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63 sats \ 18 replies \ @zapsammy 1 Dec \ on: Trying To Get A Friend Interested In SN meta
on his 70th birthday, i would ask him how many more years does he expect to live, and why not longer? if he says "i have already made it," ask "made it to what? why does this number of years matter?"
when darthcoin once said he wishes to live to 120 yo, i was really inspired. the bible and the old sumerian clay tablets mention beings that lived for thousands of years. imagine how much more good a bitcoiner can do with every bonus decade of life.
when darthcoin once said he wishes to live to 120 yo
I do not wish it... a gipsy woman told me that when I was a kid. here is the story #277326
What I like now is this, just laughing and enjoying.
Wisdom do not come from age, but from experiences you lived. So even if you are old enough but in your entire life didn't do anything "stupid" or at least "entertaining" then your rest of your life will not be so fun.
I myself I am getting tired of how many experiences I lived, I had a very complicated life and now at 50+ yo, I just want to relax and laugh. I just want 50 years of laughing. And I do not do nothing else.
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one day i shall start stating the length of my life in years BB (before bitcoin) and blocks AG (after genesis). fuck this fiat timeline, who knows where we're at. i think the fiat timeline has been really screwed up, and anyways, when some people start living underground or in space, it'll be easier to sync up by block#.
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fuck this fiat timeline
Well said!
hahaha "before /after bitcoin" age
Some bitcoiners still don't know that we have a "Bitcoin time"... the UTC https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Block_timestamp
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wow fucking insane!
me in few years 😂
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when the borders and time zones get rearranged, or let's say i board the plane, fall asleep, and wakeup somewhere else, how is one supposed to meet and trade efficiently? time zones and daylight savings time is absolute madness.
i only recently learned about Unix; reading the description a bit hard, so i found a decent video with a quick search about Y2K38:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laUukHVZC9c
i totally expect darthcoin to be on stacker.news scolding stackers for using the UTC instead of the block# for timekeeping by 2030.
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It just occurred to me that he is incredibly high time preference. He and his wife have no kids. He never saved money. As a result he still works, but only to spend the money he earns.
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have you talked to his wife? women live significantly longer. will she have a way to care for her beloved husband when he starts struggling with basic activities of daily living? tell her how Hal Finney's family was able to use his bitcoin stack to maintain his home care when he became wheelchair-bound.
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His wife is my wife's best friend. She is a dyed in the wool liberal democratic NYC college professor. I have a much better chance with him.
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Oh man, sounds like it's gonna be a tough nut to crack.
If you don't mind my asking, @siggy47, how did you get to have the views that you have? It seems like a lot of your friends are in the highly educated, liberal, NYTimes/MSNBC bubble, but that you aren't.
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You're right about my social circle. I think my politics were rooted in my childhood. My dad grew up in extreme poverty and was very motivated to succeed.
He was just a natural born free market guy in a sea of socialists. He supported Nixon against Kennedy in 1960. That simply wasn't done in a working class catholic immigrant community.
I found the whole Austrian economics/libertarian thing on my own in my late 20s.
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Interesting, thanks for sharing. Hope that some of your views will rub off on your friends.
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They're hoping the opposite 😀
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lol... as if the entire corporate media complex isn't trying to get you to change while reinforcing their views. You're the one actually speaking truth to power, not them.