This idea of statues basically equating to idolatry stems from a misunderstanding of latria, or the worship due to God alone. We make statues all the time in wider society, we let our children play with dolls and action figures, and we set up nativity scenes during Advent and Christmas, which are all philosophically identical. It just so happens that statues in churches have a different context.
What constitutes idolatry is treating something not God like an object of worship, which is what latria means, and is again different from dulia, or reverence/respect/honor. The decalog command that we honor our fathers and mothers, and that's not idolatry. To "worship" is the proper sense is to "make sacrifice to".
I think it's a mistake that the Church has spoken against prenuptial agreements in general, because the default "contract" is for a lesser understanding of marriage than the Church requires.
I say the Church in the US should write its own that legally eliminates pretty much all possibilities for divorce, especially in the form of no-fault, and adding a clause or two about canonical annulment.
Of the diet front, the solution is simple, though. Just eat meat and basically nothing else.
I would say the mint would mint onion-ized e-cash to users via a member, which we can call a teller, and that member can decrypt the outer onion and send to the user's wallet. The teller issuance protocol ought to necessitate some broadcast to the other members so they know it's been issued, such as making a decrypt request to an adversarial teller, and/or making pre-minted e-cash more like a withdrawal by the teller that gets credited back once properly issued. It adds some latency, but that's a low price to pay for the federation to be able to verify issuance.
I think Ramaswamy understands at least crypto and the dangers of CBDCs, if not also bitcoin maximalism, and I suspect that he'll be in Trump's cabinet. This is actually not a too far fetched idea.
The million mint nodes would have to run a decentralized program of their own, a many-multi-sig wallet application.
Let's say a group of 192 peers coordinate to establish a mint. Some mechanism is used to be somewhat sure these are not 2 with 190 copies of the bad actor, some minimum PoW, WoT, anonymized reputation management, or combination. A 2/3 majority is needed to post on-chain, and a smaller number is needed to mint e-cash. The point is to distribute trust as wide as possible.
Sounds like cracker jacks
I am about to #orangePill my wife's grandfather 🤙
1M mints handling 10k-30k users each is actually somewhat feasible as a complete L2 solution.
Then, the reply could be encrypted with the requestor's npub and thus private. It could all be handled by a simple "always open" Nostr client.
I know. It feels Luke violating your principles. Welcome to compromise, the only place progress is won or lost.
No party completely aligns. No position fully represents.
Construct a tiered system of values to uphold, and align the top first.
Slowly, the libertarian party is becoming Democrat refugees who know the dems are cooked but still want to be able to murder the unborn.
At the same time, it also is gaining with Republicans who want anarchocapitalism and/or are fed up with neocons.
Here I am, not fitting well into any camp, but being to align with the only pro-life platform.
Why this format? Is it somehow advantageous to store as text? More convenient to pass the data around? Otherwise, this is just a compute waste.
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This is what has been said all along by the libertarian and cypherpunk types. Needs to be known. Freezing funds for daily use has never before been done in human history, because never before in human history has our daily funds been perpetually in banks people used cash in wallets except for the largest of purchases, which were at the time safer by bank. Now, we use cash to avoid the banks.
We need to get this guy on Nostr 🤙
Responsibility is mixed. Those with power are responsible to use it properly, but parents are responsible to educate their children in such a way that those children grow to be responsible when they receive power.
When feminism erased the differences between men and women, especially in their societal roles, we forfeited the selective power of desirable women, which makes becoming a desirable man less rewarding and less feasible. We need a factory reset on western culture.