But that's only one client, right? Nothing against CoinJoins.

I stopped reading at "Get .NET 8.0 SDK: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download"

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ollama is nice.

Whichever round you have more of, right?

I love a 10/22 but I can't bring myself to buy a Ruger due to their support of Gun [sic, really People] Control.

I meant to say "without restarting anything."

If there were only one log statement per log level in a given class and you use the typical hierarchy of loggers (one per class), logback lets you do this even restarting anything. https://logback.qos.ch/manual/configuration.html#autoScan

"Ruger is coming out with a new pistol in honor of the United States Senate and the House of Representatives. It will be named the 'Congressman'. It doesn't work and you can't fire it." - Larry Pratt

Has Ruger stopped hating liberty? I see a 5.7mm version too but they're missing a 9mm version.

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https://nitter.unixfox.eu seems to be working at the moment.

Enemy of the State

It is possible to be both a goldbug and pro-Bitcoin. Mises' Human Action helped me recognize the potential of Bitcoin, e.g. subjective valuation, supply and demand of money, and the theft that is inflation.

Jeff Deist is no longer with the Mises Institute as of March, 2023 and Thomas DiLorenzo is the new President as of October, 2023.

So that's a partial answer, and my apologies if I haven't gone and found all your posts about it, but "if spamming costs more than the thing that spamming can win" is still there, right? The spam must be profitable or it will cease after the losses are realized. The argument cannot be "it is impossible to imagine a world where it is prohibitively expensive to do the wrong thing and relatively cheap to do the right thing" but something to do with the details in constructing such a world. Hashpower mobility, I assume, means that hashpower tends to get directed to its most profitable use and relatively quickly. I also assume that spam requires a cheap way to send many messages such that only a small fraction bear fruit in a big way, thereby covering the cost of the sending.

It sounds like your point (and I'm guessing again because I cannot read your mind) is that in order to cause the cheap hashpower available to spammers to be unprofitable, the imposition of PoW would make doing the right thing too expensive? That there is an imbalance between what hashpower is available cheaply for spammers versus hashpower available to the common Joe on a common consumer device?

Thank you for giving a couple of examples. Can you elaborate a theory of why they failed? Or is it just "several attempts have been made and they failed." It's one thing to notice "the socialist experiments almost always lead to death and destruction" but another to explain the calculation problem. You sound certain that PoW cannot work as spam deterrence under any circumstances and I, for one, am open to that idea. But so far your explanations have been scattered and disjoint.

I think you touched on what feels like an anti-human zeitgeist. People tend to praise the capabilities of machines and animals while disparaging humans. We worry that machines will overtake humans. We protect the eagles, owls, and bears. Meanwhile, humans put too much carbon into the air and must be stopped.

It used to be that people attributed motives to rocks, plants, and animals to explain their behaviors, probably because that's our experience as humans. Then we thought "no, rocks, plants, and animals are more like automata that behave and we humans have higher things such as reason, action, language, exchange, arts, property, cooperation, and capital, or in a word we have 'civilization.'" Now it seems we think "rocks, plants, and animals have consciousness and humans are one among many animals. We only think humans have motives and wills distinct from the others but it's an illusion. Humans are like a virus and must be stopped."

In the USA, veterinarian offices are one-stop shops for pet care. We wait a few minutes. Then the vet tech sees us. We wait a few more minutes. Then the vet sees us. They do labs, imaging, surgeries, prescriptions, and deliver drugs on the spot. It is a much better experience than most human doctor's offices with referrals, going to separate places for all those things, getting billed seven months later, and so forth. I think one cause is no third-party payer is involved. You either pay the vet for service or you don't. Vets quote prices on the spot. Perhaps another difference is if you don't want to pay too much you euthanize the pet, but I put most weight on the no third-party payer and also licensing requirements separating the various roles. I do not suggest euthanasia for humans so if that ends up making the difference, so be it.

How about in NZ?

I hope not because I do it frequently.

Is it necroing to comment on a post that's over 48 hours old?

You said it better. Ditto.