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What's up with France yo? 😀
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Haha that's funny. I don't think Milton Friedman would tip either. He would finanace it and Keynes would have never paid the tip eventually. Keynes would have probably asked someone else to tip lol
The puritans left England because they were prudes. It makes sense that USA now is less hypersexual thank UK. Wild those were in an airport 🤯
I've not gone to UK in a while, but when I went to Ireland one time at customs they accused me of coming to drain their resources. Like excuse you ma'am I came here to spend money 🤑💰🤣
My favorite airport was Helsinki, I like it so much that I aim to do layovers there now when I can in Europe.
tl;dr: England peaked a century ago.
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so my fam has had a few unplanned layovers in the UK now. London is probably going to be a transit city i avoid in bookings now cause less than a 20% success rate there now this decade and the experience just sucks. i'm obviously american bias and not personally explored much beyond hotel zone around Heathrow. the people are mostly polite which i do greatly appreciate but having to explain english grammar over legal liability to an airport manager the other day was just silly.
as for the other stuff, the city itself is just trashy. i know folks there like the classic look but most of the buildings don't seem to have had any repairs/updates in a few decades. every business looked like it cut landscaping from their budget this year. roads mid and cover with legal warnings everywhere. honestly, London feels like it could just be Detroit or Cleveland.
as an American muslim i always hear about how big the muslim population is in the UK. in reality i'm goong to go out on a limb and say this is mostly media hype. every other major EU city has 10+ times the demographic density. i wore a thobe this week and got more stares than i do in red states. and (here's the worse part) the rummors about sexual preditors is sadly true as my wife had to deal with that from locals! 😡
and i actually want to lean into that last part becuase that sort of stuff only happens when normalized in a culture. guess what, front display at the tech store i stopped in was all dildos (this was in the airport itself - first time i've very seen sex toys marketed front and center like that in an airport). my observation is the UK has a higher degree of this hypersexual normalization than in the USA. idk if this is true. clearly this is a biased and limited experience i've had but i can't say it makes me all that interested in taking my family back for holiday.
i do wish the muslim community there the best. you clearly have at least nearly as much running against you as we do across the pond. however, i am inclined to believe that muslims there are exagerating your degree of influence and the anti-islam crowds there probably do have something worth listening to that needs to be addressed.
I want to name my first son Obaida so I can be Abu Obaida
🔻 في مثل هذا اليوم كان آخر خطاب لأبو عبيدة وحمل الجملة الثقيلة على قلوب الملايين من الأمة:
أنتم خصومنا أمام الله💔
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I mean...I still don't understand why people can't just brew their own coffee. But if you're supporting a local business hey, why not?
I do somewhat think it'd be better if the coffee shops closed and the labor went to more productive endeavors though. But maybe not -- there's something to be said for supporting public gathering spaces.
Guess we just let the market decide.
Recently watched Voice of Hind Rajab.
It brought back memories of when it was actually happening.
I was following it as it happened and I can't believe the world let a 6 year old die, surrounded by 6 corpses while begging for her life.
Nothing I've said about the Jews since I joined NOSTR a year ago even comes close to how bad those demons actually are.
Choose rich, become a Nostr developer. 😆
Nobody said that. But they're getting enough to make a decent living off it and buy some fancy IT gadgets.
Not like what people who work at Google get paid.
Especially this constant argument "you can't make things too hard for people" yada yada. Like what? When it comes to getting naked and acting without any restraint, it's always "we live in the 21st century". But heaven forbid you expect even the slightest bit of intellectual ability from someone in the 21st century. Total idiocracy here.
I'm not talking about "shoulds". I try to assess things at least somewhat realistically.
Nobody's getting money here, no? No funding? For real?
Exactly! You can only simplify things far enough to the point it becomes ridiculous. I think that's why we are getting dumber as a society.
What money, lol. Pretty much no one is getting paid for developing in this space.
You're right, but I meant the chip industry as a whole, not only storage.
It's not just key pairs that are old news to me, but human-machine relationships too. But whatever you say. I've got nothing against hopeless optimism.
Do you think that has any chance of succeeding? Key pairs aren't anything new. We already explained ourselves silly back in the PGP days and it still didn't do any good.
I thought keypairs would be a problem. Turns out even people asking me what the "slash" is on the keyboard are able to save a simple long "word". It's even better 'cause they don't even have to remember a username for it
Yeah could say the same man. Is it beginning already?
we need a good way to wake up the lurkers. there's at least a couple hundred i know that pop in and out every 9 months or so. getting those folks to pick a side requires community and we are getting close.
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i had to explain to a manager the differences between an inclusive statement and an exclusive one today. 🤦🏻♂️
we already were there before nostr or the internet. it is an intentional development focus on quanitative results (number of users go up) vs qualitative experience of the community. and sadly, most people are never trained to think qualitatively.
Bro we can't even find 2 Nostr users in one city 😂
But why are we even catering to them? See
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Catering to the dumbest of the dumb is a straw man argument. And it always has negative consequences. Just think a few steps ahead. What do normal users deal with? A username and password combination like
dumbFerret : myPet123
On Nostr the equivalent would be
npub1983hifi24jb8248t3r... : nsec189df2487dcwjz3dg...
It's basically not much different. It just looks a bit more cryptic on Nostr. And that scares off "normal" users? Can't they just put it in a password manager?
If so, then we're really dealing with the dumbest of the dumb. And what happens then? When we've got the dumbest of the dumb users on here?
The discussions get dumber.
The arguments too.
We've got more pigeons shitting on the chessboard.
We've got no consensus anymore.
No people who understand language, who still know the definition of words.
=> We've got Twitter/X!
Is that what we want? At any cost? If so, my next question: Who benefits from it, who profits from it? Follow the money and you know where this nonsense comes from.
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China kind of already does own the industry though. allocation is pretty centralized atm but that should be changing soon
probably depends on individual bandwidth. if you have 40 people in an ai mesh in the same city it's probably also faster than if you're in 8 different countries.
İstiklal’de bomboş dolandım, şimdi de bir pubda hayatımın en kötü burgerini yiyorum. Aşırı keyif aldığım bir cumartesi. Hayat güzel.
🤔idk what Amethyst defaults are and can't check right now. but that should be nip17 i think so it's probably a relay alignment issue. personally i've used relay.0xchat.com and auth.nostr1.com and rarely miss a DM (sometimes connection delays but that's been about it).
I am not advocating for anyone linking existing npubs to a Google account. Current Nostr users don’t need to change anything at all. This is all about making onboarding easier for everyone else who either tried Nostr and gave up or never joined in the first place because they thought it was too hard. These are users who are not uncomfortable with storing all of their passwords and financial data in a corporate cloud. Over time, once they begin to understand the benefits of better anonymity, they can switch to using sovereign keys.
But then it would be much slower, right?
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"I did not refute the philosophers until I had fully understood their sciences." - ghazali in deliverance from error
"No one should refute a view until he has understood it as well as its adherents." - ibn hazam
But you're linking your (anonymous) npub to a KYC'ed Google account when using it. How is that ok with any of you?
I am using amethyst and it is set to defaults.
For sure.. It's part of geo-techno-political cold war. 100%.
In a pure capitalist world, China would have owned the industry already. But misallocation of resources will get you to prices volatility. No?
To qualify into Olympics 100 meter race, its 11.07 seconds last time. I do it currently at 13.8 to 14 seconds. 3 seconds to improve.
who says i need fromtier. it will be under $1M soon enough for high new worth folks. but i'm talking about us poors pooling local compute for AI in a way similar to what is already being done with stuff like Mesh LLM and RENDER.
You will not be able to self host the +1TB of VRAM required to run a frontier open weight model.
You still get to choose anonymity. Do you think Google sign-in is going to be the only way to use Nostr in the future?
honestly if you can't learn keypairs you have no business being online in post-AI cyberspace. just drink government coolaid and be a robot in a digital penal colony.
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So what's the point in being anonymous on Nostr then?
You might be surprised to learn that’s not a major sticking point for most people, who already trust Google and Apple to store all their other private data for them.
Also for the cost of your anonymity?
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