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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @justin_shocknet 18h \ parent \ on: Are woke devs really that powerful? culture
Agree to disagree on all of that, but at-least we do agree on the larger observation.
10 sats \ 3 replies \ @justin_shocknet 19h \ parent \ on: Are woke devs really that powerful? culture
the masses will always be the masses
Always have been and always will be indeed.
How the masses react is as cyclical as the seasons, which is also why religion* has persisted for millenia, the wisdom in scripture is the glass society breaks in-cases of emergency
*I don't like using the term religion as a catch-all, organized religion becomes an institution that can exacerbate the problem. Too many people attend a church as a placebo or to check a box, and many bastardize the teachings altogether, which comes at the expense of actually learning the lessons taught in scripture. I see scripture as the oldest open-source repository and you need to run the code yourself. Tradition is the last-known-good configuration.
Turns out that if globalists with deep pockets can buy the media, the teachers unions, the "scientific" researchers, hollywood, lobbyists, and intelligence agencies they can also buy up open source devs...
How many heads does the snake have? Can it ever really be stopped?
Or will people have to learn discernment and participate in fighting back to maintain balance?
Who's fault is it really? The globalists? or otherwise good but weak minded people just checking out, escaping into video games, alcohol, and sportsball instead of exercising their agency?
How does what help us? Fake L2's? They don't at all, they're self interested in generating swap fees. The virtue signals about helping users are just marketing.
Are they weighted towards posts instead of comments? If so I think that's a problem... comment density should be higher, SN is a BBS more than anything else and should lean into that.
It's a Spark thing
It's a fake L2 thing.
Ark, Spark are both centralized exchanges... there's inherently a server, "coordinator", with full insight into everything.
Any ingress/egress via Lightning has 0 privacy because they're executing a swap for you (and taking an exorbitant fee).
They're surveillance tools and using scam narratives for distribution.
an unavoidable feature of the protocol,
It's not a protocol, it's a centralized exchange.
The server inherently needs telemetry to operate, this would be exposed by someone else had they not front-run it.
they've also made the weird choice of making all customer balances and transactions visible via a public explorer
Since it's a fake L2, and not really Lightning, there's inherently a centralized server with telemetry. Can't make any privacy assumptions with this that you wouldn't make with an traditional custodian...
... but this seems even worse since the LARP effect of acting as a Bitcoin layer implies some publicly traversable records in a tree/shadow-chain.
I imagine they only made the explorer to front-run someone else making one.
Gold is institutionally collateralized, when gold goes up that means even more dollars can be created as loans against it, a percentage of those dollars find their way to Bitcoin which has a smaller float (higher multiplier). Flywheel effect.
Since people started talking gold parity, which would have been at 10x over most of the last year or so, its now more like a 15x in the last few months.
ETF's/MSTR debt etc are an early form of institutionally collateralized BTC, the catch-up is when BTC's little flywheel becomes a money printer unto itself like gold. The suddenly part.
to withdraw to fiat, you must go through the Belarusian resident exchange HTP
This is basically how the legacy fiat system keeps non-dollar fiats propped up via the SWIFT system, the exchange rate between dollars and fx is fake, the states control flows to skim and maintain dollar reserves for debt service and imports etc.
Since Bitcoin is fx collateral at the state level, unsurprising they'd do the same with it. Bigger challenge to control of course given it's nature, but all the more important to control for if it were to free flow in the economy with any meaningful velocity it would undermine the national currency.
Tariffs/sanctions are how the US is now fighting back against this, skimming the skim basically.
How feasible is using dollars (or maybe euros) in Belarus? I'd think using Bitcoin in a low risk way is really only possible in dollarized countries where there's not an artificially pegged local currency.
Receiving to your node the fee is irrelevant on lnd's side, all it sees is a confirmed tx
This is that LND will not create a sub sat fee tx, which is good, because you wouldn't want it to and risk a channel tx not confirming
100 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 6 Oct \ parent \ on: Economic Arguments Against Vibe Coding econ
More people need to understand this framing.
I like Ansel too but this is a terrible take
Coding, vibe or otherwise, is just a means to an end. Code is a manifestation of creativity, creativity that is informed by your unique domain knowdge/relationships/judgement/distribution
Vibe coding makes applying your uniqueness faster or more accessible, which means more people can try things in the market more often.
Time is indeed the scarcest resource, vibe coding is leverage on that time. It reduces the cost of experimentation which insures actually good ideas can be proven faster.
Would seem like an obvious yes, particularly parcels where its not being used productively.
Begs the question though, if the government can't manage it productively, can they manage a gainful sale?
Have there been offers to buy any of this land? If not, why not? The government owning it is not a blocker in and of itself.
So those aren't federal employees, they're private sector employees who just happen to work for a company that bilks the gov as a customer
That's a contractual dispute between those companies and the gov
If there's a big kerfuffle over this we'll surely get some spice over the WFA laundered through these contracts
Right yea the paycheck is lagged vs. work, so I think @Cje95 is wrong about Republicans will try to not provide back pay... there should be at least some backpay.