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mleku
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founder of the gopher milk factory https://geyser.fund/project/gophermilkfactory Go and Bitcoin maximalist remnant living in Madeira and working to help the free humans connect with each other.
Replying to Avatar Bryan

Both.

i've got no confidence that the former is possible, the momentum and the timescale of the planning of this is over 150 years.

something about messing around with HTLCs on payments. and something that sounds like rage quitting.

i can't take it seriously.

especially that they reference linux kernel security problems that are related to NDAs.

my opinion is that it's FUD, probably promoted by the same crowd that is making all the DC cuck sock puppet me too idiots.

just keep in mind the context around which things like this get dropped. the game theory suggests that they are trying yet another tack to try and change the code.

manufacture a fake crisis and then push for something that enables more bullshit along the same lines as ordinals, which came courtesy of taproot btw.

do you want to prevent it happening or not get caught in it?

i have two rules:

1. if the official language is english, gtfo

2. if the official language is european, get out of the big cities.

they can't pen everyone in everywhere. there will be us proles (plebs) in the outpost regions that "don't matter". these are also the ripe grounds for bitcoin standard.

it reads like pure disinfo to me.

aliens aren't negotiating with the governments. no advanced civilisation negotiates with terrorists.

yeah, a lot is azores, a small amount is madeira, and the rest is from portugal mainland.

the butcher told us that they don't know where it comes from exactly most of the time.

100% the bitcoin atlantis event MUST include a mass espetada meal, i hope they have it planned.

especially, if they can source it from the madeira beef farmers. there is a few of them out there, and their meat is not at any kind of premium, just hard to find.

very likely the beef will need to be at least partly Azores sourced. those islands are covered in cows. 30% of portuguese milk comes from them, and since 2015, a lot of that milk is from grass fed.

for sure, you need to ditch the fake sugars. my experience says that to resolve the problem properly you have to ditch all sugars except lactose.

an interesting and odd benefit out of this, i drink 3L of milk a day, with 3 tsp of sea salt and 60g of cacao powder (10% fat), and i've been walking the steep hills around here and doing situps and pushups and i'm starting to get a little cut after a month of this diet.

i seem to be recovered enough now too that i can tolerate a little of the sugars on occasion where up until very recently it was a ticket to a painful tooth for 24 hours. there could also be some kind of protective effect from the milk sugars and casein shielding my teeth from the chemical attack from the bacteria. and/or could be that my microbiome is changing because of the new diet.

i hope you manage to get that garbage out of your diet and move to the PV :D

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

I used to believe in political incrementalism- the idea that you can change things gradually through better election outcomes.

But maybe it was also just youth, I don’t know.

After spending many years studying how the current monetary system works, studying how past debt and currency cycles ended, and based on practical realities from the past two election cycles, I dropped any notion of incrementalism, at least for the big economic things.

Incrementalism works for minority groups to gain social and political rights. Religious people to practice without interference, women to vote, gay people to marry, etc. Immigration policies. Things like that. But it doesn’t work for the financial system.

Instead, history and current affairs suggest that things generally point in the same structural financial direction, uncontested, until there is a massive fiscal crisis, geopolitical crisis, and trend change. And that is when politics becomes critical in all aspects- as chaos develops, the group that has enough power to set the next order *really* fucking matters. They either build a platform of virtue toward the next cycle, or they fall into the unfortunately common paths of communism or fascism.

And it is not just ideas that triumph, but technology too. Technology plays a big role in which ideas are even workable. Both ideas and technology are important.

So when I realized incrementalism wasn’t working, I sought out other methods.

The weaker method is just social- I try to put things out there with my platform to encourage reason, empathy, human rights, etc. Not partisan but also not necessarily moderate, but rather grounded in firm principles of virtue ethics.

The stronger method is to play some small part in building something better. Alternative money. Alternative communication methods. Either explaining and recommending them to people, or directly venture investing in companies that build on them and help improve the UX and solve new problems.

That’s my goal. I want to do whatever tiny part I can to bring about more peace, more fairness, more opportunity, more growth, and less destruction.

spot on. and voting with your feet to join others who want to make enclaves of freedom that are not strategic resources is key to how it's gonna play out.

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

As developed nations continue to enter sovereign debt crises akin to the 1940s, there are a few main outcomes.

Option 1) In a world without bitcoin, or if bitcoin fails, central banks and their governments recapitalize themselves with gold, devalue the people, and do another cycle of this inflationary policy for the next few generations. The Treasury/Fed handbook literally has a written option for this, although it is stated more opaquely. It can be done in the US (and probably many other countries) based on current laws if shit hits the fan. Denmark's central bank and China's economic ministers have also written similar things regarding extreme outcomes. It's pretty straightforward based on the past.

Option 2) We go into a centralized technocratic future. Centralized AI and CBDCs win. People have cuck money that the AI+government control. It's like Brave New World, 1984, take your pick. Hard to say, but not free.

Option 3) Open source money wins. Bitcoin and its ecosystem win. Governments get defunded from their fiat printers, and have to be more honest with their ledgers or default and get reconstructed since they can't print what their people hold as savings, or in the hegemon's case, can't print what the world holds. Probably a world of chaos for a time during the transition, but also an opportunity for peace and building the next era. Keeping track of the nukes would probably be a big deal, like when the Soviet Union fell. It's actually kind of remarkable that they collapsed economically and politically but in an orderly enough way to keep track of and secure most of the nukes.

I don't know which one will win, but I consider Option 3 to be the honorable method; the path of transparency. That's the one I am rooting for and building for.

If I fail, I would like it written that it's the method I tried for, but realistically the AI+government will probably delete most of the records of all of the failures anyway, since that is how history works, without any sort of objective truth keeper. Our best hope is to hide records in a distributed way and hope they can remain undisturbed for a while. At least bitcoiners have a tendency to write stuff in steel and make low time preference things. Some psychopath will hopefully carve a life work in steel in a cave or something, but who knows, lol.

And ironically, if Option 3 wins, any of the losing factions could still insert their ideas and paths into the Bitcoin blockchain, now or in the future. It's the most immutable database that we know how to build, and would preserve their ideas as it does our ideas. Like, you know what? I *want* the Communist Manifesto to be in the immutable Bitcoin blockchain, because I want people in the future to know how *bad* it is. It might already be in there; I don't know. I wouldn't want people centuries from now to think about those ideas and believe they came up with something new; I want to preserve my enemies' texts because I believe I can win through markets, force, virtue, and truth.

I think that's almost always what determines the winning side. Losers want to burn their enemies' texts to ensure that their good ideas don't spread too much. Winners want to preserve their enemies' texts to ensure that their bad ideas are never repeated.

i think that the 'total control' meme is a smokescreen for what they really are up to, and most of the instruments of it don't even realize what the real objective is.

mass slaughter.

they know that there will be pockets of resistance that accumulate enough social momentum to adopt bitcoin and be insulated from the fallout, they don't care, they just need their mass sacrifice ritual.

i know that sounds all biblical and shit but seriously, that's what's happening and that's why they are putting the fences up. just like you do with a herd of cattle, chase them into the cages, stick them on the back of trucks, put them all into the waiting area, and then funnel them in one by one to have spikes shot through their brainstem prior to being skinned and hung on hooks for the market.

the upshot is, don't expect to survive with your freedom, health or maybe even life intact if the fences are up. they will put the fences up very soon, this is implicit in the wartime socialism that will erupt all over the place once the 'lost' weapons from ukraine 'aid' suddenly appear 'out of nowhere' being used to mass slaughter 'dirty infidels'. and other ethnic targets.

and at that point, if you didn't get out, you will discover the hard way that the governments greatest enemy is people who want freedom tech and free markets.

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i had proper talho, espetada last night.

a madeiran specialty, chunks of beef skewered on a long heavy skewer and roasted over coals/fire.

you get a bit of everything, char, smoking, and juicy rare parts, the procedure of pulling the pieces off the shared sticks and the juices dripping into your bread (i didn't eat it, but i love that juice), man, it's not to be missed.

for sure, as soon as possible i need to have one of these madeiran fire pit/grill/oven things and a walk in fridge with a carcass there i can cut off strips and stick on the skewer... it's divine, absolutely divine.

yeah, the bottom is gonna fall out of that market when the banks tighten up the screws on them all. governments are rushing in to claim more taxes on it as well.

the informal short to medium term rentals with no contract are a thing that i've been finding via searching classified ad sites the last few years, and have been far better value and huge GFY at the system.

the central banks are trying to shut down the entire network of private banking.

it's one of the ways you know you are living in a decent place if the banks aren't closing and shutting out customers for no reason. i had a huge problem in bulgaria while opening a bank account for a job, went back to a bank that i had an open account up until 2017 and they refused to open an account for me, even with an employment contract and a lease agreement. because i was a foreigner.

i had to fall back on a neobank.

i'm very suspicious about neobanks being part of the play here in this too. right now they have pretty good service but the Ts and Cs keep getting more fucked over by the EU.

it really depends whether he means github the monopoly or github the universally used software development repository library.

it would be very cool, indeed, to have more automation for bounty disbursement systems, but there's a LOTTA cryptography and protocol design needed to make that secure and not some way to quietly rob people.

i dunno about immutability. i mean, i find it problematic that strings are by force in this way locked, since passwords come in this way there's some sanitation issues with that. and there is gonna be some adding of overhead with MMU having a huge map of immutables, and in general, the whole reason to have immutability is to avoid race conditions, and i'm very strict about atomics and mutexes on any shared data.

i'd rather remove immutability from strings and a simple static analysis could reveal what data needs to be mutex protected.

i'd also rewrite the entire 'fmt' library to work with an alias of []byte types and the 'strings' library too, so it's all built to be mutable.

the stack/heap allocation stuff can literally be avoided with GOGC set to zero. you just have to probably write a bunch of libraries that do your memory handling for you. a lot of unsafe stuff could easily be done with freelists managing blobs, it would require an allocation manager.

it would certainly be cool if you could drop in alternative runtime back ends in place of the default one. and if possible, make these blobs shared libraries so they can not be repeated in every binary.

imo, the whole shennanigans with generics was such a waste of time making changes to the language that have really borne minimal benefits. the two issues you name are far more important to broadening the use cases, flexibility and efficiency of the language.

as for avoiding big allocations and stuff, i am always considering this in how i write my code. i tend to do a lot of explicit variable declaration and try to move them explicitly outside of loops since the compiler could miss that and be running allocations pointlessly when a pointer can be reused easily and the GC can easily identify when a big long list of pointers need to be freed up.

things like network handlers, it's pretty easy to just make one collection of buffers and always reuse them so GC doesn't touch them.

good to know you are also a go maxi :) too many wishy washy people with fondness for following what is 'cool', not even considering for a minute that cool is not necessarily practical or secure, or efficient.

well it makes it look like you are lame and ugly. but carry on.