I never understood the ratio calculation, does it assume replies are negative...? Glad to be a part of un-breaking social media.

nostr:nevent1qqswzjenp7r8xr8xcdtdelkvk4gzvtxk4ln2l5t4jqddd04g8lzksms7rvf04

he's right to be scared

Do you think this meta gaming will corrupt the incentives? It sounds exactly like election hacking "voting 3rd party wastes your vote" so we end up with two choices, both terrible. With this incentive model I expect stacker news to devolve into groupthink just like reddit.

It is unbelievable how sloppy ledger is. How are they still in business???

Tweaking your node's mempool policies is not censorship. It is sovereignty. Learn the difference.

> “geofence warrants,” a controversial [and unconstitutional] legal tool used by local and federal authorities

FTFY

haha yeah i had to google it a little while ago

ea = effective altruism

e/acc = effective accelerationist to contrast with the ea AI doom cult

b/acc = bitcoin accelerationist

👍 very bullish on ocean

Amazing how prevalent this anitpattern is.

i'm a bitcoin accelerationist b/acc

h/t nostr:npub1dg7th6yj29j2lj943frcsmuyt94c3encxqh5276jemnh2eqxmses9fe7mt

because you can put an n in front and get nostrich

better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep

2312 - Kim Stanley Robinson

Explore the diaspora of humanity throughout the solar system as the main character chases down a mysterious malevolent conspiracy. From the migrant workers steadily terraforming Venus in a generational labor, to the constantly moving terminator city of Mercury, to the hollowed out asteroid terrariums that criss cross the solar system, each sporting a unique ecological biome.

Also, read the Foundation Trilogy, if you haven't already. It's a masterpiece. 👌

In the Foundation trilogy, one of the all time great sci fi series, this scrappy start up civilization at the edge of the galaxy, the Foundation, survives the collapse of the galactic empire and the subsequent descent of the galaxy into chaos.

Every chapter covers a different time period in which the Foundation faces an existential threat and is saved at the last minute by a surprise turn of events. It's all been preordained by a new field of science that can predict, with very high accuracy, the flow of human history over vast scales of time and space. But nobody alive knows how it will turn out. So the resolution to each threat comes as a surprise to the characters in the story.

In one chapter the imperial remnants, still dominant over the center of the galaxy, discover this upstart state all the way in the hinterlands and decide to subjugate them. They send an armada with the goal of conquering the Foundation. This fleet has enough military might to utterly destroy the Foundation, so the protagonists are rightfully scared.

They try all kinds of political machinations and fail at every turn. At the end of the chapter the fleet is recalled for political reasons. If the general did manage to conquer the Foundation it would empower him as a direct rival to the emperor. The emporer can't allow this, so he ultimately has the general tried and executed. The Foundation is once again saved from certain destruction, this time by the dysfunctional politics and deadlock of their most powerful antagonist.

I think about this story often. It has a lot of parallels to real life. Pay attention to the divisions and internal disfunction of those supremely powerful entities who would try to crush a promising young upstart. Their failures might just be your greatest successes.

Watching these transactions got me like

Primal show follow/unfollow notifications and I hate it.

Try the online learning seminars. Highly recommended.