A few years ago I started viewing the State and specifically the U.S. Federal government as a post-theism god. It has many of the trappings of a religion and one of the biggest ones is this idea that the word of the State can just magically make things so. Of course this isn't true and isn't new but many seem to sincerely believe. They are offended in the same way a religious person is offended when you speak ill of their god.
This perspective has really helped me understand why so many people get so worked up about politics and their political team. It truly is a religion and as such when you speak blasphemy you should be silenced.
The real headline is over 23k less full time jobs and 23k more part time jobs.
This article also doesn't indicate how many gov jobs there were created. The public sector is usually responsible for a lot of job creation. My guess many of the jobs created were public sector.
@k00b@ek have you thought of adding a warrant canary of some kind to the site that you could use if you were ever approached by who knows in some capacity about something that the users might want to know about but you were gagged, that you could then not renew as a signaling mechanism? You could bury it in the Legal page as a paragraph and then not update should something transpire?
In the poorest 1% of zip codes that have lottery retailers, the average American adult spends around $600 a year, or nearly 5% of their income, on tickets. That compares with just $150, or 0.15%, for those in the richest 1% of zip codes. In other words, the poorest households spend roughly 30 times more on lotteries than richer ones, as a share of income. The pandemic appears to have made things worse. In 2021 the poorest 1% of households—flush with stimulus cheques—spent $100 more on lotteries than they did in 2019. The richest 1% spent just $10 more.
excited to see what impact the 10 sat base posting fee has on daily rewards.
my guess is that we’ll see roughly the same amount of post/comment activity on SN, but much more than the current ~25k sats/day in fees directed to the rewards pool.
will be interesting to see if top posters/zappers notice a boost to their own earnings this week.
Most artists distribute their music just about everywhere so I don't see that particular issue being the main challenge. I think the issue for larger, more established artists is that they are doing just fine in the system that exists today and probably see no need or benefit from using an alternative.
Yes we do, but this will take more time. This year, we are mainly focusing on winning our home turf Switzerland. In 2025, once we have the MiCA-License, we will dedicate more resources into expanding into all the EU countries and potentially the UK. In 2026, we will then start our global expansion, starting with the US and the Middle East, possibly including mergers and acquisitions with great already existing local companies. The ambition to expand is in our DNA, but more time is needed! :)
Ideally businesses will be building less convenient solutions, storing servers and setting up businesses in more obscure locations. The West could be a big weakness for Lightning Network, in terms of infrastructure. Leading the way, but we can't always rely on rule of law in these jurisdictions to support the globe. As we have seen with exchanges and organisations like Paxful recently. More draconian regs are coming down the pipe with the Restrict act and other branches of it. It hasn't hit home that the very same laws extend to these platforms. It's going to force us to adopt non-custodial Lightning much much more. Starting 2024.
Hey Hodlnaut, just wanted to let you know my old college roommate is working with faketoshi's defense team for the appeal (sadly his first job out of law school). They all think he's insane. Keep fighting the good fight!
As you can see in the tweet, they are also abusing German privacy laws to attempt to silence critics (me) and suppress public discourse on their silent change to ToS.
Very despicable practices and telling of what will be coming. Will be more and more important to host your own node/services at home instead of relying on a hosting provider for anything related to Bitcoin, privacy, or self-sovereignty.
TheWildWife is still pregnant. We've been scheduling and going to appointments, she's mostly sleeping watching tv and walking the dog nowadays. I've been cooking and grocery shopping more, I think I need to focus on feeding the woman mostly Korean food.
Official start date of my part time job has been moved to December 9. In the meantime, I really want to finish my coding/writing/shopstr/music projects. And I still need to get my start9 up and running again.
I'm working on an article summarizing all the multi-party channel papers. This has proven to be a mammoth of a task and I learned from doing the audio for the covenant L2 review paper how to break this up into smaller tasks: make audio books for the papers. So now I'm working on that
For those of us at the high end of the social ladder, ending hunger globally would be a disaster. If there were no hunger in the world, who would plow the fields? Who would harvest our vegetables? Who would work in the rendering plants? Who would clean our toilets? We would have to produce our own food and clean our own toilets. No wonder people at the high end are not rushing to solve the hunger problem. For many of us, hunger is not a problem, but an asset.
The revolutions are piling up @k00b. You can't squash all of them.
we're moving towards this to not be a money transmitter
A few years ago I started viewing the State and specifically the U.S. Federal government as a post-theism god. It has many of the trappings of a religion and one of the biggest ones is this idea that the word of the State can just magically make things so. Of course this isn't true and isn't new but many seem to sincerely believe. They are offended in the same way a religious person is offended when you speak ill of their god.
This perspective has really helped me understand why so many people get so worked up about politics and their political team. It truly is a religion and as such when you speak blasphemy you should be silenced.
disables privacy setting
Wow, this is cool!
re-enables privacy setting
The real headline is over 23k less full time jobs and 23k more part time jobs.
This article also doesn't indicate how many gov jobs there were created. The public sector is usually responsible for a lot of job creation. My guess many of the jobs created were public sector.
Finally!
I hope the nostr team eventually makes me wrong. Of course then I'll just change my opinion and be right again. 😁
https://m.stacker.news/4815
@k00b @ek have you thought of adding a warrant canary of some kind to the site that you could use if you were ever approached by who knows in some capacity about something that the users might want to know about but you were gagged, that you could then not renew as a signaling mechanism?
You could bury it in the Legal page as a paragraph and then not update should something transpire?
My dad always said it was just a regressive tax.
excited to see what impact the 10 sat base posting fee has on daily rewards.
my guess is that we’ll see roughly the same amount of post/comment activity on SN, but much more than the current ~25k sats/day in fees directed to the rewards pool.
will be interesting to see if top posters/zappers notice a boost to their own earnings this week.
Finishing up a project for the Boltfun hackathon. Checking out some of the projects.
Planning out the next month for personal and dev growth.
Most artists distribute their music just about everywhere so I don't see that particular issue being the main challenge. I think the issue for larger, more established artists is that they are doing just fine in the system that exists today and probably see no need or benefit from using an alternative.
Got up in the morning and felt that I wanna do nothing. So I did it.
Yes we do, but this will take more time.
This year, we are mainly focusing on winning our home turf Switzerland.
In 2025, once we have the MiCA-License, we will dedicate more resources into expanding into all the EU countries and potentially the UK.
In 2026, we will then start our global expansion, starting with the US and the Middle East, possibly including mergers and acquisitions with great already existing local companies.
The ambition to expand is in our DNA, but more time is needed! :)
It is until it isn't.
Ideally businesses will be building less convenient solutions, storing servers and setting up businesses in more obscure locations. The West could be a big weakness for Lightning Network, in terms of infrastructure. Leading the way, but we can't always rely on rule of law in these jurisdictions to support the globe. As we have seen with exchanges and organisations like Paxful recently. More draconian regs are coming down the pipe with the Restrict act and other branches of it. It hasn't hit home that the very same laws extend to these platforms. It's going to force us to adopt non-custodial Lightning much much more. Starting 2024.
Hey Hodlnaut, just wanted to let you know my old college roommate is working with faketoshi's defense team for the appeal (sadly his first job out of law school). They all think he's insane. Keep fighting the good fight!
As you can see in the tweet, they are also abusing German privacy laws to attempt to silence critics (me) and suppress public discourse on their silent change to ToS.
Very despicable practices and telling of what will be coming. Will be more and more important to host your own node/services at home instead of relying on a hosting provider for anything related to Bitcoin, privacy, or self-sovereignty.
Just a couple doubts,
Assado and Mate is really from Uruguay or Argentinia?
Day 279 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.
...and 79 push-ups. (20 - 20 - 20 - 19)
__@_'-'
Hey Freaks,
TheWildWife is still pregnant.
We've been scheduling and going to appointments, she's mostly sleeping watching tv and walking the dog nowadays. I've been cooking and grocery shopping more, I think I need to focus on feeding the woman mostly Korean food.
Official start date of my part time job has been moved to December 9.
In the meantime, I really want to finish my coding/writing/shopstr/music projects.
And I still need to get my start9 up and running again.
Thanks,
Hustle
I'm working on an article summarizing all the multi-party channel papers. This has proven to be a mammoth of a task and I learned from doing the audio for the covenant L2 review paper how to break this up into smaller tasks: make audio books for the papers. So now I'm working on that
Launching mutiny wallet open beta!
They make money by taking pictures inside your home. They sell the data or they farm it to see what you buy. You become a profile.
There's a reason for the selling: To avoid reporting a negative cash flow.
Here's a more detailed explanation: https://twitter.com/realmeetkevin/status/1549850031783559176
https://m.stacker.news/4216
niceeeee
~ai
This makes me sick.
Looks dope!
Well done @brugeman