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2024-05-05 17:44:31

Much is expected from those to whom much is given.
C.S. Lewis (but basically Luke 12:48 )

2024-05-02 23:46:26

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted
paraphrased, C.S. Lewis

2024-05-01 15:46:27

@npub1ftr…6ykf
lmao https://image.nostr.build/50d26fbd392e00480a988640483200558cd31a03880f29b2fc003c522bfdf986.jpg

2024-03-14 19:43:13

Bitcoin makes tradeoffs that make it more expensive than trusted, custodial solutions. That will always be true, no matter what soft forks are activated.
Many people will always choose cheap, trusted, and easy. And that is their choice.
Lo barato sale caro

2024-03-09 20:56:26

the world has never been better
source: I just went to Harbor Freight

2024-03-09 18:04:35

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my man

2024-03-09 17:29:02

drinking coffee on the toilet, pure luxury

2024-03-07 21:45:54

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sounds like a lot of work

2024-03-07 21:40:36

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cruising the mountaiiinnn, wheezing the juiceee

2024-03-07 21:31:18

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bro what
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution

2024-03-06 22:49:41

…for if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomed at the foundations of the earth.
J.R.R. Tolkien

2024-03-06 20:02:14

price goes up, price goes down.
you can’t explain that https://image.nostr.build/83575a8937f5c0e1f8681106141241c2b4cf4e841eb230715e346ae1b422652b.jpg

2024-03-05 19:06:35

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I’ve been to Istanbul and Cappadocia, would recommend both. I hear the beaches on the Aegean are beautiful, but I’ve never been

2024-03-05 18:45:44

https://youtu.be/i5y8IID9i58?

2024-03-04 15:49:48

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I think it’s just that 1) there’s not that many people on nostr and 2) notes quickly get buried by newer notes

2024-03-03 17:53:24

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that’s true, New Jersey is pretty horrible. And to MA’s credit, it feels much cleaner than CA or NJ

2024-03-03 17:48:54

Having lived in both places, I can confidently say that Massachusetts deserves the “commie shithole” reputation more than California.

2024-03-03 17:34:08

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lol giving her way too much credit, she’s still broke

2024-03-03 16:40:42

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it’s hilarious that these people will claim they’re building a “credibly neutral” protocol, and then accept seed funding for a “business”.
How do they not see that trying to monetize the development of the protocol itself contrasts with the goal of neutrality?

2024-03-03 07:04:00

Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.
J.R.R. Tolkien

2024-03-02 18:21:58

Love this channel
https://youtu.be/o1L6P_kMNzY?feature=shared

2024-03-02 17:59:55

Some of y’all need to accept the following:
Many people in developed countries will never accept that they are wrong about bitcoin. Hyperbitcoinization and the death of fiat is not coming in the next decade.
NGU will continue, and yet, the people around you will continue to repeat mindless FUD. Bitcoin went from $0 to $60,000, and very few people changed their tune. When it hits $500k, nothing will change. Be at peace with this, for your own sanity.

2024-02-29 22:49:30

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not sure where you found a camera in the parable

2024-02-29 20:22:38

chad schizophrenic vs virgin sociopath

2024-02-29 20:21:38

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honestly, an app that uses nostr to log in is better than a nostr app that asks for an email address to zap people (primal)

2024-02-29 16:37:27

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so sick of this shit, we gotta get rid of voting

2024-02-29 16:30:28

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naw

2024-02-29 16:04:33

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https://imgflip.com/i/8hh7g9

2024-02-29 16:00:16

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https://imgflip.com/i/8hh6rb

2024-02-29 02:57:13

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fresh

2024-02-28 21:50:28

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stay regarded, stack sats

2024-02-28 17:01:18

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what a fucking chode that guy is

2024-02-27 18:26:26

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thc edibles?

2024-02-27 01:01:40

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I appreciate the thoughtful reply :)
I didn’t intend it as a serious post -I was actually trolling a bit poking fun at the fitness influencers and course sellers.
I don’t think quantum computing is necessary for abundant AI or cheap energy and goods. We’ve been making advancements in those areas so far, and I see no reason for this to cease.
The connection between bitcoin and cheap energy is simply that it incentives the production of energy that would otherwise go uncaptured. So in certain areas you’ll have an energy surplus that drives prices lower. But I’m not hanging my hat on that bringing prices down in densely populated areas

2024-02-26 23:26:32

The year is 2044. Bitcoin has unlocked troves of cheap energy Coupled with AI and automation, this has driven the prices of basic living necessities to historic lows.
90% of the population are now influencers, life-coaches, and fitness instructors that buy each others courses on how to make money selling courses

2024-02-26 21:22:52

Voting creates horrible incentives and we should do away with it in the US
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

2024-02-26 20:55:43

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yea definitely

2024-02-26 20:53:54

Would you say this is more or less true?
If you have a strong “pro-Palestinian” view you fall into one or more of these groups:
* A leftist - Israelis are “colonizers” and are therefore in the wrong
* Anti-American - you resent the US for the way it has wielded its power for the last 80 years
* Anti-Semitic - you believe Jewish people manipulate various aspects of the world

2024-02-26 20:33:44

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horribly sad :(

2024-02-26 20:27:18

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let the looting phase continue

2024-02-26 05:44:03

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Certainly, I could. But I still find it jarring

2024-02-26 05:18:37

The primal wallet asks for an email address? Is that a joke?

2024-02-24 20:30:28

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it’s good you told me this because I was actually gonna go in with my private military and oust bukele. But now I’m gonna go fuck myself instead

2024-02-24 20:23:40

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lmao

2024-02-24 18:35:00

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habeas corpus and presumption of innocence

2024-02-24 16:57:51

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I won’t tell anyone they’re wrong for supporting Bukele. Especially not the people of El Salvador.
But your premise is flawed, in my opinion. It doesn’t matter how popular something is. Governments shouldn’t violate rights

2024-02-24 16:46:33

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there’s no breath more important than this next thought

2024-02-23 19:57:45

I’m raiding Icecrown Citadel tonight. First time ever doing a raid, I’m stoked

2024-02-23 16:31:28

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I would never touch this, but I admire whoever did it nonetheless

2024-02-02 19:41:08

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this is the only FUD it seems acceptable for bitcoiners to spout

2024-02-02 19:39:04

People who think bitcoin will only be a success if it hits *insert price target*:
why?

2024-01-24 03:01:32

bermuda in the sky with diamonds

2024-01-22 20:27:58

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Ubuntu

2023-12-27 20:47:39

https://image.nostr.build/72aeb76d18c6d118c02a853ac24b38a126cbe995daba4314c8a3d4276598788a.jpg

2023-12-24 20:32:54

feliz nochebuena a mis nostreros

2023-12-06 21:01:13

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I did, but 3 months later. @npub1d55…p3ca , I hope you’re still on nostr. We need more Californians

2023-12-06 20:58:46

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Lol did no one reply to this?

2023-12-05 19:01:08

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I’d zap you but still haven’t set up Zeus lol

2023-12-05 17:47:13

Does the new Zeus suck? I’m pretty annoyed I have to reconfigure things after the update

2023-11-30 20:44:53

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zeus and phoenix

2023-11-27 19:39:11

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Are you trying to avoid web clients?

2023-11-25 05:51:47

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Lol it was actually ln. I used muun and for whatever reason I just assumed they didn’t support lightning. Don’t use bitcoin stoned kids

2023-11-25 04:33:39

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Yea. I’m not really sure what that is. But I sent from my own wallet

2023-11-25 04:30:05

I just ordered some RAM from newegg. Paid with bitcoin, and the order confirms with 0 conf. Pretty cool

2023-11-12 21:06:16

Happy Sunday nostrovians
https://youtu.be/u3vQDWAoknw?

2023-10-19 04:19:42

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Imagine I send you a DM. My client packages the DM and sends it to a relay we both use. For your client to fetch that DM, the fact that you’re the recipient needs to available

2023-10-18 19:20:39

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hansel, so nost rn

2023-10-18 03:43:00

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https://64.media.tumblr.com/c9df74d7335923f1a3a23f2fad91a2dd/tumblr_o1j3vkrcBf1sx2peuo2_500.gif

2023-10-12 22:41:33

Consider this: For most of human history we did not have chicken nuggets

2023-10-07 07:24:49

Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiator

2023-10-07 04:21:28

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lol it wasn’t me, but I’m glad to see you’re getting zapped :)

2023-10-06 21:38:58

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hello racik, welcome

2023-10-04 02:17:01

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congratulations!

2023-10-03 18:51:05

The abbot in Castlevania: Nocturne is a great character. At least so far, I have a few episodes left

2023-10-01 16:51:40

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duuuuude that’s sick

2023-09-29 15:07:52

The Roman legislation was in a twofold manner the child of philosophy. It was in the first place formed upon the philosophical model, for, instead of being a mere empirical system adjusted to the existing requirements of society, it laid down abstract principles of right to which it endeavored to conform; and, in the next place, these principles were borrowed directly from stoicism.
Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World

2023-09-29 00:29:18

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impressive discipline!

2023-09-28 21:59:58

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I really liked both Sapiens and the sequel. I read both pre-bitcoin-rabbit-hole, so I had a very different perspective then. Maybe it’ll be worthwhile giving them another look

2023-09-28 21:56:43

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so it’s just that people hate the author?

2023-09-28 21:55:41

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The book joined the WEF?

2023-09-28 21:48:52

Why do people seem to hate the book “Sapiens” so much?

2023-09-26 22:56:51

https://youtu.be/ezoOnI95BpE?

2023-09-26 01:56:05

Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?
This sorcery is not a game we play for pleasure or praise.
Think of this: that every word, every act of our Art is said and is done either for good, or for evil.
Before you speak or do you must know the price that is to pay!
Ogion, in A Wizard of Earthsea

2023-09-23 20:48:52

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salami nips

2023-09-23 18:52:19

Humanity has been given the priceless gift of creativity, but it’s vital you understand how it works. Creativity is the essence of the human spirit, and flowers best when it is unconstrained.
If you try to control it for your own ends you must learn that you can get only what you ask for. The unexpected will not arise.
Dan Braben, The Wizard’s Warning

2023-09-23 05:31:56

Y’all have completely ruined the phrase “highly regarded”. I can’t read or hear that now without giggling

2023-09-22 02:15:04

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Me recuerda a Donnie Darko

2023-09-22 02:09:37

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Never thought about it, but now that I have that’s actually a lot!

2023-09-21 21:29:14

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https://media.tenor.com/6MttF94e-n4AAAAd/tobias-blue.gif

2023-09-20 18:30:04

Diablo IV is good

2023-09-19 07:14:39

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I’m not a networking minded person, so maybe I’m about to say something dumb. But I feel like changing the way we use relays would be a step toward this.
Rather than aggregating the growing set of relays and treating them like a distributed twitter database, building tools that allow people to explore little community hubs of relays is how I picture it.

2023-09-19 04:13:26

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A fine meme-meditation

2023-09-17 01:18:29

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lol yes! Exactly my first thought

2023-09-16 22:30:04

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Not saying there weren’t a lot of negative consequences.
My argument is:
Capital markets increase the rate of medical advancements >>
Fiat games “juice” capital markets (with bad consequences, sure) >>
Pharma/biomed is uniquely sensitive to “juicing” because it would otherwise be unattractive to investors (high failure rate, astronomically expensive research costs >>
Insurance model decreases consumer price sensitivity and obscures money allocation, which allowed healthcare to be inordinately profitable. Proceeds from this can then rotate back into research.
Of course, eventually this destroys price signals and feedback loops, but initially it supercharges things. Thus the faustian bargain

2023-09-16 21:46:51

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😂😂😂

2023-09-16 21:40:15

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I’m sure it fluctuates over time. But I feel safe saying that over the last 50 years, a disproportionate number of medical advances have come out of US based or adjacent private companies

2023-09-16 20:29:31

I have a weakly held opinion that recent advances in medicine and healthcare wouldn’t have happened as fast without fiat financing and our whacky insurance based system.
But it was essentially a faustian bargain where we gained miraculous powers of healing in exchange for consumerist society, globalization of key resources, and inflation.
As a species we chose to become lich kings.

2023-09-16 19:59:48

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I like it, though I’m not sure exactly what it means

2023-09-16 19:51:26

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As one example, take a look at this. The framing is so wrong. If you’re transacting on some zcash sidechain, you’re not transacting on bitcoin. This does nothing to improve bitcoin privacy. The fact that miners get some fees is irrelevant. If it’s not the bitcoin protocol, it’s not bitcoin. https://image.nostr.build/b7755c1efc917989ff6859e3d676cf45a4cdc24b5d39509b87ea9ab1ca5fd362.jpg

2023-09-16 19:45:49

Drivechains are so fucking dumb, idk how anyone buys the shit they’re pushing