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You mean 🇺🇸 vs. 🇷🇺 ?
From the last week's recommentation list I picked up Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin.
Second Realm. It discusses possible developments beyond circular economies.
I guess he also never understood why anarchists like FOSS.
The word free is quite messed up in the English language. He rightly distinguishes between free as in free beer from free as in freedom, but free might also include free from governments and oppressive rulership.
In his mind big cooperation are evil but Western democracy are not. However big cooperation not really serving customers anymore are not possible without the latter (also called fascism). That is missing in his considerations.
There are no heroes in bitcoin.
Seeing and defending Saylor as savior is fiat mentality seeking for a duce.
He maneuvered himself into a position in which he has partly to play the fiat game aka. using words like compliance, governance etc. in order to not be immediately taken down. He is target of the fiat counterstrike. Expect even more weird things there.
Well, German railway is still using Windows 3.11 https://www.neowin.net/news/age-is-just-a-number-for-30-year-old-windows-311-still-powering-german-high-speed-trains/
At least the nuclear weapons of the US do not require floppy disk anymore since 2019: https://www.defensenews.com/air/2019/10/17/the-us-nuclear-forces-dr-strangelove-era-messaging-system-finally-got-rid-of-its-floppy-disks/
The question is if they really have the standing power to execute it in the long run.
Years ago they tried similar things in Munich as well and they reverted it again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
OK, the Munich experiment was quite more ambitious.
Tidy First by Kent Beck. It is a book about the software development process. Interestingly it contains a chapter titled A Dollar Today > A Dollar Tomorrow. Yeah, software development outside Bitcoin has still quite fiat mindset. In a bitcoin standard a bitcoin tomorrow will have more purchasing power than a bitcoin today and we will hopefully get better software...
Yes, The Big Fat Surprise by N. Teicholz is a great book on the topic and Fiat Food by M. Lysiak is the book to read in order to understand why the establishment is telling you otherwise.
Yes, that reminds me of The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene Chapter/Law 40 Despise the Free Lunch. If you are not paying the full price then there are always some strings attached.
No, the novels are not linked.
Atlas in this novel refers to the Atlas mountains whereas in Atlas shrugged Atlas refers to Greek mythology. In Greek mythology Atlas is the titan that is holding up the heavens.
The Atlas Maneuver is a (spy) thriller where as Atlas shrugged is a dystopian novel like 1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451 etc.
Another enhancement would be versioning and editing of existing posts.
As there are a lot of longer posts that are like guides and it would be great if those articles could be updated and maintained for a longer time.
Small errors or input from other users may then be incorporated into the post after first publication.
In this case Stacker.news would be more like a wiki or Stackoverflow.
Maybe this could be realized as a new type.
The Atlas Maneuver by Steve Berry. It's a thriller aound Bitcoin. There is an interview available with the author on the What is Money show.
For instance the guys hanging around here on stacker.news, but certainly the hodlers that do self-custody.
I think the measurement is difficult anyway because if you add some privacy to the mix then users of the Tor browser etc. on Linux are hiding as Windows user in the big mass...
Introduction to Bitcoin by Florin Hilbay. It is a up to date introduction to bitcoin also covering the lightning network and mentioning Nostr. Further it is hinting at the implication that the fusion of the communication and the money protocol will bring to world.
Yes, reducing or eliminating carbs completely brings significantly improvements for your well-being. There is a lot of literature about that (The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz, Fiat Food by Matthew Lysiak etc.) and you can always try it out yourself on yourself.
- The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver mentioned bitcoin once but the book is not about bitcoin. However it fits the narrative about declining fiat money and the crumbling fiat society.
- Bitcoin Heist directed by Ham Tran is a 2016 action movie with a story around bitcoin https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4911780. Ridiculous low bitcoin price then...