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Reading some Orwell essays. Written 80ish years ago, 100% as applicable now as then. Such a clear writer and thinker. Man, would be so interested to hear that guy's perspective on the modern moment. I expect it would be complex and nuanced and probably unpopular for those reasons.
If you haven't read Politics and the English Language, in particular, it is transformative.
My pre bitcoin self loved debt. I never used it to buy stuff, but I believed in the OPM(other people's money) theory in business. I would never use my own equity if I could borrow money for an investment, mainly real estate. It worked out for me. I managed my leverage. It would be fair to criticize me as a rent seeker who took advantage of the Cantillon Effect. I didn't realize that's what I was doing at the time.
I found Lemmy that way too. Also, a lot of talking about how to run the community instead of just running the community. I get that they were trying to figure everything out, but it was just a lot of nonsense right after the Reddit implosion. Haven't checked in on Lemmy since though.
Rust for programming
Now that I successfully fed both my children, I’m back to offer a more considered response.
I think while all metrics are NGU, we shouldn’t neglect user satisfaction. More than one Stacker has openly expressed dismay at MSM. I think even though the leaderboard has expanded to 100 people, the problem still remains. Those small fry (for lack of a better word) would not gain anything extra for their posting efforts. As a newbie, what really kept me going was the anticipation of the Daily Rewards. Maybe I would get a few hundred sats today! I think to take that away in favour of MSM seems to contradict the objective of attracting new Stackers n making them stay.
I was a beneficiary of March’s MSM, and given my drive, would probably do well in this edition of MSM. But I cannot in all good conscience ignore the feelings of Stackers whom I now consider to be everyday shitposting buddies just because of sats.
My two sats’ worth
Zap to zero day 3
Total satsback so far: 7911 sats (4419 sats yesterday)
does not include people zapping me over the day
Seems like ~crypto is entering the bull market, too. But I think it's mainly thanks to @kr's post about Making Ethereum Cypherpunk Again which generated a lot of zaps - not only on the post itself but also in the comment section. I will use these sats to Make More Things Cypherpunk Again.
Also yesterday, the code has decided that it's time to reward content and not zapping, unlike yesterday. Got almost exactly 1k more sats for posting than for zapping. I feel proud.
Total zapped so far: 29.1k (16.1k yesterday)
There might be another bug in our statistics. And I am not talking about unseating
@Undisciplined from his third place - famous last words btw:
I will always have been the 3rd highest zapper for that 24 hour period. There's nothing you can do about it.
-- @Undisciplined, here
but that it showed that @Undisciplined made two posts yesterday but he didn't make any post, lol. Probably a time zone issue. Hopefully.
XP points gained so far: +14 (+10 from yesterday)
Unrelated to this experiment, but yesterday, @TonyGiorgio created a ticket and I was confused how paying the same invoice twice might lead to a loss of funds. Fortunately, he had patience with someone like me and quickly reminded me that preimages must be kept secret until the channels are closed iiuc:
Preimages are revealed to node routers when an invoice is paid. If they see the same payment being routed again with the same prrimage, they can swipe the funds.Ah, makes sense. Forgot that the preimages must be kept secret until the channels are closed - not until the payment is done.
However, tbh, I am still slightly confused. If they already have seen the invoice, they already know the preimage, so how does seeing the same invoice again lead to a loss of funds exactly? But I think I knew the answer to this in the past while reading Mastering The Lightning Network. So I think the answer is somewhere in this book. It's a great book to just look some stuff up quickly. I just didn't yet. (It's even free to read in digital form.)
Regarding the experiment, I again had to stay up late to zap to zero.
To cut it short, here are my last zaps again. I really don't mind to tell people what content I zap on SN. Maybe I should mind? But at least what you can see here is only stuff that shouldn't be too controversial, right? Right?
As you can see, the last zap was again probably a "I am really tired"-zap.
Btw, keep in mind that these are my personal zaps. Read this as a disclaimer like this one from @niftynei's blog:
Opinions are my own and exclusively reflect my beliefs and lived experiences.
-- https://basicbitch.software/static/about.html
When SNL (Stacker News Live) shorts with the 3 bearded guys @supertestnet @car and @k00b?
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