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150 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby OP 17h \ parent \ on: SubStacker News - Territories as newsletters meta
True, but that doesn't mean it's a good system. The effort required to open and delete the emailed newsletter is bad.
The problem with newsletter subscriptions is that they give me an endless flood of emails that serve the purpose of notifications. I'm sure I could configure my email client to send them all to a folder that auto deletes after 30 days, but like many people, I don't take the time to mess with my settings.
I'd love an app that shows a grid of icons for all the writers I want to read with little notification bubbles on them if there is something new. Then I could click on their icon and immediately go to their blog. This probably isn't the right solution either: who wants another app that basically sounds like a RSS reader?
Really, I'd be fine if the notifications about new articles showed up in my email client just as an ephemeral notification. But the current practice of mixing it in with all my other email is unpleasant.
In the last week of July, authors with an underscore in their name published fewer posts than authors with a number in their name, but the underscore authors got higher median sats per post.
This is an amazing tribute and study into the life of your friend.
He sounds like someone who would've been fun to hang with, but who lived life and made decisions in a way that I just totally didn't understand. I wonder if you have any insights into what made him tick. Why didn't he ever marry that girl? Why didn't he ever go see a doctor? How come he didn't change his views when they were shown to be contradictory? I have so many questions after reading this piece, yet feel like I got to know someone quite deeply at the same time.
How did you find out about this? I love a good mystery and couldn't resist digging deeper. What I found disturbed me. There are the names and addresses of specific people in here. The supposed "Jonathan Harms" referenced in the document has a real LinkedIn profile with information that matches up with the claims in the document., and he currently works as a "Blockchain Consultant" which could explain their knowledge of how to post all this to the blockchain. The churches and pastors referenced seem to all be real (I'm familiar with many of them.)
Yes, a bitcoiner friend's kid described to me step-by-step how to build a CPU from scratch. Complete with a program counter, 8 bit memory, addition, subtraction, multiplication and several other essential operations all starting from discrete logic gates - not even flip-flops were taken for granted. From my EE101 experience, it seemed to check out but honestly I could only barely keep up with his pace. I think he's 12. Oh, and there was no pencil or paper involved, just from his memory of previously trying to build one in simulation.
This was the first thing I read when I woke up. It is shaping up the day in a sobering way.
You’re always able to write well the bare facts of your life. Thanks for sharing. Can feel your pain here.
I find myself agreeing with your friend on a lot of things.
The waste of our consumer society is appalling.
I try to respond to it by living a life of voluntary poverty which is a lot more fun and much easier than it sounds...and I think maybe also has Catholic origins.
Governments cannot be trusted- and I tend to lean toward progressive politics but hate the woke stuff and agree with your friend gay marriage is a nonsense- marriage can only be between a man and woman.
As for the medical establishment they are not to be trusted in most things- how you live and what you eat is more important than what doctors can do, in most cases.
It is hard for me to understand why he did not get Bitcoin though- so many people otherwise critical of the powers that be seem blind to the power and abuse of power the banks wield over our lives and politics...and the churches until not so long ago warned and prohibited against usury- now they are largely silent on how bankers have taken over our governments, msm and the narrative.
May your friend rest in peace - your account of his life and death is a powerful testament to a man who thought for himself and worked, loved and lived his life as much as he could, on his terms.
Although sad in some ways (for those who knew and loved him) how he refused medical care, he did this (dying) too on his terms as is his right.
Too few people live and die on their principles.
Bravo to those few who do.
Thanks for honestly sharing your memories and experiences ...death can be a taboo, but is where we are all headed and talking about it often puts things into perspective.
Here in the country where I currently live, it's strange because the fries go inside the burger along with the meat, tomato, and lettuce!!
At first, it seemed quite strange to me, but I've gotten used to it now!!
I enjoy them with lots of mustard!!
It appears to be from a couple who were recently excommunicated from a church, and they feel that the excommunication was deeply unjust. They now proclaim themselves the Two Witnesses of Revelation and are pronouncing judgment upon the churches that excommunicated them. It's full of other crazy stuff as well. The scary thing is, I think it's real: #1033981
There are two main kinds of carbon markets: voluntary and mandatory. Mandatory markets exist when a government passes a law that institutes a quota of emissions for covered companies (much like you describe above).
The EU ETS is the world's largest [mandatory market], covering just over a third of the EU's greenhouse gas emissions. The UK ETS went live on 1 January 2021, replacing the UK's participation in the EU ETS. Other ETSs operate in Australia, Brazil, China and, at a state level, in the US. source
Voluntary markets involve carbon credits being purchased by companies in what amounts to marketing: companies can claim to "carbon-neutral" or more environmentally friendly products and services because they have purchased offsets for the carbon produced by the company. These credits don't involve a quota. Offsets might include reforestation projects or direct air capture of carbon or many other things.
I love the idea of involving micropayments in day to day life, but I think carbon credits might be difficult to apply to individuals. Quotas in general don't work well, imo. And it feels like you'd be trapped in an endless game of whack a mole as people try to game the system.
Also, the freedom-lover in me is screaming that this would be really hard to implement without giving a ton of power to governments -- which I'm not too interested in.
262 sats \ 5 replies \ @dr_orlovsky OP 23h \ parent \ on: RGB consensus layer released to production rgb
The main reason of its not being used is the fact that it was not released for production (until today). Consensus in client-side validated systems (RGB belongs to them) is kind of ossified from the day one when you start using in production; it is much harder to change that than blockchain consensus. Thus, it took many years to build a system which has everything needed, including zk-STARK readiness.
I am quite sure we will see a boost in RGB adoption over the next months after the release.
Excellent! Simon is the man. Just sitting around talking to him is a lot of fun. His old mining stories are pure entertainment.
I think there are structural reasons why China won’t be the next hyperpower - demographics being key and the recent demographic reversal. China is also surrounded on all sides by rivals, including a rapidly growing India. I also haven’t read Dalio except in a very cursory way - but his love of citing Confucius to explain Chinese society has always puzzled me, since Confucius is more pop psychology and sociology in post-Mao China than real table stakes. So take that for what it's worth.
That said, China will be a very strong regional power at least for quite a long time barring regime collapse, and the United States seems to have expanded Monroe to mean the world at this point...
I wonder if this is solely accounting for migration and not currency fluctuations creating and removing millionaire status. The pound has been quite strong recently while the dollar has lost 10% this year. That the stronger currency has seen the greatest loss of millionaires while the weaker one has seen the most growth is something I would expect to see regardless of migration patterns. I guess "millionaire" here is qualified against USD so maybe I'm overthinking it.
One of them just couldn’t balance the freedom of living on his own with getting any school work done. He transferred in so many credits from homeschooling that he was only about a year away from triple majoring in Math, Physics, and Computer Science. To my knowledge, he didn’t complete any of them.
The other did complete his Math and Physics double major at about 17, but got really into MMA and failed out of the PhD program because he spent all his time fighting and training.
I spent time in China in 2005 and 2007 but haven't been back since. I'm would love to go back now with my kids. Do you have a one-liner piece of advice for traveling in China these days?