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https://mises.org/library/book/epistemological-problems-economics

Praxeology, right? I did not even notice the typo at first.

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Max

This is an excellent paper by Ludwig von Mises about the foundational philosophy of phraseology.

Are there any non-excellent papers by Ludwig von Mises?

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#asknostr

what is the name of the type of suit that sorta looks like a penguin, and is generally considered quite elite and formal

usually has a funny white flat front piece under the jacket and white cuffs and i think often worn with white shoes or white and black shoes

to me, there is a certain kind of cat breed that has markings that are much like this, white chest, often white around the throat or patches on the face, and especially front paws white and often rear paws also white... the damn name of this type of suit is on the tip of my tongue, i will probably remember it tonight

Tuxedo? Tux?

"So the heralded Reagan Revolution fizzled. In part it failed because the administration never had a strong commitment to fundamental change in the first place. Witness the unyielding support for the massive transfer payments, benefitting mainly the middle class, under the Social Security system; the continued subsides to, bailouts of, and protection from competition for farmers, timber companies, auto, steel, textile, footwear, and apparel producers, shipping companies, commercial banks, and countless others; the pervasive interference in international trade through quotas and so-called orderly marketing agreements negotiated with foreign governments. Virtually the entire hodgepodge, described by Stockman as a 'coast-to-coast patchwork of dependencies, shelters, protections, and redistributions that the nation's politicians had brokered over the decades,' remained intact. Political expediency reigned as supreme as ever. But even had the Reagan partisans genuinely desired to return to a free-market regime, their methods did not augur well for such a reaction. They focused not on institutional change but on altering the budget numbers, on getting income-tax rates down--particularly at the top bracket--and, with much less enthusiasm, on reducing governmental spending. Number juggling is not the stuff of revolution. Ultimately, as Stein has observed, the likelihood of a conservative revolution was slight because 'even conservative governments when in office do not want to limit their own powers.' Conservative politicians, in short, are still politicians. And in a political system devoid of basic constitutional and ideological restraints on the scope of governmental authority, any species of politician may run amok." - Robert Higgs

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i have to stand up, or squat, there is no lying down ant it's 10:19pm

In any case, I hope it gets better soon.

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i have to stand up, or squat, there is no lying down ant it's 10:19pm

How about five pillows under your leg lying on your back, kind of like a squat position?

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i have the most incredibly debilitating spasm in the muscle ... i think it's the one between the upper front pelvis and thigh, idk what it is, but i can't lie down... i can actually stand up more comfortably

this is obviously because of electrolytes and neuropathy and lack of flexibility

i'm giving it a good blast from an infrared lamp heater and i literally would not be able to operate my pc in the seated position right now,, i cannot bring my leg into that position without suffering extreme discomfort

just gonna give it a lot of IR and hope it eases it off enough to be able to actually sleep because at this point i can't sleep

https://youtu.be/ouq68bBp_dI

Motion is lotion.

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calle

Listen to at least the beginning of this talk by Amir Taaki - a true crypto-anarchist, Bitcoin dev in 2010, and the author of BIP 1.

Thanks for sharing.

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⚡️AndreasHodler⚡️

Who defines what a breach of natural law is?

A unanimous jury is one possibility.

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The only thing missing from it is fraud.

I assume fraud would fall under theft.

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It isn't arbitrary, it needs no explanation, there are no loopholes, it says what it says.

In most cases, sure. But just like physical laws, natural law can have gray areas requiring specialists. I agree that this doesn't make it arbitrary.

What good is a phone call if you are unable to speak? What good is a Bitcoin if you are unable to spend it?

Median fee around 10-15 USD for the last couple blocks. Good luck buying your five dollar coffee.

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almost all of the "popular" mainstream languages share a common feature...

every one of them, nodejs with node_modules, rust with target, move with build, and there's probably others i am forgetting, literally copy almost the same big giant set of standard library code into that directory

if the disk had deduplication capability, i guess that might not be so bad, i think that ZFS has that, but i'm not even going to talk about this Unix :TM: bullshit because they deigned to force a whole different CLI API on us to just access them and since i don't need to learn this to use ext4 or btrfs, in the basic use case, fuck them, what the fuck were they thinking not binding it into mount and fucking fsck???

so, if i've been working for a while on a hundred projects or more, my disk has to have this many copies of the standard libraries, plus all the other dependencies that each one pulls in, and very often, in most languages there is dozens of more libraries that are basically de facto standard libraries, and pretty much will be stuffed in that directory for you every last one

of course, Go doesn't do this shit... in $GOROOT/pkg/mod there is a folder with version namespaces on each version of everything that everything you have ever used lives, and you can remove all of it with "go clean -modcache" or some command like this

every time you start a new project in these other systems, first step includes DOWNLOADING AND WRITING this shit to your disk. AGAIN.

if you think #golang is not a good language or toolchain, maybe that's because you have more money than brains

Maven and Gradle use $HOME/.m2 and $HOME/.gradle directories. Then again, those are build systems outside the language. Language designers need to remember that people might try to use languages to build stuff and re-use stuff from other folks. So if Go supports reuse in the language, kudos to Go.

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daniele

Sorry, just a bug in Gossip rendering!

It was not always so. See https://emojipedia.org/pistol

I am using gossip 0.11.3 and I see the link to both video and picture in the OP.

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"Originally depicted as a classic handgun, as a revolver or other pistol. In 2016, Apple switched its design from weapon to toy; other major vendors followed suit by 2018. Deprecated emoji sets or smaller platforms still display the emoji as a handgun."

In fact, it does not appear to be unicode's error. Look at https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf (Unicode 16) where it describes the emoji in question 1F52B as "PISTOL = handgun, revolver" and furthermore (at least in Firefox's display of the PDF) it looks like a Beretta 92! This is an error of presentation in several implementations, not an error in the spec.

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isn't it strange how unicode has no real gun, or rifle... just this piss: 🔫 i mean pistol

and yet we have these: 💣 🧨 💥 ⚔️ 🔪

these 5 elements represent things that often are associated with terrorism or murder

It was not always so. See https://emojipedia.org/pistol

"Originally depicted as a classic handgun, as a revolver or other pistol. In 2016, Apple switched its design from weapon to toy; other major vendors followed suit by 2018. Deprecated emoji sets or smaller platforms still display the emoji as a handgun."

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lontivero

Finally, the idea that somehow utxos with amounts below 0.01594323 btc has to be necessarily consolidated makes no sense and it is clearly false. Here a user decided to consolidate all those outputs because she decided to move all her money out Wasabi. This is something no so uncommon, people that do not understand Wasabi tend to use it as a mixer where they send, mix and leave. By doing so, the lose the ability to manage what they reveal to the world after each transaction. I mean, now that users has only one single utxo and it will reveal lose its privacy immediately after she spend it in the next transaction.

Wasabi is not a mixer, it is a system designed to protect the privacy of your bitcoins and your transaction by allowing you to manage the information about who knows what about each of your utxos. Its labeling system is by far the most useful and powerful mechanism to manage your privacy and reveal only what you are okay revealing. Wasabi lets you know who can known about each of your transactions, it allows you to avoid change that stops the tracing of your wallet from others, it protects you from network observers, from entities that want to collect transaction data and metadata from you.

Those who use it as a mixer are simply idiots that do not know what they are doing and do not understand the consequenses of that.

The problem with wabisabi coinjoin transactions is that you end up with dust UTXOs and need to consolidate them after coinjoin: https://mempool.space/tx/b893d2f3dccf0b4ce22e572e431b97b7a14fdf00992fbfb344937ba717eec793

As an idiot, I hope all wallets become idiot-proof. People seem to think it's too burdensome to use gold coins as money. Compared to all the pitfalls of maintaining privacy with Bitcoin, gold's looking pretty good at the moment. At the same time, I want to know how to use Bitcoin the most private way.

Instead of consolidating, what's the better approach? Let Wasabi do another coinjoin with the dust? What about moving to another wallet, what's the better way to do that? Coinjoin followed by sends from each UTXO to new addresses in the new wallet(s)?

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/dev/fd0

Can they not be spent along the way in any given transaction post-coinjoin?

Five years ago this week, SARS-CoV-2 had spread across the globe and an intelligence alert about SARS-CoV-2 was sent across the globe.