What tools or services did you use to invest in them?

This is a very cool short film adaptation of it made a few years ago.

Those ideas are certainly worse, but I think more zoomers are waking up and noticing.

I’m Gen X. I think our failure was believing too much in the unrestrained capitalism of the 80s, as well as the utopian racial wishful thinking from that time. Neither worked out great.

With respect to work, we overworked ourselves and damaged our health because we thought our employers were going to be decent people. We were often wrong. We should have been less trusting and more careful to carve out a healthy life for ourselves while doing it. Millennials have overcompensated for this and are too selfish and lazy. Maybe the zoomers will have a better balance.

Kids

A ton of his older content was excellent. He just has a hangup about his family. I would simply ignore that stuff unless you had an abusive family and need to separate from them.

We need reparations for white people. Far more whites have been killed and far more has been robbed from us in taxes and robberies than ever was taken from blacks.

This drives me crazy because the title of the book is grammatically incorrect.

It should be “What I wish I had known when I was 20.”

The English Patient.

It is one of my most hated movies of all time.

I find nostr basically unusable and I find very little good content there. There’s no way to find good content because you can’t sort popular posts to the top in any clients I’m aware of.

Yeah that’s level 1. Then you can use TOR to hide your IP if you’re being super careful, and add autodelete rules to your channels.

Discord voluntarily (not even under subpoena) gave all their logs to the lawyers who sued the protesters at Charlottesville.

Lightning is very vulnerable to attack though, because of its architecture. It leads to centralized large nodes run by companies that can be easily targeted.

I have had small critters chew their way into my pack when I left food in it, and seen others have the same happen to their tents when they kept food in them. It’s always best to separate food and smelly items and put them in a bag hung over a branch away from critters.

They have no obligation not to be misleading in their “advisories”…. They often try to scare people into thinking the law is much more strict than it actually is in many areas.

Also, it would be great if you could go together and learn from someone experienced. Some things are hard to learn except from another person.

For example, you don’t want to keep your pack in your tent. Many beginners think they should, but it’s much better not to. You should leave it outside with a rain cover. Don’t keep food in your tent. Etc.

You should really do a number of weekend trips before attempting to go out for a whole week. Two weeks is much harder still.

You will learn many things about your gear, what you need, how heavy it is, and change a lot. You also need to learn about dealing with food, stoves, hygiene (cleaning your dishes and stuff, washing, etc.), first aid for yourself and dealing with hiking issues with your feet (moleskin, bandages, how to handle ankle sprains (bandana), how to handle rashes, cuts, burns, etc.).

And you also need to learn how to handle RAIN. Having the gear, keeping dry, how to pack to keep stuff dry, how to set up camp for rain, and how to cook in the rain.

Most of these things you can learn with only a bit of research, but you need to experience them to really learn. I wouldn’t set off for 1-2 weeks until you have these things down pat.

Oh, also compass and map use.

What’s happening is that there is zero adoption by brick and mortar businesses. Thus, the use of LN is limited to enthusiasts and a few online businesses, and when the channels and hubs consolidate, and small nodes go away, there’s no additional growth.

Making a lightning network work is not enough to make it successful as a medium of exchange. Someone needs to go out there and push it and make it worthwhile for shops and businesses to actually accept it.

NOBODY is doing this at all. Literally no one, to the best of my knowledge. This is why it’s not growing.

Earth Abides and Moby Dick

I like lightning now. It works very well for me almost all the time now.

However, I’m afraid this was always going to happen, because there was always going to be a substantial risk with a hot wallet server.

For those of you who don’t know, there is basically no way to run a LN server without having your keys on the server. There are complicated architectures like Phoenix runs, but they basically wrote their own node to do it and it’s not easy. If your server gets hacked, it can be drained.

I’m really not sure what can be done to make this better (although I’m not an expert on the minutiae of LN coding). Ultimately, I expect there will be a better L2 on bitcoin more like Stacks or some kind of rollup. That will let us transact cheaply and the same way as on optimism or similar networks.