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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @note_bene 2 Dec \ on: How Our Messed-Up Dating Culture Leads to Loneliness, Anger and Donald Trump culture
Ah, the two genders...
This is pretty normal since the 60's. People just didn't call it "poly".
Think about the tv show Friends: all the men and women paired off at different times. Same thing for How I met your mother or Rent. This kind of thing is very commonly in the restaurant business, resort staff, among frats / sororities, and of course FTX/Ameida (ba dum tss).
The difference with GenZ is this behavior is being explicitly codified into this monstrosity of all the worst aspects of HR/pop-psychiatry/family-law. It was always messy before we started calling it a polycule, but alleged solution seems (to this cranky old man) to be worse than letting it play out.
He's not really a moral (or even "amoral") actor like you're trying to portray.
He a mildly austistic big-picture systems thinker, but extroverted and inclined to action and risk and at times machiavellian.
Being mildly autistic, he is not as susceptible to groupthink and social consensus. Since the current social consensus is solidly progressive, if you're blue you will view his rebellion as amoral to evil, and if you're red you will view him as having integrity. But really Elon is just following the calculation of his first principles systems thinking, which at root both sides share: human flourishing.
I 50% agree with the consensus here:
- Agree: Women's behavior is Not a bug, it's a Feature. You are the product of several hundred generations of women aggresively exploring and picking their best option. Just as you're the product of several hundred generations of men persevering and innovating. You need to learn to fit into this inexorable facet of life.
- Disagree: I think many posters here misunderstand how dramatically the field has tilted in gender relations for people under 25, especially with social media / online dating. The level of mis-match is civilizational threatening and is not salvageable from a bottom-up exhortation to "man up". Where we go from here is an open question, but telling some young 20's kid to "stack sats" is not it.
Travelled down to Palm Beach to meet an old friend.
Ended up meeting a solana dev in a cafe: "I was looking for a lightning guy like eight months ago". Ofc showed him SN.
He was telling me how most L1's have grants for projects on their coin (usually $5k-25k). Has anyone tried these out?
Agree 100%. Why can't there by an e/acc charity that takes in a billion? What isn't there an e/acc channel on stacker news?!
A lot of people are catching on to this school of thought.
Some interesting ones of note:
- MacKenzie Bezos to Social Justice Inc
- SBF to Anthropic (which possibly led to getting enough compute to make Claude3 on par with GPT4)
- Jack Dorsey to various Anti-Racist / BLM initiatives
- Dustin Moskovitz to EA
- (what else?)
Beyond just today's headlines, there seems to be a long history of the non-profit sphere being infiltrated and subverted by a progressive agenda - Ford and Rockefeller foundations are usually the go-to examples. But overall, even twenty years ago it felt like charitable giving was more centrist where something like United Way - which would fund a mix of both religious-type and social worker type approaches - was much more common than today. But maybe that's because the super rich were more traditional industrialist types, rather than today's technologist / futurist set.
What are these mega donors buying for their billions? I would speculative psychological motives as: MacKenzie wants to be liked by cool people, Dorsey and Buterin want to be principled and visionary, SBF and Moskovitz want to expand their sphere of influence.
Beyond whatever policy recommendations are promoted by FLI, I think it's worth examining what makes these nonprofits so seductive to their benefactors mindset when choosing which of the thousands of organizations that could use the money.
Hmm, cashapp gets a different error when paying an lnbits or thunderhub generated invoice wrapped with lnproxy, error code: "Invoice missing valid amount...Please create or requests a new invoice with an amount of at least 1 satoshi". For reference, phoenix and strike do pay proxy wrapped invoice.
Agree, lightning looks like it could have the "Mastadon problem" where it is decentralized (like Mastodon the app) but that just makes interop across all the users more difficult because every federation is putting different outbound/inbound restrictions on nodes they deem baddd, m'kay?
Yes, I have phoenix and use it as my primary.
One reason I sometimes use CashApp is sometimes phoenix gets stuck "Connecting to Electrum" and can't make payments for several minutes.
But the larger point is I'd love regular old folks to pay me via CashApp instead of instructing them to take an extra step with a secondary wallet. Beyond the friction of extra steps, if the user wants only like $5 worth of services, Phoenix is also going to take a good chuck of say that for channel opening fee, which will seem predatory to a first time lightning user.
For a.) reliability and b.) QA 'ing the potential to onboard non-lightning people to my app, see reply below to kepford.
Funny enough I have that tab open, and just reading about when I came back here to check for replies. Thanks for the advice! I'll report back here with what I find.
Well said, i think you'd like sms4sats, one purpose, useful, good ux.
Most of all, something you can only use sats for, which is the main thing lightning needs to offer to gain use beyond early adopters.
And in the background, that's something that nostr could be setting the ecosystem up for by allowing arbitrary peer to peer routing and being the main way to route around censorship, centralization, and surveillance.
Sms4sats is solving this problem in miniature, a way around sms verification, except nostr is creating a whole alternative system that doesn't need sms verification measures, but as you've said this is somewhere well down the road.
Interesting,...And yes the inbound capacity seems fine, especially for these small 10-50 sat payments. I can pay other wallets with cashapp, and I can pay my node with other wallets.
I was going to ask about workarounds, and sounds like BTCPay Server is a good one. I was also wondering about lightning addresses, and whether you could create arbitrarily many of them to always generate a new recipient for each invoice or something like that?
Yep, webassembly is giving web and js devs access to the power of the gpu, such as your example of 3D rendering in realtime. This creates the potential to run ai inference on the edge (on user's computer) with cross compatibility across platforms and browsers, meaning no need to target each platform - iOS, android, windows - with a native app.
The other potential that webassembly - which I know less about - is enabling safer and more secure application, maybe delivered as progressive webapps. If i recall correctly this is something supertestnet was talking about on a podcast - write a js implementation of lighning with webassembly - and something Mutiny wallet might be doing?