BeverlySheltonO88

Progressive Web Apps - arguments against?

KennethStokesXJ3

People using these things are NOT bitcoiners.

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Notes on El Salvador

CoryContreras33E

The duplicate comments error is still repeating itself

![](https://m.stacker.news/64815)

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Some of you may remember the problem I had with a shitcoiner at our [meetup back in April](https://stacker.news/items/490771). Last night, we had an outright, outspoken, and worst of all, savagely interupty, anti-privacy advocate appear in our midst. I'm using the sorcery language because I didn't pick up on any prior warning signs before he transformed right in the middle of my presentation.

The agenda, following up on last month's reading on of [A Cypherpunk's Manifesto](https://nakamotoinstitute.org/library/cypherpunk-manifesto/) and a healthy but sad conversation about the Samurai takedown, was to discuss permissionlessness and privacy. Then we would go into how PWA apps and Fedimints help out with this.

Everything seemed to be going well until I pulled out my favorite PWA to demo and this guy just jumped in to let us know that the government was going to throw the app devs in jail. At first it was just annoying, because I had just given a big spiel about how that was exactly why we wanted to use this technology. But he WOULDN'T STOP TALKING. Do other meetup organizers experience these things? Exasperated, I finally clicked my fingers and said his name real loud, as if calling an animal and @dagny761 gave me a look like, "you need to mellow out and act like a grown-up." I basically gave up on the demo at that point and am sad to say that the presentation unraveled.

The incident a couple of months back was hard, but I was at least able to maintain order and I think everyone walked away more knowledgable and still respecting one-another. I wanted to share to get people's thoughts. I don't think this guy was a shitcoiner, but he certainly was a statist...and also a huge jerk. The common thread was, I think both of these fellas just wanted to talk about NGU. Afterwards, I found out that last night's guy is a tech guy for the department of defense. He was giddy to tell me about all of the new tech he was developing that he said is already being used overseas. I'm embarrassed to say that I was too tired too beat down at that point to debate the merits or demerits of developing weapons for a government that he admitted was a black box to the public on what they were doing with this stuff.

Anyway, I share here to ask, is this common? This meetup is coming up on a one year anniversary and we've already had two frustrating nights like this...AND last night I definitely lost the debate. Worst of all, it's not because my points weren't more well received, but because some of them were literally not heard over statist howling. Also, does this guy sound familiar? He apparently goes to bitcoin meetups all the time in Michigan (multiple cities! he mentioned Detroit, Lansing, and Grand Rapids). Are Michigan meetups just NGU discussions or do you guys up there just smack this dude down better than I do?

INTRUDER ALERT! - Statist at the Meetup

Is bitcoin based on human greed?

EmmaWebster7RI

Tinkering with [The Bullish Webstore](https://bullishwebstore.vercel.app/index.html?pubkey=0378539a45c7eefa69c022684653e090891c2ba15920fe545506c7f56666c01d88&relays=%5B%22wss://nostrue.com%22,%22wss://nostr.noones.com%22,%22wss://nos.lol%22%5D) (a fork of @supertestnet’s Magic Webstore). 

So far, made it sats-only and tweaked the styling. 🤙

![photo-output.jpeg](https://m.stacker.news/20587)

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MONEY CLASS OF THE DAY: The Tulips, Bubbles, Financial Manias and Bitcoin

ShariSavageGQN

I'm new here and I care to read and I've learnt that zapping more is essential part of SN mechanism. 

Hey All - I thought Bitcoin does a great job of cutting out the nonsense on the individual and societal level. Many people are starting to wake up to what isn't worth it and what is a ripoff, especially as economic conditions tighten further and further. 

I recently saw a picture taken by "AmitIsInvesting" on X of how people aren't buying overpriced hoodies/t-shirts with the Nike swoosh on them. Furthermore, there is a large movement by GenZ and younger to opt out of wearing logos altogether. 

![](https://m.stacker.news/37721)

As times get tougher people opt in for the bare essentials. They don't care about the logo, the brand, or any of that. Times are tough now, so Nike isn't selling(stock is down 30% from ATH). This also got me thinking about Bitcoin because I only buy what I absolutely need to. Very rarely do I buy a designer item because then that means less hard money and sats for me? I tend to notice this with other Bitcoiners also where they dress very simply - playing into the ethos of staying humble or stack sats. Whether it is people doing this out of hardship, or people doing this to optimize their investment allocations - I think we are at the dawn of a lot of these name brands losing their sense of importance/significance over people. 

Have you ever been one to go out of your way to buy brand-name things? Since you got into Bitcoin, have you been more sensible in your approach to buying name-brand products? I would love to hear some thoughts on this!  

A Return to The Bare Essentials

![saylor man](https://m.stacker.news/57008)

Hello. The Deep State is currently looking for this particular individual, a 59 year old male with a degree in aerospace, nuclear science, and intercontinental ballistics, last seen in Miami, Florida. He is known in his inner circle by the alias: gigachad.

Have you seen him? Have you been in contact with him, or have any details on his whereabouts? Then please call your local police department at 092 immediately. Have your passport and address ready and we'll handle it from there.

If by any chance you meet this person on the street, do not talk with him. Our rigorous covered investigation shows this devious man is highly intelligent, and there's high probability you'll be converted to an agent of destruction to blow up the financial system with the click of a button, if you were to converse with him for only one minute.

You understand our concern for you and our society's safety. We appreciate your patriotism and look forward to cooperate with you to protect our country. 

Thank you. 



WANTED — Do you know this man?

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Sunday Survey: Do you mine?

SergioMassey249

I think the answer is in [Why do perfect squares have a odd amount of factors](https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3358685/why-do-perfect-squares-have-a-odd-amount-of-factors)

The squares are exactly those numbers with an odd amount of factors. Because the amount is odd, they are now open.