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Christian Bitcoiner and developer of coracle.social. Learn more at info.coracle.social. If you can't tell the difference between me and a scammer, use a nostr client with web of trust support.

Sowell argues that the unconstrained vision relies heavily on the belief that human nature is essentially good. Those with an unconstrained vision distrust decentralized processes and are impatient with large institutions and systemic processes that constrain human action. They believe there is an ideal solution to every problem, and that compromise is never acceptable. Collateral damage is merely the price of moving forward on the road to perfection. Sowell often refers to them as "the self anointed." Ultimately they believe that man is morally perfectible. Because of this, they believe that there exist some people who are further along the path of moral development, have overcome self-interest and are immune to the influence of power and therefore can act as surrogate decision-makers for the rest of society.

Sowell argues that the constrained vision relies heavily on the belief that human nature is essentially unchanging and that man is naturally inherently self-interested, regardless of the best intentions. Those with a constrained vision prefer the systematic processes of the rule of law and experience of tradition. Compromise is essential because there are no ideal solutions, only trade-offs. Those with a constrained vision favor empirical evidence and time-tested structures and processes over intervention and personal experience. Ultimately, the constrained vision demands checks and balances and refuses to accept that all people could put aside their innate self-interest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Conflict_of_Visions

I just think it would be fun to run a miner on my phone, I wouldn't even care if it's profitable.

People like to say that nostr doesn't scale, but what does that even mean? Number of daily active users? Throughput? Database size? Multi-region availability?

I went to the "@scale" conference a number of years ago, and the focus was mainly "how to deal with big data", with presentations on Kafka, BigTable, RenderMan, and others. This definition of "scale" is meaningful for centralized services, but irrelevant to Nostr.

The only type of scale I'm interested in for nostr is "internet" scale, where servers and clients are entirely independent and decoupled, and can be replicated as many times as needed to support demand. And we're already there.

What's that in English? Less letter spacing, and closer to the logomark? Also, played around with the colors, came up with a slightly different approach, what do you think? I think your version is probably the best still.

It's perfect training for dealing with the absolute chaos around here

Thought nostr was kind of quiet the last few days, turns out my local dev version of Coracle has broken feeds

I unironically love getting interrupted at work by a baby with a full diaper.

I like usernames from the Scottish Rite of Masonry: https://www.ghlilley.com.au/blogs/news/masonic-degrees-and-constitutions

- Master of the Brazen Serpent

- Master of the Ninth Arch

- Grand Inspector