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45 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 7 Oct \ on: Stacker Saloon
Richard Stallman will be in Europe for his talk: "Free software, Crucial for Freedom in a Digital World"
- Helsinki, Finland, on Oct 09, 2025
- Göteborg, Sweden, on Oct 10, 2025
Not really.
A computer cannot look into your eyes, hug you, etc.
Maybe in the far future, but the best we have is still firmly in the uncanny valley.
This is a bit nonsensical really...
I mean, you could as well say that all Bitcoin transactions are text, if you consider each 7 bits of data as an ASCII character, or more if you use UTF-8 or other encoding... you would end up with random sequences of letters, forming a unique "text" per transaction.
The "art" that is being generated here in OP is simply interpreting the original data in a different way, as a color, which usually just give you random data. As an image, it's just randomly colored dots.
I thought they had found some interesting visual pattern or something, but there's no structure, it's just random noise, as expected.
Also, mentioning JPEGs when referring to an image in this context is just wrong as JPEG is a lossy image format, which means that the original information is lost when generating the JPEG file. At least mention a lossless format like PNG which preserves the original data.
A world without IP laws would be interesting because there's a balance of:
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More innovation as they can "stand in the shoulders of giants"
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Less "giants" because there's no financial incentive to create the IP in the first place.
So, in some cases, people will still create IP and share it, like Tesla did, to basically push everyone up.
But it's a tough balance. I see it similar to the Open Source (Free Software) movement.
No, but it's simple to consider it:
- 5.6M in Finland
- About 340M in USA
So, USA has about 60 times more people, but it had 586 times more mass shootings in 2024, which is roughly 600x instead of the "expected" 60x. One order of magnitude of difference.
Let's first look at the ratio of guns per person around the world:
OK, USA is number one, but there are many other countries with a lot of guns, so nothing extremely crazy about it.
This is the top 10:
- United States: 120.5
- Falkland Islands: 62.1
- Yemen: 52.8
- New Caledonia: 42.5
- Serbia: 39.1
- Montenegro: 39.1
- Canada: 34.7
- Uruguay: 34.7
- Cyprus: 34.0
- Finland: 32.4
So, based on only this data, you might expect to see about four times as many mass shootings in the US compared to, say, Finland. Let's see those numbers:
So, it's clear that the availability of guns to the public is not the only factor in this. It might affect something, but clearly the data shows that there are other factors at play.
My hypothesis is that there's a huge lack of support for people in the USA. It's a very independent society, "every man for himself" kind of thing. When people get desperate, then bad things start to happen. I've seen documentaries showing people that are full time workers, and they are homeless in the US. That's just incredible, really.
I think that even though reality might be "continuous", to use it as an information system then we would need to measure it, and that would collapse the wave-function, effectively making it "discrete".
This made me think of oral languages.
These languages don't have a written form, so they might pose a challenge to AI. In theory a system could be trained to pick up the audio cues, but maybe it would miss the subtleties of the speaker.
ThinkPads are such nice laptops
I used to like the XPS line of Dell as well, but for some reason they're gone now.
I guess it depends on the country, but any "official" translator still gets paid. Things you need for government, etc, for example translating your drivers license to the local language, etc, they usually need to be done with a registered translator.
Of course that's a small pool, but there's still need for human translators.
They say:
Point of Sale (POS)Receive physical payments and from exchanges quickly.
So I would assume that the customers can also send sats from a node without the card. They have support for Lightning Addresses.
Quite interesting.
Had a look into the Argentinean company from the video, lacrypta, and they make some cool open source projects, like a discord bot that takes Bitcoin as payments, and here's the project from the video: https://github.com/lawalletio/mobile-pos
They sell "rechargeable cards" with the logo of your company or whatever you want, which is quite cool:
Provide a payment solution with customized rechargeable NFC cards. Take your branding to the next level with our international cards.
I saw that in their web site they claim to have mined block 755100
Mined block #755.100
A quick check reveals it was mined by Foundry USA Pool, which means that they were probably mining in that pool and just happen to have mined the actual block for the pool. I guess they would have preferred to solo mine :)
Also worth thinking: "What Got You Here Won't Get You There", which is a book from Marshall Goldsmith that talks about the next step.
If they are not lending coins, what's the business model of piggy?
How do they make money to pay for the infrastructure, your salary, etc?
Are you the only employee?, it seems you put half of what they store at the moment (2.02 Bitcoin in Treasury)
A couple of questions:
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How does this 3rd party lock their coins?, using Timelock? or simply not giving them back to you when you ask for them?
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Why do they need "a small fraction kept hot for liquidity."?, are they lending your coins?
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Have you seen the real, actual address where you send your coins?, that's usually different to what loaning companies show in their dashboard, and you can see when they start moving your coins out.
I think there's a balance between not consuming extra stuff, and stopping trading for necessities.
I don't think we need everyone to make their own bread. That would be a colossal waste of resources. Some people are great at making bread, cool, they are the bakers. Others are great at designing microchips, etc. That's the whole point of a modern economy.
I do agree that in some places, like in the US in particular, the consumption is just ridiculous.
Having said that, the system is designed for that. If people don't spend their money in things they don't need, then it's hard for a company to grow, say, 10% every year. And that's what makes the gains in the stock portfolios, the index funds, etc. Basically any investments that people have.
I get where they're coming from. A bit like how the www was back in the 90s and 00s. Full of potential, and mostly used by "certain type of people" who kept things interesting.
Now, the web is basically mainstream for over a decade, which brought the masses into it. Access is great, but it kinds dumbed down and commercialized the whole thing.
But Bitcoin is different, really. It's money. Of course it should be as big as possible. It should be mainstream, and used by anyone in the world.
I guess they're talking about the discussion about Bitcoin. Which kinda goes to the previous point I made about the www. But that's a different thing.
You could do that, but QR codes have error correcting information, so it's way more robust than OCR.