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I thought they were stopping the show. Were they just making fun of Mr. Obnoxious?
I created an issue for this. It sounds like we have an issue with our "storage" on devices creating the appearance of a duplicate.
[meta]: You really like asking questions, which is awesome, but until someone gets the ball rolling with an answer, people won’t participate.
Questions are most successful here when the asker asks AND tries to answer their own question for themselves.
Why did they do this? I assume it's useful in some respect or maybe it's just easier for the interpreter.
I guess the tempting, although perhaps crude, comparison for me lay in them both being 'social layers' of Bitcoin, putting aside the nuances you've articulated.
Fair. Actually, I think that's the way most people see it and why some people feel like they have to pick one.
It might be confirmation bias, but I find twitter-like social experiences poorly suited to achieving social consensus on any matter (let alone bitcoin). Social consensus on twitter-like sites seems to mostly be top-down - great for mantras, platitudes, promotions, and commands from high status or status seeking people.
I'd rather bitcoiners go back to the talk forum or delving than another twitter-like platform as the social layer.
To be clear, I like twitter-ish sites but I mostly use them for entertainment, worshiping very specific people, and leads on breaking news.
My basic understanding is, as a permission-less global unit of exchange, Bitcoin can and will coordinate all economic activity happening over the internet.
I'd agree. The main point I'm making is that bitcoin will allow us to coordinate in ways that weren't possible before. I think bitcoin will allow us to solve coordination problems on the internet that we've only solved IRL and solve coordination problems that only exist at the internet's scale.
Who is the most effective person at preserving their personal privacy that you've ever met? (That was hard to phrase. I'm sorry.)
If you could improve your personal privacy in one way with a flick of a wand, what would you improve?
On the bright side, you can usually tell who isn't concerned with benefiting from a ponzi based on how outsized their advocacy is relative to their criticism.
I missed the zero fee lightning tx somehow.
This guy: https://x.com/the_bitcoin_bum
You can check his profile for how frequently he posts (not very)
It depends on who I'm empathizing with in the picture. I empathized with the dog first so I thought "good boy."
I appreciate it. IMO it's less about Nostr vs SN and more about the problems Twitter-like platforms and Reddit-like platforms solve.
The best analogy I've come up: Twitter is like having a million friends to your house and giving them each their own iPad. Reddit is like a having a million friends over and there's a single TV and everyone has a remote.
Most people fail to appreciate how different that is and they think Twitter = people + algorithm + content = Reddit = Nostr = SN = any internet application on earth.
I get tons of "why isn't SN on nostr" concern trolling insinuating I'm too lazy/dumb/power hungry/greedy to create another centralized nostr client. It's perhaps too subtle for people that aren't actually concerned to appreciate, but the reality is: Reddit = people + algorithm + content + coordination.
Coordination without moderation/rulers is unsolved and that's what SN is largely trying to accomplish. I think internet scale coordination is THE 2nd killer use case for bitcoin, one that might save us from the Saylorification of Bitcoin (regulated, doomed to centralize SoV), and I'm less interested, perhaps to my deteriment, in what Bitcoin's Most Influential of 2024 want everyone exclusively using/working on.
I don't think it got posted here. Our search also sucks so it might've been posted when it came out.
When they had a showing here in Austin a year or so ago, we were all afraid of what might be in it. I was happy they cut out a scene where I was ranting about whatever I rant about. (Most of the filming happened at the first Lab location where I spent most my day coding at the pooltop roof.)
@the_bitcoin_bum stopped by the new @PlebLab in an all pink suit last friday in high, fatherly spirits. (I haven't seen tie-dye Thomas in awhile. I hope he's doing good.)
@Car has been eating dirt for several years now. Hopefully it pays off this cycle.
There was, if you can believe it, a more vitriolic version of this post that got heavily pared down to the version you are reading.
I can relate. It can be frustrating only seeing cope and hopium from people standing in the middle of incoming traffic. It's hard to tell if they believe what they're saying because they don't understand, it's some form of preference falsification in the hopes of joining the king's court, or there are other financial/social status conflicts making them (unconsciously even) lie and exaggerate.
I'm about halfway through. Super impressed by how well read he is.
One of the highlights for me was him explaining the Nirvana fallacy which is very popular among bitcoiners, ie "government is bad so acknowledging it, let alone attempting to reduce the harm it causes, makes you complicit."
If he's even being half-honest about what he's accomplished, it gives hope for the future.