this was not a vulnerability on a LN node implementation directly, so your conclusion is not accurate.

Yes, except in the UK.

It's still hard for me to believe that someone from this community, probably someone I know, stole all the funds from my node, after I dedicated 3 years to spread Bitcoin adoption and education.

May you be fucked by 1000 knifes.

The masses are too stupid to understand crypto.

I do not think Bitcoin will replace fiat in all honesty, at least not immediately, I think it will take teaching the younger generation how to use it in order for it to be normalized.

I think China is experiencing Hyper-Collapse, and Hyper-Growth at the same time.

The Difference between America, and China, is that America has sabotaged Creative High IQ White Men, and caused Societal Decay with Inflation.

Whereas China's Massive Economic Boom was a byproduct of copying American produced goods but now because America is no longer producing Original Ideas anymore China can't create new ideas because China's cultural, social, legal, and financial system doesn't reward creative thinking, China is a hivemind, strict regimented collectivist thinking.

Whereas America, at least historically had a cultural, social, legal, and economic system which allowed individuals to try new, dangerous, unpredictable, stupid, and controversial ideas to both societies benefit, and detriment.

China does not takes these risks, they believe in the predictable, and know, the true, tested, and reliable.

America runs on Coffee, Duck Tape, and saying screw it, I'll try anyways.

But that's changing slowly now, The American Man has been effectively Nuetred by Society thus destroying his purpose, and reason to exist, and innovate.

China doesn't innovate they copy.

Pornography, Sexual Promiscuity, and Abortion has by and large been a net positive for society because they have effectively weeded out the female individuals who are unfit to be mothers, and essentially made broadcast to the world their unfitness to procreate, and has spared many from associating with these individuals as well as in theory sterilizing highly promiscuous, and abortive women.

Over time the genes which caused these behaviors to be normalized will be removed from the gene pool overtime, since no one would want to reproduce with irresponsible women.

Before men married, and produced offspring with these women which allowed unbeneficial genes to replicate.

But now we know them by name, heard the stories about them, and for the poor sucker who ends up with them, they won't have children, sparing the man from being in a committed lifelong union with this woman, as a man who wants offspring would quickly divorce the woman.

And those who are tolerant of all this will both pass on childless, and happy, sparing society from hosting their parasitic offspring.

• Speaks: That’s subjective. Apart from studio monitors speakers aren’t designed to reproduce signals accurately, and engineers are going to massage their frequency response to suit the target / range of consumer(s).

Can probably think of speakers like buying old prime lenses for cameras. Are you gonna benefit from spending $800 on something made with modern design and manufacturing? Yes. Will a model that was top of the line in the late 80’s that you found for a bargain be fine for casual listening? Absolutely.

• Preamps: No idea. All my speakers I listen to music through are active, and have internal, matched preamps. Never went down this rabbit hole.

• DACs: Easiest element to be evaluate scientifically. Start by looking at a graph of the frequency response of any potential DAC, which anything worthwhile will have in the tech specs, and look for ones that are the most flat up to 20 kHz. You also want to make sure that any DAC you spend money on has an accurate clock that can synchronize with the source you’ll use it with.

This is the weakest link in most signal chains, and budget DACs have come a long way from where they were 20 years ago, when most everything had muddy lows and a shrill upper range. This is one of the reasons for the common misconception that analog audio sounds better than digital (which are all worth understanding).

Honestly any halfway-decent, dedicated DAC is going to be a big enough upgrade to be noticeable even while playing shittily mastered pop music with a squashed dynamic range over stock speakers in a car driving down the highway.

If you want a recommendation look into FiiO’s products. They make Android-based Digital Audio Players that can be used as standalone DACs over USB or Bluetooth. Haven’t looked at their lineup in years, but 8 years ago I paid $99 for one of their DAPs that ran circles around the DAC in my studio.

But then, we already knew that (insider trading, mortgage fraud, election fraud, etc).

This is what we call irony...

I can't stand Graham...can't stand McConnell either (glad he is stepping down like some of his other 80+ decrepit cronies). Both are corrupt, back-stabbing, uniparty war mongers.

Absolutely - and both my wife and I have degrees...and my daughters have advanced degrees.

But I favor technical education, bring back the concept of apprenticeships that are plenty suitable for most jobs, and keep our youth from falling into unsustainable debt while getting indoctrinated.

it is actually bonkers how much we would be spending on disposable diapers if we didn't use cloth diapers.

having multiple kids makes cloth diapers so so economical

No shame. Would take decent speakers with a high quality DAC over the converse all day.

Maybe if you listen to music through a moldy potato 128 kps is sufficient.

I proposed to my favorite person that I love so much last night

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