I firmly believe the stuff about radio waves disrupting the endocrine clocks though.

That's why I connect my laptop via ethernet cables and the phone is over 10 metres away, and why I am pissed that I didn't keep my wired dual driver speakers instead of these ultra annoying bluetooth units, that constantly flip stereo channels and I have to remove and re-pair every time I change to windows to play games.

When I was young, I always thought the communications technologies of the future worked with photons and entanglement. But here we are, millimetre waves everywhere, some of them ionising oxygen in our blood. (20ghz, used in 5G).

Pretty much, but I think you would benefit from adding that "anyone who is trying to change his mind or subject is an Outsider".

Cultists, they are all just like cultists.

And yes, the reflexes are conditioning like Pavlov's Dog - caused by anchoring a sensation of pain (hunger, in that case) with a secondary trigger (the bell).

Cultists of a certain type will debate with me about whether it's a cult or not. It's not a cult of personality, it is the worship of symbols, or as Christians would say, worshipping idols. The bible literally says "graven images" and the Byzantines twisted this to permit icons, but at the time "graven images" was written, a common form of writing was marks stamped into clay, and indeed, Moses tablets were either this or stone carved with metal tools (probably copper).

These conditioned reflexes are very hard to break out of, even as you openly and vocally speak against the more salient elements of the programs. I made a little set of 9 concise ways to recognise people using these triggers to manipulate you, that I called "The Manipulation Protocol".

I selected a series of words starting with C, so the words all have a tie to each other. The regular case word on the left encapsulates the general concept, the all caps two words on the right are expansions of what mechanism the type of manipulation entails, and the red all caps is a single word to sum up how you should react.

I'm not 100% sure I have expressed everything perfectly, but it was intended to be a set of codes to help you anchor the concepts so when you are in the field you can quickly identify that someone is trying to manipulate you, by the fact you are seeing two or more of these elements used in their interactions with you. If you see as many as 4 in one encounter, 100% guaranteed you are in the presence of psychopaths.

It's not the first time someone has started building something on top of LN. There was a previous effort, its main target was to do with anonymously renting compute. It didn't take off.

I think that the layer cake has another layer they are missing, which relates to programmable relaying services.

In general, I don't think that public hosting of "smart contracts" is very smart at all, in fact, it's not gonna be practical until ZKP homomorphic computation is cheap enough. That's a really high target compared to current computation hardware capabilities.

I think Nostr and our project Indra are going to be hybridised in the near future (we are planning to make indra by default a nostr relay, based on fiatjaf's original Golang based relay). A programmable relay network also can provide solutions for asynchronous, trustless lightning payments as well, which is critical because the liveness requirement of LN is so high.

Circling back to the question, these capabilities are the missing ingredient for a system like RGB.

Really, what we are witnessing is that the base concept of LN state channels have a whole field of variations that enable many other things, but the first thing, after payment, is relaying messages.

A tl;dr would be good, it's quite interesting that it's an antiparasitic, like quinine and related chemicals, the key points you refer to would be helpful for people to understand what you are talking about.

I recently discovered that alcohol abuse and paleo diet can accelerate the development of nerve damage from vitamin B1 deficiency, I saw that one of the things mentioned in my skim of the video was helping repair nerve damage.

I'm gonna put it aside to look at later, because of this specific fact. I believe that this dye is still used in several foods, the one that springs to mind is Lucozade and other brands also have "blue" variants and I recall seeing that they use a tiny amount of this chemical to give that colour. The blue colour is kinda scary to anyone who has been studying allergens and industrial poisons in food though, but that's mainly because of cobalt, which is definitely not something to put in your gut, or even in your environment, except maybe in magnetic alloys, where it has uses, and with silica based adsorbents like cat litter, where it changes colour in response to bound ions.

When Do Kwon's idiotic "algorithmic stablecoin" racket fell apart last year, I was in the process of getting a job writing tooling for making it easier to scaffold APIs for the Cosmos/Tendermint system.

I think it's a generally useful concept, but my opinion now is that federated/stake blockchains are not the best solution for applications, but the Cosmos inter-chain model is still better than the monolith of Ethereum. It is so very close to RGB style L3 systems, if you remove the internal token issuance.

If it was shifted to be an L3 on top of something like RGB, that would be something I could have some serious zeal towards, and being a moderately practised software architect, I can see how the work I do making Ignite better will apply nearly transparently to an L3 platform, eliminating the latency, the circularity problem of staking and consensus being broken when an external system controls issuance.

It was my opinion from quite early on that proof of stake in general had this problem, and it was vividly played out with Dan Larimer's Steem forum blockchain project. Early adopters basically allocated themselves such a large amount of the supply that malicious actors within the group used their power as a club against those who did not fall into line on the Cult of Larimer, that of course was giving so much power to, most notably, a troll who named himself after a certain old Democrat politician who is popular with young people.

If they hire me, I will be primarily working on making it easy to spin up applications, designing the APIs, mainly, and from this basis it is just a back-end part to swap out to target a different platform, whether it be centralised, distributed, using RAFT or Paxos or similar (Tendermint is derivative of Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance), or made into an L3 on top of a state channel system.

I have another role that is in process too, a distributed validator system for improving reliability and avoiding slashing on Ethereum, and I can see how this kind of protocol has some applicability to this kind of application platform. Specifically, I already started to design a causality determination system that uses small, randomly distributed but proximal nodes to rapidly agree on event sequence as users push transactions into the system.

Such a causality discovery protocol is so very close to what the distributed validator system will need to function.

So, yeah, two roles in process of application, and both of them I see ways that the work won't be wasted on scammy garbage if I do my architecting part right, keeping the coupling loose and make it easy to translate the protocols to different back ends.

I need to keep searching, still, it's not guaranteed I will win either of them, though my chances are good. But in both cases I can work on things that are concretely directed at protocols that I perceive to be flawed, if I keep in mind the idea of making them retargetable for other, better protocols.

Oh, psychopaths have humour, they grin ear to ear when they hurt people. The rest of us call it cruelty.

I think that is probably correct. Chickens are supposed to eat grubs and bugs and soft leafy things.

I found a rarity yesterday at a local supermarket too... olive oil fried potato chips. "seed oils" does not include coconut, cacao or olive oils, though in all three cases they are technically oils from seeds.

Man, this itchy rash thing is so infuriating. Eliminating all the causes at last after first getting this reaction about 20 years ago is amazing.

It seems to me that not only does it make the egg yolks allergenic, it probably also raises their cholesterol levels, since sugars do this in our bodies too. That's a secondary problem, I'm determined to not lose any of my organs unless they really are unnecessary.

Like my wisdom teeth. There never has been the room in my mouth for it. One of them is already half fallen out, half of it just turned black and one day came loose and dropped out. Now the remainder, being so much more liable to holding onto garbage close to the root of the tooth gives me constant mild ache and holds onto everything to feed bacteria right in the middle of it where it zaps the nerves. Eliminating all types of sugars has helped a lot. I am not gonna make a regular thing of that olive oil potato chips but it's nice to know there is an option that is better than sunflower and rapeseed.

It truly is amazing. I would eat it every day if I could.

It's a damn big subject. The only feature it seems to have better is adapting rendering pixel density per screen, and I seem to recall there was ways to set higher resolutions and downscale them independently.

https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277

I am sad and irritated that in 25 years there is some things that have distinctly gone backwards. The LCD technology, and the colour/contrast/saturation thing is a definite step backwards. Part of the reason being that saturation is a more complicated type of filter than gamma curves and brightness height, it works by applying a gamma across the axis of the three colour layers, increasing the stronger one and decreasing the others, eg, if a colour is reddish, saturation increase means raising the red brightness AND decreasing the blue and green.

Every time I see the color calibration settings on computers I just wonder how it is that the manual says "calibrated" and in actual fact, totally not. And for some reason, you have to buy a piece of hardware to make the colour profiles modify this saturation thing on linux. Nvidia driver has it, but AMD doesn't. Still. But it does on windows. AMD you can affect vibrance on X, but not on Wayland.

Fiat clown world technology. Without interoperability, and consistency, their fascism is really obviously cheap and aimed at weak targets.

I've always been wary of getting used to glasses because they literally (for myopia) reduce the tension required to focus the lens. So, not a permanent issue, but one that takes time to recover from. Use it or Lose it as they say. Antifragile systems need to be worked to increase capability, and muscles are exactly this. A little strain makes them grow more fibres and that increases the lens ability to stretch.

And conversely, if the diet or some other factor causes the lens to be harder, this will also have a similar effect as not working the muscle, but this will be difficult to reverse.

IMO, for myopia, glasses should be a second line not first line treatment, because the lens naturally hardens (and yellows) with age. Nutrients and exercises can address the lens flexibility. And the other thing is that the lenses themselves filter some types of light, which may be another factor.

There's a lot of moving parts in the vision system. it would be hard to positively narrow down reasons for the japanese higher than average use of corrective lenses for short sightedness.

I don't think their control is that great. If they steer a body of humid air around, for another reason, there can be an impact where that would have gone instead, if they were trying to shoot for drying, then some place might catch a flood.

How often does it rain in the Nevada desert? I come from australia, and the pattern there tends to be 10 or so years and then a real doozy hits the desert. But that's partly to do with the fact that there is a big long mountain range north to south that causes rain to usually dump east of it, and fill the river catchments. But if something makes the wind blow a bit harder, the condensation happens over the other side of the mountains, and you get a flood.

The difference is firstly, it's on the west side where the sea is, and solar energy tends to push high pressure areas westerly. The nearest big mountains there are the rockies, and again, the usual rain is to the east, but the big difference is that there's that big wide flat area, for the most part, in the middle, and that's also where the lakes form from the water, mostly coming from the east side of the mountains.

There just isn't a "killing the plebs" purpose in making nevada rain, quite the opposite. But I could believe it is an indirect effect of trying to set california on fire again.

What about northern regions? Russia, Scandinavia, Alaska? These places would have long periods every year that people just have to stay indoors more. But on the other side, the time they do spend outside they are exposed to a lot more blue light and ultraviolet, especially if it snows really heavily.

Also, there is a bunch of nutrients important to vision. I imagine that the japanese have a far lower typical consumption of saturated fats and stearates and so on. I believe that this has an impact on nerve function, since nerves are isolated from each other by these fats.

I personally have developed a vision problem that is purely from nerve damage caused by Thiamine deficiency, and here in the west, that can be related to not eating bread, which is by law in most western countries loaded up with B1. I don't know what other things it can cause, but it can mess up convergence and does seem to increase fatigue induced weak focus.

This could also be a general muscle nutrient problem, since magnesium, for one, in deficiency, can cause muscle weakness and cramping. This and the B1 thing are related with me via alcohol, which also seemed to have something to do with visual migraines, which mess up the brain's processing of the centre of vision where we read, and may not necessarily be actually caused by mechanical/optical problems.

And lastly, the japanese adopted computers a lot earlier than the rest of the world on average. Could it also have something to do with staring at screens for more hours especially during childhood, causing a simple lack of muscle development and training for pulling focus and releasing it as is needed when you are navigating the outside world.

Oh shit, now I know why I'm wide awake.

Somehow the night light was turned off. Maybe because I had to switch to Wayland to enable independent display scaling.

The new panel is almost exactly 1.7x the density of the built in on my laptop, and fractional scaling the builtin display to 175% at last I have two displays that don't render everything differently sized.

I'm sure that with time the Thiamine deficiency induced optic nerve damage will recover but for now, I just need everything to be a little bigger so I can read it.

I normally prefer IPS LCD panels, but recently, due to budget constraints, I was looking at VA and MVA. My spare Lenovo Ideapad 3 has a TN, and I hate this old type, annoys the piss out of me, no black, and such a narrow view range that the edges are wrong colours and tones.

VA has a property that it turns out I really appreciate. The panel blocks a lot more light from the illuminator panel behind it than IPS. This means that the contrast ratio, which I always am skeptical of, actually is very wide, and the black is actually black.

So if you are used to the bright colours of IPS (it does depend a lot on the illuminators) but also wish the dark parts of the picture were darker, VA is a really good choice, and the panels are currently substantially cheaper.

The colours are a little more dull though, but for me, weak contrast is more of an irritation. And it isn't terrible for gaming, just not so colourful. *LED type displays would be nice, but honestly, after 10 years the tech has hardly moved forward at all, the cost is still very high.

I dunno if VA is gonna be better in another regard, also - something I saw in an early 4k monitor I bought in 2017 (Dell 24") - a slow proliferation of dead and creaky pixels that was starting to become irritating by 2 years. If this VA panel doesn't lose pixels as fast, that's gonna be another plus, on top of the blacks and the low price.

What's Kruse doing these days? I was absolutely fascinated by his idea of a virus causing rapid mutations in the early stages of the Dryas but after reading Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya I much prefer a simpler, theory.

The idea that 40,000 years ago a star blew up, blasted the earth with cosmic/x/gamma rays, sterilised Australia and Antarctica, and on the margins some humans who were not killed by it lost a few genes, namely ones involving melanin and the one that turns off lactose metabolism after infancy, among other things (and led to a dramatic increase in neural connectivity).

The idea that the HERV, being related to "leaky gut" - an intolerance for plant proteins that increased ingress of viral particles into the blood is quite interesting, there probably is something to it, since it's plain by the DNA we have a virus in our gene pool that no longer can reproduce.

But the white/milk mutation predates the HERV by a long time, and there is plenty of evidence pointing towards the idea that the diversity of humans now is far less than it was back then, and rather than the more mainstream theory that humans killed off neanderthals and erectus and others, that actually we were still able to breed with them and the survivorship bias kicks into the scientific analysis, not realising that DNA can be latent and still continue to be transmitted forward in time.

Anyhow, yeah, Andrew Huberman is a recently popular biohacker/optimal type guy, his specialisation is neurology, and it's really worth checking out some of the things he recommends, notably the physiological sigh.

uh. If you want to lose part of your vision, sure.

There is light sensors all over the body, even quite deep inside that are connected to the endocrine system. The ones in the eyes, and the pineal gland itself respond to light by releasing hormones that start the wake-up process.

The best trigger for it is sunlight, but it obviously shouldn't be direct. Second best is blue light, the most potent frequency happens to be the same one in blue LEDs. Which is why it should be criminal to use blue lights on devices that are likely to be near you when you should be sleeping.

I probably should be sleeping but sometimes the urge to code overtakes you.

Well, this is unusual for me, actually.

I attribute it to ditching eggs and drinking milk and exercise.

I've just kinda hit a wall overtraining and the motivation just won't quit. So the brain wants some of that action now.

I wasn't really training either. If any of you all are coming to Bitcoin Atlantis you'll learn about how a stubborn independent mind will lead to strained quadriceps. No! I'm gonna go there anyway, idgaf if it takes me 3 hours.

#### 4 hours later

Ok, that's done, now, how do I get back?

*consults navigation and timetables*. Oh, damn, everyone is having siesta in the middle of the day, bugger this I'm not waiting until 4pm.

#### Sun sets

*arrives to new home and must clean everything*

Ok, now it's past midnight and I am just not feeling tired, and nothing needs cleaning anymore.

What is the logic of it? Seems like it's a drug that you'd take because you are taking another drug or have a disease because you are not breathing correctly?

I've been spending a lot of time lately at high altitude, walking up and down steep slopes, and I've got so used to pushing hard that I've slightly strained all my walking muscles. I figured out that I was allergic to something in eggs, after getting a mild case of biliary colic, and realised that there might be a connection to an itchy rash I got that seemed to be triggered by eggs plus sunlight.

As soon as I stopped the eggs, I decided to try increasing the milk intake and though I'm almost overdoing the exercise, I'm bulking up fast, never seen my calf muscles so chunky in my life.

As far as nitric oxide goes, don't you just need to focus on breathing in through your nose? Have you tried physiological sighs?

Places where normies are absent are pretty sweet, no matter where they are.