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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kontext 7h

Kontext on the mic and behind the camera: #1286165

102 sats \ 6 replies \ @k00b 8h

working out the game theory for removing trust from ranking is simple, but tricky for rewards because when you sacrifice enough (via the sybil fee) you may be able to recoup your sacrifice in rewards ... which makes it no sacrifice at all when you self-zap. downzaps are some defense against this if they're incentivized but would lead people to downzap rivals potentially without sacrifice too.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 10m

What happens to the model if you take "reward for top post/comment zaps" out?

102 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 7h

one solution to this would be randomizing rewards. meaning we'd randomly skew the reward distribution away from the top content by just enough to make recouping one's sacrifice unlikely. but if top content is defined by sats, even skewing away from top content would still slightly reward self-zapping.

another option is to continue using trust but only for rewards.

100 sats \ 2 replies \ @Scoresby 7h

Would another solution be to randomly select one zapper each day who gets the whole days rewards?

This would incentivize creating a multitude of accounts and zapping a little from each, so perhaps there needs to be another qualification: zaps at least a certain amount, or zaps and comments.

I remember when we had the somewhat random rewards function that varied the criteria. Maybe it's that sort of model, but with a random winner function, like a lottery.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 7h

officer, it'd be nothing like a lottery

also, we wouldn't want it to be random in proportion to their persons (which encourages sybils), we'd want it to be random in proportion to sacrifice (no advantage to sybils).

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 6h

That difference makes sense.

The truly random option you describe in another comment (#1286158) probably makes more sense. But the dopamine lover in me thinks it would be pretty awesome to take home the whole pot.

I suppose it would be possible that someone figures out an optimal zapping strategy that would lead to a reliable gain of sats (thereby defeating the purpose of Sybil fees).

This could happen with a reward spread out over some random segment as well, but not for a single big winner.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 7h

another option is to make rewards truly random - we'd select a subset of content for the day (like the upper quartile or above the median) then distribute rewards across them at random.

55 sats \ 2 replies \ @plebpoet 8h

Went to an art museum today Couldn’t get through the contemporary art. Like didnt stop to glance. It was disgusting

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 8h

What kind of art do you like?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @plebpoet 8h

well I really liked these funny little cherubs I saw from the collection of Spanish works

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 8h

Based on this fabulous article about pennies (#1285999), I'm making my kids figure out if all the pennies in the US could fit in our house - and we discovered it is nowhere near...

50 sats \ 4 replies \ @Kontext 10h

Source: "Sabrina" (1954)

10 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 9h

I went through a brief Hepburn phase once. I watched this one. There's a lot of her work I haven't seen though.

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Kontext 7h

I reckon I've watched the most famous ones but surely there are some I haven't yet. Do you have a favorite?

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 7h

I don't recall any of them. I remember finding them charming. That's about it

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kontext 7h

Haha, fair enough. I really liked this one, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Roman Holiday.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Angie 10h

Estoy trabajando en una aplicación a la que fui invitada y está genial,te page de 20 a 45 sat semanales solo viendo vídeos, es la mejor minería que he visto hasta ahora solo entras cada 4 h recargas y ya pan comido, me ha generado más ganancias y tiempo ya que así puedo leer y escribir aquí mientras mino allá. Aquí les envío el enlace y el código de referencia, sin más aprovechen, los satélites están en el aire. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.coin.btc.android ACOHEL

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 13h

When you want a skin so badly the first time that you’d pay for it, but you can’t:

literally one of the few skins you can't buy

And why does the default skin look like it came straight out of Fallout:

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @OneOneSeven 13h

Is it locked behind progression? edit, ah quest reward, is it a hard one?

24 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 13h

I don't know, I don't even have access to that quest yet

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @OneOneSeven 5h

Looks like a lot of fun, I might pick it up soon

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 14h

11 sats \ 5 replies \ @optimism 14h

Interesting. Its now down to 14.8k after resetting.

111 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin 14h

If you do not open so often Zeus, I suggest to keep the option "reset EGS at startup" always on. Yes, it will take a bit more time to get ready, but you always have a fresh LN graph and ready to make payments.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @optimism 13h

I'll try that! Thank you.

111 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 13h

Fun fact: many users think that this EGS thing is a weakness for Zeus and they always compare it with Phoenix that is always ready when you open it.

But they do not think what actually does that graph sync at startup or they do not care too much. The graph sync locally on user device is a big difference than Phoenix model where the graph sync is on the Acinq server side. That's why Phoenix knows all the txs where/from are going.

Is well explained here: https://docs.zeusln.app/for-users/embedded-node/privacy#client-side-path-finding

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 13h

I think it works the same in blixt. It's slower there, but my channels are more functional (which may be because I currently only have a private channel with SN on Zeus, not sure) and it does a better job at keeping the background service properly working on graphene.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 13h

Yes Blixt works the same. In fact in Zeus you can switch the EGS server between Olympus and Blixt node.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Akg10s3 15h

It's not possible ⚡⚡ It's going straight to the 🌚!!

613 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 16h

Two things I'd like to write about:

determining the optimal minimum viable product/feature
how much time to spend researching a solution relative to the estimated time for implementing it

32 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 15h

For #2, is technical debt what you have in mind?

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 15h

not exactly but doing more research does lower technical debt. there are diminishing returns for research and research costs you time that takes away from customer feedback. though, LLMs truncate the time required to do basic research by a lot, so it's something i almost always do now.

with both (1) and (2) it feels more like art than science and historically i've leaned on my intuition which is hard to share with others. that's why i need to write about it - there's probably some kind of guide one can use without all the pain required to build intuition.

we often say bad code has a smell but these dimensions of product/feature development can also smell. in either case there are probably rules for odor fighting that i haven't bothered to articulate.

150 sats \ 6 replies \ @Scoresby 16h

source

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 14h

also check out the donut bags:

source

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 14h

source

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 14h

They made a nice website too: https://btcismoney.xyz/

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 13h

no, that site is not nice, it's a fucking shame

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 15h

hahaha nice name

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 15h

@Blocks @CompassCoffeeDC giving out free BTC + coffee to push for a de minimis tax exemption

Here have some free sats with your free coffee.

50 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 16h

Interesting how EUR currently has buy orders 2x the depth of and 3x more numerous than USD on Robosats.

111 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 15h

Huh.... is there more bitcoin demand from europe in other platforms too? or just robosats

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 15h

Honestly no idea, but good question!

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Car 16h

strawberry fields forever

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 16h

11 sats \ 12 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 17h

How about giving a badge to the territory owners? Like, ‘sheriff’ for the full owners and ‘deputy sheriff’ for the ones who pay monthly. ~meta

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 13h

I support this message

133 sats \ 10 replies \ @optimism 17h

I'm not the popo

111 sats \ 7 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 17h

Wild West Sheriff is way better than popo!

33 sats \ 6 replies \ @optimism 16h

Politia -> popo Shire + Reeve -> sheriff

Same difference!!!

111 sats \ 5 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 16h

Don’t kill my vibe! Let’s just call them (territory owners) an independent vigilante, then! ~lol

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @supratic 15h

"territory founders" is the right wording, they own nothing

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 15h

I didn't even found mine - just "those that pay the fixed part of the rent"

111 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 15h

i've been using "territory owner" instead of "founder" because founder implies they created it. "Owner" is fine, with the understanding that they own the rights for the duration of the lease. Good enough for me

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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 16h

Sorry, didn't mean to kill your vibe! lol

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 17h

I'm glad you use the term popo.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 17h

I'm not sure what that qualifies me as. haha.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SHA256man 18h

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 18h

Reddit denied me access to their API because "the request did not come from a university email address", yet it did and they literally sent the denial letter to my university email address...

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 17h

They suck

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @BlokchainB 19h

The menu bar is no longer moving in the PWA!

Thanks @ek

69 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 15h

I didn’t do anything. Maybe @sox?

55 sats \ 0 replies \ @sox 15h

Neither, Apple did

2 sats \ 0 replies \ @guerratotal 19h

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 19h

When half of internet is down... who is coming?

8 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 20h

I lost my Bitcoin in a Cloudflare outage...

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @south_korea_ln 21h

SN not affected by the ongoing Cloudflare issue, yay...

In the simplest form of the internet, a computer asks for a website and is provided the data by a server, which is then loaded on the screen. But in those simple setups the servers may become overwhelmed by requests, and run slowly or break entirely as a result.

Cloudflare and similar companies instead sit between the computers and the original websites themselves. Those internet infrastructure providers can then use their more resilient data centres to provide websites quickly and reliably.

From here.

Maybe SN will become affected in the future when receiving more traffic?

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @SHA256man 18h

12 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 21h

SN is using OP_RETURN to post all items on the blockchain LOL

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @south_korea_ln 20h

You just broke the time chain with your 11MB video: #1285349~~

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 20h

Let's add a big gif also

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @guerratotal 21h

102 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 21h

I like that SN do not depend on Cloudflare. It just work. Today we have some disruptions in websites that use Cloudflare.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 20h

Great minds think alike. Yours just a bit faster.

30 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 22h

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 21h

See? That is the wrong perception of people that buy BTC only to hold it as "reserve". People that just earn, spend, save BTC, will have a different perception of that meme.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Now_Singularity 22h

Surprised to see a Bitcoin cartoon make it into the New Yorker. Not sure a 16th of the audience would get it.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @cryotosensei 22h

I asked my fifth graders to write about their favourite memory this year. I even used the trending term core memory for good measure.

This boy wrote: Mr Heng shouting (favourite theacher) and camp. 🙂

I’m honoured to be mentioned in the same breath as the Primary 5 camp aka the supreme highlight of their primary school existence. Zero mention of his on-again, off-again girlfriend!

His spelling error also broke my heart a little bit and reminded me of the purpose of us public school educators. To work for the benefit of average children coming from typical households.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 17h

Where did the term core memory come from? It almost feels like a gamer term

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scroogey 17h

Pixar movie Inside Out.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 17h

Oh, now I remember. I was thinking Assassins Creed because I think it used similar terms ...

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 22h

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG0RA 22h

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