Thomas Dietz on Nostr, before it even existed! ~2015
I suspect this will come to be viewed to Nostr a bit like what Hayek's "sly, roundabout way..." is to bitcoin.
Nostr is relational contracting 3 . 0 😂
Did you know that chicken and pork are scams?
Wow, you're really obsessed with Judaism. I didn't even know that word. Careful, onlookers might think you're even more Jewish than me... In fact, can you prove that you are not Jewish? 😂🤣
The eternal victim? That's a good way to describe you.
Go cry to someone else that you lost and are oppressed, you whiny little collectivist bitch. 😂
When people like you display such low capacity for logic, I can almost empathize with the view that you scum do not merit autonomy and need to be ruled. They're also wrong, but you encourage them through your pathetic weakness.
Where is even a single bitcoin whale who wishes to build great technologies?
Bitcoin is merely the thing that gets us the thing, it is actually not the thing itself.
How Nostr eats the state, exhibit 102.
You think Twitter's dilemma of Nostrize or perish is tough? -- consider that every government, from municipality to nation will face the same choice.
You will respect economic property rights and you will like it.
Bold of you to assume there is any sort of tribal allegiance rather than nothing beyond the infinitely corrupting love of fiat.
The "observations" actually line up even better if you say "white privilege". Zoom out. 8 billion people, and the small fraction that control access to money printer are pretty much all white.
Doesn't seem like a joke. Not something I think about at all until others bring if up. Though given being of Jewish descent in the first half of the 20th century had a mortality rate matching climbing, it behooves me to take even jokes seriously.
My grandmother barely escaped Germany before the Nazis had control... the ship's captain actually refused an order to search the ship just before the departure (don't forget, the Holocaust was state theft of funds in order to fund war, the anti-Semitism was just convenient rhetoric for robbery of citizens). So I have the genes of the group that decided to be overly cautious. 🤷♂️
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Zaps will be as fast as they are on StackerNews where you just click once and 10 sats are sent (or long press for more) perhaps with clients holding small custodial balance.
Great. Let's use the correct parameterization, which is specifically, *central bankers*, and their power exists with the buy in of all sorts of people all over the world who work in finance or simply hold fiat. Over-categorization to try to infer and predict, and the belief that it is possible to make such sweeping generalizations is the central pillar of statism.
The evil that exists in this world is emergent and evades categorization. As someone who is Jewish by descent, I can tell you that I was never invited to any world-control meetings, and I was screwed over by the fiat world rather than being given access to the money printer. As the son of immigrants, I did not have the connections that would have made it far easier to obtain venture capital.
Moreover, taking a historical perspective Jews were cut out from participating in economic activity and were not left alone. They were pushed into fiat by being cut out from various other trades, and that they happened to excel in fiat may just be that perpetually being murdered made us smarter -- this would explain why there is an overrepresentation across all skills, Nobel prizes, myself being a co-inventor of the strongest aerospace parts technology in the world, and so on. So perhaps I should thank your sentiment existing in your ancestors that helped make me into what I mean. The sins of those who used their intellect for evil are not my sins. I am an individual, not a branch of a collective.
Taking a historical perspective on monetary transitions, the demand for a credit and checking system to enable more efficient economic trade than directly operating in gold seems like it was likely always inevitable. It is hard to imagine a world in which paper credit and checking would be done honestly for 100 years until "Bitcoin" could be invented. Imagine 100 simulations and tell me, does it happen in even a single one? The industrial revolutions that precede a modern era of networked computers obviously must happen a number of decades after operating directly in gold becomes untenable
I also want to be left alone, and my people are one that perhaps have been the least left alone for millenia so I do not know why you would see me as your enemy.
Lmao, it's literally exactly the same as saying "white privilege" exists. 🤡
Identity politics maxis such as Stoney are collectivists. Identical in most ways to a leftist statist, but with a charge reversal. Even under Bitcoin and Nostr, the collectivist cravings persist. Perhaps they will only die off after a few generations. Emotional, irrational hatred of Jews signifies weak mental fortitude and typically low IQ, low literacy, and stupid people are easy to compromise.
If no one can point to a good example, consider this an open offer to purchase 1-3 bottles of alcohol from this establishment in Paso Robles (they have craft gin, rum, and a whiskey). I can deliver IRL in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, or Los Angeles (west side), or anywhere on drive from San Luis Obispo to Los Angeles..
Terms:
- offer valid for next two hours
- delivery fee of 100k sats
- delivery fee and 50% of goods cost paid up front
- balance paid upon delivery
- confirmation to be made over DMs to have a bit of plausible deniability that the agreement took place
- delivery within 1 week (assuming LA)
What are the counterparty risks?
1. I could run off with the initial fees and fail to deliver, but this would greatly damage my reputation, and you can easily observe that I am invested in this "ID" quite a bit and that I would not exchange it to rugpull in this quantity.
2. You could decide to not honor the agreement and not pay balance, refusing delivery, but then I keep the deposit and bought myself alcohol at half off, a risk I'll accept.
I think this is a good test case since it likely violates a number of laws, this being California and distribution/sale of alcohol is regulated, but it is not illegal to the extent of hard drugs. Additionally, since there is no central operator behind this exchange (not organized crime), law enforcement cannot systemically stop this sort of action in a cost effective way.
My pseudonymity here is fairly weak... but it's not about it being perfect, it's about what you can get away with. Similarly, I think we can get away with trusting each other in this sort of exchange without feeling the need to operate within the legal protections of the state.
To become ungovernable, find the comfort in the probabilistic and the illegible.
IRS? Sorry, I wouldn't know, I'm not connected to that paid relay. #[0]
Who has coordinated an IRL exchange of physical goods over Nostr so far? Who has done so in a trustful way where funds were exchanged or good purchased in advance of delivery due to logistical constraints in spacetime?
Nostr eliminating Statism is far more intuitive than Bitcoin doing so
Nostr replaces the tryanny of democracy, for anyone wondering where order shall arise from when Bitcoin bankrupts the State.
Good afternoon, the constitution fails to recognize the general right to engage in contract
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Makes sense why so many are still in the denial or bargaining stage
Do you know how easy it is to take the wrong path descending a peak?
On a certain rock, the correct path is always easy to low moderate. There are many false paths that branch off, but lead to rough terrain in loose areas with cliffs -- it would in fact be more dangerous to attempt that terrain than a vertical face with secure holds that feels easy for you.
I maintained a swift, but not too fast pace since I wanted to get down before sunset, and I did not want to linger where I could be arrested.
When the heart is pumping and one feels fatigue, it is easy to turn onto the wrong path, and it can be extremely dangerous to consider the cost sunk and be unwilling to turn back, start climbing uphill again knowing maybe you will decide you actually had it right the first time.
As I made my way down, I just kept repeating in my head "the correct path is always easy; if it is not easy, it cannot be the correct path".
This does not mean to avoid doing things that are hard. The man who walks with purpose and reason simply overcomes all obstacles effortlessly for there is nothing hard about doing what must be done. Fiat wants to make slaves of people, to do work that is hard. Honest work is not work, but simply a state of being. So perhaps now as I go about my life I will think back to these moments from yesterday and remind myself, if it is not easy, it is not the correct path. If I do not know, I know.
They have nostrich burgers on the menu here. 😅
Not A Single Student Can Do Math At Grade Level In 53 Illinois Schools... https://www.zerohedge.com/political/not-single-student-can-do-math-grade-level-53-illinois-schools
Grade level math in child prisoners of the state?!? Who gives a fuck?
99.9% of adults cannot RUN THE FUCKING NUMBERS
This is the real problem
No one seems to be talking about
I emailed the researchers to clarify a detail that was unclear from the paper to verify the "cost-effective" claim of the title here, but if it is true, this is as big a jump beyond the top of the line carbon fibers today as those fibers are from the original carbon fibers of the 1970s. 🤯
Simultaneous large jump in strength (how hard you can pull before it breaks) and stiffness (how much it deforms when you pull it), when usually they have an inverse relationship!
Most of the time when you see CNTs (or anything "nano") in the news, it is total junk from a real world practical perspective for a number of reasons (you say "nano", I more or less hear "blockchain" 😂). This could be different. Fingers crossed. I will update when I get a reply from the authors.
There are two ways it could be read... and it may actually cost $10k+ per pound, which is not all that useful immediately, though still interesting.
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-cost-effective-strong-composite-carbon-fiber.html
I am not making an unqualified endorsement of 3DP home construction, but imagine what will happen to real estate markets if it makes it really cheap to just print out a home.
Dollars are already dead, everyone agrees they suck and not for savings. Real estate is the biggest pseudo-money for bitcoin to crush, followed by equities.
Bitcoin has "limited scalability" going beyond the Earth due to gravitational energy wells and the hash horizon.
Nostr can scale throughout the galaxy 🌌
H/T #[1]
Elon banned #[0] for mentioning Nostr and Zaps as a feature request... Let's see what happens with this 😂
Yes, literally...
you're welcome
lmk (even if I don't follow you here) 🤙
"What matters"... shows some clips of various components of an internal combustion engine... maybe they do invest in things that matters? 🤔
They do not. They "invest" in things like Solana, but what are they telling us? Within the parasite, deep down there is a kernel of a human that still yearns to be free, who knows the truth. The parasite pretends there is no objectivity... but then why do all humans converge on the same truth? As Feynman observed the easiest person to fool is yourself.
Remember, if someone calls you a fucking idiot degenerate piece of shit for shitcoining, that might actually be the only person in your life saying "I love you" who sees the kernel of dignity you might still have that merits this authentic interaction. 💜🧡
The ability to harness and transform energy is everything and there is an innate drive to fulfill this INTRINSIC purpose of life. That will never change.
Another way to Zap potentially as alternative to LNURL, but also able to do on-chain tx if I understand correctly. Similar function to PayNym?
Haven't seen John Carvalho on here... anyone know if they're thinking about integrating Slashtags into Nostr?
When people ask me how long I'm gonna be talking about this "nostr thing"
You know that thing where you used to close reddit on web only to immediately open reddit on your phone? (before it became overrun with woke commies, of course) -- with Nostr, you can just jump from client to client and never even bother *trying* to leave. Just Nostr forever... welcome to the "OASIS".
5 5000 sat or less paid relays I am connected to:
wss://nostr.inosta.cc
wss://nostr.milou.lol
wss://eden.nostr.land
wss://relay.orangepill.dev
wss://relay.nostrati.com
I will donate 21k sats to the developer of Amethyst when he fixes the keyboard cutting off long posts as you try to type bug and would encourage everyone to cease donations to him until it is fixed. Cc #[0]
