Move SCs...giving me a lot to look thru and learn about. Thank you.
Just a basic question is, my understanding was that Bitcoin was designed to be non turing complete in order to limit the error possibilities. So this Move SC is quite potentially going to seriously mess up at some point. At which point the parties involved will just have to settle legally (refund accidental transmission of funds etc). So it's kinda back to just having a bank running a procedure with plenty of legal guarantees and insurance etc.
.... Maybe these are obvious questions. I'm going to have to read more about this
I thought smart contracts were a nothing burger. ? As many times we find bugs in database procedures, I can't imagine having them just ossified in block somewhere
what would replace Oracle and Pl/SQL in some decentralized future
Ok, so meditating isn't going to cut the paycheck. You aren't one of those" 0.1 BTC and you're set" kinda folks :-D how much would it take tho to retire myself into non productivity?
I'm Looking up ci/CD, graphQL and custom key value store indexes.
I dislike JavaScript, is python still a good skill?
You would be a good one to ask this question:
What do you think of the Bob Proctor abundance meditation
I'm a bit scared of it tbh. But maybe it's entirely harmless.
Yeah, you and another friend is in my ear that I have to do something otherwise ill lose my skills before I know it.
I'm still working til April and he's already ragging on me to apply .
I've succeeded in burning fingers , spilling coffee while just cooking sweet potato. It's going downhill fast
The time it takes to forget how to cook(basic multitasking. Not burning fingers or dropping stuff while trying to turn them over, splashing hot oil, etc)
Times
1/(length of time not cooking )^2)
I'm pretty sure that cooking skills deteriorate with an inverse square time factor.
Google mentioned Episcopal. I attended the Episcopal church a couple times in the past year and liked it a lot. It's more structured and no crazy music and informal stuff. The priest had some interesting readings that landed in my soul.
Then the congregant made some comment about organizing political stuff in the run up to November elections. She had a beautiful voice but I really didn't want to hear even vaguely about politics in church.
I just met the Mormon missionaries in the town where I am. Some smart blond kids from Idaho asking if they can come around and talk about Jesus and the book of Mormon.
All the different churches are like Bitcoin mining/nodes. It keeps the whole network honest even when some fork off. Church of Christ sounds like a good concept.
I'm not too familiar with JW other than it seems super Ponzi and hard to escape from once within.
As many dark street corners as they stand on, I kinda wonder if it was a secret tactic of businessmen to have free street policing.
I read somewhere that Peter Thiel was Catholic as well
I really like this book for Portuguese. this was the best language book for my style of learning (reading/some writing and background explanations of quirks)

What would be the elements to make it magical there? I suppose God is everywhere. It looks like a beautiful place. Is it missing friendly people and socialness?
the budget. Its probably 50 % cheaper here than Texas. So I should be able to live for less than Texas rent.
I just have to do remote employment. I was also thinking about starting a consulting business incorporated here since it only cost 2000$ to setup and then I could just work for similar contracts that I was doing. Or maybe teach some young people some SQL lessons since many want to earn more money. That would be not earn money tho.
This morning I was thinking I should just start a business about 3 I terest areas : "BTC SQL NOSTR". Horrible name . The idea would be if im worried about stuff not working in the future to build out alternative. Or at least to research alternative solutions and figure out how to implement them.
Like, how will airlines fly in deglobalized world, etc.
I'm quite in love with the place. Lots of leaves and trees and a bat that flies in and out at night to take out a mosquito or two that probably has my blood inside. I feel like a host organism and all these critters live around me. i should probably sweep out the spiders and crickets. There are some big ones.
This is at 30 minute walk. View of the Pacific.

So in the end I just took her satoshis and they are happily sitting in my wallet. The Bitcoin price is roughly the same as when I gave them to her on March 1, so no loss for her. And the workman is hammering something together for the new apartment for cash that I just took from the ATM.
I could have paid him an extra 5% if he took Bitcoin to avoid fees and a walk to atm.
I think the workman who doesn't take Bitcoin was the whole first principles root problem to solve.
--Not some complicated loyalty program that tokenizes the promise of future stays at a nice hotel in a coffee patch under a volcano in order to help her build one more treehouse room.

But its fun to imagine her running a security Ponzi scheme relay (backed by zapable lightning bitcoin) where NostrVerse characters check-in for fungi eatable stays
vouchers are the least fiat token there is
there is a service
they don't qualify as securities by the owsley test or whatever it is
(lol, owsley is LSD)
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/howey-test.asp
If the asset is an "investment of money in a common enterprise, with a reasonable expectation of profits to be derived from the efforts of others" it is considered a security. It is then subject to disclosure and registration requirements under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
so, no, these aren't securities, they are a kind of IOU from the business, which means they are a bill of exchange, and thus a contract offer by the business proprietor, that you accept by paying for them
So I think it's prob just better to take the simple exchange for satoshis instead of seeing if she wants to sell me future nights at -50% off.
which i think is a good deal for her since she's never sold out, and I'm betting that Bitcoin will rally quite a bit more than 50%.
I just like to make things complicated. she has rooms to sell but debts to pay now.
Ok. So investing sounds more like a bet...
I agree about the casino stuff and the tokens taking rent in our heads and not having any value.
But then I started thinking about lots in life. And people being afraid to try to gamble with their skills/potential.
It's all sort of a gamble right? Perhaps guided by wisdom.
And then businesses themselves are a gamble. And investing is a gamble.
How about "Gambling with a vision" is something I could get on board with.
There's something to winning. And even if we didn't win, maybe it inspired us to dream and go do something we wanted. the contrarians, they can be "damn the lottery for a free trip. I'm going to go anyway."