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Considering that virtually all politicians in the world are spineless, soulless, parasitic swine... it says a lot about the person who is moronic enough to pay actual money for a freaking photo with a politician...

2024-08-23 12:09:15

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Here is an excellent explanation:
https://x.com/basedpatriotx/status/1826392447737385389
and
https://x.com/basedpatriotx/status/1826398240243143083

2024-08-23 00:03:34

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You should team up with @npub1dtg…up6m
https://remnantchronicles.substack.com/p/reviewing-reviews

2024-08-20 16:53:40

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So what you are saying is, this Nostr thing has zero chances of ever going mainstream? 🤔

2024-08-20 03:22:29

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Now the channel has been opened. 🥳

2024-08-19 07:28:14

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I'm still waiting for an invite since over a month...

2024-08-17 03:24:42

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All these Korean dramas that I see my mother in law watching on TV all day long...
They are basically nothing more than fashion shows... every scene is just two people standing at some location and talking to each other, with some silly piano music in the background...
This can basically be produced by a single person now, with incredibly beautiful looking people and outrageous fashion.
The script can be written by AI as well and would probably be better than the real dramas.
Crazy times ahead.

2024-08-15 04:41:27

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If I create an anonymous identity to post something, how do I make it known?
I guess, tag some well known accounts, hope that they support my cause and ask for a re-share?

2024-08-14 07:37:17

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"Google and Meta collect vast troves of personal information on their users and receive hundreds of thousands of requests every year from governments around the world to access that data"
Nothing stops the big boys to sync all data from all relays and then get deep insights into every Nostr user (and de-anonymize them) as well, right?
Nostr doesn't actually solve the "data ownership" problem. It makes it worse, because there is no delete, what you post here will truly haunt your for the rest of human existence.

2024-08-13 10:11:38

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I don't see notable battery drainage from Primal on iOS... I think Twitter actually drains it more when used equal amount of time.

2024-08-12 23:30:34

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Are you following the discussion of relays getting too big and too costly and thus shutting down?
It seems inevitable to me that relays will eventually only keep 30 days of events per user (even that would be 12TB per day if Nostr had Twitter scale, so even that is not feasible for anyone but industrial relay operators).
So it would seem that Nostr is not suitable for apps where events should be stored reliably for a long time.

2024-08-12 07:12:36

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Why would that feel like "an effort".
Just do it :)

2024-08-10 15:48:34

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Being on Nostr doesn't really help if they can still identify you and throw you in jail.
People would have to post anonymously, and in ways so that they can't be doxxed, which can be hard especially when they report about things happening on the ground, citizen journalism style.

2024-08-10 13:34:09

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Is your friend actually Singaporean? It's quite tough to get the "license" to homeschool here, at least for locals.
I will start a group on meetup.com next month to build my network here.
There was an article on CNA recently about homeschooling in Singapore:
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/homeschooling-not-faint-hearted-family-parents-children-education-big-read-4379321

2024-08-10 10:41:26

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-and

2024-08-10 10:40:24

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Not a mum, but and a dad who retired in order to homeschool my daughter in Singapore. Hoping to get some insights and inspiration from you :)

2024-08-10 07:51:02

Very interesting debate.
Thinking about this: We will never build something the scale of Twitter with the relay structure that we have right now. Twitter generates 12 Terabytes of data per day. There is no way that relay operators will store all of this for all of time for free. This is natural. A decentralised system will always be more expensive and wasteful than a centralised system.
I am actually PAYING MONEY for a SaaS that deletes my tweets after a week (although I have no doubt that the NSA stores it all for eternity anyways).
It seems, we need to rethink what "social media" is supposed to do: It is supposed to be a network to spread information quickly around the globe. Something like a digital neural network.
It is maybe NOT supposed to be long term memory as well. Maybe if we want to create a lasting legacy of content, we need to find other systems. A self hosted personal blog would be the obvious way - if we can circumvent the need for the centralized and censorable DNS system (Tor etc), that would be good enough for censorship resistant long form content.
So I think, if Nostr relays by default only store events of the last 30 days, that would be good enough - AND EVEN THAT would still be infeasible for all but the largest and well funded relays if we would reach Twitter scale.
#note17ye…gx0a

2024-08-08 12:45:48

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How do you do that as a client developer? You would have to make a new release with a hardcoded blacklist? Your client already makes requests to some central server of yours to retrieve the blacklist?

2024-08-08 12:07:18

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How?

2024-08-08 08:10:04

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Are clients really relevant for censorship resistance? It is the relays that can censor, not the clients.

2024-08-08 04:35:39

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To gain mastery through repetition.

2024-08-07 03:40:57

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AI can already do that as well...

2024-08-06 04:43:05

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Do states import immigrants because they want to make the world a better place, ir because they want to fix their own broken birth rates and prevent the country from dying out?
I think no state takes in immigrants for humanitarian reasons. They all do it because some spreadsheet warrior has calculated that each dollar invested into an immigrant, the immigrant will eventually bet the state many more dollars in tax money.
Of course those calculations are hugely flawed, similar to our climate models or Keynesian economic models.

2024-08-05 20:00:11

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The Three Body Problem is amazing (must read all three books!). And there is even a pretty decent Netflix series now.

2024-08-03 13:51:00

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I realise there are probably many here who don't want to click on a Youtube link, so here's the summary:
- The conversation involves Elon Musk, DJ Sa, Matthew McDougall, Bliss Chapman, and Nolan Arbaugh discussing Neuralink and its implications for humanity.
- Nolan Arbaugh is the first human to have a Neuralink device implanted in his brain.
- Elon Musk mentions that the second implant has gone extremely well, with over 400 electrodes providing signals.
- The team aims to have 10 human participants by the end of the year, learning from each implant to improve the technology.
- Elon Musk predicts that in the coming years, the number of electrodes will increase dramatically, improving signal processing and potentially reaching communication speeds of up to a megabit per second.
- The conversation touches on the potential for new ways of interacting with computers and other humans, provided they also have Neuralink devices.
- Elon Musk discusses the possibility of improving intellectual discourse by increasing communication speed, comparing it to the current experience of listening to podcasts at faster speeds.
- The team discusses the concept of memes as data compression, conveying complex ideas quickly through symbols and shared understanding.
- Elon Musk speculates on the number of electrodes needed to significantly alter human experience, suggesting that 10,000 or more electrodes per second could vastly exceed current human communication capabilities.
- The conversation explores the idea of modeling the mind state of the person you're communicating with, compressing concepts into syllables, and the potential for more verbose communication with increased data rates.
- Elon Musk mentions the long-term aspiration of Neuralink to improve AI-human symbiosis by increasing communication bandwidth, even in benign AI scenarios.
- The discussion touches on the role of humans as a source of will and purpose, with the cortex serving the limbic system's desires.
- Elon Musk describes humans as already being cyborgs, with our phones and computers acting as a tertiary compute layer.
- The conversation delves into the potential for merging with AI to expand human compute capabilities, and the fundamental question of the meaning of life and the role of AI in making the human limbic system happy.
- Elon Musk shares his thoughts on the importance of adhering to truth in AI development, warning against programming AI to lie for political correctness or other reasons.
- The team discusses the potential dangers of ideological bias in AI, using examples like misgendering and the importance of rigorous adherence to truth.
- Elon Musk emphasizes the need for AI to align with collective human will, increasing data rates to improve communication and understanding between humans and AI.
- The conversation touches on the potential for hundreds of millions of people to have Neuralink devices in the future, with superhuman abilities and memory upload capabilities.
- Elon Musk discusses the challenges of scaling AI training compute and the importance of having the most powerful training compute to win in AI development.
- The team explores the potential for Tesla's real-time video data and Optimus robots to provide valuable data for AI training.
- Elon Musk shares his thoughts on the importance of reducing government size and spending, and the need for a government efficiency commission.
- The conversation touches on the challenges of maintaining civilization, including birth rates, avoiding massive wars, and managing the accumulation of laws and regulations.
- Elon Musk emphasizes the importance of having enough children to sustain civilization and the potential for population collapse if birth rates continue to decline.
- The team discusses the potential for Neuralink to help people with neurological issues, such as spinal cord injuries, schizophrenia, seizures, and memory loss.
- Elon Musk shares his thoughts on the potential for Neuralink to restore vision for blind people by directly stimulating the visual cortex.
- The conversation explores the potential for AI to improve human capabilities, such as communication speed, memory, and understanding the universe.
- Elon Musk discusses the importance of AI safety and the potential for Neuralink to help align AI with human values.
- The team touches on the potential for Neuralink to improve human-computer interaction, with applications in programming, communication, and more.
- Main message: Neuralink aims to revolutionize human capabilities and AI-human symbiosis by increasing communication bandwidth, improving neurological health, and exploring new ways of interacting with technology.
- The brain's electrical activity is responsible for everything we see, love, and find beautiful.
- Bliss Chapman, brain interface software lead at Neuralink, is motivated by helping people with spinal cord injuries or ALS gain independence.
- Independence for people with severe disabilities can mean different things, such as the ability to communicate, work, or respond to their children.
- The problem of providing independence through technology is an engineering challenge that can be addressed with the right resources and team.
- Bliss supports various assistive technologies beyond BCIs, such as eye tracking systems and speech detection systems.
- BCIs offer unique advantages, especially for people with spinal cord injuries or paralysis, by providing a level of independence and autonomy.
- Bliss was part of the team that interviewed and selected the first human participant (P1) for Neuralink's clinical trial and was present during the first human surgery.
- The brain moves significantly during surgery due to breathing and heartbeat, which was a surprising observation for Bliss.
- The Neuralink implant is active during surgery, allowing real-time monitoring of brain signals.
- Bliss describes the excitement of seeing live brain data and neuron spikes during the first human surgery.
- The Neuralink system samples brain signals at 20,000 times per second across 1024 electrodes to detect neuron action potentials.
- Different methods, such as convolutional filters and spike band power, are used to process and detect neuron spikes efficiently.
- The Bluetooth communication protocol and screen refresh rates are current bottlenecks in reducing latency for BCI control.
- Bliss aims to build the best mouse in the world, envisioning a future where people with paralysis dominate esports due to superior BCI technology.
- Decoding brain activity involves a training step where users imagine movements and an inference step where the system maps brain data to computer control.
- The calibration process for BCIs is crucial and involves both open loop (following a cursor) and closed loop (user control) tasks.
- Nolan Arbaugh, the first human participant with a Neuralink implant, has achieved significant progress in controlling a computer cursor and playing games like Webgrid.
- Nolan's journey with the Neuralink implant has involved overcoming challenges such as thread retraction and adapting to new methods of spike detection.
- Nolan's performance in Webgrid, a game used to measure BCI effectiveness, has set new records, demonstrating the potential of the technology.
- Nolan's feedback and collaboration with the Neuralink team have been instrumental in improving the app and overall user experience.
- Main message: Neuralink's BCI technology has the potential to significantly improve the independence and quality of life for people with severe disabilities, and continuous collaboration and innovation are key to unlocking its full potential.

2024-08-03 13:18:06

If you don't have time to watch 8 hours of two autists mumbling at each other, I have posted a summary of the recent Lex Fridman - Elon Musk podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbk9BiPhm7o&lc=UgzHMX6VToSk7hOCpMB4AaABAg
(see linked comment in the comments section)

2024-08-02 22:21:43

Can @Primal or Nostr in general support something like Twitter's lists?
Having one big chronological timeline gets too much to read once you follow around 200 people. Sorting them into lists and then reading about a specific topic is one way to manage information overload (and to remember why I followed someone).
#asknostr

2024-08-01 06:55:40

Highly recommend to watch this (and support the channel on Patreon):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_e2Zx7RHQ0&lc=UgwunSxRx-P8hPcwT4V4AaABAg
(linked to a summary in the comments, in case you don't have time to watch)

2024-07-30 02:07:20

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I have literally 100% of my family and friends and coworkers on Signal (I'm based in Germany and Singapore).

2024-07-29 01:07:32

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Sounds very socialist, though...

2024-07-28 09:38:15

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Why do you prefer @npub126n…e9ll over @npub1agh…mhct ?
I had a brief look at both and Umbrel seems to have far more apps?
I am running Umbrel and already am pissed that there is no easy way to mount additional external drives, so using something like Jellyfin or Immich is basically a no-go since the disk will already be full just with bitcoin/lightning stuff.

2024-07-28 09:33:30

I see zero buzz around #holepunch /#pear - despite big Nostr users like @npub1a2c…w83a often name dropping it.
They released keat.io years ago and to this day have nothing else in their showcase.
What's going on? Was it vapourware after all? Are there nasty constraints with the "Pear stack" that make developers shy away from it?
Is keet, a remote control app and Holesail exhausting all usecases for this framework?
Are there hidden cost?
Why isn't there an explosion of Pear apps yet?
Would be curious to hear from people who have dabbled with it. On paper, the whole thing sounds too good to be true, so I can't help but wonder why there are no apps...

2024-07-28 09:26:29

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I keep thinking about this a lot:
https://substack.com/home/post/p-143905948
A web of trust / social graph on Nostr could be the piece of the puzzle we needed to unfuck the internet and finally selarate signal from noise again.

2024-07-27 04:17:24

Been using Nostr heavily for a week now.
The difference in tone and attitude is striking.
Virtually every post on X is negative, aggressive, insulting.
Almost all posts on Nostr are positive, respectful, motivating.
This is how Twitter used to be when I was knee deep in web-dev.
Using Nostr instead of X is definitely healing for the brain. No brain can withstand the 24/7/365 barrage of doom and gloom on Twitter without getting its chemistry out of whack.

2024-07-27 04:13:00

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Sadly, it requires an Alby Account and I'm ~#4000 on the waitlist :/

2024-07-26 16:48:43

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Will this ever be available on Umbrel?

2024-07-26 14:30:39

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I just installed it on Umbrel and I got 1.3.3

2024-07-26 05:15:17

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I feel like these cards would always be outdated half a year later as bigger and bigger models come along.

2024-07-25 23:09:59

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There is no way you will ever run the 405bn parameter model on consumer hardware.
For all the smaller models, a M3 MacBook pro with maxed out RAM works incredibly well. The M3 chip architecture makes it so that all the RAM is available to the GPUs as well, so you can get up to 96GB of RAM.
I can run all the models with ollama with crazy speed.

2024-07-25 19:26:13

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Ah, found it: https://guides.getalby.com/user-guide/v/alby-account-and-browser-extension/alby-hub/alby-hub-flavors/umbrel-start9-etc. - the dot at the end is important but Primal client did use it as a full stop after the link and not as part of the link

2024-07-25 19:24:09

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Strange. I'm getting a page not found for that link?!

2024-07-24 16:08:05

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You can't get a truly anonymous Proton account. They require a fallback email during signup and don't accept shady email providers.

2024-07-23 04:56:10

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This sounds incredibly exciting.
My first thought: What if someone tries to DDoS attack a web service?
Wouldn't that then in turn also DDoS many Nostr relays?

2024-07-21 15:57:06

Excellent article. Gets me even more hyped about Nostr and made me aware of Primal client.
#note1z9z…3kr6

2024-03-10 05:08:53

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Before we should worry to defend ourselves against the military, might still be worth arming up against small scale gangsters and assassins.

2024-03-10 05:07:50

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Buy guns that shoot nets?
Train some eagles?

2024-01-31 02:01:19

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We desperately need better tech for privacy, though. Especially in Bitcoin.

2023-12-30 17:14:43

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we will never see the Epstein client list.

2023-12-30 17:09:35

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how does it compare against Damus? Would it make sense for me to switch?

2023-12-26 00:12:31

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He looks exactly like you!! 🤯

2023-09-24 08:54:38

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why? they report about all big nostr developments, don't they?

2023-08-11 13:17:43

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Highly doubt that's the real Bezos.

2023-07-01 05:45:06

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This looks great. What happens when a page goes offline or when the content is changed so that the highlighted paragraph no longer exists?

2023-06-02 10:17:17

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I followed you because of this post https://twitter.com/erikcason/status/1664511563154489345 and I am not disappointed.
You are on to something. I feel exactly the same way.
Just: Who would have the long term determination and global reach to even plan something like this and then pull it off for a hundred years?
I think there probably isn't a grand conspiracy, just incentives and organic trends and people who see the big picture and embrace the opportunities.

2023-05-04 18:03:07

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I like them because the most relevant information is at the top. It's an efficient way of ingesting information quickly.

2023-05-02 08:54:40

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It's pretty meh over there. Overall vibe is too woke, development is very slow, signal to noise ratio is abysmal (just people posting trivial nonsense and patting each other on the back on how nice and welcoming the community is and how they wish it will always stay like this).
I strongly think that blsky is dead on arrival. Nostr already won.

2023-03-26 13:34:03

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There is zero chance that hundreds of thousands of people trying to figure the endless rabbit hole that is "self-hosting" have any chance whatsoever to fortify their systems against AI hackers and then keep then secure by constantly applying security patches.

2023-03-23 01:08:27

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Sadly, COVID has shown very clearly that people are indeed stupid and do indeed comply with anything the government says.
Furthermore, people do not think that Bitcoin is easy and many don't think that it is a viable alternative.

2023-03-17 08:56:14

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Far worse. It would be an evolution of fiat that makes already disgusting fiat a thousand times worse.

2023-03-13 11:19:23

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I'm on Nostr and Bluesky... use both daily. I can say with confidence that at least from the quality of messages and the general vibrancy and nood, Nostr is far, far, far better. Nostr will win and be the sole contender for a truly uncensorable decentralized social network.

2023-03-13 04:51:47

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On the other hand, two cops beating on a dude who is just standing there is one of the main reasons why we need to build something like Nostr.
It's as if the algo wants people to get hyped up for Nostr development.

2023-03-11 23:53:00

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So what you are saying is, we have zero security and privacy with you guys when we buy a silent.link esim, is that correct?

2023-03-10 17:15:52

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Exactly.

2023-03-10 17:05:20

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I assume its more because of the 30% tax on mining electricity in the US. But then again, it might just be the full moon. Who knows... who cares.

2023-03-10 01:48:15

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Nice and clear. I'm curious, why did you chose 2^85?

2023-03-09 08:33:21

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This sounds great. So now I'm asking myself: How can Cyberspace like envisioned here help us do things better in the real world? What does it allow us to do that we can't already do?

2023-03-08 14:45:57

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This much was already clear to me. So isn't it the same as a PGP key? What is new and special about DIDs?

2023-03-08 06:20:06

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*has
does the Nostr protocol support editing messages?

2023-03-08 05:51:28

Bluesky as 2000+ users now. Is there any way to know how many Nostr and/or Damus users there are?

2023-03-08 05:19:06

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I've been using Feedly for a decade and I don't have any complaints.

2023-03-08 05:16:00

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to be honest, your post still doesn't make it any clearer what DIDs are and why they are nice. It's still all very vague claims so far.

2023-02-26 07:53:29

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Climate change is caused by the earth's core, not by humans, and there is nothing we can do about it: https://theethicalskeptic.com/2020/02/16/the-climate-change-alternative-we-ignore-to-our-peril/amp/

2023-02-26 07:25:50

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Russia only needs five nukes that still work to wipe America off the map. You wanna bet that out of the thousands of nukes that they have, there aren't five or so that would reach five major US cities?

2023-02-25 07:37:27

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Likes / follower count can be signals that allow algos to pick the best messages out of an ocean of infinite noise. Of course likes and followers, being free, can be gamed, so zaps would be better.

2023-02-25 06:43:10

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damn typos 🙈will there ever be an edit button for Nostr? 🥺

2023-02-25 06:42:01

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I'd say it will fuel it even more. First, you focus in making great content which will earn you actual money, so you make even more great content, and then when you have a huge following, you earn extra money from putting product placements into your great content.
Bow you just have to find the sweet spot where the product placement earns you more than the lost zaps from people who are pissed by the product placement (which should be trivial, most people don't give a shit).
So now, zaps actually enable wannabe influencers to bootstrap their "venture" since they can now earn a little money right from the start, before they even got really big.

2023-02-25 04:39:03

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I mean... given how many people make a living off being an "influencer" it does seem like follower count is a pretty important metric for many people.
But I agree. It should not matter. Engagement numbers with the content that is created should be enough for "influencers" to negotiate their rates.

2023-02-25 02:41:20

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Ordered my copy :)

2023-02-24 09:26:31

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Embrace the fact. Our children don't even need any kind of degree any more in order to compete in the job market. They only need above average attention span. Easily achievable via good parenting.

2023-02-24 03:32:21

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Jimmy Song os gonna hate this once he realizes this...

2023-02-23 00:26:51

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I usually just kill the mosquito.

2023-02-21 13:59:24

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As I said, try it. You won't get an account without giving an email or a phone number.

2023-02-21 09:58:02

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Try it. It is almost impossible.

2023-02-20 07:33:14

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First of all, why do we care what Shitcoiners do over here? They will definitely come and there's nothing we can do against it.
Secondly, "they can't do that on Nostr" - how do you mean this? Anyone can do anything on Nostr.
Lastly: I am using Nostr for over a year and I don't even know how to make a Lightning payment. It's not needed at all to use Nostr.
Also, couldn't they just use the Nostr protocol to write their own clients that integrates their shitcoins?

2023-02-19 12:52:05

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Why do we have to keep migration to inferior platforms?
All knowledge on bitcoin talk is still discoverable today.
You can find stuff on Reddit, if you search hard.
Finding stuff on Twitter is so hard it may as well be impossible. It's a stream of consciousness and then gone.
Finding stuff on Nostr is actually impossible.

2023-02-19 12:48:49

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I don't see why Shitcoiners wouldn't eventually arrive here as well and spam their bullshit into every thread.
This will happen IF mainstream ever arrives here (which is a huge huge if).

2023-02-19 03:44:13

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Are you able to share an invite code, #[1] ? 🙏

2023-02-17 05:02:02

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To be honest, this is a pretty shitty article. Very confusing to read, almost like written by ChatGPT, the author clearly isn't sure at all what nostr is and how it works. Completely unclear how nostr and bitcoin are connected.

2023-02-16 10:01:29

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@jack on Twitter made me look into this again.

2023-02-15 01:33:24

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Unlikely. It's not like obese people can't already see healthy people today. They truly believe that it's something about the genes and not really in their control.

2023-02-10 12:11:05

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Digitization of consciousness will not be possible in any proper meaningful way in our lifetimes. People who are into it will have a rough awakening when they realize that consciously emerges as the result of signals sent by ALL cells of our body, not just the brain.

2023-02-04 07:30:57

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Isn't this basically dead on arrival? You can't turn this into a full blown NFT "industry" because on-chain fees would immediately balloon, making everyone immediately lose interest in this concept.

2023-02-02 02:36:13

Damn. Damus didn't work for me for weeks. Turns out, the default relays that the app sets up were all yellow. Added all the other recommended relays and the app started working again.

2023-01-10 09:53:16

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I've been using it on iOS for a year or more. It's OK, but it definitely has bugs where it just totally freezes once a week or so. Never figured out what exactly causes it to do that.