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Looking it up, apparently they have a mode of operation where the seed is decrypted with the help of an oracle server, the goal being to increase the security in case someone gets hold of the hardware wallet and tries to extract the seed

2024-07-30 20:16:32

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I'm confused, how does the Jade wallet work? Why does it need an oracle?

2024-07-30 20:06:44

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does the Jade wallet always phone home to Blockstream's server? Or only if you use it with a specific software wallet?

2024-07-24 20:26:21

I'd be very surprised if there were any big announcements from Kennedy/Trump at the Nashville conference. It's probably just another campaign event for them

2024-07-03 17:01:52

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when some people got the power to decide what constitutes hate

2024-07-01 16:29:25

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Agree, this is awful, code hardly ever gets simpler.
Same for legislation.
A rewrite is an awful amount of work/pain, hence rare. And cleanly simplifying something complicated is much more work than just throwing an ugly patch on top, so technical debt accumulation is almost inevitable without a strong quality culture

2024-06-28 14:56:19

when you make something great again for the second time, is it making it great again again?

2024-06-25 20:20:39

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Epub is rubbish for math though

2024-06-25 16:41:04

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do you have a link to that?

2024-06-25 16:36:38

Glad for Assange and his family. Do we know how long this plea deal has been an option for him? I'm wondering if it's been on the table for a while, and he finally accepted it as a last resort.

2024-06-21 16:18:28

How widely is OpenTimestamps used in Nostr? (e.g. NIP-03)

2024-06-21 12:50:27

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strategically low time preference, tactically high time preference

2024-06-21 10:57:01

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To me, time preference is about the timing of unpleasantness/sacrifice. A high time preference decision is one that defers unpleasantness to a later date, with a pleasant outcome right now. A low time preference decision accepts unpleasantness in the immediate/short term, with the outlook of pleasantness later on. We all make both types of decisions (both large and small), but some people are more prone to one type.

2024-06-20 17:35:15

Remember to stack freedom units

2024-06-19 10:09:58

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I think there is an incentive to repeat old content, yes. Then you're in "commodity" territory. But there is also an incentive to generate new knowledge, which puts you in the thinkers club, who get invited to all the podcasts.
I hardly know anyone who listens to old podcasts, except if they are specifically interested in something niche, or the episode is so good that it's become sort of a classic.

2024-06-18 17:52:22

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Interesting observation. Repetition may be natural, people don't follow 1000 podcasts, but maybe one or two. Therefore, every podcaster will almost be expected by their audience to cover many/most aspects of the topic. In fact, a podcast will largely do their own learning by having conversations with the same experts that already appeared on the 1000 other podcasts, i.e. the podcast essentially documents the podcaster's own learning journey.
I agree that this does not necessarily contribute to existing knowledge, however it creates a kind of learning community. Almost nobody wants to listen to old podcast episodes from a few years back, and they also want to interact with the podcaster on social media. So, it won't push the state of the art, but it will onboard new people who could one day contribute to it.

2024-06-18 17:06:18

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"That's why the dollar had to be detached from gold."
No, Nixon decoupled the dollar from gold in 1971 because some countries (e.g. France) were demanding to redeem dollars for gold as originally promised under Bretton Woods, but the US very likely did not have enough gold to cover the dollars it had printed.
I agree that a deflationary currency discourages spending compared to an inflationary currency, but I don't see that as a bad thing. It discourages *stupid* spending, and encourages *sensible* spending.

2024-06-18 13:13:01

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Our current system is debt-based. If you take out a loan/mortgage in dollars, the bank wasn't previously holding those dollars, they get created upon your agreement to repay. So "who in their right mind would hold the dollar" is already true today.
Under a Bitcoin standard, lending and borrowing will become less common, because it's tougher to pay off in a deflating currency. Higher risk of default means more stringent conditions for lending, which means fewer loans.

2024-06-18 12:00:09

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Ok, you're talking about a scenario where Bitcoin is 100x bigger than it is today. I still don't know why anybody in their right mind would borrow bitcoin to repay in 10+ years, especially with the liquidation risk. It just seems like this type of lending will become rare.
Also, if Bitcoin becomes the primary store of value, it will demonetize real estate, so it's unlikely that any standard real estate would outperform the deflationary store of value (maybe some rare/premium real estate could).

2024-06-18 10:25:39

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The difference is that you don't easily lend money that you can't print at will. Lending under a bitcoin standard will involve much more due diligence, possibly the lender would almost always prefer to be an investor instead

2024-06-18 08:28:06

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Taking out a Bitcoin-denominated loan seems like a very risky proposition. It's equivalent to shorting Bitcoin

2024-06-13 20:24:49

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Do you consider that land can be owned? Animals?

2024-06-13 19:12:12

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Do you have a definition?

2024-06-13 18:55:24

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I agree with you that states tend to corruption.
What you wrote above does not make sense to me however. If person A believes that object X is their property, while all other persons in the universe do not, what should be done? How is property decided?

2024-06-13 18:47:36

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I'm genuinely curious why you hold these views, I'm trying to make sense of them

2024-06-13 18:45:47

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I've only asked questions so far, so I'm curious how you reached that conclusion

2024-06-13 18:42:18

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I assume the answer is no then. Is your best explanation that it does not exist because everyone is a retard?

2024-06-13 18:36:46

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does a society currently exist, in which you would like to live?

2024-06-13 09:43:38

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Or wear a cape and mask

2024-06-13 09:22:30

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Privacy and public square are tricky to combine

2024-06-11 21:17:48

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I agree with hardly anything of what you wrote above.
But let me ask you: what would the place that you would like to live in look like, and how come it doesn't exist?

2024-06-11 20:54:15

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Depends where you live, but defense, schools, hospitals, roads, trains, police, courts, etc.

2024-06-11 14:48:29

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The thing is, on-topicness is in the eye of the beholder, so it can't really be an objective metric, needs to be personalized 🤔

2024-06-11 14:44:59

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good idea! 👍 Need to couple it with a usefulness/on-topicness metric though, as randomly generated posts would have high SME

2024-06-11 08:53:20

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If your only objective is to live without paying taxes, you can probably manage somehow, but it seems like a strange objective in life. It also seems hypocritical if you're living in a country where you use services financed by other people's taxes. What is your main reason?

2024-06-10 23:51:45

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This guy literally researches which *countries* will be nicest for you, in terms of tradeoffs between rights and privileges and taxation.

2024-06-10 23:36:37

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Well, surely you can point us to the many examples of free peoples in the world, living free like the wind without any country collecting their taxes

2024-06-10 23:28:01

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it's calling dibs and using their country's army to convince everyone of the dibs

2024-06-10 21:59:02

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If there is no country, it will take about five minutes for another country to decide it's part of their country now

2024-06-09 13:19:59

Is Ark a larp, a distraction, or a serious L2? #asknostr

2024-06-07 17:14:23

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But is the patient aibohphobic or cibohphobic?

2024-06-07 16:03:57

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Every topic has subtopics. For instance, should economics be shortened to econ or econs? (Austrians will scream based on your answer) 😄

2024-06-07 15:51:24

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would you shorten statistical mechanics to stat mech or stat mechs?

2024-06-05 16:53:01

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From what I understood, you're saying that there should be an initial 'anchor' person, to seed your information and refer to other sources. How do you find this person (and decide whether they're credible)? Gut feel?

2024-06-05 14:46:17

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in general, given a claim that you want to verify, how would you proceed to obtain credible evidence?

2024-06-05 14:26:18

The world is going to get much more confusing. Decentralized media means that information can't get suppressed, but we'll also be awash in misinformation and disinformation. Not that MSM didn't partake in that of course, but they largely did so in unison which was somehow "decodable". How to make sense of the information landscape going forward will be a formidable challenge. Bring it
#nostr

2024-06-03 13:25:46

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https://www.omerisms.com/blog/2022/11/18/memento-homo

2024-06-02 13:29:05

brick maxi
https://m.primal.net/IVyA.png

2024-05-31 22:15:21

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Does Arnie have an npub? 🐕

2024-05-31 21:17:50

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Thomas Jefferson wrote, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Quite likely applies to the Bitcoin protocol somehow. Every so often, power grabs will occur, and battles will ensue

2024-05-31 14:53:45

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can you say more about boards? where?

2024-05-31 14:37:27

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That's true. The unfortunate side effect is that your timeline gets plastered full of "GMs" 😅

2024-05-31 14:35:56

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Since we don't really have "topics" in Nostr yet (besides hashtags), the obvious Schelling points are the big account GMs.
Come to think of it, we should really be going after the Reddit market, instead of the X/Twitter market 🤔

2024-05-31 14:31:38

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I don't care about followers, I care about conversations. Most of my notes just fall into the nostr void, unanswered by my 480 "followers"

2024-05-31 12:10:14

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Credit score = Slave level

2024-05-31 10:58:01

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How come web sockets don't work well on 5G?

2024-05-30 14:05:11

PSA: if you're angry at a person, simply based on their religion/race/age/gender, you should reassess

2024-05-28 20:59:40

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This, and all kinds of outrage bait gets mixed in

2024-05-28 11:25:30

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You utterly failed at not making me grin

2024-05-25 21:23:35

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I also had awful headaches and general miserable feeling when trying to stop coffee cold turkey. Fwiw I weaned myself off over about 6 months, going quickly down to 1 cup, then an ever smaller fraction of a cup.

2024-05-25 10:10:13

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He would probably have to rethink how social media fits into "man's search for meaning", and how it enables a kind of voluntary panopticon

2024-05-23 21:33:28

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Gotta math-stretch sometimes

2024-05-22 19:01:35

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Thanks Jeff! Can you recommend a good resource for learning more about the game theoretic lens that you mentioned recently? That is, on the cooperative bitcoin game, as opposed to the fiat prisoner's dilemma? Have you formalized this mathematically, or is it based on intuition?

2024-05-22 18:56:38

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Mandibles is scary af. So plausible

2024-05-20 13:37:40

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UX and network effect are both needed. Network effect would be most powerful if there is a benefit for whole groups to use #Nostr (in addition to the benefits for each individual in the group)

2024-05-17 12:11:26

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I like the concept, but Arrow's impossibility theorem is a bummer

2024-05-16 11:36:46

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Bribe the staff with some sats

2024-05-16 09:24:31

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Home made lunch is worth it imo. It has the love ingredient. If healthy options are available on site, maybe alternate

2024-05-15 09:57:10

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You secured the fanciest silver in the world

2024-05-15 09:31:20

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Can you expand on this? I am familiar with the prisoner's dilemma. Are you saying that the "fiat game" is a prisoner's dilemma (with mutual defection as Nash equilibrium), whereas the "bitcoin game" has a Nash equilibrium for mutual cooperation? I'm fascinated by this, would love to know how you come up with the reward functions.

2024-05-14 14:51:41

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1) DO WE HAVE BETTER STATS?
2) TRUE!
3) AGREED BUT WE SHOULD IDENTIFY ADOPTION BOTTLENECKS

2024-05-14 13:33:20

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SER WHAT IS KEEPING US FLATLINED?
https://primal.b-cdn.net/media-cache?s=o&a=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fm.primal.net%2FIGPn.png

2024-05-13 22:19:05

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oh, yeah, no reason to use v2 ever again afaik

2024-05-13 22:03:24

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Installing python is a pain. Anaconda is the best bet IMO. Just leave the system's python alone, use virtual env for everything

2024-05-13 17:51:41

What's our "glass ceiling" ? #asknostr
https://m.primal.net/IGPn.png

2024-05-08 16:43:15

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https://media1.tenor.com/m/lx2WSGRk8bcAAAAC/pulp-fiction-john-travolta.gif

2024-05-07 18:06:57

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I think that's preferable to having one that takes two thirds of a line so that many commands will spill onto the next one, and output is not aligned with the command.
But best is clearly a short prompt string.

2024-05-07 17:30:33

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I think a commencement speech is a poor choice for pitching bitcoin, doesn't come across as tasteful

2024-05-06 16:38:12

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do you have a business subscription, or consumer? If consumer, they likely have some small print saying that they're allowed to throttle you if they deem your volume excessive

2024-05-03 21:00:32

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The ETFs will definitely be against privacy

2024-05-03 20:41:47

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@npub1m4n…c2jl This is what I meant:
#note1acv…0f28

2024-05-01 14:14:49

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Indeed, you can't prevent filtering, although you can improve the chances by subscribing to multiple relays, especially relays that you have in common with your follows.
But is there a nostr client that mixes in crap you didn't ask for? I think that's the main problem with "the algorithm". I'm amazed at how much outrage p*rn gets shoved down your throat in Twitter/X, Youtube, etc.

2024-05-01 13:49:17

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When people talk about "the algorithm" in a vernacular sense (i.e. not the technical definition), they mean the thing that chooses what they see in their social feed. All mainstream social media select content for you, promote stuff you never asked for, while not necessarily even showing you all the messages from the sources that you specifically subscribed to. That's "the algorithm".
The clients that I use in Nostr don't do any of that. They just show me the notes of people I subscribed to, end of.

2024-04-30 21:11:44

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I made a fresh account on Twitter recently. I only followed a few large-ish accounts, and the algorithm fed me massive amounts of outrage fodder

2024-04-29 21:01:29

How long will the "then they fight you" stage last? Predictions? #Bitcoin

2024-04-29 17:44:32

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Did someone fix nordstream or something?

2024-04-28 13:00:32

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I mean, there's not a single fresh vegetable or fruit in the picture, no decent piece of meat, only junk. From a European perspective this looks like abuse 💀

2024-04-28 12:28:46

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are people really eating all this stuff on a daily/weekly basis?

2024-04-26 15:36:09

MMT is like subprime mortgages for nations

2024-04-26 15:31:21

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How does it supercharge fiat?

2024-04-26 14:15:41

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Strike has KYC, right? What they're hostile to is non-KYC.

2024-04-24 19:37:23

Bot hyperinflation? 👀
https://void.cat/d/Bjt1onHvKGY4yHdoVBr9Zg.webp

2024-04-24 19:19:28

To those who think that shitcoins are slowing #Bitcoin adoption: maybe, but it keeps degens and fiat maxis away from us, so overall it's a fair deal

2024-04-22 22:03:45

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Seriously. How long until cryptographic signatures are standard for voice calls. Well, people still don't use them for email so I guess it will take forever

2024-04-22 21:55:22

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phone numbers are such a dumbass technology

2024-04-22 21:09:05

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Are LN addresses a rare commodity?
Although I have to admit that this time I did not get any new phantom followers (but I'm sure two thirds of my followers are bots)