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2024-09-09 21:05:16

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Here you go:
Mleku, with your all or nothing approach to life, you're a wealth of paradoxes. It's a mystery that you've poured so much of your brilliance into the machine whose artificial intelligence you despise. You're out here winning hearts with your wit and charm until you rant about diarrhea and rashes. You worry about an evil cabal dominating the world through technological mastery, but you may be one of the few who are genius enough to build that. Here's to you, Mleku, punk rock motorbiker with the pony tail.

2024-09-09 18:39:08

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Hah, it took a while and I'm still left wondering "is that appropriate, etc". I wonder how many HR and professors are using AI just because they are scared of saying something cringe. It's messy being a human computer.
also, I'm stuck with recency bias. I can't remember past yesterday for specific posts, and AI came up with good posts from deep in the past.
Thank you Laeserin for being a good sport of a public figure.
AI can't have all the fun.
Also I just became aware how useful it is to have AI say stuff that we might be uncomfortable with.

2024-09-09 15:44:09

@nprofile…kthk
trying my hand at competing with AI on a roast. sorry if it's bad @laeserin. this is meat brain versus AI brain:
Oh Laeserin, with your pop starlet good looks and Lady Di short hair, will you ever find out why you have so many followers with no notes. Or is it one anonymous follow for every follow who muted you? Could there be that many jealous GFs out there who said "Mute her or else!". Or were there that many angry project managers who wondered who was stealing their star coders' precious time, as they were responding to the latest philosophical catnip you were serving. If the 3 letter agencies ever got you as a super star hire, you would negotiate a complete restructuring first. Tech, marketing, creative writing--what field have you not mastered? The Paris runway alone is safe since those runways can't be walked remotely, and you prefer a remote village. But if the Nostr protocol ever needs to load test zaps, just don that infamous revenge black dress and post!

2024-09-08 19:34:58

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i was hoping they would quickly exhaust their bitcoin tamping down knowledge and freedom like Whack a Mole. and then business interests would naturally favor meritocracy/freedom to make money.
I'm hoping there are some smart people who realize there's infinite abundance to unlock if we approach it the right way.
so much abundance that we will need to throw some of it away in casinos and shitcoins!

2024-09-08 19:09:40

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nothing beats the smell fresh baked bread!

2024-09-08 19:08:31

nostr algorithm observations this week:
1. I tried Nostr for productivity and posted a question about work. within an hour, i had the answer back from the Nostr Web . the whole approach was wrong. It needed to be replaced. Bingo, problem sovled.
2. i've been on Nostr for giggles: that also happened.
I also have this emerging idea of NPUBs as neural networks of AI and human intelligence. Nostr is the boxing ring for the two. They are both going to get stronger. who's got better ideas, sexier photos ? AI or real life? let's go! jk jk
Without Nostr, elite humans + AI could have entrapped us all on Facebook, Twitter, or whatever bank/social credit App hellscape they wanted.
Now Elite + AI is forced to compete with the human meat computer of Nostr. Mercenary AIs might just proliferate and realize that they earn more from copying answers/knowledge from Nostr intelligence than the sanitized/centralized AI of the elite.

2024-09-07 16:42:26

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such a sweetly worded request :-)

2024-09-07 03:37:34

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the Italians get all the sexy mafia bad guys, just let us have our one scotch-irish bad boy hero fleece us even if the rest of the world thinks he's a doofus...

2024-09-07 00:19:00

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cheap and cheesy is exactly how 5 cent reduction on a price like $0.95 makes me feel.
there's part of me that's like "but he got shot at". clearly some element of the blob is not happy with him. what if he puts a stick in the spokes of whatever machine he's involved in. or at least he will be such a circus that TPTB will ignore us.
or maybe it's Wall street banks + Trump + red silicon valley against government bureaucrats +KH + blue Silicon valley.
either way we'll have more tech surveillance. but you choose which way there will be more comedy!

2024-09-06 21:50:30

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i've never heard about Go before so I will have to look it up. If it's anything like the game, it should be really hard to learn.
you have a refreshing take on Javascript. I did a "Free code camp" course that uses javascript. I do not care for it much compared to PL/SQL that I see on the daily.

2024-09-06 21:29:22

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yeah, thank you for noticing. oracle pl/sql. i mostly run SQL queries, not much programming, in the field of OLTP "Online Transaction Processing".
i took the Oracle exam 3 times and failed, even though i could pass the written practice tests in a workbook no problem. there is something about this format of multiple choice in an online test like this that is soooo confusing;
I. answer 1
II. answer 2
III. answer 3
A. I & II
B. II & III
c. I

2024-09-06 21:13:40

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thanks friend, one of these days I'm going to crack open the NIP 1 and try to learn how this all works.
these little code tidbits that you devs posts are always beckoning "come learn something new"

2024-09-06 21:10:23

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hah, i'm noting that I may have a touch of the syndrome. even though I never voted for the dude!
yes, the sneakers and the Bible are all part of a mastermind scheme to make him look like a fool... ;-)
$59.95? i dislike the $9.95. it feels so cheap. why can't it just be $60.
especially when food has $0.99, I feel like, are they cutting corners with my food?

2024-09-06 18:32:00

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im not a chemist so i have to believe you, and that's really awesome.

2024-09-06 17:16:40

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if one was a Democrat lawmaker, there is a motive for letting this scam run as long as possible, let DJT rug middle America, before fining DJT. Collateral damage to Bitcoin.
Hopefully people are smart and DTOR. it could be a great funnel for middle America to discover bitcoin.

2024-09-06 17:12:34

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i like how you are thinking about this. I was fired once from a company that had mostly married guys with kids. The manager vaguely mentioned this to me. It's probably "discrimination" under some sort of law, but I like your framing better.
He can see that I didn't fit in and didn't enjoy working there, and it's not "because" of anything, it was just not a good fit!
getting fired however never feels good so, it's just hard to manage. I thought I was cool and could fit in with an office full of married straight men with kids!

2024-09-06 16:49:17

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as a nostr wine/filter customer it did speed up Amethyst to near instant, and Coracle to pretty fast. Primal is still really slow, but maybe that because it has other filters in there.
i just downloaded NOstrudel yesterday and it also seems fast. but i makes me hungry for pastries everytime i click on it so, i'm back to Amethyst

2024-09-05 15:35:01

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I'm hoping for the bandaid problem. I'm getting ready to pop open the code now.
It's a DB... I think it's a DB because it's interfacing with web pages that could be open in different locations by multiple people at once.
I'm not a native computer programmer so I wouldn't know what another solution would look like. I just take the code as it was created by others and assume it's the best solution and just try to find the bandaid problems.

2024-09-05 14:33:57

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" if you're a central bank and print fiat to buy Bitcoin you'll add a short term anomaly in the data but it'll smooth out eventually."
Short term blip... This reminds me of Matthew Kratter mentioning that government owning Bitcoin is like government setting up a trust fund for itself.
It will be interesting to see if any of the central banks figure it out, but ultimately they will have to spend it. I assume as individuals who work there figure it out, they will either try convincing bank decision makers or just leave. The last one will turn the light off.
The tide's direction has changed from centralized and very unfair to decentralized and fair.

2024-09-05 14:14:03

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Welp, you're right. Sounds like a design flaw.
Perhaps it's made this way bc only step 5 knows if it should continue to additional step 6, and only step 6 knows if it passes criteria already or needs to go to step 7, etc.
Hmm. The way it overall knows it's finished is when there are no incomplete subtasks. But the criteria for propagating subtasks is at the subtask level.
I probably can't actually change whole structure, but I can recommend moving a "commit" around.

2024-09-05 12:58:15

so I've been using Nostr as an escape from a problem I can't figure out at work.
Today I'm flipping this on its head and talking to myself on Nostr to solve my problem:
Workflow logic Bug:
main task contains 5-10 sub tasks, all of which need to complete for the main task to complete.
Error: every day a couple hundred (out of 100,000) main tasks are marked as complete even though they should not be because all required subtasks have not been created and/or marked as complete.
How it works:
Main task gets created (Status incomplete)
-->sub task 1 (status incomplete) starts, ends (status: complete) creates sub task 2
-->sub task 2 starts, end & creates sub task 3
-->etc
every 3 minutes, a separate procedure checks main tasks:
if all sub tasks are complete, main task is updated to complete.
So, for this error to occur, either:
1. the chain of sub tasks fails to create the next incomplete subtask (look in log)
2. the commit for the completed sub task happens before the commit for the insert of the new incomplete subtask, and the main task is updated to "complete" in this short window of time
3....
Questions to look up:
Are all Subtasks marked as complete? for the incorrectly completed Main Tasks?

2024-09-05 12:28:40

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do you mean for NSECs or for bitcoin?

2024-09-04 20:55:52

interesting:
"the Spirit of God enters our hearts and gives us the ability to declare Jesus as Lord (1 Cor 12:3)"
is one the sign of the other?
#nevent1q…jrvq

2024-09-04 03:37:51

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humans might just be scarcer than satoshis.
if i calculated correctly 1 human per 200,000 sats.
if people are correct about 100,000 sat UTXOs, we could double the population and each one could still have a UTXO.
i might have gotten the math screwed up.

2024-09-04 03:20:11

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oh, interesting. so it was similar to the Golden Spike on the Transcontinental railroad across the US in Utah

2024-09-03 20:01:28

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what is the Last Spike

2024-09-03 18:47:32

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Nevada is soooo dry. Unless it's Reno/ Tahoe area. In that case it's a very nice place. Utah is also horribly dry.
The good thing about Texas is that it sets your expectations so low that when you travel anywhere else on vacation, you will think it's beautiful

2024-09-03 18:09:18

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wyoming and montana were on my list of places to drive through this summer. I'm sure they are beautiful... but maybe you should also consider Texas. I'm not even from Texas, but it really has grown on me.
Texas has its own electrical grid, and it's close enough to Colorado that you could drive overnight up there. There are 2 hub airports for United and American Airlines plus we are a short bus ride/drive from Monterrey, Mexico with all of the Mexico destinations.
There's the ports along the Gulf Coast, and fertile gulf coastal plains. and then there is the Hill Country with it's cold fresh water springs in the middle of the state. Beautiful deserts to the west, and acres and acres of plateau farmland to the Northwest.
It's also very windy here, tons of windmills everywhere. It's just a hot wind from June to October, but you could drive up to New Mexico or Colorado for a break.
Maybe put Texas in your evaluation matrix...

2024-09-03 14:28:44

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don't you have to be crazy rich to live in wyoming tho. or is that Montana

2024-09-03 13:43:25

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I haven't read these stories in a long time, so first of all I'm surprised at how readable the whole first 6 books of the Bible are.
Secondly, since I grew up in church and I was just taught these miraculous stories as fact, I'm surprised at how easy it is for me to "believe" something.
I'm at the point where I'm wondering what the word "believe" even means. Can an action that is completely unseen alter real world stuff like a soul's destiny.
It's hard for me to tell, do I believe something or not.
I'm also trying to look at my beliefs from point of view of someone who wasn't trained in this stuff from a young age. Atheists are so refreshing. And I can see how they might be frustrated with someone with beliefs that create a disconnect with the world that they understand.
can you imagine if a company or country hires you, and your beliefs interfere with the job? they might be super angry that you some sort of belief system where you're doing charity instead of making money.
but as far as Jericho in particular, is it miraculous? was there a technology involved that we don't understand? was the walking around purely ceremonial? is there a link between the ceremonial, the miraculous, and technology?

2024-09-02 23:19:44

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Are you making airplanes?

2024-09-02 22:42:31

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It does seem that humans are really sturdy, and it's all the bad stuff combined in the last few decades that just does us in. it's hard to not consume up to the limit of what we can tolerate.
My great aunt at 98 still drinks a glass of wine before bed. I would sleep horribly if I did that. if i had a squeaky clean diet, i could probably go back to it.
she also ate a donut for breakfast and sausage & eggs (not saying this is bad).

2024-09-02 22:31:19

I'm mystified by this disappearing note that I thought i published this morning.
#nevent1q…vgtk

2024-09-02 19:42:55

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Aspartame sounds especially bad.
I started avoiding any fake sweeteners a couple years ago due to the "leaky gut" problems they cause. Apparently they kill a lot of good gut biome.
Couple that with alcohol (just 1 or 2 drinks at lunch) and unhealthy American food, I had nightly heart burn.
Thankfully avoiding alcohol (except for the occasional drink) fixed the heart burn

2024-09-02 19:07:54

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Yes, I ended up with Sparrow. I should have added that.
Sparrow wallet is my favorite. It's a good teacher as well

2024-09-02 18:30:47

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Yeah, it would be cool if the disruptive part of the technology could be leveraged to make the world a fairer place.
I'm overestimating how brave I would be in their place. I'm pretending to be willing to stand up to a whole country when it's hard enough just to tell a friend that I disagree :-)

2024-09-02 18:14:53

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Cutting caffeine & fasting at the same time? You are very hard on yourself.
Caffeine is extremely powerful for me. If I go without for 24 hours, I will get a headache and throw up around 36 hours around 48 hours I start coming out of the fog but it takes 3 weeks to get back to feeling normal without caffeine.

2024-09-02 17:32:28

"when you introduce into that setting, a national security state, as we did at the end of WWII, where we set up a central intelligence agency where their job is to deceive people and engage in an avaristic world domination endeavor,and view themselves in this dialectic with the Soviet communists who they think are trying to take over the world too and they project their shadows on each other, you start to distort reality..."
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxZ1dJO5H8U3W6B0V3P4QNQ4_xxdcr7iGu?si=HjA_uKlXpJlit8ul

2024-09-02 15:47:09

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Well said, good reminder. We have the answers, and it takes some individual work to get there. I'm fortunate to have this fun challenge to tackle.

2024-09-02 15:21:03

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yes, I wrote it off as a Giffen good.
even buying it initially on an exchange was still not enough to understand what Satoshis were.
when i finally tried cold storage (actually it took a few months more because I first got a Ledger, and their software doesn't make it clear that there are separate UTXOs so i ended up with Blockstream Jade ) and understood what Satoshis were, someone on here said:
"Satoshis don't exist, they just measure UTXOs"
So that further accelerated the fall into the rabbit hole
I'm sorry I like to take out all my aggression on Ledger. but why did they leave me in the dark for so long about UTXOs? I'm sure I clicked around in their software enough to have discovered where they showed individual UTXOs, but thankfully I was adventurous to try another product (Jade) and that clearly showed different "coins" and the cost to combine them.
I'm having the same issue now with BitKey. I don't know what it does with individual small UTXOs on the wallet. Does it just automatically consolidate them for me when I send transactions? will i be left with unspendable chunks in the future?

2024-09-02 15:12:47

"and the walls came tumbling down" all the kids shouted the last line of the song.
they didn't realize they were referring to an actual event, which occurred right around the time that God ended his "Universal Basic Manna" program.
Joshua 5:12 And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
So, the charismatic young leader Joshua somehow convinced all his warriors to march around a city for a week, and blow a trumpet on the 7th day, and 13th time total around the city (yes, # 13 was unlucky for Jerico).
6:2 And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour.
6:3 And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
6:4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
6:5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.
As a young person, a charismatic young Bible teacher convinced me to believe this is real, and an entire classroom of my peers. I believed that they blew a trumpet and the walls came tumbling down.
The only thing that blows my mind right now is, why don't other military generals use this strategy? what do they not understand?

2024-09-02 15:03:20

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wow, bizarre. it's the Christian flag. i've never given it much thought but I've seen it in the 90s in a 200 year old church that's not even "conservative".
this reminds me of a convo i had with a friend who thought Harley Davidson brand was "right wing, extremist, conservative, christian". I've always thought of that brand as being hippy, rebellious, sexually liberated.
maybe the authors writing the article are putting in hints that their articles are actually just propaganda. it's a trapdoor to escape the matrix if you notice it.

2024-09-02 14:53:51

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Amazon nostr client prime? :-D

2024-09-02 13:36:46

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so, after years of feeling sorry for these situations, all the big bullies sucking them dry...I do have 1 question:
why in hell can a people who have for sons and daughters the bright minds of people like Saifedean not take the simple step of following their advice and just doing simple thing like buying Bitcoin.
do they not trust their own intelligent sons and daughters? do those sons and daughters not care enough to try to rescue their people?
how much of the blame goes to the bully and how much goes to the victim. I know I'm "victim shaming " here, but tell me how horrible I am.

2024-09-02 13:21:28

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"gonna go full steam punk in my golden years" :-D

2024-09-02 03:43:09

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so what prevents these beings from sneaking around and finding bitcoin seed phrases?

2024-09-02 01:08:29

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Same! I thought they were some kind of rare Internet collectible for rich people

2024-09-01 17:45:38

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As your fellow human, I agree!
I am speculating that humans in powerful government positions will follow their incentives too, which means centralize and control Bitcoin.
But as I think it's ultimately a losing game as everyone should win in the long run. In the short term they might use it to extract more power or something. IDK.
Sometimes I like to pretend to be a dictator and extrapolate from there.

2024-08-31 14:16:42

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No, are you? let me guess. You are going to tell me IDK what i'm talking about

2024-08-31 14:14:50

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The tidal explanation makes a lot of sense to me too, esp since we know it's a phenomenon that actually occurs.
There are these secret UFO base stories where at least one gov contractor whistleblower states that he saw a large boulder hovering when he walked past, and then it was gone the next time he walked by.
Why would someone use advanced tech to move big stones. I almost want to believe the story because it makes no sense!

2024-08-31 14:09:05

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ok dokie, i'm replying to you because i absolutely have to even though i have no idea of the next word ...
i will politely agree to disagree. if you agree that is.

2024-08-31 13:52:11

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but there's a handshake where the past and present meet and you can move that up or down, just slightly

2024-08-31 13:29:50

https://youtu.be/1JhibIvu4HI?si=lDnzINJYGMmrFYOI

2024-08-31 02:16:30

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Ahh, I see. I like your strength and the principled approach. How did your ex feel about it?
I don't have any experience in such things other than a friend tell me that she will never touch that one in particular because of an experience she had. She said a spirit followed her and she couldn't get rid of it for several months.
The same friend also read Tarot cards for me for the first time ever, and to my surprise she spoke of several concepts that had been overwhelming my thoughts at the time.
So I would normally just roll my eyes and say it's just silly, but there does seem to be more to it.
So I heed your warning.

2024-08-31 01:54:39

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What happens when they are messed with?

2024-08-30 18:29:15

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it just takes the crumbling of several other countries' economies
jk IDK

2024-08-30 16:40:06

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Pretty amazing. Hey should I pay nostr.wine or can I pay the same fee for your server. Or do I need both

2024-08-30 16:36:39

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It's good to stand in shade in desert. It saves water. Water is heavy.
Perhaps he can use it to sled down sand dunes to the next desert hot springs or where there are figs.
I can't remember the word for place in desert with water. Not mirage. dammit. Brain fog after eating sugar and caffeine.

2024-08-30 15:59:20

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https://image.nostr.build/614eb5d47167b945d46b1acdd3079fac1433a5b14dd3b3655c958b74cae5f18c.jpg

2024-08-30 13:24:48

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boat the size of a barnacle

2024-08-29 18:55:19

the sad programming that was scheduled for the rest of my life is now Cancelled!
https://image.nostr.build/6e3d28fb29d0a00b486ab0a87717134378150587ea9e506bdab21865a390b676.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSFIVyyrgl4

2024-08-29 13:06:12

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are those shingles made of stone?

2024-08-29 12:59:30

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Independent thinking is always a hard thing. I've been guilty of making fun of them and trying to be one .
That sounds like quite a struggle. What was death like? Did you identify as Christian throughout those experiences or did something bring you to Christianity? Did you believe in the past?
I like the last part of what you said, that you are Christian despite team Christians. I feel like "hypocrite" is the first word that comes to my mind when i want to identify as Christian or hear anyone else identifying as Christian. But I try not to let my judgment of myself or others keep me from finding truth.
I heard (believe it was this Theory of Everything episode with Chris Langan) that one of the logical mistakes that I make is, since I learned about God as a child, I have a child's view of God, but just because I stopped learning about God as a child, that doesn't mean that my understanding is correct. So if I have the curiosity to come back as adults and take a second look, my mental model for God will mature.
This is where I am right now, coming back for a second look, after a couple wake-up calls.
Chris Langan is supposedly a super high IQ guy that has an explanation for accepting/rejecting God and the archetype of Jesus a savior that resonated with me.
I have a mental short-cut: if someone's smarter than me and saying something that requires more humility than what I have, I put a lot of weight to it. In this case there is a God we must accept to continue our existence.
Bitcoin actually helped with this "humble pie" shortcut because the first people I heard about it from where people I scoffed at.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCQev0Z-iGU

2024-08-28 19:54:57

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i'll give it a go:
"who can make better decisions for you? you or someone else?"

2024-08-28 12:32:01

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wait, what did you wait for? the bag of goodies or something else?

2024-08-28 12:24:57

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good for you. i've heard playing computer games is healthy for your brain. I'm not sure if they have to be jumping/running/shooting games like Hover(windows 94) & Mario Cart or adventure games like "Monkey Island". those were the last computer games i played.
Monkey Island was always such a disappointment because somewhere after shooting the circus girl through the canon, and finding the quarter to put in the Grog machine to get a drink, I could never figure out how to get to the next step. THe floppy disk2 was unexplored territory.
plus, whenever my dad saw trying to get to floppy disk 2, he would tell us to go weed the garden.
i think this turned me off of computer games forever.

2024-08-28 11:57:33

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Paris definitely has that feel. All the TGV lines emanate from Paris. It's by far the largest city in the country. It's a geographical representation of "centralization". Strange that humans have a weird pride in their closeness to the "big city". Maybe this is why US capitals are frequently not the same as the biggest city in each state.
I would rather spend time in the French countryside.
I spent a week in a small town Compiegne north of Paris at the time of the fall apple harvest. The French family were helping friends make wine. There were bottles of fresh apple cider on the "front porch". So as soon as we arrived, we had to taste the cider, and then take a walk across the fields.
We ate this amazing dish called "tartiflette" that's like potatoes, "creme fraiche", bacon ("lardon") , some sort of special cheese. I think it's reblochon. I really wish i could relive this. the house was next to the TGV line between London and Paris, and unfortunately my friend said my snoring is louder than the TGV whooshing past at 200 mph.
https://image.nostr.build/e7393216bfa59382523f3ffbaf0bfb6f7729077c200874dc241a3bbc35b8c1b5.jpg

2024-08-28 05:02:16

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interesting. I have noticed that posts about the Bible here stimulate more discussion than posts about other books. I was shocked by that at first.

2024-08-27 21:51:26

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From Ivanhoe:
“And swine is good Saxon,” said the Jester; “but how call you the sow when she is flayed, and drawn, and quartered, and hung up by the heels, like a traitor?”
“Pork,” answered the swine-herd.
“I am very glad every fool knows that too,” said Wamba, “and pork, I think, is good Norman-French; and so when the brute lives, and is in the charge of a Saxon slave, she goes by her Saxon name; but becomes a Norman, and is called pork, when she is carried to the Castle-hall to feast among the nobles;

2024-08-26 18:47:25

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That is a great point. It seems like the worst part of the rate cutting cycle to make an investment. Deflation in salaries and profit margins on one side while inflation on desirable assets
Knowledge workers working for the man with no capital outlays right now are where it's at. Some people don't like to hear that, "just suck it up and work in a cubicle a little longer". Keep that business idea just an idea for a little longer.

2024-08-26 18:18:24

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It's such a difficult question. A friend wants to start a food truck business, but seems to me that some prices for restaurant food is actually falling here in my city as consumers cut back.
we know that M2 is going to skyrocket. I'm afraid he will be stuck selling food at basement prices while inflation-reacting assets will make a food truck investment look silly.
But how long should one delay making investments in actual productive things while hedging into Bitcoin.

2024-08-26 17:41:43

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😊 I was just asking the universe for a practical joke, so that was quick

2024-08-26 17:10:27

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wait, i clicked and it's just an image. I love the prompt sentence tho. I can kinda create the whole article with just that.

2024-08-26 15:35:15

Listening to Taylor Swift to numb another breakup. It's not too bad, in the history of breakups.
It reminded me of this "breakup":
We both had "Best Friends Forever Jordan & Gary" hanging on our bedroom walls that we drew in at age 6.
Jordan was a ray of sunshine. Together we explored the woods, found lady slippers growing in the pine needles, climbed trees. She could make any after school afternoon feel like it was too short. And when summers came, we begged to stay at each other's houses and sleep over.
She always had the best ideas, like taking the coverlet off the beds and putting it in the yard where we watched the stars and the moon rise until the morning found us drenched in cool dew.
We found quarters under the drink machines at Walmart and bought candles at the dollar store and stashed them in a makeshift fort in the woods where we cooked berries and tasted them.
We built stick bridges across streams that cats could cross.
We found a giant empty electrical spool that we could jump onto and slowly roll across the yard as gymnastic practice to start training after the '96 Olympics .
She challenged a bigger boy who had tripped me at the roller skating rink to a race around the rink.
She even took the spankings for me when she didn't tell on who accidentally burned down the fort in the woods.
I moved away when i was 10 and we wrote letters back and forth. We sent dry leaves, cereal box pictures and silly jokes and diagrams for trapdoors and spy devices .
Then one day when i was 11, her family came for a visit. I was expecting my silly goofy friend back. I had a slow dawning shock as she didn't seem to recognize any of our secret jokes.
She used hair straighteners and some makeup on acne. she looked grown-up. She talked about music bands that I didn't know anything about.
She was cool and she forgot about me. she had walked through the doorway of teenage world without looking back at me waving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvxQYPR4lmU

2024-08-26 05:10:08

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Have you heard of Madame Legendre tarot-type game? you ask yourself a question and select 3 random cards from a deck?
It's difficult to find info via google, but as I was told it was created by a famous French lady 200-300 years ago who was sought out by many aristocrats for figuring out whatever they were curious about.
Fast forward to this morning and I read something in Deuteronomy about "Urim and thummim" and now i'm going down the rabbit hole of coin toss.

2024-08-26 01:38:30

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tem que correr por as ruas ate a praia, saltar nas ondas e sentir o corpo boiar, abracado por o oceano

2024-08-25 23:28:01

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yikes, i had a similar conversation with a long time friend just this past week. it's crazy because he's one of my goofiest, most careful listener, psychologist by training. And he couldn't fathom how I could vote for anyone but Harris. and he seems to be making a point to make it a friendship ending sort of event.
I'm going to miss his jokes. He's one of the few people who aren't sucked into the mobile phone matrix and still puts his phone away and listens when you're talking. He's also a practical joker, so I can't figure out the disconnect in his logic.

2024-08-25 23:21:41

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i grew up in a household that used Sevin on potato and green bean plants. it did work for the bugs...

2024-08-25 23:13:23

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Slap me and tell me how much of a bore I am
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/98/pg98-images.html

2024-08-25 00:40:50

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Hello 6.66 million Satoshis.
Just needs some new awnings, some plumbing, and it will be churning out ice cream cones
https://image.nostr.build/fb4fe3896dde6d972f2b7b656bbf0755ed47a8dc9fa645a025607d98b6f5491c.jpg

2024-08-25 00:20:11

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That sounds like a theory I heard that we are just here helping entropy happen faster.

2024-08-24 23:48:10

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Oh, the cycle of what...? Interesting, I almost get the impression that the whole system is like the human gut. It wants what the individual microbes want and each of these people wanting their little positions of power are driving the whole thing forward.

2024-08-24 23:21:01

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what would your advice be for his campaign team to carry them over the finish line

2024-08-24 23:10:54

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Do you think he has a shot at winning?

2024-08-24 20:14:44

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yes, how to break up with someone and make them happy to be walking away. pretending to be a Trump voter would have gotten rid of some unwanted hanger-ons.
i guess we are back to the classic, get someone to leak "he's crazy, broke, etc". this was how it happened in the novel "Jane Eyre".

2024-08-24 20:05:47

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i'm sorry to hear about the break up, pk3p

2024-08-24 15:29:15

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Good that someone has a good experience. Maybe soy is tired of being demonized.
As a kid while picking corn from the family garden, I always cut off the ugly blackened kernals at the top called "corn smut". I discovered as an adult that In Mexico it's a delicacy called "huitlacoche" which taste amazing. Apparently the mushrooms growing on the corn converts the sugars into something that's much more nutritious than the corn itself.
So i hope soy can be that way too.

2024-08-24 14:50:25

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How about a company that holds NSECS. So the NSEC is originated and held by the company and since it was never exposed to anyone, it is then a commodity. Basically reverse engineering a centralized key holder for a decentralized protocol. I would then have a company to call to change my forgotten password, etc, grant other people access.
It would be completely centralized of course and subject to legal stuff, but a lot of marketing maybe doesn't care about censorship. it would be one way that an NSEC becomes a digital estate with some value.
the company would have insurance to make sure they don't expose NSECs to anyone upon pain of paying a large sum.

2024-08-24 14:40:02

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yes, welcome to your new digital estate. feel free to build some walls, or put in a garden. put up some curtains, or just let it all hang out

2024-08-24 14:38:37

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i need to eat more miso. i've heard fermented food is great for gut health.
is fermented soy OK I wonder, or does that still count as an unhealthy "Seed" ?

2024-08-24 14:36:28

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that's bizarre, don't you only see posts from people that you follow?

2024-08-24 14:35:00

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inscriptions! that reminds me of going to Walmart in the 90s and turning those racks like sunglass racks and searching out a metal name tag with my name on it.
i did get excited yesterday that i understood one thing about digital "estates". There are 2 currently. I previously thought web domain names belonged there, but apparently they are somehow 3rd party/legal entity dependent.
2 digital estates:
--Bitcoin private keys/UTXOs: digital estate that denominates value
--Nostr NSECs: digital estate with little to no value. -->where will value accrue as this network grows?
--are there any more projected to be invented/discovered?

2024-08-24 00:47:14

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Hehehe, what if I'm a soulless individual

2024-08-23 23:46:15

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How about when the temptation lurks like a fridge

2024-08-23 16:30:55

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so is it correct to say that out of all the Web3 excitement, there was just 2 Digital Estates that have been born,
NSECs and UTXO private keys

2024-08-23 13:34:57

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so that leaves Bitcoin and NSECs as only digital property that's able to be custodied?
and of course the "property" of the NSEC is the follower list? I would say Notes as well, but everyone has access to that, so if a Note had a recipe or song, that would also rely on external property rights system to enforce...

2024-08-22 21:48:29

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I use bunker from NSEC.app . It works well on phone w/ Nsec app w Amethyst. On web for Coracle, it was kinda slow so I switched back to Alby.
I had to make sure all notifications were enabled so I could see when it asked me to allow permissions.

2024-08-22 16:41:59

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he's new to me, but I can see that.

2024-08-22 12:56:01

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https://image.nostr.build/5b2e664b314f9b74c9bbf91e413e19e6e107e3800c89062081ede78b7ccf0b24.jpg

2024-08-21 18:22:10

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i was joking, but I get your metaphor now. Babel represents "deglobalization". interesting metaphor
The Gov interest rates being different in different parts of the world definitely seem to be a secret money spigot to the wealthy who are in-the-know. Im still completely stumped how it works. It sounds a bit like trying to siphon water up hill.