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mark tyler
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Bitcoin & 🫂 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 “harm”.

Oh… reading the thread finally. I’m torn lol. It’s kinda hilarious. But also.. I think society needs people to do what they say. Anyway, Gary I’m zapping your profile the 10k

Insert “if LN is worthless then why don’t you send me some for free” meme

Replying to Avatar Derek Ross

imagine if you wanted to get on twitter and you had to install another app, made by someone else, with different branding, just to use it. nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn #nostrasia

im going to keep saying this until it happens. technology works best when it fades into the background and the users don't even know what's happening nor are they aware of what technology they're using. they don't care about how the sausages are made. they just know that they're delicious.

Damus custodial LN?

“So like there’s a very real connection in process of that, like my country created armaments and weapons of death they somehow circulate around the globe and found them have cells in the hands of Palestinians, who are now using that to commit death and destruction around the world and my frank truth is I want nothing to do with that I actually like radically want nothing to do with that I’m going to do everything in my power to separate myself from that and I mean that’s what bitcoin represents is now when my government says hey we’re going to send you know $20 billion to Ukraine. We’re gonna send $6 billion to Iran or you know or wherever they’re sending money I actually have a way to say you don’t want I’m not down for this anymore. I’m gonna put my money in bitcoin. I know you guys will call me criminal and do whatever you want to me but that to me this is ethical and like if you guys are really just building roads and like doing good social programs absolutely I would be willing to come to the table but you’re not here using it for military weapons of war that is lying to destroy people and animals even more important is today like it’s launchers like normalize weapons that like bang bang your dead like we have made weapons of mass destruction and bio chemical weapons that are designed to kill everyone equally like this is a crisis for all of humanity that up until 1945. We hadn’t ever been able to experience as a people.” - Erik Cason

He’s also not making an attempt at real conversation but implying they should be conversing with him. So maybe a less sarcastic title would be “man implies that people’s reaction to him shows wrongness when their reaction is actually totally reasonable.”

That said, I do agree that they are in the wrong when it comes to treatment of Palestinians.

It just seems to me like these present a weak straw man of the opposition.

But I agree. We need to have the conversations with people who support the bad stuff. Otherwise many actually do go around thinking like the people seem to in the video. Videos like this may even be an important part of the process.

We worry, but are we clear on our the definition of good retention? Newbies who make 4 npubs and stick with one of them are doing it better than newbies who make 1 and stick with it imo. We encourage people to carefully stick their nsec lots of places, but they will end up with a single favorite - which means the expected user behavior with 100% Nostr retention is for each place that’s watching to see new folks that leave. And that’s even in the case that 100% of real new users actually never leave.

Took three reads before I realized you weren’t angry and that wasn’t a “u” 😂

Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.

Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

#bookquotes #bookstr #ConsiderPhlebus

As we head into November, let’s do some purple pilling! Nostvember!

Building materials for seasteads

The high seas are (theoretically) open and free, but come with many construction challenges. Waves and winds should be familiar to all of us. I'm going to talk about construction materials options in the presence of the unholy trinity of biofouling, chloride corrosion, and UV.

Aluminium. Lightweight, inexpensive, easily recycled, handles UV well. Moderate difficulty to work and to repair. No particular resistance to biofouling if left in contact with water, but is not vulnerable to burrowing. Is destroyed very quickly by chloride corrosion. Not a practical option unless you are in a low-chloride environment like the Great Lakes of North America.

Cupronickel (including gunmetal, admiralty brass and similar). Moderately easily worked and recycled. Heavy. Invulnerable to UV. Extreme resistance to biofouling (toxic to invertebrates but not mammals or plants). Decent strength in tension compression and shear. Decent creep resistance. Horribly expensive. Resistant but not immune to chloride attack - no crevice corrosion or pitting, but sheds material very slowly across its entire surface. Combined with its cost this is like watching banknotes blow over the side. Can be practical for piping and similar when too small or inaccessible for inspection and maintainence.

Polymers (plastics). Lightweight, inexpensive. Uniquely vulnerable to UV, this can be managed with coatings, free-radical stabilisers and UV-absorbent fillers such as titanium dioxide. Mostly low strength, lower stiffness and no creep resistance unless reinforced with glass fibre, carbon fibre, or metal fibre. Easily recycled... unless you add fillers or reinforcement: you need both. Good resistance to biofouling. Essentially immune to chloride attack (though metal fittings and reinforcement might be vulnerable). Cheap and practical to build, moderately easy to repair, impossible to recycle.

Steel, coated. Very easily worked and repaired, moderately easily recycled. Cheap. Moderately heavy. Immune to UV. Coating can provide good resistance to biofouling. Excellent strength in tension, compression and shear. Excellent creep resistance. Quite vulnerable to chloride corrosion and related sulphate corrosion, can be managed with constant inspection and maintainance. Best option for working boats / infrastructure that expect to be damaged and repaired almost constantly.

Steel, stainless 316. Easily worked and repaired, moderately easily recycled. Expensive. Moderately heavy. Immune to UV, highly resistant to biofouling, more so if coated. Excellent strength in tension, compression and shear. Excellent creep resistance. Resistant to chloride and sulphate corrosion, doubly so if coated. This is not true of the cheaper 304 stainless and similar. Best all-rounder if you can afford it.

Your thoughts? Other options I may have overlooked?

Love this. We should commission a design for mass production and have ten thousand made

Loooool no way. The timing.. This has to be a photoshop 😂😂

Congratulations if not though 😆

I agree. Just wonder whether people focusing on it needing to be might miss the satisfaction for the as-yet unfilled consumption aspirations and feelings of deservedness.