This is a pretty good book on how fiat money has influenced human diets. I had originally found it from read the chapter Fiat Food in The Fiat Standard. It's baffling the lengths that have been taken.
Excellent podcast with Dr. Ken Berry and nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak that inspired me to finally try a 90 day carnivore diet. Thanks 🙏
Some informative videos on the diet that I found useful: https://youtube.com/@KenDBerryMD
I've just completed a 90 day commitment of a carnivore diet. This has included beef, eggs, bacon, butter, lamb, deer, salmon and other meats. I didn't include cheese and other dairy, though some will. Towards the end of the 90 days I've made an effort to include more fat in my diet.
I'm very satisfied with the results. I have had stable energy levels throughout the day even if I go the entire day only eating once. Cravings and hunger has been reduced. Previous clothes that didn't fit, now fit, and belts are getting too large. I feel great.
I didn't count calories or weight myself on a scale. I ate as much as I wanted until I was comfortably full. I didn't make a dedicated effort to excercise more. However in the last month I was more active: snowboarding, biking, golfing and jogging.
My goal was to lose weight, among other benefits, and in the last 90 days I have lost a total of 30 lbs (13.6 kg).
Owning low salability capital goods is the risk that entrepreneurs take for an opportunity to make profit. If the capital goods are not productive it is otherwise a loss and the capital goods are sold to be used for more productive purposes.
The inverse could also be said. Fiat money, at various degrees, shifts time preference from low to high and is not beneficial to oneself or for civilization.
You'll often hear people say that many products are not made a great as they used to and do not last. This is a result of a shift towards a higher time preference.
It's not clear if that many people understand why there was a shift.
Bitcoin changes lives. It can slowly shift time preference from high to low. This is greatly beneficial not only for oneself but for civilization.
Some, probably many, do not realize it!
Stock-to-flow of bitcoin is higher than gold this next halving. :)
Gold increases in supply around 1.5% to 2% per year.
Best fiat currencies increase at ~7% per year.
(Excerpt from Lecture 13: Time Preference by nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak)
Property is a fundamental building block of the advancement of civilization.
Planes, cars, trucks, trains, tractors and other heavy machinery would not exist without a low time preference.
Proliferation of a higher time preference, increases the natural interest rates and leads towards the degradation of civilation.
Fiat money is inherently high time preference!
Low salability goods, even durable goods, are not a great way to mitigate risks of the supply expansion of fiat money.
Happy π day!
ZeusPay LN address zaps went through! Thanks.
I've temporaily switched back to lntips LN Address and will follow with an update to a new self-custodial LN address and node.
Having to open nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 mobile once per 24h I think is a bit much for using a zeuspay LN address. Pretty cool that it's possible and may work better with a mostly online server, though this somewhat means the hold invoice isn't needed.
Working on setting up a non-custodial LN address and node!
LN Address is all working with a fork of https://github.com/nbd-wtf/satdress with several chamges. I will post the fork soon.
Now working out the details of production and setting up channels, channel backups, dealing with downtime and etc. This may yield more development work.
It's setup the be as minimal as possible. It's not using Docker (Start9 or Umbrel) just systemd with Debian. It could be a bitcoin specific GNU/Linux distribution. UI for the time being is by command line.
Looking also at connecting a desktop UI and mobile, however this may come later.
A few additons to Core Lightning I think would help make it more clear option.
1. Encrypted static backup for channels similar to Eclair and LND.
2. Support in Zeus for Commando, the current plugin support in Core Lightning looks to become deprecated now that there is built-in support.
3. Some redundancy for watching for channel breaches, for example watch towers or similar. This could also use Commando with a few peers and a Rune that only provides that functionality. This would be similar to LND watch tower support.
4. A way to use an LSP for quick channel setup with inbound liquidity that is similar to Phoenix and Zeus.
5. Some guidance and documentation on how to manage channels after the initial setup for more manual control of channels (and reduced LSP fees).
So is the Electrum server acting as a watch tower for Phoenix? Documentation isn't clear on the technical specifics of how the wallet doesn't need to be always-on.
This is what has been mentioned:
"Phoenix has been designed for less technical users, who don't know or want to run an always-on Lightning node on a server or to manage channels, with sensible trade-offs for those users."
https://phoenix.acinq.co/faq#can-i-connect-to-any-node-can-i-connect-to-my-own-node
"You can configure Phoenix to use your own Electrum server to watch the Blockchain and monitor your channels."
The use of docker containers often feels needlessly complex and cumbersome when system daemon scripts can easily be added.
I think it has it's place, however recently I'm preferring the simplicity of just daemon scripts.
This (finally) adds some amount of censorship resistance to LN Address, not to mention better security and (thanks to BOLT12) even allows users of custodial services to use their own domain for their address!
The full protocol (lightning-specific) protocol is implemented at https://git.bitcoin.ninja/index.cgi?p=lightning-resolver;a=summary nostr:note1gt9ryucy0eyn6gcez3vj5j2vgswsp70kz9mhk97egh54r4cjmzcsswpv06
The git web tree view is giving this error: "404 - Reading tree failed"
Having a protocol for membership to specific projects, or rather just any Nostr account, I think would be valuable. The account could be an association that, as you have mentioned, has engineers contribute to multiple projects. It could also be to a project that works specifically on a set of projects, or single project, that they maintain.
Also useful here would be to have issue tracking and private support tickets as part of the protocol that is dedicated for members. Thus priorities can be determined based on that feedback.
I can see why people like using Arch Linux for the flexibility of using AUR to keep specific software updated.
Aside from adding additional software sources to apt, only sometimes provided, is it manageable with Debian and derivatives.
Looking for a source for the latest Inkscape and the launchpad PPA doesn't seem to work with Debian, there are signature issues and looks unsigned.
Perhaps including unstable and testing in the sources will include a much more recent version (however it's not application specific).
Does the nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg for Andriod use a websockets proxy server?
There is a setting for it in 'Settings > Servers', yet it doesn't seem necessary as it could open sockets directly. 🤔
An HTML page with seems to work well for sharing a npub or nprofile and have it open in a native app (desktop and mobile). It provides a way to fallback if there isn't an app.
I setup one at braydon.com/nostr
Thinking about also hosting an njump or similar to display notes without a native nostr client yet.
In the last week, a similar graph to this came up in one of the Principles of Economics seminars with nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak in relation to the chapter on labor:
Source:
It shows the rise of the word 'unemployment' from the early 1900s. I've added the keywords 'inflation' and 'minimum wage'. To quote a paragraph from the chapter:
"It is telling that the concept of unemployment did not really exist as an economic term before the twentieth century. In a free market, people choose whether or not to work for the wage offered to them, so nobody can be involuntarily unemployed. With the introduction of monetary inflationism and minimum wage laws, a permanently unemployed part of the population became a fixture of modern economies, and blaming this unemployment on the market process became a fixture of the pseudoscientific economics dominant in modern academia, financed by those with vested interests in maintaining inflation in order to provide rationales for it."
One of the most important take aways from Part 1 of Principles of Economics is that value isn't a unit of measure like length or temperature. It is ordinal, not cardinal and is determined at the margin.
Markets and search in general I think could benefit.
Thought the same, Apple Podcasts wants to run and enable Google Widevine.
Similarly, a Spanish translation of 'Principles of Economics' by nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak
“Producers, being self-interested humans, will not sell a good for a price that does not cover their entire cost of production. They would rather go out of business and stay home than work in a business that loses them money. So trying to mandate lower prices simply results in the destruction of the human incentive to produce a good, resulting in higher prices and even lower supplies. The other inevitable consequence of price controls is the emergence of black markets where the seller and buyer can transact at rates suitable to both of them, but without the attention of the government.”
Principles Of Economics by nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak
I believe this happened in the history of railways on the US east coast. It lead to several railway companies closing and then a centralization by national takeover.
For monitoring the temperature of food in the freezer or fridge. This could help prevent food going bad due to various issues. It doesn't need WiFi, but an ability to send sensor data, and it doesn't need to be two-way.
Editing text on mobile and touch screens can improve! This video shows a different way, including gestures for copy and paste.
I designed an OS interface in 2005 for large touch screens (that didn't exist) that used hand gestures for all input and interaction to improve efficiency and speed, similar to learning to type on a keyboard.
Many of these read as defending GrapheneOS, which seems to be mostly in defense of Google's secure chip. Google Pixel phones do not have a means to disable power to the modem with the capability of real-time location tracking, so it seems kinda moot.
PureOS is decent, however it's basically just Debian. Their additions and contributions are in many other distros as well.
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