The govt has done such horrific damage to the healthcare and insurance industries that there is an entirely alternative industry of “unapproved” medical professionals and “insurance as crowd funding” being built from the ground up simply to escape the leviathan of insurance/establishment insanity.

We won’t fix the idiocy it created, but in a sly roundabout way we will get honest, sensible care and disaster protection by avoiding their system altogether.

I have left it and will never look back. It’s little different than fiat vs bitcoin in my mind. Going back is so idiotic that I chuckle in horror at the thought of even entertaining it.

https://blossom.primal.net/efa6b37b09f083825990892047d6ab14e4f1d17209838dec0642f224908b97fc.mp4

#asknostr

Dear Relays,

How do you run the database of nostr notes for users? What is happening on the backend and is there a common standard or is this left up to each relay to decide? ie. is one relay using SQLite and then fishing for the relevant post when a user requests it? While another uses a graphDB or like Neo4j or something, etc? Or is there a standard that is recognized or makes since with nostr in general and everyone is basically using an "SDK' or library that has this sort of thing common across the ecosystem.

I actually dont have any of their red light therapy products but the quality of their other stuff has been really good. The red light stuff in general has always been pretty expensive for anything nice. Unfortunately you are right, its hard to tell what is super cheap and priced high because they can get away with it, versus actually a really good product. That's why i don't venture out much personally. If i find one that I think is good, i tend to go back.

But there are some other good brands out there though. My wife has the lumebox smaller light and she likes that one alot. Can't remember how the price lines up against other though.

Merry Christmas everyone!!

GDP growth also includes money printing. Which makes it doubly stupid.

If there was ever a perfect example of GDP being utterly bullshit… it’s that in 2020, with the entire economy shut down, with 40% of small business in the US decimated and never reopening their doors, the largest single economic distinction event in at least the past half century… “GDP “WeNt Up.”

Yes… if you still want to be 3% poorer

It’s remarkable how dumb this idea is and yet how many people believe it.

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I wonder which model. Physics is still a little off

95% of my MacBook Pro usage is plugged into my monitor at a desktop setup 😆

GM

https://blossom.primal.net/a54c7cff45bad0372f18b16b3b5c4de6002523986fbb482fc0fb3aa79320dd37.mp4

I have a slightly different strategy, but forcing them to keep digging does help to just break the high level “easy weights” answer.

https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs0u7fve6xupnsn6gas32e3dt63xk898wlh4f4p8s745cssl82eacsng6cuv

I would still say no on “can it be considered accurate.” It’s likely only going to be certain of an answer that is broadly accepted, not accurate.

In other words, it’s only going to give back what it was trained on. So it just never be thought of as “accurate.”

You’re strategy is decent and it’s what I started with personally, but it feel more like a “VPN” and “multiple search engine” strategy that doesn’t work as well with LLMs, imo. Still beneficial, but slower.

My recent go to is to get it to explain the “correct” answer, and then give me the best possible refutation of it. Then do the same thing for an alternative explanation. Steel man it first, then refute it with as much evidence and sources as you can. Then explain why each source, both those for the theory, and then those for the opposing or alternative, defend why they would be a reliable source or why they would be a bad source or might have a conflict of interest (I only go this far with politically controversial topics, AI answers on politically charged issues are fucking abysmal)

AI can be super useful in exploring ideas or issues, but they should be seen like a window you look through, not a fact checker or source of truth.

If you wouldn’t read an article on an idea and accept the very first answer. Then never do the same with an LLM.

If you use Ai by just asking a question and then accepting whatever it says, *especially* if there is any controversy or novelty around the idea, then you may have a massively inaccurate mental picture of what LLMs are and how they work.

I thought it was a conversation with someone who used to work on Mutiny wallet now that I think more about it

That’s not the one but maybe it can serve the same purpose! Thanks for suggesting. Still hoping we dig up the other though. 🙏🏻

#asknostr

I’m looking for a project with someone that I literally spoke with on the podcast (cannot find the episode), about a Nostr login that used traditional login schemes like “sign in with Apple” but did so in a blinded way. So they could host the server with the keys, but never actually access the keys.

Does anyone remember this and/or know what/who I might be talking about?

All that indicates is that cryptography generally has a shelf life. But that’s always generally been the case. Doesn’t mean QC is what will put the current paradigm at risk or tha some quantum safe lattice signature is the solution. In fact, it could very likely be something totally different and that we don’t expect.

Lopp’s proposal is the only one I know of on this topic that’s sort of concrete in when it’s saying to freeze coins, and every suggestion I have heard is prior to QC being able to do so (as the theft of Satoshis coins would be the obvious and huge first lost to the problem). But even in that context I still land on the “we don’t freeze coins” conclusion because who knows how many people might still be able to move coins and want to come back before any QC decides to go after their UTXOs, etc. I don’t think it is reasonable to assume any QC even after decades of being able to break one with a ton of energy or work, would be able to quickly or in a matter of moments, just break signatures wantonly. Which leaves a massive gap between “they spent 5 years breaking Satoshi’s coins” and “everyone else is immediately vulnerable” landscape.

In other, other words, I still think it is very likely that almost everyone save for the highest and most obvious balances would potentially still have years to move their own coins *after* Satoshi’s were already broken.

… is at the same level of importance as the 21 million limit when it comes to Bitcoin’s fundamental principles

(my kids are making it hard to type and I dropped my phone which sen the half typed message 🤦🏻‍♂️)

This scares the crap out of me 😅

Da fuq is a “freedom iPhone”?

100% I’d end up in the goolag 😆

The algorithm literally conditions our emotional state to make us more susceptible to the advertisement…

https://blossom.primal.net/0cd767c406cc62927845161fc2ae76541a3aa0ec86779b350fe4642949cedb35.mp4

Never take your freedom for granted. 🫡

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I'll tell you something, everything I've ever seemed to actually succeed at never felt like I was succeeding. To the contrary, it seems to always feel like i'm fucking up over and over and over again until something starts working.

The most important factor seems to just be keeping at it despite feeling like an idiot and like nothing is making progress... but showing up again anyway.

Correct. I keep it in there until I'm ready to use it, or I have enough that I want to just put it in cold storage. But i leave it as long as I can because my cost basis is when i hit "send."

It wouldn’t mean that you don’t follow people or don’t have followers. It would only be an avenue for someone *outside* of your web of trust to get a post *inside* it.

Dude... nostr:nprofile1qyghwue69uhkuvmcvghxjme6xucrqvqpp3mhxue69uhkyunz9e5k7qpq5xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvsrlysyl is pretty dope.

#Bullshit

Again, this is about whether or not pools are building the blocks or not. I didn’t say DATUM would make pools small. Your point is correct, but not relevant.

Doesn’t require knots, but yes