"I’ve now upgraded my entire investment philosophy based on this experience and moving my entire portfolio into a 100x Bitmex account"

I personally feel it's due to lack of an algorithm.

I just hope this personal connection doesn't go away.

Anyone got opinions about tuta.com?

discuss

I sat down with four professors of law last Saturday, all retirement age, all highly intelligent erudite experts. I explained Nostr to them, one of them immediately understood the how but not the why. She said it would become a source of misinformation. I asked her: "What exactly is misinformation? More important is not having a small group of people deciding on what is broadcasted and what is censored."

I will happily live like this just so i can buy more #bitcoin 😜🤣

End to end encryption is a thing yes! And that it’s not censorship resistant is a big problem in general, but not for me and my topics, it’s as you say, probably rather unlikely. It would be better to support a censorship resistant chat app for all the people that get censored without a real reason!

And the phonenumber is probably the thing I am personally most worried about.

0xChat or other Nostr based chat apps will hopefully get much more features in the future, would be awesome!! 😍 thanks for your opinion Eric! ☺️🙏🏼

I wouldn’t like to discuss difficult things so maybe telegram is the app I want to use

I don't have anything to hide. But I don't have anything I want to show you either.

DIVINE COMEDY

There are two kinds of suffering in this world: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that leads to the end of suffering. If you’re not willing to endure the latter, you will surely have more of the former.

— Zen Proverb

I know someone, it could just as well be you or me, who is constantly trying to figure out what’s wrong with her in order to get to the bottom of it. She’s tried medication, psilocybin, retreats and therapy, but to no avail. I don’t even know her that well, but I know what her problem is: that she thinks she has a problem.

None of the modalities she’s tried can resolve this essential problem. In fact, they reify it. All she needs to do is feel what she’s feeling and be who she is. But as the proverb goes, if you’re unwilling to do that, you’ll surely have the chance to keep “fixing” yourself forever.

. . .

I’m not going to lie and say I’ve read Dante’s Divine Comedy, though I do have a copy on my old bookshelf in Los Angeles. I will borrow its paradigm of heaven, hell and purgatory, however, and assign my own interpretations to them, irrespective of the pace with which Mr. Alighieri circumvolves in his grave.

My idea of hell is scrolling through Twitter, playing a trivia game like Wordle or otherwise doing something that keeps you engaged but distracted from essential tasks and your own vital existence. Hell isn’t painful, in my view, it’s actually comfortable and easy, only there’s a nagging sense of neglecting something and a dread this procrastination cannot go on indefinitely. Hell is suppression of feelings, resistance to life. It’s tossing and turning in a futile attempt to sleep in.

Purgatory is painful. Avoiding it is why you remain in hell. It’s the raw emotion underneath the ceaseless mind chatter. The abyss in your stomach and throat, uncertainty in your mind, anxiety in your chest. It’s also the miserable jog around the track in the cold drizzle when your foot is sore, your back is tight, or you’re a little congested and just don’t feel up to it. Most of us hate purgatory.

Heaven is after the run, when you’re walking home, observations and ideas are flowing freely. It’s the sense of relief after you let an emotion speak its mind without interrupting it. It’s the state of calm that arises after you’ve burnt through the karma in purgatory sufficiently.

But spend a little time in its kingdom and pretty soon you find yourself back where you started, in hell. Heaven as a reward doesn’t last. Because a permanent state of heaven for doing good or working hard would be a stupid and absurd state of affairs, not commensurate with the world’s sublime workings, its fractal majesty. The Tao or God or whatever word you prefer isn’t a schoolmarm. You can’t curry favor with it, and you can’t game it with hacks.

All one can do is choose purgatory over hell as often as it presents itself. To choose the kind of suffering that leads to the end of suffering over and over again. At some point, I imagine, one’s capacity to suffer in purgatory is so profound the suffering itself is heaven, there is nothing to be avoided, nothing for which to be rewarded. The Buddha’s first noble truth was “Life is suffering” and maybe hell is only for those who would avoid it.

. . .

It might sound harsh to see people struggling with their demons, trying to self-improve and dismissing their efforts. But as I said, this could just as well describe me. You have no problem except that you think you do. I’ll leave off with a George Carlin quote that sums this up nicely:

If you think there is a solution, you're part of the problem.

I’m super hungry in this moment, trying to lose weight. And my job-phone doesn’t help me 😡

GM #nostr #coffeechain #plebchain

Disagree WHOLEHEARTEDLY - I would have much rather taken the path of Jack Dorsey-learning from his mistakes than Elon Musk. All day, every day.

I’ve been critical of Musk on a number of topics, but they all come back to a lack of honesty, and a wide public bid/ask spread on that perception. Just that one thing.

I don’t think he is unintelligent, or racist, or antisemitic, etc. He is just not genuine. And he bends over for strongmen dictators while pretending to be a freedom advocate.

Likewise, you will rarely if ever see me criticize SpaceX results. I never criticize SpaceX rockets blowing up and so forth. Rocketry is fucking hard and it’s about gradual iteration. SpaceX is doing fine technically as far as I can tell as a space nerd. They’re getting better. The overall US space industry has been in absolute shambles for over a decade now, so I welcome some progress there. The only extent that I’ve ever criticized SpaceX is to remind people on the right that neither Tesla or SpaceX are the Libertarian dreams that many of them imagine. SpaceX has been reliant on many government contracts, and Tesla has been reliant on many government subsidies. For SpaceX I am not saying that’s good or bad per se (they do compete for it), but I’m saying we finance a good chunk of it out of taxes. But other than making sure people are familiar with the funding source, I haven’t criticized SpaceX yet.

I’m pretty specific.

Unpopular Opinion: Social Media should be ephemeral and all notes should eventually get deleted from relays.

Nuke 'em all!!!