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mark tyler
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Bitcoin & šŸ«‚ Oh and dimly trying to think through interesting issues. I think that I don’t have a right to force you to do anything other than not harm me or others. Seems like most people I interact with in the real world disagree with this statement. To be fair.. the devil is in definition of ā€œharmā€.

, and define life being generously back simply as the satisfaction of having helped others with your labor šŸ«‚

Tornado shelter

Cold storage room

Walk in closet

Observatory

Seems like it doesn’t work when I do this flow:

Share via button in damus

Choose shortcut

Replace url with njump.me url including the note id at the end from the damus share

When I do that this happens:

The closed unless AND(it’s not a holiday, its business hours, you’re in a stable country) part

Why do I care, what’s at stake: human lives, time with loved ones. Real people don’t do specific actions required to keep their bodies alive because of what can be reduced to problems of epistemology. They haven’t been able to figure out correctly what real world actions would keep them alive. This happens all the time, including people in my life. šŸ«‚

> PoW is a more general idea than just bitcoin

Bitcoin would have allowed for reusable PoW, which is better than non-reusable PoW for all cases I have imagined so far, and reusable PoW is still just storing a password safely.

I actually think he’s wrong, PoW doesn’t help against DDOS attacks at all, because the first thing the API request does is authenticate itself. In a DDOS scenario where the destination machine is checking for PoW, there is nothing stopping the attacking machines from submitting nearly infinite requests with invalid hashes. The destination machine is forced to check each one - which causes it work, which means the DDOS is succeeding.

I could be wrong here, I’ve never actually had to build protection against DDOS, this is just my lay understanding.

> the US and USSR fielded more nukes than they could have possibly used

Are you accounting for their calculations on how many they might lose before mounting a response? I’d be very surprised if the budget for literally useless nukes was approved.

Hopefully I understood what you mean here.

The lessons of epistemology should be found when one is ready.

In hindsight, they are the foundation and not the cap on a journey of learning.

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What can’t be proven one way or the other?

Some things are subjective. I’d say those probably can’t be proven at least not soon. Others are not subjective. Whether the DNA creates sound frequencies that match UV light is not subjective. Whether this or true is a question of experiment not of the soul. If experimental data suggests it’s true, then it might be. Absent that data, we don’t know. With that data, one true interpretation emerges.

Other kinds of questions like ā€œwhat does it mean to my soul to be a grandparent of a deaf childā€ probably can’t be answered in a prove-able way. Those should be the subject of deep thought and discussion as they exist largely beyond the empirical realm.

I don’t know if you mean to defend his actions, but in case you do, why not write with a pseudonym then? Explain the procedure in full and let them figure it out.