I wouldn't be ideologically opposed to an uncapped supply schedule. But, I'm not sure I get the point. I suppose replacing lost coins could help with price stability - that is, if there was a way to track how many coins are being lost. Otherwise, it seems to me that an arbitrary supply schedule would just have an equally arbitrary effect on price stability. Not to mention, there are other (likely stronger) natural forces other than lost coins that impact prices (technology, population growth, etc).

All this is to say, trying to pin down price stability seems like a fool's errand. I strongly suspect that once the price volatility of bitcoin isn't dominated by a still way early rate of increased adoption and speculation, its natural deflationary nature - even with a capped supply schedule - won't be too overwhelming to achieve reasonably stable (but yes, still slowly deflationary) prices.

very very very bad for whom exactly? I don't use nostr for anything personal (yet); so, protecting my privacy isn't really paramount. Other than that, is there some reason that I may not be considering why it's bad to use nostr without a VPN?

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Also, it's weird that this person is capable of acknowledging a record turnout in 2020 but can't seem to identify it as simply an anomaly... as if there was nothing unusual going on in 2020 that would leave people eager to participate in just about anything.

Despite my opposition to his politics, I used to respect Bernie for his authenticity... but he just keeps endorsing puppets of the very oligarchy that he denounces.

I guess trying to protect against edits, and HTML rendering, and nanny bots, and any other feature that not all clients are necessarily interested in implementing just seems like an impossible expectation to me. I would argue that experimentation at this level is more important - especially since clients are still broken in many different ways anyway.

If users think that a client sucks because it shows raw HTML instead of rendering it the way some other clients do, that sounds like how progress ultimately proliferates.

As an aside, FWIW, I'm not convinced that clients that obscure original pre-edited notes will ultimately be deemed by consensus to be the superior clients.

Since relays and clients are inherently free to participate or not participate in implementing the illusion of any such 'edit', isn't this all just academic?

Van Jones is right: The burden of proof is never on the accusers; it's always on the accused to prove the negative.

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Absolutely. To be kind of fair to her, though, she just represented the final inauthentic move by her party to try to fake its way through this entire election process.

I interpret this to mean that YouTube will still host your content; and, anyone with the proper YouTube URLs can watch it, right? You just need an efficient way to promote the YouTube URLs (because, presumably, YouTube has ceased doing so on your behalf).

I would continue to use YouTube for hosting while I still can; and, focus on trying to migrate your following to Nostr. Maybe create an nPub just for promoting videos - maybe even a whole Nostr client as a gateway to YouTube URLs could be a good project for someone (similar to what nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5 does for podcasts?). Either way, a potential audience could have easy access to your library without even necessarily having to set up a Nostr profile if they didn't want to (but could if they wanted to receive notifications, make comments, other engagement, etc).

If you can get to the point that Nostr has sufficiently supplemented your reach, then it would be much less painful to eventually abandon YouTube as your host as well (either voluntarily or otherwise).

I think I would be very hesitant to make the move to rely on another centralized alternative - just to be in the position to potentially get rugged again.

Just thought I'd add one of my favorite examples of this:

After the infamous 2017 riot in Charlottesville, VA, Snopes concluded that the claim that police were ordered to stand down was false. Initially, they arrived at that conclusion solely based on denials of police spokespersons - which is an obviously laughable standard in itself.

A few months later, however, a state investigation into the events revealed that at least 2 employees of the police department witnessed the police chief command “let them fight, it will make it easier to declare an unlawful assembly.” So, Snopes issued an update on the claim. Did they change their conclusion? Of course not. They simply clarified that since the police chief didn't actually use the specific words "Stand Down", then the claim that he ordered police to stand down is still false.

Do they say the same thing about not being able to afford a whole Silicon Valley tech company?

Make him choose between something civilized and Coors Light. That's like Sophie's Choice to Miller Lite drinkers.

Justice is supposed to be unbiased, fair, and impartial. In this same spirit, instead of voting in your own interest, consider voting in the best interest of society as if you have no idea which member of that society you are.

I kind of expect the argumentative medical assertions. What I didn't expect is for such assertions to immediately follow an acknowledgement that "Neither of us are doctors." She must have just been parroting whatever voice was coming through her earpiece.

We had a total of 4: 1 group of 3 at about 6pm; then a solo just after 8pm.

The numbers have been steadily dwindling for years, but I was kind of expecting an uptick due to pleasant weather this year. The oddest thing, though, was the 8pm visit. Usually those are reliably teenagers. This one was maybe 7 or 8 - with parents chaperoning from the sidewalk. I'd never seen that contingent out that late.

"tranniversary"? to what exactly?

Maybe "It's been an incredible journey" suggests it's presently ongoing, and they're still trying to figure out to what?

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It simply does apply.

It makes sense that this would improve accuracy; but, aim isn't everything. I'm guessing the other 20 percent is a simple matter of precision (or lack thereof).

I'm more looking forward to "see, we told you bitcoin was worthless" after it inevitably 'crashes' back down to 80K.