I used to legit drink over half a gallon a day, plus some espresso.

I'm still trying to figure out what sort of pixie dust they put in mud\wtr to make me not drink any coffee with no withdrawal. It's got a little caffeine to be sure, but like, 40-50 mg/cup. Absolute voodoo.

Now, to let my blood pressure know it's okay to chill out a bit...

GM!

Men trained to do what? Do they not raise testosterone in untrained men because they already have more of it and haven't been broken by the domestication process?

For a long time I generated passwords using a custom algorithm that involved a standard base phrase and then some functions based around the name of the site or service, along with hashing, but everyone went and got totally different arbitrary password rules and that got untenable, so I finally gave in and switched to a password manage. <3 me some KeepassXC -- especially because it's not reliant upon any third party cloud provider (and thus not susceptible to a breach at such a provider). Nice plugins on all platforms I've needed it on too.

Sleep tight!

Minikeys is interesting -- I'd think the collectible value of any of these coins not yet redeemed would still have a premium over the price of the bitcoin, and thus be unlikely demanded for redemption. Though, that said, I suppose a smaller code isn't limited to such limited run products.

#GM folks. It's a very sad day; my Mud\Wtr ran out, and the next round in the subscription won't be here for another 2 days. What good is a subscription that lets you run out?

Joke's on them though; I did some figuring yesterday and without even getting too creative with sourcing (ie, I can get it all on Amazon) I can match their formula for about 1/5 the cost or less. Gotta buy in some bulk of course, but they even listed their quantities, so it's not even guesswork on matching up a recipe. It's a powder after all; there's no process to it like with baking. Guess the cash I save means more sats for me!

Not working for the next few days at least so hopefully living on just matcha, genmaicha, and some of the other random teas I have around won't be too bad. Maybe some yerba mate, which I bought more of right before getting my first Mud\Wtr and haven't needed to touch. The mushrooms though clearly are the heavy lifters in that stuff though, given how immediately I was able to ditch coffee without any withdrawal, so the sooner it gets here, the happier I'll be.

That's a valid concern, and it's not a perfect analogy. Authorized stock is not a hard limit in the way not yet mined bitcoin is. Perhaps it's better to think of Bitcoin not yet mined as existing, but belonging to an entity who has published its schedule of "spending them" on the labor and resources used by the mining network. That entity being the network itself.

That feels like it could be addressed with client side hashing of the note's contents and then deduplication. It might be a little more processor intensive but I'd not imagine it to be TOO bad on performance. Especially if it's only done on notes that are marked as reposts.

I did always like dumpster diving. Kept me more than adequately fed through college.

GM ♻️ 😉

- Interest

- Banks

How soon we all seem to forget that the money printer wasn't what started the debasement of money, but the consequence of it being thrown into a state of tumultuous constant debasement (and bubble bursting) thanks to the fractional reserve system atop the hard money we already had. Central banking, and fiat, was brought in on the promise that it would fix the issues everyone recognized this arrangement caused.

I guess there's an argument that full reserve banking (using time deposits) could conceivably work, however, only if depositors are willing to accept the fact that their deposits may be defaulted upon, if the borrowers the bank lends to default. At which point, the bank becomes a matchmaking service -- a fixed income broker. And perhaps most importantly, the negotiability of those deposits becomes pretty tough to sustain, given that you'd have to accept the same terms the original depositor has.

The origination of bank notes in the 19th century came out of a gross ignorance of what was happening, and was predatory. I'd be pretty slow to agree to the justice of any proposed system of banking (and interest) given that it has always led down a path to ruin.

I'm sure you've got a pretty nuanced take on this given your vast experience in the financial space of course. I've gone back and forth on the legitimacy of interest, but the more I look at it, the more I think the multitude of religions banning usury/riba might just be onto something. Any expansion of effective money supply (including credit that eventually blows up) is going to result in the price distortions and many of the other aspects of the Cantillon effect. Seems like it's always a shitcoin.

Bank reserves bear interest now too, through IOR at the Fed. they use it as part of their toolbox in regulating the Fed Funds rate, alongside open market operations.

More like an economic theory bias toward Austrian. Which does skew libertarian/ancap/voluntaryist. But it's more about human action than voting.

Reserve requirements in the US have been zero for awhile now. But yes,they used to need cash.

They do at least have asset requirements still. Just not cash anymore.

part of their culture war angle is cancel culture. so, no merge.

Yurinchi, or Fried (convection baked) Chicken with scallion soy sauce, over sushi rice with edamame. #Foodstr

It boggles my mind that people call Milei a libertarian. Sure, he's heavily influenced by Austrian economics. But that's about as far as the similarities go. Guess it speaks volumes about how much of a socialist nightmare Argentina's been more than anything else.

Well...gold doesn't either. It's just hindered by physics much moreso.

Or just better access to AI agents. It's all well and good to be able to query it and get a response. But let me set it off into the world with some set of instructions on how it is to interact with things.

Obviously, that'd be a recipe for things to be a lot less boring. But we have precedent for such things such as the Huginn project (which isn't AI, but nonetheless, a programmable agent). https://github.com/huginn/huginn

Oops, mine don't show given that I'm just using a lightning address. Darn ;-)