😬😬😬 這需要好好研究
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I think they enable greater degrees specialization, a client can stay true/honest in terms of not having to design around serving ads meant for the common denominator. Facebook has to serve video game ads to kids and medicine to the elderly on the same platform, they can't afford to specialize so they have to appeal to their audience in other ways.
It's not like there won't be a popular gambling-sex-drugs-explosion-violence-focused heroin equivalent nostr client one day when that content is made available, it's that the grandpa on nostr who wants to like a photo from Sunday church is not going to have to be forced to scroll through pages of ads telling him he needs dick pills and a cruise vacation after arguing with some foreigner about their politics to get to it🤣
nostr won't stop people who want to be glued to their screen, they might even prefer it; they'll just have more say into what is in front of them
I think the difference is that there's no pressure for client software to design around increasing engagement. Social Media needs the user to keep scrolling to serve the next ad and those software will gather all sorts of metrics even sacrificing a user's privacy to find out how to do that. When the incentives are perverted, the content the user engages in follows
When someone's nostr on-screen time is out of control, that's on them.
Context, Fort San Salvador only lasted 16 years, the Dutch and aborigines drove them out 😅 so it was a very short-lived colony
TIL when the Spanish established their colony in Taiwan in the 1600s, they named it "San Salvador".
How appropriate, today Taiwan bakes nearly all the ASICs and fights with the limits of physics to keep secure computing affordable for the world🥳 San Salvador of the past secures San Salvador's(El Salvador's capital) money today 🤭
Fort San Salvador was around Keelung, unfortunately it is not as well-preserved as Fort Santo Domingo.
Republic of China (Taiwan) since 2018 does not have diplomatic relations with El Salvador 😮💨 oh well, at least Bitcoin will always get through
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恭喜lightning labs,但我倒是對這個沒太多興趣，是否這些允許多元資產(altcoin)的功能需不需要存在先擺一邊，很難想像有什麼非比特幣的資產需要承擔閃電網路上的風險；譬如hot wallet risk或不可預測的幣流(liquidity)的狀態。
Don't forget butter
Add butter before/after
baste butter better
Season and pat dry
sear all sides thoroughly
Track temp in oven
Zom 100 is a fun manga to read. bitcoiners living in the fiat world can relate 🤣
I'm also on Chapter 56 of Rothbard's "Conceived in Liberty", way more useful but not as fun 🤣
If you aren't picky about the voice that reads your books, you can consider using text-to-speech software on epub or pdf files. Works great!
On Android I use librera reader (open source). Give it a shot!
1300+W toaster 🤯
I have one! They're great. Speeds up everything the tatung electronic cooker can do and lots of cool functions
... But how old is your instant pot ? Lots of components to clean and materials to maintain on that thing 🤭
Had a family bbq the other day (mid autumn festival) and needed to make mashed potatoes, ran out of stove space to boil a bag of potatoes.
... But guests arriving within an hour and still need to light up the charcoal grill 🫠
"Why don't you use the rice cooker?"
The Tatung electric cooker is a kitchen appliance from the 1960s, it has one switch but it has a million use cases, not just rice. No smart recipe buttons, no fans, no thermal sensors, no gaskets or valves, the appliance just an electric heating element controlled by a resistor wrapped around stainless steel. It is arguably the most versatile appliance in any Taiwanese Kitchen, built to last decades.
Chucked in a couple handfuls of rinsed potatoes into a large bowl that could fit, set the bowl onto wire stand off, poured 550ml water to the outer bowl. Turned on the 20 year old 1000W appliance and forgot it, by the time I came back the switch had popped off for quite some time, the potatoes were still hot and steamed perfectly, could mash the potatoes straight in the bowl using only a fork, some warm milk and butter, salt/pepper, toasted garlic, took more time overall than boiling but it came out great 😋
These days the tatung electronic cooker may not seem so impressive, despite having no microcontrollers it is still a piece of precision engineering. Steam time is determined by the amount of water that is added to the outer bowl, and the time is consistent because the lid keeps circulating heat in and let's out steam evenly (latent heat vaporization)
perhaps the smart appliances are the dumb ones 🤭
Grab one today for about ~275,000 sats. In the past this appliance was one of Taiwan's greatest exports, comparable to ASICs today
Price tag of this submarine is thus far 49Billion NTD (57,330 BTC at the current blockheight) 🫠
Over two months of block rewards in this epoch 😩
Republic of China (Taiwan) Navy revealed the first domestically produced submarine, Haikun (Narwhal) today. It was first proposed in 2016 and expected to enter service in 2 years, great to see this engineering feat succeed 🥳 for context, Republic of China operates 4 submarines for its territories, from the Netherlands (old) and US (very old)
It is quite a feat, Taiwanese are no slouches at shipbuilding. What is impressive is how ROC Navy can coordinate with contractors around the world on its own accord despite global tensions to bring the project to life. There is a lot of rhetoric to promote the domestic defense industry these days, it has its positives and negatives. Sadly as amazing as submarines are, submarines can't fight off currency debasement
Perhaps one day Taiwanese will become aware to choose to invest some time and resources (tax dollars) on a superior form of power projection as a means to establish it's sovereignty instead, Bitcoin 🤭
That series really brought into focus why cozying up to regulators (state capture) is so important as a business strategy in fiat world
A few weeks ago there was news about the Huawei Mate 60 Pro being some sort middle finger to US chip sanctions as it features a 7nm chip made solely in the People's Republic of China.
Skepticism over the chip's performance or fear mongering of Chinese surveillence or innovation-theft aside, I think it's great that SMIC continues to compete because they've had a dismal decade as TSMC across the strait continues to dominate, but my opinion is that this whole deal is a complete nothingburger.
This is one model from one phone company announcing a phone that can hardly hold up to what the market introduced 3 years ago. If SMIC really became capable to produce 7nm chips at competitive yields, then where are the phones across the price spectrum? Where are the CPUs (desktop, server), where are the GPUs (autonomous cars, AI)? The announcement does nothing, it's nothing but a jerk off for Chinese state media! Where are the indications that these chips can support production numbers that go beyond stocking a few flagship stores for a publicity stunt?
Skimming through Chinese media there's calls for this being some masterful play that will one day force Apple and other players to use these Chinese chips to serve their domestic market. As if this announcement will cause multinationals to rethink their strategy. It's nonsense propaganda! That's not how the business works at all. If the innovation is real, they should be pumping out so many chips they'd be giving them out to all sorts of applications
SMIC has done nothing but burn money and struggle, sanctions or not, seems all they can muster is one phone 😮💨
Tldr;
If anyone is in the market for a new phone that's not an iPhone, ignore Huawei, try the Zenfone 10 🇹🇼🙂
Consider watching this old movie: Teahouse (1982)
It's based on a play which brings one through Chinese history since the fall of the Qing dynasty. What's incredible is that the movie was made in 1982 and even won awards from the Beijing Ministry of Culture 🧐
The movie follows events that occur in a teahouse and the teahouse acts as a metaphor to China
It's hard to imagine this movie could be made today, it serves as a reminder that there was a period of time where Chinese could be candid about China's deficiencies (this is before tiananmen). Despite it's economic growth since, I think you'll find that China hasn't changed much from the days in the Teahouse
It's also a great movie to watch as a bitcoiner! I used to watch this movie and focus on the characters but now all I see are fiat bullshit rugpull examples 🤣