āthe more I realized that literally every culture has all the same stories just people's names are differentā
I remember being introduced to this idea in grad school when a friend of mine introduced me to Joseph Campbellās The Power of Myth. Itās an intriguing observation! š»
Chile with 1:3 ratio of liver to ground beef
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One of the things that makes WoT so challenging is that there is no end to the tweaks that could be implemented; but what may be great for one group of users may not work at all for another. In the short run, simple algos like this one can be very powerful and have wide appeal, so Iām glad to see this WoT implementation in coracle! But I imagine it could be tempting for a dev to try to add too many improvements. Where to draw the line is a judgement call. In the long run, we want our WoT to help us decide which filtering algorithms to use, including how to tweak them and in what context. All decisions, the simple ones and the complex, the little ones and the big ones, ultimately will be farmed out to your WoT (at your discretion, of course). How to build this? Not an easy problem!
Most importantly (to me), the fact that YOUR WoT is anchored to YOU (itās clearly YOUR WoT, not ātheā WoT) is of tremendous importance. We want the user to get used to the fact that ultimately, the heavy lifting for all data curation - whether itās for āsafetyā or otherwise - must be handled by your WoT, not by the state or The Coracle Corporation or whomever.
Howād that happen? I hope it wasnāt my client that did it ā¦ š¬šš
When newbies ask about the difference between bitcoin and everything else, give them this well-known line by Stephen Covey:
āThe main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.ā
In this case, the main thing is censorship resistance. Those who follow Coveyās advice are bitcoiners. And then thereās everyone else.
One way to describe the goal of the decentralized web is that we want to provide communities with communications tools (platforms, protocols, etc) that are powerful, nimble, dynamic ā but LEADERLESS. Open source is a step in the right direction, bc if you donāt like the leadership of some project, you can fork the repo. Replace the leaders with new ones. But have we figured out how to make platforms, protocols, etc truly leaderless? Nope. Not yet. How to do that remains an open question.
- Raw, physical power
- Control over flow of value
- Control over flow of information
Any one of the above can be used to leverage control over the others.
Anyone else getting a flurry of random zaps over the past 1-2 days that are showing up in your wallet but not on nostr?
This is one of the things that motivates me to work on decentralized reputation and web of trust: it will one day accelerate the speed of scientific research.
Think about all the time, money, & brain power co-opted by big pharma to convince us to believe stuff that simply isnāt true. WoT will help us build filters and tools to make us better able to distinguish truth from propaganda. Not just medicine: math, physics, anything. How many geniuses exist, writing revolutionary ideas and theorems in isolation, never discovered by the world?
WoT is literally life or death. Especially for anyone alive today, those of us who may very well die of old age 5 minutes before anti-aging technology becomes available ā¦ ā ļø š
Narcos: Mexico on Netflix dramatizes the point quite effectively that ever since WW2, the war on drugs has provided a cover story that allows the US (via the state dept and CIA) to weaponize the cartels and the DHS (Mexican DEA) to keep the Russian Empire out of our hemisphere. In other words, Mexico is already under pseudo-occupation.
Anyone know of a good article that summarizes how and why ethereum is prone to centralization? A friend of mine has a son whoās asking me my general opinion on ethereum. College age, open minded, intelligent, knows a little about bitcoin but not a lot. Not exactly a techie although he is involved in a research project on AI. Iāve told him that itās overly complex and that PoS is a bad thing and heās interested in a deeper dive.
One of the biggest problems with any block size change is that thereās no schelling point regarding what to change it to or when to change it. Which means consensus will be difficult to achieve.
Gather closely and listen, for this is the song of my people.
#coffeechain nostr:npub1theparkprcs70dcs437ke9zzwsr6u60f8flu7rg28m30438aep9sd94dha https://v.nostr.build/02PY.mov
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In addition to avoiding āprocessedā food, itās probably a good rule of thumb to avoid consuming anything thatās heavily advertised and branded.
Come to think of it, that should probably apply to pretty much everything, not just food.