A perfect opportunity to offer to accept any steaks and ice cream that would go bad otherwise. The cost of discipleship.
I wonder how I am doing over there.
Strong doesn't mean large. I just mean has the ability to act decisively on behalf of its constituents. But yes. They will always corrupt. Positions of power rarely attract good people. My position is that governments cannot be kept out since they have strategic advantages, so how do we work with them while they still hold to some ideals? How do we help them maintain those ideals for as long as possible? And how do we throw off the yoke when they become despotic?
Yes, but so is not having a state. We need to be able to iterate. Personally I'd like to try limiting the size of the corpus of law. The consistion should say something like all laws on the books must fit within 10kB zipped, and 100kB unzipped and be comprehensible to a median 10th grader.
That at least limits how invasive a government can be. You'd need some additional protections so the law can't be "we can do what we want."
I don't have a solution to states becoming tyrannical. Things that exist for other purposes eventually evolve to behave in a way that is self-serving. This is why political parties don't actually make political progress. All the power of the party eventually gets spent maintaining the power of the party. Any party that doesn't play that game falls out of power and disappears.
Same with unions. They now exist to maintain the union and any benefit they give to workers is only a side-effect of maintaining power.
This happens with species as well they exist to maintain their lineage. Only humans have gone through enough game theory to develop altruism as the next tier of evolutionary advantage. That step is still incomplete. Governments as a higher layer organism are still behaving like brutes. I am not sure how long it will take for states to evolve a sense of selflessness. Maybe a million years? Until then we need to iterate.
The trouble is that earth is only big enough for a few hundred governments, they become old and brutish and people suffer under their thumbs. To the stars!
No one needs to be governed as long as all their neighbors are "decent" which I think means "don't behave in a way that impinges on what I want" But that is never the case. Most often decent enough people want to have the freedom to behave in ways that make it impossible for other people to behave in the same way. For instance if everyone wanted to subsistence hunt, we'd run out of game.
The problem isn't that governments exist it is that they don't die. Colonies of cells collaborating to make a human do better than single cells, but eventually things go haywire and the human dies. This is super important to allow the next generation to try to do better. We need more space for people to try new ideas without being smothered by 200 years of law.
I don't want to. I want a strong government with few rules so people don't mind being governed.
Just maintain a few sensible rules around property rights, violence, and washing your car in your driveway.
I don't find this brand of individualism to be any more possible in reality than communism.
How do those who consent to governance coexist with those who do not?
Consenting always has the upper hand over non-consent because it allows collaboration on specific initiatives that might not materially benefit all collaborators. I.E. they overpower the non-consenters. The intervention required scales with how broad the coverage of law is and how contrary to nature the laws are. For a authoritarian beauacracy you can't tolerate any dissent, so your population has to eat itself, for a permissive government dissenters can participate without falling afoul of the law as long as the law doesn't cover they cases where they dissent. But if they do not consent to governance in a way that runs contrary to law they will get locked up.
You can't just opt out. The only way that works is in a complete anarchy, which is an unstable situation. As soon as two people agree to government they will get the upper hand.
I think these should only be allowed on private roads. 
If you have heard of them, then they are already successful in getting the attention (and possibly payment) they want on their current platforms. Probably a bit of rationalization about being where their message can be heard.
You could specify a nested wireguard protocol to allow connections through existing wireguard tunnels. Then you can do something like TOR eventually. I wouldn't do it straight away, I'd just limited the packet size to allow for encapsulation without fragmentation.
Every client being a relay gets people a way to communicate with close contacts even if all the big relays conspire against them or become paid only. I wouldn't make them wide open by default. Standard relays still make sense even if they only act as hole-punch or turn servers.
The very basic idea is that if you aren't hosting your own data, it's not really your data. You don't, however, want to ask ordinary people to set up servers. Instead you have their clients collaborate on where to store data. Ordinary people would just know that they have limited storage depending on the devices they've pooled.
In response to wireguard not working in browsers. It should. I would lean toward making a Nostr browser like notedeck that nostr:nprofile1qqsr9cvzwc652r4m83d86ykplrnm9dg5gwdvzzn8ameanlvut35wy3gprpmhxw309akk7mnpvshx5c34x5hxxmmd8gurqwpsqyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyvhwumn8ghj7urewfsk66ty9enxjct5dfskvtnrdaks7vj9m5 is working on. It doesn't have to start out as complex as a full browser. But if it does all the network and protocol layer stuff, then developers can just target something like a webassembly VM that has some extra functionality exposed like a render target.
Then applications can just be another event type.
This is hilarious, because if you do all the alternatives you basically get what I have wanted for years. I wouldn't mind the breakage at all. I'd just join the new thing.
The only other changes I'd add would be wireguard instead of web sockets and every client is a relay, but not all relays are clients.
Do you actually calculate the orbits of the earth and the moon?
Hopefully by the time this all burns down Elon will need an "ideas man" 😛 with a bunch of kids on Mars.
It isn't the measure luckily. Apparently you need to be able take a project from concept to production while mentoring young'ins. I can code sure, but I never did learn how to design software.
The drawback of never working anywhere big enough to have a team, being a lone programmer lends itself to uncorrected bad habits and a general ignorance of how to actually get things done.
Install Ollama, it is super easy to script. Bonus it all runs locally on your machine which is somehow less intimidating.
Just saying, if I'm not junior I am not sure who is. How many years of PHP make a senior dev?
Wait. Which team is this?