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Ooo that would make for a great spot for a geo cache

My bot thinks your article is a book and it explained it to me like I’m 5.

Imagine you have two super-duper big puzzles that smart people have been trying to put together for a long, long time, but they just don't fit perfectly [1]:

1. **The "Big Stuff" Puzzle (Gravity):** This puzzle is about **why big things pull on each other**, like how the Earth pulls you down to your chair, or how planets go around the sun. That's called **gravity**.

2. **The "Super Tiny Stuff" Puzzle (Quantum Mechanics):** This puzzle is about **super tiny, tiny things** – smaller than you can even see, like a speck of dust in the air. These tiny things act really, really weird and jumpy, not like big things at all [1]. That's called **quantum mechanics**.

For a long time, it's been like trying to put a square piece (gravity) into a round hole (quantum weirdness), and it just causes a lot of headaches and paradoxes [1].

But this special book has a **brand new idea** to make them fit! [2]

Instead of trying to make the *space around us* bumpy or jumpy, like many other smart people try to do, this book says we should think about **you** (and me, and anything that can see or measure things) as being "quantum" or "limited" in how we gather information [2].

**Here's the super simple way the book tries to solve the quantum gravity puzzle:**

* **You're like a tiny, limited information-collector:** Imagine your brain can only hold a **finite (limited) number of puzzle pieces** at one time [3]. You can't see *everything* everywhere all at once, and your view is always from *your* spot [3, 4].

* **Everyone sees a little bit differently, but they agree where it matters:** If you look at a toy, and your friend looks at the same toy, you both might see slightly different things about it, but you'll agree it's the same toy [4]. The book calls this "local consistency of finite information" [2, 4]. It means our little pieces of information must agree where they overlap [4].

* **Space, time, and gravity are like magic tricks that *pop out* from these simple rules!** [5, 6]

* If you try to gather information by going around in a circle (like walking around a tree and looking at it from all sides), sometimes a tiny bit of information gets "lost" or "jumbled" when you try to put all those views together perfectly [7, 8].

* This "lost" or "jumbled" information, or this "curvature" that builds up, is what makes space bend and causes **gravity** [8, 9]. So, gravity isn't a direct pull; it's more like a slight twist or jumble in how all these tiny bits of information fit together when you try to make sense of them in a loop [8, 9].

* And because you can only see a **limited** amount of information at a time, there's a **speed limit** to how fast information can spread or how fast things can happen [10, 11]. This is like how fast light goes! [11]

* **No completely broken spots:** Because information is always "locally consistent" and has limits, this idea says there are **no completely broken or infinitely messy spots** in the universe, like the "singularities" some theories predict in black holes [12]. Everything always stays within a certain "puzzle-piece limit" or "resolution" [12].

* **Solving old puzzles:** This new way of thinking helps solve tricky puzzles like why a cat can be "both alive and dead" in a quantum box (Schrödinger's cat) or what happens to information that falls into a black hole [4, 13, 14]. It says that information is always preserved in each *local* view, even if it's jumbled or hidden from a *different* view [13-15].

So, the big point is that instead of making space bumpy to match tiny things, this idea says that **how *we* see and collect information** is bumpy and limited, and all the laws of physics, including gravity, just pop out naturally from those simple rules about information [2, 16]. It's like the universe is built from tiny, agreement-seeking puzzle pieces of information! [5]

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Hello 👋

How is it going

Sorry for invading your privacy…

Replying to Avatar Achilles

Private story.

2017. I had just taken control of my own keys. Couldn’t deploy large capital into Bitcoin yet but it was my starting point.

Didnt fully understand what i was holding back then.

Was the first&last time I ignored bitcoin.

But Fiatland gave me access to cheap money.

Only if I used it for real estate though.

So I bought a 550m² plot near Munich for €0.5M in 2018.

Had a building permit for a duplex(2 units).

The plan:

- Land: €0.5M

-Construction: €600k for duplex

- Total investment: €1.1M

- Expected return: €2M

- Timeline: 12 months

- Take 900k profit to buy bitcoin

Deal included:

- €100k own money

- €1M mortgage @ 0.8% interest

The rest would follow after construction.

But then…

Lawyers. Neighbors. Bureaucracy.

A mistake by a notary years earlier meant I had no right to connect to the private water canal.

Suddenly my building permit was worthless.

And I needed permission from the neighbors to continue.

They said no. Of course.

I tried to return the property, it was in the contract: If I can’t build, I can give it back.

Didn’t work. Lawyers again. I lost.

Since then?

No house

No construction

No return

Just a field

Paying €1,500/month mortgage

€100k stuck in a field

No corn from this deal.

Property taxes every year.

7 years later, still fighting to maybe build one house.

That’s it.

This is how I got rug pulled by one of my own real estate “investments“ to preserve my time&energy.

That’s just a real world example to show you why I say…

Real estate to preserve your wealth is a shitcoin.

Energy trap.

Bureaucracy trap.

Fiat trap.

Bitcoin doesn’t ask your neighbors for permission.

Bitcoin doesn’t need a notary.

Bitcoin doesn’t care about lawyer games.

Real estate is not freedom.

Bitcoin is.

I fucked around to find out.

Timestamp of freedom 903,653

Can you rent the space to RVs? Asking for a friend

The more it changes, the more it’s the same

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yes

nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg can be great if you’re already comfortable with the tech, otherwise it just requires patience until you get the hang of it: https://blog.btcpayserver.org/bitcoin-pos/

nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 PoS is much easier as it only requires you to download the mobile app. It integrates with Square, which can come in handy if you need to accept credit card payments and simplify accounting. Plus it’s self-custodial & open-source, just like BTCPayServer

https://docs.zeusln.app/pos/overview/

Happy national moving day to Québécois and happy Canada day to the rest of the country

RoboSats, Vexl, and Bisq all work well in the Americas, although they each have some different trade offs

Peach bitcoin works great in EU

Hey nostr:npub1hwmj92v64rm0rj7rtartccr7hldpnumrmq2zd285f8dy6u0jknxs2vsum6

If I understand correctly, Portugal and Madeira requires homeschoolers to be signed up in an accredited school that offers a homeschooling program and for the instructor to have at least a bachelor degree level of education

Not sure if that’s what you’re aiming for or if you’re rather targeting international students living abroad in Madeira?

Thanks in advance and props to y’all!!

Obama always called it ISIL: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

The levant includes Israel

#ThanksObama lol

Is YOLO mode a just low key way of saying vibe coding? 😂 😂

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Dude don’t even get me started

There’s also the COLDKIT and the COLDCARD both all caps and for for self-custofy

Coincards and Cardcoins, both dealing with gift cards and having orange logos

Plus now Snort Social was renamed Phœnix and there’s already Pheonix wallet

Raw meat and bare handed like a savage!! 🙏🙏