Maybe. Or, we get what LOOKS 'strong and resilient' in nominal terms all amid accelerating debasement.

What may be curious is figuring out at what tenor we cross from negative to positive real yields, because at some point with falling short rates we should absolutely anticipate a return to negative real rates on the short end, as we had for years.

Turns currency today into a hot potato everyone tries to throw further and further into the future.

Copy-protection, in the form of DRM, is more akin to theft that copying is. It denies fair use rights, enshrined even in our modern contrived copyright law. Just say No to DRM.

So, rather than looking at this, you're telling me to get back to work?

Fine...

Y'all also have much bigger borders, and proximity to more places that extractive policies are applied to which create more refugees. We've got the southern border of course, but it's smaller, and once you get below Mexico its a pretty narrow gauntlet they've gotta come through.

On the other hand, with the way things are going in Europe, one has to almost wonder when the refugees will be coming FROM European countries (again).

And I know that in prior cycles, bull curve steepening usually leads to recession, while bull curve steepening is usually the preferred way out of inversion.

What happens when we get both at the same time?

Should get really interesting to watch what the longer end of the yield curve does amid this chaos. Falling rates on the one hand, haircuts on the repo collateral on the other. Maybe with a little QE and deferred assets to further deepen central bank insolvency in response to it all.

Has anyone figured out a design to make a bitcoin mining rig into a dual purpose air-popper for popcorn yet?

I mostly feel that way, but to play devil's advocate, is the fact that your toaster doesn't ask you to configure voltage, resistance, and manually configure an adapter to the wall a bug or a feature?

Sometimes people just want an appliance to be an appliance, and not have as much of a surface of things that can go wrong, or simply be misconfigured. It boggles my mind that these people exist to a degree that even their primary computer follows these principles, but it's not particularly surprising that for a device that they on use for a specific task, they'd rather it just not be any more complicated than it needs to be.

Where Apple pisses me off though is somewhat the same place Roku TV's piss me off, in that they step in the way even of things I likely want to do in the limited scope of the appliance they've sold me. It's why I'll take an Amazon Firestick or a Google Chromecast over them any day of the week.

But, I won't begrudge the fact that people like my wife exist, who really would rather not navigate through menus to get to what they want, even if it means they can't go streaming anything from fmovies and actually have to PAY for what they watch, AND see the ads that are packaged with it. I will just sit around and worry for their sanity.

I feel like it's the sort of thing that folks who were online in the late 90's and early 2000's feel totally at home in (if not prior), reminiscent of some of the patchwork of things both online as well as even local software (ask anyone who was around how fun it was getting back from the store with a copy of Quake 3 Arena and then needing to go through multiple rounds of installing dependencies, upgrading graphics drivers from your provider's website, and patching the game itself before you could even start playing...).

As for folks that never knew life without an app store with automagic configuration and curated content, it may come with a bit of a learning curve.

Basically, people who experienced some degree of freedom in their technology in the past, vs those who only know life from inside the gilded cage.

With great power comes great responsibility.

But that said, nothing says we can't have freedom to create things how we like them, as well as the refinement to make them polished and smooth. It just sometimes takes a bit more thought because people are doing to do things without running them by the boss that doesn't exist first.

I don't currently run my own relay, as I normally host anything on my desktop which recently suffered a dead PSU (15 years of being online...). I should probably give Citrine a look though if only to take the advixe I'm passing along.

Sounds like you might want to put some care into which relays you're using. This sort of thing is why some people advocate running your own relay, in addition to using others. Even if everyone else goes down, you still have a copy of all of your content.

Though in my experience sometimes you just need to do a hard reload on the webpage (ctrl+F5) or clear your app cache in the case of amethyst and it'll all come right in.

The functionality of discovery outside of those you're following varies heavily between clients. Personally I'm pretty happy with Coracle's approach. Between hashtags, and looking at extended networks, I can slice things up to my liking.

That said I'm not opposed to client level algorithms for curating a feed if it's what people want to opt into. At the end of the day Nostr being a protocol will almost certainly ensure that these remain optional, rather than enforced. Personally I won't be opting in, but I get that not everyone is interested in tinkering with their filters to find what they want.

Heck I'm mad that I would prefer him winning at this point, but all it takes is a glance at the realistic alternative.

Still, voted for Jo (not Joe) in 2020, and will be voting for Chase Oliver in 2024. The two party paradigm has outlived its welcome, and the idea that we literally have two people who spent most of their lives as Democrats to choose from at this point is pretty gross.

Don't worry, I'm not in a swing state anyway, so it's a moot point.

I don't think the solution would be hot storage -- or are you suggesting internal hardware that essentially stores an otherwise walled off cold storage wallet within the case of the phone itself, so that you don't need to plug in or connect via bluetooth?

If they'd just ditch their iPhones for Android they could install NewPipe and listen to music for free without ads to their heart's content...

In his defense, the device he's advocating for isn't produced by an advertising company with documented deep state connections, but rather, a company that has actually stood up in court against demands that it install backdoors to circumvent its user privacy measures.

Can't say I'm fond of either option, at least, with the stock OS, but either can work in a limited scope provided you're aware of the limitations.

He's likely not being stupid; he just has more computers than you, so they don't ALL need to be general purpose. When all you want is an appliance, Apple's not so bad at providing it. Just never expect it to replace a full functioning system that actually welcomes you to use the hardware you own. The number one malware threat Apple protects against is called "User input."

So, Grandma's appliance to replace her computer. Got it.

In fairness, throw a decent VNC client on there, hook up a keyboard and mouse, stop being annoyed by a little latency, and it may be a reasonable enough, though overpriced, thin client, allowing for you to actually get some work done, provided you've got a remote system or systems to be doing the real work on.

Which I guess is what you just said, except that a web app is to remote access what driving a bumper car is to driving cars.

If they take BTC out of circulation to use solely as bank collateral to back dollars, I'm not sure those of us with self custodied coins need to care, any more than we particularly care about coins locked up in wallets that ended up orphaned because they weren't properly backed up. Worst case scenario, their increased demand and the diminished supply may mean BTC's price gets high enough we have to seriously consider whether the satoshi really is the smallest unit of Bitcoin. The most insane valuation projection I've seen was $1 Billion USD BTC before 2040; at that price we'd really probably want to consider sub-satoshi units in order to facilitate microtransactions that really aren't even so micro anymore. Assuming of course that billion dollar valuation isn't simply because a cart of groceries costs $10,000...

That's how I see it anyway; is there an angle you see I'm missing?

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Been a long time coming. #FreePalestine #Lowkey

Guess that's one way to lower my opinion of Putin.