"It’s a basic human right to have a private conversation. This right is even more important for the most vulnerable people. If the U.K. uses its new powers to scan people’s data, lawmakers will damage the security people need to protect themselves from harassers, data thieves, authoritarian governments, and others. Paradoxically, U.K. lawmakers have created these new risks in the name of online safety."
UK’s Rishi Sunak considers weakening key green policies
Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37583924 )
BBC's framing of this story says everything about their biases
"Weakening"
"Key"
"Green"
Lol
"living headline to headline" - I'm definitely stealing that phrase sir
Clown world hitting new ATHs every day! Low liquidity tho
True. Has shown me how many and varied bitcoiners there are too. Feels more like a conversation at any given time that I open my client.
Yep, should be personally comfortable with sharing an articulate point made by someone with other opinions you disagree with, or alleged terrible behaviour.
If we only ever amplify those who are uncontroversial then we risk constraining views that correlate with people who comply with the mainstream. Although I'll be honest, if Brand is demonstrably guilty of rape, I'd be reluctant to use him as a messenger.
Okay, time for some probably dumb and poorly ageing takes on the Russell Brand situation:
- We're reading about it now because it's a circus meant to sell newspapers / clicks
- However, seems likely that the sources/victims in the original revelations are credible .. but there's a wide range of possibilities for what really happened given how long ago it was and the situations in which they occurred
- Regardless of the facts, it's amazing observing "the machine" turn on him: every newspaper demonising him and choosing unflattering photos; conflation of his anti-establishment views with his alleged sex crimes; YouTube demonetising him (first step); sponsors and colleagues turning on him to save face; already a documentary out; arch-lefties like Corbyn pandering to pressure to distance themselves before any allegations proved
- Even if this ever goes to trial and he's exonerated, his reputation is now irreversibly tied to this and there will always be doubt
- I don't think it's some kind of CIA-mainstream-media-axis-of-evil conspiracy, but I think reasonable to assume that the outlets who broke the story knew it would be a big deal and then prepared to cash-in by priming / coordinating other content
Think I'm going to try and ignore the story from here on out and check back in a while. But, one final comment: even if these allegations are true, he has said some very important things about power that I agree with, and I hope his message is not ignored because of these orthogonal actions.
I wish more people had watched The Wire. Endless supply of analogies to explain how the world works.
Unpopular opinion: Inflation measures that exclude food and energy are actually a bit helpful because they show the elements that aren't as impacted by global commodity markets. It does tell us something.
BUT, using them as a way to claim that all inflation is defeated is dumb.
Interesting conversation with a colleague of mine who's just taken a job at a remittance company.
Says one of their main problems to solve is helping *senders* ensure that the money is spent on the right thing (e.g. mortgage, bills). Bitcoin obviously perfect way to do this if everyone accepted it, but that's a long way off. Main thought I have now is about why remittance companies continue to grow despite a faster, cheaper alternative in Bitcoin: besides from marketing budgets, my bet is that these companies are really good at focusing on specific customers and use cases like this.
We're often too busy quoting exorbitant Western Union fees, while dozens of fintechs are doing a decent job solving the problem - they're the strongest competition vs. Bitcoin for remittances.
My prediction is that these companies slowly get saddled with more and more regulation and costs though.
Walking in the park this morning and overheard an old man on the phone - in his cockney accent: "makes me laugh this neh zero bollocks, jus' a reason for 'em to raise taxes"
Gives me hope when I hear normal people expressing based opinions in public.
That was terrifying. Apple marketing machine now officially behind the climate religion. They've even represented mother nature as God.
I really thought the tide was turning on this nonsense, but now it will go into overdrive.
Apple products becoming mature and unexciting, so leaning into the climate narrative to sell more. It's so flipping obvious that it's all completely cynical and about $$$ 🤮
“The shot of the day brought to you by Moderna.”
Peak humiliation ritual. https://video.nostr.build/1cb2df0879b5d7a902bacfe85fd4839459dd217cc49a45e19f68d27ede1b1777.mov
Humiliation for who? Novak refuses vaccine and sacrifices multiple title opportunities, but continues as the greatest of all time once the hysteria dies down. Everyone knows these facts, and Moderna ad an uncomfortable reminder of this idiotic episode - with the added demonstration of how much new marketing money they have at our expense.
Meanwhile, Novak playing great tennis, gives no fucks. Absolute GOAT.
Government trying to capture individual members of the medical profession. Making it so you can lose your license if you disagree with the current government position.
Yeah they're great. They're also behind btcmap.org, and are pushing circular economy. One of the first exchanges to add lightning too ⚡
Fascinating how much they cluster around the same odd opinions too.
When I give the benefit of the doubt and try to read their logic with an open mind, I'm struck by how obtuse or disengenuous it is. They're struggling against those basic first principles to say something provocative, but it requires them to create problems or miss elementary logic.
I think it stems from a lack of humility, but also motivated by trying to stay relevant. To be fair, I probably have to encounter people like Udi far more than otherwise just because they've placed themselves at the nexus of controversy - so, unfortunately, it works for them.
Yeah totally cool to have lots of followers too - it's just interesting that I feel like there's more value on nostr to having few followers vs. the same on corporate social media.
I've got many cringe notes too! Luckily the decentralized nature of nostr probably makes it harder to discover older notes, so they fade in a more natural way like all the dumb shit I said out loud in my 20s
Whoa, and FASB confirms fair value accounting for Bitcoin on corporate balance sheets - coming into effect within the next few months.
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