Can you recommend a good non-Bitcoin podcast?

I go to NYC several times per year for one reason or another. For work, for friends, etc.

Part of me likes it, but part of me gets fucking frustrated multiple times per day every time I am here. (Sorry, this is a Nostr Lyn post).

There are plenty of neat things in NYC that I can’t do at the same scale/quality elsewhere in the world due to the network effects around the city (broadway shows, financial district, etc), and yet after a day or two all I want to do is leave. It feels claustrophobic on multiple fronts.

People all have different vibes but for me, major cities are fun to visit but smaller secondary cities or suburbs around cities are so much smoother to live in. I can’t imagine living all the time in a major city.

The same applies to Cairo, to which I have been in far more total days than NYC. I like Cairo’s satellite cities but not Cairo itself other than going briefly.

Every time I am in a major city I am immediately reminded of the luxury of space, nature, quiet, parking spaces, and chillness of not being in a city. Everything I take for granted normally is now a luxury to fight for in a city.

Even politics are largely correlated to urbanization. If you live in rural or suburban areas, you likely drive around in your own car, you might have some land, etc. Your interaction with the local government exists in a moderate sense. The potential weakness is that you are more likely to always be around those who are similar to you, which minimizes your worldliness.

In contrast to all that, in major cities, everything is so tightly packed, and people rely on public transportation, and even a momentary lapse of government services (eg trash collection) becomes an acute catastrophe. But on the beneficial side, people are around those who are different than them more often, which breeds worldliness.

That’s why I tend to like the zone between rural and major cities. I like secondary cities or suburbs of major cities, because I get a bit of both worlds. The density and interconnectedness of major cities briefly, and the space and self-autonomy outside of them most of the time.

And yet I was born and raised in that sort of inbetween state, and so maybe it is just my upbringing.

What about you? Can anyone sell me the idea of NYC or other major cities that I am missing, especially in the remote work era? I see glimpses of how it could be attractive if you are used to it and know every detail of your neighborhood, but it really does feel limiting to me.

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What health-related changes or activities had the most noticeable impact on your health?

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Whoever has a definite answer probably has their own agenda but that doesn't mean it's not entertaining to speculate.

Around 2016, the fiscal deficit as a percentage of gdp began widening even as the unemployment rate was falling, aka a decoupling, which hadn’t really happened in the US since the Vietnam War. I realized that macro would be a big deal in the decade ahead.

I researched how sovereign debt cycles tend to end, came across Dalio’s long term debt cycle framework, and built upon it by digging up the source data and finding various quantitative relationships, along with studying past eras of sovereign debt resets.

My masters degree focus and later engineering work in practice was in systems engineering- the method of analyzing and designing multidisciplinary systems (via teams) that are more complex than any one mind can fully grasp. Along the way, I realized that macro was basically systems engineering- mapping out major inputs and outputs, governing logic, identifying and learning from experts in disciplines that understand a key part of it, etc. So along with some economics training, I use a systems engineering analysis approach for macro.

I had been collecting gold and silver coins since I was a kid, knew about inflation and the importance of free markets, etc. I don’t know where I absorbed it from. I later found out that much of how I view things aligns with the Austrian school and so I researched it. I think that’s a compliment to the Austrian school because basically if you reason from first principles, it’s pretty easy to land on or adjacent to Austrian economics. I had taken some economics classes as electives in my bachelors, plus some financial modeling and engineering economics classes in my masters, but I was never really deep enough to be indoctrinated into mainstream/academic economics, and instead was mainly self taught from the perspective of a systems engineer, which just kind of landed on Austrian economics.

No. Nothing. But I had the basic Nostr idea in 2019. Why didn't you start supporting it back then?

Can anyone tell me what “data vending machines” are in bimbo terms lol 😆🙈👀 #asknostr

What's the libertarian / ancap solution to scammers?

Yelling and pointing them out is only partially effective because it's not possible to warn (or even convince) the whole world.

Ostracizing has the same issue - there are always more fools in the sea for scammers to harvest.

Civil lawsuits are similarly flawed because the successful scammer will be better funded than the victims.

Seems like an opportunity for a̶s̶s̶a̶s̶s̶i̶n̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ prediction markets...