an apprentice is more economically profitable to a company as cheap labour, with the absolute minimum amount of training being given to them to do the task at hand acceptably. An hour spent learning is an hour spent not pulling wire and installing lights. At their lower rate of pay, there is also an incentive to make the crew as "bottom heavy" (that is, more apprentices and less journeymen) as possible, with only the minimum number of journeymen necessary to do the really critical stuff (distribution, live work, etc). What this amounts to is a few overworked journeymen doing all the complex work with little opportunity to pass on their knowledge, and an army of unruly youngsters hacking and slashing their way through the building, screwing things up as they go because they don't have the guidance and mentorship they need to consistently do it right the first time. The time spent redoing and repairing things, and how much of it could be avoided through better training, is difficult to quantify and thus gets too easily ignored. There exist laws that aim to put a limit on this in regulated trades: journeyman-to-apprentice ratios. In my trade, in my jurisdiction, the limit is 2 apprentices to 1 journeyman. That is the bare minimum level of supervision allowed by law. We consistently run 4:1 on my site. My father tells me that when he was laying brick back in the '80's, his ratio was 2:1 but inversed: 2 journeymen to 1 apprentice. The free market libertarian in me is conflicted on these laws. They're well intentioned, and they probably make work more pleasant (when they're followed), but they are nonetheless an infringement on a company's freedom to run itself poorly. I have informed upper management (who determine the composition of my crew) that we are in violation of the law. I will do what I can with what I have available to me for the time being. I will not go tattle to the government. But I will not take any shit about the project being behind schedule. Perhaps it is time to find a new job. There will come a day when it is time to strike out on my own, but that time is not yet. Electrical work is not something you learn in 4 years and then just apply for the rest of your life. The physics never change, but the technology is constantly in flux. The most recent edition of the Canadian Electrical Code (part 1 of 3) is about 1000 pages long. Provincial and municipal regulations on top of that. Building code and fire code to contend with as well. Running a business, liasing with engineers, building clientelle... A more free and noble career awaits, but there is so much to learn, so much to learn... If you need to hire a contractor (electrical or otherwise), I would implore you not to just go with the lowest bid. High prices do not automatically mean high quality, but the inverse is almost always true; low prices usually mean low quality. You simply cannot do good work for bargain-bin prices for long without going out of business. Do some due diligence on the people you hire, and try to support quality workmanship. Lord knows, we could use a bit more of that these days. https://blossom.primal.net/5ee99c1e8ad376f033af2400c85ed38e9cc6fec3834fa4a52b990cf1aa251418.jpg npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure If a scam is being participated in by the majority of the world's population, you can use data about that scam to infer useful information about the world. Because the US dollar is currently the the most widely recognized global unit of account, the bitcoin exchange rate in USD is still a reliable gauge of how much productive energy is being funneled into the bitcoin system. Thus it is one (but far from the only) useful metric in determining how successful bitcoin is in it's mission to end fiat. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Forged nails, so cool. Back then those carpenters would have really valued their materials. You walk around a modern construction site now and there's nails and screws strewn around on the ground everywhere; dropped and forgotten like popcorn at a movie theatre, because no one has any appreciation for the technology and economy of scale that allows them to buy sub-one-cent nails at 10,000 a box. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Anywhere I can buy with Bitcoin? I suppose I could just download the PDF for free and send a big zap, but it would be nice to have the professionally printed copy, and it would be nice to pay in my preferred currency. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure I wouldn't trust pre-installed, personally. I'm not a particularly technical person and I was able to load it easily enough thanks to the fantastic @nprofile…268u tutorial. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Nice. Bitcoin is great, but barter is even better when you can manage it; there's just not as many opportunities due to the coincidence of wants problem. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Fair point. Where can I order the leatherbound and pay with bitcoin? npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure I'm normally a civil man but I will fucking die on this hill. Yes pineapple. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure That fake shit. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure I fully gave up the like button a few weeks ago, felt pointless and fiat. If it ain't worth at least 10 sats, I didn't actually like it. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure This guy on nostr keeps trying to plant his seed in me 😒 npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure While I disagree with the limits in principle, I will not be following any accounts that post 50 times per day, or anywhere near it lol. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure So true; we all deal in shitcoins constantly. Sobering. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure She says that like it's a bad thing. On a related note, is there any evidence yet of tolls being collected in Bitcoin specifically? I feel like that was a big headline that basically went nowhere. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure I conduct experiments from time to time. I'm like, a scientist. Lab notebook is deranged though, more research needed. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Citation? npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Where do you suppose construction foremen sit in all this? Asking for myself, electrical foreman. It's middle management, of a sort, but inherently anchored to the physical. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure After the success of Steak n Shake, I'm waiting for Beyond Meat to start a Bitcoin ETF treasury. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Personal experience: -Coldcard Q: easily the best in security, features, and general usability. People who say this is too advanced for beginners baffle me. -Jade Plus: janky, difficult to use, and the whole QR unlock via Blockstream's website just rubs me the wrong way. Is there a way around this to get a fully airgapped session without involving Blockstream? Maybe I just didn't look far enough into this; the whole experience was annoying and I never pursued it further. -Ledger Flex: first stab at self custody, didn't know what I was doing, now I'll be looking over my shoulder for wrench attacks for the rest of my life. Goddammit... The experience was pretty smooth though, I'll give them that. Would like to learn more: -Foundation Passport: the software is basically a clone of CC though, right? Maybe pointless if I'm already using one. -Seedsigner, Krux, and other self-built devices: this may be my next project. Sounds like they're less convenient, but maybe these two and a CC make for the ultimate multi-vendor multisig at this point. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure One of the greats, a very fine man you might say. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure I bet you my cat is longer than yours. #Catstr #WeirdFlex https://blossom.primal.net/f2f3c7f422074e44ac26ae9894b3972543168b5df6f2133e3aca0d2cfcecbe7c.jpg npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure I can almost smell it through my screen :) I need to hit the secondhand bookstore! npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure "Confiscate Satoshi's coins" is "tax the rich" coming to Bitcoin. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure "I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me." -Ralph Waldo Emerson Good reminder for those of us who worry that we've forgotten the specific contents of books we've read. The good shit sticks; if it was valuable, you incorporated it into your worldview and your actions, even if you can't remember the exact words anymore. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Indeed. Let's make it interesting: Your remaining life is on a slider. How far to the right do you adjust it before that 1 Bitcoin is worth it to you? npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Swimming naked can be quite the thrill. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure 100%. I think we're at a moment as a culture now where it's like "Ok, now what?" To even have the opportunity to struggle with self-actualization is a blessing, for those who recognize it. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure The base layers of Maslow's hierarchy are solved for most of us in the developed world, but many seem to have stalled out and are having trouble ascending further. Perhaps if you didn't have to struggle at the lower levels, you are less able to struggle to the higher levels, which mere material comfort cannot deliver to you. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure I think it breaks down at some point though. I'd argue I was in trouble that time two grown adults handcuffed me and threw me in a cell. I was not free to go about my life for some time. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure I come at this from the fundamental physics perspective so no, I don't believe we have free will. I behave as if I do, but I didn't really have any choice in that ;) That raises uncomfortable questions about personal accountability, crime, and punishment however, since a person without free will can't justifiably be punished for taking actions they had no say in (likewise, credit and reward for valuable or good deeds are also moot). This leads me to one of The Necessary Lies of Civilization* NLC #1: For a society to function, its members must believe in human free will . *Credit to CGP Grey for the concept of Necessary Lies of Civilization. See Hello Internet Podcast episode #99 for discussion and examples. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Bullish for AI slavery. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Ties into the free will debate too, IMO. Most of the time it doesn't feel like you're choosing the next word from a selection of options. They kinda just... come out. One level higher, even if you are choosing from a list of options, where did the list come from? Who selected the options for you to become consciously aware of? If you're convinced you have free will, who's to say the LLM doesn't? If you're convinced the LLM doesn't, who's to say you do? npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Yeah to be fair, if my buddy posts that his dog is at the vet getting major surgery and I zap him 50k sats to help out with the bill and he says nothing, that would seem a bit impolite. There's a fuzzy line somewhere, I suppose. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure I think I'm primed from my days on Reddit where I found it just absolutely cringe when people would go out of their way to thank people for their worthless upvote karma, so on the one hand I lean towards not acknowledging. On the other hand, zaps are money; they have real value, so it feels a bit different. Ultimately, I'm with the people who say "expect nothing in return for your generosity." It's a pretty good stance for life generally. If you need some sort of pat on the back for your zap, just don't zap. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Feyn's Razor: be suspicious of statements framed in absolutes. Always, never, guaranteed, impossible, etc. Unless the topic of discussion is the laws of physics, these words usually (but not always!) just obfuscate nuance. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure There's a future-wholecoiner genocide underway, and almost no one is paying attention. Wild times. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Nico seems like a good guy but yeah, had to block that channel on yt; it's engagement farming trash. Sessions is getting pretty wack with the clickbait titles and thumbnails, but the content is still quality so they get a pass. For now. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Bitcoin payments for cargo tolls may be uncensorable, but the movement of said cargo remains very much censorable with violence. We may live in a digital age, but we still exist in the physical world. Bitcoin doesn't solve people with guns being dicks or tyrants. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Well shit, we used to have the exact same model when I was a kid; $10 from a secondhand store. My favorite used to be eating the ribbons of granny smith peel when my mom made apple pie. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Mmm ok, so two self built devices for minimal trust I guess? Makes sense. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Nice, looking forward to your vid. Have been considering this along with CC for a multi vendor multisig but will be nice to get an expert opinion. Jade was supposed to be one leg of the tripod but I found it janky AF, quite disappointing. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure "Don't pay attention to the fiat price, it literally does not matter. The price of Bitcoin measured in worthless toilet paper is meaningless." Uhh, no. That toilet paper is currently the best proxy for bitcoin's purchasing power. Bitcoin is money. I care how much my money can buy. I also care what my sat-denominated salary is. It cuts both ways. We're not all monks, it's fine to pay attention to such things. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Can relate. Aiming for right-curve but will settle for left-curve. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure A lot of Bitcoiners voted for that immoral retard, somehow thinking that "this politician will be different." npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure This is where I think Lyn Alden might be onto something. Big prints have been conspicuous due to their spikiness. If they just do it at a constant rate without letting up, it becomes the new norm, not some anomaly. Of course, the system will still break at some point, but I suspect they will get away with it longer using this strategy. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Peter Schiff reportedly checked into psychiatric hospital, mumbling "Ponzi scheme" and "intrinsic value" to himself over and over. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure "You don't get it. There is no head to cut off; it's a conglomerate. If one of them betrays the principles of the accrual of money and power, the others betray him. What it is, is human weakness. You can't kill that with a gun." https://blossom.primal.net/0833127b0f5873635a4a1da1303aa6a86bc5c1e10b861c3d4b5efa4476bd4caa.jpg npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure It's not as bad yet, but it's definitely got its tentacles into Nostr too. Not surprising given the strong crossover interest with AI in the Bitcoin community. On the one end of the spectrum, one might use AI to merely pull quotes of things they've previously said and automate posting them. On the other end of the spectrum there's pure slop; shiny generated pictures, em dashes and all. Somewhere in between might be taking things you've said previously and expanding on them in "your" voice. Where would you draw the line? npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure So much to do, so much to see, so what's wrong with taking the back streets? npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure The Physical Record of a Man On the World I recently went back to my old neighborhood to look at the home I grew up in until the age of 13. Located on a rural street, half an hour from the nearest (small) town, far from the city which I now inhabit, it was the first time I had returned in over twenty years. A tin can of a double-wide trailer, it's not much to look at, and I'm surprised it's still standing at all. It was in questionable shape when we lived there, and it's been through much since then, I'm sure. From the respectful distance of the street (I'm not the type to go knocking on some stranger's door for a stronger hit of nostalgia), it wasn't the house that most drew my attention, however. Two other features interested me more. One, the workshop in the back yard. My father built that shop when I was a child, mostly by himself although a friend would come by and help occasionally when the strength of two men was called for. Somewhere within those walls there even exist nails clumsily pounded in by my sister and I, as we learned firsthand the skill required in even the simple act of wielding a hammer. It takes many hundreds of such clumsily pounded nails before they glide in with ease, as if on command. The designs of the mind do not flow freely through into the world; they must submit to the limitations of the body, and of the tool. To become a master of one's tools, one must first be their disciple. A humble man, my father owned and ran a small business installing sheet metal gutters when I was born; simple, unglamorous work, largely devoid of craftsmanship (although one can still find opportunities for craftsmanship, however small, in any job). He soon exited that business, however, and returned to being an employee, now in local woodworking shops, building cabinets and millwork. Low quality stuff, but it paid the bills (barely). The shop in the back yard was where he could work on personal projects, art pieces, and some of his greatest works: grandfather clocks (very much pieces of art in their own right). Over the years, through uncountable evenings and weekends, whenever he could find time between raising his kids and maintaining his home, he honed his craft. In recent years he has become recognized as a master in the highest echelon of his craft: those building fine works of wood in the Pacific Northwest. That upward trajectory, imperceptible at first, started in that shop and compounded over decades. I don't know what that building is used for today; it could very well be a play space for kids away from the house, or merely used for storage, but there it stands, a silent testament to one man's pursuit of excellence. Something else began in that shop; something that was never completed, at least not by my father. Geodesic domes have long appealed to various hippies, libertarians, and science-lovers seeking to improve their land with strong, cheap structures built of simple, repeated elements. My father was somewhat of a blend of those three archetypes, and I think the mathematical elegance of the structure appealed to him. Being a clock-maker, mathematics (and in particular, geometry) was as much a tool of his trade as any saw or chisel. In the early 90's he set about cutting and shaping the edges and faces for two small wooden domes that were to be constructed on our property (I say "our" but in reality we just leased it from the local First Nations band). Everything was made of scrap 2x4 and plywood from local construction sites, collected for free, and the pieces of the frame were designed to interlock, no fasteners needed. He never ended up building those domes. All the pieces were stowed away in the crawlspace below his shop but he and my mother ended up separating before construction could begin. He left, moving to the city, and left the pieces of his project behind. My sister and I would soon follow him, and when my mother finally moved away from that place, those pieces still remained, forgotten and collecting dust over the years. It must have been a curious find for the new inhabitants: piles of identical struts and triangular boards, meticulously stacked and organized, with no (as far as I'm aware) explanation or instructions. For a certain type of mind, finds like this can be quite captivating, as they represent an opportunity for modern day anthropological research. Who fashioned these artifacts? What is their purpose? What do they say about the values and proclivities of those who lived on this land before us? When I visited my childhood home again, it was evident that someone had found those pieces, deduced their purpose, and put them to use. The plywood faces were not used, but they had built the two frames out in the spacious yard and covered them in clear sheet plastic, creating greenhouses or perhaps just freestanding sunrooms, I couldn't tell from the distance. From across time and space, my father had given them an idea and the materials to create something beautiful and functional that allowed them to connect with nature in a different way. My father's legacy encompasses more than just the physical structures outlined here, but it is a humble one nonetheless. His name is known by few, his stature in his craft appreciated only by those with the commensurate knowledge to make such fine distinctions. He has acquired no significant wealth. But he has left his mark on the world in ways big and small, visible and anonymous. I hope to do the same. https://blossom.primal.net/002896970a77f7ea9472cf84344c0cc5343ee210df610099a6bd3ba15b557560.jpg npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure I'd argue that 95k is still pretty cheap but yeah, these sellers doing us a solid right now; their sacrifice will not be forgotten. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure It's a complicated story but it basically comes down to efficiency; if DC were the standard, electrical power would probably cost at least 10x what it does now, and that would filter into every product that uses electricity as an input. Basically, we can't afford it, and the entire electrical system would have to be torn down and rebuilt from the ground up. This would be a century long project at this point. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar... Here's the actual article. The RF is what would come from your wifi, ELF-MF is what would come from the AC current in your walls. Good-ish news on the RF side of things is that it seems that it's just the tablets (with or without internet connectivity) that are shown to be dangerous devices (by this study, at least); cell phones showed no increased risks. I'm also a bit curious about why ELF-MF is so much higher in Mexico City (where the study was conducted) than global average. Interestingly, wifi and Bluetooth headphones are never mentioned. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure The bombings will continue until debt-to-GDP improves. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Looks like step 4 to me, although step 3 stuff continues to occur through step 4. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Sounds good to me 👍 npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Hi Jor. I'm a fellow Canadian, an electrician, and a Bitcoiner. I've been lurking on Nostr for awhile and just started posting recently, just random stuff that I'm thinking about. Check me out if you're interested. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Great perspective. People often dismiss the centralization of the unit as unimportant, "it's just the nodes that matter." But somewhere between the 3.5% they own now and 100%, there is a line. A fuzzy line, perhaps, but a line nonetheless. Let us hope they never cross it. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Agreed. I paid for YT Premium to avoid ads, I don't need that shite injected directly into the content. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure That man knows how to please a woman, I guarantee it. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure I dunno if that's the peak man, you didn't even buy CumRocket. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure In the spirit of science, I have elected to conduct numerous experiments on my brain chemistry over the years. Positive results generally came from naturally occurring substances. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure "I had no idea this gif/meme is where that [movie] came from." It was just that good of a meme. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Hell yeah. I am, in fact, an electrician, and I can tell you that we (and the skilled trades in general) need all the smart people we can get. A couple of decades of funnelling every smart kid into college (and telling them that the trades are just for the dummies who couldn't hack it in higher education), has left us sorely low on talent. We are the people building your homes so they don't fall down (and wiring them such that they don't erupt in flames). You want competent people doing that. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure https://strc.live/ Active during New York market hours, assuming STRC is trading above par. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure The ironic thing is that the logical time to buy STRC was back in the summer when the bitcoin-fiat exchange rate was high, and yet they didn't sell much at the time. Right now is like, the worst time to be buying STRC, when sats are stupidly cheap. And yet here we are: people piling into fiat instruments for 11.5% yield at the bottom of a bear market, or close to it. He's exploiting a moment of deep value, right in front of their faces, with their own money. Wild. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure I was careful to use the words "might have." For many people, I'm sure it was valuable regardless of recent developments. As you point out, learning begets more learning, and you never know where you might end up. For others, they may have spent fortune (possibly borrowed) on a university degree, expecting a lucrative career on the other end that never panned out. To your point, I'll never regret the three months I spent learning Fortran, even if it's likely I will never use it in any practical application. It opened my mind to the logic of programming, and that's been incredibly valuable in a difficult to quantify way. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Is it the "learn to code moment" 10 years ago, when they had to face up to their own technical inadequacies? Or is it the one right now where it turns out to have been a significant opportunity cost that might have been better spent learning something else? Both tough pills to swallow. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure STRC pretty much taking care of that singlehandedly, if the numbers are to be believed. Of course, without proof of reserves it's all just a trust me bro situation, so who knows. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure We need to bring back "peevish" and "peevishly." Those are good words. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure "It is the small things, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay". npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure If you're gonna jump, do a flip. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Thanks for piping up, I didn't get it. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Absolutely; skills are the hardest asset. "You can just do things" applies just as much to the physical realm as the digital. That plumber is exploiting a knowledge asymmetry, and quite profitably too. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Sounds a bit condescending to a guy who just charged you $2745 for something you could have learned to do yourself. Maybe he should have been schooling you. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Nero. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure That's very Zen, but as long as someone is willing to give me scarce sats for infinitely printable trash units, the dollar price has a meaningful impact on me and my ability to acquire true wealth. Ignoring that does make one wiser. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Every time, I buy that dip... And every goddamn time I look back and HODL's in my head telling me I didn't stack hard enough. It's a tale as old as time(chain). npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure All we really know for certain is that he SAYS he is buying that much, and his custodian at Coinbase tells him he owns 700k+, because trust me bro. Analysts can probably point out the suspected addresses where all that coin is held; what they can't tell us with any certainty is if he's the only one with a claim to it. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Consider me wildly apathetic. I'm here for the separation of money and state, not rules and regulations on shitcoins. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself promote yield on Bitcoin. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure We all remember Josh Mandell, right? npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure https://blossom.primal.net/8eaf3d88905db5319b5a531164c717500cac2739fdd9e8a476f11ed12a260d95.jpg npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Retard having a nice resurgence though. Haven't heard anyone say "the R word" in quite awhile. That was super cringe. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure For some reason people didn't find peer-to-peer electronic cash nearly as compelling, even though that's the real superpower. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure More or less that entire field of discussion can be one-shotted with "just evaluate people on their individual merits." npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Yeah it's a greasy move on their part, but the cheap sats were nice while they lasted. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure I'm locked in and fully erect. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure People who don't take self custody probably eat Impossible Burgers. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure A tip of the hat to all the developers building software and hardware that, each year, makes it a little bit easier on the technical side. And a raise of the glass to all the the educators and podcasters that, each year, shepherd a few more people across the valley of doubt. It will be easy someday, and when that that day comes, everyone will be doing it. Cheers brother. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Fun fact: 100% of any SOTU is political horseshit. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Early adopters selling some to fund well deserved life improvements is fair enough. It's the lack of adoption by (to a rounding error) everyone else that concerns me. It's like I'm standing in a room full of starving people, trying to point out an infinite buffet of healthy food while they fight over a half bag of stale Doritos. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Relativity and quantum mechanics get so much of the attention in physics, but thermodynamics will always hold a special place in my heart. You start out with some dudes in the 1800's just trying to increase the efficiency of their steam engines, and if you follow the math far enough down the rabbit hole eventually you end up revealing the reason why time only appears to flow in one direction. https://blossom.primal.net/1eea03b20a16689b7bed7314bf072076316a485538f06cac6c61b6a61967ba38.jpg npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Trevor, sats, let's go. npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure Metal coins, if they must exist (questionable), should not be ferromagnetic. Look, I love iron as much as the next guy. When alloyed with carbon and other elements, it allows for the greatest feats of engineering this world has ever seen. Additionally, it helps ferry oxygen around my body. Very cool. But declaring that a coin that weighs 0.015 lbs, when iron trades at well under a dollar per lb, is worth $2 is fucking ludicrous. The small quantities of other metals present do not impress me. https://blossom.primal.net/8c960e262af042896f1676abc482d127bde68bcde1894fab1764325f7fcb0af8.jpg npub10sfqr5vucrdnkkgullhu7j9vmesxjtps2arull53q4nrxmwhh8dsemtu2g FeynStructure "Our Great War is a spiritual war; our Great Depression is our lives." -TD