Are Egyptians not worried about switching from US hegemony for Chinese hegemony? Even with the new members joining, China alone accounts for well over half the GDP of all the BRICS.
GM from the streets of Barcelona https://nostr.build/av/c1875203ce82ec255377fd01dce5f8b410549f89e0a07f82e557e8132ff5f8b1.mov
Soon the whole city will be orange
I'm leafing through it at the moment, to see what all the fuss is about. It has some interesting descriptions of the abstract power hierarchies that we use to enforce ownership.
Have you read Lowery's book?
In the Indian system, there is a word for 100K, but not for 10K a million.
1,000 = hazar
10,000 = 10 x hazar
100,000 = lakh
1,000,000 = 10 x lakh
There is a word for every odd power of ten after that.
The flip side is chaos, innovation going so fast that clients will have a hard time staying on a similar wavelength.
The risk for #nostr is the tower of Babel.
Did you know that the Japanese have a word for 10,000?
In English:
10 = ten
100 = hundred
1,000 = thousand
10,000 = 10 x thousand
In Japanese:
10 = juu
100 = hyaku
1,000 = sen
10,000 = man (not 10 x sen)
Yes, we're stuck in a limbo between BTC and sats, too many orders of magnitude in between without a name
Yes, or "100 million sats"
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Our minds seem to handle only a few orders of magnitude of something, then we need a new name.
For instance, we know what $1,000 is, but instead of 1,000,000 we say 1 million, and 1,000,000,000 is 1 billion.
And we wouldn't say 0.01 million, we would say 10,000 or 10K.
So we don't like fractions smaller than 1, and we can handle 3-4 zeros before switching to a different name.
Unit bias is real. Even though 0.00001 BTC and 1000 sats are exactly the same thing, people will massively prefer the sound of the latter.
#Bitcoin
the name certainly has a 'safe moon' kind of flavor
Exactly right! #Nostr has algorithmS - make your own if you want to
Stand up straight with your backups tested
The movie 'In Time' is based on this premise - haven't watched yet but planning to
You also have the chance to say "no" to poisoned food, but the point is that you don't know it's poisoned until it's too late.
I see, you believe it should only be a matter of consequences. So what if the person who got scammed can no longer pay for the operation that he needed, and dies a month later?
So, if someone sells you poisoned food, it's your fault because you gave your money willingly?