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Brett Phillips
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Brett I. Phillips My initials are bip 🤔 I like to play devil’s advocate and take the contrary position.

I remember as a kid when I discovered “The Anarchist Cookbook”. Discovering Bitcoin many years later felt similar. The undertone was “empowered”.

Sometimes when I’m asked if a movie is “good”; I respond with “it’s entertaining”.

John Wick is entertaining.

Meanwhile in the Monarchy of Massachusetts…

- Legislature passes unconstitutional bill eroding the second amendment

- Governor signs said bill into law

- People organize to lawfully challenge new law

- Governor says she’ll use emergency powers to block challenge

So sad for the former colony known for telling their King to “suggon deez tea bags.”

No no this is obviously a case for AWS API Gateway + Lambda + SQS and don’t forget Cloudfront and WAF…and better make it multi region while we’re at it. Route53 latency based routing for the win!

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Hahaha this is such the antithesis to bitcoin philosophy. I can’t believe you have so much free time that you can make such a nice looking turd.

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I’ve done my research and find it a net positive. Talented devs are created new and exciting projects that are bringing awareness to bitcoin and freedom tech. Not so talented dev have a shiny new thing to distract them. Win win.

Always take a quick glance before downloading the latest

Well that’s not really an apples to apples comparison. When talking purely about signing device functionality, a purpose built embedded device may provide better security than a general purpose computer. A lightning node is more than just a signing device; you need more compute, memory and an internet connection (this last part being a big differentiator).

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When I was a teenager, my family of four had to move into an 18-foot Class C RV.

My dad took a job across the state, and we had nowhere to live and no money. My parents did the best they could.

We eventually moved into a little double-wide for rent in town.

People might look down on that, but I'm telling you right now that summer and the next 18 months were my childhood's two most memorable years.

We did free things and drove almost daily into the region's outskirts. My brother and I would explore the ruins of abandoned cabins, peeling back layers of wall insulation of the day (newspapers) to reveal dates from the early 1900s.

We played outside because the inside was really only for sleeping or shelter during storms.

We went to every museum and attended every free event downtown put on.

We became experts at which washing machines and dryers worked the best in the local laundromat.

We spent copious amounts of time in the libraries, especially the one that had the basement where a rummage sale happened each week.

We experienced extreme weather bouts where we learned so much about ourselves and the world around us.

We hiked on the weekends.

Mom had to take a part-time job. I used to help her periodically and learned some things by doing that, too.

I learned about angry yellow jackets, bucket rides that helped you scale mountains, and legends of the local Native Americans.

Forest fires happened the following summer. After that, we joined the mushroom pickers for a chance to make extra money. I remember I got to keep around $20 for putting up with Dad dragging us up the mountainside.

Mom wasn't 100% pleased, that I remember, but it was a good adventure, and by the end of the day, my brother and I were too tired to argue.

The wildlife was unmatched for that part of the world.

I'm sure my parents had an entirely different perspective on things, but those two years were full of imagination, awe, and discovery. Thirty-five years later, I still remember the most details from that period.

I never would have had those experiences had we not moved into that tiny RV, no matter how temporary.

#story #stories #memoir

Great story.