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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @fwynn 7 Oct 2023 \ on: What the coolest features on stacker news that makes it standout? meta
I'd say it's the nuanced and thoughtful discussion of merits of altcoins versus bitcoin, and general rational attitude toward fiat economies.
How are you a slave? Practically, what are you forced to do by the monopoly / government? Not much more than paying them right. Which is sucky, but are things really as bad as you describe?
121 sats \ 0 replies \ @fwynn 9 Sep 2023 \ parent \ on: Fun Fact Friday - Best Fun Fact Gets 10,000 Sats meta
Ants man. Humans and ants, we are the kings of earth. And why? Because we both learned how to sustain huge flocks, overcoming tribal instability.
Ants do it by being siblings/family (like most flocks do, wolves for instance). Humans do it (and conquered Neanderthals and all others) by being the first to evolve the ability to lie. We can pretend to be family (through religion, nationality) and thus sustain flocks (pseudofamilies) no Neanderthal family can beat.
There are dark sides to flocks though, that are often overlooked. A bird that tweets at night is eaten by the owl, it's whole family is eaten. So flocks learn to kill the weak. Ants do it extremely well, birds kick out smaller babies.
I'm my country of Sweden we have a very strong pseudofamily, so strong we donate money to strangers through welfare. But we also kill the weak. Not long ago we forcibly sterilized ones deemed unsocial or stupid. Today we kill the drug addicts, punish and let them die (greatest mortality in the west) and we all don't care. Because it's needed, for the sake of the family.
This is why so many were upset (and Swedish politics took a sharp right turn) when we suddenly accepted great amounts of immigrants. Because we who know, we know that when it gets cold, swedes kill the weakest. So immigration is not compassionate.
I don't know anything about steel tariffs, trying to make sense of this. A tariff is a tax on importing? and both workers and owners of steel processing places, places that buy steel and process it and sell it, they WANT TARIFFS???? Seriously this is the craziest thing I've heard in a long while, I'll give 2k sats to anyone who can explain it even a little!
Are they just patriotic and believe in supporting local mines?
Many thanks!
It is very (VERY) hopeful to me that there are ios apps functionally using lightning (I mean, they use it more than as a wallet or exchange).
Do you have any more names of similar ios apps? Only one I've found is Zion
So not necessarily nostr, but lightning enabled apps.
But yes there is actually a lot of literature on this! The state between waking and sleeping is called hypnagogia and is documented to produce creativity!
Haha you can't ask two opposing questions and demand yes or no. I assume you meant the first question so I said yes :)
Unless you account for the inevitable entropy of funds being lost in unreachable transactions.
I mean it's a bit like saying "gold is in danger because sometimes we drop it in the ocean". But maybe you see my point
Damn. As a younger brother (I'm 33 he's 40ish) i cringed at how shamed I would feel for misleading my bro due to my own.. Whatever it was. Blindness, stupidity, naivety.
I'd be worried that you'd never trust me again.
I shall be the most humble stacker ever to have lived! Tremble before my openness and honest curiosity, tremble and dispair
Half the time, always truthy, half the time, always falsy. Bitman. It's not the protector eastern Slovakia wanted, or expected, or understood, but the option seemed true at the time
He was an interesting guy though. I don't understand what he did but I guess it's fine now, America is obv the only superpower. Right?