@davidw20
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1060 sats \ 2 replies \ @davidw 19 Jul \ parent \ on: On your mark...Get set...Meme meta
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You will get your duel soon, sat-cat!
This one of yours was a banger btw #506500.
I literally haven't owned a TV for as long as I can remember. Maybe 10+ years. To me, I increasingly see it as a tax on my attention.
There's been far too much quantity and very little quality and I've never felt like I've missed out on anything. Remember when people used to ask you why you hadn't seen Film X or Series Y? Given they were so good, so rare & a must-watch?
Until we see a renaissance return, I'll probably hold out for wall projectors/hologram devices. Until then, the only use I have for a TV will be showing node info and/or occasional sport matches.
Taking a break whilst still retaining your streak, is definitely a positive and just requires a little discipline. Provided you are still connected, I would encourage you to take the necessary steps to maintain it each and every morning, not let your day start without investing those few minutes.
Yours is similarly timed to mine, after going ham Q4 and into Q1 this year. Hope to be back and fully recharged in the months to come. Whilst hopefully not losing my ragged sun-bleached hat in the process.
I used to feel awkward about negotiating, until I needed to do it as part of day to day work. The best thing I can suggest is simply doing preparation beforehand to find 3-4 comparable prices from competing providers. That way you are not trying to beat down a vendor's price that is subjective, you have something to anchor to and can share 'alternatives' with all transparency, without any feelings of guilt or awkwardness. The market is good feedback for them also. But I know in non-Western cultures it's far more common to try and negotiate off-the-cuff without this in your pocket.
It would be much more efficient if we didn't need to do this, but I don't believe haggling is a consequence of our fiat world. Quite often the case, especially in bigger negotiations are expecting the conversation to arise and therefore they "pad" or sandbag their initial offer, knowing full well they may need to reduce it later.
The exception to this is IMHO if you really want to work specifically with a specific individual, quite often the less time spent negotiating and the more time spent building shared incentives (as you highlight) - the better and longer-lasting the outcome.
Welcome to SN @Aryaa. Enjoy the sats! Hope to see some posts inside the daily thread, if you have any questions or ideas.
Nice find. Would certainly be nice to obfuscate some of the QR overload of recent years. And it definitely feels like a stop-gap solution to future digital life.
Separate topic - part of the experience is improved because a QR is quite clearly distinguishable from our language or a picture or other means of communication. There are definitely use cases to hiding invoice QRs from plain sight, but I suspect any new standard would still need to be 'visible' so as to ensure backwards compatibility and to ensure people/machines are actively wishing to engage with it. Not accidentally triggering or actioning requests. Otherwise our lives would be DDOS'd with payment requests.
A great write-up on the history of El Salvador. So much knowledge in there.
Curious though, what were you thinking that wasn’t evident at the time? I didn’t find too much besides the following:
This will lead to investing in themselves. Building schools and developing teachers through youth education programs. Fostering tangible prosperity (educational value you can feel and touch.) this is what will guarantee the conditions of stability and economic change for the people in El Salvador. They are creating a new tradition of hope in El Salvador but they do this by first making make peace with the past so they can hope for a better future, it’s truly a remarkable thing.
I really want to read more forward-thinking posts into where El Salvador goes from here, now that the basic foundations of economic freedom are in place. My sense is it could see development at pace that we may not have witnessed before, perhaps surpassing Hong Kong or Singapore or Dubai in transforming themselves in prior decades. Though they are geographically more isolated so I am sceptical. I love hearing the stories of locals returning and finding opportunity in their motherland and construction being 20% of GDP in just a few short years. Of previously unthinkable practices and businesses flourishing.
Reading from visionaries like this who can see and describe a prosperous future I find uplifting. If anyone has read or written articles looking further forward please drop them or below or send them my way.
CoreWeave is a really small young company, only born in late 2021. How they are funding this without ponzi economics is beyond me. They’ve been funding their business to date, taking loans against their Nvidia chips. Leveraging up to the heavens.
Something smells really fishy here. Wouldn’t be surprised if this is about securing the ticker rather than attracting additional regulatory scrutiny with a new NYSE listing. Would allow them to cash-out their company stock and dumping onto retail if there were to be an AI super bubble coming 👀
Stay clear of this shady company folks…. nobody-special did a great video on the company’s strange history
There are a few sites aiming to help this type of use-case:
- https://gigsats.com/
- https://www.plebwork.com/
- https://microlancer.io/
- https://bitcoinerfreelance.com/
None have really achieved scale or top quality projects just yet, but hopefully in the next year or so we’ll see this much more commonplace.
Arguably the very implementation of these proposals will lead to the right kind of change - each of us becoming our own private communication providers.
It's not about the children. It never was. Debating 'leaders' on such irrational reasoning is a pretty poor use of resources in my mind. This is about the value of our data with it being colonized.
What do you specifically mean by ‘your data’? Are you specifically asking about your public posts, your IP addresses for login, your email address for auth or newsletter, your Sat spending and balances or something else?
Might help being more specific to ensure it doesn’t need to be a generic answer that covers all circumstances.
Great use case of Nostr, name & product 👏 Can’t wait to see the usability improvements coming. Congrats!
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If I’m Ross or his family, I’m tearing-up watching that this evening. It’ll be a long 5 months but hope they’re all in great health & spirits. This is huge and not to be understated for them.
Shame. Onfido are used heavily in traditional banking too. They were bought by Entrust last year.
These companies are only going to get gobbled-up higher up the food chain as every large company clamours to verify identities.
Welcome to SN 😉 when you do exist, of course.
And when you do, do these scheduled posts show up on our profile in a draft state? Just wondering if you need to find the URL or have it cached in the browser to be able to come back to tweak or edit. Kudos on the feature & the useful pointers.
Great write-up, thanks for posting. Shame to see so many people reaching the same questionable conclusions.
Because the point of government is to create social trust. To the extent a government improves the overall trust in society, it succeeds. And to the extent a government doesn't, it fails. But they have to. We need government to constrain the behavior of corporations and the AIs they build, deploy, and control. Government needs to enforce both predictability and reliability. That's how we can create the social trust that society needs to thrive.
… and who is going to constrain governments that seek to use this technology also? Technology itself can be the counter-balance we crave.
Governments are the very reason distrust exists today towards corporations and in society. Plenty of people like the author do so much work, so much research. And yet they identify and wish to treat the symptoms, not the root cause. It’s such a shame. Open source means open access, simple.
It should also be available for anyone to build on top of. This means universal access. And a foundation for a free market in AI innovations. This would be a counter-balance to corporate-owned AI.
You’re describing FOSS, Sir.
Top posts are certainly not guaranteed though. That's the thing.
Yes you get a headstart by building a decent reputation and it is easier to rank higher with a decent trust score than as a newbie, but you need to maintain and sustain those expectations also if you want to retain eyeballs. I don't take that for granted at all. Someone else will soon put in far more time to their posts than I and others. That's inevitable.
I am willing to bet the average stacker spends 3-4 minutes on any post on the site. Unless a link/resource is really compelling me to share, I will very rarely post something without 3-4 hours of work. And in those best performing posts, it is more like 3-4 days of effort. This is lost if you believe that 'systemic favouritism' is the reason for handsome rewards.
Agree with @south_korea_ln. The data and insights are there for us all to see. Spend more time on your posts and you will be richly rewarded.
Thinking or concluding that there is favouritism or bias is disingenuous to how SN works. If someone puts more POW in than those currently well regarded, they will pick-up the lions share of sats.
Also, you can tell instantly if someone has put time into their posts. During MSM I posted many short & long-form content and it was the long-form that performed insanely better. And that was during one of my busiest times at work. I’ve been as guilty as anyone of over thinking it. It’s actually supremely simple.