Before delegating an activity to a machine, you should always take a moment to reflect on whether this might not be an activity that it would be better for you to do yourself.
Walking may often be better than taking a car. Playing an instrument may be better than having your computer play recorded music. And so on.
Resolving this question is actually the central challenge that everyone faces in learning to live with AI technology.
Some of the most pleasurable experiences are sensations of the cessation of pain. As you observe, you can't even have these if you did not have the pain in the first place.
What a person should be aiming for is a combination of hardships and pleasures. The trick is to get the timing and the proportions right. Many people would do better if they added more hardships to their mix, but there are also people who are getting worn out and would benefit from more pleasures.
I can't decide if they are not making many good movies any more, or if I have just lost much of my interest in movies.
Do they have better options?
Infrastructure (Roads, Bridges, Sewers etc.); Public Schools &Universities; Public Transportation; Police / Fire Departments; Health Insurance System (Affordable Care Act); Parks.
Yet another hour of my life spent thinking about the two envelopes paradox.
Thanks, I'm taking a look at the Zeus website, which looks really helpful. Since this allows you to run a lightning node on your phone, I guess it's sort of an all-in-one package with all the software pieces in place that you need to learn by doing.
Thanks, that's what I figured. I guess it probably works well enough if you just want to use lightning without a lot of insight into what is happening in the background.
In honor of the German constitution, let's work hard to ensure that every German politician who supported the lockdowns, mask mandates or vaccine mandates will be voted out and never hold public office again.
https://overton-magazin.de/kommentar/politik-kommentar/auf-grund-gesetzt/
Missed the 75th birthday of the German constitution yesterday, which apparently was celebrated with all the trappings of a police state:
"A total of about 1,000 police officers were deployed in and around the government district of Berlin on Thursday, a spokeswoman said, in order to police the state ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of Germany's constitution."
(3). I also remember having occasion to do (6) once, although I'm not a programmer.
Actual newbie here. For what it's worth, the only lightning wallet I've ever set up is Wallet of Satoshi. Everything else seemed too troublesome / confusing. I then funded the wallet with a small amount but have not so far found a business where I could use it (I know there are various online options but they don't generally have stuff that I need enough). I may connect it to nostr and try zapping - I'll have to read up on how to do that.
What makes it a little difficult to get totally excited about lightning is that I still don't really understand how it works. What I find attractive about bitcoin is the ability to hold currency in a non-custodial wallet. So with lightning, I would also want a non-custodial wallet. But I don't really get how such a wallet (or really any lightning wallet) interacts with the lightning network and the chain. For example, there is supposed to be an opening and later closing of a payment channel, but I'm not really seeing that in, say, Wallet of Satoshi. If I were to buy a cup of coffee, when and with whom is the channel opened, or is it already open? When is the channel closed? When does an on-chain transaction occur? It's all a bit obscure. That's not to say that I won't use lightning, it just dampens the enthusiasm.
Sort of understand bitcoin. Don't really understand lightning. Have never heard of fedimint. Don't understand "groking". Much to learn.
Crypto and AI are opposite forces.
AI exploits the availability of computing power to generate an ocean of content, which holds within itself the ocean of content that was the internet prior to the advent of AI, which in turn held within itself the ocean of content that humans had generated prior to the arrival of the internet.
Crypto, by contrast, exploits the phenomenon of uncomputability. It is founded on what no computer, including no AI system, can efficiently compute. Crypto can thus, for example, be used to wall off content that is particularly precious from the reach of AI. Crypto can also be used to mark off human identities, authenticate genuine human voices and clearly differentiate them from the ocean of content generated by AI.
Yes. I've been using nostr only for a few days but have been thinking that it was a bit off when clients referred to "accounts".
"Read-Only Key" works, but "Access Key" does not capture the main idea since "access" could also mean only "read". Maybe something like "Write Key" or "Write Access Key".
Is there a way to format text when writing notes?
Italics, boldface, bullet points, lists, etc.?