Regarding this crime thing. If I could buy my groceries with Monero or Lightning or whatever, I would do that just because fuck you that's why. If that's a problem for someone, maybe that's exactly what I should be doing. I don't bother to do that with cash, but crypto, why not. My bank wouldn't need to know what I buy and when. Is it far-fetched to think about stuff like "what if the currently okayish government suddenly turns full fascist and starts to browse the data for who bought X during the last 10 years" and then suddenly I'm fucked even if I did only lawful things? Unlikely scenario? Maybe (but really ?). I'd rather just stay private and avoid those kinds of scenarios. Nothing criminal in that, says I
Didn't think much able this but what about prostitution? Is it a free market? Or was it, that would qualify as the first one
Hehe, you keep continuing this. I even explicitly wrote my intentions and it was not about trying to demonstrate insight. See how many assumptions you made in such a short message: 1) "young" (how do you know?), 2) "zen people" (never claimed to be a "zen person"), 3) "without contact with tradition" (how do you know?), 4) "90%" (some random percentage, how do you even assess what western spirituality is, other than your own projections that are subject to cognitive biases). And, to be honest, they say to a large extent that Dharma has been moved to the west quite extensively.
Anyway, I fail to understand why you claim to be a "zen guy" and keep demonstrating with your fighting that your practice (if you have one) is not very effective in softening you into a little bit more compassionate direction. That's what actual practice would do. What's the use of any insight if you still transform playful discussion into something like that? Zen is a practice, and if you want to call yourself a "zen guy", it should be seen in how you think, talk and act. If it doesn't, it's probably called spiritual bypassing, and it works be a good idea to announce being something other than "zen guy". If stuff like this is "90% of Western spirituality", I guess it's quite a good situation then?
Please, stop shooting, the recoil hurts yourself! I just did 45 minutes of loving-kindness practice aimed at your AI-generated Shi Heng Yi of an avatar, and there's nothing you can do about it ♥️
Sorry for bothering you. Quite a superimposition on an idea about "zen people" being pain in the ass while at the same time announcing being a zen guy himself :) No need to keep missing the point and a joke (I didn't say "incorrect", I said a joke "not true", you just kept interpreting on an unsuitable level from the point of view of the joke), eluding a trial of having fun and starting fights. After all, initially you tried to correct the former claim but didn't quite reach the goal yet yourself - can't be done in language. So in this context, "better" is a funny word introducing a hierarchy again. I know, this annoying as fuck but this time it can be spelt out: it is foolery and wordplay.
To another matter, elegant pointing can be long form, T.S. Eliot for one did that, Leonard Cohen another one, both in pretty much the context we're talking here. But agreed, what was written was not elegant or very bright, but still a feeling of reading not having happened somewhere can be witnessed being left lingering in a body-mind at this location of the observable universe. But there arose a fondness towards your perhaps unintentional use of an intertextual reference to a metaphor that quite well describes zen practice as well: "like a lotus, at home in muddy water". Anyway, deeply sorry for bothering you. Let's not continue this. Anyway, as for alI sentient beings, wish you as well will find what the deep meaning of Kanzeon (almost your nickname!) is and that you'll learn why it is very relevant in zen, and how it relates to, for example, right speech or the Buddhist precepts overall - if you want to get to call yourself a zen guy, that is (or, not because of that but because of all sentient beings). Inb4 "no I'm zen guy not Buddhist".
I know, this is annoying as fuck but this time it can be spelt out: it is foolery and wordplay. Sorry for bothering you.
The emoji indicates that the answer was not pleasing, oh no! An impossible task was given. Explanation: the universe was only fucking with you, playfully.
Elaboration trial: On a relative level, the initial answer could be seen okay or something, but on an asolute level it is only another finger pointing to the moon like they say in zen ("they" say a lot in general btw). There is no true or false, and language can bring one only so far. To say who I am or who I really am is trying to freeze something in place or time. But the reality is probably closer to including everything as a process or something. And even to say something (e.g. I) exists is late because change has happened as it always does. We wouldn't want to try to freeze stuff at place or time because there is always change: anicca, impermanence.
At this time, the real answer to your question would be something like "As the universe, happeningness is being witnessed", and the real real answer is: "Don't know". And in haiku form the answer would be:
GM, coffee, yay
Enjoy the bright sunlight, friend
Contemplating stuff
What can be said it's: your original statement was not false either
A zen guy should know this is not true!
Another idea. Insurance companies seem to offer some benefits if you have "fitness points" or whatever they are. Basically they're something gotten from fitness apps. Idk or care. Anyway: write a message draft that you want pow for. Then go jogging with smartwatch (that has a nostr integration), and when you've collected enough e.g. heart rate points, the message is proven. Going to get my pre-ordered repebble which could be hacked this way 🤷 Maybe heart rate points could too, but anyway...
True. But on the other hand, deep inside I think I've felt exactly the same for my whole life
I think it is good to be mindful about the fact that constantly scrolling is basically fast task switching. That is taxing
Maybe abc notation is interesting to you. Old as damn. Was used to stuff sheets of music on a floppy disk in concise form, so that sharing them with people would be easy. Didn't want to carry heavy bags of paper you know. Same problem with money, right?
Today's phrack is phrack though https://phrack.org/. Still exists
I'm no expert but if magnesium makes sleep quality better, maybe you would not be groggy after sleeping better/deeper for a little while at least? But yeah, feel you, having one 3-monther myself and trying to survive (again)
Interesting idea. Has someone followed to continue the discussion here?
The point is holding the value of money, which you likely got in exchange by investing your time. So the point is holding the value of your time. You do not want it to slip through your fingers like dollars and euros (fiat money) do. It would kind of make your time less precious.
To avoid losing value of your time, in today's financial world you can't "save" money by holding into it. You must invest. And you must know how to do that or let someone else do that for you (both of which have a cost). Because of inflation, the traditional assets pretty much lose value in the best scenario, too.
Bitcoin is the best performing asset for some time now. You can save money by holding Bitcoin: see, there is no inflation. Plus, you're not probably jumping down the same cliff than e.g. index funds that would plunge in the next catastrophic financial event.
Because I'm lazy, I tend to save in Bitcoin. The point is holding the value of your time.
TBH, I think there's some deeper truth to this. Nothing personal, but one should always be mindful about distracting others. Is the message I'm about to send worth gluing someone's attention to it? Something like 99% of the time I answer myself "no" and I just don't post. Attention is valuable and I don't want to spend others' for no reason.
All wisdom starts with having a clear mind and then being completely honest to oneself.
Thoughts appear. Thoughts come seemingly out of nowhere, maybe subconscious? Arguably, thoughts are not chosen, they appear. Thoughts are affected by feelings. Feelings are affected by the surrounding world. Happenings are encountered: scare, anxiousness, winning the lottery - or speech. Again, the surrounding world affects feelings. Speech also does. Speech leads to feeling, feeling leads thought, thought leads to action. Action, call it cause and effect or whatever happens in the world, is important. It should matter. Then the question: what would you then call for example speech that causes people to make others suffer enormously?
Is there something implemented in nostr or whatever where I could easily share e.g. a Tidal or Spotify link to odesli.co (songlink) to fetch the link that I could then share to friends? The link that allows people to use whatever app to use to listen to the song.
#asknostr #songstr #musicstr
Occasional note to self: don't believe everything you think
Test note written in #shipyard
https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time
# All of these assumptions are wrong
- There are always 24 hours in a day.
- Months have either 30 or 31 days.
- Years have 365 days.
- February is always 28 days long.
- Any 24-hour period will always begin and end in the same day (or week, or month).
- A week always begins and ends in the same month.
- A week (or a month) always begins and ends in the same year.
- The machine that a program runs on will always be in the GMT time zone.
- Ok, that’s not true. But at least the time zone in which a program has to run will never change.
- Well, surely there will never be a change to the time zone in which a program hast to run in production.
- The system clock will always be set to the correct local time.
- The system clock will always be set to a time that is not wildly different from the correct local time.
- If the system clock is incorrect, it will at least always be off by a consistent number of seconds.
- The server clock and the client clock will always be set to the same time.
- The server clock and the client clock will always be set to around the same time.
- Ok, but the time on the server clock and time on the client clock would never be different by a matter of decades.
- If the server clock and the client clock are not in synch, they will at least always be out of synch by a consistent number of seconds.
- The server clock and the client clock will use the same time zone.
-The system clock will never be set to a time that is in the distant past or the far future.
- Time has no beginning and no end.
-One minute on the system clock has exactly the same duration as one minute on any other clock
- Ok, but the duration of one minute on the system clock will be pretty close to the duration of one minute on most other clocks.
- Fine, but the duration of one minute on the system clock would never be more than an hour.
- You can’t be serious.
- The smallest unit of time is one second.
- Ok, one millisecond.
- It will never be necessary to set the system time to any value other than the correct local time.
- Ok, testing might require setting the system time to a value other than the correct local time but it will never be necessary to do so in production.
- Time stamps will always be specified in a commonly-understood format like 1339972628 or 133997262837.
- Time stamps will always be specified in the same format.
- Time stamps will always have the same level of precision.
- A time stamp of sufficient precision can safely be considered unique.
- A timestamp represents the time that an event actually occurred.
- Human-readable dates can be specified in universally understood formats such as 05/07/11.
#programming #date #time
In Saifedean Ammous' Bitcoin Standard Podcast, Michael Saylor sums his use of "harder, faster, smarter [stronger is omitted in this context]". It goes: "When working against time we gotta be harder, when working against space we gotta be faster, when working against entropy we gotta be smarter" #bitcoin #saylor