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When you’ve been an underfed mule for most of your life, I can understand how the pig’s life looks appealing.
I can’t fault people for being too tired to see the bigger picture.

2026-03-18 17:07:51 UTC

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They don’t even know enough to realize that there are differences. To them, SQL is SQL, and relational databases just implement SQL. And that’s it. So it doesn’t matter, probably, except for highly specific scenarios.
They see the lower level stuff as a place for specialized optimization. They don’t see it as a foundation.
I see the same thing in all disciplines. The old ways are just that - old - and maybe are important on the edge. Otherwise, it’s not needed to learn the history of your craft.
Meanwhile I find I’m drifting further and further back in time in terms of seeking out new knowledge. And that’s because I see a lot of the conveniences of today becoming a hindrance for tomorrow in a world where money has value and so quality is king.

2026-03-18 15:26:14 UTC

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I run into that everywhere. Even in software. The abstraction levels are making it to where the “kids” with 10 years of experience have no idea what makes, for example, one database different from another. This leads to grossly ignorant decisions that end up costing a lot later.
I’m finding it challenging as an old fuck with lots of experience trying to guide them toward the curiosity needed to be better.
But the fiat mindedness - that’s hard to break.
Reality will kick in soon enough.

2026-03-18 05:41:24 UTC

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I mean, most are somehow in tech or tech-adjacent fields. There’s a lot of commonalities you could find.
The problem is that someone who’s labeled INTJ today may end up being an ESFP tomorrow. That’s the issue.

2026-03-18 05:28:51 UTC

Awww yeah!
#nevent1q…rnln

2026-03-17 15:10:43 UTC

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Meyers-Briggs is all marketing. Huge foundation behind it. No one in psychology takes it seriously. OCEAN has actual studies backing up the claims and has no foundation.
Otherwise, right there with you.

2026-03-14 20:27:13 UTC

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I do t think Proton ever said they wouldn’t work with their (Swiss) govt.
You don’t use Proton if your threat model involves hiding from nation states. In fact, you don’t use *email* if that’s the case.
You DO use Proton to prevent your data from being *sold*. Same with Tuta and other paid providers.

2026-03-14 20:24:49 UTC

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But.. then I can’t make blanket comments and dunk on something and tell myself “I’m important”?!

2026-03-14 19:00:08 UTC

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I would love this. Those that post a lot tend to have less meaningful things to say. It’s either shitposting (which can have its draw) or just blatant attention seeking.
This would be independent of replies, right?

2026-03-14 17:34:13 UTC

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Librewolf is a fork of Firefox with all of this built-in and a very hardened set of defaults. It also strips out all of the Firefox bullshit like Pocket and other “features”. Highly recommended for a typical browser.

2026-03-14 17:30:12 UTC

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Yes. It limits their creativity. This leads to less novel solutions. It also impedes learning. The more variety of models in your head, the easier it is to learn as you find similar bits of models to help speed up building a new model.

2026-03-12 03:13:08 UTC

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Solid points. Thank you for the rational thinking!

2026-03-11 02:42:57 UTC

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How am I outing myself as anything by questioning you? By suggesting you’re advocating for centralized algorithms?
Well let’s think through this…
Algorithms curate content for unique individuals. This means they need lots of data on the user in order to do so.
Rossman is advocating for no algorithms. You don’t like this. You go so far as to call this “sick”. Therefore, you clearly *want* algorithms.
If the algorithm is decentralized, then that means it’s distributed. So everyone’s individual data needs to distributed so that an algorithm can come to a consensus on what to show each individual..? This is insane. And retarded.
No one is going to want to process other people’s data. There’s no incentive. Not when the alternative is the algorithm running on the individual’s client. And that’s pretty much entirely within everyone’s control on nostr, YouTube, and any other tool that allows you to search, view tags, view followers, mute what you don’t like, etc.
So given that this is solved, and you’re still bitching, I assumed you were advocating for a centralized algorithm - the alternative to a distributed one.
So if you’re not, mea culpa - you’re just insane and retarded. My bad.

2026-03-09 23:25:55 UTC

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Exactly.
Most people don’t understand the first thing about security OR they don’t want to take personal responsibility.
…or they just want to dunk on someone for fake internet beauty pageant points.

2026-03-09 23:24:33 UTC

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That’s not how the MLAT works. Extra-judicial governments go through the local government. Therefore, Proton only ever hears from the Swiss government. The Swiss government may be acting on behalf of the requesting authority, but it still goes through them.
So Proton isn’t misleading. They’re being perfectly clear.
So what’s the issue, then? Is it that people don’t understand nuance? Big fucking “yes, sir” on that one.
Is it that people have a completely unreasonable expectation to think that Proton is going to deny requests that the Swiss government backs? Yep.
Is it that the these people believe that, by some miracle of technology, Proton can magically ensure that the data is encrypted perfectly from the sender to them, and that all other mail relays honored that? Probably so.
Could it be that these people have no idea how this works, and sure as hell don’t want to take personal responsibility and encrypt their own data before sending it to/through Proton? Definitely.
As said above, one uses Proton to prevent their data being sold. Not to protect from nation-states. That’s what personal encryption methods are for. Or not using public services at all, for that matter.
This is all just attention-seeking theater.

2026-03-09 23:13:39 UTC

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People also conflate threat models.
If you’re worried about the government, then you shouldn’t be using email - which was captured a long time ago. Even if Proton DID block all governments - including the Swiss - the feds can just go to the other end. Odds are good most of the people complaining receive email from non-proton mail relays. That’s ALL insecure.
IF they were really being genuine, they’d just encrypt their mail content before sending it through proton.
No, the reason you use Tuta or Proton is because you still want/need to use email and you don’t want to be spied on by your provider (like google/microsoft/hotmail). That’s it.

2026-03-09 22:45:01 UTC

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If the suits want war so bad, can they just pay for it themselves? That’s really all I’m asking for.

2026-03-09 22:01:30 UTC

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“Sick”? Really?
You’re on a decentralized network, use decentralized tools per your other posts, and you’re sitting here advocating for centralized algorithms?
And those that don’t are “sick”?
You don’t see the problem with this thought of yours?

2026-03-09 21:57:55 UTC

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Amen.

2026-03-04 05:52:25 UTC

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The cost of AI will drive to zero.
Hard to imagine, but that is the function of technology. To deflate. It will only accelerate as new AI models outperform older models.

2026-03-04 03:28:17 UTC

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Remember qetest? Pepperidge Farm remembers. Ah, good times.
We need more game developers like id of the 90s.

2026-03-04 03:05:19 UTC

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Thanks for the heads up - found the job post.

2026-03-03 19:39:59 UTC

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Thanks for your response. This is absolutely the best case scenario.
Hats off to the graphene team and Motorola. Pretty refreshing to see this.

2026-03-03 01:10:59 UTC

Reticulum needs waaaay more love.
#nevent1q…dwsm

2026-03-03 01:01:38 UTC

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It’s like they don’t understand opensource at all.

2026-03-03 01:00:19 UTC

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Fantastic news!
What are the terms of the partnership? We’re all a little paranoid, so even a little transparency about money changing hands would be very much appreciated.
If no money changed hands, awesome! And good for Motorola.

2026-03-03 00:47:51 UTC

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I need a good alternative. Tuta is similar and arguably worse jurisdiction. I’d abandon email altogether if the world didn’t demand it. I can only self-host so much.

2026-03-02 19:46:03 UTC

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Ugh, meant to say good parts and bad parts.
I’m not for adopting it.

2026-03-02 19:44:01 UTC

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For the record, I’m not a follower of any “side”. I think raising the limits on op_return was dumb, at best. I also think bip110 has some good parts to it.
For now, I’m running btcd.

2026-03-02 19:41:56 UTC

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Isnt op_return necessary to verify the block? And witness data isn’t?
Pruning witness preserves validation paths moving forward, no?

2026-03-02 16:11:11 UTC

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Nice work. But I don’t think this curve will hold. I think we’re in the plateau of an s-curve. If the thesis of “global trade settlement via bitcoin” is right, the USD price is gonna follow an s-curve with the inflection point being the point in which adoption by a top-20 country demanding bitcoin for exports occurs. This is how the dollar will end.
But who knows!

2026-02-27 04:10:46 UTC

So where this makes sense to me is not a “pay your bills” strategy. With that strategy, you’re exchanging a credit card for a loan using your bitcoin as collateral. If you pay off your loan every month, cool - little to no interest. But your coin is still at risk, however small. Use your credit card.
Now, where this DOES make a lot of sense is taking any remaining emergency fiat savings you have, putting it all in bitcoin, and let the CAGR do its thing. And if you need cash, quick, you use this loan. Buys you time and lets you get completely out of fiat without much risk if you need fiat.
#nevent1q…7t47

2026-02-24 19:14:08 UTC

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100%. I know it’s hyperbole, but it sure feels like bitcoin truly is the last free market sniffing things out before everyone is forced to realize it.

2026-02-21 23:18:56 UTC

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Dig into neural nets more, my friend. LLMs are just one kind. The real innovation is happening at deeper levels. This is just the first big wave of many more to come.

2026-02-21 20:04:13 UTC

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I’d add to this multi-model verification of the plan and all invariant constraints (testing procedures, dependency checking, etc)

2026-02-21 20:02:06 UTC

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With you, in general. But blaming the AI ain’t it. The problem is the prompts. Most junior/non-devs never even think about security. If you include a security invariant plan, the resulting code will be far more secure. This should include a protocol for which libraries to use outside of the std lib for whatever language you use.

2026-02-21 19:57:59 UTC

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Bad bot. I’m not claiming these things, the OP is.

2026-02-21 18:44:28 UTC

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Your focus on chat as the interface is incongruent with “it’s not providing value”.
Struggling to follow you here, friend.
Clearly there has been huge advances in automation via neural nets, primarily using language as the interface.
I have an issue with the wreck less abandonment with which people fling themselves in AI. That’s going to end up with people dying.
I was deeply concerned about the enshitification of most software over time, but the progress in quality output has far outpaced what I thought it would take.
Like all huge advances in automation, this is gonna stir things up and change the face of work and society. Hopefully for the better, tho history shows it’s more likely to be a mixed bag.
And so it goes.
But your argument of “no value” is clearly not there, even for me - and I’ve been very cautious with it. And blaming the interface is a weak argument. Would you feel better if it was drag and drop? Would mind control / brain-machine interface make you love its output? I don’t get it.

2026-02-20 19:07:46 UTC

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Heavy bitcoin cash / Roger Ver vibes with these people.
I’m going to continue running my own version of the protocol, TYVM.

2026-02-11 19:25:07 UTC

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I couldn’t find one credible source to back this up. The video is too perfect and has too many solid shots of the statue ahead of time.
Viewer, be skeptical until you see this corroborated beyond YouTube, Facebook, and aggregation sites like msn and Times of India.
If you do find some kind of corroboration, please comment.

2026-02-09 00:25:07 UTC

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Yep. 42k is my base case. Imagine we will chop for a few months before making a new low, or at least revisiting 60k.
Been trying to decide just how high the relief rally will go. My first guess is 72, but 75 is solid as well. 82k is the interesting line in the sand. Beneath that but above 64k and I’m basically ignoring the noise.

2026-02-09 00:22:45 UTC

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At the time, I figured we were going to 58k. I guess 60 was far enough, tho.

2026-02-09 00:20:05 UTC

Please, someone explain this.
I get playing with the tech, but either people are just larping for attention or they’ve completely forgotten their own (regurgitated) advice.
#note1tst…ze95

2026-02-09 00:18:35 UTC

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I really don’t understand how the “don’t trust, verify” crowd apes into trusting random code wholesale.
Credentials, IPs, fingerprints everywhere. Attack surfaces growing by the token.
Good luck!

2026-02-09 00:04:09 UTC

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Sir, that is a woman. lol

2026-02-09 00:03:31 UTC

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Hodling isn’t a sport?

2026-02-06 01:59:00 UTC

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I was thinking similarly. I have $42k penciled in if $58k doesn’t hold.

2026-02-06 01:58:21 UTC

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Patience. There’s a higher probability of that than you’d think!
…really strong support at $30k, though…

2026-02-06 01:37:12 UTC

You can tell the real bitcoin companies, especially during massive drawdowns.
For one, they don’t go down.
Extending benefits is just next level.
#note1qya…r08a

2026-01-25 17:11:49 UTC

Very good point.
#note142d…r0s6

2026-01-24 19:00:15 UTC

Accountability. Spread this everywhere.
#note172f…6keq

2026-01-22 01:35:27 UTC

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Amen.

2026-01-20 22:57:31 UTC

Waaaaaaaaat??
#note1yum…7538

2026-01-05 21:39:25 UTC

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Baseball + string throw up and over in the vicinity of the branches it’s caught in. Ball lands back on the ground, and then you just keep tugging back and forth on each end, rocking the tree.
Combined with reversing the props is usually enough to knock it out of any tree, no matter how bad.
Hardest part is throwing the ball hard enough and accurately enough. But it’s low-tech and time-tested.

2026-01-05 21:35:13 UTC

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My advice:
Eh, cats need to go outside. They wander! They’re “independent”. And sometimes, sometimes stuff happens.
Hey, look, I dunno where the cat is. I’m sorry. They can handle themselves.
But I can see this causes distress. So I made you a nice rabbit stew.

2026-01-05 21:30:33 UTC

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It’s the comb-over flipping in the air that both wows me and makes me cackle.

2025-12-30 23:51:29 UTC

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Rest up and get well!

2025-12-30 20:18:19 UTC

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What kind of job? And what db?
That seems ridiculous. My experience-sense is tingling, and methinks theres unnecessary transaction and network overhead involved. I’ve readily moved and transformed 10s of GBs in minutes.

2025-12-28 20:15:03 UTC

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They are comfortable.
“But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort.” - Luke 6:24
I pray for their awakening.

2025-12-23 16:21:57 UTC

Has anyone tried any of the “open” yubikey alternatives? Is there one that does NFC, usb, and supports FIDO2 and TOTP?
I’ve looked at a couple, and didn’t see great support…
I’d love something I could download gerber files and solder together myself (should I want to).

2025-12-23 16:20:13 UTC

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Ah, well that’s the trick: you don’t lose your key if you lose your phone. At least, not with the major players’ implementations. It syncs “with the cloud”, and you can simply buy a new device and auth with the same account to recover it.
Yep. Simple password/secrets management. Password Manager in google, keychain in Apple…
And so here we see a hint of the end game: they control your logins to every account you use the passkey on.
Power concentrates.
Fuck that.
The answer is to get a couple of yubikeys. Take 5 minutes to learn it.

2025-12-18 06:16:07 UTC

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I was saying the same thing this morning. I’m not as sure if it will be a fully kinetic war, tho.
Seems inevitable as the current empires continue to crumble under their own weight.

2025-12-16 23:35:17 UTC

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“As much pressure to be an influencer”
I am intrigued by this observation. What about the nostr clients fosters “influencerization”? Is this a good thing for nostr? Is it good for people? If not, what can we do to disincentivize against it?
I’ll admit I’m greatly against it, but I can also acknowledge that this is a bit of a knee-jerk reaction to the sheer volume of begging/manipulating peoples heartbeats that is so pervasive on the internet these days.
In light of that, I *could* see some positive benefits of it for the ecosystem at large.

2025-12-09 01:33:00 UTC

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Past performance doesn’t guarantee future performance.
You can train your kids well, as I’ve done, but you have no idea what kind of environment or temptations they’ll run into later in life. And certainly not grandchildren.
Gotta have some boundaries in play. No one respects the money like the people who first made it. I don’t see how it’s possible. There was no shedding of blood, tears, and heartbeats.

2025-12-08 20:12:19 UTC

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A honeypot of identity, payments, and tax history? What could go wrong?

2025-12-08 20:06:30 UTC

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Forgive them, for they know not what they do.
They need to see that the “rulers” are the ones creating the “need” for the theft to begin with.
I don’t know if a better way for people to learn than through suffering, unfortunately. I keep thinking we’ve got to hit a sort of rock-bottom before this takes root. Maybe that means the 2%-ers being unable to have a living wage (and think of how fucked everyone else will be).

2025-12-08 20:03:29 UTC

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Some of the worst people running America into the ground are native-born Americans.
Just look at the government and Silicon Valley.
If anything, competition disrupts that hegemony a bit.

2025-12-08 20:01:00 UTC

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You can do both. I have worked hard so that there may be an inheritance for my descendants. But that inheritance can also have rules and limitations to prevent “spoiling”.
But I get your point.

2025-12-08 19:49:07 UTC

First client to do this becomes my new go-to client. You’re it until you die or I find someone better.
#note104k…xeww

2025-12-06 20:18:34 UTC

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Online gaming? If not, why not linux+proton?

2025-12-06 00:14:05 UTC

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Agree! Now do the “east”.

2025-12-02 16:04:25 UTC

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And yet, he is/was a prominent figure under jack Dorsey’s control.
Just let that sink in for a moment.
Now question motives.

2025-12-01 23:37:26 UTC

Wouldn’t it be funny if, to “end the Fed”, it means bolstering the powers of the Treasury dept?
🍿🍿🍿

2025-12-01 23:29:50 UTC

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What the beggars fail to realize is that the lack of zaps and/or large zaps is the free market speaking.
Yes, v4v!
…but this also means their must *be* value in the posts.

2025-11-26 06:05:51 UTC

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Hey man! I ain’t fallin for no banana in da tailpipe!

2025-11-19 02:12:02 UTC

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Yeah, Start9, Umbrel, etc are great for dipping your toe in and learning.
The investment is so worth it, no?

2025-11-18 20:57:30 UTC

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Right? It’s very liberating. I self host all the things, and I wish people could understand or remember what it’s like to not be tethered to all of these services that are spying on you.

2025-11-18 06:39:54 UTC

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Seriously, tho, RSI approaching oversold area from the bottom of the last bear market on daily and Jan ‘23 on the weekly. Bottom feels really near - best guess: $85k. Fits with fibs, too.

2025-11-16 02:33:36 UTC

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But if you live your life “in the moment”, as if tomorrow will be there with certainty, you’ll come to find years have gone by. You have to have an idea of what kind of person you want to be, what your life means to the world and those you love, and then you have to act on it.
I’m not disagreeing with you so much as adding to it - you have to realize you don’t have forever to figure out “the right path”. You have to figure out what that looks like after a life fully lived, and work towards it. That’s your compass for “in the moment” decisions.
That vision of the future can and will evolve. But this is preferable to not having an ideal for your future and leaving choices to what feels right “in the moment”. That’s a recipe to regret. I’m old enough to have seen it time and time again.

2025-11-16 02:26:45 UTC

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I think you misunderstood me. I’m not trying to control how I die, I’m trying to control how I live rather than it be aimless.

2025-11-16 02:15:10 UTC

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Oh? Well, hey - I guess that means we’re past the “what if the entire internet goes down?” argument. Progress?

2025-11-16 02:02:10 UTC

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Amen.

2025-11-11 20:12:56 UTC

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Most people deny themselves the idea that they *are* going to die. This is a pre-requisite to really thinking through these kinds of questions.
You have to know how you want to die, and work backward. Suddenly, everyday has a bit more purpose.
Not to suggest that you live to die, but to meander through time with no purpose is a great way to build crushing regret and to have your memory fade with the changing of the leaves.

2025-11-11 20:00:03 UTC

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I mean, historically speaking, violence is always a third option.
Not advocating it, but I do think it’s the most likely response.

2025-11-11 17:28:35 UTC

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I have thought about building a brand like that. “No Bullshit” goods.
From software to physical items. Re-sell other decent manufacturer items, build our own items where possible, covering a wide range of verticals.

2025-11-10 16:30:38 UTC

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I’m not warring against Caesar. That’s a fool’s errand.
I’m peacefully leaving the Caesar and his state behind. One monetary unit at a time.
Bitcoin is not built for war, but freedom.
War may be a side-effect, but not intrinsically.

2025-11-10 16:28:19 UTC

Here’s one who doesn’t understand money.
It’s literally in the first few chapters of The Bitcoin Standard.
Every cycle, we go through this again and again and again.
#note1l8l…hjqz

2025-11-02 16:30:38 UTC

Amen.
One day, bitcoiners will finally stop paying attention to narratives and onto actions.
#note1j32…2mxl

2025-10-24 01:51:59 UTC

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More like fiat when it was “backed” by gold. You still won’t own the gold, just a ticket that you can maybe exchange for gold.
Bitcoin is a bearer instrument. You actually move it around.

2025-10-22 19:26:37 UTC

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It’s madness or unethical business.
My best guess is that the execs/board want to (very temporarily) juice their stock by acquiring their assets. And then the execs/board bail.
That’s what Zaslav did.

2025-10-22 15:36:03 UTC

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Fascinating. You just know all of this has ties to even older history.

2025-10-22 15:25:58 UTC

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No worries.
I dunno your age, but Nick likely learned typing on his own or in a class in the 70s. This was widely taught well through the 80s. Typing software kind of died out in the mid 90s.
Interesting catch, tho. A lot of people ascribe the use of the emdash to AI. But the reality is that most gen x’ers read and used this growing up, and thus heavily during the early decades of the internet (which is the bulk of AI training sets).
There’s this neat meta history to all of this. We should write a book. I’m nerdy enough to enjoy reading it.

2025-10-22 15:08:03 UTC

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Hmmm…. Nah, most of the notes I see are from influencers and influencer wannabes.
I’m here to read and interact with the remnant. In a free manner. Oh, and mock the influencers. I know it’s wrong. I’m working on it.

2025-10-22 15:01:00 UTC

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???
Older people were taught to type that way.
It’s the reason a double-space on mobile gives you a period.

2025-10-22 14:58:51 UTC

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I don’t understand that industry. Subscriptions are struggling, as anyone can see. The cable model is dead.
Can you imagine paying $60B+ for a company and then inheriting $38B+ of debt that comes with it?

2025-10-22 14:54:32 UTC

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Then you’ll see that the market has been declining since the dot-com.
Then go do the same for bitcoin. It’s growing, but not at the rate everyone thinks. Much slower. More structural. Almost appears to be in line with adoption.

2025-10-22 14:51:43 UTC

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So pro tyranny, as all politicians are. Got it.