Can you specifically lay out the actual plan for setting up a group of humans to live on Mars permanently, and sustain their lives such that that could thrive on an ongoing basis? And I mean no abstractions or vagueries. What specific technology we do we have that can overcome the challenges of having no magnetosphere, no breathable air, and life-ending temperatures?

The first time I read The Fiat Standard, I skipped the chapter on Fiat Architecture. Just didn’t seem interesting/relevant. Now I get it…

Wow, what a long winded way of saying "make my job easier and I don't study economics."

People using this scare tactic of "Fees will be thousands!" Don't understand economics. People saying Lightning isn't a good layer-2 are not thinking institutionally. Banks if they want to survive the fiat collapse will become Lightning node runners. Becoming the bridges between vendors and customers. They already have the infrastructure and relationships.

Diatribes like this are when coders get lazy and forget they aren't the only important piece of a monetary technology. This is the equivalent of a banking App dev saying that the dollar will fail if he can't get his preferred coding convention to be used in the codebase of Wells Fargo's new widget. Childish.

The slow evolution of each npub's follow list is where I'd like more tools from the client devs.

I'd like features that help me with systematic management of my follow list(s).

Example:

Give me a single button on each note (accessible without _any_ additional tap/click, so that it's minimal effort) to mark the note as "interesting/relevant to me".

Then show me statistics from these marks so that I can directly see for all my followed npubs:

- number of notes seen in the last x days

- % of these notes marked as relevant

- ...

This may well be an accurate description of the current status of the nostrverse.

But, I don't think it's the big Npubs' fault.

I rather think this is mostly the inevitable dynamic that occurs in a system that's designed in this way (no feed algorithms at all).

And I think it's kind of a bootstrap dynamic that mostly characterises the beginning of the network.

After this initial phase I'd assume that other dynamics will evolve. New social circles/ sub communities will form around high impact accounts that have nothing to do with the initial big Npubs.

So I think we need patience and we'll get slow evolution, because every npub is slowly bootstrapping their way according to their interests.

You, and other Very Big Npubs, have a completely outsized impact. It's like the Elon effect, but there are 20 Elons.

You have over 600k followers. Even supposing only 10% are "real and active", which is very low, if you boost or quote something, it will likely trend because it ends up in 60000 npubs' feeds.

If I do the same, it ends up in 70 npubs' feed.

Everyone is looking at what you are looking at.

That food doesn't seem to be very healthy, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s bottle of coke with sugar....

We're off to a bad start 😂 .

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The newer residents will look after the pensioners

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Pensions and europe

The pension systems in Europe are a pyramid scheme and I will prove it to you.

For the pension system to be sustainable it needs at least the average number of children per couple to be higher than 2. This means that most couples must have 3 children, which means that the population has to be constantly growing.

This meets the requirements of a pyramid scheme, Madoff would be proud.

When the equation breaks down, i.e. when not enough new members enter the system, the scam collapses. In the case of Europe the average number of children per couple is barely 1.5 which means that the population is decreasing, this generates a huge deficit in the pension system to the point of making it unsustainable.

In most European countries you are not paying your pension, you are paying the pension of current retirees, another characteristic of pyramid schemes.

In conclusion, before 2040 most of the European pension systems will fail, you will not receive a pension or your pension will not even be enough to buy bread.

But luckily I have a solution, save in Bitcoin.

New advanced autonomous hypersonic military technologies are quite an innovative and manufacturing leap forward. These technologies are so good that they will destroy all of the manufacturing and research facilities creating such technologies.

#diet

Day 12 of keto diet. I'm only down 1.3 kg (about the weight of glycogen and water) so far. I hit that number already on day 3, so really no progress for 9 days now. I'm rather disappointed, I thought I could eat as much as I want and still lose weight. Maybe the reason this works for so many people is that they were previously eating junk... whereas I was not previously eating junk. I've been using strips to test my ketosis and I've stayed in ketosis the whole time.

On the plus side the diet is quite satiating. It's super easy to do. I don't have cravings and don't have to use will-power to make it through. I could do this forever if I chose to, nearly effortlessly.

The other plus is my IBS is gone. This isn't the first time I've been able to do that -- just giving up grains, milk and coffee caused it to go away previously. I've identified all three of those as culprits, each multiplying the effect of the others.

Only I'm not convinced that eating a diet that doesn't cause weight loss but does jack up my LDL is a good idea (please don't respond with "LDL is good" unless you personally authored the study ok? I don't draw scientific conclusions from Internet advisors).

So I'll probably move back to a grain-free (but with beans), milk-free (but with cheese), sugar-free, heavy vegetable and meat diet with fruit in season.... but I'll give keto a bit longer.

I fully agree that, as you say "energy poisoning" is one of the major causes of modern disease, is THE cause of diabetes, is the primary cause of gout, and also increases risks of cancer and atherosclerotic diseases. And probably the most important one to correct.

But (and this is where we differ) I also think saturated fat (apoB to be precise) accelerates atherosclerosis. And so limiting red meat (as long as you can do so without gaining wait) is another good target for health.

But avoiding energy poisoning is the bigger of the two levers.

The easiest place for a backdoor to be injected is at the chip fab, after a chip is designed and taped out, before it is written to silicon. Several of these have been detected via electron scanning microscopes, so it does happen. But IMHO it probably doesn't happen to most chips. In commercial processors it can happen at the design level.

People can't produce fast hardware via open-source projects. But they can burn a circuit into an FPGA and be pretty sure there are no backdoors, but they end up with something really slow.

My thinking was "the most likely commercially available fast processors to not be backdoored would be new ones in new areas of technology".

Just because I think Intel and AMD chips have backdoors (sandsifter found hidden RISC instructions that bypass security, RDRAND acted strangely, Intel ME is pretty well known, etc) doesn't mean that the intelligence community is successfully backdooring even the early research projects. I suspect they aren't, but of course I don't know. Hitting the big commercial projects is a big win for them, but hitting every little research project is a huge cost with very little benefit.

The easiest place for a backdoor to be injected is at the chip fab, after a chip is designed and taped out, before it is written to silicon. Several of these have been detected via electron scanning microscopes, so it does happen. But IMHO it probably doesn't happen to most chips. In commercial processors it can happen at the design level.

People can't produce fast hardware via open-source projects. But they can burn a circuit into an FPGA and be pretty sure there are no backdoors, but they end up with something really slow.

My thinking was "the most likely commercially available fast processors to not be backdoored would be new ones in new areas of technology".

Just because I think Intel and AMD chips have backdoors (sandsifter found hidden RISC instructions that bypass security, RDRAND acted strangely, Intel ME is pretty well known, etc) doesn't mean that the intelligence community is successfully backdooring even the early research projects. I suspect they aren't, but of course I don't know. Hitting the big commercial projects is a big win for them, but hitting every little research project is a huge cost with very little benefit.

There is a reason I was deep into RISC-V just before I got deep into nostr