Won’t happen until Boomers exit the Presidency, Treasury, and the Fed.
Sometimes the orange pill takes longer to pass down through one’s throat.
“Im going to be honest with you here”….
Really, you have to tell me your next words are going to honest?
Should I assume then if you don’t start with that statement there is a higher probability of the statement not being honest?
I’m looking for general news
Who are the best follows on Nostr nostr:npub1tsgw6pncspg4d5u778hk63s3pls70evs4czfsmx0fzap9xwt203qtkhtk4 ?
Perhaps this is the way aliens have chosen to save humanity, but introducing perfect money in the form of bitcoin. Could this be true nostr:npub1tsgw6pncspg4d5u778hk63s3pls70evs4czfsmx0fzap9xwt203qtkhtk4 nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto nostr:npub1tsgw6pncspg4d5u778hk63s3pls70evs4czfsmx0fzap9xwt203qtkhtk4 ?
How does that help the buyers and sellers of real estate?
Well, I haven’t done an #introduction since joining Nostr, and nostr:npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac said it was like confession, which tickled my Catholic heart, so here it is.
I’m a software engineer/jack-of-all-trades who specializes in industrial controls and automation software. 3D visualizations, motion control, network and IPC communication, serializing large datasets, stuff like that. It’s incredibly boring work that does really cool things.
I started coding when I was 12, and was working full time by age 14. Interesting story there for another time. I was provoked to learn how to code when my friends all got Tamogatchi’s (those digital demons) and my parents could not afford to get me one. Determined to not be left out, I endeavored to write one for myself. I started on MS-DOS 6.22, with QBasic. About two months later, I had an ASCII art creature that I could feed, and it shit all over my screen. Close enough.
With child like enthusiasm, and with an old computer, I decided to jump straight from that to programming my own version of Windows in QBasic. I’m sure I don’t need to explain why that didn’t work, but I did succeed in making a multi-modal user interface toolkit for terminals (yep, still ASCII… I learned about Turbo Vision much later). A family friend introduced me to the VP of Research and Development at a small controls company, and he hired me on the spot. My first commercial project drew 2D visualizations of data in Borland BGI - I made $500.
I was a Star Trek kid, and believed in creating technology that changed people’s lives. I’m a firm believer in the “Oooh” effect - the feeling that one gets when they hold technology in their hands and instinctively know its right and will change their lives. My first “Oooh” moment was holding an iPhone for the first time. I wanted to be a part of bringing those moments to life.
About that age I also got heavily involved in politics and church. I ran live audio for a major church in my area throughout my teens and interned in a studio owned by one of the adult volunteers. He mentored me through some rough times as I began showing signs of bipolar syndrome, which would end up shaping some of my later years. I also took classical piano through these years, which helped a great deal with depression.
Politically, I met two senators through the years and wrote a great deal of letters. I was an activist during the net neutrality era (“STOP SOPA!”) and engaged in other black-and-white thinking like nearly every young person. I was a rabid conservative youth and had a good (ill informed) argument for any adult I came across who looked like a good victim.
In adulthood, I continued my career in tech, and also interned in a photography studio for a while. I can’t say I learned a whole lot there, but I learned to love photography and to recognize good work. I enjoy pointing cameras at exasperated family members to this day.
I went through a brief but very passionate .NET and data aggregation phase, where I worked in education. We built everything ourselves due to minimal budget. The most fun was designing a scan-tron system from scratch to use a cannon copier/scanner to grade jpgs of the bubble sheets, and log scores for students in a searchable database. There were libraries out there, but we chose to do it from the ground up to learn how it worked. The entire GUI was in WPF - a gui toolkit that I still think was before its time and underrated.
Politically I’ve changed into something of a cynical constitutionalist who’s on the border of black pilled. I still work in automation, and still work in C++ (and I still miss C#). I was on the edge of giving up on social media when Edward Snowden mentioned Nostr right about the time I was planning to delete my Twitter account.
Nostr is the first time I’ve been involved in something that made me go “Oooh” in a long time. I have high hopes of contributing in some meaningful way to it’s growth. It feels right, in a sort of unquantifiable way that excites me. I’ve learned a lot of new things (server admin, stuff like that) and met some people who have challenged my comfort after 20 something years in tech - and provoked me to improve again. It’s fun and it feels like coming to life again.
Well this is long enough. There is a little about me. I hope to get to know you all more over time. Thanks for being here, and for being authentically you.
#introductions
That was beautiful
I dont think “the CIA”, as an organization, killed Kennedy. I’m sure 99.9% of CIA agents had no pre knowledge of the assassination. It is more likely ex-CIA head Allen Dulles (who was essentially running a parallel CIA after being fired by Kennedy) lead a small team of CIA members loyal to him in the murder, and also included Hoover and LBJ in the plot. All of these men hated Kennedys less aggressive and less militaristic foreign policy. (I recommend a book called “The Devils Chessboard” to learn more about this)
Of course, many more members of the CIA were complicit after the fact in not revealing truths about the assassination.
Cmon, you can’t say that and then give us nothing!
Absolutely there is still flexibility as we age, my only point is that plasticity on the whole declines from childhood, and “in general” it is true that it is harder to teach an old dog new tricks.
For everyone I have bought into bitcoin it is been for purely store of value investments with no counter party risk.
Depends on the person. Generally I use the analogy of gold, and how money used to represent the energy to produce gold (i.e. the labor involved in gold mining). I explain to them that once this link was fully severed in 1971, those close to the fiat printing press have accumulated wealth at the expense of those furthest away from it. Bitcoin is not just created by pressing a button, as todays currencies are, but are created through energy, and one needs to show they have “worked” to mine it or they have had to pay someone else to get it. I also explain that bitcoin is superior to gold backed money as there, unlike gold, is a verifiable supply of it and it can be passed censorship free without permission to anyone in the world with an internet connection virtually cost less and which clears in just a few minutes.
Most of my friends are in their 40s and 50s and they only know the world of fiat. It is hard to change their minds as our brains get less plastic as one gets older. But this explanation often works.
Depends on the person. Generally I use the analogy of gold, and how money used to represent the energy to produce gold (i.e. the labor involved in gold mining). I explain to them that once this link was fully severed in 1971, those close to the fiat printing press have accumulated wealth at the expense of those furthest away from it. Bitcoin is not just created by pressing a button, as todays currencies are, but are created through energy, and one needs to show they have “worked” to mine it or they have had to pay someone else to get it. I also explain that bitcoin is superior to gold backed money as there, unlike gold, is a verifiable supply of it and it can be passed censorship free without permission to anyone in the world with an internet connection virtually cost less and which clears in just a few minutes.
Most of my friends are in their 40s and 50s and they only know the world of fiat. It is hard to change their minds as our brains get less plastic as one gets older. But this explanation often works.