People understand this isn't a good thing, right???

Is it a caving, or a protest? If they built a back door it would have been a cave, but I see this as a weak-handed protest. Instead of nerfing their security, they just removed security from UK customers in order to leave it secure for all other regions.

In tech, normies will always lose, and I think normies use Apple for the most part. Citizens probably don't even care much about security.

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Altcoins/memecoins have no moat.

There are millions of new tokens launched every single week, most with billions, quadrillions, or infinite total supply.

Yet there will never be more than 21M Bitcoin for all eternity. Choose wisely.

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Being John Malkovich

Synecdoche New York

Mr. Nobody

I'm gunna make a GM bot and it'll just post GM for you every morning at a desired time.

Its goal is to remove it.

Supposedly according to The IRS, the extra agents, and funding helped The IRS tackle tax evasion.

So really reducing the staffing, and funds makes The IRS inefficient again.

Technically speaking.

Personally, I am not a fan of The IRS.

Can we just leave the department that looks into government agency spending? Cut all the other ones, and make that one really efficient 😎

There is so much good stuff in your library. Online or offline. I get dvd’s too.

The thing that always gets me though is, why are there limited copies of digital books? This makes no sense. Imagine you would have to wait until another netflix-subscriber finishes an episode/movie.

Everything you were taught about food was a marketing campaign

Am I crazy to want to know everything about my bitcoin transaction when I create it? Like, I want to look at the raw transaction hex and maybe even a bit field to be absolutely certain the transaction is going to do what I want it to do…

I mean, it would be a damn shame to lock your bitcoins away for 9,000 years (which you could do if you were relying on a time locked transaction as a seedless recovery option if you’re not careful).

Only that you could get a steamdeck instead 🫂😂

I should clarify myself. I believe all of the passages that don't have strong reason to be taken allegorically, are literal. Passages like Genesis 1-11 are written in a very literal way, but most people today take them as allegorical. When AI is trained on literal and allegorical passages where there is no disagreement and then asked if Genesis 1-11 is literal, it says literal. Jesus and the disciples refer back to Genesis 1-11, creation, Adam & Eve, and the global flood and consider them literal. There is zero textual reason to take them allegorically.

Revelation is harder. There are images, like the harlot on a red beast, that are clearly meant to be taken allegorically. I, however, think that much of the prophecies described in Revelation will be fulfilled literally. As technologies are created that make these predictions possible, I become more an more convinced of this reality.

Lots of people were using the argument that the Bible has been corrupted and isn't what was originally written, so they can dismiss it. Then the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, that were copied several hundred years before Christ, and it was almost identical to the other copies. When there was a difference, it was usually a minor misspelling or putting words in a different order. No differences changed the overall meaning of scripture. Also, there are more copies of the Bible than any other ancient book (2nd most copies are Homer's Iliad) and there are orders of magnitude more copies. Saying the Bible is corrupted and not valid invalidates every ancient manuscript. The argument of corruption is nonsensical.

God doesn't make mistakes. Every detail in the Bible is true. The Bible, although written down by many men through millennia, is one coherent document that explains all of history and the future. It should be central to all Christians. We can't just interpret it any way we feel like. Our understanding (especially about future events) may change as new nations come into existent and new technologies are created which couldn't be explained in the past, but the literal meaning doesn't change with a change in culture or a change in what we think science says. When science and the Bible disagree, it is the scientists that got a wrong.

As an atheist I am genuinely curious about this. Do couples actually pray together? And what does that entail? Praying aloud together?

The idea gives me the creeps, tbh... Is this just a statistic that says that people married to controlling religious psychopaths do not get divorced?

Yes, I may have a bias 😂

Agree.

I would put the odds high.

1. He said in his call at the 2021 Bitcoin conference that he considered all crypto the same, he may have just said that because he was accepting donations in everything.

2. Chain transparency did him in.

I can't believe we have an uncensorable Instagram...... Let that sink in. 😮

Are you enjoying unregretted user-seconds tonight?

I'm mostly arguing with Anti Bitcoin Peeps on Gab...

When the people of a society are culturally and biologically 90+% similar, as Americans were in my youth, their values and moral behavior are also very similar, so they trust each other not to bring bombs into airliners or concerts, or put poison into children's Halloween candy or juice bottles at the grocery store -- and that trust is amply justified. In such a society, tyranny isn't at all necessary to preserve order and peace, because order and peace are largely spontaneous.

A line is not a physical thing, so the imaginary ruler is not either, so the Planck length limit isn’t really relevant.

Pi is absolutely a number on the line, and the imaginary ruler can’t mark it, no matter how fine its units of measurement.

The analogy is between one degree of infinity, the kind you can get by dividing by ever smaller rational numbers and a higher order kind (real numbers) which represent every point on a line.

The ratio of rationals to reals is zero. The ratio of map to territory is zero. AI to Tao is zero.

Imagine you had a line, and you wanted to understand it. You break out a ruler, and it’s 36-inches, one yard. You mark the inch increments on the line, all 36 of them. But there are gaps between the marks. You get a more detailed ruler that has half-inches, you mark those too, all 72 of them. Still, there are gaps. You get the quarter-inch ruler, there are 144, you invent software to print rulers with finer and finer increments until you have billions of marks on the line. But still there are gaps.

You invent software that makes ever finer measurements and that learns how to make finer measurements, and even learns how to learn how to make ever finer measurements. You churn out some Impressive rulers, able to measure the line in 1/`10^100 increments.

But still there are gaps. For example, between inch 3 and inch 4, there is pi. Your 1/10^100 increments don’t capture it. Neither do they capture the square root of 2, or the square root of the square root of 2. No matter how how much your AI software can improve in its measurement capacity, there will always be gaps. It will always miss the vast majority of the line. In fact, the ratio of the part of the line it can measure to the gaps is effectively zero.

The ruler is AI, which only operates in the realm of 1s and 0s, in the digital, in the mapping of the line. The line itself is the irreducable territory, unfathomably more infinite in its myriad unmappable points.

No matter how powerful the ruler, it will never cross the chasm Into reality.

This is important because technocrats conflate Creation with digital creation, argue we’re in a “simulation” as though some advanced techno-savvy race could “program” our reality. But if fundamentally misunderstands the difference between programs which operate in the abstract, conceptual, digital level and reality which operates in a higher order of infinity.

I finally bought myself DOOM (2016) as a late $4 christmas gift. Popping demon skulls like grapes is remarkably therapeutic.