Interesting poll.
Case and point: numbers. Physical reality contains instances of numbers, and numbers can explain and model physical reality, but numbers transcend physical reality to the level of abstract truth. So, too, are truth and logic in general, goodness, and beauty. These transcend physical reality and cannot be explained by it, but the reverse.
Alike to how having three apples allows a glimpse at the transcendent reality of "three" but is not "three" per se and is actually better explained by "three" qua "three," so too does compassion and kindelness manifest goodness but is not goodness per se but is rather explained by the real existence of goodness transcendent of physical reality. The apples manifest "three" like Mother Theresa manifested goodness.
In the same manner as it is nonsensical to imagine a world without "three," so too is it nonsensical to imagine a world completely devoid of Goodness, for it is by Goodness itself that it exists, and by Beauty itself that it does so in its manner, and by Truth that we or any other creature may even say such things. In yet greater profundity, I say that all that exists does so by Existence per se, and that principal of primary existence and the essence of Goodness, Truth, and Beauty I call God.
This guy is great! He's also the same guy that got El Salvador on Bitcoin, right? Now let's orange pill Micheal Knowles, too!
Welcome, nostr:npub1s33sw6y2p8kpz2t8avz5feu2n6yvfr6swykrnm2frletd7spnt5qew252p! Great to see you here. I've followed you for awhile on YouTube and am glad to hear you'll be adding content here too.
Not my representatives. No taxation without representation. We need a convention of states to abolish the federal government.
One of the worst things the government has done has been to use taxpayer money to subsidize the raising of the cost of college. I say it that way because it is not a result that we are more educated, because so much of college now is fluff or downright harmful to the human person, but that the only thing it accomplished is the increase in cost and decrease in quality to the point that I might rather someone without a degree to work for me.
Let's ban government funding of non-essential projects, especially healthcare and college. It only makes it worse for everybody.
What sort of options exist for running an organization's Nostr?
I am looking for what options I have for having a central npub through which delegate nsec's can publish notes, like a multi-sig sorta thing.
The idea:
one npub for an organization
multiple nsecs can publish through it via a managed service
Admin-type users can add-remove other nsecs from the service, so the main nsec is not shared amonst the authorized users, only "rented"
#askNostr
The SHA256 Hash function broken out.
Mind blowing.
https://video.nostr.build/cfbdeea3a2c8c68896bbeae978fb21fbb0b77c1fd902bccc08ac154caa7595b1.mp4
If the world population devoted its resources to develop a single supercomputer to crack a single 256-bit key, using round numbers...
2²⁵⁶ possibilities / (
2³³ people (8B and some change)
× 2¹⁰ units/person (may be generous)
× 2⁹ checks/sec per unit (GHz range checkers)
× 2²⁵ seconds per year (round, only 6% off)
) = 2¹⁸⁹ years
Even if someone developed a method better than brute force, say halving the bits to 128, 2⁶¹ years is still heat-death of the universe
Don't do it. Bitcoin addresses are disposable for a reason.
250kHz! That is way slower than I was expecting... couple months is right. It'd be $25-50 in electricity too.
There's a trillion possibilities for 8 characters of bech 32. How many CPU cycles are be needed to check one? I'm assuming there's not a better method than brute force, right?
As I read the whitepaper, it almost seemed like each logical step would need an on-chain transaction. It would be very slow to use as a back-and-forth medium, but it could be used to prove something globally for all of humanity, like the anonymized aggregate result of an election.
Useful for proving things that don't need to be fast? Yes. Useful for routine smart contracts? Probably not.
I will say that BitVM may be a good option for making more secure side chains without changing the consensus algorithm like would be needed with drive chains.
Seems like something can be done about this 🤔
#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=671x1019&blurhash=%5E%24ON8%2BWUoybFt7js%7EqaeV%40jZWBWVRjj%5BWBayj%5Bay9FofbHayofay-%3BayWBjZayWVM%7Bj%5BWUayj%5Bayaea%7CWVfQj%5BayRjj%5Bayayj%5Bay%253jaWCf7ayay&x=78937d9aad14f8edf26de3badcd735ae7e68264c75beeda295a629debd720ef6I think pharma should just not have ads, like we collectively just say no more selling attention to drug makers.
I have a really interesting SVG glitch. So, I have an animated GIF inside an SVG on a site I'm developing, and only in Safari the GIF remains paused unless the cursor moves in and out of the bounding box of the SVG. Anyone know why this might be?
#askNostr #svg #safari #macGlitch #IHateApple #😂 #🍎💻
On 2 Cor 5, I'll have to look up the various texts again, but I'm pretty sure "word of reconciliation" is a poor translation. The translations I've used said "ministry," not "word." Ministries require ministers, and so who might administer said process of reconciliation?
The to-through distinction I think is unnecessary for the James 5 passage. The reason I bring up James 5 is to show how the power to forgive is extended to priests and not only relegated to the bishops, since the letter addresses the priests and is not a private letter between apostles. The choices at that point is either Jesus granted the power to forgive or retain to the apostles only, or such power can be delegated to priests under the apostles (and their successors).
The issue, though, is that this necessitates an essential equality of roles between individuals within the Body of Christ. Some are hands, others feet. Some are diakonoi, some presbyteroi, and some episkopoi (deacons, priests, and bishops), while others have no official ecclesial position, whom we call laity.
It is evidenced in both scripture and post-Scriptural early Church history that these roles are distinct and have differing responsibilities and authorities. Christ gave His chosen twelve the authority to forgive and retain sins (John 20), but not the broader group of followers. One may argue that "disciples" is ambiguous as to which ones (broader followers or the chosen twelve), but it is clarified in that the later passages of scripture do speak of confession in the context priestly duties, not general.
Further, the word in James 5 often translated "elders" is "πρεσβυτέρους," or "presbyteros", and so implies the confession in the following verses is to a priest (verses 13-18 has about enough context). In fact, the Douay-Rheims does translate it "priests."
I also should point out 2 Cor 2:10 and 2 Cor 5:18-20 which say that Christ reconciles "through us," meaning the "ambassadors for Christ," or those Christ sent, aka Apostles. Ministries need ministers, who "in the person of Christ" reconcile others to Him. We can see from the above passages that the power to forgive is not only with the Apostles* alone but also extends to the priests (presbyters).
Finally, one who carefully examines these still may find a very fine ambiguity about whether the power to forgive extends beyond priests, but positive confirmation of such is entirely lacking, including any inexplicit implied, neither to deacons nor laity, and post-Scripture Church history shows that they did not believe so.
Josh is right that it was initially a public thing, usually at the beginning of worship. I didn't know the origin of private confession, so that's interesting.
* The Apostles are the first bishops, see Act 1:20, "office" of an Apostle is referred to as ἐπισκοπὴν (episkopon), or bishopric.
Just eat meat and you're good. There's something to be said about eating only healthy animals comma but the animals have their own kidneys and livers to filter out the toxins that they eat. We can outsource the processing of toxins to the animals that we eat.