Meta, Insta, YT and eBay will be available, along with govt and banking sites, and the two big supermarket chains. PornHub with a licence, but the rules will change constantly.

Normies would totally accept this under just the usual excuses, no unusual levels of deception required.

If you’ve read the Critical Infrastructure Bill it gives gov special powers to take over any Org to which it applies in the event of a major breach. That’s a one-way path to some REALLY bad outcomes where they can continue justifying their operating a telco or a bank or whatever they want by just telling the public “it’s an emergency”.

We saw how they abused powers during Covid under the guise of emergency - imagine what they could do with these powers..

You’re right though about domestic, if we had extended interruptions it would be obvious who is behind it but imagine trying to tell Aussie normies that…

By foreign governments or your own? 🤔

The pro-terrorist "logic".

Terrorist organization rules a border territory with impunity. Israel demands that the sovereign state of Lebanon remediates this situation. If they don't, the Israel will.

For the pro-terrorist demented brain, this means that Israel "wants the territory". Because the victim is the aggressor and right is wrong.

Neurologically normal people, on the other hand, can easily see that:

1. Lebanon behaves like a peaceful cooperative neighbor and remedies the situation within its own borders. Israel can help, or stay out of it.

2. Lebanon wants, but can't, control what happens within its own borders. Then someone should, and Israel seems to be the most interested and capable party.

3. Lebanon simply does not want to behave like a peaceful neighbor and is actually OK with conceding control of its territory to a terrorist army. Then Lebanon is an aggressive state and Israel has the right to defend itself and pacify its borders. nostr:note165h5n8e6cpnhjauau28mv8xkyn8t93djyn8ut0snprkn5ce3gncqyq8v8n

History tells us that a rising star can quickly burn out in the atmosphere, like a shooting (or falling) star, if it does not remain humble.

This is a good question to #AskNostr

Hopefully #Nostriches will give better answers than “get a HAM radio license” (nanny statist #AUStriches will still seek permission from the State even in global chaos) or “supermarkets will need manual registers with checkout chicks”.

Also interested in opinions of how long a major internet outage could/would realistically last? Respondents on Xitter seem to think we would lose all knowledge overnight and be unable to recover at all so of course it’s going full Mad Max in their minds..

Personally I don’t see a “whole internet” scenario outside a black swan solar event / asteroid, but whole countries could possibly go down or be severely degraded with a combo of infrastructure attacks and hacks.

I once forced myself to use exwm as my window manager for 6 months, with no prior emacs experience.

cause i do stuff like that.

(exwm makes the entire computer interface an emacs session)

This is one of the problems. May be the problem

80,000 have left Northern Israel because of Hezbollah and they are parked in Central Israel on the dole while the economy they left behind is shut down.

Israel is a very small country,

They cant take much of this.

This strategy is called "managed escalation'. Lean hard enough, but not too hard. It has been Putin's strategy for two years

Altcoins Don't Lead to Bitcoin

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There's a persistent myth that Bitcoiners are made through altcoins. The argument goes something like this:

1. Someone hears about NFTs, a BRC-20 token or some yield-producing DeFi project.

2. They get curious and get into said altcoin.

3. They then find out about Bitcoin.

4. They recognize Bitcoin as sound money and start using it as such going forward

There are many criticisms of this argument, but let's start with one of marketing. The order here matters. The contention is that these people *hear* about an altcoin first before Bitcoin. While this may be the case for a few people, for the vast majority, they hear about Bitcoin first. The people investing in an altcoin almost certainly are people that know about Bitcoin already. It's extremely rare that *new* people come into an altcoin, without any knowledge of Bitcoin at all.

Second, there's a persistent idea that mere *exposure* to Bitcoin is enough for people to start adopting it. That somehow, hearing about Bitcoin, whether through commercials, ATM signs and Bitcoin Accepted Here stickers, that it's enough to send them down the rabbit hole of Austrian economics, incentive systems, the nature of money and so on to get to the place where they become Bitcoin holders.

Of course, this is ridiculous on its face. I'm sure someone, who was already inclined toward sound money principles through time-preference, has become a Bitcoiner this way, but for the vast majority of Bitcoiners, exposure to the *brand* was not enough. They were exposed to an *argument* for why Bitcoin is superior as money, more moral, better for civilization or better for wealth accumulation. Exposure to an altcoin very rarely exposes people to the best arguments for Bitcoin. It's very much in the altcoiners' interest to make Bitcoin seem worse in comparison. The arguments that they *are* exposed to are the easily refutable and require Olympic-level mental gymnastics to believe, usually a token around a centralized decentralization of something that makes little sense to decentralize. Thus, they might get a little more exposure to the brand, but the arguments for Bitcoin are something that they won't get in altcoin-land.

In other words, the people involved in these altcoins have very different motivations and the marketing makes this very obvious. The hope is always the price rise in the token through further marketing. There's nothing about these that point to Bitcoin's advantages over fiat money.

And the experience of Bitcoin Maximalists is clear evidence to the contrary. Many have had some time with altcoins in the past, but that's generally way before they finally "get" Bitcoin. In large part, that moment when they get Bitcoin comes *after* getting rugged in an altcoin, not *because* the altcoin somehow made Bitcoin's virtue more obvious.

Far from bringing "people into Bitcoin," altcoins actively tempt would-be Bitcoiners into a path of gambling and rent-seeking. This is precisely what takes people away from providing value and using Bitcoin as savings and puts them in a very fiat mentality of trying to get something for nothing.

This is why it takes most Bitcoiners years to really "get" Bitcoin. Adoption does not happen through airdrops or ads. Adoption happens through each individual understanding what Bitcoin is for. What altcoins do is confuse the issue because altcoins make Bitcoin seem more like "crypto," or a speculative gamble. Indeed, this is what altcoiners and nocoiners have in common. They don't or won't understand that Bitcoin is a better money. For them, it's a better or worse lottery.

Let's dispense with this idiotic narrative that altcoins somehow benefit Bitcoin. They're leeches of the system that confuse people with their obviously flawed arguments on the need for a token for their project. Altcoins are a morally corrupt evil.

I didn't get into Bitcoin so someone in Nigeria can now gamble more efficiently online. I got into Bitcoin because that same person can keep more of their wealth by not having their money continuously stolen from them. The altcoiners deserve all the vitriol that they're getting. At best, they are naive and overestimate their economics knowledge. At worst, they are scammers that are rent-seeking off of Bitcoin's success. Either way, this argument needs to die.

What is the difference between an interesting character and a contrived character?

Discipline and a low time preference are closely linked.

They represent the highest form of self-love.

It involves sacrificing immediate desires for greater benefits in the future.

Yea, I’m sure the extreme bombing, chemical weapons, and never ending economic warfare had nothing to do with it .

Next I’m going to hear that it was a clear win for the USA.

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#Asknostr can I get a more in depth but understandable explanation of pub/private key pairs?

The public key is derived from the private key and creates messages that the private key signs correct?

Lloyd Austin says US support 'unshakeable', urges Israel to do more to protect civilians and increase aid supplies.#Gaza #Hamas #Israel-Palestineconflict #Israel #MiddleEast #Palestine

Austin says US support for Israel unshakeable as Gaza ceasefire calls grow

When computers are able to do entire jobs better than humans, those humans will respond by retraining into jobs that they can’t be replaced in.

This will continue until humans are only doing those jobs that machines can’t do. These may mostly be providing for the emotional needs of others.

The problem is that labor supply will 20-100x while demand is dropping by a similar amount.

Human earnings are going to zero.

I don’t make the rules. (I only guess at what they are)

#AI

Correct. These are not the type of entities that are going to sell their asics and shutdown, realistically they will comply for their shareholders.

What’s the defence? Make it impossible for them to differentiate TXs somehow?

It's weird to see some folks acting like LLMs are the path to actual artificial intelligence.

Call me when an LLM can make deductions and have original thoughts without being fed the entirety of the Internet first. That's not how actually intelligent humans work. Of course compressing the entirety of human knowledge into a fuzzy completion machine will make it sound intelligent. You're basically making a lossy encoded compressed version of things actually intelligent people have said, with a modicum of ability to generalize by simple association and statistics.

The Turing test breaks down when you throw enough Big Data at it. Congratulations, you've beat the test. You haven't created real intelligence though, you used big data to build a parrot with a huge vocabulary.