AI produces median results, almost by definition. But it's the outliers, the novel, which is interesting, thus worthwhile, on platforms such as this.
Make me ponder, make me wonder!
He tried to welch on a bet years ago with someone from Blockstream. When someone tells you who they are, listen.
To be fair, I'm sure he knows much more than I do about virtue signaling though!
It is, as far as I can tell, impossible to tell the difference between "making an inane comment on your post to be supportive" and "llm bot spamming".
If I don't learn anything from what you're saying, why say it?
Perhaps I need a client which doesn't show comments more than two hops away in my social graph? Probably too quiet though; I would need many more friends.
Developed the local football team, the ground, started a women's team, a scholarship for local kids, a cafe, a conference, started an initiative to reduce crime downtown, and brought international visitors to Bedford?
What have you done?
You're wrong so you moved the goalposts? And you threw FTX in there for good measure.
Stop wasting my time.
Developed the local football team, the ground, started a women's team, a scholarship for local kids, a cafe, a conference, started an initiative to reduce crime downtown, and brought international visitors to Bedford?
Worst take ever.
After several years of FOMO, I finally attended HRF's #OsloFreedomForum. I took a friend who's political but not Bitcoiner, so I had the experience of seeing it through someone else's eyes, as well as my own. Obviously there's a lot to unpack: talking face-to-face with activists who are working in real danger is confronting in itself, and hearing their experiences fresh and recent is an emotional and impactful experience.
I was surprised, however, at the large number of Bitcoiners at the conference: it's not a Bitcoin conference, but the HRF (particularly nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu) has been courting bitcoiners for technical assistance (and, presumably, donations) for several years now and it has resulted in a fascinating intersection. Those present are builders, not (just?) talkers. My non-bitcoiner friend noted the remarkable humility of those present: an insightful comment.
Of all the discussions I had, the one which haunts me most is a conversation with Peter McCormack (ex- WBD, now rejuvinating his home town and trying to raise awareness of UK's pressing misgovernance issues). To paraphrase: "Where are the Bitcoiners improving the world? Wasn't that what this was about?". In a context of three days' exposure to people who are dedicating their lives to something much bigger than software, this question really affected me.
I was expecting to leave the conference with a list of software priorities, and I did. But I still feel it's inadaquate, and so I'm now pondering the question: "what else should I be doing?".
I'm going to publish more on nostr. I need to settle on a desktop client though: mobile is always optimized for consumption and adds speed bumps to actual creation.
I'm also going to need to run my own instance so that I can archive all my random thoughts and not lose them in the ether. I've made that mistake many times since I stopped publishing everything on my own blog...
When I was a single Dad with a baby I got this a lot. Thus I learned never to STFU unless it was to actually offer help and sympathy, never advice.
We date code! Releases are based on date, and we currently release every 3 months.
I'm finally going to Oslo Freedom Forum this year.
I'm going to listen, not speak.
But TIL nostr:nprofile1qqs9pk20ctv9srrg9vr354p03v0rrgsqkpggh2u45va77zz4mu5p6ccpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgkwaehxw309a5xjum59ehx7um5wghxcctwvshszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qrxnfk is going to be there, so I finally get to fanboy^H^H^H^Hmeet him!
What if the change everyone’s waiting for is already happening?
There won't be banners in the sky saying, 'The world is changing.'
It's happening one day at a time, right in front of you.
Wake up. Think for yourself. Hold money no one can print: #Bitcoin
https://blossom.primal.net/2898a14b97e88df66b1b83fac75a2f66831603fbced00f8076b9fba3765dd3bf.mp4
"The revolution will not be televised"
Sadly, "poof of reserves" is probably the next big thing in exchanges. Still.
When it comes to Bitcoin technical discussions, the phrase "Greg Maxwell was right" is almost tautological.
TIL the word privacy does not appear in any of the 59 pages of the lightning network whitepaper: https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf
By contrast, the bitcoin whitepaper has a half-page dedicated to privacy (the whole thing is only 9 pages)
Perhaps privacy wasn't a focus of LN's inventors
It was not.
Naah, botnets would still have won. Remember how bad security was in those days: you could have many, many CPUs quite easily.
For ShitBitcoinersSay, it's legendarily "good" though!
I restarted my "Shit Bitcoiners Say" Twixter account. I could have done in on nostr, but it's pure noise and I prefer to keep my Nostr bubble high signal as long as I can.
As a side note: Reading the "For you" feed for that account is pure sewer-wading. Hard to do that and still be funny, not just snarky and horrified!
No.
The traditional answer, of course, is to outsource the parenting to your wife.
In the end, you have to know your priorities, because you will have to drop things, and it's better to do so deliberately.