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Anything by Wes Anderson or Guy Richie. I enjoyed the first of their movies that I saw, but I only needed to see one of their movies to have enough. They are so needlessly stylized (and in the exact same way as all their other movies) that their stories, if they even have one, get suffocated.
Maybe they're great movies to watch while you're on your phone? Pretty moving wallpaper? I don't get it.
If no country adopts Bitcoin officially in the future, and the only nation fully embracing it is El Salvador, would you consider moving there permanently?
This is the reality right now. Today is yesterday's future.
let's say that Stacker News can only be accessed from El Salvador, from no other country, would that be one more reason to move there permanently?
I suspect I'd have to.
As is, I don't think you can recover with a different mint. It's like wallet of satoshi going offline.
Anathem does that thing that I dislike in any book at the start, narration with a bunch of names/words/people/events that haven’t been motivated at all. It’s like sitting at a bus stop with a stranger and having them tell you about their family reunion by listing off a bunch of names, chuckling at named jokes and events, describing the inside of their aunt’s kitchen for seemingly no reason, then their brother’s basement, more names, and named events. What of this is relevant? Spare me your warmup to the universe/story. Tell the story and describe the universe as it becomes relevant. Keep the warmup in your notes where they belong.
note: I know nothing of writing. This kind of thing just pisses me off so much I begin thinking I must know something
I’m not sure it’s makes men attractive, but it can make them desirable to people who want those things. It’s kind of an abuse of the word attractive.
There's good lazy, where you're lazy to the benefit of everyone and it's like positive sum laziness. Then there's bad lazy, where you're lazy to the detriment of others. Bad laziness can be excusable but when it's pursued consciously, it's sleaziness and nothing depresses me more.
It's been so long since I've played, but Portal might be killing-free. I tend to prefer puzzle games and about as often as not don't have killing.
I accidentally zapped this too much but let it ride as they say.
When I was spending a lot of time in matz's Ruby source code, debugging a Ruby vm I was maintaining embedded in a C thread, I got exposed to garbage collection for the first time. Back then, Ruby's gc was pretty premitive, it was a basic mark-and-sweep implementation if I didn't misunderstand it. This was before ruby 2.0 which already began to move away from naive tracing collection, and now they're doing tri-coloring like most GCs.
In practice, wrapped invoices will probably scale very poorly. This is because the lightning node for Alice will only consider routing to Bob, and the lightning node for Bob will only consider routing to Carol. The route will not be optimized at all.
Yep, routing failures compound, but if LN is to succeed, this kind of thing should be as reliable as sending your traffic through a VPN.
The solution for this of course is to to build a Bolt 11 invoice with all your Bob nodes specified in the route. Then the path-finding logic for Alice's node will try to build an optimal route.
If it's all done in a single route, I don't think this is any different than the wrap actually. But, if Alice can split the payment on multiple routes, one going to Bob and another to Carol, it'd provably be more reliable because each route requires less liquidity. It's like MMP then.
However, this still doesn't solve the problem, because adding Bob to the route doesn't mean that Bob will know to intercept that invoice, and charge a certain fee.
It depends on the problem you're trying to solve. If Alice pays Carol and Bob independently, but Bob only wants to accept the payment if Carol receives her payment, he can hold Alice's payment, cancelling it if Carol isn't paid and accepting it if she is.
I expect people get the results they want to get.
Good catch. That was my sense too which is probably why it's such a political thing.
It seems that corporations benefit disproportionately from IP, at the expense of the inventor, but maybe that's hard to appreciate.
I was hoping there might be an interesting double standard. Like, thoughts are sacred and their manifestations aren't.
One thing we're looking into at Mutiny is a way to do multiple pubkey locked ecash notes. I think someone could create the an ecash contract that goes to two outputs, one to the service and one to the recipient. If you had a lightning invoice be the funding of that, then it's effectively a payment split.
Cool. I feel like this kind of programmability is something we currently lack in L2! But we've gotta make it eventually. At least I hope so.
I've been saying this for awhile, but I think ecash is a way better experience for something like Stacker News. And with fedimint federations, whether SN is a member or not, it's a much more favorable position to be in.
I might agree with you. I'm mostly trying to get us to a position where we can begin experimenting with these things. Perhaps one type of attached wallet we'll have is a built-in ecash wallet. Stackers will have to backup the privkey to that, but why not.
What kind of Beings are we becoming when we instantiate parts of ourselves in this way?
Evergreen beings.
What could emerge from this mode of interaction that would affirm life, that would make us bigger and nobler, instead of stupider and pettier?
If we aren't divorced from the consequences of our digital selves, if we can stay human online, where we record humanity better than anywhere else, then we are all making the world wiser.