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Autopoietic. Scratching things from chaos. Homesteading the noösphere. Opportunity farmer: Reading things that are not yet on the page. Haskell. Dollars only, thanks.

Bitcoin is like owning land, but the land is barren.

It starts with locality sensitive hashing, it does say that there doesn't it?

We can probably find a way to embed a vector space of such hashes in the topology of the physical network, sort of like Cubit did with the levenshtein distance.

Kademlia uses cryptographic hashes which means similar things will have very different hashes. This is good for encryption but we're not doing cryptographic here.

Picture a file consisting of two blocks. The user will probably want to get both blocks. Since they have very different hashes, the client will find two very different paths through the peers' routing tables only to end up at the same target peer hosting the file.

A locality sensitive hash would have similar hashes for two blocks that are similar in some way, e.g. belonging to the same file, and so the discovery paths are very similar if not the same. Discovery for one block can be reused for the next. Same with blocks that are similar in another way e.g. one is a newer version of the other.

As for the project maxing out the ideas, as of late they have introduced pluggable routing mechanisms in Kubo. I think that's acknowledging that the DHT routing isn't great, at the same time not providing any alternative. Instead the user is invited to come up with their own routing plugin.

It's a bit disingenuous, like providing an on-ramp for a highway and then asking you to build the highway.

You wouldn't know any would you? I feel entitled to high quality entertainment that I can just doom scroll into oblivion.

China is an untested superpower without real-world wartime experience with modern weapons, modern warfare, and modern intelligence.

Russia is the only real threat to the United States.

Russia never wanted to be that. The US rejected their desire to join NATO, sabotaged Putin's relationships with Chirac and Shroeder. In fact it was probably the joint veto of the US iraq war (Russia + France + Germany) in the UN security council that made the US dead-set on isolating Russia from Western Europe. People always mention NATO expansion, but there was a lot of other moves the West pulled, such as withdrawing from the ABM treaty, putting Aegis defense systems in Poland and Romania (to defend against Iran? bullshit), etc, of course most recently the bombing of the Nord Stream pipeline. The US sabotaged Russia's desire to be friends with Europe countless times and forced Russia into the only move it had left - to build itself up militarily, in as much isolation as America could create for it. But it wasn't supposed to succeed god damnit! The Americans fucking *HATE* that Russia actually economically grew so much and militarily developed so god damn much over such short time. And they *hate* that their sactions didn't work, that they can't just make the world dance at their whim anymore. The Americans reliably play their hand like absolute dicks, and I'm glad their gambits fail. Fuck the Americans (I'm talking about those in power, not you guys. I love you guys).

It appears the barbarians have found a sympathizer in nostr:npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c , presumably also a barbarian.

Well he's certainly famous for the Jungle Book? In which cave do you live?

That said surely you can Google him yourself?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling

Just stuff your sorry fucking face with some of your Bitcoin*. It'll make you feel better.

* If problems persist, even more Bitcoin!!1!

How come the dollar price of houses goes up much faster than the dollar price of bread?

Are these different dollars?

I live in a democracy and believe that I have some amount of control over the government.

It helps that most everyone around me has the same concerns and even the government needs a stable economy otherwise they can't do shit.

The inflation would be better at 2% than 3.2% (US), 2.4% (EU) but already much better than last year. Seems to be working.

A much better mechanism would be even more fiat currencies to chose from so that they compete on stability.

Have you tried this advice from @Gigi

I'm not too sure what it means but it sounds terribly profound

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