I guess I'm lucky that three years later my nodes still keeps running.

inotify-tools set to watch the SCB backup and copy that, also rsnapshot running rsync with cron creating regular backups of my data.

I prefer to set things up this way, makes migrating hardware easy, I imagine this is when most node runners run into trouble.

I hope I never need your guides, but thanks darth.

I'd imagine seasonality is a factor with natgas, as we are heading out of summer soon.

What do you think would be Turkey's motivation for blocking Instagram's platform of mindless narcissism? Is it similar to Tiktok where people are just basically payed to shill whatever social message they are payed to? War against populism?

I don't know. The Olympic Games seems to not be what it purportedly used to be.

I think it's not sudden but was baked into the cake and the repercussions are still somewhat ongoing. Partly a problem with relying on misguided metrics, like GDP per capita or targeting an annual growth rate.

This contingency on imports/exports is a factor of both domestic and global consumer spending. Partly to blame is how the growth model, massive infrastructure spending and overcapacity in certain sectors clash with changing market dynamics.

I'd imagine some of this is a loss of momentum. Economic growth through 2008 was still riding on the stimulus and easing. Drying up of the Cantillian effect?

Not sure if it's similar with other residential/retail property markets, much personal savings/assets is tied up in property, more so than liquid assets. Then the tranche of debt at municipal and regional levels which varies in its size proportionate to the economy.

Maybe the larger proportion of value in realty buffers the economy from contagion when indices puke or under-perform.

I remember not so long ago that ATM would charge a similar fee for withdrawing fiat cash. There's no reason with lightning this needs to be the case.

Forward thinking advisors should be looking long and hard at technologies that bring market stability, energy management, indiscriminate economic empowerment and avoid hype. Everyone else should do the same.

Maybe this 'advertising' of features is something that could be improved upon? 🤔

Ah!

I think that was pretty much my idea. My fault for not seeing all of this you can do in SN. I've seldom used invites/referrals with any service, my bad 😂

Weird idea I had..

Referrals could be swapped for mystery booty links, like one in so many links are assigned to current stackers. like everyone gets 100 usable links, 10 of those have satoshis, one has a mystery random satoshi prize.

They could be weighted higher for stackers that have posted more.

This may all be silly and unfeasible, I just wanted to suggest something fun, but also of value. I imaged people could print them out and leave them in places, like a bookmark in a random book, or a coaster in a cafe/bar.

Random thoughts /off.

I find it interesting that many refer to The Age of Reason as The Enlightenment. Just quibbling. ;-)

What kind of experience did you have in Japan, working life, traveling? How long were you away from home?

I guess it does not necessarily matter, there are lots of true points. It's really odd to see the media churn out so many news items which have the net affect of brainwashing people to be less adventurous.

Wilful ignorance to the realities of other cultures will be the demise of humanity (unless we continue with the lofty challenge of cultural exchange.) Not always so difficult. Like you say. Maybe just training common sense.

Not really sure of Americans being a special league of its own.

As far as I was aware, there was a huge uptick in mainland Chinese tourists in Europe during the last twenty five years. Maybe there's been a shift in recent years but statistically,I would not have imagined that US citizens in Europe would be so pronounced.

Are LN ATM not a thing yet?