DataNostrum

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 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?

2024-06-11 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?

2024-06-07 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?

2024-06-03 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 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 14:31:38

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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"

2024-05-25 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.

2024-05-14 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

2024-05-07 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

2024-05-01 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.

2024-04-28 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

2024-04-24 19:37:23

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

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)

2024-04-22 20:14:04

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not much sophistication required with LLMs

2024-04-17 22:41:16

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With the current board, definitely

2024-04-17 20:53:39

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Not sure about that, otherwise it would be the ETFs indirectly deciding what gets developed.

2024-04-10 22:04:47

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isn't gold at ATH?

2024-04-10 11:47:50

What's more terrifying, a powerful supervillain doing their best to harm everyone, or a powerful superbenefactor doing their best to force everyone to act in the common good
#asknostr

2024-04-09 13:04:54

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The lines on the bottom don't come from models but from observations.

2024-04-05 15:14:50

@npub1s05…eyhe great points on your interview with Francis! Especially elaborating on the idea that yelling at the system makes it stronger.

2024-04-04 11:40:05

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Dunno, I see some healthy rivalries for sure, but I don't think I'm friends with many people who don't want to see me succeed. Likewise, I can get jealous of a friend's progress, while at the same time being happy for them, as well as inspired to progress myself

2024-04-03 12:50:44

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😂 gm

2024-04-02 10:32:01

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Yes, we do it intuitively.
Making it explicit is a difficult job, I agree. Because the abstraction needs to be simple enough that people actually want to use it.

2024-04-01 21:33:44

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I only partially agree with what @npub1nxa…a6q8 said. In particular, he said "there's no instance that decides what's hate and what's not". I believe that is not correct. There is no instance that decides *for everyone*. But for example, each npub can decide what's hate from their perspective (and block accordingly).
Furthermore, since nostr is a free protocol, nothing keeps you from CREATING a new kind of instance that you trust to decide what's hate (or a certain category of hate) and relying on its judgment, for instance by granting it the power to block bad npubs for you.
In this particular case, this would likely be a group #Nostr ladies, who do have the lived experience of being harassed by assholes and creeps (unlike 99% of males who never even come across such a message). Such an entity could decide to "pool" their creep lists so that each member benefits from the work of the others.
Sorry if this has been tried before and I'm not aware of it.

2024-04-01 21:15:01

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It seems like a web of trust approach could be useful. For instance, you decide to trust fellow users X to identify who's a creep, and hence automatically adopt their creep block list. Maybe something like this already exists?

2024-03-31 00:31:51

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I don't know

2024-03-30 17:48:06

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TRANSITORY

2024-03-29 15:28:07

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Neotrad

2024-03-28 14:42:58

Is the MSTR premium a sign of irrational exuberance?

2024-03-27 14:38:58

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1. Sure, but those who don't care can easily get identified, and therefore the people that they interact with/follow are much easier to identify by deduction.
2. What's the material difference?

2024-03-27 14:29:29

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Do you want the degree or the knowledge?

2024-03-26 13:14:45

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Do you use Zettelkasten/knowledge graphs? I tried Obsidian but somehow got bored of it before it bore me any fruit. I do use Zotero though

2024-03-23 20:48:03

What are the odds that EU backpedals on banning anon wallets?

2024-03-22 16:08:22

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They don't own it though, their clients do

2024-03-22 10:44:00

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Is this about losing your device? From what I understood, you should be careful about what other software you're running while your M1/M2 is performing cryptographic operations.

2024-03-21 17:02:38

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Farmers?

2024-03-21 17:00:57

What's been your favorite experience on Nostr?
#asknostr

2024-03-20 08:46:40

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I'm not sold on this idea of a mint that can rug all its users, but maybe I'm not getting it. Can you explain why you think it's a good idea?

2024-03-19 09:00:06

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They are stored on relays, where else would they be? Although there is no guarantee for how long any relay stores your notes.

2024-03-15 23:53:10

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If hyperbitcoinization works, today's 10yo's will work for most of their careers in a world that doesn't constantly steal from them through debasement. Not so bad

2024-03-14 13:55:28

@npub1s05…eyhe can you do an AMA here on #Nostr sometime?

2024-03-11 22:47:41

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that you've both built and driven lambos, then got sick in them

2024-03-06 17:54:50

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unbelievable

2024-03-05 17:35:56

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Don't feel bad about that, I barely have time to check my feed, let alone follow who builds what.
But if you wish I was aware of your work, I suggest you post more notes about it (if you did and I missed it, apologies)

2024-03-05 17:33:49

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could be jealousy, or resentment because you're making them look bad in comparison!

2024-03-01 16:06:42

One life is too short for all the things I want to learn

2024-03-01 13:09:40

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-I said "What's up in DC, eh?"
-I thought you said "Let's up our DCA!"

2024-03-01 12:59:11

Flipping through this video by Mark Moss, I wasn't expecting to learn anything new, but I came across this excellent quip: The market of Bitcoin is *value itself*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDSLcyNPf2U

2024-02-22 14:47:58

uncanny similarity
#note12ue…0lmt

2024-02-20 18:28:19

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Cat's Cradle is fantastic #bookstr

2024-02-19 12:18:17

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Are the inhabitants of a dystopia aware that they are living in one? And do they know how they got to this point? Do they agree on this amongst each other?

2024-01-25 19:47:52

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I'm scared to look now

2024-01-24 08:47:54

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my impression is that it's too early for V4V on #nostr, this would need a critical mass of people, probably 100x more people than are on here now

2024-01-17 13:27:46

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Interesting, the *time* axis is in log scale. What other power laws exist that involve time as a variable?

2024-01-15 16:47:14

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Many men can't differentiate between a flirty look and a death glare

2024-01-14 15:05:11

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Bit early to tell after a few days of trading... I'd say 1-2 years is a reasonable time frame to assess before vs after etfs

2024-01-08 20:18:59

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So far the bots are quite lame, they mostly have zero notes published. I'm expecting ChatGPT-generated convos to flood the protocol soon

2024-01-07 20:32:44

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No doubt it's very early, and I much appreciate what you are building here. That said, I would recommend that you try the "newbie experience" every few months, with a fresh nsec and pretending to have zero inside knowledge about how stuff works here.

2024-01-07 15:54:52

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Agreed, but we still need to improve user friendliness, adoption is at stand-still:
https://m.primal.net/HWst.png
https://stats.nostr.band/

2024-01-06 20:32:58

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check your whining privilege

2024-01-01 22:57:17

Happy new year Nostriches!
Do you have any thoughts on FIDO passkeys?
#asknostr

2024-01-01 22:02:00

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is logseq like obsidian?

2023-12-30 08:59:27

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Trouble is, the code will still need to be reviewed. Programmers will become full-time code reviewers

2023-12-29 23:25:59

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next AI writes the specs too

2023-12-25 22:19:31

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Hey @npub1qfk…j6kq, are you posting much less than you used to, or am I somehow missing a relay?

2023-12-13 20:03:06

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Did anything surface from memory? I still haven't found it

2023-12-08 20:09:13

Hey #Nostr, any movie buffs out there? Got a challenge for you. I am looking for the title of movie, of which I only remember the first few minutes.
The movie starts out with an AI interacting with a human operator, and through manipulation tactics, it succeeds at "breaking out", by obtaining access to the internet or something.
But then, it turns out that this was just a simulation – everything up to that point in the movie happened inside a simulation, run by the humans, specifically to test how the AI would behave. (The simulation is then shut down).
This all happens within the first few minutes of the movie, but I can’t remember the rest!
Can you help me find the title?
#asknostr #nostrmovieclub

2023-11-30 10:54:10

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So you believe that the bitcoin economy would get bigger if, say, the G20 decided to make holding bitcoin illegal for their citizens?

2023-11-30 10:38:14

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And what would be a desirable outcome from the all-out war?

2023-11-30 10:13:00

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The peaceful adoption that is happening is a blessing IMO, why would you wish for an all-out war?

2023-11-26 20:56:54

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Don't follow them back, they're bots and if you follow they've successfully gamed WoT

2023-11-05 14:22:02

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I agree that hitting a like button takes no 'work', but I think that's not the point.
The point is to endorse something. It's a social gesture, like typing out the words "I like it".
Zapping is ok, but to a random man on the street, see which of these they would prefer, when you respond to them on something they said:
1. Telling them "Good point, I like it", or:
2. Giving them a fraction of a cent/penny

2023-11-05 13:49:21

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Words are also free, should we get rid of them too?

2023-11-02 20:37:30

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I definitely want a cold one. Sparrow seems to come up a lot. Do you have any favorites on the phone?

2023-11-02 14:19:40

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GM! Have you read 'The Sovereign Individual'? Interesting thoughts and maybe a good follow-on to Mandibles + Bitcoin Standard

2023-11-02 08:30:07

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I mean the FSF's definition of 'free' because it grants four freedoms (bad name I agree)
- The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
- The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
- The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).
- The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms

2023-11-01 17:13:32

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"that's *our* job"

2023-10-31 23:01:15

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TIL there is a Tetris movie

2023-10-30 13:54:20

I think over 50% of my followers are bots with 0 posts, all followed within the last month. Have you all noticed the same? What should be done about it?
#asknostr #nostrdev

2023-10-29 22:24:30

Whether or not Drivechains are a good design (not sure yet myself), the glaring problem is that it's difficult to understand, and that is incompatible with #Bitcoin imo. Bitcoin shouldn't require a PhD to understand or explain

2023-10-27 20:38:50

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GM, is there a RHR today?

2023-10-15 19:52:40

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Say more!

2023-10-03 20:20:21

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Why not use it now? Why wait until SHA-256 is broken? If we use it now, it feeds into the accumulated PoW.