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เตรียมตัวเตรียมของ 3 อย่าง ก่อนลงสู่ทุ่งม่วง

โพสที่แล้ว เราเห็นข้อเปรียบเทียบระหว่าง nostr กับ โซเชียลมีเดีย กันไปแล้ว โพสนี้เราจะมาทำความรู้จัก ของหลักๆที่จำเป็นในการลงสู่ทุ่งม่วงกันครับ

อย่างที่ 1 : กุญแจคู่ รู้ตัวตน ก่อนจะเข้าประตูสู่ทุ่งม่วงนั้น เราต้องการกุญแจ 2 ดอกครับ มันทำงานคล้ายๆเซฟธนาคาร คือ กุญแจ 2 ดอกนี้ต้องเข้าชุดกัน ถึงจะเปิดออกได้ ซึ่งกุญแจ 2 ดอกนี้ เราเรียกว่า npub กับ nsec

อย่าเพิ่งตกใจ ไหนบอกว่าจะมีศัพท์คอมพิวเตอร์น้อยๆไง 5555 ใช่ครับ บางคำอาจจำเป็นต้องรู้จักไว้ แต่ผมจะเทียบเคียงเป็นภาษาบ้านๆเราให้นะครับ npub กับ nsec จะเป็นชุดตัวเลขที่คอมพิวเตอร์คำนวนมาให้ (วิธีการได้มาจะบอกภายหลังครับ)

Npub เราทำความเข้าใจเป็นภาษาอังกฤษง่ายๆว่า Nostr Public key ตัวย่อ NPUB หรือกุญแจที่เราเอาไว้ให้คนอื่นเพื่อจดจำว่าเป็นเรา ซึ่งคนอื่น นั่น นอกจากจะเป็นคนจริงๆแล้ว ยังหมายถึงระบบแอพต่างๆด้วย

Nsec เราทำความเข้าใจเป็นภาษาอังกฤษง่ายๆว่า Nostr Secret key ตัวย่อ NSEC หรือกุญแจที่เราเก็บไว้ที่ตัวเองเท่านั้น ห้ามใครรู้

ระบบต่างๆจะคำนวนว่า npub กับ nsec เป็นชุดเดียวกันหรือเปล่า ก่อนนะอนุญาตให้เราดำเนินการใดๆได้ใน nostr พูดง่ายๆคือ npub nsec คือ กุญแจคู่ที่เอาไว้ยืนยันความเป็นตัวเรานั่นเองครับ

ทีนี้ข้อเด่นของระบบ nostr ที่เหนือกว่า แอพโซเชียล www ทุกวันนี้คือ กุญแจคู่นี้ชุดเดียว ทำให้คุณสามารถท่องไปในดินแดน nostr ได้ตลอดกาล ไม่ว่าในอนาคตจะมีคนสร้าง nostr app อะไรใหม่ๆขึ้นมา โครงสร้างหลักของ nostr จะเป็นการใช้กุญแจคู่นี้ตลอดไปเช่นกัน ไม่เหมือนกับ โซเชียล www ทุกวันนี้ ที่ต้องไปไล่สมัคร user id ตามเอกชนแต่ละที่ แล้วเราก็ต้องมีเป็นร้อยๆ account ตามจำนวนบริการที่เราใช้ ไหนจะ เฟสบุค ไหนจะยูทูป ไหนจะกูเกิ้ล นี่ยังดีที่ แอพเล็กๆหลายๆเจ้าไปพึ่งใบบุญลูกพี่ใหญ่ อย่างเฟสบุค ยูทูป ไปบ้างแล้ว แต่เราก็ต้องมีสารพัด user id อยู่ดี

นอกจากนี้ ข้อมูล password ของเราก็ยังถูกบันทึกไว้ที่คอมของ แอพนั้นๆ ต่างกับ กุญแจคู่ของ nostr ที่ไม่ได้เป็นการบันทึกข้อมูลของกุญแจไว้ในคอมของแอพ(ที่ใน nostr เราเรียกว่า รีเลย์ จำได้ใช่ไหมครับ) ระบบของ nostr เป็นการนำตัวเลขของกุญแจคู่นี้ มาคำนวนความเข้ากันได้ว่าเป็นคู่ที่ถูกต้องไหม ถ้าถูกต้องมันจะอนุญาตให้เราดำเนินการต่อ นั่นหมายถึงไม่มีการบันทึกใดๆไว้ในคอมผู้ให้บริการเลย ตราบใดที่คุณเก็บกุญแจไว้ที่ตัวดีๆ your key is your id

ทีนี้การที่จะได้กุญแจคู่นี้มานั้นไม่ยากครับ เพียงแค่เราใช้แอพของ nostr เป็นตัวสร้างได้เลย

อย่างที่ 2 : แอพไหน ไฟแรงเวอร์ ก่อนจะเข้าสู่การสร้าง เรามาทำความเข้าใจ โลกของ nostr app กันเพิ่มสักนิดก่อนครับ อย่างที่บอกในโพสที่แล้ว nostr คือระบบการส่งข้อมูลแบบใหม่ เทียบให้เห็นภาพก็คือ www (world wide web) Nostr คือ การส่งอะไรก็ตามผ่านรีเลย์ (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays)

ทีนี้ในโลกของ www เราก็จะมีแอพซึ่งภาษาทางการเรียกว่า web app เห็นชัดๆก็พวกที่อยู่ในมือถือเรานั่นละครับ เฟสบุค ยูทูป ไอจี ทวิตเตอร์ มันคือหน้าฉากเป็นมือถือแต่หลังบ้านมันเป็นการติดต่อส่งรับข้อมูลในระบบ www รวมศูนย์อยู่ที่แอพแต่ละยี่ห้อ

การทำงานของ Nostr ก็เหมือนกัน แม้จะใช้การส่งข้อมูลผ่านรีเลย์แต่ระบบยังคงทำงานบนอินเตอร์เนทช่วยในการเดินทาง เราจึงจะมี nostr app เพื่อใช้เป็นหน้าบ้านในการส่งรับข้อมูลในระบบ nostr ที่เชื่อมต่อถึงกันโดยรีเลย์ ดังนั้นเอาจริงๆในฐานะผู้ใช้ แทบจะไม่ต้องปรับอะไรมากเลย นอกจากเรียนรู้การใช้แอพใหม่

ส่วนการอธิบายหลักการที่ผ่านมา มันแค่ช่วยให้คุณเข้าใจความเจ๋ง ความอิสระ ความปลอดภัย เพื่อให้คุณ อิน ในระบบที่ไม่ต้องพึ่งพาบริษัทเอกชนที่เอาคุณเป็นสินค้าใดๆอีก

นักเขียนโปรแกรม เขาก็ทำ app ขึ้นมาให้เราเทียบเคียงการใช้งานกับโลกทุกวันนี้ ยกตัวอย่างให้เห็นภาพกันก่อนเช่น Facebook twitter เขาก็จะมีแอพ damus artemis primal ฯลฯ ที่เป็นการโพสข้อความ รูป ลิงค์ มีกดไลค์ มีแชร์ ได้เหมือนกัน Youtube เขาก็จะมีแอพ zapstream flare ฯลฯ ที่เป็นลักษณะคลังเก็บวีดีโอ หรือ การไลฟ์ต่างๆ ซึ่งอันนี้แค่ตัวอย่างครับ จริงๆแล้วยังมี nostr app อีกมากมายก่ายกอง ที่เริ่มมีการทะยอยออกมาให้ใช้งานกัน (แน่ละครับ มันยังไม่มากแบบใน app store แต่มันคือจุดเริ่มต้นที่ผ่านมาได้พักนึงแล้ว และแอพใช้งานทั่วไปก็ครอบคลุมแล้ว)

ที่สำคัญคือ ทุก nostr app ใช้กุญแจคู่เดียว ในการแสดงตัวตนของเราในการใช้งานนั้นๆ ตามที่บอกไว้ข้างบน (อย่างที่1) ไม่ต้องสมัครอะไรอีกต่อไป โหลดแล้วใช้เลย และใครที่ใช้คอม จะยิ่งมี nostr app ที่ใช้งานแบบบนคอมเยอะกว่าในมือถือเสียอีก

อย่างที่ 3 : แฮชแทคจ๋า พี่มาแล้ว ด้วยความที่โลกของ nostr กว้างใหญ่มาก อิสระมาก และที่สำคัญคือ ไม่มีอัลกอลิทึม ในการที่จะยัดเยียดการมองเห็น ดังนั้นสิ่งที่จะทำให้ทุกอย่างง่ายขึ้นนั่นคือแฮชแทค ถ้าใครเล่น ig twitter เราจะคุ้นเคยกันดี ว่าหากเราโพสอะไรแล้วใส่แฮชแทค คนที่ติดตามแฮชแทคนั้น จะได้เห็นข้อความเราไปเอง nostr ก็เช่นกัน มีแฮชแทคมากมายให้ติดตามกัน โดยเฉพาะ แฮชแทค #siamstr ที่เราชาวไทยรวมใจกันใช้ เพื่อสร้างอาณาเขตของคนไทยในทุ่งม่วง นอกจากนี้ของผมเองคือ #pirateketo ที่ใช้อยู่กับเฟสบุคและ ig ก็นำไปใช้ในทุ่งม่วงด้วย สามารถเจอโพสของพวกเราได้ ตามแฮชแทคนี้

ถ้าเป็นคนเล่นแฮชแทคอยู่แล้วก็ง่ายเลยแทบไม่ต้องปรับตัว ใครไม่ค่อยเล่นก็สามารถลองกดๆแฮชแทคในเฟสบุคดูเพื่อทำความเข้าใจการทำงานได้ก่อนที่จะลงทุ่งม่วง

ทบทวนอีกที ของ3อย่างที่ต้องเตรียมรู้ก่อนลงทุ่งม่วง 1.กุญแจคู่ รู้ตัวตน 2.แอพไหน ไฟแรงเวอร์ 3. แฮชแทคจ๋า พี่มาแล้ว เมื่อทำความเข้าใจ 3 อย่างนี้แล้ว เราก็พร้อมจะลงไปมั่วกันแล้วครับ เล่นก่อนเรียนตามกันไปอีกที

pirateketo

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ก่อนจะเปิดหลุมกระต่าย ให้เพื่อนๆลงไปสู่ ทุ่งม่วง wonderland เรามาเบิกเนตรระบบที่ทำให้เราเป็นสินค้าแทนที่จะเป็นลูกค้ากันก่อนครับ

อินเตอร์เนทเริ่มต้นด้วยอุดมการณ์ที่ดี ที่จะให้ข้อมูลข่าวสารมันฉับไว ซึ่งมันก็เป็นเช่นนั้นจริงๆ แต่โลกมันมีสิ่งนึงที่เกิดขึ้นอยู่เสมอ นั้นคือ การชิงทรัพยากร ดินแดน เวลา และการควบคุมคนให้อยู่ในอาณัติ

อินเตอร์เนทเริ่มถูกยึดดินแดนมาตั้งแต่การเริ่มมีการสื่อสาร 2 ทางที่โต้ตอบกันได้เร็วขึ้น เจ้า www (World Wide Web) มันกลายเป็นดินแดนของไม่กี่บริษัท ที่เป็นผู้ยิ่งใหญ่ในโลก ดอทคอม สร้างกิจกรรมบางอย่างแล้วให้คนทั้งโลกเข้ามาใช้งาน

จะเห็นว่าทุกวันนี้เราแทบไม่พ้นการเข้าไปดู เฟสบุค ยูทูป ทวิตเตอร์ ไอจี ชอปปี้ ลาซาด้า และอื่นๆที่เหมือนจะมากมายแต่ไม่ได้มากมายเมื่อเทียบประชากรโลก

บางคนบอกว่ามันก็ดีไม่ใช่เหรอ เราได้ใช้ฟรีๆ ตรงนี้ละครับ เราจะเข้าเรื่องกันแล้ว

คำที่เราหลงไปกับมันคือ เขาทำมาให้เราใช้ฟรีๆ เขาต้องเห็นเราเป็นลูกค้าสิ แต่ความจริงนั้น เราคือสินค้าครับ เขาฟาร์มเราไว้เป็นสินค้า เป็นหมูในแฮปปี้ฟาร์ม ยิ่งประชากรในฟาร์มมีมาก เขาก็จะมีมูลค่าสูงมาก ดังเช่นที่เราเห็นว่า

มีการบ่นมากมายเรื่องการกดการมองเห็น การที่มีแต่โพสพนัน หลอกขายของที่เป็นสปอนเซอร์ การที่เราลงรูปไก่ต้มแล้วโดนแบนเพราะเขามองว่าทรมานสัตว์ และอื่นๆอีกมากมายที่ทำให้รู้สึกว่า ทำไมเขาดูแลผู้ใช้งานไม่ดีเลย เราเป็นลูกค้าเขานะ

ถ้ามองในอีกมุมนึง จริงๆเขาดูแลลูกค้าดีแล้วครับ ลูกค้าของเขาคือคนซื้อโฆษณาต่างหาก ใครที่จ่ายมาก ก็เอาสินค้าเค้ามายัดเยียดให้ประชากรในฟาร์ม ได้ดูกันตาแตก หมูในฟาร์มคนไหนออกนอกลู่นอกทางก็จะเชือดทิ้ง นี่ละครับที่บอกว่าเราคือสินค้าต่างหาก

กลุ่มคนที่ต้องการอิสระเสรี จึงสร้างสิ่งใหม่ขึ้นมา ไม่ใช่แค่ทำแอพ ไม่ใช่ทำแค่เว็บ เพราะมันยังต้องพึ่งพาเอกชนในการเอาข้อมูลไปฝากไว้ในเครือข่าย แต่สิ่งใหม่นี้มันเป็นระบบการส่งข้อมูลแบบใหม่ครับ

ให้เห็นภาพยิ่งขึ้น เราบอกไปแล้วว่าดินแดนอินเตอร์เนท มันอยู่ในกำมือคนที่เป็น land lord ไม่กี่คน และทุกอย่างเราต้องอยู่ใต้อาณัติเขา ตั้งแต่การได้เห็นแค่ข้อมูลเขาก็เลือกให้ จนถึงว่าถ้าเขาสงสัยว่าเราไม่ใช่เราตัวจริง เขาสามารถลบเราไปโดยไม่ต้องถามอะไร ชีวิต7ปี 10ปี ที่ผ่านมาในแอพมันสามารถเหลือ 0โพสได้ในพริบตาและไม่ให้อุธรณ์ใดๆ

นั่นเพราะข้อมูลทุกอย่างมันไปอยู่ในเครื่องคอมของแต่ละบริษัท ทั้งยูทูป เฟสบุค ไอจี ของๆเรา เราเอาไปอัพไว้ในคอมเขา ต้องทำตามกฎที่เขาตั้งและเปลี่ยนใจได้ทุกเมื่อ และแอบมองของๆเราได้ทุกรูปทุกข้อความลับ

ทุกอย่าง ย้ำว่าทุกอย่าง ต้องผ่านคอมของเขาทั้งหมด เราไม่มีอะไรเป็นของเราเลย ในฟาร์มนี้ เราแค่รอโดนเชือดและเราไม่กล้าออกมาเพราะคิดว่าเป็น safe zone

ส่วนระบบการส่งข้อมูลแบบใหม่ เราเรียกว่า nostr อ่านว่า นอสเตอร์ ชื่อเต็มมันยาว แต่ถ้ารู้ จะเข้าใจง่ายขึ้น เพราะมันมาจากคำว่า Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays แปลว่า ”อะไรก็ตามที่เอามาส่งผ่านรีเลย์“

ผมขอเรียกมันว่าส่งไม้ต่อละกันครับ มองภาพการวิ่ง 4x100 มันมีการส่งไม้ผลัดใช่ไหมครับ นั่นละ รีเลย์

ระบบเก่าเราเรียกว่า การรวมศูนย์ นั่นคือเอะอะก็ต้องไปเก็บหรือไปดู จากคอมบริษัทนั้นๆ เช่น ดูคลิปก็ต้องไปโหลดจากคอมของยูทูป จะดูฟีดเพื่อนก็ต้องไปโหลดข้อความที่เพื่อนฝากไว้ในคอมของเฟสบุค

ถ้าวันนึง เฟสบุคล่ม นั่นคือทุกคนติดต่อหรือดูอะไรไม่ได้เลย และถ้ากู่ไม่กลับ นั้นคือทุกอย่างหายหมด นอกจากนี้ผู้คุมศูนย์คือสั่งชี้เป็นชี้ตายคุณได้ทันที ที่ไม่พอใจคุณ บ้านเขากฎเขา นั้นเอง

ในขณะที่ nostr เป็นระบบส่งไม้ผลัด นั่นคือ ใครๆก็สามารถเป็น รีเลย์ได้ แค่มีคอมก็เรียบร้อย วิธีการเป็นรีเลย์ เรายังไม่ต้องสนใจครับ เราเป็นแค่ผู้ใช้ ไม่ต้องเป็นผู้ให้บริการก็ได้ ฟรีด้วย วันนี้เราแค่มาเข้าใจเส้นทางก่อนครับ

อย่างที่บอกครับ ระบบการส่งข้อมูลเราเป็นรีเลย์ หรือ ไม้ผลัด หลักการก็แค่เราก็แค่ใส่ที่อยู่รีเลย์ ลงไปในแอพของเรา แล้วข้อมูลที่เราส่งไป เจ้ารีเลย์มันก็จะวิ่งส่งไม้ผลัดนี้ไปให้สมาชิกทุกคนในรีเลย์

ในทางกลับกัน เราก็จะได้รับข้อมูลที่สมาชิกในสังกัดรีเลย์ที่เราลงไว้ ส่งมาให้ผ่านทางรีเลย์ด้วยเช่นกัน

และที่เจ๋งก็คือ รีเลย์ ไม่สนใจอะไรอย่างอื่นอีก นอกเหนือแค่ส่งไม้ผลัดให้สมาชิกทุกคน นั่นคือ มันไม่คิดว่าอะไรควรส่งไม่ควรส่ง มันไม่คิดว่าข้อมูลดีแค่ไหน มันไม่ปิดกั้น มันไม่เซนเซอร์ นั่นคือ มีหน้าที่แค่ส่งจริงๆ นอกจากนี้ถ้าเราเป็นใส่รีเลย์มากกว่า 1 แห่งในตัวเรา ข้อมูลทั้งหมดก็จะสำเนาไปยังรีเลย์ที่เหลือได้เช่นกัน หมายถึงว่า ข้อมูลเราจะกระจายแบบสำเนาไปได้อีกหลายๆๆๆๆรีเลย์

นอกจากอิสระแล้วยังฆ่าไม่ตายด้วย เพราะรีเลย์มีขึ้นเป็นดอกเห็ด และใครๆทำรีเลย์มาเปิดให้บริการได้เอง (เราเป็นแค่ผู้ใช้ ไม่ได้อยากเป็นผู้ให้บริการ เราไม่ต้องสร้างรีเลย์ก็สามารถใช้งาน nostr ได้ครับ)

ดังนั้น nostr จึงเหมาะกับคนที่ต้องการเสรีภาพแบบเต็มๆ เพราะไม่มีใครเซนเซอร์คุณได้เลย คุณเท่านั้นที่จะต้องรับผิดชอบการกระทำของคุณเอง

เพราะด้วยที่มันฆ่าไม่ตาย นั่นหมายถึง สิ่งที่คุณพิมพ์หรือโพสลงไป จะไม่สามารถลบหรือแก้ไขได้เช่นกัน แม้แต่ตัวคุณเองก็ตาม

ดังนั้นไต่ตรองให้ดีถ้าจะสร้างเนื้อหา เพราะมันจะบันทึกสิ่งที่คุณทำไว้ตลอดไป แต่ถ้าเรายังไม่มั่นใจเราลองเล่นแบบเป็นคนอ่านก่อนก็ได้ครับ พอเราใช้คล่องขึ้น มีสติสัมปชัญญะเพียงพอ ก็เริ่มทักทายคนในนั้นได้ มันไม่น่ากลัวหรอกครับ เพราะหัวใจหล้กของ nostr คือการเข้าสังคม สร้างสังคมคุณภาพ มากกว่าการโพสเท่ๆเอาไลค์ เพราะ มันไม่มีอัลกอลิทึ่มใดๆ เขายึดมั่นใน proof of work

ไลฟ์ของเราจะไม่โดนปิดกั้น โพสของเราจะไม่โดนลดการมองเห็น ถ้ามันมีคุณภาพเพียงพอที่คนจะเลือกติดตามชม

ถ้ามองเห็นกลลวงของโซเชียลแล้ว ตอนหน้า จะรวบรัด ลงหลุมกระต่ายกันเลย เอาแบบโหลดแล้วเล่นก่อน แล้วเรียนไปพร้อมๆกับเล่นนี่แหละ

ถ้าทุกคนเริ่มวันนี้ อิสระก็จะเริ่มยิ่งใหญ่วันนี้ แล้วก็จะไม่มีคำว่า คนมันยังน้อยอยู่

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Livestream Your Gameplay and Earn Bitcoin with Zap.Stream

The world of gaming and live streaming is evolving, and now you can monetize your gameplay by earning bitcoin. In this guide, we’ll show you how to easily set up your live stream using OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) and zap.stream, a nostr-based streaming platform. This is the second article in our nostr series, read the introduction to nostr here.

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Why Choose Zap.Stream?

Zap.Stream is a user-friendly streaming platform that integrates seamlessly with the Nostr network. Which means your followers can easily support you with native bitcoin integration. Whether you’re a seasoned Nostr user or new to the scene, zap.stream makes it incredibly simple to get started. Plus, zap.stream has built-in re-streaming, allowing you to stream to one destination and have it restreamed to multiple platforms like Twitch and YouTube, for a fraction of the cost of traditional restreamers.

Getting Started with zap.stream

1. Sign In with Your Nostr Identity
2. If you already have a Nostr identity, sign in directly with your nostr browser extension.

3. If you're new, creating a nostr profile with zap.stream is straightforward and quick, ensuring you're ready to start streaming in no time. Alternatively you could read our previous post on how to create a Nostr identity with Alby.

4. Copy Your Stream Key and URL

5. Once logged in, navigate to your zap.stream stream settings.

6. Copy the stream key and stream URL provided. You’ll need these for OBS.

7. Set Up Your Profile and Stream Info

8. If this is your first time using Nostr, make sure to go to Settings, then Profile, and add a Lightning Address. This will give your viewers a destination to send you sats if they like your stream.
9. Before streaming, go to the Dashboard and edit your Stream Info to provide a Title and Summary of your stream.

Setting Up OBS

OBS is a powerful, free, and open-source software for video recording and live streaming. Here’s how to set it up for streaming with zap.stream:

1. Download and Install OBS
2. Visit the OBS website and download the software for your operating system.

3. Follow the installation instructions to get OBS up and running on your computer.

4. Configure OBS for Streaming

5. Open OBS and go to Settings.
6. In the Stream section, select Custom... from the Service dropdown.
7. Paste the stream URL from zap.stream into the Server field.

8. Paste your stream key into the Stream Key field.

9. Set Up Your Scene

10. OBS works with scenes and sources. Create a new scene by clicking the + button under the Scenes box.
11. Add your gameplay source by clicking the + button under the Sources box and selecting Game Capture. Choose the game you want to stream from the options provided.
12. Don’t forget to add an audio output source by clicking the + button under the Sources box and selecting Audio Output Capture. Adjust the sound levels to ensure your game audio is balanced with your microphone input.
13. You can also add other sources like a webcam, images, or text to personalize your stream.

14. Add cool widgets from zap.stream, like the chat widget or zap alert widget (which provides an audio and text alert when a viewer sends you some sats). To do this, go to the widget section of zap.stream, copy the URL for the widget, and add it to OBS as a browser source.

15. Optimize Your Settings

16. Go to the Output section in the settings to adjust your streaming quality. For a smooth experience, a bitrate between 2500 and 6000 kbps is recommended, depending on your internet speed.
17. In the Video section, set your base (canvas) resolution and output (scaled) resolution. A common setting is 1920x1080 for both.

18. Set your FPS (frames per second) to 30 for a standard quality stream or 60 for a high-quality stream.

19. Encoder Settings

20. In the Output settings under the Streaming tab, choose your encoder. If you have a dedicated GPU from NVIDIA, you can use the NVENC encoder. Otherwise you could use the AMD encoder or the x264 CPU encoder.

21. For CPU usage preset (available if you're using the x264 encoder), a higher preset means less CPU usage. For most users, the veryfast preset is a good balance between quality and CPU usage. If you have a powerful CPU, you can try faster or fast for better quality. If you need to conserve CPU power, superfast or ultrafast will use less CPU but at the cost of some quality.

22. Start Streaming

23. Once you’ve configured your settings and added your sources, click Start Streaming in the main OBS window.
24. You should now be live on zap.stream, sharing your gameplay with the world and earning bitcoin from your viewers.

Restream to Multiple Platforms

One of the standout features of zap.stream is its built-in re-streaming capability. This allows you to stream to zap.stream and have your content automatically restreamed to other popular platforms like Twitch and YouTube. This feature maximizes your reach without needing to set up multiple streams, saving you time and effort. Simply add the stream keys from these destinations to your zap stream settings to enable restreaming.

Testing Your Stream Quality

Before going live, it’s a good idea to test your stream quality using OBS’s recording function. Use the same encoder settings for the recording to see what the quality looks like. If the recording is blurry, here are a few troubleshooting tips:

1. Increase the Bitrate: A higher bitrate can improve video quality, especially for fast-moving gameplay. Try increasing the bitrate in the Output settings.

2. Adjust the CPU Usage Preset: If you’re using the x264 encoder, try a slower CPU usage preset (e.g., from veryfast to faster). This will use more CPU but can improve quality.

3. Try a Different Encoder: If you have a dedicated GPU, consider using the NVENC encoder, which can offload encoding to the GPU and reduce CPU load.

4. Check Resolution and FPS Settings: Ensure your base and output resolution are appropriately set, and consider reducing FPS if your hardware struggles to maintain high quality.

Tips for a Successful Stream

• Engage with Your Audience: Interact with viewers through chat, respond to comments, and create a community.
• Promote Your Stream: Share your zap.stream link on nostr and other social media, gaming forums, and with friends to attract more viewers.
• Consistency is Key: Regular streaming schedules help build a loyal audience.
• Quality Matters: Invest in a good microphone and webcam to enhance the viewer experience.

Conclusion

Streaming your gameplay and earning bitcoin has never been easier. With zap.stream and OBS, you can set up and start streaming in just a few steps. Plus, with zap.stream's re-streaming feature, you can effortlessly expand your audience across multiple platforms. Follow this guide, and you’ll be live in no time, sharing your gaming skills with the world and earning bitcoin along the way. Happy streaming!

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"The Thinker - Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)"

This famous statue is considered the finest artistic representation of human thought processes, embodying the power of the mind and its role in creative thinking.

Auguste Rodin completed The Thinker in the late 19th century, a project that spanned ten years. Since then, the statue has been revered as one of the greatest sculptures throughout history.

Born in Paris, Rodin grew up with aspirations to become an artist. Initially rejected by the Paris School of Arts, he worked as a craftsman and stone cutter before joining a monastery where he was encouraged by the abbey's head to pursue sculpture. He learned stone carving techniques, bronze casting, and other necessary artistic skills.

The Thinker is a monumental sculpture that Rodin intended not to represent a specific philosopher or thinker, but rather to depict every man as a thinker, contemplating and creating.

Rodin's success lies in his ability to capture the process of thinking, an intangible and introspective activity.

The statue portrays a muscular man resting his head on his hand, deeply engaged in contemplation. His toes gripped into the ground, emphasizing his intense focus.

Rodin was influenced by Michelangelo's realism but was also intrigued by the works of the Impressionists who were prevalent in Paris during his time.

Today, Rodin's The Thinker is part of the collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

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The statue of David by the famous Italian artist Michelangelo is one of the most beloved art pieces in the world. It is a masterpiece sculpted from a single block of white Carrara marble, standing 17 feet tall and weighing 12,000 pounds. The unveiling of this masterpiece to the public took place in Florence on September 8, 1504, at Piazza della Signoria. Michelangelo was commissioned for this work by Opera del Duomo, the Florence Cathedral's oversight committee, in 1501. It took him nearly three years to complete.

At the time of its unveiling, a committee including Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli decided that the statue should be placed in a more prominent public location. It took 40 men over four days to move the massive statue half a mile to its current location in the square. Widely regarded as one of the finest examples of High Renaissance art, David was moved indoors to the Galleria dell'Accademia in 1873 after nearly 400 years to protect it from weather damage, but an exact replica still stands in its original location in the square.

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Test from an AI generated event crafter

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There have been alot of talks about testnet3, after it been running for almost 11 years bitcoin core can not reset it. It become too decentralize.

Some people forked testnet3 and made testnet4 with higher blocks space, due testnet3 having value and can not be resets !

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GP7gEf8aYAAnTQj?format=jpg&name=large

Now we have 11 years old chain we dont know what to do with it, and nobody can stop it !

Mining Costs Over $130 per tBTC3 (testnet3) has being going up and volume on DEX started to go up

https://altquick.com/exchange/market/BitcoinTestnet

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/604075

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ナシム・タレブは著書『ブラック・スワン：非常にありえないことの衝撃』の中で、ある章でニーダーホッファーについて言及した。タレブ氏はニーダーホッファー氏を「金融分野のベーコン」と称賛しているが、それは彼がシカゴ大学の「研究の蜘蛛の巣」と効率的市場理論に最初に反対したからだ。経験哲学を信じる金融哲学者とは異なり、ニーダーホッファーはデータを観察し、異常な現象を見つけようと努めています。彼は「The Education of A Speculator」という非常に洞察力に富んだ本を執筆しており、これは偶然に満ちた彼のキャリアの中で輝かしい輝きを放っています。

ニーダーホッファーの弟子のほとんどは、初期の大物や最も成功したトレーダーでした。ニーダーホッファーはつまずいたものの、彼の弟子たちの中には彼の厳格な態度と方法論を統計的推論に取り入れたため、うまくいった人もいました。言い換えれば、ニーダーホッファーの経験的アプローチには、いくつかの方法論が欠けていたのです。

タレブはニーダーホッファーの経験的アプローチに触発され、それは彼の知識の蓄積に非常に有益でした。 1996 年にニーダーホッファーは、「テスト可能な」ステートメントはすべてテストされるべきであると彼に指摘しました。

それ以来、タレブのスタイルは変わりました。その日以来、タレブは検証可能な命題はすべて検証した。しかし、彼とニーダーホッファーとの違いは依然として大きい。タレブはデータを、命題を証明するためではなく、否定するために使用する。そして、憶測を確認するためではなく、歴史を反駁するために利用します。

ニーダーホッファーとタレブの取引手法は正反対であり、ニーダーホッファーが扱った金融商品の多くは現在タレブが保有しているが、タレブは今でもニーダーホッファーを深く尊敬している。ニーダーホッファーはアウト・オブ・ザ・マネーのオプションを売って生計を立てていたが、タレブはアウト・オブ・ザ・マネーのオプションを買って生計を立てていた。

アウト・オブ・ザ・マネーのオプションを売ることは、何かが起こらないことに賭けていることになりますが、アウト・オブ・ザ・マネーのオプションを買うことは、何かが起こることに賭けているだけです。ニーダーホッファーは安定した収入を得ようとしたが、タレブは時折大きな収穫を得ることを好んだ。

興味深いのは、安定した収入を得ようとしたニーダーホッファー氏はその後２度破産したが、時折大きな収穫を好むタレブ氏は今も生きているということだ。

1. 理論の実現可能性をテストする方法。ニーダーホッファーは 1997 年に回想録を書きました。この回想録の中で、彼はチェス、ギャンブル、競馬、音楽、スポーツなどを含む経験から学んだすべてを振り返り、同様のグリッド思考を形成する「経験の哲学」を開発しました。チャーリー・マンガーのものに。 経験主義とも呼ばれる経験主義では、感覚経験がすべての知識とアイデアの唯一の源であると考えられます。フランシス・ベーコンは有名な経験主義者です。ニーダーホッファーは、人生は「投機的」であり、私たちは皆「投機者」であると信じています。

ウォーレン・バフェットのような投資家でさえ投機家です。人生を変える決断を下せるかどうかは、出来事の結果を読み、予測する能力にかかっています。

ニーダーホッファーは、ウォール街の格言、経験、格言には懐疑的であることが賢明であると常に信じていました。賢明に見える理論をテストする最良の方法は、それらを厳密に評価、テスト、分析することです。

投資や投機活動がどれほど信頼できるように見えても、失敗する可能性は常にあります。物事は見た目とは異なることが多く、明るい未来があるように見えるビジネスも信頼できない可能性があります。

ジョージ・ソロスはかつてニーダーホッファーに、空売りによる損失は他の投機活動による損失よりも大きかったと語った。ニーダーホッファーも同様の経験をしました。したがって、個人投資家が株を空売りし、それを予言者として売り込むべきだと主張する本の著者は、本質的には救貧院への切符を売っているようなものである。

ニーダーホッファー氏は、1920 年代に祖父が気に入っていた企業 10 社のうち 9 社が倒産する運命にあることを発見しました。これは一般的な傾向を示しています。つまり、ビジネスは常に変化しており、消費者の好みも変化しています。

19世紀末にダウ・ジョーンズ工業株指数に参加していた12社のうち、時の試練に耐えてきたのはゼネラル・エレクトリック社だけで、他の企業は合併されるか消滅するか、より業績の良い同業他社の影に隠れてしまった。 。

一方で、ディズニー、ウォルマート、メルクなど、ニーダーホッファー氏の祖父が彼に避けるよう警告した企業の株価は、過去30年間で4000％から10000％上昇した。

最近のパフォーマンスの悪い銘柄と優れた銘柄を見つけて、それらの相対的な強みと弱みを定量化することは、より科学的な結論を導き出すのに役立つかもしれません。

1990年代の行動金融の研究では、株価が悪いニュースに過剰反応することが多いことが判明した。当時人気のあった研究では、比較的人気のある株を購入するとより高いリターンが得られることが示されています。

今日の一般的な手法は、さまざまな株式に適切なマッチングを行い、過大評価されている株式を売却し、過小評価されている株式を購入することです。これら 2 つの相反する方法では、一方の方法が優れた ROI を実現していると思われる場合には、もう一方の方法を選択することが、多くの場合正しい選択となります。学術的なテクニカル分析手法を控えめに使用することは常に良い戦略です。

カール・ポパーが言ったように、科学研究のプロセスは、誤った考えを論駁することによって前進するものです。フィードバックは誤った見方を排除する 1 つの方法です。他の人が拒否できる仮説だけが科学的仮説です。仮説がすべてを説明でき、万能である場合、それは科学理論ではありません。したがって、ニーダーホッファーは自分の富を守るために、疑似科学ではなく科学的手法を基礎にしてビジネスを構築しました。

1. 失敗は成功の尺度となる 負ける方法はたくさんありますが、勝つ方法はほとんどありません。おそらく、勝利を達成するための最善の方法は、災害のルールをすべてマスターし、それを回避することに集中することです。お金を稼ぐことができる市場は、多くの場合、不況や変動時に発展します。比較的低迷した市場状況により、投資家はすべての希望を放棄することになりますが、その後には驚くべきボラティリティが伴います。

ニーダーホッファーには失敗の記録が数多くあるため、ソロスは彼に「敗者」というあだ名を付けました。

しかし、いくつかの失敗は彼に多くの貴重な教訓を与えました。

①危険が差し迫っているときは、急いで収穫しないでください。これが最も重要なルールかもしれません。

② 政治的出来事は、特に株式市場の浮き沈みの際には予測不可能であることがよくあります。

③ 一見新しい情報であっても、しばしば「カビ」が発生します。

ニーダーホッファーは、テニスチャンピオンのルネ・ラコステの勝利体験から、予期せぬ失敗の後には必ず成功の連続があり、勝ちたいという意志を達成する最善の方法は時には負けることだということを学びました。失敗は、負けか勝ちかを判断する良い尺度になります。

人は生まれながらに負けるよりも勝ち続ける癖があり、成功を重ねると意志の力が弱まってしまうようです。逆に、失敗は常によく知られた反応を引き起こし、失われたものを取り戻します。これはチェスのようなものです。プレイして負ければ負けるほど、より多くのことを学ぶことができます。

ほとんどすべての偉大なチャンピオンは自分の能力について特に控えめで、特にアマチュアプレーヤーの努力を称賛します。ニーダーホッファーはソロスのために活動した10年間、ソロスが金儲けのために取引をしたという発言を一度も聞いたことはなかった。彼の話を聞いているだけでは、彼は大敗者だと思われるでしょう。

逆に、最大の敗者たちの話を聞くと、彼らはしばしば勝者であると思われるかもしれません。スポーツ選手は挫折を繰り返すとより勇敢になる傾向があり、市場の行動も同様の現象を示します。しかし、スポーツでもマーケットでも、最も危険なのは、優位に立っているときです。

ニーダーホッファーはソロスとチェスをするのが好きです。ソロスはチェスの試合では自分の思惑を忘れることを好む。 1987年10月19日の株式市場の暴落後も、ソロスはニーダーホッファーとのチェスで3連勝し、彼が蓄積してきた途方もない力を明らかにした。

もちろん、チェスをプレイすることと生活することの間には大きな違いがあります。チェスのゲームは、勝者と敗者が 1 人だけのゼロサム ゲームですが、人生は勝利と勝利の状況で終わることがよくあります。

「世界で最も有名な投機家」バフェット氏は、市場は全知全能の敵であると信じている。ミスターマーケットはあなたの商品を非常に低価格で買い取ってくれる場合もあれば、高値で買い取ってくれる場合もあります。問題は、市場の状況を最大限に活用し、そこから利益を得られるかどうかです。

ソロスの優秀さは、さまざまな戦略を変更し、得意ではあるが見せたくないバランスの取れた先導的かつ迅速な行動の専門知識から最大の利益を得る能力にあります。

英ポンド安などオープンな状況ではレバレッジを駆使してタイムリーに調整し、変動が正しい方向に向かうようにする。政府介入の前後で価格が変動するクローズドな状況の中で、一方の市場では慎重に混乱を生み出し、もう一方の市場ではバランス調整を強化し、最後の勝負を慎重に進めていく。

ニーダーホフはチェスのプレイにおいて多くの貴重な経験を学びました。最良の動きは、意図的に追求されないことがよくあります。最も古い動きであっても真新しいものです。ゲームが非常に安全であるように見えても、非常に危険な状態にある可能性があります。製品構成、100～300億元の製品の営業利益はそれぞれ401/1288/6000万元。

それぞれの状況に応じて適切な戦略と戦術を選択することが人生の秘訣かもしれません。勝者は機会に基づいているわけではありません。むしろ、技術、科学、研究が勝利の鍵となります。一見絶望的な試合や引き分けでも諦めないでください。

美的ムードにそぐわない悪い手があっても、それが悪い手であるとは限りません。見た目が悪くても、引き分けや勝ちにつながる可能性もあります。チェスで負ける価値があるのはいつですか?それは何か新しく重要なことを学ぶときです。こうした経験は投資の分野にも応用できます。

ニーダーホフは教義に対して絶対的な抵抗を持っています。彼は効率的市場仮説を信じていません。効率的市場仮説では、すべての情報は株価に反映されるため、誰もが市場に勝つことはできないと考えられます。

しかし、ニーダーホフは、価格が時には野獣のように、時には穏やかな子羊のように、時にはいたずらなサーモンのように振る舞うことをはっきりと見ました。彼はフランシス ゴルトンの気象学から重要な洞察を得て、ランダム現象の体系化に焦点を当てました。恣意的な観察ではなく、それを「異常」と呼んでいます。気象学では、予測が特に重要であり、証拠は誰でも検証できます。気象学に関係する力は非常に複雑であり、多くの変化する変数があります。

特定の日の気候条件はまったく同じではなく、特定の瞬間の気象条件が将来完全に同じになることはありません。

リスクの高い投資を選択するとき、人は群衆の中にいることを好み、それによって安心感を感じます。ゴルトンは、アフリカで牛を運転した経験から、人間は集団で生活し、奴隷にされる傾向があることを学びました。牛たちは夕暮れになると急いで牛舎に戻ります。牛の性質は、大多数の集団行動を説明します。投機に参加して宝くじ番号を選択する場合、群衆に従うと悲惨な結果が生じる可能性があり、必ず失敗する役割を果たします。

さまざまな魚を釣るには、さまざまな餌を使用してください。 ギャンブルと投機の最大の違いは、ギャンブルのリスクがカジノによって娯楽の目的で生み出されるということです。推測は違います。最終的に資本を蓄積したり、商品を拡大したり、土地や家を購入したりできるかどうかに関係なく、それを獲得するために戦わなければなりません。しかし、ニーダーホフの見解では、世界で最も恐ろしいことはギャンブラーになることです。

カジノがハンドルの 5% を取得する限り、アメリカン ルーレットに 0.01 万回賭けた後で勝つ可能性はほぼゼロです。ギャンブルで長期的に損失が発生すると、利益を得る機会がほとんどなくなります。賢いプロのギャンブラーは全員、最終的には破産します。

ニーダーホフ自身は馬に賭けることはありませんが、学ぶことが大好きです。同氏によれば、オッズが高いダークホースは株価収益率が10倍未満のバリュー株のようなもので、簿価よりも低い価格で購入できるという。

ベンジャミン・グレアム氏とデビッド・ドレーマン氏はどちらもこの種の銘柄を好み、収益性では成長株を上回ることが多い。利益が上がるとグロース株のリターンは目立たないが、バリュー株のリターンはすごい。

一方で、成長株は期待したほどのパフォーマンスを発揮しない場合があり、期待値が低下した場合には大きな損失を被る可能性があります。バリュー株の収益性が低い場合、そもそも誰もが良いようには見えないため、小さな損失しか発生しないことがよくあります。

ギャンブラーは短期的には儲かるかもしれませんが、最終的には熊手とジャックポットの差で負けてしまい、宝くじからの支払いの割合によって平均的な競馬プレイヤーの資金も枯渇してしまいます。どの競馬場にも、長期的に利益を得るギャンブラーが数名いるのは驚くべきことです。

ロバート・ベーコンは著書『プロ競馬の秘密』の中で、「いつでも…群衆の反対側に賭ける」と要約しています。なぜなら、ほとんどの競馬プレイヤーは敗者であるため、勝者は賭けをするときに群衆とは異なる人々でなければならないからです。競馬はごく一部の人だけが勝つゲームです。

David Dreman 氏は、逆張り投資戦略において、反対の意見を持つ人であることの重要性も強調しました。いずれにせよ、頻繁にギャンブルをすると、最終的にはお金を失うことになります。

したがって、唯一のアドバイスは、ギャンブルの量を減らしれば、損失も少なくなるということです。競馬場も金融市場も、利益を得る前に弱者を排除する不思議な力を持っています。したがって、体系的なアプローチに従ってください。たとえ悪いシステムであっても、まったくないよりはマシです。

ニーダーホフは 20 歳から 25 歳まで、最初はシカゴ大学で学び、その後カリフォルニア大学バークレー校で准教授を務めました。当時、彼が直面した敵は、専門家業界の過激なランダムウォーク理論の支持者でした。メアリー・バートはかつて、実験主義が科学研究において最も重要なツールであるという示唆に富んだ本を書きました。

まれな例外を除いて、大きな発見をする人は、まずこの方法をマスターする必要があります。ニーダーホフがバートから学んだ唯一のスキルは、実験主義を利用して法則を明らかにし要約する方法でした。多くの思想家は、個々のデータを整理し、関係を構築することが人間の基本的な組織能力であると信じています。投機家やその他の成功者には、環境の変化に適応するこの能力が必要です。

ルイス・エンゲルの著書「株式の取引方法」の研究によれば、1925 年末から 1991 年 12 月まで、2,211 件の年間比較のすべての可能な組み合わせのうち、マイナスのリターンとなったのは 72 件の投資のみで、これらの損失のほとんどはショートでした。住んでいました。少なくとも 7 年間の投資期間の場合、損失が発生する可能性がある状況は 5 つだけです。

10 年以上続く投資は多かれ少なかれ利益をもたらすことを認識する必要があります。投資期間が10年以上に延長される場合、過去の法律は特に刺激的です。

期間が 10 年を超える 1,653 銘柄の統計リストでは、投資の ROI の 95% が 9.1% を超え、90% が 10.6% を超え、50% が 13.6% を超えています。実際、サンプルの年間 ROI が 15% を超える確率は 3/10 です。

シカゴ大学ビジネススクール教育法の創設者であるジェームズ・ローリーは、独自の株式投資ポートフォリオを確立しました。彼は話題性の高い銘柄を選び、取引初日に購入し、その後5年から10年、あるいは買収されるまで保有した。

良質な製品に幅広く接し、そうした銘柄を探した。発見後、同氏はサプライヤー、顧客、元従業員、ビジネス編集者、競合他社に、その株の可能性についての見解を理解するよう求めた。

驚くべきことに、競合他社は自分の会社を自慢することを好みませんが、ライバルについてはうるさく言うのが得意です。ニーダーホッファー氏は、専門家が想像できるさまざまな銘柄選択手法を見てきました。しかし、彼は最終的に、バースタウンの主婦から今日の最高のスーパーファンドマネージャーに至るまで、ほとんどすべての成功した手法がローリーの手法と同じ原理を使用していることを発見しました。

ニーダーホッファー氏によれば、「最も重要なことは、逆転の発想を持つことだ。一度成功者になると、同じ分野で別の成功者に出会う可能性は低い。最大の魚はしばしば最も深い水域を泳ぎ、異なるものは異なるものである」魚はそれを捕まえるために異なる餌を使用する必要があります。」

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Once again here are the fruits of the Spirit as defined in Galatians 5.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. (Galatians 5:22-23) {emphasis mine}

Patient Like Jesus

First of all, when we think about patience, we should remember that God (Jesus) is patient with us.

The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9) {emphasis mine}

If we are becoming more and more like Jesus, we also should be patient with others just like Jesus is. Instead of being mad at people who do not yet believe and are therefore hateful towards us, we should be patient and loving “not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.”

This is not easy to do when someone is cursing us, accusing us of being hateful, or calling us unscientific fools, but this is what Jesus experienced when He lived a human life. He was accused of being misled and misleading. He was accused of being mad and being a fool. He was threatened, beaten, and killed. Should we expect any less? Should we take greater offense than the creator, the Lord of Lords and King of Kings?

Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also. (John 15:20)

We should deal with these offenses with the patience given to us by the Holy Spirit, so we can be like Jesus, so we can say like Paul,

Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ. (1 Corinthians 11:1)

Patience in Persecution

He warned us that persecution and hard times would be coming.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. (James 1:2-4)(ESV) {emphasis mine}

For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light. (Colossians 1:9-12) {emphasis mine}

If you notice, the fruits of the Spirit are frequently linked together because we will have all of them and one will help grow another. When we love a person or have joy in life, we will be better at being patient with others. I also noticed while I was studying that steadfastness (endurance) was frequently associated with patience.

When we are put in a difficult situation our patience, knowing that “… God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose,” (Romans 8:28) leads to steadfastness and endurance. Knowing God is in control allows us to patiently wait when evil seems to be winning and those doing evil seem to get away with their crimes. This patience allows us to continue doing good without expecting an immediate reward. It helps us to keep doing right against all odds.

Waiting while our Heart Cries “How Long?”

As it is written:

Wait for the Lord ; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the Lord. (Psalm 27:14)

Yet those who wait for the Lord Will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary. (Isaiah 40:31)

There are cries, “How long?” throughout the Old and New Testaments. We are limited by time. We get impatient. We are unable to understand God’s timing. He is all powerful and outside of time and space. God plays the long game. When we understand this, we can have patience and not think, ask, or say, “How long? Why? That’s not fair!” We can trust that God will do what is right and that although we don’t see the whole picture, He does.

In Revelation, we see the last cry of “How Long?” from those who were persecuted and martyred during the Tribulation.

and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, will You refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” (Revelation 6:10)

And what was God’s response?

… they were told that they should rest for a little while longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren who were to be killed even as they had been, would be completed also. (Revelation 6:11b) {emphasis mine}

God’s righteous plan must be fulfilled in every detail. We are to trust and obey Him and then be patient and “rest for a little while longer.”

Patient With …

When we have the fruit of the Spirit, patience, we gain patience with multiple people, things, and situations.

We are patient with people. “We urge you, brethren, admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone.” (1 Thessalonians 5:14)

We are patient with God. “The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.” (2 Peter 3:9)

We are patient when things we care about are slow coming about. “Yet those who wait for the Lord Will gain new strength... “ (Isaiah 40:31a)

We are patient when persecuted. “and we toil, working with our own hands; when we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure.” (1 Corinthians 4:12)

When we have peace, we are more able to be patient. When we have patience we are more able to endure. One fruit leads to another which leads to another allowing us to faithfully serve God. We are given these fruits to mark us as belonging to Him and to enable us for the works for which we were created to do.

Patience vs Eagerly Waiting

There are also multiple places in the Bible that talk about us eagerly waiting. Can we be both patient and eagerly waiting? Are they opposites and in contradiction or are they two sides of the same coin?

For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; (Philippians 3:20)

For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. (Romans 8:19)

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him. (Hebrews 9:28)

For we through the Spirit, by faith, are waiting for the hope of righteousness. (Galatians 5:5)

Obviously God would not tell us to “Wait for the Lord; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the Lord .” (Psalm 27.14) and give us the gift of patience while telling us to “eagerly wait” if they were mutually exclusive.

There are multiple principles spoken of in the Bible that seem to be contradictions, but are not. We can be eagerly awaiting Jesus’s return while patiently (accepting without complaint) living faithfully despite what is going on around us. The fruit of the Spirit form of patience is a peaceful waiting because we know that our God is in control and everything will happen according to His will, in His timing, and for our good.

And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body. (Romans 8:23)

Trust Jesus.

Read the whole series on the Fruits of the Spirit

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The Law Giver

In my previous article, I briefly went into the topic of how contract law is holy law.

The Father of the Christians, you see, is a God of Covenants, and He sent His Son to Earth to fulfill the Law and pay a Price for our salvation. The Father also created the Natural Order to confirm His Laws through our observation of that Law in action.

That is why Christians have a deep respect for honest contracts, true prices, fair measures, natural systems, and good laws. Not merely for their own sake, but also because understanding them helps us to understand and emulate the Law Giver.

The tired What would Jesus do? meme is actually an attempt to capture this emulation of the Highest Judge. Jesus knows the Law, since His Father defined it and He is One with the Father, so how would He apply the Law best, in this situation?

The Last Things

Working together with him, then, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain. For he says, “At the acceptable time I have listened to you, and helped you on the day of salvation.”

Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

-- 2 Corinthians 6:1-2 New Testament, RSV Bible

One of the things most devout Christians frequently ruminate over, is when Christ will return.

Every day, we ponder. We go for a walk, and ponder. We cook dinner, and ponder.

At the same time, we are called upon to live each day in a productive manner, and to not simply lie around, vegetating, and staring at the heavens. Not only for our own sake, but also because to do so would be to limit our ability to inform others about the Good News, so that they can take to pondering with us. We are called to ponder with as many people as we can produce, adopt, convert, or simply collect through our daily interactions.

This means that we are not of the world (as our eyes are watching God and baptism has made us Immortals), but we are definitely in the world (involved in, and effected by, the everyday dealings around us.) It is a very difficult balancing act to know when we are paying too much attention to the one or the other, or to know where to store up our treasures, if we can't put them all immediately into the Final Treasury.

So, we worked today and earned a bit of fiat cash and we have no immediate usage for it. What to do with it?

Well, some of it should go to charity or be invested in a business that provides important goods, services, and employment. Some of it will be needed to simply cover the day-to-day costs of our own life, or that of those dependent upon us. But it might be prudent to store up some of it, for the mysterious length of time between receipt of the monies and our own ascent into Heaven.

Typically, that store was the local currency, but that's being inflated away at an alarming rate. Then we all began to move to precious metals, and many of us still do, but they are so difficult to spend and can't be broken into small bits or transported over wide distances at low cost.

Enter Bitcoin.

The Great Ledger

In our frustration, more and more Christians are turning to a new technology, to save up some treasure in a liquid asset, for the mid-term. And, once we begin using it, and begin to understand how it works, we quickly grow fond of it.

Bitcoin is a beautiful money because it is a money based upon keeping precise accounts, using a fair measure, and obeying the Laws of Nature.

In essence, Bitcoin is a debt note emitted by a universal debtor (the network) in exchange for some good or service. This frees the individual people using it from ever needing to carry debt, as the debt stays in the network, the value and enforceability of that debt note is protected by the effort used to create and maintain the network, and the eagerness with which other people wish to store their efforts up in that same network. The debt still exists, but it can be so thinly and widely spread that it no longer rests as a burden upon one particular person.

The debt, in other words, has been disassociated from humans and the management has been distributed to machines. This is the precise opposite process of a "fiat" (by decree) currency, which only has value so long as it is associated with some particularly solvent group of humans (who personally vouch for repayment of any debts denominated in the currency), and where management is centralized to some other group of humans.

Have you accepted Bitcoin as your personal money and store of value?

You have invested $10 to buy the electricity to mine Bitcoin? Then you receive $10 of Bitcoin in return. The Bitcoin network now owes you the $10 purchasing power equivalent of that electricity.

If someone then gives you $5 worth of pizza, then you can then give them a $5 portion of your $10 worth of Bitcoin. You have taken a part of your Bitcoin debt note and shared it with them.

They now hold $5 worth of Bitcoin invested in the network and can spend it on some other good or service. Or they can simply hold it and wait for it to rise in value, as more people "mine" more of it (and produce more notes, paradoxically making the existing notes more useful and therefore valuable) and more people try to gain the notes in order to manage their own finances by storing their energy in the network or transporting their energy using the network.

Bitcoin, in other words, is an accounting book that needs no accountant because it stores, tracks, and controls the ledger on its own. It is a Natural Ledger that runs according to the Laws.

It is the only human-made ledger that allows for true and immediate Final Settlement. This Final Settlement is what allows people to trade using the convenience of digital debt notes, with neither person occurring or even risking any personal debt. We Christians know that all debt is a burden, including monetary debts, which is why we are called to forgive each other's debt and to hope that our own debts are forgiven. Better still, is to avoid the accumulation of debts, altogether.

So, Final Settlement? Final Settlement is what Jesus would do.

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The bold painter who scorns form... What's the story behind Cubism?

The French painter Georges Braque

When we think of "Cubism," Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque immediately come to mind, two artists who skillfully employed geometric shapes as the basis for their artworks. How did the fabric of this modern trend, rooted in the early twentieth century, come to be?

It all began when art critic Louis Vauxcelles coined the term "Cubism" after seeing a painting by the French painter Georges Braque titled "Houses at L'Estaque."

The term was coined after Vauxcelles observed that the artwork consisted of small cubes characterized by simplified form and dismantled perspective. He described Braque as a bold man who despises form, saying of him, "Let him reduce everything, places and characters, to geometric diagrams, to cubes."

Cubism evolved from 1907, distinguished by its fragmentation of traditional forms. Cubist artists disliked realistic representation and rejected linear perspective, which approximates the flat depiction of a three-dimensional scene in a two-dimensional space, much like paper.

Fed up with anything related to realistic art, Cubists dismantled objects into basic geometric forms like cubes, spheres, and cylinders, reassembling them in compositions far removed from reality.

Cubes and geometric shapes dominated every corner of art culture, but the glory of this era was short-lived; in 1914, Europe descended into its darkest hours, heralding the demise of this artistic direction.

The Cubist movement was affected by the war, with French painters summoned to join the ranks of soldiers. French painter Fernand Léger enlisted in the armed forces, continuing to paint from within the trenches despite the war taking him away from his canvases.

Andre Mare immortalized the living conditions of soldiers through watercolor drawings and colors. Albert Gleizes painted military doctors in geometric shapes.

During the conflict from 1914 to 1918, artists, like the majority of intellectuals and cultural figures, produced somewhat "national" works. However, given the brutality and prolonged duration of the conflict, which led to severe disillusionment, some painters attempted to represent the reality they saw by modifying their artistic styles. It was inevitable for modern warfare to appear in a modern way, accurately depicting the horrors of battle and injecting more realism into their artworks, as if geometric shapes no longer served the purpose of conveying the image!

The harshness of life during World War I & II through the eyes of Cubist art.

The painting "Soldier Playing Chess" by Metzinger, 1914.

The painting "Guernica" by Picasso as a protest against the German bombing of Spain.

The painting "Military Doctor" by Albert Gleizes

The Crashed Airplane (1916-1917).

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Yesterday's edition https://stacker.news/items/602257/r/Undisciplined

We had been doing a good job keeping @k00b off the leaderboards, but for the second day in a row he's taking all of the Top Stacker spots. For posterity's sake, don't let him win a fourth July 10th in a row.

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July 10, 2023 📅

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What’s the Hardest lesson you’ve learned from Bitcoin?

Excerpt

For me, staying humble while stacking sats.

We don’t have it all figured out. 2107 sats \ 22 comments \ @birdeye21 \ ~bitcoin

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💬 TOP COMMENT

https://stacker.news/items/206793/r/Undisciplined?commentId=206809

25.3k sats \ 0 replies \ @Darth

From Meme Monday - Best Bitcoin Meme Gets 25,000 Sats by @sn in ~bitcoin

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🏆 TOP STACKER

2nd place @k00b (1st hiding, presumed @siggy47)

8282 stacked \ 8933 spent \ 2 posts \ 11 comments \ 0 referrals

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~bitcoin

everything bitcoin related

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38.7k stacked \ 0 revenue \ 48.6k spent \ 102 posts \ 286 comments

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July 10, 2022 📅

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🔥 Presenting LNCal.com ⚡️ - Earn Bitcoin with your public calendar! (LNURL enabled)

Link to https://lncal.com/

2221 sats \ 36 comments \ @e \ ~bitcoin

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https://stacker.news/items/43271/r/Undisciplined?commentId=43283

Excerpt

1. Begin learning the protocols quite well. I recommend Chaincode ... If you don't like classes/accountability/mentorship, you can self-teach using their materials: https://chaincode.gitbook.io/seminars/.

939 sats \ 6 replies \ @k00b

From Ask SN: how to contribute to Bitcoin core, or layers 2 and beyond? by @a in ~bitcoin

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1st place @k00b

18.3k stacked \ 6570 spent \ 1 post \ 29 comments \ 0 referrals

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~bitcoin

everything bitcoin related

founded by @k00b on Tue May 02 2023

10.4k stacked \ 0 revenue \ 13.6k spent \ 59 posts \ 181 comments

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July 10, 2021 📅

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[For the lols] Why you should be terrified of owning Bitcoin

Link to https://fortune.com/2021/07/10/bitcoin-why-you-should-be-terrified-of-owning-btc/

4 sats \ 6 comments \ @shawnyeager \ ~bitcoin

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https://stacker.news/items/247/r/Undisciplined?commentId=263

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Kind of regretting settling in Austin 😂. South America will soon be the place to be.

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b

From Paraguay set to introduce Bitcoin bill on July 14th by @gmd in ~bitcoin

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🏆 TOP STACKER

1st place @k00b

10 stacked \ 26 spent \ 3 posts \ 7 comments \ 0 referrals

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~bitcoin

everything bitcoin related

founded by @k00b on Tue May 02 2023

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originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/603455

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🌟 Crescita del PIL e del GNI in Russia

🌟 La Banca Mondiale ha confermato un sorprendente andamento positivo dell'economia russa, con il PIL in crescita del 3,6% nel 2023 e una previsione di crescita del 3,2% per il 2024. Il reddito nazionale lordo (GNI) pro capite ha raggiunto 14.250 dollari, permettendo alla Russia di entrare nella categoria di reddito "alto". Questo progresso economico è notevole, soprattutto considerando le sanzioni internazionali.

🌟 Settori Trainanti e Investimenti

🌟 Diversi fattori hanno contribuito alla crescita economica della Russia. Gli investimenti nel settore militare-industriale e i contributi pubblici hanno stimolato la domanda interna. Il commercio e i settori finanziario ed edile hanno registrato crescite significative, rispettivamente del 6,8%, 8,7% e 6,6%. Questi dati mostrano una resilienza economica sorprendente nonostante le tensioni geopolitiche.

🌟 Ruolo della Cina e Implicazioni Future

🌟 La resilienza economica della Russia è stata sostenuta dalla Cina, che ha aiutato a mitigare l'impatto delle sanzioni occidentali. I flussi commerciali attraverso paesi come Armenia, Kazakistan e Kirghizistan hanno permesso alla Russia di continuare a ottenere risorse dall'Europa.

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🌟 Questa dichiarazione rappresenta un potenziale punto di svolta nella guerra, offrendo una nuova dinamica ai negoziati di pace. Tuttavia, la reazione dell'Ucraina rimane incerta, dato che il presidente Zelensky ha sempre insistito sulla necessità di rispettare la sovranità e l'integrità territoriale del suo paese.

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Chef's notes

Perfect for the summer days

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 5-10min
• 🍳 Cook time: no cooking time
• 🍽️ Servings: 4

Ingredients

• 2 cucumbers (about 500 g or 1 lb)
• 500 g plain yogurt (1 lb)
• 2 -3 tablespoons of crushed walnuts (optional)
• 1 bunch fresh dill
• oil
• salt
• water (optional)

Directions

1. Beat the yogurt with a fork until it gets liquid and pour it over the cucumbers.
2. Add the crushed garlic, the walnuts and the minced dill as well as salt and oil to taste.
3. If needed add some water to make the soup as liquid as you like but take care not to make it too "thin".
4. Put into the refrigerator to cool or add ice cubes.
5. Serve cold

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โดยขนมปังอบอันโด่งดังก้อนนี้ รอดชีวิตจากการปะทุของภูเขาไฟวิสุเวียส และถูก "คาร์บอน" โดยการไหลของไพโรคลาสติก (ลาวา) มันถูกพบอีกครั้งในเมืองโรมันโบราณ Herculaneum ในปี ค.ศ. 1930 หรือ พ.ศ. 2473

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Há exatamente 50 anos houve uma revolução em Portugal, que derrubou a ditadura, foi o mais longo regime autoritário na Europa Ocidental durante o século XX, foram 48 anos.

Por esse motivo, hoje, dia 25 de Abril, comemora-se o Dia da Liberdade.

A revolução trouxe-nos muitas formas de liberdade:

• liberdade circulação
• liberdade de voto
• liberdade de pensamento
• liberdade de expressão
• liberdade de imprensa
• liberdade religiosa

A ditadura terminou há 50 anos, mas hoje eu sinto que sou menos livre que há 20 anos. Cada vez mais, vivemos numa sociedade mais intolerante a um pensamento diferente do seu. Foram movimentos de esquerda que mais lutaram pela liberdade no período da ditadura, mas agora, uma esquerda radical quer impor as “suas liberdades” e os “seus pensamentos”, restringindo as liberdades e pensamentos de outros.

Uma coisa é acreditar que comer cenoura faz bem aos olhos, ou coisa é querer obrigar todas as pessoas a comerem cenoura. Na minha concepção de Liberdade, quem quiser come cenoura, quem não quer não come, simplesmente isto.

A partir do momento que começamos a restringir o pensamento de outro, onde está a liberdade de pensamento. Quanto temos que pensar duas ou três vezes, antes de dizer publicamente ou publicar algo online – com medo das repercussões – é porque não somos livres. A partir do momento onde existe medo, logo não existe liberdade de pensamento e de expressão.

A plenitude da Liberdade não significa que podemos fazer tudo, é claro que existem algumas restrições, desde que não invada/impeça a liberdade de outro.

Eu sou um forte defensor da máxima, a nossa liberdade termina quando começa a liberdade do outro, é pura verdade.

A sociedade está cada vez mais intolerante a opiniões contrárias à sua, as pessoas não querem ser livres, querem impor o seu pensamento. Não querem diversidade de pensamento, querem pensamento único. Não é possível uma democracia com um pensamento único. 

No passado a censura era feita por policiais, agora é por grupo organizado ideologicamente, atrás de um teclado ou através da pressão pública/mediática, a política do cancelamento.

Eu não consigo compreender, o que aconteceu nos últimos 20 anos, que provocou uma mudança tão drástica na sociedade,  onde houve um retrocesso na liberdade. Chegámos ao cúmulo de suspender a liberdade de circulação ou bloquear contas bancárias apenas por discordância de opinião. Ou colocar em causa a propriedade privada.

Liberdade não é anarquia, não é fazer o que vai na real gana, mas sim respeitar o próximo e respeitar a si próprio. Fazer aos outros, o que queremos que façam a nós. Em suma, respeito e responsabilidade.

Outro ponto sensível da actualidade é as fakenews, em nome de acabar com

as fakenews, os países estão a criar leis que restringem a liberdade de expressão. Organismos estatais, políticos em cargos estatais e jornalistas têm a obrigação de dizer a verdade, não podem fazer fakenews. 

Mas um cidadão individual, sem cargos políticos, não poderá ter a liberdade de mentir?

Na opinião tem a liberdade de mentir, também tem a liberdade de ofender alguém, mas terá que arcar com as consequências legais desse ato, em tribunal claro. Não faz qualquer sentido,  bloquear preventivamente alguém nas redes sociais, isto limita, impede o direito à liberdade de expressão.

Quantos copérnicos são cancelados nas redes sociais?

O julgar da verdade ou mentira é sempre limitada aos dados existentes, esses dados podem mudar ao longo do tempo. Como dizia o mítico Pimenta Machado, “o que hoje é verdade amanhã é mentira”. 

Isto leva-nos a outro problema, terá que existir alguém, um juiz que decida o que viola ou não a lei, verdade ou mentira. Só um juiz pode ter o poder de decidir, nunca um político ou um qualquer funcionário de uma bigtech. Mesmo os juízes têm as suas limitações, porque limitam-se a cumprir a lei, lei feita pelos próprios estados. Um estado em caso de discordância com algum tribunal, basta mudar a lei, o estado tem um poder absoluto.

A incitação ao ódio e as Fakenews, são algo tão abrangente e ao mesmo tempo abstrato, onde é possível fazer infinitas interpretações. Os governos aproveitam desse abstracionismo para limitar as liberdades dos seus cidadãos.

Liberdade monetária

A revolução trouxe-nos muitas liberdades, mas a liberdade fundamental ainda não conseguimos adquirir, a Liberdade monetária/financeira, sem esta, as restantes liberdade não poderão ser exercidas na sua plenitude. Necessitamos de uma sociedade que incentive a liberdade de pensamento, um pensamento crítico.

Tem que existir uma separação real da política monetária, do poder político. Será tão ou mais importante para a humanidade, como foi a separação da religião, do poder político.

Passados 50 anos, em termos gerais, o nível de ensino melhorou em Portugal, mas em termos de literacia financeira, pouco melhoramos. Existindo partidos políticos que são abertamente contra a educação financeira nas escolas, segundo eles, o conhecimento pode levar as pessoas a fazer escolhas erradas. Curiosamente, o antigo regime tinha uma política similar. Porque um povo inculto é mais obediente, submisso e menos pensante, mais ignorante.

Curiosamente, esse partido apoia um grupo extremista, de criminosos, que destrói património, ataca pessoas, roça o terrorismo, tudo com o pretexto da causa ambiental. Todos temos a liberdade e direito de protestar, desde que não invada no direitos de outros, desde que não destrua património de outros, desde que não agrida outros e que não impeça que outros trabalhem. O partido apenas apoia na surdina, porque nem tem coragem para o admitir publicamente que o apoia.

Se algo é a representação clara do que é liberdade é o Bitcoin. É a liberdade pura. Mas isso não significa que todos os bitcoiners defendam a liberdade plena, como em todo o lado existem os radicais.

Se nós queremos ter a liberdade de utilizar o bitcoin, também temos que aceitar com naturalidade, as pessoas que não querem ter, não podemos ofender por terem uma opinião diferente da nossa. Se nós somos contra o uso forçado da moeda FIAT, não podemos ser a favor do uso forçado do bitcoin, é uma incongruência. Temos que ser a favor da liberdade monetária, os cidadãos devem ter a liberdade de escolher a moeda que querem transacionar. Se as duas partes concordam em fazer uma transação numa respectiva moeda, qualquer que seja a moeda, não devem existir restrições legais que o impeçam.

Até entre nós bitcoiners mais puristas temos que exigir, a nós próprios, mais liberdade, aceitar pensamentos e visões diferentes, isso é liberdade, não existem verdades absolutas, não existe uma visão única sobre o Bitcoin. Liberdade é isso, cada um faz e usa como quer. Não existem uns superiores aos outros, somos todos bitcoiners.

A rejeição ao FIAT e ter 100% exposto a bitcoin não deve ser uma obrigação, mas sim um caminho longo que pode ser percorrido à velocidade de cada cidadão, ao  seu próprio ritmo. 

Não devemos ser tão críticos ou ofender uma pessoa por utilizar a Liquid (ou Cashu), se utiliza a Liquid é porque a sua condição financeira não permite utilizar a Layer 1, mas quer estar exposto a bitcoin. É verdade que Liquid não é exatamente igual a Bitcoin, mas é substancialmente superior a quaisquer outras cripto ou shitcoin. 

Será que temos o direito de criticar um cubano por este utilizar Liquid, ele não tem condições financeiras para fazer transações na L1, 10$ de taxa, é o salário semanal dele. Claro que não devemos criticar ou chamá-lo de shitcoiner por este utilizar Liquid.

Hoje em dia, já milhões de pessoas estão impedidas de utilizar a L1, onde a sua única alternativa é utilizar Lightning Network custodial ou Liquid. Neste cenário, eu considero a Liquid muito mais segura. 

Hoje são os mais pobres de estão impedidas de utilizar a L1, mas num futuro próximo, sermos nós a ter estas dificuldades, possivelmente faremos 1 ou 2 transações por ano na l1, enviaremos os fundos para uma layer 2 (como a Liquid) e a partir desta vamos fazer os pagamentos do dia-a-dia. Esta situação é inevitável.

Também não devemos criticar quem não faz auto-custódia, no máximo devemos aconselhar, explicar qual é a melhor solução. Mas a decisão final é do indivíduo, que deve ter a liberdade de escolher a custódia que mais se adequa ao seu perfil. Nós só nos resta respeitar essa decisão. A auto-custódio é um assunto bastante sensível, para nós mais puristas a auto-custódia é essencial, mas nós somos uma minoria muito pequena, a maioria da população não quer ou não tem conhecimentos para ser soberano. Com o tempo, possivelmente algumas destas pessoas vão aprender a fazer a auto-custódia, mas a maioria nunca o fará. Estas pessoas têm todo o direito de ter bitcoin, e nós mais experientes devemos aconselhar quais os melhores serviços, é preferível um sistema com um custódia partilhada (tipo Bitkey) do que utilizar exchange. O que é inaceitável, é as pessoas quererem ter bitcoin mas só não o tem porque tem medo de fazer a auto-custódia, é mil vezes preferível utilizar um sistema de custódia partilhada do que ter zero bitcoin.

Como digo em cima, as pessoas têm a liberdade de criticar ou de ofender, mas depois terão que sofrer as consequências dos seus atos, que neste caso, que devido à agressividade nos comentários vão afastar os novatos, atrasando a adoção do Bitcoin. 

Todos somos bitcoiners, apenas temos visões e utilização diferente.

Hoje é 25, mas ontem na véspera da celebração da Liberdade, a Política Judiciária deteve um programador informático, acatando ordem de extradição dos EUA. Que país é este, que liberdade é esta, que prende alguém que apenas escreveu algumas linhas de código.

Na minha opinião, o auge da liberdade foi por volta dos anos 2000, de lá pra cá tem existido uma gradual deterioração das liberdade e dos direitos. Se nada for feito, qualquer dia será tarde demais… quando começamos a ceder liberdades em prol de segurança, vamos acabar por perder a segurança e a liberdade.

Falta ainda cumprir Abril!

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Hoje vamos para uma reflexão mais sensível, sobretudo para uma facção mais tóxica de maximalistas, a bolsa de valores. Essa facção gosta de intitular o bolsa de valores/mercado de capitais como um scam, gosta de comparar a valorização do Bitcoin, com a valorização das ações.

Mas os dois são incomparáveis, têm objetivos completamente diferentes, um é poupança, o outro é investimento. É claro que no curto prazo, o Bitcoin está a valorizar mais que os mercados de capitais, mas isto é algo circunstancial/temporário, porque o Bitcoin está a monetizar.

O Bitcoin ainda tem um market cap pequeno, quanto mais cresce, menos volátil será, é natural com o tempo, a valorização do Bitcoin será menor. Aquelas valorizações de 1000% num curto espaço de tempo, nunca mais vão acontecer, e é bom que não volte a acontecer, é sinal que a adopção está a avançar bem e gradual.

Quando existe uma valorização muito expressiva em pouco tempo, é inevitável, posteriormente uma forte correção, foi o que aconteceu nos primeiros ciclos do Bitcoin. Com o passar do tempo, a volatilidade está a diminuir, sobe menos, consequentemente as correções serão menores, esta estabilidade é fundamental para a aceleração da adoção do Bitcoin como moeda em todo o mundo.

A fraca volatilidade é boa para o Bitcoin como moeda e como reserva de valor, mas para quem usa como um meio especulativo, para enriquecer, vai deixar de ser tão atrativo. Por o Bitcoin ter atualmente uma valorização superior à bolsa de valores, não significa que o mercado de capitais seja um scam.

Em suma, a longo prazo o Bitcoin será um ativo apenas para manter o poder de compra, sendo mais rentável (para um especulador) investir em algumas empresas. Mas isto é a natureza do Bitcoin, Bitcoin não é para investir, mas sim poupar.

A Distorção

Isto significa que as bolsas de valores, per se não são um mau “produto”, são apenas vítimas da desastrosas políticas monetárias(doença), das constantes desvalorização da moeda. Mas o Bitcoin vai trazer verdade ao mundo económico, sem a possibilidade da inflação monetária vai ser possível ver realmente quais são as ações que valorizam e quais desvalorizam. Atualmente devido à inflação é muito complicado distinguir quais são as boas e más empresas, porque todas elas nominalmente sobem.

Um bom exemplo é a bolsa brasileira, para quem olha para o gráfico em reais (linha azul), está em máximos históricos, mas com valores em dólares (linha laranja), o resultado é totalmente oposto, está em mínimos.

As pessoas que investiram à uma década estão a perder poder de compra, mas elas acreditam que estão a ganhar, é a ilusão da inflação. E os valores ainda são piores do que demonstra o gráfico, porque o dólar também teve uma forte desvalorização neste período, que não foi contabilizado.

No caso da Europa e EUA, é um pouco diferente, porque existem algumas ações que conseguem manter ou superar a taxa de inflação, mas são uma minoria. A maior parte são ações zombi, onde as pessoas investem mas perdem poder de compra anualmente, sem se aperceber disso. Numa economia em padrão Bitcoin vai trazer verdade, vai separar o trigo do joio, qualquer pessoa sem grandes conhecimentos, vai facilmente observar quais são as empresas boas.

Curiosamente, empresas/ações que hoje em dia não conseguem ter uma valorização superior à inflação (valorização real), no padrão Bitcoin vão se tornar rentáveis, vai gerar um fenómeno interessante. Como no caso do Brasil, existem muitas empresas que crescem, que têm muitos lucros, só que a valorização não é visível em dólares devido à desvalorização do real. Como a desvalorização do real é superior ao crescimento da empresa, a valorização das ações em dólares fica negativa, mas num padrão Bitcoin essas mesmas empresas passariam a ter uma valorização real.

Num mundo em padrão Bitcoin, as bolsas de valores terão um papel fundamental na economia. O crédito barato dos bancos comerciais que o dinheiro FIAT permite, já não estará disponível para as empresas, estas terão que se financiar com obrigações ou nos mercados de capitais.

Classes de ativos

Os mercados de capitais/bolsas de valores não são a origem do problema, sofrem de um sintoma gerado por uma doença muito superior, a moeda e a sua política monetária. Como a moeda é fulcral, é o sangue que circula por todo o lado, como o sistema keynesiano “envenena” a moeda, provoca uma distorção em toda a sociedade e na economia.

As principais classes de ativos, na teoria, repito na teoria, deveriam ser divididas consoante o risco inerente. * Moeda: risco nulo * Bonds/dívida soberana: risco baixo * Mercado de capitais: risco elevado

Quanto maior for o risco, maior é a possibilidade de retorno. Assim a moeda teria um retorno zero, é um ativo de poupança puro, não tem o objetivo de aumentar mas sim apenas de preservar a riqueza.

No lado oposto temos o mercado de capitais, onde o risco é elevado, mas existe a possibilidade de ter lucros elevados também. É o local ideal para os especuladores, para quem quer aumentar a sua riqueza. As Bonds são um ativo intermédio, de baixo risco, logo um retorno é baixo.

Só que isto apenas acontece na teoria, porque na prática, devido ao sistema keynesiano distorceu por completo as classes de ativos, com as consecutivas desvalorização de moeda. A moeda deixou de ser um meio de poupança, porque está constantemente a perder poder de compra. Isto obrigou as pessoas a aderirem a ativos com maior risco para não perder a sua poupança.

As pessoas são obrigadas a ser especuladores (bonds, mercado de capitais), perderam o direito de ser simplesmente poupadores. Os poupadores têm o direito a um ativo com zero risco, nem toda a gente quer aumentar o seu património, querem apenas preservar o seu dinheiro, ganho através do seu suor, não querem nem mais um cêntimo, querem ter uma vida tranquila. Atualmente essas pessoas estão impedidas, são obrigadas a ser especuladores ou então estão constantemente a perder poder de compra. A desvalorização da moeda é tal dimensão, que os bonds que deveriam dar uma remuneração baixa, atualmente tem uma remuneração negativa. No mercado de capitais, são poucas as empresas que têm uma remuneração superior à inflação, na sua generalidade, as pessoas que investem nestes ativos estão a empobrecer lentamente.

Além destas 3 classes de ativos, distorceu fortemente o mercado imobiliário. O propósito das casas é ser um local de residência das pessoas, devendo ser acessível a toda a população. Esta distorção, transformou o imobiliário num meio de proteção contra a inflação, um produto financeiro, gerando uma procura elevada, criando enormes bolhas. Além de milhões de pessoas ficarem sem acesso a uma habitação digna.

Fix the Money. Fix the World.

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Imagine a cosmic slingshot that flings your spacecraft towards distant planets with minimal effort. That's the essence of a Gate Orbits, strategically chosen circular orbits around celestial bodies, that significantly reduces the fuel required for interplanetary travel.

Benefits of Gate Orbits

• Reduced Delta-V:

Heavier Payloads: Lower fuel needs translate to more space for scientific instruments, supplies, or even crew members on future missions. Smaller Launch Vehicles: Lighter payloads equate to less powerful & potentially reusable, launch vehicles.

• Cost Efficiency:

Lower fuel requirements & increased payload capacity can lead to substantial cost savings. Smaller, less expensive launch vehicles can be used & the reduced need for frequent resupply missions can lower operational costs.

Envisioning Gate Orbits in Action:

"Interplanetary mission design has seen significant advancements beyond traditional Hohmann transfer orbits"...

Well, consider a trip from Earth to Mars. A traditional Hohmann transfer orbit might require a 'Δv' of 2.94 km/s. By launching from an Earth Gate Orbit, the spacecraft could achieve escape velocity with a 'Δv' of only 2.08 km/s! This translates to a potential 62% increase in payload capacity or a significant reduction in launch vehicle size & cost.

N.B. Mars Gate Orbit can be calculated at ((2x398’600/2.943^2=) 92’042 km radius. When in circular orbit at this distance from Earth, a vehicle will require an additional velocity of (√(2.943^2/2)=) 2.08 km/s to inject into a Hohmann transfer to Mars.

Power of Gate Orbits: Using Math to Understand Efficiency Gains

The concept of Gate Orbits becomes even more impactful when we delve into the mathematics of rocket propulsion. That's how Delta-V (Δv) equation sheds light on the efficiency benefits of Gate Orbits:

• Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation

Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation relates the maximum change in velocity (Δv) of a spacecraft to its initial mass (𝑚0), final mass (𝑚𝑓) & the effective exhaust velocity (𝑣𝑒). It essentially tells us how much a rocket can accelerate based on its fuel & engine efficiency: Δ𝑣 = 𝑣𝑒 ln 𝑚0/𝑚𝑓

• The Exponential Challenge

The equation reveals a critical truth!!! Why??? Simply, the required initial mass (𝑚0) grows exponentially with the desired 'Δv'. Which means, small increases in the desired final velocity translate to a significant increase in the amount of propellant needed. That's why traditional interplanetary missions require such massive rockets, as they need to carry enough fuel to achieve the necessary 'Δv' for escape velocity.. And this is where Gate Orbits come in!

Challenges & Future of Gate Orbits

Traveling to other planets demands immense speeds to escape a planet's gravitational pull & set a trajectory towards the destination. This speed change, known as delta-v (Δv), is a crucial factor in spacecraft design. The higher the Δv required, the more fuel a spacecraft must carry, leading to heavier & more expensive missions... While theoretically sound, Gate Orbits present challenges:

• Precise Orbital Insertion: Reaching & maintaining the specific Gate Orbit requires precise maneuvers. Advanced navigation & guidance systems are crucial.

• Infrastructure Development: Establishing infrastructure, like refueling stations or temporary staging areas, at these specific locations might be necessary for certain missions.

Looking Forward....

• Relationship to Ion Rockets & Delta-V

Ion rockets, with their incredibly high specific impulse (Isp), offer another avenue for fuel-efficient space travel. However, their low thrust makes them unsuitable for lifting off from planets. Gate Orbits can be particularly beneficial for missions utilizing ion drives. By providing a gravitational boost at the outset, Gate Orbits allow ion-powered spacecraft to capitalize on their high Isp for efficient interplanetary travel. (Recent innovations in interplanetary mission design, such as non-Hohmann transfers utilizing low-thrust propulsion, ballistic trajectories & resonant orbits, provide more efficient & flexible mission profiles.)

• Lunar Missions with Gate Orbit Concept

Near Rectilinear Halo Orbits (NRHO): Proposed for the Lunar Gateway, these orbits provide a stable platform for sustained lunar operations. NRHOs offer continuous line-of-sight communication with Earth & reduced fuel requirements for station-keeping. Support both lunar surface missions & deeper space exploration. The Lunar Gateway will serve as a staging point for missions to the Moon's surface, particularly the South Pole, & as a testing ground for technologies needed for Mars missions.

How ? The Lunar Gateway as a 'gate orbit' facilitates lunar landings & acts as a hub for assembling spacecraft bound for Mars or other destinations. It enables modular mission design, where components are launched separately & assembled in orbit.

Mission Sequence

To better understand the practical application of Gate Orbits, consider the following mission sequence:

1- Launch: The spacecraft is launched from Earth into a low Earth orbit (LEO).

2- Gate Orbit Insertion: The spacecraft performs a maneuver to enter the specific Gate Orbit around Earth.

3- Slingshot Maneuver: Using the gravitational influence of Earth, the spacecraft receives a velocity boost, reducing the Δv required from its own engines.

4- Interplanetary Cruise: The spacecraft continues its journey to its interplanetary destination, such as Mars, with significantly reduced fuel consumption.

With the increasing focus on space exploration & the potential for future human habitation on other planets, efficient interplanetary travel methods become even more critical.. Gate Orbits offer a transformative approach to space travel, reducing fuel requirements & expanding mission capabilities. By leveraging the gravitational forces of celestial bodies, they provide an efficient pathway for deep space exploration.

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Woke up at the crack of dawn today in my dorm, just past 5 am, to a flurry of activity. The two guests who checked in yesterday were already checking out, including the Chinese woman who'd been here for almost two weeks. With the room suddenly quiet, I grabbed my phone to check my account – hoping to see the tokens I'd transferred the previous day. But to my surprise, they were nowhere to be found.

This unexpected early check-out (most hostels allow check-in after 2 pm) left me with a private room for a brief moment, a small perk amidst the confusion. But back to the real issue – my missing Blurt tokens.

Yesterday, I wrote a Hive Engine tutorial on transferring Blurt to your Blurt account. However, when I tried it myself, my 705 Blurt vanished into thin air. Completely baffled, I spent my morning researching after breakfast. While I knew transfers take time, I didn't expect it to take all night, let alone be missing by 10 am.

As a result, the Hive Engine tutorial will have to wait. I need to get to the bottom of this missing transfer before finalizing it. With no set plans for today and a foot still causing trouble, my biggest hope is for a speedy recovery on both fronts – my foot and the missing Blurt!

After hitting publish on this post, I'll be diving back in to figure out how to spend this unplanned day. Here's to hoping for a swift resolution and a chance to explore soon (on a pain-free foot, of course)!

(Image: Screenshot of Hive Engine transfer)

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I'm reposting this in order to fix the images and get it correctly onto my npub.pro site

What is this ? My Futurebit Apollo Miner in action

Futurebit is a company that manufactures home miners for retail users (see futurebit.io) - you can check out details on their website. These are targeted at individuals that want to participate in mining with an easy to use, quiet miner that does not use a ton of electricity.

The idea here is to try and stay true to the original bitcoin concept of a computer which runs the bitcoin software and mines bitcoin, all in one. While mining has obviously evolved into a commercial industry and the mining process has long been separated from running a bitcoin node, I think there are still some valid reasons to want to participate in the mining process and attempt to keep this original ethos alive:

1. You learn a lot about bitcoin from mining. Reading about the process is one thing, but actually getting a machine running, pointing it towards the pool of your choice, and seeing the bitcoin process from this perspective is something I've found very enjoyable (mining is probably my favorite part of bitcoin, if I had to choose one). It can also be a gateway drug to more advanced mining, so...heavy care.
2. It is marginally valuable to the network. Sure, one person running a futurebit miner is nothing compared to the hashrate of MARA. But, if you have tens of thousands of plebs all running their own miners from home, pointing their hashpower to the pool of their choice, it does provide a legitimate decentralizing anchor to large mining actors. Every pleb should be participating in mining, in my opinion, and the Futurebit Apollo miner offers a casual and unobtrusive avenue to do just that.

Now, the Futurebit Apollo Miner you most commonly see is the 'Full Package.' The Full Package is an Orange Pi computer running on a custom linux distribution. You basically boot it up, and it starts running bitcoin core and mining in a few clicks. That is very cool, and I did own one. However, I will say that the Full Package is, unfortunately, not a great product. I won't go into too much detail, but its a very poor quality computer, the security upkeep of the custom linux distribution is lacking, and I found connecting to the node to use with wallets to be very difficult. The mining was also consistently inturrupted due to the pi freezing up. You are better off going with a different option for running a bitcoin node.

This is simply to say, I dislike the Full Package Futurebit Apollo Unit. With that said, I very much like the 'Standard Unit'. The Standard Unit is simply a mining hashboard without the computer OS that comes with the Full Package. I've been running two Standard Units in my house for 18 months now and they just quietly hum along in my house, I barely notice them and they rarely need to be restarted (honestly I can't think of more than 3 times that I needed to troubleshoot and even then it was typically restarting the miner). They are a great way to make your personal contribution to the security of the bitcoin network.

(Please Note: These things are pretty pricey brand new, so don't even think about buying one as being a profitable choice. You can sometimes find decent deals for them used, but buyer beware I can't speak to that experience. This is about hands-on learning about bitcoin mining and participating in the security of the network with a machine that won't drive your family crazy and that I believe is well-built enough to last you a long time. Heck, you could even set one up at your office and I doubt anyone would notice and mine with free electricity.)

So, that's some background. Now, a standard unit is not the most friendly user experience if you are not used to using command line. I wasn't, but I spent a lot of time figuring it out. With this guide, any user should be able to get a Standard Unit hashing :) Here is the step by step process guide on how to run a standard unit, in use with both a Windows OS computer and a Linux OS computer (Ubuntu is what I use)...enjoy.

I. Linux

Your Futurebit Apollo Standard Unit (referred to from here as 'the Unit') miner comes with a power supply and a usb cable. It's pretty straight forward, but you will want to connect the Unit to the computer of your choice (the computer needs to be on and running while you are mining, so a low power consumption computer and/or a computer that you are already running all the time for some other reason would be best). Also, plug in the power supply to your unit and turn it on (there are instructions in the Unit's manual for how to hook up the power supply correctly).

1. Go to https://github.com/jstefanop/Apollo-Miner-Binaries
2. You'll land on a page that looks like this:

For the purposes of this guide, I am going to be using the 'linux-x86_64' package as it is most appropriate for my computer. But, you would need to select the appropriate binaries for your computer. Odds are, if you are running ubuntu on your laptop or desktop, you are going to use the 'linux-x86_64' package.

1. Once you have clicked on the linux-x86_64 folder, you will land here:

Open each of these 4 files and download them using the 'Download Raw File' link in each file's page. Here is an example:

Once you have downloaded, I'd recommend making a folder and putting all 4 of the files into that folder. I am going to make a folder with the name 'Mining Files'. I am also going to move the folder out of my Downloads folder (not necessary, but I'd recommend as it's not a great place to park a folder you want to hold onto). I am going to move it to my Documents Folder:

1. Now, if you do not have a mining pool account, you will need to make one, otherwise you should be able to use your pool credentials in the next step. Alternatively, you can solo mine using solo.ckpool.org with only a btc address. However, for the purposes of this guide I am going to assume that you are using Braiins pool. If necessary, go ahead and make a login at braiins.com/pool. Note the username and password as we will need that later.

2. From the files that you downloaded in step 3, we are going to double-click on 'start_apollo.sh' and open it up in Text Editor. The first 60 lines or so are explanations on how to prepare this script for your use. However, I am going to run you through all the options to update, so you shouldn't need to read the description. Instead, we are going to focus on the text in black font at the bottom of the file:

We need to update the info in the following fields as follows

-host = stratum.braiins.com -port = 3333 -user = username for your Braiins login. I'll use "braiinsexample" for now. -pswd = password for your Braiins login. I'll use "Password123" for now. -comport = Most likely "/dev/ttyACM0" or "/dev/ttyACM1" or "/dev/ttyACM2" -brd_ocp = 48 -osc = 30 -ao_mode = 1

So, when our file is set up correctly, it will look like:

Make sure to save, then close out of text editor.

1. Now, start up terminal on your computer. First, we are going to want to get into the correct directory. In our case, our file is in Documents > Mining Files. So, you would input the following command:

cd ~/Documents/Mining Files

Once you are in the correct directory, we will run the following command:

sudo ./start_apollo.sh

You will likely be prompted to enter your computer's password, input the password and, if all goes well, you should see a result like this in your terminal:

You are now mining! The setting we use run the Unit ins 'eco mode', which should yield 2 terahash per second in terms of mining power (you can monitor the performance from your respective mining pool dashboard). As long as you keep this terminal window open and the computer on that is connected to the miner, and you will be mining away :)

II. Windows

Your Futurebit Apollo Standard Unit (referred to from here as 'the Unit') miner comes with a power supply and a usb cable. It's pretty straight forward, but you will want to connect the Unit to the computer of your choice (the computer needs to be on and running while you are mining, so a low power consumption computer and/or a computer that you are already running all the time for some other reason would be best). Also, plug in the power supply to your unit and turn it on (there are instructions in the Unit's manual for how to hook up the power supply correctly).

1. Go to https://github.com/jstefanop/Apollo-Miner-Binaries
2. You'll land on a page that looks like this:

For Windows, you will click on the folder titled 'msvc19'. You'll see 2 files to download, go ahead and click on each and click 'Download Raw File' for each.

Please Note: Windows may see this file as a virus, so you may need to 'allow on device' in your virus & threat protection of your windows security service.

1. Once you have downloaded each file, I'd recommend making a folder and putting all of the files into that folder. I am going to make a folder with the name 'Mining Files'. I am also going to move the folder out of my Downloads folder (not necessary, but I'd recommend as it's not a great place to park a folder you want to hold onto). I am going to move it to my Documents Folder:

1. Now, if you do not have a mining pool account, you will need to make one, otherwise you should be able to use your pool credentials in the next step. Alternatively, you can solo mine using solo.ckpool.org with only a btc address. However, for the purposes of this guide I am going to assume that you are using Braiins pool. If necessary, go ahead and make a login with at braiins.com/pool. Note the username and password as we will need that later.

2. From the files that you downloaded in step 3, we are going to right click on 'start_apollo' and select 'edit'. The file will open up in notepad. The first 60 lines or so are explanations on how to prepare this script for your use. However, I am going to run you through all the options to update, so you shouldn't need to read the description. Instead, we are going to focus on the text in black font at the bottom of the file:

We need to update the info in the following fields as follows

-host = stratum.braiins.com -port = 3333 -user = username for your Braiins login. I'll use "braiinsexample" for now. -pswd = password for your Braiins login. I'll use "Password123" for now. -comport = go to the 'Device Manager' service on your computer, expand the 'Ports' section, and you should find a 'USB serial device' with COM#. Update with your COM# (COM1, COM2, COM3, etc). -brd_ocp = 48 -osc = 30 -ao_mode = 1

So, when our file is set up correctly, it will look like:

1. Now that the file is ready, save the file and exit out of notepad. You should be able to simply double-click on the file. The command prompt services will pop-up on your desktop, and should reflect this, indicating your connection is successful and mining has begun:

You are now mining! The setting we use run the Unit ins 'eco mode', which should yield 2 terahash per second in terms of mining power (you can monitor the performance from your respective mining pool dashboard). As long as you keep this terminal window open and the computer on that is connected to the miner, and you will be mining away :)

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/603076

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NIP-116

Event paths

Description

Event kind 30079 denotes an event defined by its event path rather than its event kind.

The event directory path is included in the event path, specified in the event's d tag. For example, an event path might be user/profile/name, where user/profile is the directory path.

Relays should parse the event directory from the event path d tag and index the event by it. Relays should support "directory listing" of kind 30079 events using the #f filter, such as {"#f": ["user/profile"]}.

For backward compatibility, the event directory should also be saved in the event's f tag (for "folder"), which is already indexed by some relay implementations, and can be queried using the #f filter.

Event content should be a JSON-encoded value. An empty object {} signifies that the entry at the event path is itself a directory. For example, when saving user/profile/name: Bob, you should also save user/profile: {} so the subdirectory can be listed under user.

In directory names, slashes should be escaped with a double slash.

Example

Event

json { "tags": [ ["d", "user/profile/name"], ["f", "user/profile"] ], "content": "\"Bob\"", "kind": 30079, ... }

Query

json { "#f": ["user/profile"], "authors": ["[pubkey]"] }

Motivation

To make Nostr an "everything app," we need a sustainable way to support new kinds of applications. Browsing Nostr data by human-readable nested directories and paths rather than obscure event kind numbers makes the data more manageable.

Numeric event kinds are not sustainable for the infinite number of potential applications. With numeric event kinds, developers need to find an unused number for each new application and announce it somewhere, which is cumbersome and not scalable.

Directories can also replace monolithic list events like follow lists or profile details. You can update a single directory entry such as user/profile/name or groups/follows/[pubkey] without causing an overwrite of the whole profile or follow list when your client is out-of-sync with the most recent list version, as often happens on Nostr.

Using d-tagged replaceable events for reactions, such as {tags: [["d", "reactions/[eventId]"]], content: "\"👍\"", kind: 30079, ...} would make un-reacting trivial: just publish a new event with the same d tag and an empty content. Toggling a reaction on and off would not cause a flurry of new reaction & delete events that all need to be persisted.

Implementations

• Relays that support tag-replaceable events and indexing by arbitrary tags (in this case f) already support this feature.
• IrisDB client side library: treelike data structure with subscribable nodes.

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1266

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KRIS menjamin semua golongan masyarakat mendapatkan perlakuan sama dari rumah sakit, baik pelayanan medis maupun nonmedis.

Demi memberikan peningkatan kualitas layanan kesehatan kepada masyarakat, pemerintah baru saja mengeluarkan Peraturan Presiden (Perpres) nomor 59 tahun 2024 tentang Jaminan Kesehatan. Melalui perpres itu, Presiden Joko Widodo (Jokowi) telah menghapus perbedaan kelas layanan 1, 2, dan 3 dalam Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Sosial atau BPJS Kesehatan.

Layanan berbasis kelas itu diganti dengan KRIS (Kelas Rawat Inap Standar). Berkaitan dengan lahirnya Perpres 59/2024 tentang Perubahan Ketiga atas Perpres 82/2018 tentang Jaminan Kesehatan, Presiden Joko Widodo telah memerintahkan seluruh rumah sakit yang bekerja sama dengan BPJS Kesehatan melaksanakannya.

Kebijakan baru itu mulai berlaku per 8 Mei 2024 dan paling lambat 30 Juni 2025. Dalam jangka waktu tersebut, rumah sakit dapat menyelenggarakan sebagian atau seluruh pelayanan rawat inap berdasarkan KRIS sesuai dengan kemampuan rumah sakit.

Lantas apa yang menjadi pembeda dari sisi layanan dengan layanan rawat inap sesuai Perpres 59/2024? Dahulu sistem layanan rawat BPJS Kesehatan dibagi berdasarkan kelas yang dibagi masing-masing kelas 1, 2, dan 3. Namun, melalui perpres, layanan kepada masyarakat tidak dibedakan lagi.

Pelayanan rawat inap yang diatur dalam perpres itu--dikenal dengan nama KRIS—menjadi sistem baru yang digunakan dalam pelayanan rawat inap BPJS Kesehatan di rumah sakit-rumah sakit. Dengan KRIS, semua golongan masyarakat akan mendapatkan perlakuan yang sama dari rumah sakit, baik dalam hal pelayanan medis maupun nonmedis.

Dengan lahirnya Perpres 59/2024, tarif iuran BPJS Kesehatan pun juga akan berubah. Hanya saja, dalam Perpres itu belum dicantumkan secara rinci ihwal besar iuran yang baru. Besaran iuran baru BPJS Kesehatan itu sesuai rencana baru ditetapkan pada 1 Juli 2025.

“Penetapan manfaat, tarif, dan iuran sebagaimana dimaksud ditetapkan paling lambat tanggal 1 Juli 2025,” tulis aturan tersebut, dikutip Senin (13/5/2024).

Itu artinya, iuran BPJS Kesehatan saat ini masih sama seperti sebelumnya, yakni sesuai dengan kelas yang dipilih. Namun perpres itu tetap berlaku sembari menanti lahirnya peraturan lanjutan dari perpres tersebut.

Kesiapan Rumah Sakit

Berkaitan dengan lahirnya kebijakan layanan kesehatan tanpa dibedakan kelas lagi, Kementerian Kesehatan (Kemenkes) menegaskan mayoritas rumah sakit di Indonesia siap untuk menjalankan layanan KRIS untuk pasien BPJS Kesehatan.

Kesiapan itu diungkapkan oleh Dirjen Pelayanan Kesehatan Kemenkes Azhar Jaya. “Survei kesiapan RS terkait KRIS sudah dilakukan pada 2.988 rumah sakit dan yang sudah siap menjawab isian 12 kriteria ada sebanyak 2.233 rumah sakit,” ujar Azhar.

Sebagai informasi, KRIS adalah pengganti layanan Kelas 1, 2, dan 3 BPJS Kesehatan yang bertujuan untuk memberikan layanan kesehatan secara merata tanpa melihat besaran iurannya.

Melalui KRIS, rumah sakit perlu menyiapkan sarana dan prasarana sesuai dengan 12 kriteria kelas rawat inap standar secara bertahap. Apa saja ke-12 kriteria KRIS itu?

Sesuai bunyi Pasal 46A Perpres 59/2024, disyaratkan kriteria fasilitas perawatan dan pelayanan rawat inap KRIS meliputi komponen bangunan yang digunakan tidak boleh memiliki tingkat porositas yang tinggi serta terdapat ventilasi udara dan kelengkapan tidur.

Demikian pula soal pencahayaan ruangan. Perpres itu juga mengatur pencahayaan ruangan buatan mengikuti kriteria standar 250 lux untuk penerangan dan 50 lux untuk pencahayaan tidur, temperature ruangan 20--26 derajat celcius.

Tidak hanya itu, layanan rawat inap berdasarkan perpres itu mensyaratkan fasilitas layanan yang membagi ruang rawat berdasarkan jenis kelamin pasien, anak atau dewasa, serta penyakit infeksi atau noninfeksi.

Selain itu, kriteria lainnya adalah keharusan bagi penyedia layanan untuk mempertimbangkan kepadatan ruang rawat dan kualitas tempat tidur, penyediaan tirai atau partisi antartempat tidur, kamar mandi dalam ruangan rawat inap yang memenuhi standar aksesibilitas, dan menyediakan outlet oksigen.

Selain itu, kelengkapan tempat tidur berupa adanya dua kotak kontak dan nurse call pada setiap tempat tidur dan adanya nakas per tempat tidur. Kepadatan ruang rawat inap maksimal empat tempat tidur dengan jarak antara tepi tempat tidur minimal 1,5 meter.

Tirai/partisi dengan rel dibenamkan menempel di plafon atau menggantung. Kamar mandi dalam ruang rawat inap serta kamar mandi sesuai dengan standar aksesibilitas dan outlet oksigen.

Azhar menjamin, Kemenkes akan menjalankan hal tersebut sesuai dengan tupoksi yang ada. “Tentu saja kami akan bekerja sama dengan BPJS Kesehatan dalam implementasi dan pengawasannya di lapangan,” ujar Azhar.

Berkaitan dengan perpres jaminan kesehatan itu, Direktur Utama BPJS Kesehatan Ghufron Mukti menilai, perpres tersebut berorientasi pada penyeragaman kelas rawat inap yang mengacu pada 12 kriteria. "Bahwa perawatan ada kelas rawat inap standar dengan 12 kriteria, untuk peserta BPJS, maka sebagaimana sumpah dokter tidak boleh dibedakan pemberian pelayan medis atas dasar suku, agama, status sosial atau beda iurannya," ujarnya.

Jika ada peserta ingin dirawat pada kelas yang lebih tinggi, kata Ghufron, maka diperbolehkan selama hal itu dipengaruhi situasi nonmedis. Hal itu disebutkan dalam Pasal 51 Perpres Jaminan Kesehatan diatur ketentuan naik kelas perawatan.

Menurut pasal tersebut, naik kelas perawatan dilakukan dengan cara mengikuti asuransi kesehatan tambahan atau membayar selisih antara biaya yang dijamin oleh BPJS Kesehatan dengan biaya yang harus dibayar akibat peningkatan pelayanan.

Selisih antara biaya yang dijamin oleh BPJS Kesehatan dengan biaya pelayanan dapat dibayar oleh peserta bersangkutan, pemberi kerja, atau asuransi kesehatan tambahan.

Ghufron Mukti juga mengimbau pengelola rumah sakit tidak mengurangi jumlah tempat tidur perawatan pasien dalam upaya memenuhi kriteria KRIS. "Pesan saya jangan dikurangi akses dengan mengurangi jumlah tempat tidur. Pertahankan jumlah tempat tidur dan penuhi persyaratannya dengan 12 kriteria tersebut," tegas Ghufron.

Penulis: Firman Hidranto Redaktur: Ratna Nuraini/Elvira Inda Sari Sumber: Indonesia.go.id

@ 124b23f2:02455947

I'm reposting this article I wrote some time ago again to fix the images for it on my npub.pro site

In my previous post, I explained how to use your getalby ln address to receive zaps directly to your LND node. Similarly, there is an additional option that one can utilize to receive zaps directly to your lightning node: lnaddress.com.

Lnaddress.com is a federated lightning address server that you can use to create a custom ln address. Unlike using getalby, lnaddress.com can be used with any lightning implementation (not just LND). For the purposes of this write-up, I am going to use LNBits to connect an lnaddress.com lightning address with my node. And as will be the case with most of my write-ups, I am going to be using Start9 OS, so users of that OS will likely find this write-up most useful, but I'm sure people using other node interfaces can infer how to complete this set up as well.

With that said, let's dive into the step-by-step on how to create your own custom ln address with lnaddress.com and set it up to receive zaps directly to your lightning node:

*Users should have lnbits set up with their lightning node before proceeding.

1. Go to lnaddress.com. Input your desired username, select 'Node Backend Type' = LNBits, and if necessary check the box 'This is a new lightning address'. Keep this page open in one tab as we will be returning to it to input info.
2. From your Start9 OS services page, go to your LNBits service. Open the 'Properties' page, and in a new tab, open the (Tor) Superuser Account. Page will look like this:

From this LNbits page, you can choose to 'add a new wallet' and use that wallet instead of your superuser account. That is up to you but the steps will be the same.

1. Now, we need to grab the info needed for the 'Host Protocol + IP or Domain + Port' field on the lnaddress.com page. On the lnbits page, expand the 'Api Docs' field, and the 'Get Wallet Details' field found on the right hand side menu. In this 'Get Wallet Details' section, you will want to copy some of the URL found in the 'curl example' section. Copy 'http://xxxxxx.onion' (don't copy any more!), and paste this into the 'Host (Protocol + IP or Domain + Port' field found on the lnaddress.com page.

1. Next, we need to grab the key for your lnbits wallet. From the lnbits page, expand the API docs section found on the right hand side menu. Copy the 'Invoice/read key' (make sure to use the invoice/read key and not your Admin key), and paste it into the key field found on the lnaddress.com page. Upon pasting in that last piece of info, click 'submit' at the bottom of the page.

2. If all info was input correctly, your connection will be successful. If successful, you will be brought to a page that looks like this:

You will want to save this secret PIN in case you need to update info in your ln address. You'll also find a test lightning invoice of 1 sat. Using a wallet not connected to the node we connected to our new ln address, you can test the ln address out by paying the 1 sat test invoice.

Users of Start9 OS might find the following info particularly useful: This ln address via lnaddress.com comes with a couple advantages aside from self-custodial zap receiving:

• One, you can have a custom ln address username to go with your nym or nostr username. Users of Start9 may be familiar with the ln address one can generate in the btcpay server service. This ln address is not customizable.
• Two, if you are running a tor only lightning node, you will be able to receive zaps from both tor and clear net lightning nodes. Users of Start9 may be familiar with the ln address one can generate in the btcpay server service. This ln address can only receive zaps from other tor nodes and can't receive zaps from clear net nodes.

That is it, you should now be all set up with your new ln address hosted on lnaddress.com, and you should be all ready to receive zaps or lightning payments of any kind :)

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/603061

@ af9c48b7:a3f7aaf4

Chef's notes

I found this recipe online and couldn’t believe I’d never thought about it before. This is the easiest way to prepare corn on the cob for a large group. This is a must try for your next big event.

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 30 minutes
• 🍳 Cook time: 45 minutes
• 🍽️ Servings: 10-20

Ingredients

• 20-30 ears of fresh sweet corn on the cob
• 3-4 sticks of butter
• Season to taste…salt, pepper, cajun seasoning

Directions

1. Shuck fresh corn, removing all silk and husks, then rinse if desired
2. Place corn in a cooler (size needed will be based on # ears)
3. Bring pots of water to boil and pour into cooler, covering all the corn
4. Add a stick of butter for every 6-8 ears of corn
5. Add seasoning to taste
6. Seal cooler and allow to sit for 45 minutes
7. Enjoy fresh cooler corn with friends and family

@ 266815e0:6cd408a5

Lot of people are starting to talk about building a web-of-trust and how nostr can or is already being used as such

We all know about using the kind:3 following lists as a simple WoT that can be used to filter out spam. but as we all know it does not really signal "trust", its mostly just "I find your content interesting"

But what about real "trust"... well its kind of multi-denominational, I could trust that your a good developer or a good journalist but still not trust you enough to invite you over to my house. There are some interesting and clever solutions proposed for quantifying "trust" in a digital sense but I'm not going to get into that here. I want to talk about something that I have not see anyone discuss yet.

How is the web-of-trust maintained? or more precisely how do you expect users to update the digital representation of the "trust" of other users?

Its all well and good to think of how a user would create that "trust" of another user when discovering them for the first time. They would click the "follow" button, or maybe even rate them on a few topics with a 1/5 star system But how will a user remove that trust? how will they update it if things change and they trust them less?

If our goal is to model "trust" in a digital sense then we NEED a way for the data to stay up-to-date and as accurate as possible. otherwise whats the use? If we don't have a friction-less way to update or remove the digital representation of "trust" then we will end up with a WoT that continuously grows and everyone is rated 10/10

In the case of nostr kind:3 following lists. its pretty easy to see how these would get updated. If someone posts something I dislike or I notice I'm getting board of their content. then I just unfollow them. An important part here is that I'm not thinking "I should update my trust score of this user" but instead "I'm no longer interested, I don't want to see this anymore"

But that is probably the easiest "trust" to update. because most of us on social media spend some time curating our feed and we are used to doing it. But what about the more obscure "trust" scores? whats the regular mechanism by which a user would update the "honestly" score of another user?

In the real world its easy, when I stop trusting someone I simply stop associating with them. there isn't any button or switch I need to update. I simply don't talk to them anymore, its friction-less But in the digital realm I would have to remove or update that trust. in other words its an action I need to take instead of an action I'm not doing. and actions take energy.

So how do we reflect something in the digital world that takes no-energy and is almost subconscious in the real world?

TLDR; webs-of-trust are not just about scoring other users once. you must keep the score up-to-date

@ 1aa437b3:51119dbd

So, with Npub.Pro being out there in the world now, I wonder if I could use Nostr for my primary blog. I really don't know exactly what I'm doing.

I'm creating this post on habla.news. npub.pro gives me the option to have posts or notes.. Posts I believe are long form and my target, and habla I believe creates posts.

I have npub.pro set to posts only, so once I send this out it will hopefully populate. This will be the first of many tests I believe. I know I can use tags also which makes me wonder how I can use them to my advantage also.

We will see...

@ a619eb76:11d75935

what is the story with these new pools, anyone know?

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/602865

@ 266815e0:6cd408a5

While I was in Mediera with all the other awesome people at the first SEC cohort there where a lot of discussions around data storage on nostr and if it could be made censorship-resistent

I remember lots of discussions about torrents, hypercore, nostr relays, and of course IPFS

There were a few things I learned from all these conversations:

1. All the existing solutions have one thing in common. A universal ID of some kind for files
2. HTTP is still good. we don't have to throw the baby out with the bath water
3. nostr could fix this... somehow

Some of the existing solutions work well for large files, and all of them are decentralization in some way. However none of them seem capable of serving up cat pictures for social media clients. they all have something missing...

An Identity system

An identity system would allow files to be "owned" by users. and once files have owners servers could start grouping files into a single thing instead of a 1000+ loose files

This can also greatly simplify the question of "what is spam" for a server hosting (or seeding) these files. since it could simply have a whitelist of owners (and maybe their friends)

What is blossom?

Blossom is a set of HTTP endpoints that allow nostr users to store and retrieve binary data on public servers using the sha256 hash as a universal id

What are Blobs?

blobs are chunks of binary data. they are similar to files but with one key difference, they don't have names

Instead blobs have a sha256 hash (like b1674191a88ec5cdd733e4240a81803105dc412d6c6708d53ab94fc248f4f553) as an ID

These IDs are universal since they can be computed from the file itself using the sha256 hashing algorithm ( you can get a files sha256 hash on linux using: sha256sum bitcoin.pdf )

How do the servers work?

Blossom servers expose four endpoints to let clients and users upload and manage blobs

• GET /<sha256> (optional file .ext)
• PUT /upload
• Authentication: Signed nostr event
• Returns a blob descriptor
• GET /list/<pubkey>
• Returns an array of blob descriptors
• Authentication (optional): Signed nostr event
• DELETE /<sha256>
• Authentication: Signed nostr event

What is Blossom Drive?

Blossom Drive is a nostr app built on top of blossom servers and allows users to create and manage folders of blobs

What are Drives

Drives are just nostr events (kind 30563) that store a map of blobs and what filename they should have along with some extra metadata

An example drive event would be json { "pubkey": "266815e0c9210dfa324c6cba3573b14bee49da4209a9456f9484e5106cd408a5", "created_at": 1710773987, "content": "", "kind": 30563, "tags": [ [ "name", "Emojis" ], [ "description", "nostr emojis" ], [ "d", "emojis" ], [ "r", "https://cdn.hzrd149.com/" ], [ "x", "303f018e613f29e3e43264529903b7c8c84debbd475f89368cb293ec23938981", "/noStrudel.png", "15161", "image/png" ], [ "x", "a0e2b39975c8da1702374b3eed6f4c6c7333e6ae0008dadafe93bd34bfb2ca78", "/satellite.png", "6853", "image/png" ], [ "x", "e8f3fae0f4a43a88eae235a8b79794d72e8f14b0e103a0fed1e073d8fb53d51f", "/amethyst.png", "20487", "image/png" ], [ "x", "70bd5836807b916d79e9c4e67e8b07e3e3b53f4acbb95c7521b11039a3c975c6", "/nos.png", "36521", "image/png" ], [ "x", "0fc304630279e0c5ab2da9c2769e3a3178c47b8609b447a30916244e89abbc52", "/primal.png", "29343", "image/png" ], [ "x", "9a03824a73d4af192d893329bbc04cd3798542ee87af15051aaf9376b74b25d4", "/coracle.png", "18300", "image/png" ], [ "x", "accdc0cdc048f4719bb5e1da4ff4c6ffc1a4dbb7cf3afbd19b86940c01111568", "/iris.png", "24070", "image/png" ], [ "x", "2e740f2514d6188e350d95cf4756bbf455d2f95e6a09bc64e94f5031bc4bba8f", "/damus.png", "32758", "image/png" ], [ "x", "2e019f08da0c75fb9c40d81947e511c8f0554763bffb6d23a7b9b8c9e8c84abb", "/old emojis/astral.png", "29365", "image/png" ], [ "x", "d97f842f2511ce0491fe0de208c6135b762f494a48da59926ce15acfdb6ac17e", "/other/rabbit.png", "19803", "image/png" ], [ "x", "72cb99b689b4cfe1a9fb6937f779f3f9c65094bf0e6ac72a8f8261efa96653f5", "/blossom.png", "4393", "image/png" ] ] }

There is a lot going on but the main thing is the list of "x" tags and the path that describes the folder and filename the blob should live at

If your interested, the full event definition is at github.com/hzrd149/blossom-drive

Getting started

Like every good nostr client it takes a small instruction manual in order to use it properly. so here are the steps for getting started

1. Open the app

Open https://blossom.hzrd149.com

2. Login using extension

You can also login using any of the following methods using the input - NIP-46 with your https://nsec.app or https://flare.pub account - a NIP-46 connection string - an ncryptsec password protected private key - a nsec unprotected private key (please don't) - bunker:// URI from nsecbunker

3. Add a blossom server

Right now https://cdn.satellite.earth is the only public server that is compatible with blossom drive. If you want to host your own I've written a basic implementation in TypeScript github.com/hzrd149/blossom-server

4. Start uploading your files

NOTE: All files upload to blossom drive are public by default. DO NOT upload private files

5. Manage files

Encrypted drives

There is also the option to encrypt drives using NIP-49 password encryption. although its not tested at all so don't trust it, verify

Whats next?

I don't know, but Im excited to see what everyone else on nostr builds with this. I'm only one developer at the end of the day and I can't think of everything

also all the images in this article are stored in one of my blossom drives here

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@ f977c464:32fcbe00

Güneşin kaybolmasının üçüncü günü, saat öğlen on ikiyi yirmi geçiyordu. Trenin kalkmasına yaklaşık iki saat vardı. Hepimiz perondaydık. Valizlerimiz, kolilerimiz, renk renk ve biçimsiz çantalarımızla yan yana dizilmiş, kısa aralıklarla tepemizdeki devasa saati kontrol ediyorduk.

Ama ne kadar dik bakarsak bakalım zaman bir türlü istediğimiz hızla ilerlemiyordu. Herkes birkaç dakika sürmesi gereken alelade bir doğa olayına sıkışıp kalmış, karanlıktan sürünerek çıkmayı deniyordu.

Bekleme salonuna doğru döndüm. Nefesimden çıkan buharın arkasında, kalın taş duvarları ve camlarıyla morg kadar güvenli ve soğuk duruyordu. Cesetleri o yüzden bunun gibi yerlere taşımaya başlamışlardı. Demek insanların bütün iyiliği başkaları onları gördüğü içindi ki gündüzleri gecelerden daha karanlık olduğunda hemen birbirlerinin gırtlağına çökmüş, böğürlerinde delikler açmış, gözlerini oyup kafataslarını parçalamışlardı.

İstasyonun ışığı titrediğinde karanlığın enseme saplandığını hissettim. Eğer şimdi, böyle kalabalık bir yerde elektrik kesilse başımıza ne gelirdi?

İçerideki askerlerden biri bakışlarımı yakalayınca yeniden saate odaklanmış gibi yaptım. Sadece birkaç dakika geçmişti.

“Tarlalarım gitti. Böyle boyum kadar ayçiçeği doluydu. Ah, hepsi ölüp gidiyor. Afitap’ın çiçekleri de gi-”

“Dayı, Allah’ını seversen sus. Hepimizi yakacaksın şimdi.”

Karanlıkta durduğunda, görünmez olmayı istemeye başlıyordun. Kimse seni görmemeli, nefesini bile duymamalıydı. Kimsenin de ayağının altında dolaşmamalıydın; gelip kazayla sana çarpmamalılar, takılıp sendelememeliydiler. Yoksa aslında hedefi sen olmadığın bir öfke gürlemeye başlar, yaşadığın ilk şoku ve acıyı silerek üstünden geçerdi.

İlk konuşan, yaşlıca bir adam, kafasında kasketi, nasırlı ellerine hohluyordu. Gözleri ve burnu kızarmıştı. Güneşin kaybolması onun için kendi başına bir felaket değildi. Hayatına olan pratik yansımalarından korkuyordu olsa olsa. Bir anının kaybolması, bu yüzden çoktan kaybettiği birinin biraz daha eksilmesi. Hayatta kalmasını gerektiren sebepler azalırken, hayatta kalmasını sağlayacak kaynaklarını da kaybediyordu.

Onu susturan delikanlıysa atkısını bütün kafasına sarmış, sakalı ve yüzünün derinliklerine kaçmış gözleri dışında bedeninin bütün parçalarını gizlemeye çalışıyordu. İşte o, güneşin kaybolmasının tam olarak ne anlama geldiğini anlamamış olsa bile, dehşetini olduğu gibi hissedebilenlerdendi.

Güneşin onlardan alındıktan sonra kime verileceğini sormuyorlardı. En başta onlara verildiğinde de hiçbir soru sormamışlardı zaten.

İki saat ne zaman geçer?

Midemin üstünde, sağ tarafıma doğru keskin bir acı hissettim. Karaciğerim. Gözlerimi yumdum. Yanımda biri metal bir nesneyi yere bıraktı. Bir kafesti. İçerisindeki kartalın ıslak kokusu burnuma ulaşmadan önce bile biliyordum bunu.

“Yeniden mi?” diye sordu bana kartal. Kanatları kanlı. Zamanın her bir parçası tüylerinin üstüne çöreklenmişti. Gagası bir şey, tahminen et parçası geveliyor gibi hareket ediyordu. Eski anılar kolay unutulmazmış. Şu anda kafesinin kalın parmaklıklarının ardında olsa da bunun bir aldatmaca olduğunu bir tek ben biliyordum. Her an kanatlarını iki yana uzatıverebilir, hava bu hareketiyle dalgalanarak kafesi esneterek hepimizi içine alacak kadar genişleyebilir, parmaklıklar önce ayaklarımızın altına serilir gibi gözükebilir ama aslında hepimizin üstünde yükselerek tepemize çökebilirdi.

Aşağıya baktım. Tahtalarla zapt edilmiş, hiçbir yere gidemeyen ama her yere uzanan tren rayları. Atlayıp koşsam… Çantam çok ağırdı. Daha birkaç adım atamadan, kartal, suratını bedenime gömerdi.

“Bu sefer farklı,” diye yanıtladım onu. “Yeniden diyemezsin. Tekrarladığım bir şey değil bu. Hatta bir hata yapıyormuşum gibi tonlayamazsın da. Bu sefer, insanların hak etmediğini biliyorum.”

“O zaman daha vahim. Süzme salaksın demektir.”

“İnsanların hak etmemesi, insanlığın hak etmediği anlamına gelmez ki.”

Az önce göz göze geldiğim genççe ama çökük asker hâlâ bana bakıyordu. Bir kartalla konuştuğumu anlamamıştı şüphesiz. Yanımdakilerden biriyle konuştuğumu sanmış olmalıydı. Ama konuştuğum kişiye bakmıyordum ona göre. Çekingence kafamı eğmiştim. Bir kez daha göz göze geldiğimizde içerideki diğer iki askere bir şeyler söyledi, onlar dönüp beni süzerken dışarı çıktı.

Yanımızdaki, az önce konuşan iki adam da şaşkınlıkla bir bana bir kartala bakıyordu.

“Yalnız bu sefer kalbin de kırılacak, Prometheus,” dedi kartal, bana. “Belki son olur. Biliyorsun, bir sürü soruna neden oluyor bu yaptıkların.”

Beni koruyordu sözde. En çok kanıma dokunan buydu. Kasıklarımın üstüne oturmuş, kanlı suratının ardında gözleri parlarken attığı çığlık kulaklarımda titremeye devam ediyordu. Bu tabloda kimsenin kimseyi düşündüğü yoktu. Kartalın, yanımızdaki adamların, artık arkama kadar gelmiş olması gereken askerin, tren raylarının, geçmeyen saatlerin…

Arkamı döndüğümde, asker sahiden oradaydı. Zaten öyle olması gerekiyordu; görmüştüm bunu, biliyordum. Kehanetler… Bir şeyler söylüyordu ama ağzı oynarken sesi çıkmıyordu. Yavaşlamış, kendisini saatin akışına uydurmuştu. Havada donan tükürüğünden anlaşılıyordu, sinirliydi. Korktuğu için olduğunu biliyordum. Her seferinde korkmuşlardı. Beni unutmuş olmaları işlerini kolaylaştırmıyordu. Sadece yeni bir isim vermelerine neden oluyordu. Bu seferkiyle beni lanetleyecekleri kesinleşmişti.

Olması gerekenle olanların farklı olması ne kadar acınasıydı. Olması gerekenlerin doğasının kötücül olmasıysa bir yerde buna dayanıyordu.

“Salaksın,” dedi kartal bana. Zamanı aşan bir çığlık. Hepimizin önüne geçmişti ama kimseyi durduramıyordu.

Sonsuzluğa kaç tane iki saat sıkıştırabilirsiniz?

Ben bir tane bile sıkıştıramadım.

Çantama uzanıyordum. Asker de sırtındaki tüfeğini indiriyordu. Benim acelem yoktu, onunsa eli ayağı birbirine dolaşıyordu. Oysaki her şey tam olması gerektiği anda olacaktı. Kehanet başkasının parmaklarının ucundaydı.

Güneş, bir tüfeğin patlamasıyla yeryüzüne doğdu.

Rayların üzerine serilmiş göğsümün ortasından, bir çantanın içinden.

Not: Bu öykü ilk olarak 2021 yılında Esrarengiz Hikâyeler'de yayımlanmıştır.

@ 5d4b6c8d:8a1c1ee3

How stupid is it for a government to sell bitcoin in return for a money it can already print at will? FFS 🤦

https://primal.net/e/note1z8aezletp3k570eqpxumc7t0y537nprujvgym2ssdfzxsglujmfskeg8ps

I wanted to make sure @TomK saw this.

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/602808

@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d

O Planetinha

Fumaça verde me entrando pelas narinas e um coro desafinado fazia uma base melódica.

nos confins da galáxia havia um planetinha isolado. Era um planeta feliz.

O homem vestido de mago começava a aparecer por detrás da fumaça verde.

O planetinha recebeu três presentes, mas o seu habitante, o homem, estava num estado de confusão tão grande que ameaçava estragá-los. Os homens já havia escravizado o primeiro presente, a vida; lutavam contra o segundo presente, a morte; e havia alguns que achavam que deviam destruir totalmente o terceiro, o amor, e com isto levar a desordem total ao pobre planetinha perdido, que se chamava Terra.

O coro desafinado entrou antes do "Terra" cantando várias vezes, como se imitasse um eco, "terra-terra-terraaa". Depois de uma pausa dramática, o homem vestido de mago voltou a falar.

Terra, nossa nave mãe.

Neste momento eu me afastei. À frente do palco onde o mago e seu coral faziam apelos à multidão havia vários estandes cobertos com a tradicional armação de quatro pernas e lona branca. Em todos os cantos da praça havia gente, gente dos mais variados tipos. Visitantes curiosos que se aproximavam atraídos pela fumaça verde e as barraquinhas, gente que aproveitava o movimento para vender doces sem pagar imposto, casais que se abraçavam de pé para espantar o frio, os tradicionais corredores que faziam seu cooper, gente cheia de barba e vestida para imitar os hippies dos anos 60 e vender colares estendidos no chão, transeuntes novos e velhos, vestidos como baladeiros ou como ativistas do ônibus grátis, grupos de ciclistas entusiastas.

O mago fazia agora apelos para que nós, os homens, habitantes do isolado planetinha, passássemos a ver o planetinha, nossa nave mãe, como um todo, e adquiríssemos a consciência de que ele estava entrando em maus lençóis. A idéia, reforçada pela logomarca do evento, era que parássemos de olhar só para a nossa vida e pensássemos no planeta.

A logomarca do evento, um desenho estilizado do planeta Terra, nada tinha a ver com seu nome: "Festival Andando de Bem com a Vida", mas havia sido ali colocada estrategicamente pelos organizadores, de quem parecia justamente sair a mensagem dita pelo mago.

Aquela multidão de pessoas que, assim como eu, tinham suas próprias preocupações, não podiam ver o quadro caótico que formavam, cada uma com seus atos isolados, ali naquela praça isolada, naquele planeta isolado. Quando o hippie barbudo, quase um Osho, assustava um casal para tentar vender-lhes um colar, a quantidade de caos que isto acrescentava à cena era gigantesca. Por um segundo, pude ver, como se estivesse de longe e acima, com toda a pretensão que este estado imaginativo carrega, a cena completa do caos.

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Uma nave-mãe, dessas de ficção científica, habitada por milhões de pessoas, seguia no espaço sem rumo, e sem saber que logo à frente um longo precipício espacial a esperava, para a desgraça completa sua e de seus habitantes.

Acostumados àquela nave tanto quanto outrora estiveram acostumados à sua terra natal, os homens viviam as próprias vidas sem nem se lembrar que estavam vagando pelo espaço. Ninguém sabia quem estava conduzindo a nave, e ninguém se importava.

No final do filme descobre-se que era a soma completa do caos que cada habitante produzia, com seus gestos egoístas e incapazes de levar em conta a totalidade, é que determinava a direção da nave-mãe. O efeito, no entanto, não era imediato, como nunca é. Havia gente de verdade encarregada de conduzir a nave, mas era uma gente bêbada, mau-caráter, que vivia brigando pelo controle da nave e o poder que isto lhes dava. Poder, status, dinheiro!

Essa gente bêbada era atraída até ali pela corrupção das instituições e da moral comum que, no fundo no fundo, era causada pelo egoísmo da população, através de um complexo -- mas que no filme aparece simplificado pela ação individual de um magnata do divertimento público -- processo social.

O homem vestido de mago era mais um agente causador de caos, com sua cena cheia de fumaça e sua roupa estroboscópica, ele achava que estava fazendo o bem ao alertar sua platéia, todos as sextas-feiras, de que havia algo que precisava ser feito, que cada um que estava ali ouvindo era responsável pelo planeta. A sua incapacidade, porém, de explicar o que precisava ser feito só aumentava a angústia geral; a culpa que ele jogava sobre seu público, e que era prontamente aceita e passada em frente, aos familiares e amigos de cada um, atormentava-os diariamente e os impedia de ter uma vida decente no trabalho e em casa. As famílias, estressadas, estavam constantemente brigando e os motivos mais insignificantes eram responsáveis pelas mais horrendas conseqüências.

O mago, que após o show tirava o chapéu entortado e ia tomar cerveja num boteco, era responsável por uma parcela considerável do caos que levava a nave na direção do seu desgraçado fim. No filme, porém, um dos transeuntes que de passagem ouviu um pedaço do discurso do mago despertou em si mesmo uma consiência transformadora e, com poderes sobre-humanos que lhe foram então concedidos por uma ordem iniciática do bem ou não, usando só os seus poderes humanos mesmo, o transeunte -- na primeira versão do filme um homem, na segunda uma mulher -- consegue consertar as instituições e retirar os bêbados da condução da máquina. A questão da moral pública é ignorada para abreviar a trama, já com duas horas e quarenta de duração, mas subentende-se que ela também fora resolvida.

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No planeta Terra real, que não está indo em direção alguma, preso pela gravidade ao Sol, e onde as pessoas vivem a própria vida porque lhes é impossível viver a dos outros, não têm uma consciência global de nada porque só é possível mesmo ter a consciência delas mesmas, e onde a maioria, de uma maneira ou de outra, está tentando como pode, fazer as coisas direito, o filme é exibido.

Para a maioria dos espectadores, é um filme que evoca reflexões, um filme forte. Por um segundo elas têm o mesmo vislumbre do caos generalizado que eu tive ali naquela praça. Para uma pequena parcela dos espectadores -- entre eles alguns dos que estavam na platéia do mago, o próprio mago, o seguidor do Osho, o casal de duas mulheres e o vendedor de brigadeiros, mas aos quais se somam também críticos de televisão e jornal e gente que fala pelos cotovelos na internet -- o filme é um horror, o filme é uma vulgarização de um problema real e sério, o filme apela para a figura do herói salvador e passa uma mensagem totalmente errada, de que a maioria da população pode continuar vivendo as suas própria vidinhas miseráveis enquanto espera por um herói que vem do Olimpo e os salva da mixórdia que eles mesmos causaram, é um filme que presta um enorme desserviço à causa.

No dia seguinte ao lançamento, num bar meio caro ali perto da praça, numa mesa com oito pessoas, entre elas seis do primeiro grupo e oito do segundo, discute-se se o filme levará ou não o Oscar. Eu estou em casa dormindo e não escuto nada.

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Kendisini aynada ilk defa gördüğü o gün, diğerleri gibi olduğunu anlamıştı. Oysaki her insan biricik olmalıydı. Sözgelimi sinirlendiğinde bir kaşı diğerinden birkaç milimetre daha az çatılabilirdi veya sevindiğinde dudağı ona has bir açıyla dalgalanabilirdi. Hatta bunların hiçbiri mümkün değilse, en azından, gözlerinin içinde sadece onun sahip olabileceği bir ışık parlayabilirdi. Çok sıradan, öyle sıradan ki kimsenin fark etmediği o milyonlarca minik şeyden herhangi biri. Ne olursa.

Ama yansımasına bakarken bunların hiçbirini bulamadı ve diğer günlerden hiç de farklı başlamamış o gün, işe gitmek için vagonunun gelmesini beklediği alelade bir metro istasyonunda, içinde kaybolduğu illüzyon dağılmaya başladı.

İlk önce derisi döküldü. Tam olarak dökülmedi aslında, daha çok kıvılcımlara dönüşüp bedeninden fırlamış ve bir an sonra sönerek külleşmiş, havada dağılmıştı. Ardında da, kaybolmadan hemen önce, kısa süre için hayal meyal görülebilen, bir ruhun yok oluşuna ağıt yakan rengârenk peri cesetleri bırakmıştı. Beklenenin aksine, havaya toz kokusu yayıldı.

Dehşete düştü elbette. Dehşete düştüler. Panikle üstlerini yırtan 50 işçi. Her şeyin sebebiyse o vagon.

Saçları da döküldü. Her tel, yere varmadan önce, her santimde ikiye ayrıla ayrıla yok oldu.

Bütün yüzeylerin mat olduğu, hiçbir şeyin yansımadığı, suyun siyah aktığı ve kendine ancak kameralarla bakabildiğin bir dünyada, vagonun içine yerleştirilmiş bir aynadan ilk defa kendini görmek.

Gözlerinin akları buharlaşıp havada dağıldı, mercekleri boşalan yeri doldurmak için eriyip yayıldı. Gerçeği görmemek için yaratılmış, bu yüzden görmeye hazır olmayan ve hiç olmayacak gözler.

Her şeyin o anda sona erdiğini sanabilirdi insan. Derin bir karanlık ve ölüm. Görmenin görmek olduğu o anın bitişi.

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Ben geldiğimde ölmüşlerdi.

Yani bozulmuşlardı demek istiyorum.

Belleklerini yeni taşıyıcılara takmam mümkün olmadı. Fiziksel olarak kusursuz durumdaydılar, olmayanları da tamir edebilirdim ama tüm o hengamede kendilerini baştan programlamış ve girdilerini modifiye etmişlerdi.

Belleklerden birini masanın üzerinden ileriye savurdu. Hınca hınç dolu bir barda oturuyorlardı. O ve arkadaşı.

Sırf şu kendisini insan sanan androidler travma geçirip delirmesin diye neler yapıyoruz, insanın aklı almıyor.

Eliyle arkasını işaret etti.

Polislerin söylediğine göre biri vagonun içerisine ayna yerleştirmiş. Bu zavallılar da kapı açılıp bir anda yansımalarını görünce kafayı kırmışlar.

Arkadaşı bunların ona ne hissettirdiğini sordu. Yani o kadar bozuk, insan olduğunu sanan androidi kendilerini parçalamış olarak yerde görmek onu sarsmamış mıydı?

Hayır, sonuçta belirli bir amaç için yaratılmış şeyler onlar. Kaliteli bir bilgisayarım bozulduğunda üzülürüm çünkü parasını ben vermişimdir. Bunlarsa devletin. Bana ne ki?

Arkadaşı anlayışla kafasını sallayıp suyundan bir yudum aldı. Kravatını biraz gevşetti.

Bira istemediğinden emin misin?

İstemediğini söyledi. Sahi, neden deliriyordu bu androidler?

Basit. Onların yapay zekâlarını kodlarken bir şeyler yazıyorlar. Yazılımcılar. Biliyorsun, ben donanımdayım. Bunlar da kendilerini insan sanıyorlar. Tiplerine bak.

Sesini alçalttı.

Arabalarda kaza testi yapılan mankenlere benziyor hepsi. Ağızları burunları bile yok ama şu geldiğimizden beri sakalını düzeltip duruyor mesela. Hayır, hepsi de diğerleri onun sakalı varmış sanıyor, o manyak bir şey.

Arkadaşı bunun delirmeleriyle bağlantısını çözemediğini söyledi. O da normal sesiyle konuşmaya devam etti.

Anlasana, aynayı falan ayırt edemiyor mercekleri. Lönk diye kendilerini görüyorlar. Böyle, olduğu gibi...

Nedenmiş peki? Ne gerek varmış?

Ne bileyim be abicim! Ahiret soruları gibi.

Birasına bakarak dalıp gitti. Sonra masaya abanarak arkadaşına iyice yaklaştı. Bulanık, bir tünelin ucundaki biri gibi, şekli şemalı belirsiz bir adam.

Ben seni nereden tanıyorum ki ulan? Kimsin sen?

Belleği makineden çıkardılar. İki kişiydiler. Soruşturmadan sorumlu memurlar.

─ Baştan mı başlıyoruz, diye sordu belleği elinde tutan ilk memur.

─ Bir kere daha deneyelim ama bu sefer direkt aynayı sorarak başla, diye cevapladı ikinci memur.

─ Bence de. Yeterince düzgün çalışıyor.

Simülasyon yüklenirken, ayakta, biraz arkada duran ve alnını kaşıyan ikinci memur sormaktan kendisini alamadı:

─ Bu androidleri niye böyle bir olay yerine göndermişler ki? Belli tost olacakları. İsraf. Gidip biz baksak aynayı kırıp delilleri mahvetmek zorunda da kalmazlar.

Diğer memur sandalyesinde hafifçe dönecek oldu, o sırada soruyu bilgisayarın hoparlöründen teknisyen cevapladı.

Hangi işimizde bir yamukluk yok ki be abi.

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Ama bir son değildi. Üstlerindeki tüm illüzyon dağıldığında ve çıplak, cinsiyetsiz, birbirinin aynı bedenleriyle kaldıklarında sıra dünyaya gelmişti.

Yere düştüler. Elleri -bütün bedeni gibi siyah turmalinden, boğumları çelikten- yere değdiği anda, metronun zemini dağıldı.

Yerdeki karolar öncesinde beyazdı ve çok parlaktı. Tepelerindeki floresan, ışığını olduğu gibi yansıtıyor, tek bir lekenin olmadığı ve tek bir tozun uçmadığı istasyonu aydınlatıyorlardı.

Duvarlara duyurular asılmıştı. Örneğin, yarın akşam kültür merkezinde 20.00’da başlayacak bir tekno blues festivalinin cıvıl cıvıl afişi vardı. Onun yanında daha geniş, sarı puntolu harflerle yazılmış, yatay siyah kesiklerle çerçevesi çizilmiş, bir platformdan düşen çöp adamın bulunduğu “Dikkat! Sarı bandı geçmeyin!” uyarısı. Biraz ilerisinde günlük resmi gazete, onun ilerisinde bir aksiyon filminin ve başka bir romantik komedi filminin afişleri, yapılacakların ve yapılmayacakların söylendiği küçük puntolu çeşitli duyurular... Duvar uzayıp giden bir panoydu. On, on beş metrede bir tekrarlanıyordu.

Tüm istasyonun eni yüz metre kadar. Genişliği on metre civarı.

Önlerinde, açık kapısından o mendebur aynanın gözüktüğü vagon duruyordu. Metro, istasyona sığmayacak kadar uzundu. Bir kılıcın keskinliğiyle uzanıyor ama yer yer vagonların ek yerleriyle bölünüyordu.

Hiçbir vagonda pencere olmadığı için metronun içi, içlerindekiler meçhuldü.

Sonrasında karolar zerrelerine ayrılarak yükseldi. Floresanın ışığında her yeri toza boğdular ve ortalığı gri bir sisin altına gömdüler. Çok kısa bir an. Afişleri dalgalandırmadılar. Dalgalandırmaya vakitleri olmadı. Yerlerinden söküp aldılar en fazla. Işık birkaç kere sönüp yanarak direndi. Son kez söndüğünde bir daha geri gelmedi.

Yine de etraf aydınlıktı. Kırmızı, her yere eşit dağılan soluk bir ışıkla.

Yer tamamen tele dönüşmüştü. Altında çapraz hatlarla desteklenmiş demir bir iskelet. Işık birkaç metreden daha fazla aşağıya uzanamıyordu. Sonsuzluğa giden bir uçurum.

Duvarın yerini aynı teller ve demir iskelet almıştı. Arkasında, birbirine vidalarla tutturulmuş demir plakalardan oluşan, üstünden geçen boruların ek yerlerinden bazen ince buharların çıktığı ve bir süre asılı kaldıktan sonra ağır, yağlı bir havayla sürüklendiği bir koridor.

Diğer tarafta paslanmış, pencerelerindeki camlar kırıldığı için demir plakalarla kapatılmış külüstür bir metro. Kapının karşısındaki aynadan her şey olduğu gibi yansıyordu.

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Bir konteynırın içini andıran bir evde, gerçi gayet de birbirine eklenmiş konteynırlardan oluşan bir şehirde “andıran” demek doğru olmayacağı için düpedüz bir konteynırın içinde, masaya mum görüntüsü vermek için koyulmuş, yarı katı yağ atıklarından şekillendirilmiş kütleleri yakmayı deniyordu. Kafasında hayvan kıllarından yapılmış grili siyahlı bir peruk. Aynı kıllardan kendisine gür bir bıyık da yapmıştı.

Üstünde mavi çöp poşetlerinden yapılmış, kravatlı, şık bir takım.

Masanın ayakları yerine oradan buradan çıkmış parçalar konulmuştu: bir arabanın şaft mili, üst üste konulmuş ve üstünde yazı okunamayan tenekeler, boş kitaplar, boş gazete balyaları... Hiçbir şeye yazı yazılmıyordu, gerek yoktu da zaten çünkü merkez veri bankası onları fark ettirmeden, merceklerden giren veriyi sentezleyerek insanlar için dolduruyordu. Yani, androidler için. Farklı şekilde isimlendirmek bir fark yaratacaksa.

Onların mercekleri için değil. Bağlantıları çok önceden kopmuştu.

─ Hayatım, sofra hazır, diye bağırdı yatak odasındaki karısına.

Sofrada tabak yerine düz, bardak yerine bükülmüş, çatal ve bıçak yerine sivriltilmiş plakalar.

Karısı salonun kapısında durakladı ve ancak kulaklarına kadar uzanan, kocasınınkine benzeyen, cansız, ölü hayvanların kıllarından ibaret peruğunu eliyle düzeltti. Dudağını, daha doğrusu dudağının olması gereken yeri koyu kırmızı bir yağ tabakasıyla renklendirmeyi denemişti. Biraz da yanaklarına sürmüştü.

─ Nasıl olmuş, diye sordu.

Sesi tek düzeydi ama hafif bir neşe olduğunu hissettiğinize yemin edebilirdiniz.

Üzerinde, çöp poşetlerinin içini yazısız gazete kağıtlarıyla doldurarak yaptığı iki parça giysi.

─ Çok güzelsin, diyerek kravatını düzeltti kocası.

─ Sen de öylesin, sevgilim.

Yaklaşıp kocasını öptü. Kocası da onu. Sonra nazikçe elinden tutarak, sandalyesini geriye çekerek oturmasına yardım etti.

Sofrada yemek niyetine hiçbir şey yoktu. Gerek de yoktu zaten.

Konteynırın kapısı gürültüyle tekmelenip içeri iki memur girene kadar birbirlerine öyküler anlattılar. O gün neler yaptıklarını. İşten erken çıkıp yemyeşil çimenlerde gezdiklerini, uçurtma uçurduklarını, kadının nasıl o elbiseyi bulmak için saatlerce gezip yorulduğunu, kocasının kısa süreliğine işe dönüp nasıl başarılı bir hamleyle yaşanan krizi çözdüğünü ve kadının yanına döndükten sonra, alışveriş merkezinde oturdukları yeni dondurmacının dondurmalarının ne kadar lezzetli olduğunu, boğazlarının ağrımasından korktuklarını...

Akşam film izleyebilirlerdi, televizyonda -boş ve mat bir plaka- güzel bir film oynayacaktı.

İki memur. Çıplak bedenleriyle birbirinin aynı. Ellerindeki silahları onlara doğrultmuşlardı. Mum ışığında, tertemiz bir örtünün serili olduğu masada, bardaklarında şaraplarla oturan ve henüz sofranın ortasındaki hindiye dokunmamış çifti gördüklerinde bocaladılar.

Hiç de androidlere bilinçli olarak zarar verebilecek gibi gözükmüyorlardı.

─ Sessiz kalma hakkına sahipsiniz, diye bağırdı içeri giren ikinci memur. Söylediğiniz her şey...

Cümlesini bitiremedi. Yatak odasındaki, masanın üzerinden gördüğü o şey, onunla aynı hareketleri yapan android, yoksa, bir aynadaki yansıması mıydı?

Bütün illüzyon o anda dağılmaya başladı.

Not: Bu öykü ilk olarak 2020 yılında Esrarengiz Hikâyeler'de yayımlanmıştır.

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QUESTION:

So I found this shareware game: game repo

I want to turn it into a lightning/nostr game, kind of like that lntictactoe game. I just like the idea of throwing some sats in on a guessing game like that, maybe even just loading them in up front for anybody that wants to play for some free sats. The license looks pretty, "do whatever you want",y to me, but maybe somebody that does this more often might have some more insight.

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I’m going to be on an ordinals panels as one of the people who is counter arguing the claim that they are good for bitcoin. I decided to brush up on the technicals on how inscriptions work. I am starting to see luke’s perspective on how it is exploiting a loophole in bitcoin’s anti-data-spam mechanisms.

Storing data in Bitcoin, the “standard” way

The standard way you add “data” to bitcoin is by calling the OP_RETURN opcode. Bitcoin devs noticed that people were storing data (like the bitcoin whitepaper) in the utxo set via large multisig transactions. The problem with this is that this set is unprunable and could grow over time. OP_RETURN outputs on the other-hand are provably prunable and don’t add to utxo bloat.

Here’s an excerpt from the march 2014 0.9.0 release notes that talks about this:

On OP_RETURN: There was been some confusion and misunderstanding in the community, regarding the OP_RETURN feature in 0.9 and data in the blockchain. This change is not an endorsement of storing data in the blockchain. The OP_RETURN change creates a provably-prunable output, to avoid data storage schemes – some of which were already deployed – that were storing arbitrary data such as images as forever-unspendable TX outputs, bloating bitcoin’s UTXO database. Storing arbitrary data in the blockchain is still a bad idea; it is less costly and far more efficient to store non-currency data elsewhere.

Much of the work on bitcoin core has been focused on making sure the system continues to function in a decentralized way for its intended purpose in the presence of people trying to abuse it for things like storing data. Bitcoin core has always discouraged this, as it is not designed for storage of images and data, it is meant for moving digital coins around in cyberspace.

To help incentive-align people to not do stupid things, OP_RETURN transactions were not made non-standard, so that they are relayable by peers and miners, but with the caveat:

1. They can only push 40 bytes (later increased to 80,83, I’m guessing to support larger root merkle hashes since that is the only sane usecase for op_return)

Bitcoin also added an option called -datacarriersize which limits the total number of bytes from these outputs that you will relay or mine.

Why inscriptions are technically an exploit

Inscriptions get around the datacarriersize limit by disguising data as bitcoin script program data via OP_PUSH inside OP_IF blocks. Ordinals do not use OP_RETURN and are not subjected to datacarriersize limits, so noderunners and miners currently have limited control over the total size of this data that they wish to relay and include in blocks. Luke’s fork of bitcoin-core has some options to fight this spam, so hopefully we will see this in core sometime soon as well.

Inscriptions are also taking advantage of features in segwit v1 (witness discount) and v2/taproot (no arbitrary script size limit). Each of these features have interesting and well-justified reasons why they were introduced.

The purpose of the witness discount was to make it cheaper to spend many outputs which helps the reduction of the utxo set size. Inscriptions took advantage of this discount to store monke jpegs disguised as bitcoin scripts. Remember, bitcoin is not for storing data, so anytime bitcoin-devs accidentally make it cheap and easy to relay data then this should be viewed as an exploit. Expect it to be fixed, or at least provide tools to noderunners for fighting this spam.

Where do we go from here

The interesting part of this story is that people seem to attach value to images stored on the bitcoin blockchain, and they are willing to pay the fee to get it in the block, so non-ideologic miners and people who don’t care about the health and decentralization of bitcoin are happy to pay or collect the fee and move on.

Data should not get a discount, people should pay full price if they want to store data. They should just use op_return and hashes like opentimestamps or any other reasonable protocol storing data in bitcoin.

After going through this analysis I’ve come to the opinion that this is a pretty bad data-spam exploit and bitcoin devs should be working on solutions. Ideological devs like luke who actually care about the health and decentralization of the network are and I’m glad to see it.

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Curious if the devs on SN have any insights, opinions, or recommendations regarding FP. I've been aware of it for many years, I get the basic concepts but I'm now working on a rewrite of an existing app and another dev and I are considering FP.

Its gonna be a Typescript based node application likely using ExpressJS.

My college is a huge advocate for FP and really likes fp-ts.

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/602772

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1. 計算が得意 成功する投資家は数字に精通している必要があります 投資の世界では複雑な計算はほとんどありませんが、数字、パーセンテージ、確率に精通していることは不可欠です。

財務諸表分析は、計算スキルを応用する主な方法の 1 つです。優れた投資家は、企業の過去の経営状況を理解することができる財務諸表分析に優れています。将来の運用状況を理解しています。

財務諸表分析の目的は 2 つあり、1 つは企業価値の生命線であるフリー キャッシュ フローに財務諸表を換算することです。

フリーキャッシュフローの計算方法は、現金収入から始まり、将来の利益を生み出すために会社が行った投資を差し引きます。これは、会社が利払い、配当、自社株買いの形で株主に還元できる総額でもあります。企業の価値創造の見通しを損なう。

企業の業績を測る指標として利益が最も広く使われていますが、利益の成長と価値の成長は全く異なります。企業の投資が適切な収益を達成できなかった場合、企業は現在価値を重視することによって、利益を増やすことになる可能性があります。将来のフリー キャッシュ フローを考慮すると、思慮深い投資家は財務諸表を価値を決定する要素に変換します。

財務諸表分析の 2 番目の目的は、企業の戦略とそれが価値を生み出す方法との関連性を確立することです。簡単なアプローチは、同じ業界の 2 つの企業の経費は比較できるかどうかです。資本の使い方は似ていますか? 企業の資金の使い方や投資リソースの配分方法の違いに注目することは、自社の競争上の地位を洞察するのに役立ちます。

投下資本利益率 (ROIC) の推移を見ることで、より簡単な分析を行うことができます。ROIC は、収益性 (税引き後純営業利益/売上高) と資本回転率 (売上高/投下資本) の 2 つの部分に分けることができます。

営業利益率が高く、資本回転率が低い企業は通常、ポーターのファイブ・フォースのビジネス分析の創始者であるマイケル・ポーターが提唱した「差別化」戦略を追求しています。

営業利益率が低く、資本回転率が高い企業は、「コストリーダーシップ」戦略に従っています。

企業がどのようにお金を稼ぐかを分析することは、その優位性をどれだけ長く維持できるか（ROICが魅力的であれば）、または企業が利益を増やすために何をしなければならないかを評価することに直接影響します。

ビジネスを理解するには、数字を理解する必要があります。無形資産への投資が増え、有形資産への投資が減少するにつれて、この作業はより困難になります。

2. 企業価値を理解する 投資において何が変化し、何が不変であるかを考えるのは興味深いことです。実際、上場企業の平均的な半減期は約 10 年であり、投資可能な分野は常に変化しています。テクノロジーの変化、消費者の好み、競争などの未知の要因によって変化します。

しかし、投資家にとっては、将来のフリーキャッシュフローの現在価値が金融資産の価値を決定するというほぼ不変の概念があり、これは株式、債券、不動産にも当てはまります。

株式投資家にとってバリュエーションは課題です。なぜなら、キャッシュ フロー、時間、リスクという価値の各推進要因は期待に基づいているからです。債券投資家にとって、3 つの推進要因のうち 2 つは契約に基づいています。

優れた投資家は、将来のフリー キャッシュ フローの規模と持続可能性を理解することに重点を置いています。投資家が考慮しなければならない要素には、業界がライフサイクルのどの段階にあるか、業界における企業の競争力、参入障壁、企業の経済状況などが含まれます。資本を配分する経営者のスキル。

この性質の必然的な結果として、優れた投資家はPERや企業価値/EBITDA倍率などの評価方法の限界を理解しています。実際、評価倍率は評価の結果ではなく、思慮深い投資家なら誰でも理解するでしょう。これを忘れないでください。ショートカットは時間を節約できるので便利ですが、盲点もあります。現金は事実であり、利益は視点です。

3. 企業戦略を正しく評価する この属性には 2 つの側面があります。1 つは、企業がどのように収益を上げているかについての基本的な理解です。たとえば、小売業者の基本的な分析単位は店舗の経済学です。

店舗を設立して在庫を埋めるのにどれくらいの費用がかかりますか? 利益率はどのくらいですか? これらの質問への回答により、投資家は店舗の経済的収益性を評価できるようになります。会社全体を理解するまで。

優れた投資家は、企業がどのようにして利益を上げているかを明確に説明し、収益性の原動力の変化を把握することができます。企業がどのように利益を上げているかを理解していなければ、その企業の株を保有することはありません。

2 番目の側面は、企業の持続的な競争優位性を習得することです。企業の投資収益率が資本の機会費用よりも高く、競合他社よりも高い収益を上げている場合、その企業は業界とその競争優位性をどのように分析するかということになります。一般的な手法には、業界の魅力を形成する「5 つの力」、バリューチェーン分析、破壊的イノベーションの脅威の評価、および企業固有の利点の源泉が含まれます。

戦略の鍵は、トレードオフを理解することです。戦略とは、競合他社との差別化を図るために、どの活動を行うべきか、どの活動を行わないのかについて難しい選択をすることを意味します。選択が必要だ。

優れた投資家は、フランチャイズの周りに経済的な堀を構築し、競合他社から事業を守ることができる企業の独自の側面を高く評価しています。マイケル・ポーターが何年も前に強調したように、堀の規模と期間は重要な要素です。戦略と評価は連携して行う必要があります。これは戦略を理解するためのマクロな側面です。

4. 効果的な比較 投資において比較は重要な要素です。株式と債券、アクティブとパッシブ、バリューと成長、株式Aと株式B、現在と将来を比較するのは簡単ですが、それは苦手です。

おそらく、投資家が行うべき最も重要な比較、そして一般の投資家と優れた投資家を区別する最も重要な比較は、企業の将来の財務実績を反映するファンダメンタルズと期待の比較です。

売上成長、営業利益率、投資需要、投資収益などの価値要因は、株価に含まれる財務実績を反映するファンダメンタルズを構成します。

市場でお金を稼ぐには、現在の価格とは異なる視点が必要です。ほとんどの投資家はファンダメンタルズが良いときは買いたいと考えますが、ファンダメンタルズが悪いときは売りたいと考えます。二つ。

投資の興味深い例えとしては、競馬が挙げられます。

馬への賭け金は、その馬がレースに勝つオッズまたは確率に反映されます。私たちの目的は、どの馬が勝つかを把握することではなく、どの馬のオッズがレースでどのように走る可能性に対して誤って評価されているかを判断することです。ファンダメンタルズは馬がどれだけ速く走れるかということですが、投資家はこれらの要素を個別に考慮する必要があります。

人間は類推によって考える傾向があり、これがいくつかの認知的問題を引き起こす可能性があります。問題の 1 つは、1 つまたはいくつかの類推が、当面の事例に関連する参照クラスを完全に反映していない可能性があることです。

たとえば、この反転が以前の反転と類似しているかどうかを尋ねる代わりに、すべての反転の基本的な成功率がどのくらいかを尋ねるほうがよいでしょう。関連する参照クラスの結果を適切に統合すると、予測の品質が向上することが心理学者によって証明されています。

アナロジーを使用する場合のもう 1 つの課題は、類似点に焦点を当てると類似点が見え、相違点に焦点を当てると相違点が見えてくることです。

最後の課題は、特性と環境の観点から因果関係を検討することです。特性は比較対象の特性に限定されるため、優れた投資家は共通の罠に陥る可能性が低くなります。

5. 確率的な観点から考える 投資は、さまざまな結果の可能性を常に考慮しなければならない活動です。まず、資産の価格が確率や結果を歪めるという、一定の考え方が必要です。

フランチャイズのゼネラルマネージャーからプロのギャンブラーまで、確率分野で成功しているオペレーターは全員、利点を見つけることに重点を置いています。

結果において確率が重要な役割を果たす場合、結果の重要性だけでなく意思決定プロセスに焦点を当てることが重要です。これは、特定の結果が意思決定の質を示すものではない可能性があるためです。

良い決定は時には悪い結果をもたらしますが、悪い決定は時には良い結果をもたらします。しかし、たとえ時々間違いを犯したとしても、長期的には良い決定は良い結果をもたらします。

時間枠とサンプルサイズも重要な考慮事項です。プロセスに焦点を当て、定期的で避けられない悪い結果を受け入れることを学ぶことが重要です。

優れた投資家は、確率に関するもう 1 つの現実を認識しています。正しい頻度 (打率) は重要ではなく、正しいときにどれだけ儲かるか、間違っているときにどれだけ失うか (長打率) が重要です。

損失を嫌うため、損失から得られる苦痛は同じ大きさの利益から得られる喜びの約2倍であるため、この概念を実行するのは難しい場合があります。言い換えれば、私たちは間違っていることよりも正しいことを好むのですが、目標が増加することである場合。投資ポートフォリオの価値では、長打率が最も重要です。

確率を計算するには 3 つの方法があります。1 つ目は主観的確率です。これは、知識または信念の状態に対応する数値です。たとえば、2 つの国の間で戦争が起こる可能性を主観的確率に割り当てることができます。

2 つ目は傾向です。これは通常、システムの物理的特性に基づいています。たとえば、サイコロが完全な立方体であり、出目は 1/6 で偏っていないという事実に基づいて、4 の目を出す確率を推定できます。 。

最後の方法は頻度です。これは、考察の中で適切に引用されたクラスの結果を考慮します。

頻度法を使用すると、売上や利益の成長率など、頻繁に更新する必要がある主観的な確率を予測することもできますが、確率と投資結果の関連付けが信頼できない場合もあります。投資成果はほとんど知られていない。

これは、予想の範囲を超えた結果が大きな影響を与える可能性がある「ブラック スワン」の領域であり、この領域に参加する予定がある場合は、ポジティブなブラック スワンに触れることが目標です。

バフェットはこの特性をうまく要約しました:「利益の確率と利益の可能性の額を掛け、損失の確率と損失の可能性の額を引くと、結果が得られます。それが私たちがやろうとしていることです。それは不完全ですが、それが現実です」ポイント。"

6. 意見を効果的に更新する ほとんどの人は、たとえ事実が自分の信念が間違っていることを示していたとしても、自分の信念に反する現実に直面したときにのみ、正しいと思う独自の世界観を持ち続ける傾向があります。考えを変えることを余儀なくされます。

間違っていると感じないようにする最も簡単な方法は、確証バイアスに陥ることです。確証バイアスでは、自分の視点を裏付ける情報を探し、不明確な情報を自分の信念に有利な方法で解釈してしまいます。問題を抱え、合理性を理由に変化を避けます。

しかし、優れた投資家は、私たちのほとんどがしない 2 つのことを行います (1) 彼らは自分とは異なる情報や視点を求めます。 (2) 証拠がそうすべきであることを示している場合、これらの仕事はどちらも簡単ではありません。

さまざまな視点を求める特性は「積極的にオープンマインド」と呼ばれます。ポジティブにオープンマインドな人は、情報収集の必要性を予測するタスクで優れたパフォーマンスを発揮することが研究によって示されています。ポジティブにオープンな考え方は、確証バイアスを打ち消すことができます。

優れた投資家は、新しい情報が入手可能になると見解も変わります。その考え方は、何かについての信念の度合いを確率で表すことができるというものです。正式な方法は、ベイズの定理を使用することです。特定の出来事が起こった場合に、理論や信念が真実である確率。

実際の課題は、因果関係を説明しているように見えても実際には説明していない情報に過剰に反応することを避けることと、本当に重要ではあるが因果関係がないと思われる情報を見つけることです。また、変化の大きさも重要です。信念の度合いが著しく増減する。

優れた投資家は、世界は常に変化しており、私たちの見解はすべて脆弱であることを認識しており、積極的に異なる視点を求め、新しい情報に基づいて信念を変えています。

あなたの見解を更新した結果、ポートフォリオ内の投資の位置や比重が変化するという行動が起こる可能性があります。あなたのクライアントを含む他の人は、この心理的柔軟性に不安を感じるかもしれません。しかし、良い思考には、世界をできるだけ正確に認識し続けることが必要です。

7. 行動の偏見に注意する 心理学教授のキース・スタノビッチは、知能指数 (IQ) と合理性指数 (RQ) を区別することを好みます。IQ は認知作業において真に役立つ認知スキルを測定し、RQ はこれらの能力の重複を測定します。重要なのは、合理性指数を高めることができるということです。

ウォーレン・バフェットは、エンジン馬力 (IQ) と出力 (RQ) を区別する際に、この点を次のように理解しました。

「私はいつもIQと才能を馬力だと考えていました。しかし、出力、エンジン効率は合理性に依存します。多くの人は400馬力のエンジンから始めますが、すべてのパワーを出力する200馬力のエンジンがあるとしても、出力はわずか100馬力です。」 、それははるかに良い選択です。

人間はヒューリスティックなルールを使用する傾向があり、それは多くの場合正しく、時間を大幅に節約します。しかし、これらのヒューリスティックには関連するバイアスがあり、論理や確率から逸脱した思考につながる可能性があります。

ヒューリスティックの例には、可用性 (関連情報ではなく利用可能な情報に依存する)、代表性 (人や物体を不正確なカテゴリーに分類する)、アンカリング (アンカリングする数値を重視しすぎる) などがあります。優れた投資家は、これらの概念を理解しているだけでなく、投資プロセス中の行動バイアスを管理または軽減するための措置。

プロスペクト理論は、リスクのある状況では、個人の意思決定が標準的な経済手法から逸脱することを示唆しており、損失回避は、比較可能な利益よりも損失を重視することを示唆していますが、損失回避は進化論によって説得力を持って説明されます。投資管理。

認知的合理性、つまり自分の信念が世界にどの程度対応しているかは、合理性指数の重要な要素です。合理性指数のスコアが高い人は、適切に調整されています。つまり、特定の結果に割り当てられる確率は、大規模なサンプルにおいて正確であることが多いということです。評価を向上させる 1 つの方法は、予測を追跡し、結果に基づいて評価することです。

行動バイアスを回避する能力は、部分的には性格、部分的には訓練、部分的には環境によるものである可能性があります。優秀な投資家は一般に、認知バイアスの影響を平均的な人よりも受けにくく、バイアスとそれに対処する方法を理解しており、職場環境に身を置いています。それによって彼らはよく考えることができるのです。

8. 情報と影響力の違いを理解する 資本市場では、価格は将来の財務パフォーマンスの期待を示すものとして有益な情報を提供します。優れた投資家は、意思決定の際に期待とファンダメンタルズとの関係を上手に解釈します。

しかし、投資は本質的に社会的な活動であるため、価格は情報源から影響力の源へと変化する可能性があります。これは市場の歴史の中で何度も起こりました。

スタンフォード社会学教授マーク・グラノヴェッターが提案した閾値モデルは、そのような行動を研究するのに最適なモデルの 1 つです。

公共の広場に 100 人の潜在的な暴動者がいると想像してください。各人には暴動に参加するために見なければならない暴動者の数である「暴動の閾値」があり、ある人の閾値は 0 (扇動者)、別の人の閾値は 1 であると仮定します。 2 など、99 まで続きます。

このしきい値の均一な分布により、ドミノ効果が発生し、扇動者が石で窓を割り、1 人が参加し、暴動の規模が限界に達すると全員が参加するようになります。 「暴動に参加する」という意味でミーム株を買えば、株式市場での意味がわかるでしょう。

扇動者を除いて、暴動が良い考えだと考える人はほとんどいないでしょうが、ある程度の人が暴動に巻き込まれると、彼らも暴動に参加するようになるのです。これが株式の情報価値が置かれる理由です。脇に置いて、影響要素が代わりに使用されます。

優れた投資家は、影響力の渦に押し流されません。これには、他人の目を気にしないという性質が必要ですが、これは人間に生まれつき備わっているものではありません。実際、成功した投資家の多くは、投資において非常に価値のあるスキルを持っています。他人の意見を公然と無視することは、人生において非常に多くのことです。

成功するには、さまざまな視点を考慮する必要がありますが、最終的には思慮深い、合意を避ける議論を形成する必要があります。大衆は正しいことが多いですが、彼らが間違っている場合には、それに反対する心理的な強さが必要です。

9. ポジションサイズ。

1. ポジションサイズ。 パグ・ピアソンは、葉巻を吸う伝説的なギャンブラーであり、ワールド シリーズ オブ ポーカーで優勝し、世界最高のビリヤード プレーヤーの 1 人です。

成功の理由について尋ねられたピアソン氏は、「良いギャンブルをするには3つのことがある。60対40の確率シリーズの結果を知ること、資金管理、そして自分自身を理解することである。」と述べた。 , しかし、投資実務においては資本管理は最も注目されていません。

Ben Mezrich が書いた『Bringing Down The House』は、ラスベガスにカウンティング カード システムを導入して大金を稼いだ 6 人の MIT 学生の物語です。そのシステムは 2 つの部分から構成されています。

1 つ目は、カードを数える方法です。ここでは、チーム メンバーがさまざまなテーブルに分散され、オッズが良好であることを示す信号を作成します。しかし、システムの 2 番目の部分は、ギャンブルでのオッズを考慮するという点で見落とされがちです。テーブルと自分の資金サイズを考慮し、チームメンバーはどれくらい賭けるべきかを正確に知る必要があります。

同様に、投資を成功させるには 2 つの部分があります。利点のあるシンボルを見つけることと、適切なポジション サイズを通じてその利点を最大化することです。一方、ほとんどすべての投資会社は利点に焦点を当てていますが、通常はポジション サイズにはあまり注意が払われません。

適切な投資ポートフォリオを構築するには、目標を特定し（一定期間にわたって資金を最大化する、または一括投資する）、一連の機会を特定し（多くの小さな利点または大きな利点）、制約（流動性、回収率、レバレッジ）を考慮する必要があります。質問は、ポジションサイジングとポートフォリオ構造の適切な戦略を示唆します。

投資家にとってどの方法が最も簡単かは、目標、機会、制限に関する質問にどう答えるかによって大きく異なりますが、全体として、ほとんどの投資家はポジションサイズの管理が下手ですが、優秀な投資家はこの分野でより効率的です。

賢明な投資家は、長期的な成功には利点を見つけて適切な賭けをすることが重要であることを理解しています。

10. 本を読んで、心を開いてください。 チャーリー・マンガーは、「成功は好奇心、集中力、忍耐力、そして自己批判から生まれる」というアインシュタインの考え方が大好きだと述べています。自己批判とは、自分の考えを変え、自分の好きな考えを打ち破る能力を指します。読書はこれらすべての資質を養う活動です。 。

マンガー氏はまた、「私のこれまでの人生で、常に読書をしない賢い人を（さまざまな分野で）見たことがない」とも述べた。これは大げさかもしれないが、投資の分野でも同様のようだ。

優れた投資家は通常、読書に時間を割いていますが、読書に時間を費やしていると、他のことにお金がかかりません。成功者の多くは読書を第一に考えています。

第二に、優れた読書家は、ビジネス書や金融書だけでなく、さまざまな分野の資料を読む傾向があります。自分の好奇心に従って、一見異なる分野のアイデアが役立つかどうかを知るのは困難です。

最後に、自分の意見に同意できない思慮深い人を見つけて、その人の意見を注意深く読んでください。これは、前向きで偏見のない思考を維持するのに役立ちます。

研究によると、成功者は多くの本を読んでおり、さらに重要なことに、読書は継続的な教育の主な手段であることがわかっています。なぜなら、投資家は大量の読書情報をインプットする必要があるからです。実用的なアイデア。

結論は、 失敗の理由はさまざまですが、成功する人には多くの似たような特徴があります。

数字に精通している、フリーキャッシュフローを理解している、世界戦略を正確に評価している、期待とファンダメンタルズを効果的に比較している、確率的な観点から考える、自分の視点を効果的に変える、行動のバイアスに注意する、情報と影響力の違いを理解する、ポジション管理をうまく行う、読書と心を開くこと。

これらの優れた資質は、さまざまな優れた投資家に反映されており、私たちが長期的に学び続ける価値もあります。

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Hola nostriches. Hoy quiero hacer una publicación a modo de acercamiento al surgimiento de las categorías de género y feminismo. Así que si te interesa el tema haz un esfuerzo, quédate y lee hasta el final.

El «nuevo» feminismo surge en los años 60 en aquellos países desarrollados que acordaron el reconocimiento a los derechos humanos contenidos en la declaración respectiva de la ONU. Entonces, como extensión a dicho reconocimiento es que se gesta el movimiento feminista. A partir de entonces, se vuelve a plantear la relación entre naturaleza y cultura y se llega a la conclusión de que las diferencias sociales van más allá de las diferencias biológicas, lo cual tiene que ver con que hasta la satisfacción de las necesidades elementales como son la alimentación, la vivienda o el vestuario, están condicionadas por construcciones sociales.

Pues resulta que una de las primeras propuestas identificó la subordinación femenina producto de una organización patriarcal, tomando la categoría patriarcado de Max Weber. Es así como la visión de patriarcado se extendió al discurso político y académico. Sin embargo, no existía información acerca del desarrollo histórico de dicha categoría, sistematización, variaciones, etc., debido a que era algo que recién se percibía en sociedad.

Sin embargo, la misma categoría de patriarcado junto a la de relaciones de poder para explicar fenómenos sociales contemporáneos, constituye uno de los principales aportes del feminismo. Es así como han logrado primero visibilizar y luego deconstruir y desmontar una serie de patrones existentes en la cultura que hacían a la mujer subordinarse al hombre, y que estaban presentes en el sistema sexo/género.

Imagen relativa a la lucha contra el patriarcado

Hasta ese momento, en las investigaciones de corte sociológico se podía observar un androcentrismo excesivo al dar cuenta de que el discurso científico giraba en torno al hombre como sujeto y objeto de la investigación. Incluso para muchos positivistas como el mismo Weber, los problemas relativos a las mujeres quedaban en un segundo plano y eran achacados a una supuesta pasividad en el ámbito doméstico-familiar. Dicha pasividad partía de la supuesta inferioridad biológica del género femenino.

El patriarcado entonces era una categoría vacía en sí misma, sin valor explicativo. Desde el punto de vista político pudo ser útil para la movilización pero no resistió la polémica de los críticos del feminismo ni problematizó los conflictos a ser resueltos. Pero por otro lado, un grupo de mujeres -académicas principalmente- se puso manos a la obra en una tarea más pequeña pero con mayores resultados a la larga. Se propusieron generar conocimientos sobre las condiciones de vida de la mujer, buscar en el pasado y el presente los aportes de las mujeres a la sociedad, hacerlas visibles en la historia. Es así como surgen centros académicos, ONG, proyectos, centros de estudios sobre la mujer, etc.

Convendría distinguir entonces dos posturas que acompañaron a la investigación sobre las mujeres: uno que toma como objeto de estudio a la mujer; condiciones de vida, trabajo, cultura, y otra que privilegia a la sociedad como generadora de la subordinación de las mujeres. Mientras la primera perspectiva generaba conocimiento sobre las mujeres en el estudio de las relaciones mujer-hombre y mujer-mujer, la segunda tenía una visión más holística ya que planteaba que hay que estudiar la sociedad ya que la subordinación de las mujeres es producto de la organización de esta, y que no se avanzará solamente estudiando a las mujeres, pues el estudio debe ser más amplio y en diferentes niveles, ámbitos y tiempos.

Es en esta búsqueda donde nace y se desarrolla el concepto de género como categoría social. Es así que los sistemas de género/sexo fueron entendidos como conjuntos de prácticas, símbolos, representaciones, normas y valores sociales que las sociedades construyen a partir de la diferencia anatomofisiológica y que dotan de sentido a los impulsos sexuales, la reproducción y en general a las relaciones de las personas. Por tanto, este sistema pasó a ser el objeto de estudio para comprender la subordinación de la mujer al hombre. Al ser el reconocimiento de una dimensión de la desigualdad social hasta entonces desconocida, se considera la ruptura epistemológica más importante de la segunda mitad del siglo pasado.

Imagen representativa del binarismo de género

Hay que decir que los fenómenos sociales se definen por la relación que guardan entre sí. Es así que la contextualización adquiere gran importancia. Varones y hembras tenemos la capacidad de producir con el cuerpo, pero solo los cuerpos de las hembras pueden gestar y por tanto asegurar la especie humana. Todo grupo humano que pretenda sobrevivir debe asegurarse cierto número de hembras que lo hagan posible. De ahí un poder particular del cuerpo de las hembras que además es económicamente útil. Dicho poder no es en tanto entidad biológica, sino que es la sociedad la que le otorga este poder. En este punto es importante preguntarnos históricamente ¿quiénes han controlado la capacidad reproductiva de las mujeres?, ¿quiénes han tenido la preferencia en el acceso sexual? Para asegurar un control efectivo sobre la reproducción es necesario asegurar el acceso a la sexualidad.

Imagen alegórica al embarazo

Ello también lleva a dirigir el trabajo que hacen porque de lo contrario, las mujeres pudieran tener espacio para representar una amenaza al dominio de los hombres. Es importante atender a las etapas del desarrollo de las mujeres, que permitirá ver cómo se moldean para aceptar la desigualdad y las jerarquías según el género en las distintas sociedades y culturas.

Otro contexto a delimitar es el ámbito doméstico donde históricamente ha estado ubicada la subordinación femenina. Se ha puesto al descubierto que en mujeres que comparten la misma posición de clase y raza, la condición femenina se redefine a lo largo de la vida y que algunas mujeres gozan de poder sobre otras aún en contextos de alta dominación masculina, donde se les inviste de autoridad, creando el sistema zonas de incertidumbre que las divide como género e impide alianzas y se legitima la dominación. Foucault decía que «el poder se ejerce, no se posee», siempre está en peligro de perderse y no basta con normas, leyes, amenazas o castigos. De ahí que los espacios de subordinación sean también espacios de poder de las mujeres. Es en estos espacios donde aparece la inseguridad, la tensión, la confrontación y por ejemplo, las mujeres pueden reclamar la anticoncepción.

Para terminar, es importante tener en cuenta que el género es una forma de desigualdad social que siempre está articulado con otras formas de desigualdad ya sea clase, raza, grupo etario, etc. Hay que pensar la dominación masculina con un comienzo vago en el tiempo, pero que permite desligar la subordinación de las mujeres de la evolución «natural» de la humanidad y entenderla como un proceso histórico. En ese sentido es necesario destacar que, respecto a la raza, en sociedades plurales hay que atender al contexto étnico-cultural ya que en dependencia de las relaciones entre personas de razas distintas, estarán condicionadas las relaciones entre los géneros.

Imagen de mujeres de distintas razas

Por otro lado, si bien es sabido que históricamente el sistema de género social imperante ha contribuido a invisibilizar a la mujer, asociar necesariamente dicha categoría únicamente a ella, lo que hace es nuevamente recrear el absolutismo histórico que tanto daño ha hecho, ahora como lo antagónico al hombre. En la construcción social participan todos los individuos presentes en el sistema género.

Hasta aquí la publicación de hoy, de la cual aun se puede ahondar mucho más, sobre todo en lo referido al origen de la dominación o de la jerarquización del binomio «hombre/mujer» desde un punto de vista antropológico, pero eso quedará pendiente para otro momento. ¡Así que hasta la próxima!, ¡nos vemos en Nostr!

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English version

Hello nostriches. Today I want to make a post by way of an approach to the emergence of the categories of gender and feminism. So if you are interested in the topic make an effort, stay and read to the end.

The "new" feminism emerged in the 60's in those developed countries that agreed to recognize the human rights contained in the respective UN declaration. Then, as an extension of that recognition, the feminist movement was born. From then on, the relationship between nature and culture was raised again and the conclusion was reached that social differences go beyond biological differences, which has to do with the fact that even the satisfaction of elementary needs such as food, housing or clothing are conditioned by social constructions.

It turns out that one of the first proposals identified female subordination as a product of a patriarchal organization, taking Max Weber's category of patriarchy. This is how the vision of patriarchy was extended to political and academic discourse. However, there was no information about the historical development of this category, systematization, variations, etc., because it was something that was only recently perceived in society.

However, the same category of patriarchy, together with that of power relations to explain contemporary social phenomena, constitutes one of the main contributions of feminism. This is how they have first made visible and then deconstructed and dismantled a series of existing patterns in the culture that made women subordinate to men, and that were present in the sex/gender system.

Image relating to the fight against patriarchy

Up to that time, in sociological research, an excessive androcentrism could be observed as scientific discourse revolved around men as the subject and object of research. Even for many positivists such as Weber himself, the problems related to women remained in the background and were blamed on a supposed passivity in the domestic-family sphere. This passivity was based on the supposed biological inferiority of the female gender.

Patriarchy was then an empty category in itself, with no explanatory value. From the political point of view, it could be useful for mobilization, but it did not resist the polemic of feminism's critics, nor did it problematize the conflicts to be resolved. But on the other hand, a group of women - mainly academics - set to work on a smaller task but with greater results in the long run. They set out to generate knowledge about women's living conditions, to search in the past and present for women's contributions to society, to make them visible in history. This is how academic centers, NGOs, projects, women's studies centers, etc., came into being.

It would be convenient to distinguish then two postures that accompanied the research on women: one that takes women as the object of study; living conditions, work, culture, and the other that privileges society as the generator of women's subordination. While the first perspective generated knowledge about women in the study of woman-man and woman-woman relations, the second had a more holistic vision, since it proposed that society must be studied, since the subordination of women is a product of its organization, and that progress will not be made only by studying women, since the study must be broader and at different levels, spheres and times.

It is in this search that the concept of gender as a social category was born and developed. Thus, gender/sex systems were understood as a set of practices, symbols, representations, norms and social values that societies construct on the basis of anatomophysiological differences and that give meaning to sexual impulses, reproduction and, in general, to people's relationships. Therefore, this system became the object of study to understand the subordination of women to men. As the recognition of a hitherto unknown dimension of social inequality, it is considered the most important epistemological breakthrough of the second half of the last century.

Representative image of gender binarism

It must be said that social phenomena are defined by their relationship with each other. Thus, contextualization acquires great importance. Males and females have the capacity to produce with their bodies, but only the bodies of females can gestate and therefore ensure the human species. Any human group that intends to survive must ensure a certain number of females to make it possible. Hence a particular power of the female body, which is also economically useful. This power is not as a biological entity, but it is society that gives it this power. At this point it is important to ask ourselves historically, who has controlled the reproductive capacity of women, who has had the preference in sexual access? To ensure effective control over reproduction, it is necessary to ensure access to sexuality.

Allegorical image of pregnancy

This also leads to directing the work they do because otherwise, women may have room to pose a threat to men's dominance. It is important to pay attention to the stages of women's development, which will allow us to see how they are shaped to accept inequality and gender hierarchies in different societies and cultures.

Another context to delimit is the domestic sphere where female subordination has historically been located. It has been discovered that in women who share the same class and race position, the feminine condition is redefined throughout life and that some women enjoy power over others even in contexts of high male domination, where they are invested with authority, creating the system of uncertainty zones that divide them as a gender and prevent alliances and legitimize domination. Foucault said that "power is exercised, not possessed", it is always in danger of being lost and norms, laws, threats or punishments are not enough. Hence, the spaces of subordination are also spaces of women's power. It is in these spaces where insecurity, tension, confrontation appear and where, for example, women can demand contraception.

To conclude, it is important to keep in mind that gender is a form of social inequality that is always articulated with other forms of inequality, be it class, race, age group, etc. It is necessary to think of male domination with a vague beginning in time, but which allows us to separate the subordination of women from the "natural" evolution of humanity and to understand it as a historical process. In this sense, it is necessary to emphasize that, with respect to race, in plural societies it is necessary to pay attention to the ethno-cultural context since, depending on the relations between people of different races, the relations between genders will be conditioned.

Image of women of different races

On the other hand, although it is known that historically the prevailing social gender system has contributed to make women invisible, to necessarily associate this category only to women is to recreate the historical absolutism that has done so much damage, this time as antagonistic to men. All individuals present in the gender system participate in the social construction.

So much for today's publication, of which we can still go much deeper, especially with regard to the origin of domination or the hierarchization of the binomial "man/woman" from an anthropological point of view, but that will be left for another time. So until next time, see you in Nostr!

Créditos | Credits

Bibliografía consultada | Consulted bibliography:

1. Barbieri, T. (1993). Sobre la categoría género. Una introducción teórico-metodológica. Debates en Sociología. (18). 1-19. https://doi.org/10.18800/debatesensociologia.199301.006

2. Echevarría, D. (2020). Desigualdades de género e interseccionalidad. Análisis del contexto cubano 2008-2018. Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Programa-Cuba). https://www.clacso.org.ar/libreria-latinoamericana-cm/libro_detalle_resultado.php?id_libro=2346&campo=cm&texto=248

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Chef's notes

Serving these two dishes together will create a delightful centerpiece for your Thanksgiving meal, offering a perfect blend of traditional flavors with a homemade touch.

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 30 min
• 🍳 Cook time: 1 - 2 hours
• 🍽️ Servings: 4-6

Ingredients

• 1 whole turkey (about 12-14 lbs), thawed and ready to cook
• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 2 tablespoons fresh thyme, chopped
• 2 tablespoons fresh rosemary, chopped
• 2 tablespoons fresh sage, chopped
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 1 onion, quartered
• 1 lemon, halved
• 2-3 cloves of garlic
• Apple and Sage Stuffing
• 1 loaf of crusty bread, cut into cubes
• 2 apples, cored and chopped
• 1 onion, diced
• 2 stalks celery, diced
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/4 cup fresh sage, chopped
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 2 cups chicken broth
• Salt and pepper, to taste

Directions

1. Preheat the Oven: Set your oven to 325°F (165°C).
2. Prepare the Herb Butter: Mix the softened butter with the chopped thyme, rosemary, and sage. Season with salt and pepper.
3. Prepare the Turkey: Remove any giblets from the turkey and pat it dry. Loosen the skin and spread a generous amount of herb butter under and over the skin.
4. Add Aromatics: Inside the turkey cavity, place the quartered onion, lemon halves, and garlic cloves.
5. Roast: Place the turkey in a roasting pan. Tent with aluminum foil and roast. A general guideline is about 15 minutes per pound, or until the internal temperature reaches 165°F (74°C) at the thickest part of the thigh.
6. Rest and Serve: Let the turkey rest for at least 20 minutes before carving.
7. Next: Apple and Sage Stuffing
8. Dry the Bread: Spread the bread cubes on a baking sheet and let them dry overnight, or toast them in the oven.
9. Cook the Vegetables: In a large skillet, melt the butter and cook the onion, celery, and garlic until soft.
10. Combine Ingredients: Add the apples, sage, and bread cubes to the skillet. Stir in the chicken broth until the mixture is moist. Season with salt and pepper.
11. Bake: Transfer the stuffing to a baking dish and bake at 350°F (175°C) for about 30-40 minutes, until golden brown on top.

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@ 000002de:c05780a7

From Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 on X

So, Google Chrome gives all *.google.com sites full access to system / tab CPU usage, GPU usage, and memory usage. It also gives access to detailed processor information, and provides a logging backchannel.

This API is not exposed to other sites - only to *.google.com.

This is interesting because it is a clear violation of the idea that browser vendors should not give preference to their websites over anyone elses.

The DMA codifies this idea into law: browser vendors, as gatekeepers of the internet, must give the same capabilities to everyone

Depending on how you interpret the DMA, this additional exposure of information only to Google properties may be considered a violation of the DMA.

Take for example Zoom - they are now at a disadvantage because they can not provide the same CPU debugging feature as Google Meet.

For those interested: this is done through a built-in Chrome extension that can not be disabled, and does not show up in the extensions panel. Source code is here: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chrome/browser/resources/hangout_services/

It is unclear whether the same extension also ships in other Chromium derived browsers.

Some Hacker.news discussion

This is one of the many reasons I do not use Google Chrome.

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/602609

@ 8fb140b4:f948000c

Testing a brand new YakiHonne native client for iOS. Smooth as butter (not penis butter 🤣🍆🧈) with great visual experience and intuitive navigation. Amazing work by the team behind it! * lists * work

Bold text work!

Images could have used nostr.build instead of raw S3 from us-east-1 region.

Very impressive! You can even save the draft and continue later, before posting the long-form note!

🐶🐾🤯🤯🤯🫂💜

@ c73818cc:ccd5c890

🌟 Fondi Massicci per l'IA e la Blockchain

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🌟 Innovazioni e Sviluppi Promettenti

🌟 Sentient Labs ha ottenuto 85 milioni di dollari per sviluppare una piattaforma open source che compensa gli sviluppatori per i loro contributi a strumenti di intelligenza artificiale. La piattaforma utilizza il software di Polygon, una soluzione di secondo strato di Ethereum, e prevede il lancio di un testnet nel terzo trimestre. Questo progetto promette di rivoluzionare il modo in cui gli ingegneri vengono ricompensati per il perfezionamento dei dati e lo sviluppo di software IA.

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I just tested building a browser plugin, it was easier than I thought. Here I'll walk you through the steps of creating a minimal working example of a browser plugin, a.k.a. the "Hello World" of browser plugins.

First of all there are two main browser platforms out there, Chromium and Mozilla. They do some things a little differently, but similar enough that we can build a plugin that works on both. This plugin will work in both, I'll describe the firefox version, but the chromium version is very similar.

What is a browser plugin?

Simply put, a browser plugin is a program that runs in the browser. It can do things like modify the content of a webpage, or add new functionality to the browser. It's a way to extend the browser with custom functionality. Common examples are ad blockers, password managers, and video downloaders.

In technical terms, they are plugins that can insert html-css-js into your browser experience.

How to build a browser plugin

Step 0: Basics

You'll need a computer, a text editor and a browser. For testing and development I personally think that the firefox developer edition is the easiest to work with. But any Chrome based browser will also do.

Create a working directory on your computer, name it anything you like. I'll call mine hello-world-browser-plugin. Open the directory and create a file called manifest.json. This is the most important file of your plugin, and it must be named exactly right.

Step 1: manifest.json

After creation open your file manifest.json in your text editor and paste the following code:

json { "manifest_version": 3, "name": "Hello World", "version": "1.0", "description": "A simple 'Hello World' browser extension", "content_scripts": [ { "matches": ["<all_urls>"], "js": ["hello.js"] //The name of your script file. // "css": ["hello.css"] //The name of your css file. } ] }

If you wonder what the json file format is, it's a normal text file with a special syntax such that a computer can easily read it. It's the json syntax you see in the code above. Let's go through what's being said here. (If you are not interested, just skip to the next step after pasting this we are done here.)

• manifest_version: This is the version of the manifest file format. It's currently at version 3, and it's the latest version. It's important that you set this to 3, otherwise your plugin won't work.
• name: This is the name of your plugin. It can be anything you like.
• version: This is the version of your plugin. It can be anything you like.
• description: This is the description of your plugin. It can be anything you like.
• content_scripts: This is where you define what your plugin does. It's a list of scripts that will be executed when the browser loads a webpage. In this case we have one script, called hello.js. It's the script that we'll create in the next step.
• matches: This is a list of urls that the script will be executed on. In this case we have <all_urls>, which means that the script will be executed on all urls. You can also specify a specific url, like https://brave.com/*, which means that the script will only be executed on urls that start with https://brave.com/.
• js: This is a list of javascript files that will be executed. In this case we have one file, called hello.js. It's the script that we'll create in the next step.
• css: This is where you can add a list of css files that will be executed. In this case we have none, but you can add css files here if you want to.
• //: Text following these two characters are comments. They are ignored by the computer, You can add comments anywhere you like, and they are a good way to document your code.

Step 2: hello.js

Now it's time to create another file in your project folder. This time we'll call it hello.js. When created, open it in your text editor and paste the following code:

js console.log("Hello World!"); That's javascript code, and it's what will be executed when you run your plugin. It's a simple console.log statement, which will print the text "Hello World!" to the console. The console is a place where the browser prints out messages, and it's a good place to start when debugging your plugin.

Step 3: Load and launch your plugin

Firefox

Now it's time to load your plugin into your browser. Open your browser and go to the url about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox. You should see a page that looks something like this:

Click the button that says "Load Temporary Add-on...". A file dialog will open, navigate to your project folder and select the file manifest.json. Your plugin should now be loaded and running.

Go to a website, any website, and open the inspector then navigate to the console. You'll find the inspector by right-clicking anywhere within the webpage, and click "Inspector" in the drop-down menu. When opening the console you might see some log messages from the site you visited and... you should see the text "Hello World!" printed there, from our little plugin! Congratulations!

Chrome

Open your browser and go to the url chrome://extensions/. Click the button that says "Load unpacked". A file dialog will open, navigate to your project folder and select the folder hello-world-browser-plugin. Your plugin should now be loaded and running.

Note the difference, of selecting the file manifest.json in firefox, and selecting the folder hello-world-browser-plugin in chrome. Otherwise, the process is the same. So I'll repeat the same text as above: (for those who skipped ahead..)

Go to a website, any website, and open the inspector then navigate to the console. You'll find the inspector by right-clicking anywhere within the webpage, and click "Inspector" in the drop-down menu. When opening the console you might see some log messages from the site you visited and... you should see the text "Hello World!" printed there, from our little plugin! Congratulations!

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As you can see this isn't as complicated as one might think. Having preformed a "Hello-World!"-project is a very useful and valuable first step. These setup steps are the basics for any browser plugin, and you can build on this to create more advanced plugins.

@ 6c8c7979:15595f3e

The art pieces that become some of the most expensive in the world constitute an important part of global cultural and economic heritage. These paintings are distinguished by their high artistic and historical value, attracting attention and appreciation from art lovers and investors alike.

Among the most expensive paintings in the world is "Salvator Mundi" by Leonardo da Vinci, which sold for a record-breaking amount exceeding $450 million. This painting represents a religious message and is considered one of the artist's most prominent works.

Another notable example is the painting "Interchange" by Dutch painter Willem de Kooning, which was sold for over $300 million. This artwork is known for its vibrant colors and strong visual effects, earning widespread fame in the art world.

These paintings, alongside many others, form part of the global art market characterized by intense competition and record-setting prices. They consistently captivate the public's interest due to their invaluable artistic, cultural, and historical significance.

@ 8fb140b4:f948000c

As the title states, scratch behind my ear and you get it. 🐶🐾🫡

@ 8fb140b4:f948000c

Test Bounty Note

@ 2c7cc62a:622a5cdc

todo-mattn #todo

Nostr 上で todo 管理する仕組み

bot と対話する？

vim-jp radio のイベント自動投稿

今欲しい要件としては、vim-jp radio のオフィシャルアカウントを作る事なのだけど、秘密鍵は別の方(Nostr にはいない)の管理としたい。代理で投稿する人間には秘密鍵は持たせたくない。 ここでは手動投稿に加え自動投稿が必要になるので、代理署名機能が必要になる。

代理署名としては NIP-46 が考えられる。NIP-46 は 3way handshake の様に機能する。

まず投稿者は bunker: という認証情報を使ってリレーに代理投稿依頼を投げる。kind は 24133 の短命イベント。 このイベントを署名者が監視(代理署名サーバ)していて同じ bunker に書かれているパスワードを使って解読、署名を行って返信する。キーはオリジナルのイベントのIDを使うので、同じ時刻の同じコンテンツでさえなければバッティングする事はない。 投稿者はその返信をリレー経由で受け取って署名済み投稿をリレーに投げるという事になる。

今回の要件を満たすかを考えた場合、Nostr にいない vim-jp radio の発案者に秘密鍵のみを渡す事を考えた場合、この代理署名サーバを常時稼働させておく必要があるという事。しかも現状は pubkey 1つに対して1つ起動する必要がある。ちょっとリソース食い。

また代理署名サーバを起動する際に秘密鍵が必要になる。この時点で初めの要件である「代理で投稿する人間には秘密鍵は持たせたくない」を満たせなくなる。特にイベント発案者が Nostr にいないならなおさらである。

という事で本件で NIP-46 を使うアイデアについては一旦保留。

@ 8fb140b4:f948000c

Intro

This short tutorial will help you set up your own Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) on your own LND Node that is not using Umbrel. If you are a user of Umbrel, you should use their version of NWC.

Requirements

You need to have a working installation of LND with established channels and connectivity to the internet. NWC in itself is fairly light and will not consume a lot of resources. You will also want to ensure that you have a working installation of Docker, since we will use a docker image to run NWC.

• Working installation of LND (and all of its required components)
• Docker (with Docker compose)

Installation

For the purpose of this tutorial, we will assume that you have your lnd/bitcoind running under user bitcoin with home directory /home/bitcoin. We will also assume that you already have a running installation of Docker (or docker.io).

Prepare and verify

git version - we will need git to get the latest version of NWC. docker version - should execute successfully and show the currently installed version of Docker. docker compose version - same as before, but the version will be different. ss -tupln | grep 10009- should produce the following output: tcp LISTEN 0 4096 0.0.0.0:10009 0.0.0.0: tcp LISTEN 0 4096 [::]:10009 [::]:**

For things to work correctly, your Docker should be version 20.10.0 or later. If you have an older version, consider installing a new one using instructions here: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/

Create folders & download NWC

In the home directory of your LND/bitcoind user, create a new folder, e.g., "nwc" mkdir /home/bitcoin/nwc. Change to that directory cd /home/bitcoin/nwc and clone the NWC repository: git clone https://github.com/getAlby/nostr-wallet-connect.git

Creating the Docker image

In this step, we will create a Docker image that you will use to run NWC.

• Change directory to nostr-wallet-connect: cd nostr-wallet-connect
• Run command to build Docker image: docker build -t nwc:$(date +'%Y%m%d%H%M') -t nwc:latest . (there is a dot at the end)
• The last line of the output (after a few minutes) should look like => => naming to docker.io/library/nwc:latest
• nwc:latest is the name of the Docker image with a tag which you should note for use later.

Creating docker-compose.yml and necessary data directories

• Let's create a directory that will hold your non-volatile data (DB): mkdir data
• Indocker-compose.ymlfile, there are fields that you want to replace (<> comments) and port “4321” that you want to make sure is open (check with ss -tupln | grep 4321which should return nothing).
• Create docker-compose.ymlfile with the following content, and make sure to update fields that have <> comment:

version: "3.8" services: nwc: image: nwc:latest volumes: - ./data:/data - ~/.lnd:/lnd:ro ports: - "4321:8080" extra_hosts: - "localhost:host-gateway" environment: NOSTR_PRIVKEY: <use "openssl rand -hex 32" to generate a fresh key and place it inside ""> LN_BACKEND_TYPE: "LND" LND_ADDRESS: localhost:10009 LND_CERT_FILE: "/lnd/tls.cert" LND_MACAROON_FILE: "/lnd/data/chain/bitcoin/mainnet/admin.macaroon" DATABASE_URI: "/data/nostr-wallet-connect.db" COOKIE_SECRET: <use "openssl rand -hex 32" to generate fresh secret and place it inside ""> PORT: 8080 restart: always stop_grace_period: 1m

Starting and testing

Now that you have everything ready, it is time to start the container and test.

• While you are in the nwcdirectory (important), execute the following command and check the log output, docker compose up
• You should see container logs while it is starting, and it should not exit if everything went well.
• At this point, you should be able to go to http://<ip of the host where nwc is running>:4321 and get to the interface of NWC
• To stop the test run of NWC, simply press Ctrl-C , and it will shut the container down.
• To start NWC permanently, you should execute docker compose up -d , “-d” tells Docker to detach from the session.
• To check currently running NWC logs, execute docker compose logs to run it in tail mode add -f to the end.
• To stop the container, execute docker compose down

That's all, just follow the instructions in the web interface to get started.

Updating

As with any software, you should expect fixes and updates that you would need to perform periodically. You could automate this, but it falls outside of the scope of this tutorial. Since we already have all of the necessary configuration in place, the update execution is fairly simple.

• Change directory to the clone of the git repository, cd /home/bitcoin/nwc/nostr-wallet-connect
• Run command to build Docker image: docker build -t nwc:$(date +'%Y%m%d%H%M') -t nwc:latest . (there is a dot at the end)
• Change directory back one level cd ..
• Restart (stop and start) the docker compose config docker compose down && docker compose up -d
• Done! Optionally you may want to check the logs: docker compose logs

@ 1aa437b3:51119dbd

I have seen there a some tools for blogging via nostr... In a Medium type way. I've also tried npub.pro the other day. I wonder if there is something that is truly a blog, belonging to me via nostr where it's not the firehose but just posts I choose that end up there. Maybe there is a tool or method I have not seen?

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/602294

@ d2e97f73:ea9a4d1b

There’s a lot of conversation around the #TwitterFiles. Here’s my take, and thoughts on how to fix the issues identified.

I’ll start with the principles I’ve come to believe…based on everything I’ve learned and experienced through my past actions as a Twitter co-founder and lead:

1. Social media must be resilient to corporate and government control.
2. Only the original author may remove content they produce.
3. Moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice.

The Twitter when I led it and the Twitter of today do not meet any of these principles. This is my fault alone, as I completely gave up pushing for them when an activist entered our stock in 2020. I no longer had hope of achieving any of it as a public company with no defense mechanisms (lack of dual-class shares being a key one). I planned my exit at that moment knowing I was no longer right for the company.

The biggest mistake I made was continuing to invest in building tools for us to manage the public conversation, versus building tools for the people using Twitter to easily manage it for themselves. This burdened the company with too much power, and opened us to significant outside pressure (such as advertising budgets). I generally think companies have become far too powerful, and that became completely clear to me with our suspension of Trump’s account. As I’ve said before, we did the right thing for the public company business at the time, but the wrong thing for the internet and society. Much more about this here: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1349510769268850690

I continue to believe there was no ill intent or hidden agendas, and everyone acted according to the best information we had at the time. Of course mistakes were made. But if we had focused more on tools for the people using the service rather than tools for us, and moved much faster towards absolute transparency, we probably wouldn’t be in this situation of needing a fresh reset (which I am supportive of). Again, I own all of this and our actions, and all I can do is work to make it right.

Back to the principles. Of course governments want to shape and control the public conversation, and will use every method at their disposal to do so, including the media. And the power a corporation wields to do the same is only growing. It’s critical that the people have tools to resist this, and that those tools are ultimately owned by the people. Allowing a government or a few corporations to own the public conversation is a path towards centralized control.

I’m a strong believer that any content produced by someone for the internet should be permanent until the original author chooses to delete it. It should be always available and addressable. Content takedowns and suspensions should not be possible. Doing so complicates important context, learning, and enforcement of illegal activity. There are significant issues with this stance of course, but starting with this principle will allow for far better solutions than we have today. The internet is trending towards a world were storage is “free” and infinite, which places all the actual value on how to discover and see content.

Which brings me to the last principle: moderation. I don’t believe a centralized system can do content moderation globally. It can only be done through ranking and relevance algorithms, the more localized the better. But instead of a company or government building and controlling these solely, people should be able to build and choose from algorithms that best match their criteria, or not have to use any at all. A “follow” action should always deliver every bit of content from the corresponding account, and the algorithms should be able to comb through everything else through a relevance lens that an individual determines. There’s a default “G-rated” algorithm, and then there’s everything else one can imagine.

The only way I know of to truly live up to these 3 principles is a free and open protocol for social media, that is not owned by a single company or group of companies, and is resilient to corporate and government influence. The problem today is that we have companies who own both the protocol and discovery of content. Which ultimately puts one person in charge of what’s available and seen, or not. This is by definition a single point of failure, no matter how great the person, and over time will fracture the public conversation, and may lead to more control by governments and corporations around the world.

I believe many companies can build a phenomenal business off an open protocol. For proof, look at both the web and email. The biggest problem with these models however is that the discovery mechanisms are far too proprietary and fixed instead of open or extendable. Companies can build many profitable services that complement rather than lock down how we access this massive collection of conversation. There is no need to own or host it themselves.

Many of you won’t trust this solution just because it’s me stating it. I get it, but that’s exactly the point. Trusting any one individual with this comes with compromises, not to mention being way too heavy a burden for the individual. It has to be something akin to what bitcoin has shown to be possible. If you want proof of this, get out of the US and European bubble of the bitcoin price fluctuations and learn how real people are using it for censorship resistance in Africa and Central/South America.

I do still wish for Twitter, and every company, to become uncomfortably transparent in all their actions, and I wish I forced more of that years ago. I do believe absolute transparency builds trust. As for the files, I wish they were released Wikileaks-style, with many more eyes and interpretations to consider. And along with that, commitments of transparency for present and future actions. I’m hopeful all of this will happen. There’s nothing to hide…only a lot to learn from. The current attacks on my former colleagues could be dangerous and doesn’t solve anything. If you want to blame, direct it at me and my actions, or lack thereof.

As far as the free and open social media protocol goes, there are many competing projects: @bluesky is one with the AT Protocol, nostr another, Mastodon yet another, Matrix yet another…and there will be many more. One will have a chance at becoming a standard like HTTP or SMTP. This isn’t about a “decentralized Twitter.” This is a focused and urgent push for a foundational core technology standard to make social media a native part of the internet. I believe this is critical both to Twitter’s future, and the public conversation’s ability to truly serve the people, which helps hold governments and corporations accountable. And hopefully makes it all a lot more fun and informative again.

💸🛠️🌐 To accelerate open internet and protocol work, I’m going to open a new category of #startsmall grants: “open internet development.” It will start with a focus of giving cash and equity grants to engineering teams working on social media and private communication protocols, bitcoin, and a web-only mobile OS. I’ll make some grants next week, starting with $1mm/yr to Signal. Please let me know other great candidates for this money.

@ 5d4b6c8d:8a1c1ee3

Yesterday's edition https://stacker.news/items/600906/r/Undisciplined

Is it possible for these posts and comments to become top posts and comments today, if people zap them?

I'm not sure if I understand exactly how that works. Is it based on when stuff gets zapped or is it based on when it's posted?

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July 9, 2023 📅

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📝 TOP POST

Bitcoin needs more Record, Comic and Book Shops

Excerpt

Bitcoin needs more cultural hubs, and I'm referring to the curator/gate keeper/provocateur of everything that is of and related to the Bitcoin ethos. Even things only tertiary or tangently related.

3948 sats \ 23 comments \ @SatoshisSkeleton \ ~bitcoin

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💬 TOP COMMENT

https://stacker.news/items/206408/r/Undisciplined?commentId=206466

Excerpt

Damn, heavy story in the comments about one of the founders of CloudFlare: https://www.wired.com/story/lee-holloway-devastating-decline-brilliant-young-coder/ […]

210 sats \ 1 reply \ @gmd

From Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company by @hn in ~tech

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🏆 TOP STACKER

2nd place @k00b (1st hiding, presumed @siggy47)

8813 stacked \ 12.1k spent \ 0 posts \ 10 comments \ 0 referrals

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🗺️ TOP TERRITORY

~bitcoin

everything bitcoin related

founded by @k00b on Tue May 02 2023

37.4k stacked \ 0 revenue \ 43k spent \ 63 posts \ 246 comments

https://imgprxy.stacker.news/fsFoWlgwKYsk5mxx2ijgqU8fg04I_2zA_D28t_grR74/rs:fit:960:540/aHR0cHM6Ly9tLnN0YWNrZXIubmV3cy8yMzc5Ng

July 9, 2022 📅

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📝 TOP POST

Log In With Lightning ⚡️

Excerpt

So far I’ve found four apps that support Log in with Lightning so far, but pretty sure there are more: - Stacker News - LNMarkets - Kollider - Zapread

437 sats \ 24 comments \ @kr \ ~bitcoin

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💬 TOP COMMENT

https://stacker.news/items/42958/r/Undisciplined?commentId=42991

Excerpt

Apparently we already have 1M 👀 I was here before that (?).

208 sats \ 0 replies \ @gms

From Daily discussion thread by @saloon in ~null

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🏆 TOP STACKER

1st place @k00b

519.4k stacked \ 5660 spent \ 6 posts \ 14 comments \ 0 referrals

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🗺️ TOP TERRITORY

~bitcoin

everything bitcoin related

founded by @k00b on Tue May 02 2023

511.8k stacked \ 0 revenue \ 512.1k spent \ 79 posts \ 123 comments

https://imgprxy.stacker.news/fsFoWlgwKYsk5mxx2ijgqU8fg04I_2zA_D28t_grR74/rs:fit:960:540/aHR0cHM6Ly9tLnN0YWNrZXIubmV3cy8yMzc5Ng

July 9, 2021 📅

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📝 TOP POST

Paraguay set to introduce Bitcoin bill on July 14th

7 sats \ 1 comment \ @gmd \ ~bitcoin

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💬 TOP COMMENT

https://stacker.news/items/229/r/Undisciplined?commentId=243

Excerpt

I'll be honest this sounds made up, but if it is, it is very good viral marketing.

1 sat \ 2 replies \ @gmd

From Casa client case study: the Tinder trap by @k00b in ~bitcoin

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🏆 TOP STACKER

1st place @k00b

2 stacked \ 41 spent \ 3 posts \ 4 comments \ 0 referrals

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🗺️ TOP TERRITORY

~bitcoin

everything bitcoin related

founded by @k00b on Tue May 02 2023

21 stacked \ 0 revenue \ 59 spent \ 8 posts \ 7 comments

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/602257

@ 82341f88:fbfbe6a2

There’s a lot of conversation around the #TwitterFiles. Here’s my take, and thoughts on how to fix the issues identified.

I’ll start with the principles I’ve come to believe…based on everything I’ve learned and experienced through my past actions as a Twitter co-founder and lead:

1. Social media must be resilient to corporate and government control.
2. Only the original author may remove content they produce.
3. Moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice.

The Twitter when I led it and the Twitter of today do not meet any of these principles. This is my fault alone, as I completely gave up pushing for them when an activist entered our stock in 2020. I no longer had hope of achieving any of it as a public company with no defense mechanisms (lack of dual-class shares being a key one). I planned my exit at that moment knowing I was no longer right for the company.

The biggest mistake I made was continuing to invest in building tools for us to manage the public conversation, versus building tools for the people using Twitter to easily manage it for themselves. This burdened the company with too much power, and opened us to significant outside pressure (such as advertising budgets). I generally think companies have become far too powerful, and that became completely clear to me with our suspension of Trump’s account. As I’ve said before, we did the right thing for the public company business at the time, but the wrong thing for the internet and society. Much more about this here: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1349510769268850690

I continue to believe there was no ill intent or hidden agendas, and everyone acted according to the best information we had at the time. Of course mistakes were made. But if we had focused more on tools for the people using the service rather than tools for us, and moved much faster towards absolute transparency, we probably wouldn’t be in this situation of needing a fresh reset (which I am supportive of). Again, I own all of this and our actions, and all I can do is work to make it right.

Back to the principles. Of course governments want to shape and control the public conversation, and will use every method at their disposal to do so, including the media. And the power a corporation wields to do the same is only growing. It’s critical that the people have tools to resist this, and that those tools are ultimately owned by the people. Allowing a government or a few corporations to own the public conversation is a path towards centralized control.

I’m a strong believer that any content produced by someone for the internet should be permanent until the original author chooses to delete it. It should be always available and addressable. Content takedowns and suspensions should not be possible. Doing so complicates important context, learning, and enforcement of illegal activity. There are significant issues with this stance of course, but starting with this principle will allow for far better solutions than we have today. The internet is trending towards a world were storage is “free” and infinite, which places all the actual value on how to discover and see content.

Which brings me to the last principle: moderation. I don’t believe a centralized system can do content moderation globally. It can only be done through ranking and relevance algorithms, the more localized the better. But instead of a company or government building and controlling these solely, people should be able to build and choose from algorithms that best match their criteria, or not have to use any at all. A “follow” action should always deliver every bit of content from the corresponding account, and the algorithms should be able to comb through everything else through a relevance lens that an individual determines. There’s a default “G-rated” algorithm, and then there’s everything else one can imagine.

The only way I know of to truly live up to these 3 principles is a free and open protocol for social media, that is not owned by a single company or group of companies, and is resilient to corporate and government influence. The problem today is that we have companies who own both the protocol and discovery of content. Which ultimately puts one person in charge of what’s available and seen, or not. This is by definition a single point of failure, no matter how great the person, and over time will fracture the public conversation, and may lead to more control by governments and corporations around the world.

I believe many companies can build a phenomenal business off an open protocol. For proof, look at both the web and email. The biggest problem with these models however is that the discovery mechanisms are far too proprietary and fixed instead of open or extendable. Companies can build many profitable services that complement rather than lock down how we access this massive collection of conversation. There is no need to own or host it themselves.

Many of you won’t trust this solution just because it’s me stating it. I get it, but that’s exactly the point. Trusting any one individual with this comes with compromises, not to mention being way too heavy a burden for the individual. It has to be something akin to what bitcoin has shown to be possible. If you want proof of this, get out of the US and European bubble of the bitcoin price fluctuations and learn how real people are using it for censorship resistance in Africa and Central/South America.

I do still wish for Twitter, and every company, to become uncomfortably transparent in all their actions, and I wish I forced more of that years ago. I do believe absolute transparency builds trust. As for the files, I wish they were released Wikileaks-style, with many more eyes and interpretations to consider. And along with that, commitments of transparency for present and future actions. I’m hopeful all of this will happen. There’s nothing to hide…only a lot to learn from. The current attacks on my former colleagues could be dangerous and doesn’t solve anything. If you want to blame, direct it at me and my actions, or lack thereof.

As far as the free and open social media protocol goes, there are many competing projects: @bluesky is one with the AT Protocol, nostr another, Mastodon yet another, Matrix yet another…and there will be many more. One will have a chance at becoming a standard like HTTP or SMTP. This isn’t about a “decentralized Twitter.” This is a focused and urgent push for a foundational core technology standard to make social media a native part of the internet. I believe this is critical both to Twitter’s future, and the public conversation’s ability to truly serve the people, which helps hold governments and corporations accountable. And hopefully makes it all a lot more fun and informative again.

💸🛠️🌐 To accelerate open internet and protocol work, I’m going to open a new category of #startsmall grants: “open internet development.” It will start with a focus of giving cash and equity grants to engineering teams working on social media and private communication protocols, bitcoin, and a web-only mobile OS. I’ll make some grants next week, starting with $1mm/yr to Signal. Please let me know other great candidates for this money.

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From the Crime Desk – June 2024

**By Federal Tax Update Staff **

This month's From the Crime Desk covers guilty pleas, convictions, and sentences for tax crimes during the month of June 2024. Guilty pleas. Georgia CPA and tax preparer, Herbert Lewis, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the government and filing a false personal tax return. These crimes were related to his participation in the promotion and sale of abusive syndicated conservation easement tax shelters. According to court records, for at least five years Lewis promoted and sold tax deductions to his wealthy clients in the form of units in illegal syndicated conservation easement tax shelters organized and created by co-defendants Jack Fisher, James Sinnott, and others. Lewis' clients claimed $14 million in false deductions, causing an almost $5 million tax loss to the IRS. For their involvement in the scheme, Fisher and Sinnott were sentenced to 25 and 23 years in prison, respectively. Lewis will be sentenced at a later date.  California tax preparer, Salvador Gonzalez, pleaded guilty to preparing and filing false tax returns for his clients. Gonzalez directed his clients to create a phony corporation and to title their homes, cars, and other assets in the name of the corporation. The corporate returns included the clients' personal expenses and generated large losses. Gonzalez then prepared the clients' individual income tax returns, which claimed the fraudulent business losses. Gonzalez also fabricated deductions on the personal returns, such as unreimbursed employee expenses, cash contributions to charity, and medical and dental expenses. Gonzalez prepared or assisted in the preparation of more than 11,000 tax returns that requested refunds from the IRS totaling more than $38 million. Christopher Garraty, pleaded guilty to evading more than $400,000 in taxes on income he earned as a commercial fisherman. Despite his substantial income from fishing, Garraty did not file nine years of federal income tax returns until 2012. When he filed the delinquent returns, he reported that he owed a total of approximately $234,497 in taxes for those nine years. But even after reporting that he owed taxes, Garraty did not make any payments to the IRS. In addition, Garraty failed to file returns for another four years despite earning approximately $600,000 in fishing income across those years and owing approximately $179,382 in taxes. Convictions. A federal jury convicted former Utah movie producer Paul Kenneth Cromar of tax evasion and forcibly retaking property that had been seized by the government to pay his outstanding tax debt. According to court records, Cromar owned and operated a freelance film and media production company. For approximately 15 years, Cromer neither filed any tax returns nor paid any taxes. After an audit, the IRS assessed over $700,000 in taxes, interest and penalties. After Cromar failed to make any payments towards his outstanding debt, the IRS filed a foreclosure suit and Cromer's house was ordered sold. Shortly before the court-ordered sale closed, Cromar forcibly broke into the home and attempted to reclaim it. With the help of others, he occupied the home unlawfully for five months, fortifying it with weapons, sandbags, and wooden boards tactically placed throughout the house. Cromar caused a total tax loss to the IRS of over $1.174 million.  A federal jury convicted Jason Pecoy, a construction project manager, for conspiring to defraud the United States by concealing income from the IRS. Pecoy received at least $600,000 in cash payments from a co-conspirator for the purchase and construction of a custom-built home on Cape Cod. Instead of depositing the cash he received into the businesses' bank accounts, Pecoy distributed the cash directly to vendors and subcontractors. Pecoy also created and maintained separate ledgers documenting the cash payments, false contracts and cost estimates, and false entries in the company's accounting system to conceal the cash payments. Sentences. Marijuana dispensary owner Ryan Richmond was sentenced to 24 months in prison for evading income taxes, failing to file an income tax return and obstructing an IRS audit. According to court records, for at least four years Richmond paid his business' operating expenses extensively in cash and routed customer credit card payments through an unrelated third-party bank account to conceal his business' gross receipts. In addition, Richmond didn't report his business income on his tax returns. Finally, Richmond obstructed the IRS by misleading an IRS auditor examining his taxes about his knowledge of profits derived from the business. In total, Richmond caused a tax loss of over $1 million. Christos Karasarides Jr. and Ronald DiPietro, who led a conspiracy that caused millions in tax losses, were sentenced to prison for tax, money laundering, conspiracy, and obstruction crimes arising out of their ownership and operation of illegal gambling businesses. Karasarides Jr. was sentenced to serve 262 months in prison and three years of supervised release, pay restitution, and forfeit his residence and $419,768 in cash. Ronald DiPietro was sentenced to 112 months in prison and three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay restitution. In total, Karasarides caused a tax loss of $5.4 million and DiPietro caused a tax loss of $4.7 million.  Florida tax return preparer, John Borgela, was sentenced to 30 months in prison, two years of supervised release and to pay restitution for conspiring to defraud the United States by preparing and filing false tax returns for clients. According to court records, Borgela and his co-conspirator filed hundreds of false returns each year. They inflated tax withholdings and reported fictitious itemized deductions to generate refunds for clients and to conceal his participation in the fraud, Borgela did not list his name as preparer or include his electronic filing number (EFIN) on the returns. Instead, he used his employees' names and the EFINs of other return preparation businesses. Borgela and his co-conspirator caused a tax loss of approximately $970,000. Texas businessman John L. Petrone was sentenced to 37 months in prison, three years of supervised release and to pay restitution to the United States for evading taxes on income he earned from his business. According to court records, for six years Petrone neither filed income tax returns nor paid taxes despite earning hundreds of thousands of dollars from his business. Petrone attempted to evade his income taxes by opting not to withhold federal taxes from his paychecks, operating the business under different names, dealing in cash, using business bank accounts to pay for personal expenses, and lying to the IRS during an audit. In addition, Petrone did not pay his business' employment taxes. Petrone caused a tax loss of over $529,000.  © 2024 Thomson Reuters/Tax & Accounting. All Rights Reserved.   |   Privacy Statement Document Title:From the Crime Desk – June 2024 (07/09/2024) Checkpoint Source:Federal Tax Updates © 2024 Thomson Reuters/Tax & Accounting. All Rights Reserved.

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Introduction

In software development, local-first applications have emerged as a compelling solution that emphasizes total data ownership and offline-first capabilities. These applications run directly on the user’s device, providing enhanced performance and privacy. However, this approach also introduces significant challenges, particularly in versioning, forward compatibility, backward compatibility, and schema evolution. This article delves into these challenges and explores how developers can navigate them.

The Problem with Versioning

Versioning is a critical aspect of software development, ensuring that different software versions can coexist and function correctly. In microservices, developers often grapple with maintaining and deprecating old versions while introducing new ones. However, versioning in local-first applications and SDKs (Software Development Kits) presents even more complexity. Unlike microservices, where the service provider can control who uses the service, SDKs are distributed and integrated into various applications, making it difficult to enforce upgrades or track usage.

Forward Compatibility and Backward Compatibility

• Writer v1: Produces data using schema version 1.
• Writer v2: Produces data using schema version 2.
• Reader v1 (Backward): Reads data from older versions (schema version 1).
• Reader v2 (Forward): Reads data from newer versions (schema version 2).
• Reader (Full): Reads data from both older and newer versions, ensuring full compatibility with all schema versions.

Forward Compatibility

Forward compatibility refers to a system's ability to accept input intended for a future version of itself. This means that the current software version should be able to handle data or requests from newer versions. Achieving forward compatibility is challenging because it requires anticipating future changes and ensuring the current system can process them without errors.

Forward compatibility is important because:

• For the case of input parameters: you can upgrade clients without having to upgrade servers
• For return types: you can upgrade servers without having to upgrade clients
• For databases: you can run your schema migrations before deploying the new code to read it

For JSON here is an incomplete list of forward-compatible changes:

• Adding a new required field. Older readers will simply ignore it.
• Narrowing a numerical type (e.g. float to int). Older readers will assume ints, which are a subset of floats.
• Removing a value from an enum string. Older readers can handle the full breadth of enums.
• Adding a value to an enum string if and only if the reader has implemented a proper “else” case. (See note on enums)

Backward Compatibility

Backward compatibility ensures that newer software versions can still operate with data or requests from older versions. This is more commonly discussed and implemented, as it allows users to upgrade their software without losing functionality or data compatibility.

Backward compatibility is important because:

• For the case of input parameters: you can upgrade servers without having to upgrade clients
• For return types: you can upgrade clients without having to upgrade servers
• For databases: you don’t encounter any data loss (without backward compatibility you wouldn’t be able to read any data written by an older version)

For JSON here is an incomplete list of backward-compatible changes:

• Adding a field with a default value. Older writers will be unaware of that field so the default value will be used instead.
• Adding an optional field. Older writers will be unaware of that field so null will be used instead.
• Widening a numerical type (e.g. int to float). Older writers will always use ints, which are a subset of floats.
• Adding a value to an enum string. Older writers will just use one of the existing enum strings.
• Removing a field. Newer readers will ignore whatever was previously written in this field. (Note: this is not true of many binary serialization formats!)

Full Compatibility

Full compatibility, which encompasses forward and backward compatibility, is an ideal but often unattainable goal. The complexity arises from the need to seamlessly support old and new features. Changes in data structures, functionalities, and protocols must be carefully managed to avoid breaking the system.

For JSON here is an incomplete list of fully compatible changes (some are repeated from above):

• Adding a field with a default value
• Adding an optional field
• Adding a value to an enum string if and only if the reader has implemented a proper “else” case. (See note on enums)

Schema Evolution

Schema evolution is the process of modifying the schema (structure) of the data over time. This is crucial for maintaining compatibility as software evolves. Avro and Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) are two common formats that support schema evolution.

Strategies for Schema Evolution

1. Versioned Schemas: Maintain multiple versions of the schema and ensure that both the writer and reader can handle the appropriate version.
2. Flexible Data Formats: Use data formats that support optional fields and default values, allowing for gradual changes without breaking compatibility.
3. Gradual Protocol Updates: Implement protocols that can gradually evolve, similar to how languages evolve with new words but retain core comprehensibility.

Conclusion

Local-first applications offer significant benefits in terms of data ownership and performance. However, they also introduce unique challenges in versioning, compatibility, and schema evolution. Developers must adopt strategies to ensure forward and backward compatibility, leveraging tools and practices that support schema evolution. By doing so, they can create robust local-first applications that remain functional and relevant as they evolve.

Additional Resources

For those interested in diving deeper into these topics, consider exploring the following resources:
- Avro: A data serialization system that provides rich data structures and a compact, fast binary data format.

Protocol Buffers (Protobuf): A language-neutral, platform-neutral extensible mechanism for serializing structured data.

- JSON Schema: A vocabulary that allows you to annotate and validate JSON documents.

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Today the #GOP #Republicans passed their draft platform in full support of #crypto #cryptocurrency #bitcoin summary below. I hate to get political but if you want #selfsovereignty you have to vote hashtag#Trump as hashtag#Biden has been a disaster for the industry.

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Welcome to The Refinery.

The Church The Body of Christ is the theme for the next few Sunday’s.

These messages are primarily based around Paul’s letter to the Ephesians.

Today we are discussing, Christ, The Head Of The Church.

Our Scriptures today are, Colossians 1:9-23 NKJV

Preeminence of Christ

9 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 

10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 

11 strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; 

12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. 

13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.

15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 

16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 

17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 

18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence. Reconciled in Christ

19 For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, 

20 and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.

21 And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled 

22 in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight— 

23 if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.

Introduction.

Paul was concerned about making clear the relationship of Christ with His people.

Sometimes his emphasis was on Christ’s people, His church, as His body.

At other times, Paul’s emphasis was on Christ as the head, or Lord, of His church.

The later emphasis is true of our text, “He is the head of the body, the church.”

This simple but profound text has three down to earth meanings for us.

1. The absolute primacy of Christ in His church.

Christ’s people must understand this, subscribe to it, and glory in it.

His interests are supreme, His cause comes first, His will is primary.

To the world the church is a convenient group of respectable people to be used, when the occasion arises, to serve the interests of the world.

Actually, the church is to serve only the interests, purposes, and will of Christ, to put Him first.

When in the church we put our own interests ahead of the interests of Christ, we dishonour Him as the head.

The question we need to ask ourselves is not, “How will this affect me?” But “What will be the result for Christ’s cause? Will this promote or injure? Will this serve His best interests or defeat them?”

When in the church we put human sentiment ahead of the interests of Christ, we dishonour Him as head.

Sometimes services are conducted that have little to do with the gospel but make a powerful appeal to sentiment.

People respond to these appeals with enthusiasm that shames our response to the simple appeal of the gospel.

When we let human sentiment become a more powerful force in our church life than our love for and loyalty to Christ, we are not putting Christ first, we are not letting him be the head of His church.

When in the church we put the interests and claims of the world ahead of Christ, we dishonour Him as head.

The worlds interests do have some claim on us, but not first claim.

Matthew 6:33, But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Christ’s claims are first always.

Yet the cry of the majority of our church members is, “Don’t you know I’ve got to make a living?”

What they are really saying is, “I am only in this world on a business trip. If I can find a little time to spare, I’ll use it to serve the Lord.”

To a man who put a worldly claim first, Jesus said in Luke 9:62, But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”

When in the church we put the desire to please people ahead of the desire to please Christ, we dishonour Him as head.

Genuine harmony in a church is a vital necessity.

Paul told the Thessalonians in 1 Thessalonians 5:13, and to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

Yet there is a spurious, superficial sort of harmony in the church, bought at the expense of pleasing people instead of Christ, that doesn’t mean a thing except the defeat of the highest purposes of the gospel.

Some in the church are childish emotionally.

Their feelings will be hurt anyway.

In Christ’s church, we are not to be slappers of backs and dispensers of sugar cubes.

We are to serve the interests of Christ.

2. The absolute authority of Christ over His church.

Christ is the supreme ruler of His church on earth.

No one else is, nor could be.

Since His authority is supreme, since His church is answerable only to Him, three inescapable implications follow.

Firstly a New Testament church must be a pure democracy, a democratic body. 

This is inescapable.

Answerable only to Christ, who is the head, every member must be equal in rank, privilege, and power with every other member.

Jesus said, in Matthew 23:8, But you, do not be called ‘Rabbi’; for One is your Teacher, the Christ, and you are all brethren.

There are to be no ruling officials in the church.

Secondly, a New Testament church must be independent and self sufficient.

Since Christ is the head of the church, the doctrine of the autonomy of the local church not only makes sense, it is also necessary.

Since churches owe their supreme and individual allegiance to Christ, they must not accept rule from one another or any other kind of earthly rule.

If Christ is the head of His church, no one else can be.

This teaching denies all ecclesiastical systems that would substitute the rule of man for the rule of Christ.

It also mandates that the church should not be subservient to or united in anyway with the state.

The sphere of the church is entirely spiritual and answerable only to Christ.

Thirdly, New Testament churches, though independent of one another, must cooperate with one another in Christ’s program.

Since Christ is the head of the church, He is the head of every local New Testament church.

He has a program, and He can direct churches in that program.

Churches working together under the leadership of Christ, the head, do not surrender their sovereign rights in cooperating with one another, they exercise them.

The whole program, therefore, both within and among the churches ought to be characterised by harmony, unity, and purpose.

3. The absolute dependence of Christ’s church on Christ.

Just as the human body is helpless and lifeless apart from the head, so the church is helpless and lifeless apart from Christ.

On the night before His crucifixion, Jesus gently warned His disciples, in John 15:5, “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.

Do we not devise and promote and try to carry on programs that are of men and not of Christ?

In our modern day we speak of “the program of the church.”

But apart from Christ, the church has no program and no power to conceive or to execute a program.

The church is completely dependant on Him.

Conclusion.

“He is the head of the body, the church.”

How can we as individuals apply this text to our lives?

Since the body is composed of members, Christ must be the head of every member of the body.

Let each one of us ask, “Are His interests primary in my life? Is His rule over me complete? Is my faith in Him implicit?”

Until next time

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Encouraging the boom in the U.S. real estate market between 2001-2006, banks and lending companies resorted to high-risk mortgage lending (French Archive).

The housing crisis is a serious financial crisis that suddenly surfaced, caused initially by a rush of banks to grant high-risk loans, and the crisis began to grow like a snowball to threaten the real estate sector in the United States and then the banks and global financial markets to pose a threat to the global financial economy.

How it happened?

1. The boom in the U.S. real estate market between 2001-2006 encouraged banks and lending companies to resort to high-risk mortgage lending, granting borrowers loans without sufficient guarantees, and with significant risks in exchange for higher interest rates, aiming to achieve maximum profits for lending institutions.

2. Major financial institutions expanded lending to real estate firms and contracting companies that exceeded seven hundred billion dollars.

3. Rising interest rates led to a change in the nature of the U.S. market, represented by declining home prices and an increasing number of defaults on mortgage loans in the United States.

4. Signs of the crisis surfaced clearly at the beginning of 2007, with increasing cases of default, a rise in foreclosure actions by lenders, and frequent confrontations between borrowers and banks.

5. The volume of defaulted loans for individuals reached around a hundred billion dollars.

6. The number of homes offered for sale in the United States increased by 75% in 2007, reaching 2.2 million, representing about 1% of all housing units in the United States.

7. The ability of banks to finance companies and individuals weakened, leading to a decline in investment and consumer spending, threatening a recession.

8. The connection of a large number of financial institutions, especially in Europe and Asia, to the U.S. financial market led the mortgage crisis from the United States to Asia and Europe, evolving into a larger crisis known as the global financial crisis.

Attempts to rescue:

1. Global central banks in the United States, Europe, and Asia injected about $326 billion into their financial systems to protect the global financial system from collapse.

2. The U.S. Senate approved a bill to protect property owners, providing $300 billion used by the Federal Housing Administration to refinance mortgage loans held by property owners.

3. The Federal Reserve (U.S. central bank) decided to cut its basic interest rates by 0.75% in one go, reaching 3.5%, to address increasing disruptions in global financial markets. The rate was then gradually reduced to 2%.

4. In Europe, the governments of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg agreed to invest €11.2 billion in Fortis, a financial services company, effectively nationalizing it.

5. Ten international banks agreed to establish a $70 billion liquidity fund to meet their urgent needs, while central banks agreed to open lending facilities.

Implications of the crisis:

1. Bankruptcy of a number of U.S. mortgage lending companies such as New Century Financial Corporation and American Home Mortgage Investment.

2. Many real estate companies resorted to laying off a large number of employees, including Countrywide, a major mortgage lender in the United States, which decided to lay off five employees, totaling 12,000 jobs to cope with about $1.2 billion in losses from the mortgage crisis.

3. Between two and three million Americans face the risk of losing their homes.

4. Merrill Lynch, the U.S. investment firm, incurred losses of $14.1 billion.

5. Bank of America acquired Countrywide, the largest mortgage funder in the United States, for $4 billion, in a move to prevent one of the biggest collapses in America from occurring due to the housing crisis.

6. Stock markets deteriorated amid the risk of the crisis widening, while several major banks announced significant declines in their stock prices.

7. All European banks decided to freeze their operations in the U.S. real estate market, with BNP Paribas freezing investments worth $2.3 billion, the largest French-listed bank.

8. Deutsche Bank suffered a loss estimated at $954.818 million.

9. The British government nationalized Northern Rock, a mortgage finance bank, to prevent its bankruptcy, the first time a British company has been nationalized since the 1970s.

10. JPMorgan Chase announced the acquisition of Bear Stearns, an American business bank, at a low price with financial assistance from the Federal Reserve.

11. Citigroup sold $7.5 billion in bonds to Abu Dhabi's government investment authority.

12. Credit Suisse, the Swiss bank, suffered record losses.

13. The Japanese government announced that its financial institutions' losses due to the mortgage crisis doubled to $5.6 billion in the last three months of last year.

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Hey everyone,

Just wanted to give you a quick update on my travels. Unfortunately, I haven't been doing much exploring lately. I had a bit of an accident a few days ago while crossing the street in the dark.

Since then, I've been mostly relaxing at the hostel, trying to keep my foot off it as much as possible. My daily routine has been pretty simple: wake up, shower, clean the wounds, grab breakfast, and then catch up on some work on my laptop. Not exactly the adventure I was hoping for, but hopefully it'll give my foot the rest it needs to heal quickly.

Speaking of the accident, let's just say it was a good reminder about the importance of being prepared, especially when traveling in Africa. Here, reliable access to electricity and Wi-Fi isn't always a guarantee. Luckily, the hostel I'm staying at has both, which is a real plus. However, frequent power outages are common, and having a flashlight is a lifesaver – literally!

In my case, the power was out when I tried to cross the street. Because I couldn't see a thing, I decided to walk to a crosswalk for better visibility. Big mistake. There was a curb at the crosswalk that I completely missed in the darkness. Tripped, fell, and ended up hurting my foot, knee, and hands.

Thankfully, the damage wasn't too severe. My knee and hands just had some minor scrapes, but my toes took the brunt of the fall. The hostel, unfortunately, didn't have a first-aid kit, but a kind fellow traveler from Egypt came to the rescue with some antiseptic fluid. Huge thanks to him for that!

Since the accident, I've been keeping the wounds open to the air, but today I noticed some signs of infection. So, I ventured out to a larger pharmacy to pick up some supplies and some disinfectant spray. Hopefully, this will help clear things up.

On a brighter note, the hostel has a fantastic rooftop bar and restaurant with Wi-Fi, which has become my hangout spot for the past few days. The view isn't too bad either!

Lesson Learned: Always take your flashlight out of your bag when it's dark outside, no matter how confident you feel. A little extra caution can go a long way in preventing accidents. From now on, my flashlight is coming out of my bag at dusk – no exceptions!

In the picture, you'll see my temporary workspace. I've spared you the close-up of my toes – trust me, it's not pretty!

Thanks for reading everyone, and have a great day!

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Table Of Content

• Content

• Conclusion

• FAQ

• You May Also Like

• External Links

Introduction

The world of real estate is one that has always been known for its slow-moving and traditional nature. However, with the rise of digital currencies like Bitcoin, the industry is beginning to see some significant changes. In this blog post, we'll explore the future of real estate transactions and how Bitcoin is changing the game.

Cryptocurrency as a payment method

Real estate transactions have traditionally been conducted using fiat currency, but the emergence of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin is changing the game. Bitcoin offers faster and more cost-effective transactions compared to traditional payment methods. Additionally, blockchain technology provides a secure and tamper-proof record of real estate contracts, simplifying the transaction process and reducing the need for intermediaries.

Greater transparency and security

Bitcoin and blockchain technology can also provide greater transparency and security in real estate transactions. For instance, using Bitcoin and blockchain technology, buyers and sellers can easily track the progress of a transaction from start to finish, with a clear record of all the steps taken along the way.

This transparency can help to reduce the risk of fraud, as well as providing a level of trust and confidence in the transaction process. It can also help to reduce the risk of errors, as all parties involved in the transaction can see the same information, reducing the chance of miscommunication or misunderstandings.

Greater global reach

Finally, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies can help to expand the global reach of real estate transactions. Because Bitcoin is a decentralized currency, it can be used across borders without the need for currency exchange or other financial intermediaries. This can make it easier for foreign buyers and sellers to participate in real estate transactions, opening up new opportunities for investment and growth.

Conclusion

In conclusion, Bitcoin and blockchain technology are changing the game for real estate transactions. By providing faster, more cost-effective, and secure transactions, and by expanding the global reach of real estate investments, Bitcoin is helping to make real estate a more accessible and efficient industry. As these technologies continue to develop and mature, we can expect to see even more changes and innovations in the real estate industry in the years to come.

FAQ

How can Bitcoin be used in real estate transactions? Bitcoin can be used as a payment method for real estate transactions. Buyers and sellers can exchange Bitcoin in exchange for a property.

What are the advantages of using Bitcoin in real estate transactions? The speed of transactions is much faster with Bitcoin compared to traditional payment methods. Additionally, Bitcoin transactions tend to have lower fees than traditional methods. Using Bitcoin can also provide greater transparency and security.

What is blockchain technology? Blockchain is a digital ledger that securely records and stores data. It is ideal for recording and verifying real estate transactions because it provides a tamper-proof record of the transaction.

How does blockchain technology simplify the real estate transaction process? Blockchain technology can automate certain parts of the transaction process, reducing the need for intermediaries like lawyers and banks. This can speed up the transaction process and reduce costs for all parties involved.

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Chef's notes

Sprinkle a pinch of salt in a bowl. Sift 275 grams of flour above it. Make a well in the center of the flour and sprinkle the yeast into it. Add 50 grams of butter, 25 grams of sugar, and the egg. Pour in the milk and knead the dough with the mixer or by hand into a smooth dough. If necessary, add a bit more flour if the dough is too sticky. Form the dough into a ball. Let the dough rise covered with cling film at room temperature for 1 hour.

Peel the apples. Cut the apples and apricots into pieces. Cook the fruit with 150 grams of sugar and 50 ml of water in 15 minutes into a thick compote. Let this fruit filling cool.

Knead the dough again briefly and roll it out to a round sheet of about 28-30 cm in diameter, so that it fits well over the baking tin. Press the dough into the tin and press it well into the corners. Let the dough rise again for 10 minutes and cut off the excess edges.

Spread the fruit filling over the dough.

Mix the rest of the flour with the remaining 100 grams of butter and 100 grams of sugar and knead it with your fingers into a crumbly mixture. Sprinkle this crumble mixture over the fruit filling. Bake the tart in the preheated oven at 200°C for about 30 minutes until golden brown.

Variations: Only apple? Make this tart with 1 kilo of apples. High or low? You can also bake the crumble tart in a low tart tin of 30 cm diameter. If the fruit filling is a bit too voluminous, you can make double the crumble mixture and sprinkle it over the larger surface area.

Additional needs: Mixer with dough hooks or food processor Cling film Round baking tin with a diameter of 28-30 cm, greased

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 45 min + 1 hour Rising
• 🍳 Cook time: 30 minutes
• 🍽️ Servings: 8

Ingredients

• 375 grams flour
• 1 packet dried yeast (7 grams)
• 125 grams unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 275 grams sugar
• 1 egg
• 100 ml milk, at room temperature
• 500 grams apples
• 500 grams apricots (fresh or from a can)

Directions

1. Sprinkle a pinch of salt in a bowl. Sift 275 grams of flour above it. Make a well in the center of the flour and sprinkle the yeast into it. Add 50 grams of butter, 25 grams of sugar, and the egg. Pour in the milk and knead the dough with the mixer or by hand into a smooth dough. If necessary, add a bit more flour if the dough is too sticky. Form the dough into a ball. Let the dough rise covered with cling film at room temperature for 1 hour.
2. Peel the apples. Cut the apples and apricots into pieces. Cook the fruit with 150 grams of sugar and 50 ml of water in 15 minutes into a thick compote. Let this fruit filling cool.
3. Knead the dough again briefly and roll it out to a round sheet of about 28-30 cm in diameter, so that it fits well over the baking tin. Press the dough into the tin and press it well into the corners. Let the dough rise again for 10 minutes and cut off the excess edges.
4. Spread the fruit filling over the dough.

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Chef's notes

More information about its origins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_bread

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 10 min
• 🍳 Cook time: 45 min
• 🍽️ Servings: 4-8

Ingredients

• 500 gr whole grain flour
• 450 ml butter milk
• 10 gr (sea)salt
• 15 gr baking soda (not US's "baking powder") (also known as sodium bicarbonate)
• a bit of butter or olive oil

Directions

1. Pre-heat the oven to 220°C
2. Put all flour in a bowl with baking soda and salt. Mix it well.
3. Create a hole in the middle and pour all butter milk in the center.
4. Stir it from the centre and slowly mixing all together until you get a dough.
5. When mixed, the dough is sticky. Use all purpose flour on counter and bulge to the same size as your skillet.
6. Use a bit of butter or olive oil to wet the skillet to prevent sticky bread. And put the dough in your skillet.
7. Add a but of flour on top of the dough and then cut lightly a X.
8. Bake for ±45 min on 220°C until done (inside temperature must be at least 95°C). Turn up the heat for the last 5 min to get a crust.
9. Let the bread cool down a bit before taking it out the skillet, and let it cool down even more before eating.
10. Donate some sats to me if you like this recipe.

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Making money with free apps is a trending topic in the mobile application development world. The mobile app industry has been active for over a decade and is now generating billions of dollars in the revenue. Research shows from 2021 to 2022 the app and game revenues increased by 19.1% to $133 Billion and most of these Free Apps and games are free to download upfront and then charge for subscription or in-app purchases. Hence, it’s an estimate that the mobile app industry is most likely to hit a whopping $407.31 Billion by 2026. With more than three billion smartphone users, the industry keeps on expanding and bringing more revenue in the upcoming years.

While there is so much growth and spread of apps across the globe, the demand for custom app development is at an all-time high. For App Tech startups, the app is a core product, but even for non-app tech startups the app is an essential tool to engage with their customers and users and to improve the overall business process. Hence this makes startups and entrepreneurs curious for answers to a few questions.

Popular Revenue Models For How Do Free Apps Make Money

1. Revenue through Mobile Advertising

In-app advertisement method, the most common and easiest method to implement when it comes to money-making apps via a third-party ad network like Google AdMob or Tapjoy (iron source) etc. As per the latest report by business standard the global mobile ad spend is going to reach $362 Billion and $412 Billion in 2023 and 2024 respectively. The free app market has always outnumbered the paid ones when it comes to profit and download numbers, however an app should have a large user base in order to convert that into significant revenue through in-app ads.

1. App Monetization through Sponsorships / Sponsored Content

Another interesting and exciting method to earn money from a mobile app is sponsorship. In this method, the app owner needs to figure out the appropriate platform to launch the app. A platform or brand that has its identity before and a great audience base should be preferred.

1. In-app Purchase Freemium Model

Another way to make money with free mobile apps is to offer in-app purchases in a Freemium Model. A Freemium Model means you offer some features of the Apps for free, while charge for some premium features. These are purchases that are made while the app is open. In-app purchases include things like extra lives, bonus levels in a game, or virtual goods in a social media app.

1. App Subscription Model

The App subscription-based model is one of the most popular and finest app monetization strategies over the last few years, however it is also a part of the in-app purchase. In this method, users can subscribe to join, try for a while, and then pay a regular monthly fee for access. Subscription-based apps tend to see higher revenue per user than apps with other business models. This type of monetization is recommended for cloud-based services, audio and video streaming apps or OTT Apps, and Media Services etc. As per the Subscription Trade Association, 75% of distributor-to-consumer businesses will have a subscription-based leg of their business by 2023.

1. Selling Physical goods

As the name suggests, the apps that sell physical goods make money by how? By selling physical goods on e-commerce apps or on food delivery apps or taxi booking apps. These Apps are free, their content is free and all you pay for is to buy a physical good or service out of it.

Please note that such apps accept payments through a payment gateway (like PayPal, stripe) and not via in-app purchase. Hence don’t give commission to Google or Apple but to the respective payment gateway provider. The commission of such payment gateways is usually 2.9 % of the total sales.

1. Affiliate and Referral Marketing Monetization Model

Affiliate is another variation of sponsorship. In place of granting advertising rights solely to one organization, you negotiate with interested parties and place their reference links in your application. Referral Marketing includes promoting a third-party product or service as a way to upgrade revenue opportunities for your app. App publishers sell or promote affiliates based on the number of clicks or installs. For this one can use pop-up ads to endorse someone else’s application or advertise products.

Source: https://www.agicent.com/blog/how-do-free-apps-make-money/

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Yesterday's edition https://stacker.news/items/599828/r/Undisciplined

I had no idea SN was already discussing higher posting/comment fees two years ago. For the newer folks, it used to just be 1 sat to post anything.

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July 8, 2023 📅

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Anita Posch Has Good News About Africa

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It’s amazing to see how the Bitcoin adoption has been growing in African countries. There was only one initiative I knew of in 2020, when I visited Zimbabwe and Botswana. That was the Satoshicentre in Gaborone founded by Alakanani Itireleng. Together we organized a meetup at the university, where I held a Bitcoin talk. Now there are communities like the Bitcoin Cowries in Ghana, Bitcoin Dada in Kenya, Bitcoin for Fairness in Zambia, Bitcoin Ekasi and Bitcoin Ubuntu in South Africa and the new Bitcoin Innovation Hub in Uganda. In the next few years we’ll see tremendous growth. Exciting!

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https://stacker.news/items/205973/r/Undisciplined?commentId=205977

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this is how it be

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From Are You a Bitcoin Advocate or a Underground Bitcoiner by @tomlaies in ~bitcoin

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everything bitcoin related

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July 8, 2022 📅

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Gloria Zhao is now a Bitcoin Core maintainer

Link to https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25524

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https://stacker.news/items/42602/r/Undisciplined?commentId=42634

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I think raising posting/comment fees to reduce bad content is reasonable. 10 sats seems like a good starting point.

A cool side-effect is that by raising posting and comment fees, Stacker News will also have far more sats to give back to the best us […]

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1st place @k00b

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Casa client case study: the Tinder trap

Link to https://blog.keys.casa/casa-client-case-study-the-tinder-trap/

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Kevin Mulcrone has a twitter thread on the release and explains how his bitcoin based license works https://twitter.com/KayBeSee/status/1413162687379296256. […]

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Making an App in the world where Apps are loaded with AI capabilities is not just an intelligent decision for any business to find their digital edge, it has become more of an essential than ever. Making an App with advanced capabilities like AI, AR/ VR, Automation is easier for bigger organizations since they always have resources and budget to hire their own team or an Mobile Application development company for a premium. But most of the First time App Entrepreneurs or startups wonder about what will be the best way to make an app or how to make an app from the scratch in limited budget and resources. Since any mobile app project involves a good amount of skilled efforts, energy, cost and time it becomes pretty obvious that a new startup entrepreneur gets worried about pros and cons of various methods of App development, hidden App developments cost, Maintaining the App and other nuances before actually jumping the gun.

Therefore, we’ve got you covered and here is this comprehensive guide on how to make an App from the scratch, and how to monetize your App, and why you should work with the best App Development companies to keep the complex things simpler.

A guide to make an App, with Examples

1. Define Your App Objectives

Yes, we all know that the ultimate goal of any business is to generate a million-dollar revenue and an App business is pretty much capable to achieve that and more, however we suggest take one step at a time. First of all, define what Major Problem that your app is going to solve, then define secondary problems too. Figure out what is not already in the market that your app can fill with i.e Do an App Gap Analysis. Brainstorm about the main objective your app is going to serve. Will the app enhance the experience of all your customers or will it be generating sales and purchases? Will this App offer a unique technology that makes users life easier, or the app is going to be an extension of your existing business? Once you’ve figured out the Gap, Opportunity, and Problem then you can make an App startup business around it.

Following are some of the common Goals for which you make an App –

To solve a problem through an App and make a business around it – like uber solved the Taxi booking problem, Airbnb solved the problem of accommodation, and like our very own HASfit(yes, we made it for our client and it has 6 million users now) solves the problem of giving quality home based no/ low equipment workouts. To Extend your existing Digital Product (A SaaS product, or a Web based or Desktop Software) as an App – Like Google Ads App as an extension of their Big web based Google Ad console, or Linkedin has their own App. Such apps may or may not replicate all functionality of your existing tech product, but offers enough to keep users at ease.

To Enhance your existing brand for better customer relationship – Like My BMW Application for BMW brand, or a Mercedes App. An App for facilitating Transactions like Ecommerce Apps– like Amazon Application or any other famous Ecommerce App, or any buy and sell app.

1. Do App Competition Research, Analyze, Validate App idea, build a strategy

Scenario #1 – Your App idea is absolutely unique and there is no existing App which remotely does what you want your App to offer.

Now this is a great App situation to be in. There is no App competitor, your App idea is unique so you’d think of going full force to build it, right? Well, not just like that! More important than not having a competitive App, is a viable business model that your App can support. In such a case where you’ve an App idea that doesn’t exist yet, you should be asking following questions –

– Will users pay for this app, and if yes then how (via subscription, via ads, via in app purchase)?

– How much scope of future improvement and enhancements is going to be there with your App idea? There must be a scope for scaling, enhancements to keep your users interested and engaged.

– There is no competition today, your App idea supports a viable business model too and that means you will soon have a competition! So what will be your plans once a competition takes birth?

Scenario #2 There are similar Apps out-there but you see a big opportunity to fill the gaps they’ve left.

This is a pretty common scenario, because there is an App for almost everything but so as with the automobile and they still launch new improved cars so you can still launch a new App, a better one than your competitors. A good thing in this scenario is that, you already have a market that is receptive to the App idea you’re contemplating to make.

There was myspace and orkut before facebook, there was google talk before whatsapp, there was bigbasket before zepto grocery delivery; and the list is just endless. This means, most of the successful Apps we use today had a big competition already and their App ideas were already implemented but they still made their way like a champ. You just need to take care of following points before starting to make the app:

– Check how efficiently and aesthetically you can incorporate the features and offerings that existing competition has left considering. – Check if such new features and offerings are good enough to make your App a better alternative to the existing Apps. – Check the usage analytics of those existing apps, are people liking them and spending time and money? – Check their monetization methods, check their revenue and numbers and see how big the market is. Think of strategy where you can beat them with not just the features but also with pricing, offerings and content. – Check if these Apps have left any geographies or demographics that you can cater to, and carve a niche for your own app in such locations and among such demographics.

1. Define your App’s USP or Unique Bragworthy Proposition

As mentioned in the competitive research point above, figuring out your App’s unique selling proposition and then secondary propositions is of utmost importance. The world is however moved on from USP (unique selling proposition) to UBP (Unique Bragworthy proposition) as described well by Cred’s Founder Mr. Kunal Shah, Cred is valued at apprx $ 6.4 billion as of mid 2022 is one of the biggest unicorns in India. So we can take his advice about UBP pretty seriously.

The concept of UBP in case of the Apps means you need to make your App product in such a way and position it in such a way that their users just not get benefitted out of it but feel “Smug” about being its users and that becomes your no. 1 App marketing tool. Not every new App product can be Bragworthy for the users, but atlesat one should try. After all, as Les Brown said and we quote – “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.

1. Make Wireframes or Write user stories or Use-cases

A wireframe is the next step in the process of making an app. An App wireframe is the rough sketch of the mobile application you want to develop. A wireframe can be made on paper or also by using some very smart Mockups or Wireframes creating tools around that come with their mobile apps as well. We’ll talk about wireframing tools a little later, after describing an app specification document.

1. Technical Feasibility – Make App’s PoC if needed

Things get serious from here. A big round of Technical Feasibility Analysis is to be done here and I’ll tell you the reasons also.

– To make sure that all what the App wants to achieve is achievable through the existing technology and libraries or would you need to build the technology from the scratch. For example, if I were to make an App that can scan the numbers on your credit card then I can use an OCR library like tesseract or any other computer vision/ Optical character recognition library and that will save me to create a whole new technology just for one app. Similarly, if I have to make an app that can extract text from images, then I can leverage the same technology (OCR) for it. However, in case of Apps which offer you an altogether new technology (Like Prisma App), you may need to work on the background technology (in this case – image processing) yourself and that can blow out the scope of the work to a whole different level.

1. Make High Fidelity App Designs

Once your wireframes are finalized, the development looks all feasible, the technical architecture is selected now it is time to convert your wireframes into high fidelity screen designs that developers can use to incorporate into the project.

For high fidelity designs, you do need a professional designer who can use tools like Adobe Photoshop, or Sketch or Figma for making high fidelity screens. Agicent can definitely help you with App wireframes, App high fidelity designs, and of course App development.

1. Choose Front end and Backend Technologies

Now that you have the objective, goals, market research and framework ready, the next step to proceed forward is the the coding at both ends – Front end (The App side) and backend (the backend technology, admin panel, content management, database and APIs). There are plenty of ways to build an app but the most important call to take while building an app from the scratch is to finalize which technologies to use. This highly depends upon the App type, Budget, Future scalability, and timeline.

Here are some of the common technology choices for making an app: Native App development: Native App Development means using the Native technology stack separately for iOS and Android. For iOS – Xcode with Swift or Objective C is native; while for android its Android studio with Kotlin or Java.

1. Choose your App Developer

When all of above is in place, you now have to launch your project and for that you need an App Development Team. There are some options to go about making your app as follows –

Hire an App Development Company – You can always hire a reputed App Development company like Agicent to make your App. App Companies like ours are usually equipped with the right development, design and testing teams and can quickly start working on the project and delivering that. You can either hire an App company on fixed price for fixed scope of work; or can opt for hourly model (Check out Remote App Developers )pricing.

Following are some of the major benefits of hiring an App Development Company – – Rapid Development and Delivery: We are ready to start on any new project in a matter of days or maximum 1 week as we keep our app development teams ready for new projects.

– Expertise and Experience: We leverage our years of experience in the app development for your project’s benefit.

Source: https://www.agicent.com/blog/how-to-make-an-app/

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大阪上新庄

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Sovereign Souls

These little entities: Feet patter freely, knees against me.

Excitment seeking entities: Eyes in constant scan for fuscia flowers, limbs in constant contact with ground.

Can't be corraled kind of entities: In a beat, in a flash, once here now there, static fist clenching things undesirable.

Engaging Enclosures

Mind racing, I seek solace in their corraling. Bags of water balloons are enthralling. As the balloons fill, they linger. Bouncing trying to plunge in a finger.

Playground Pioneers

An exchange of glances with my wife and we're off. Little boy on my shoulders seeking a high colored prism. Little girl through tunnels offering a hand in altruism.

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Wenn wir betonen, dass der Mensch einen Körper hat [1], und wir festgestellt haben, dass dieser unser Körper spezifische Bezogeheit auf die Welt bedeutet, müssen wir uns näher mit diesem Körper beschäftigen. Wir sind Wirbeltiere und teilen damit ihr Verhalten, wird eine Appetenz Handlung unterbrochen, haben wir Frust, wie der Frosch Frust hat.
Wie alle Säugetiere gehören wir in die Klasse der K-Strategen.[2] Einfach gesagt hängt das längerfristige Überleben und der Repoduktionserfolg des Nachwuchs weitestgehend von der elterlichen Fürsorgekompetenz ab.
Und so lohnt sich der Blick auf die Primaten, zu denen wir auch gehören. Aus der Ferne und über den Daumen kann man leicht feststellen, dass diese Gruppe in zwei grobe Klassen fallen, die über ein phänotypisches Merkmal unterscheidbar sind. Dieses Merkmal ist der sog. “Sexualdimorphismus”, [3] der im Großen und Ganzen den Unterschied zwischen den geschlechtsreifen männlichen und weiblichen Individuen derselben Art, die nicht auf die primären Geschlechtsorgane bezogen ist, bezeichnet.
Bei den Primaten gibt es eine Gruppe mit einem hohen Sexualdimorphismus, hierunter fallen die Gorillas, Mandrills oder Orang-Utans, sowie die Gruppe der Primaten, die einen sehr niedrigen Sexualdimorphismus aufweisen: Gibbons, Bonobos, Marmosetten usw.. Der Physiologische Unterschied in den Geschlechtern führt zu einer Unterschiedlichkeit im Verhalten und auch hier ist das empirische Schema relativ eingängig und deutlich.
Für Primaten mit einem hohen Sexualdimorphismus gilt, dass ~5% der Männchen für 95% des Nachwuchs verantwortlich sind.[4] Es sind die Alphamännchen in der Gruppe die den Zugang zu den Weibchen kontrollieren, nun ist Alphamännchen sein eine erschöpfende Angelegenheit, es gilt diese 5% Nachwuchs der anderen zu verhindern, es gilt jede Herausforderung der anderen Männchen siegreich zu beantworten und diese in ihre Schranken zu weisen. Alles während man versucht, so viel Nachwuchs wie irgend möglich zu zeugen, denn Alphamännchen ist man nicht für lange. Da bleibt kein Platz für die Erziehung. Keine Aufmerksamkeit für die Brutpflege. Meist sterben sie früh, werden von einem anderen Männchen bezwungen, und werden ausgestoßen. Kompetitive Gruppen sind ein hartes Brot. Sie bestehen primär aus traumatisierten Personen.
Das Alphamännchen: Zwar ist es das Männchen mit dem Zugang zu den Weibchen und in der Hierarchie an der Spitze, aber einsam ist es da. Die Anderen, die Betamännchen, jedes trachtet danach selbst Alphamännchen zu sein. Wartet auf einen Moment für seine “Palastrevolution”. Koalitionen werden geschmiedet, Zusammenarbeit, soziale Interaktion reduziert sich am Ende immer auf die Generierung von Vorteilen. Männliche Banden [5]:

Fry, I’m an 80s guy. Friendship to me means that for 2 bucks I’d beat you with a pool cue until you got detached retinas. [6]

Diese Alphamännchen sind auch Kindermörder, sie morden die Kinder der vorherigen Alphamännchen, denn die Weibchen werden nicht schwanger sonst. Eine einfache und brutale Lösung, die notwendig ist, wenn die Aufzucht Zeit der Kinder länger als die Herrschaftszeit des Alphamännchen ist[7]. Individuelle Selektion ist das Stichwort. Die Berggorillas, es gibt nicht mehr Viele und sie werden in ein oder zwei Jahrzehnten unweigerlich aussterben, denn von Zeit zu Zeit wird ein männlicher Berggorilla systematisch die Jungtiere in einer Gruppe töten. [8] Ein schönes Beispiel, dass die Individuen sich nicht zum Wohle der Art oder der Gruppe verhalten.

Furuichi et al. (1998) showed that infant mortality is higher in chimpanzees than in bonobos and suggested that an important driver of this difference may relate to species differences in infanticide: both intra- and intercommunity infanticide occur across chimpanzee subspecies but do not appear to occur among bonobos (Hohmann, Vigilant, Mundry, Behringer, & Surbeck, 2019).[9]

Für die Weibchen in der Gruppe sieht es nicht viel besser aus. Sie sind mit den Kindern allein, immer in der Gefahr das diese Kinder erschlagen werden von dem nächsten Alpha Tier, müssen herhalten für das alpha Männchen, sind, unbeobachtet von diesem, Ziel von beta Männchen und ihren nicht immer höflichen annäherungs versuchen. Eine traumatisierte Gesellschaft mit Gewalt und Leid als Mittelpunkt.
Da fühlen sich kooperative Gesellschaften, wie sie Gibbons, Marmosetten oder Bonobos praktizieren, deutlich attraktiver, d.h. weniger traumatisierend, an. Hier haben ~80% der Männchen Nachkommen sie kümmern sich gemeinsam um ihren Nachwuchs ihre Gesellschaftlichen Interaktionen sind weniger von Gewalt geprägt.
Sie sind auch freundlicher zu Fremden:

The aid that bonobos explicitly provided the unfamiliar recipient in obtaining food is consistent with common definitions of proactive prosociality, while contagious yawning suggests their xenophilia is not completely under voluntary control and is present even when there is zero familiarity.[10]

Der Schlüssel scheint das Verhalten der Weibchen zu sein:

In the case of bonobos, strong female alliances and sexual selection against male aggression likely removed the threat of lethal intergroup aggression that drives chimpanzee xenophobiac[11]

Diese Beobachtung wird von der netten Geschichte R. Spacholky gestützt, nach der, in einer von ihm betreuten Pavian Grupe eine Kuturelle wende einkehrte

… and this is an okay word to use, they developed a social culture that had much less aggression much more social affiliation[12]

nach dem die schlimmsten der Männlichen Gruppen Mittglieder mit einem male aus der Gruppe entfernt wurden, sie starben an Tuberkulose.

… where it wound up half the males in the troop died of tuberculosis and it wasn’t random which half it was the males who were most aggressive and least socially affiliative and this left you with a troop that was female dominated and much nicer male baboons[13]

Hier kann man sich an das Senario aus “Gewalt ist eine ansteckende Kankheit” errinern fühlen. Und auch hier ist der Wandel beständig:

… didn’t look at them for a decade but coming back yeah they were still like that but it was new males by then male baboons grow up someplace else leave their home troop at puberty and transfer into this new one and over this decade they were being repopulated by Young jerk male baboons who had grown up out in the big bad normal baboon world and they showed up and somehow it took about six months for them to learn we don’t do stuff like that here[14]

Wir Menschen fallen phänptypisch in die erste Gruppe[15], unsere Männchen sind klar körperlich unterscheidbar von unseren Weibchen, quantitativ schlägt es sich z.B. beim Gewichtheben nieder[16] aber auch in der Anzahl der Gefängnisinsasse, wo das Verhältnis ungefähr bei 1:20 -relativ konstant über die längste Zeit- liegt. ~5% aller Gefängnisinsasse sind Frauen [17], so beschrieben ist die Tendenz deutlich und deckt sich hervorragend mit unsere Vorstellung von den Primaten die wir über die Zeit entwickeln konnten und hier im ersten Abschnitt niedergelegt haben.
Und doch, wir Menschen liegen in Wahrheit dazwischen, denn, wiedererwartend zum trend neigt der Männliche Mensch zur verantwortung gegenüber seinen Kindern, und viele Menschen leben in zweierverbindungen, zumindest temporär, um die Aufzucht des Nachwuchses zu gewährleisten.
Wir können uns entscheiden, wir können die Traumata der Vergangeneit wiederholen, um sie päsent und am Leben zu halten, auf ewig verdammt in der Wiederholung, oder wir können sie hinter uns lassen.
Das ist was die meisten wollen, je mehr sie sich die “wahren Schverhalte” klar gemacht haben.
Vor die einfache Frage gestellt, nach einem Leben in Leid und Trauma, oder einem freudvollen leben in einer Gemeinschaft, da ist die Antwort nicht schwer.

Bildung, Bundeszentrale für politische Strafgefangene und Sicherungsverwahrte, https://www.bpb.de/kurz-knapp/zahlen-und-fakten/soziale-situation-in-deutschland/61800/strafgefangene-und-sicherungsverwahrte/.

Cassini, Marcelo H. (2020): Sexual size dimorphism and sexual selection in primates, in: Mammal Review, 50,3, 2020, S. 231–239, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mam.12191.

Lee, Sean M., Murray, Carson M., Lonsdorf, Elizabeth V., Fruth, Barbara, Stanton, Margaret A., Nichols, Jennifer, Hohmann, Gottfried (2020): Wild bonobo and chimpanzee females exhibit broadly similar patterns of behavioral maturation but some evidence for divergence, in: American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 171,1, 2020, S. 100–109, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajpa.23935.

Sapolsky, Robert (2010): 3. Behavioral Evolution II, 2010, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKNAzl-XN4I.

——— (2010): 2. Behavioral Evolution II, 2010, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKNAzl-XN4I.

——— (2024): PRIMITIVE: Care, Cruelty, Religion, & Reason in the Human Animal, 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNfHSfLrIVE.

Tan, Jingzhi, Ariely, Dan, Hare, Brian (2017): Bonobos respond prosocially toward members of other groups, in: Sci. Rep., 7,1, 2017, S. 14733, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-15320-w.

Wikipedia Sexualdimorphismus, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexualdimorphismus.

——— Geschlechterunterschiede im Sport, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschlechterunterschiede_im_Sport.

[1] vgl. das kartesische Subjekt und sein Bauchnabel

[2] KStrategie

[3] Wikipedia, Sexualdimorphismus, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexualdimorphismus.

[4] Robert Sapolsky, 2. Behavioral Evolution II, 2010, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKNAzl-XN4I ab 1:20:25

[5] Bande kommt von Binden und Bund

[6] Steve Castle,Futurama Season 3 Episode 21 “Future Stock” https://theinfosphere.org/Steve_Castle#Quotes

[7] Robert Sapolsky, 3. Behavioral Evolution II, 2010, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKNAzl-XN4I ab 15:49

[8] Sapolsky, ebd ab 17:47, ein nicht eingetretenes Szenario wie es scheint, hat sich Berggorilla bestand erholt in neuester Zeit

[9] Sean M. Lee, Carson M. Murray, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, u. a., Wild bonobo and chimpanzee females exhibit broadly similar patterns of behavioral maturation but some evidence for divergence, in: American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 171,1, 2020, S. 100–109, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajpa.23935. Seite 3

[10] Jingzhi Tan, Dan Ariely, Brian Hare, Bonobos respond prosocially toward members of other groups, in: Sci. Rep., 7,1, 2017, S. 14733, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-15320-w. Seite 5

[11] Tan, Ariely, Hare, ebd. Seite 6

[12] Robert Sapolsky, PRIMITIVE: Care, Cruelty, Religion, & Reason in the Human Animal, 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNfHSfLrIVE ab 54:09m

[13] Sapolsky, ebd ab 53:48m

[14] Sapolsky, ebd ab 54:28m

[15] mit einem SSD von 1.19 Marcelo H. Cassini, Sexual size dimorphism and sexual selection in primates, in: Mammal Review, 50,3, 2020, S. 231–239, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mam.12191. Tabelle 1 Seite 4

[16] Wikipedia, Geschlechterunterschiede im Sport, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschlechterunterschiede_im_Sport.

[17] Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Strafgefangene und Sicherungsverwahrte, https://www.bpb.de/kurz-knapp/zahlen-und-fakten/soziale-situation-in-deutschland/61800/strafgefangene-und-sicherungsverwahrte/ “Der Anteil der Männer lag dabei im Jahr 2019 bei 94 Prozent.”

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2024年に入って日本の株式市場はこれまでのところ好調だ。

今年2月、日本のベンチマークである日経225指数は1989年以来の最高値を記録し、先週木曜日（7月4日）には日経平均株価とTOPIX指数の両方が過去最高値を更新し、TOPIX指数はすでに1989年12月の高値を突破した。先週の月曜日（7月8日）、日経平均株価は再び最高値を更新し、41133ポイントの水準に達したと東京に本拠を置く金融サービス会社マネックスグループの上級幹部ジェスパー・コール氏は語った。同社の利益は、日本株が今年新高値を更新し、特に日経平均株価が今年２回の新高値を更新するという現在の市場反発の原動力となっているとのインタビューでのこと。

月曜日（ 7月8日）には、41,133ポイントのレベルに達し、新高値を記録しました。

東京に本拠を置く金融サービス会社マネックスグループの上級幹部、ジェスパー・コール氏は、日本株の今年の新高値、特に日経平均株価が今年２回の新高値を更新したことについて、同社の収入が株価上昇の原動力となっているとインタビューで述べた。現在の市場の反発。

コル氏は「日本企業は現在、数十年にわたる事業再構築の恩恵を受けており、損益分岐点は世界的に過去最低となっており、たとえ売上高の伸びが小さくても、爆発的な利益成長をもたらす可能性がある」と指摘した。

同氏は、2024年4月から2026年3月までの今後2会計年度で同社の利益が35％増加し、年率成長率は4％になると予想している。この予測の重要な根拠は、日本最大の労働組合である連合が賃上げを発表し、組合の支援を受けている労働者の月給が2025年3月までに平均5.1％増加し、過去33年間で最大の増加となるということである。

さらにコール氏は、日本の金融政策、金融政策、規制政策は安定しており、成長に貢献しており、それが金融市場の重要な支えになっていると信じている。

別のアナリストは、最近の日本株の上昇は海外資本の流入、高い投資家心理、機関投資家の日本資産のリバランスの複合効果によるものだと指摘した。

日本株はいつまで上昇し続けるのでしょうか？ 今年初め、コル氏は日経平均株価が2025年末までに5万5000円を超えるのは「完全に合理的」だと予想していた。最新のインタビューでもコル氏は「私の予想を主張する。日経平均株価は、来年末までに5万5000人に上昇するだろう」 同氏の予測が的中すれば、現在の水準より35％増加することになる。

ＵＢＳは先週の報告書で、事業再編の進展と日本企業の好調な収益について楽観的な見方を示し、２０２４年末から来年前半には日本の株式市場のパフォーマンスがスタンダード＆プアーズ５００指数を若干上回るとの見通しを示した。年。

野村証券は先週木曜日に発表したリポートで、「4月から6月にかけて企業収益が増加に転じたり、日本株式市場に長期資金が流入し始めたりすれば、日本株の上昇傾向は続く可能性がある」と述べた。

ただし、野村証券は、短期的には日本の株式市場に「重大な影響」を与えるとの見方を示し、6月28日時点で外資系証券会社の先物売り越しポジションが減少していると指摘した。契約株数は0.01.7万株に達しました。

モルガン・スタンレーのアナリストらは、個人投資家の持続的な熱意と日本の個人貯蓄口座の新バージョンの推進により、市場への安定した資金流入がもたらされ、日本株の流動性はさらに高まることが期待されると指摘した。

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We all know the beautiful tulip flower with its vibrant colors and distinctive shape, but what if I told you that people once traded their homes and estates for just one of them about the story of the first recorded economic bubble in history, known as Tulipmania.

In the early 17th century, the tulip flower gained great fame due to its attractive shape and its ability to withstand various climates and soil conditions. It became a symbol of wealth and prosperity, leading to increased demand as people sought to flaunt their status by purchasing it.

After a while, this flower was affected by a virus called the Mosaic virus, which caused changes in its colors and the appearance of streaks resembling flames. This increased its beauty, consequently raising its demand even more. Farmers started giving some of these tulips names of nobles, admirals, and other prominent figures.

So traders began buying them in large quantities, believing their prices would keep rising continuously. Ordinary people also started selling their possessions to acquire tulips with the intention of selling them later at higher prices and making profits. Thus, the meaning of buying these flowers shifted from possession and luxury to speculation and profit-making. As supply decreased and demand increased, the prices of these tulip bulbs soared to irrational levels. The average price reached 2,500 florins - the currency used at that time - for a single tulip bulb. To put this in perspective, the average annual income of a skilled worker ranged between 150-300 florins! In this picture, we see the most expensive tulip ever sold, named "Semper Augustus," which was sold for 6,000 florins at that time.

At the beginning of 1637, demand began to decline and the value stopped rising, causing traders to speculate that demand for these tulip bulbs would soon diminish. This sparked panic among everyone, leading to mass selling at the same time. As supply increased significantly, prices collapsed, and the situation turned upside down.

After this collapse, some people lost all their money, while others were left with the crops they had, as the government invalidated those contracts and considered them null and void in an attempt to address the situation. Subsequently, members of society became fearful of spending, leading to an economic depression.

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Pequenos problemas que o Estado cria para a sociedade e que não são sempre lembrados

- **vale-transporte**: transferir o custo com o transporte do funcionário para um terceiro o estimula a morar longe de onde trabalha, já que morar perto é normalmente mais caro e a economia com transporte é inexistente.
- **atestado médico**: o direito a faltar o trabalho com atestado médico cria a exigência desse atestado para todas as situações, substituindo o livre acordo entre patrão e empregado e sobrecarregando os médicos e postos de saúde com visitas desnecessárias de assalariados resfriados.
- **prisões**: com dinheiro mal-administrado, burocracia e péssima alocação de recursos -- problemas que empresas privadas em competição (ou mesmo sem qualquer competição) saberiam resolver muito melhor -- o Estado fica sem presídios, com os poucos existentes entupidos, muito acima de sua alocação máxima, e com isto, segundo a bizarra corrente de responsabilidades que culpa o juiz que condenou o criminoso por sua morte na cadeia, juízes deixam de condenar à prisão os bandidos, soltando-os na rua.
- **justiça**: entrar com processos é grátis e isto faz proliferar a atividade dos advogados que se dedicam a criar problemas judiciais onde não seria necessário e a entupir os tribunais, impedindo-os de fazer o que mais deveriam fazer.
- **justiça**: como a justiça só obedece às leis e ignora acordos pessoais, escritos ou não, as pessoas não fazem acordos, recorrem sempre à justiça estatal, e entopem-na de assuntos que seriam muito melhor resolvidos entre vizinhos.
- **leis civis**: as leis criadas pelos parlamentares ignoram os costumes da sociedade e são um incentivo a que as pessoas não respeitem nem criem normas sociais -- que seriam maneiras mais rápidas, baratas e satisfatórias de resolver problemas.
- **leis de trãnsito**: quanto mais leis de trânsito, mais serviço de fiscalização são delegados aos policiais, que deixam de combater crimes por isto (afinal de contas, eles não querem de fato arriscar suas vidas combatendo o crime, a fiscalização é uma excelente desculpa para se esquivarem a esta responsabilidade).
- **financiamento educacional**: é uma espécie de subsídio às faculdades privadas que faz com que se criem cursos e mais cursos que são cada vez menos recheados de algum conhecimento ou técnica útil e cada vez mais inúteis.
- **leis de tombamento**: são um incentivo a que o dono de qualquer área ou construção "histórica" destrua todo e qualquer vestígio de história que houver nele antes que as autoridades descubram, o que poderia não acontecer se ele pudesse, por exemplo, usar, mostrar e se beneficiar da história daquele local sem correr o risco de perder, de fato, a sua propriedade.
- **zoneamento urbano**: torna as cidades mais espalhadas, criando uma necessidade gigantesca de carros, ônibus e outros meios de transporte para as pessoas se locomoverem das zonas de moradia para as zonas de trabalho.
- **zoneamento urbano**: faz com que as pessoas percam horas no trânsito todos os dias, o que é, além de um desperdício, um atentado contra a sua saúde, que estaria muito melhor servida numa caminhada diária entre a casa e o trabalho.
- **zoneamento urbano**: torna ruas e as casas menos seguras criando zonas enormes, tanto de residências quanto de indústrias, onde não há movimento de gente alguma.
- **escola obrigatória + currículo escolar nacional**: emburrece todas as crianças.
- **leis contra trabalho infantil**: tira das crianças a oportunidade de aprender ofícios úteis e levar um dinheiro para ajudar a família.
- **licitações**: como não existem os critérios do mercado para decidir qual é o melhor prestador de serviço, criam-se comissões de pessoas que vão decidir coisas. isto incentiva os prestadores de serviço que estão concorrendo na licitação a tentar comprar os membros dessas comissões. isto, fora a corrupção, gera problemas reais: __(i)__ a escolha dos serviços acaba sendo a pior possível, já que a empresa prestadora que vence está claramente mais dedicada a comprar comissões do que a fazer um bom trabalho (este problema afeta tantas áreas, desde a construção de estradas até a qualidade da merenda escolar, que é impossível listar aqui); __(ii)__ o processo corruptor acaba, no longo prazo, eliminando as empresas que prestavam e deixando para competir apenas as corruptas, e a qualidade tende a piorar progressivamente.
- **cartéis**: o Estado em geral cria e depois fica refém de vários grupos de interesse. o caso dos taxistas contra o Uber é o que está na moda hoje (e o que mostra como os Estados se comportam da mesma forma no mundo todo).
- **multas**: quando algum indivíduo ou empresa comete uma fraude financeira, ou causa algum dano material involuntário, as vítimas do caso são as pessoas que sofreram o dano ou perderam dinheiro, mas o Estado tem sempre leis que prevêem multas para os responsáveis. A justiça estatal é sempre muito rígida e rápida na aplicação dessas multas, mas relapsa e vaga no que diz respeito à indenização das vítimas. O que em geral acontece é que o Estado aplica uma enorme multa ao responsável pelo mal, retirando deste os recursos que dispunha para indenizar as vítimas, e se retira do caso, deixando estas desamparadas.
- **desapropriação**: o Estado pode pegar qualquer propriedade de qualquer pessoa mediante uma indenização que é necessariamente inferior ao valor da propriedade para o seu presente dono (caso contrário ele a teria vendido voluntariamente).
- **seguro-desemprego**: se há, por exemplo, um prazo mínimo de 1 ano para o sujeito ter direito a receber seguro-desemprego, isto o incentiva a planejar ficar apenas 1 ano em cada emprego (ano este que será sucedido por um período de desemprego remunerado), matando todas as possibilidades de aprendizado ou aquisição de experiência naquela empresa específica ou ascensão hierárquica.
- **previdência**: a previdência social tem todos os defeitos de cálculo do mundo, e não importa muito ela ser uma forma horrível de poupar dinheiro, porque ela tem garantias bizarras de longevidade fornecidas pelo Estado, além de ser compulsória. Isso serve para criar no imaginário geral a idéia da __aposentadoria__, uma época mágica em que todos os dias serão finais de semana. A idéia da aposentadoria influencia o sujeito a não se preocupar em ter um emprego que faça sentido, mas sim em ter um trabalho qualquer, que o permita se aposentar.
- **regulamentação impossível**: milhares de coisas são proibidas, há regulamentações sobre os aspectos mais mínimos de cada empreendimento ou construção ou espaço. se todas essas regulamentações fossem exigidas não haveria condições de produção e todos morreriam. portanto, elas não são exigidas. porém, o Estado, ou um agente individual imbuído do poder estatal pode, se desejar, exigi-las todas de um cidadão inimigo seu. qualquer pessoa pode viver a vida inteira sem cumprir nem 10% das regulamentações estatais, mas viverá também todo esse tempo com medo de se tornar um alvo de sua exigência, num estado de terror psicológico.
- **perversão de critérios**: para muitas coisas sobre as quais a sociedade normalmente chegaria a um valor ou comportamento "razoável" espontaneamente, o Estado dita regras. estas regras muitas vezes não são obrigatórias, são mais "sugestões" ou limites, como o salário mínimo, ou as 44 horas semanais de trabalho. a sociedade, porém, passa a usar esses valores como se fossem o normal. são raras, por exemplo, as ofertas de emprego que fogem à regra das 44h semanais.
- **inflação**: subir os preços é difícil e constrangedor para as empresas, pedir aumento de salário é difícil e constrangedor para o funcionário. a inflação força as pessoas a fazer isso, mas o aumento não é automático, como alguns economistas podem pensar (enquanto alguns outros ficam muito satisfeitos de que esse processo seja demorado e difícil).
- **inflação**: a inflação destrói a capacidade das pessoas de julgar preços entre concorrentes usando a própria memória.
- **inflação**: a inflação destrói os cálculos de lucro/prejuízo das empresas e prejudica enormemente as decisões empresariais que seriam baseadas neles.
- **inflação**: a inflação redistribui a riqueza dos mais pobres e mais afastados do sistema financeiro para os mais ricos, os bancos e as megaempresas.
- **inflação**: a inflação estimula o endividamento e o consumismo.
- **lixo:** ao prover coleta e armazenamento de lixo "grátis para todos" o Estado incentiva a criação de lixo. se tivessem que pagar para que recolhessem o seu lixo, as pessoas (e conseqüentemente as empresas) se empenhariam mais em produzir coisas usando menos plástico, menos embalagens, menos sacolas.
- **leis contra crimes financeiros:** ao criar legislação para dificultar acesso ao sistema financeiro por parte de criminosos a dificuldade e os custos para acesso a esse mesmo sistema pelas pessoas de bem cresce absurdamente, levando a um percentual enorme de gente incapaz de usá-lo, para detrimento de todos -- e no final das contas os grandes criminosos ainda conseguem burlar tudo.

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Five little heads brush past me in the foyer as I enter the house. I get a “Hey Daddio,” and “Love you Dad,” then a punch in the thigh, “‘sup dad,” from my two girls and little boy.

The neighbor's two girls are polite only in that they say their hellos but no one stops to give me the time of day. I hold the door open for the little band of miscreants and watch them make their way to the front yard.

“Let’s play tag,” says my eldest as she stretches her hands out high above her head.

I turn and notice my wife smiling at me, leaning against the kitchen island.

“No, you always hide in the woods,” says one of the neighbors.

I kiss my wife on the forehead, tell her I love her, and say, “I’ve got dinner tonight. You had a tough day.”

“Nuh-uh. I won’t. That phantom man is in there.”

I wince and look at Jasmine to see if she had heard that. She did and says, “I didn’t want to believe it but I’ve heard them talk about it a few times already so I asked Tanner if he and Andrea had heard the kids talking about the man in the forest. They’re worried about it.”

“Have you seen anything strange?” I ask.

Jasmine steps up to the floor to ceiling window in the breakfast nook and peers at the forest across the cul de sac. She purses her lips and shakes her head, “No. You?”

I say, “Nope,” as I pull out the ingredients I’ll be using for dinner tonight. “We’ve taught the kids well. They know not to go near strangers. I’ll see if I can maneuver the camera to keep an eye on the woodline. Yeah?”

“Yes, that sounds good,” says Jasmine, relaxing and settling into one of the breakfast nook table chairs. “I didn’t get the Letterman account.”

I take out the chicken from the refrigerator and say, “I figured as much from the way you sounded on the phone. Look, all is not lost. You just need to get a hold of someone who knows him well.”

Jasmine crosses her arms and peers out at the kids outside, “I don’t know. I might have to take this one as a loss.”

“No! You can’t give up,” I try to get her spirits up by reaching for a bottle of wine from the rack above the refrigerator. She smiles when I pour her a glass and puts a hand on mine to hold me for a while after I leave the glass in front of her. “You’re still in control. You can figure this out.”

“Sometimes things are just out of our control David.”

I stare back slack jawed, “Things are always in our control Jasmine. We didn’t get this far in life by pretending everything was predestined.” I laugh as I grip a handful air and say, “I’ve got life by the balls baby. Always have. That’s why we have such a splendid house, such a nice life.”

“Don’t give yourself all the credit, big guy.”

I turn back to the chicken with a smile and start preparing dinner. “Hey Google, play Tennessee Whiskey by Chris Stapleton.”

An upbeat voice from the little circular speaker on the kitchen island replies, “Sure, Tennessee Whiskey by Chris Stapleton.” Chris Stapleton’s classic four strums of the guitar echo out of the speaker and I dance as I marinate the chicken. I love the sound of the children enjoying themselves outside going along to the music; love the feeling of the chopped cilantro, salt, and pepper grind between my fingertips as I rub it into the chicken. The oil heats in the pan releasing a little wisp of smoke. The chicken sizzles in the pan and releases a hearty aroma.

When I rise from the pan, I notice Jasmine is standing at the window again, cup of wine in hand. Twilight is settling in but the street lights haven’t kicked on yet. Jasmine is strangely close to the window, I figure she’s enjoying the sight of the kids as their shadows zip past in front of her like specters in the night.

“David. I see something in the woodline.”

I shoot to her side and peer out the window along with her. The kids' shadows stalk in the night but I can’t make out anything across the cul de sac. “I don’t see anything.”

Jasmine plants a finger in the windowpane, “Right there. There, it's definitely someone out there. There’s a neighborhood on the other side of that treeline isn’t there?”

I strain to catch a glimpse at what she’s looking at and say, “I don't see anything. I, uh, I think there’s a neighborhood back there yeah.”

The street lights kick on. A man stands just out of reach of the street light on the far end of the cul de sac. “Holy fuck,” I say under my breath.

“Kids, come inside please!” shouts Jasmine.

“Aww c’mon mom. Just a bit longer,” calls out my son.

“Zach, get inside like your mother told you,” I growl and take my gaze away from the man for a second to sneer at my boy through the window. By the time I look back the man’s gone. “Where’d he go?”

Jasmine’s eyebrows raised, “He uh, just kind of vanished. Looks like he was never really there. Look,” She points at a tree shaped strangely enough like a man. “Maybe it was just that tree we were looking at.”

I didn’t take any chances. I tell the kids to come in and I maneuver the security cameras to get a good vantage of the place where the man had vanished. The next morning I help the kids get ready for school and personally walk them to their bus stop.

Still no man in the woods.

Shortly after I return to the house I kiss my wife goodbye and wish her good luck at work. Just as she pulls out of the cul de sac, as I am walking to my truck, I notice a figure in my peripheral vision but I don’t turn knowing I might scare him away. I halfway sit in my truck and shift the rearview mirror to where I’d seen him. There he is. The man stands several feet inside the forest. Greenery conceals him up to his torso and I can barely see his face in the shadows of the forest, but his figure is clear.

I consider calling the police, no, they won’t make it in time. I take a deep breath, count down from three, and burst out of my car into a sprint toward the man in the woods. The man doesn’t move an inch as I approach but somehow it seems as if the forest deepens around him. As I get closer his relative position from me grows further, but the man doesn’t take a step. It's as if the world around the man grows further and further out of focus the closer and closer I get.

I hear the leaves crushing beneath my footfalls and I look back for a second feeling as if I’d been running on a treadmill for the past few seconds. My house is barely visible through the foliage. I whipped my attention back at the man but he’s gone and I grind to a halt. I scrutinize the woods, the man has vanished.

My breaths slow, nearly holding my breath I listen intently for the sound of crushing leaves. The crunching leaves come from behind me at an alarming pace. Whatever is approaching is running fast. I turn, ready for someone to tackle me, but there is no one there, the footfalls go silent. I curse under my breath and peer back at my house. It's hard to make out now that I’m so deep in the woods, but it looks like the neighbor’s kids are out in front of my house. I shake my head and look down at my watch wondering how much time I’d wasted chasing the phantom man. I wince at the readout on my watch, five pm. Maybe I hit one of the program buttons while I was sprinting into the woods?

There’s a whisper in the wind, “Must of hit..”

I turn to the whispers.

Another whisper behind me, “One of the program buttons.”

I turn. I feel light in my own skin. There’s nothing behind me, no one around me, but I continue to hear the voice whispering.

“Five PM. Five?”

I’m literally beside myself. I know it's my own voice I’m hearing but I’m not sure if it's my thoughts or an illusion, just the wind blowing. Maybe it’s the shifting tree branches and my paranoia. The sun is bright, blinding. Suddenly, I’m seconds behind myself.

I saw my hand shifting in the sunlight. Perhaps it was the fatigue from a sleepless night having been worried about the phantom man lurking in the forest outside my house. The disconnect in time was jarring as every movement jolted like a violent tectonic shift in my head. I felt like a witness to my own reality as it had just happened.

I looked around and a sound off in the woods drew me deeper. The deeper I went, the dimmer the sunlight became. I ran faster and faster in chase of the sounds with the hopes I’d at least catch another glimpse of the phantom man.

Then, my foot caught a taproot and I slammed into rich dirt, but my descent did not stop. The dirt splashed about me as if I’d fallen in a lake of darkness. The grains of dirt filled my lungs in my panic.

A squirrel watched me trip and if only the gentle creature understood the mechanics of the universe he would’ve known where I had disappeared to. Unlike the squirrel, the tree on top whose branch it sat did not have the sense of sight to have seen me fall but it did encounter a minty sensation when it absorbed the nutrients of my being. I hadn’t granted the beings of its kind the sense of emotion, but somehow it still knew the sensation was good. It exhaled the vapors of me and enriched the atmosphere for the humans of that world. These little kinds of discoveries excited me. A design had led to an outcome I hadn’t thought possible and I saw that it was good.

The cosmic specs continued their spread before me and it suddenly occurred to me I hadn’t paid much attention to the adjacent place. There it was still only nothingness, phantom echoes of my self reflection. All was good, but was it best? I’ve created many things, breathed life into endless inanimate things yet most of my existing universe still lingers motionless, pushed only by the initial momentum of the beginning. The life that has existed has worshiped me, prayed to me, cursed me, forgotten me and found me, but is it best?

Perhaps I’ll never know until I compare it with another. So it is. From my word bubbled a new momentum from unfathomable depths. All possibilities confounded and reverberated and again there was an atmosphere charged with my essence, what would these new humans do with it?

The tree inhaled my essence and it was good. The squirrel watched a man disappear into the earth and it was good. Grains of dirt filled my lungs and dispersed from my nose and it was good. I was spat out from the depths of the universe and on my feet I chased the phantom man in the direction of my home. The sun had receded into the horizon and time had regressed to a moment.

Beyond the foliage I see my children play with the neighbors. Their laughter is alarmingly delicious to my ears as if I hadn’t heard that sweet sound in an unfathomable expanse of time. There I am in the window, looking this way. Then suddenly, the street light kicks on.

“Holy fuck,” says David under his breath.

I shout, “Kids, come inside please!”

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Músicas grudentas e conversas

Uma vez que você ouviu uma música grudenta e ela volta, inteira, com toda a melodia e a harmonia, muitos dias depois, contra a sua vontade. Mas uma conversa é impossível de lembrar. Por quê?

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If you were financially set, right here, right now, what is it that you would start doing? If you could do whatever it is your heart has always desired, what would you do? And I want you to dare to think big, because the fiat world confines us to thinking safe and small, but as stackers we must start thinking freaking big and strive towards it and refuse to settle for less.

I'll start: - I will build my own soccer club, and it will be providing immense value to my local community by bringing people together, and by being a space where everyone can learn about soccer, about optimizing health, and of course about Bitcoin. - I will be doing some sort of philanthropic work, not sure in what way but in some meaningful way. - I will be happily married to my partner and we will be building our life together, seeing more of the world, experiencing more of what this beautiful world has to offer. - I will help pay off my friend's debt and support him in his goal to become healthier. - I will continue to strive towards becoming the best athlete and nerd I can become. - I will open up my own gym combined with a soccer field. - I will donate to my friend's business that he is in the process of building as without him I would not be the athlete and person I am today. - I will pay for whatever it is my parents desire, all of it. - I will pay for whatever it is my love desires and more.

Just a few things that I will do when I am financially free.

Don't let your fiat mind hold you back, think big, be brave and be bold!

You have obtained financial freedom. It is done. So what amazing things are you going to do with this freedom?

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/600417

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Table Of Content

• Content

• Conclusion

• FAQ

• You May Also Like

• External Links

Introduction

The world of finance has been rapidly changing in recent years, and one of the most notable developments has been the growing adoption of Bitcoin by major corporations. Bitcoin, the world's first decentralized digital currency, was created in 2009 with the goal of providing a secure and borderless alternative to traditional financial systems. Since then, it has gained widespread recognition as a store of value and investment opportunity, and is now attracting the attention of major corporations around the world.

The Advantages of Bitcoin for Corporations

One of the key factors driving the adoption of Bitcoin by corporations is the numerous advantages it offers over traditional financial systems. Some of the most notable advantages of Bitcoin include:

A. Decentralization

Bitcoin operates on a decentralized ledger called the blockchain, which eliminates the need for intermediaries such as banks and allows for direct, peer-to-peer transactions. This eliminates the risk of censorship or interference from third parties and gives corporations greater control over their financial transactions.

B. Security

Bitcoin's decentralized and cryptographic nature makes it one of the most secure forms of digital currency available. Transactions are processed and verified by a network of users, making it nearly impossible to hack or manipulate the system. This is particularly important for corporations that need to protect sensitive financial information and transactions.

C. Borderless Transactions

Bitcoin operates on a global scale, making it possible for corporations to send and receive payments anywhere in the world without the need for intermediaries or currency exchange rates. This not only makes international transactions faster and more efficient, but also reduces the costs associated with traditional cross-border payments.

Major Corporations that have Adopted Bitcoin

The adoption of Bitcoin by major corporations has been gaining momentum in recent years, with some of the world's largest and most influential companies investing in the digital currency. Some of the most notable corporations that have adopted Bitcoin include:

A. Tesla

In February 2021, electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla announced that it had invested $1.5 billion in Bitcoin. The company also stated that it would begin accepting Bitcoin as a form of payment for its products, making it one of the first major corporations to embrace the digital currency.

B. Square

In October 2020, financial services company Square announced that it had invested $50 million in Bitcoin, with CEO Jack Dorsey describing the investment as "a step further into the future of finance." Square has been at the forefront of promoting the adoption of Bitcoin, and has also made it possible for users of its popular Cash App to buy and sell the digital currency.

C. MicroStrategy

In August 2020, business intelligence company MicroStrategy announced that it had invested $250 million in Bitcoin, with CEO Michael Saylor describing the investment as "a hedge against inflation." MicroStrategy has since invested an additional $1.5 billion in Bitcoin, making it one of the largest corporate holders of the digital currency.

The Future of Corporate Adoption of Bitcoin

The trend of corporate adoption of Bitcoin is expected to continue in the coming years, as more and more corporations become aware of the numerous benefits of the digital currency.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the adoption of Bitcoin by major corporations has the potential to greatly impact the global economy. With increasing awareness and understanding, growing institutional support, and improved regulatory environment, it is only a matter of time before we see widespread adoption. Companies that are early adopters of Bitcoin can expect to reap the benefits of increased efficiency, lower transaction costs, and enhanced reputation as responsible and forward-thinking organizations. Whether it's for investment purposes, hedging against currency fluctuations, or as a new way to pay and receive payments, Bitcoin is poised to play a significant role in the future of finance.

FAQ

How can companies benefit from adopting Bitcoin? Companies can benefit from adopting Bitcoin by improving transaction efficiency, reducing transaction costs, and enhancing their reputation as responsible and forward-thinking organizations.

How does the regulatory environment impact the adoption of Bitcoin by corporations? A favorable regulatory environment can greatly encourage the adoption of Bitcoin by corporations by providing clear guidelines and protection for users and businesses.

Is Bitcoin a viable alternative to traditional currencies for corporations? Yes, Bitcoin offers several advantages over traditional currencies, including lower transaction costs, improved security, and greater efficiency, making it a viable alternative for corporations.

What role will Bitcoin play in the future of finance? Bitcoin is poised to play a significant role in the future of finance, whether it is for investment purposes, hedging against currency fluctuations, or as a new way to pay and receive payments.

How can companies ensure the security of their Bitcoin investments? Companies can ensure the security of their Bitcoin investments by using reputable exchanges, storing their coins in secure wallets, and following best practices for securing their private keys.

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Bluesky is a scam

Bluesky advertises itself as an open network, they say people won't lose followers or their identity, they advertise themselves as a protocol ("atproto") and because of that they are tricking a lot of people into using them. These three claims are false.

protocolness

Bluesky is a company. "atproto" is the protocol. Supposedly they are two different things, right? Bluesky just releases software that implements the protocol, but others can also do that, it's open!

And yet, the protocol has an official webpage with a waitlist and a private beta? Why is the protocol advertised as a company product? Because it is. The "protocol" is just a description of whatever the Bluesky app and servers do, it can and does change anytime the Bluesky developers decide they want to change it, and it will keep changing for as long as Bluesky apps and servers control the biggest part of the network.

Oh, so there is the possibility of other players stepping in and then it becomes an actual interoperable open protocol? Yes, but what is the likelihood of that happening? It is very low. No serious competitor is likely to step in and build serious apps using a protocol that is directly controlled by Bluesky. All we will ever see are small "community" apps made by users and small satellite small businesses -- not unlike the people and companies that write plugins, addons and alternative clients for popular third-party centralized platforms.

And last, even if it happens that someone makes an app so good that it displaces the canonical official Bluesky app, then that company may overtake the protocol itself -- not because they're evil, but because there is no way it cannot be like this.

identity

According to their own documentation, the Bluesky people were looking for an identity system that provided global ids, key rotation and human-readable names.

They must have realized that such properties are not possible in an open and decentralized system, but instead of accepting a tradeoff they decided they wanted all their desired features and threw away the "decentralized" part, quite literally and explicitly (although they make sure to hide that piece in the middle of a bunch of code and text that very few will read).

The "DID Placeholder" method they decided to use for their global identities is nothing more than a normal old boring trusted server controlled by Bluesky that keeps track of who is who and can, at all times, decide to ban a person and deprive them from their identity (they dismissively call a "denial of service attack").

They decided to adopt this method as a placeholder until someone else doesn't invent the impossible alternative that would provide all their desired properties in a decentralized manner -- which is nothing more than a very good excuse: "yes, it's not great now, but it will improve!".

openness

Months after launching their product with an aura of decentralization and openness and getting a bunch of people inside that believed, falsely, they were joining an actually open network, Bluesky has decided to publish a part of their idea of how other people will be able to join their open network.

When I first saw their app and how they were very prominently things like follower counts, like counts and other things that are typical of centralized networks and can't be reliable or exact on truly open networks (like Nostr), I asked myself how were they going to do that once they became and open "federated" network as they were expected to be.

Turns out their decentralization plan is to just allow you, as a writer, to host your own posts on "personal data stores", but not really have any control over the distribution of the posts. All posts go through the Bluesky central server, called BGS, and they decide what to do with it. And you, as a reader, doesn't have any control of what you're reading from either, all you can do is connect to the BGS and ask for posts. If the BGS decides to ban, shadow ban, reorder, miscount, hide, deprioritize, trick or maybe even to serve ads, then you are out of luck.

Oh, but anyone can run their own BGS!, they will say. Even in their own blog post announcing the architecture they assert that "it’s a fairly resource-demanding service" and "there may be a few large full-network providers". But I fail to see why even more than one network provider will exist, if Bluesky is already doing that job, and considering the fact there are very little incentives for anyone to switch providers -- because the app does not seem to be at all made to talk to multiple providers, one would have to stop using the reliable, fast and beefy official BGS and start using some half-baked alternative and risk losing access to things.

When asked about the possibility of switching, one of Bluesky overlords said: "it would look something like this: bluesky has gone evil. there's a new alternative called freesky that people are rushing to. I'm switching to freesky".

The quote is very naïve and sounds like something that could be said about Twitter itself: "if Twitter is evil you can just run your own social network". Both are fallacies because they ignore the network-effect and the fact that people will never fully agree that something is "evil". In fact these two are the fundamental reasons why -- for social networks specifically (and not for other things like commerce) -- we need truly open protocols with no owners and no committees.

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Nikolai Kardashev proposed a categorization of hypothetical alien societies based on how much energy they could use in their technology.

Types of civilization: Type 1: harness 100% of the energy available on the planet. Type 2: harness the power of their entire star.

Did you know that humanity is not even on the Kardashev scale yet, here in 2024! It's crazy to think that all our collective advancements haven't resulted in global peace, unity, or collective efforts to get along. All that energy has been wasted on petty feuds, pointless arguments, and evil hatred. We would be much further ahead if we had collective incentives that were aligned to be honest and true. Even if we weren't honest and true, the tools in place could make it intuitive and trivial to verify the deception. This would lead dishonest individuals to be outcasted in society and be punished for it automatically. Kinda sounds familiar...hmmmm...

Taking advantage of all the energy available to us on earth requires the usage of different forms of fuel and different modes of transporting that energy. The energy will have to be stored efficiently and transported effortlessly.

Enter bitcoin and humanity’s big leap into a Kardashev Type 1 society. Bitcoin helps us achieve a Type 1 level society and helps us take a big leap towards advancing into a Type 2 level society. Bitcoin is trivially easy to verify if it's a valid transaction and helps us stay honest in the proof-of-work that was completed to mine a block. Transporting this form of energy is also easy because it can be sent to anyone anywhere in the world at a fraction of the cost to mine it, via the internet, telecom infrastructure, or satellite. First, we must think beyond ourselves and grow as an intergalactic species. We must play at a higher level.

Until next time bitcoin reader.

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au nom des commerçants

Oui, conserver Bitcoin pour toujours est honorable, logique et sage.

Et je comprends que cela signifie NE PAS utiliser réellement dans le commerce, je comprends.

Pour aider les humains du monde à utiliser réellement Bitcoin à chaque instant dans le cadre de leurs transactions commerciales, pas seulement pour acheter une tasse de café ou une bière à l'aide d'une facture éclair, mais aussi pour le commerce de gros de produits en gros entre pays, nous devrions considérer quand Les humains font réellement ça ?

Comment pouvons-nous éduquer, justifier, expliquer ou soutenir la volatilité de la fixation d'un prix de vente dans SATS Bitcoin ?

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/600307

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Jofer

Jofer era um jogador diferente. À primeira vista não, parecia igual, um volante combativo, perseguia os atacantes adversários implacavelmente, um bom jogador. Mas não era essa a característica que diferenciava Jofer. Jofer era, digamos, um chutador.

Começou numa semifinal de um torneio de juniores. O time de Jofer precisava do empate e estava sofrendo uma baita pressão do adversário, mas o jogo estava 1 a 1 e parecia que ia ficar assim mesmo, daquele jeito futebolístico que parece, parece mesmo. Só que aos 46 do segundo tempo tomaram um gol espírita, Ruizinho do outro time saiu correndo pela esquerda e, mesmo sendo canhoto, foi cortando para o meio, os zagueiros meio que achando que já tinha acabado mesmo, devia ter só mais aquele lance, o árbitro tinha dado dois minutos, Ruizinho chutou, marcou e o goleiro, que só pulou depois que já tinha visto que não ia ter jeito, ficou xingando.

A bola saiu do meio e tocaram para Jofer, ninguém nem veio marcá-lo, o outro time já estava comemorando, e com razão, o juiz estava de sacanagem em fazer o jogo continuar, já estava tudo acabado mesmo. Mas não, estava certo, mais um minuto de acréscimo, justo. Em um minuto dá pra fazer um gol. Mas como? Jofer pensou nas partidas da NBA em que com alguns centésimos de segundo faltando o armador jogava de qualquer jeito para a cesta e às vezes acertava. De trás do meio de campo, será? Não vou ter nem força pra fazer chegar no gol. Vou virar piada, melhor tocar pro Fumaça ali do lado e a gente perde sem essa humilhação no final. Mas, poxa, e daí? Vou tentar mesmo assim, qualquer coisa eu falo que foi um lançamento e daqui a uns dias todo mundo esquece. Olhou para o próprio pé, virou ele de ladinho, pra fora e depois pra dentro (bom, se eu pegar daqui, direitinho, quem sabe?), jogou a bola pro lado e bateu. A bola subiu escandalosamente, muito alta mesmo, deve ter subido uns 200 metros. Jofer não tinha como ter a menor noção. Depois foi descendo, o goleirão voltando correndo para debaixo da trave e olhando pra bola, foi chegando e pulando já só pra acompanhar, para ver, dependurado no travessão, a bola sair ainda bem alta, ela bateu na rede lateral interna antes de bater no chão, quicar violentamente e estufar a rede no alto do lado direito de quem olhava.

Mas isso tudo foi sonho do Jofer. Sonhou acordado, numa noite em que demorou pra dormir, deitado na sua cama. Ficou pensando se não seria fácil, se ele treinasse bastante, acertar o gol bem de longe, tipo no sonho, e se não dava pra fazer gol assim. No dia seguinte perguntou a Brunildinho, o treinador de goleiros. Era difícil defender essas bolas, ainda mais se elas subissem muito, o goleiro ficava sem perspectiva, o vento alterava a trajetória a cada instante, tinha efeito, ela cairia rápido, mas claro que não valia à pena treinar isso, a chance de acertar o gol era minúscula. Mas Jofer só ia tentar depois que treinasse bastante e comprovasse o que na sua imaginação parecia uma excelente idéia.

Começou a treinar todos os dias. Primeiro escondido, por vergonha dos colegas, chegava um pouco antes e ficava lá, chutando do círculo central. Ao menor sinal de gente se aproximando, parava e ia catar as bolas. Depois, quando começou a acertar, perdeu a vergonha. O pessoal do clube todo achava engraçado quando via Jofer treinando e depois ouvia a explicação da boca de alguém, ninguém levava muito a sério, mas também não achava de todo ridículo. O pessoal ria, mas no fundo torcia praquilo dar certo, mesmo.

Aconteceu que num jogo que não valia muita coisa, empatezinho feio, aos 40 do segundo tempo, a marcação dos adversários já não estava mais pressionando, todo mundo contente com o empate e com vontade de parar de jogar já, o Henrique, meia-esquerdo, humilde, mas ainda assim um pouco intimidante para Jofer (jogava demais), tocou pra ele. Vai lá, tenta sua loucura aí. Assumiu a responsabilidade do nosso volante introspectivo. Seria mais verossímil se Jofer tivesse errado, primeira vez que tentou, restava muito tempo ainda pra ele ter a chance de ser herói, ninguém acerta de primeira, mas ele acertou. Quase como no sonho, Lucas, o goleiro, não esperava, depois que viu o lance, riu-se, adiantou-se para pegar a bola que ele julgava que quicaria na área, mas ela foi mais pra frente, mais e mais, daí Lucas já estava correndo, só que começou a pensar que ela ia pra fora, e ele ia só se dependurar no travessão e fazer seu papel de estar na bola. Acabou que por conta daquele gol eles terminaram em segundo no grupo daquele torneiozinho, ao invés de terceiro, e não fez diferença nenhuma.

@ 3878d95d:f3b45a69

HIVETALK - Just a few notes about the Project:

• HiveTalk is primarily for helping people connect and screenshare on nostr and lightning in ways that was not available before.

• The Goal of this project is to get a working zoom/jitsi equivalent with no data collection of calls and with as much privacy as possible. No data on the server is logged. It was born out of frustration at using existing platforms such as Discord, Zoom, Jitsi which often fail to work effectively for Linux users. This project's long term goal is to be lean, minimal, and not to be captured by Big Tech. however, menu translations are still done by google translate and can be removed if you want. Dependencies are as barebones as possible with no frameworks.

• The websockets and REST API will be reworked and out soon so that integration with other apps will be a possibility. If you are interested, shoot the @hivetalk account a DM so that we can get you involved in an early beta test.

• I will not be pursing an open sats grant. My github contributions are about ~10hrs a week, spare time split across multiple projects. Currently I have no intention to be a full time developer (again). If I am not delivering fast enough to satisfy your needs, I am sorry :D, but you are welcome to make a Pull Request.

• Your zaps from the last 2 months will be applied 100% toward funding server costs for the next year. Any additional zaps will help extend the life of the server.

If you use this project, please consider donating to it at https://donate.hivetalk.org or by zapping this post

@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d

O caso da Grêmio TV

enquanto vinha se conduzindo pela plataforma superior daquela arena que se pensava totalmente preenchida por adeptos da famosa equipe do Grêmio de Porto Alegre, viu-se, como por obra de algum nigromante - dos muitos que existem e estão a todo momento a fazer más obras e a colocar-se no caminhos dos que procuram, se não fazer o bem acima de todas as coisas, a pelo menos não fazer o mal no curso da realização dos seus interesses -, o discretíssimo jornalista a ser xingado e moído em palavras por uma horda de malandrinos a cinco ou seis passos dele surgida que cantavam e moviam seus braços em movimentos que não se pode classificar senão como bárbaros, e assim cantavam:

Grêmio TV pior que o SBT !

@ 9d5eb7a3:bac531d0

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@ 9d5eb7a3:bac531d0

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@ eed76ece:afa98124

Eventually some smaller suppliers/exporters and buyers/importers will use Bitcoin Factoring. Actually a great idea. Minor detail when any Company in ANY Country imports and/or exports, there is so much paperwork and logging by various Government agencies that both parties in the sale or purchase of the goods still have to declare in fiat usually the USD.

However, a few brave souls out there are taking about using Bitcoin for Factoring instead of using fiat. Actually smaller garment and textile companies are already seeing that this will probably be used sooner rather than later in:

Cambodia Belarus El Salvador Hong Kong Honolulu (NOT "Hawaii"). India Laos Mexico Russia (2025 with or without a finish to the war). Thailand Vietnam

My biggest complaint from my peers in other Countries is that their own Governments keep changing what is "allowed" this year versus previous years, or this extra taxation, regardless it's coming, the actual use in B2B transactions using Bitcoin.

These are some the realities suppliers and buyers have to deal with

What is the declared price in fiat ? What is the price of Bitcoin at the time of the payment ? What was the payor's DCA of the Bitcoin they have possession of ?

Here again, smaller companies can just bypass a factoring their invoices and collect payment in Bitcoin, fast much, much cheaper and breaking up in to smaller installment payments via Lightning seems like the baby steps in trying this out.

We are so early, please keep in mind this handy reference:

Honolulu has many many flights every day from Asia and South East Asia, there are many business people that use Honolulu as a stepping stone to get started doing business in the USA

Why ?

1. We are in the middle of the Ocean very few "factories" here, we have to import and export.
2. It's logical to use Bitcoin, wire transfers are expensive and time consuming to process.
3. Multiple "installment payment(s) and or deposit payments, or shipping payments, etc. can be done via Lightning payments, Zaprite invoicing is a good start for your customers they will see the option to pay with Bitcoin, or ACH, or a card, or link to square or stripe etc.
4. It's a sales tool as it can create communication about factoring, and move to just giving or getting a discount of payment is made using Bitcoin.

Other Issues

A. Some Bitcoin payment providers and wallets are "leaving" or no longer support doing any transaction in the USA.

B. Whether your a buyer or seller of goods, If you are holding some Bitcoin that you DCA'ed as your starting point then it's easier to quote what your comfortable with.

C. Look at where tourism is doing good, growing is logically where your newer markets are to go to, especially if your an American.

D. Do NOT underestimate the trade in Belarus, Cambodia, Honolulu (NOT Hawaii), Hungary, India, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Myanmar, Poland, Russia, Thailand, Ukraine, Vietnam it's already taking place. Leave World politics aside, your either a merchant or not, the discussion here is about doing business.

E. Position your company to have at least one distributor, dealer, agent that is standing by and is familiar with your products.

F. Do NOT waste your time with these Countries, remember their stance on the lock downs before. Australia (EXCEPT PERTH it's ok), Canada, New Zealand, The United Kingdom.

G. Contact me if your an actual business person interested in selling your goods to destinations OUTSIDE of the USA. No business reports or academia discussions, merchant mentality only please.

H. Trump will probably shake up things with tariff comments, just stay the course, think opportunities in BOTH Importing AND Exporting. Do NOT think like a generic American, get straight to the point, think one page pdf brochures.

I. Friendly reminders USA uses UPC-A barcodes rest of the World varies. Spend thirty minutes on www.gs1.org

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/600289

@ a853296a:209e695f

What up stackers! We're back for a quick update: Today we're announcing the release of our new Word Level Transcripts API!

Have you ever heard a great point in a talk/podcast and not able to find it later? CASCDR Voice to Text fixes this . Just upload or provide a link to an mp3 or mp4 file and CASCDR comes back with your transcript:

Previously we launched this service as a proof of concept. Truthfully it was not good enough so we went ahead and upgraded it: - 20 min media limit -> 5 hour limit - Single Monolthic Transcript -> You can get full transcript, sentence level timestamps or word level timestamps

We implemented this new API in our YouTube Logic App to integrate the entire workflow. With just a YouTube URL you can explore, search and copy the entire transcript to your clipboard.

Searching the latest SNL with @Car and @k00b for updates on BOLT12

At CASCDR we believe that lightning enables a future of open, flexible, decentralized and truly useful AI applications and agents. A boon for humanity that cannot be overstated. Each and every service we create provides value to humans today but is also available to automated software and AI services from day 1. If this application interests you hit us with suggestions/questions/thoughts in the comments!

If you want virtually unlimited access to this tool or many others we offer CASCDR Amber for $9.99/month . Otherwise we also accept payments through the @Alby Bitcoin Connect plugin!

Additional Links/Materials

That's it for today! If you made it this far thank you! Here is a list of more CASCDR materials you can check out: SN Post about CASCDRVision AI Clipping Tool: https://stacker.news/items/568299 SN Post about YouTube Summarizer Agent: https://stacker.news/items/418051 CASCDR Appearance on AI Unchained with @GuySwann_nostr : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3w9wqPw5xQ&pp=ygUQY2FzY2RyIGd1eSBzd2Fubg%3D%3D CASCDR Presentation at @PlebLab Top Builder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v3aWdGVx7s&pp=ygUSdG9wIGJ1aWxkZXIgY2FzY2Ry

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/600228

@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d

Replacing the web with something saner

This is a simplification, but let's say that basically there are just 3 kinds of websites:

1. Websites with content: text, images, videos;
2. Websites that run full apps that do a ton of interactive stuff;
3. Websites with some interactive content that uses JavaScript, or "mini-apps";

In a saner world we would have 3 different ways of serving and using these. 1 would be "the web" (and it was for a while, although I'm not claiming here that the past is always better and wanting to get back to the glorious old days).

1 would stay as "the web", just static sites, styled with CSS, no JavaScript whatsoever, but designers can still thrive and make they look pretty. Or it could also be something like Gemini. Maybe the two protocols could coexist.

2 would be downloadable native apps, much easier to write and maintain for developers (considering that multi-platform and cross-compilation is easy today and getting easier), faster, more polished experience for users, more powerful, integrates better with the computer.

(Remember that since no one would be striving to make the same app run both on browsers and natively no one would have any need for Electron or other inefficient bloated solutions, just pure native UI, like the Telegram app, have you seen that? It's fast.)

But 2 is mostly for apps that people use every day, something like Google Docs, email (although email is also broken technology), Netflix, Twitter, Trello and so on, and all those hundreds of niche SaaS that people pay monthly fees to use, each tailored to a different industry (although most of functions they all implement are the same everywhere). What do we do with dynamic open websites like StackOverflow, for example, where one needs to not only read, but also search and interact in multiple ways? What about that website that asks you a bunch of questions and then discovers the name of the person you're thinking about? What about that mini-app that calculates the hash of your provided content or shrinks your video, or that one that hosts your image without asking any questions?

All these and tons of others would fall into category 3, that of instantly loaded apps that you don't have to install, and yet they run in a sandbox.

The key for making category 3 worth investing time into is coming up with some solid grounds, simple enough that anyone can implement in multiple different ways, but not giving the app too much choices.

Telegram or Discord bots are super powerful platforms that can accomodate most kinds of app in them. They can't beat a native app specifically made with one purpose, but they allow anyone to provide instantly usable apps with very low overhead, and since the experience is so simple, intuitive and fast, users tend to like it and sometimes even pay for their services. There could exist a protocol that brings apps like that to the open world of (I won't say "web") domains and the websockets protocol -- with multiple different clients, each making their own decisions on how to display the content sent by the servers that are powering these apps.

Another idea is that of Alan Kay: to design a nice little OS/virtual machine that can load these apps and run them. Kinda like browsers are today, but providing a more well-thought, native-like experience and framework, but still sandboxed. And I add: abstracting away details about design, content disposition and so on.

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These 3 kinds of programs could coexist peacefully. 2 are just standalone programs, they can do anything and each will be its own thing. 1 and 3, however, are still similar to browsers of today in the sense that you need clients to interact with servers and show to the user what they are asking. But by simplifying everything and separating the scopes properly these clients would be easy to write, efficient, small, the environment would be open and the internet would be saved.

See also

• On the state of programs and browsers

@ 69a0a091:c968228d

Radicale is a self-hosted calendar and contact solution that is "lightweight solution, easy to use, easy to install, easy to configure."

https://radicale.org/v3.html#about

I can finally dump my NextCloud, which was a sprawling mess of PHP scripts. Managing a NextCloud instance over a long period of a time requires the sysadmin to be mindful of the stateful configuration, which can only be upgraded one major version at a time.

I stumbled over Radicale a couple years ago right after I had spent an entire day writing a playbook to build a dockerless NextCloud container. I should have switched immediately, I've wasted numerous hours over that period making sure my container was up to date, or needlessly fiddling with settings just to feel like I had a handle on how the thing was going to operate.

Running radicale on NixOS:

service.radicale = { enable = true; settings = { server = { hosts = [ "127.0.0.1:5232" "[::]:5232" ]; }; auth = { type = "htpasswd"; htpasswd_filename = "/etc/radicale/users"; htpasswd_encryption = "bcrypt"; }; storage = { filesystem_folder = "/var/lib/radicale/collections"; }; }; };

Nginx configuration snippet from:

locations."/radicale/" = { proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:5232/"; extraConfig = '' proxy_set_header X-Script-Name /radicale; proxy_pass_header Authorization; ''; };

Creating my account after nixos-rebuild switch:

nix-shell -p apacheHttpd --run "htpasswd -B -c /etc/radicale/users pleb"

The web interface is dead simple and let's you create, import, or export calendars or addressbooks. I exported the vcf addressbook and ics calendar from my NextCloud instance and imported them into Radicale. The UI gives you URIs for the calendar or contacts, and I pasted that in along with my username in the relevant add dialog in Thunderbird.

Likewise, I added the account in davx5 on Android using the first "Login with URL and user name" option. For the URL this time, I appended my username, so it was https://example.com/radicale/myusername and davx was able to sync both the calendar and the contacts from that endpoint.

@ 862fda7e:02a8268b

Women should not be allowed to work as check-out employees at stores.

Every single time I go to the grocery store and the line is packed so long it goes into the isles, it's ALWAYS because an old woman is running the check out. I've started a game with myself, based off of the line length I can determine the gender of the check out employee. I swear, it's always older women (age 45 to 70) who have the hardest time with the most basic job. It's happened multiple times where I go to check out and there's two options: 1. An older woman who has 1 or 2 customers in her line 2. A man who has 4 customers in his line EVERY TIME the man will STILL manage to be quicker than the woman. It doesn't matter the guys age or ethnicity, he will always be much more effifient than the older women. For some reason the old women always find a way to hassel me about whatever I'm buying. I've had one basically interrogate me over every item I was buying. When an old woman has to look up an item to ring it up, I know I'm about to lose a good 3 valuable minutes of my life right then and there. They sit there, jam the screen over and over, mumble under their breath, then call over a man to do the job for them. Then afterwards they'll complain about how they're the only one who does all the work. I had this one old woman non-stop talk about how she's the only one who works hard, meanwhile she isn't scanning any of my items and is holding up the line to complain to me. That was what hell on Earth feels like. I also remember I was buying a large 5-gallon water refill. She was convinced that my 5-gallon water jug was actually only 1 gallon. I was trying to explain 1st grade math to this woman, who is the one complaining about nobody working, and she scoffed at me like I was the retarded one and said "alriiight" with an upward inflection as she tilted her head and raised her eyebrows. It's weird when someone who is retarded is overly confident regarding something they are clearly wrong about. But that's old women for you.

I almost never have a pleasent experience with old women. They hate their jobs, are rude, and can't complete the most basic of tasks. The most miserable old women work these jobs because they divorced their husband, so they don't have a husband who can finanically support them in their retirement age. Now I'm stuck dealing with them at the check out trying to explain basic math to them. I have no clue who hires these old women.

Another story: I was trying to find wood paneling at Home Depot. For the life of me I couldn't find this specific brand they were supposed to have accoring to the online search function I looked at before going to the store. As I was about to leave, I saw this old woman employee standing next to a Home Depot computer. I knew it was a bad idea that was going to go nowhere, but I was pretty desperate. I asked her if she could look up on the HOME DEPOT COMPUTER where this paneling was located. I had the brand, model number, everything but the isle number. Presumably, the fricken Home Depot computer would surely have a database of their stock and the isle at which it's located at. Or at the very least, it would have access to the Home Depot website to look up this exact information. It's a very very easy task to fulfill. However, not so much for an old woman. She just gave me a confused look, sat dead eyed for a few seconds as the cogs in her brain tried to turn but couldn't, so she couldn't really processed what I said, and then she just told me to download the Home Depot app. HEY YOU OLD FUCKING HAG, I AM AT HOME DEPOT. RIGHT NEXT TO THE HOME DEPOT COMPUTER. JESUS CHRIST. It's over. This is how dumb people are now. Anyways, after proceeding to tell her I don't use cell phones, she was further confused (shocking) asking how I function in life, blah blah blah, the usual. Then she referred me to a library to look up the Home Depot website to see where this paneling was located. Jesus Christ. I knew trying to ask this hag for help was going to be bad, but not this bad.

Since then, I've made a pact with myself to never ask old women for anything and to avoid them at all costs. If I ever approach one again, it will only be for pure entertainment to see how their brain manages to complicate a basic request.

@ 27bfc7dd:cb7cb8d1

Buy good Linux Laptop or Desktop

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