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I need 10^157 bit of entropy.

I quit facebook in 2015. I felt like it had stopped being about sharing what I'm doing with my audience of close friends and started to become an infinite outrage machine. Posting things to facebook became akin to slapping the feeder bar. I realized that is was not sustainable, mentally, to indulge in a constantly escalating verbal war with people I only knew by 2 to 3 degrees of separation. I made a full backup of my facebook account to save my pictures I had posted and deleted me account. I feel that was similar in some aspects from unplugging from the matrix.

Shitposting began with the printing press!

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1033/printing-o...

All the fired twitter employees should get together and form a new twitter

My guess is AI image moderator went over the edge. Also this website in the post is cancer.

Does it have module federation?

Someone please thing about the gamblers! Investment comes with risk. I don't mean to come off as sounding heartless but house flippers are part of the reason we have a booming homeless population. Taking a cheap home, renovating it and banking the delta might get your some extra dosh in the pocket but it also makes homes more often out or reach for lower and middle income buyers.

Question for an American that doesn't know bollocks about British politics. Why wasn't he put into the Prime Minister position last time instead of Truss?

Who needs or doesn't need antidepressants is a conversation that should be had between a doctor and their patient and is frankly none of the business of the economist.

You can use firefox on android and install ad block on it as a plugin

I'm on burnout burnout.

> This seems like moving goalposts, given that my original position was that you should divorce the current state of cryptocurrency from the idea of cryptocurrency itself.

Let me be clear on one point, I don't have a problem with digital currency. I do have a problem with cryptocurrency.

This needs to be done everywhere. Move as much people to remote as physically possible, which is basically everyone who works in an office, and change all that into residential real estate.

> You're confusing a particular (naive, original) implementation of cryptocurrency with the general concept of cryptocurrency.

If that is the case they why does the floor value of bitcoin track to the cost of the energy it takes to mint? Value above the floor is 100% speculative as it is value assigned by investors who buy into it.

> You seem like a reasonable person and if you take the time to understand what is taking place then you would see this as the transitional period that it is, understand the problems being solved, and know how to spot the bullshit from the real. Otherwise, you might become the digital equivalent of a senior who refuses to use a credit card over cash.

I would rather give up all technology, sell all my worldly possessions and donate it to charity, and then become a luddite and move to an Amish community before I live in a world dominated by the current iterations of digital currency.

I've been arguing against cryptocurrencies since 2017. It's really simple, from a physics stand point, the value, is spent compute. I can't reuse that compute, therefore, the store of value is entropic. Entropy goes one way and the value cannot be returned, therefore, cryptocurrencies have no value outside of speculation. Speculative markets already exist and don't need to spend 127 TWh/y to use. Protection from inflation? How is inflation been going up but BTC has been going down? Decentralized? Only until the central authorities who have a staked interest fork the blockchain to save there own assests. Fuck your assets. Someone exploit your smartwallet? CODE IS LAW. But its privacy forward! Bullshit the entire transaction history is public and people have made an industry around finding out who owns what wallets.

Cryptocurrency proponents are the free energy, cold fusion and over unity quacks and cranks of this generation. So many ponzis, rug pulls, frauds, grifts, lies, and bullshit.

I took care of my elder grandparents for the last 7 years of their lives. It was probably the worst thing I've ever had to go through in my life. There is nothing as soul crushing as watching people die in slow motion. It's been 3 years since they passed and I'm still a fucking wreck. I've had loved ones pass before in my life but its not the same when its someone close that suddenly passes vs elder care. My grandfather was a strong man, I remember hiking Pikes Peak with him when I was in high school. He beat me up the mountain, and I wasn't exactly out of shape at the time. Near the end his parkinsons was so bad I had to feed and change his diapers. Watching someone go from being the strongest and most independent person I've ever met to someone embarrassed to tears while I'm changing his diapers. That's not the same type of impact on loss.

No thanks.

I think the worse part of having been a crypto skeptic for such a long time is the I told you so moments. I'm not engaging in schadenfreude, I'm not happy about seeing people lose money. As much as I hate the crypto fanatics spreading nonsense I also hate shit like /r/buttcoin for pointing at people's misfortune. My dad paid off his house about a decade ago, but now he's underwater because he mortgaged it to buy crypto. He wanted help and I said no, I can't help you, its no different from a gambling addiction. You need therapy not more money.

Veritasium did a video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMlf1ELvRzc

Moderation is not Censorship. Moderation is Free Speech. Hate Speech is not Free Speech. Criticizing the termination of services against kiwifarms isn't an endorsement of free speech its an endorsement of universal toleration. Universal toleration is the idea that I'm not allowed to determine who I provide goods and services to despite the message of the those to whom I am providing services too, if I host a website that is a forum for lego builds, am I not allowed to kick Nazis spreading hate from my forum? My platform, my rules, entitles me to determine what messages I want to convey because the message that is provided on my platform is my right to free speech therefore moderation is free speech. Remember the Colorado Wedding Cake? So which is it? Do you support Free Speech or don't you? mic drop

I've been using exchange online for my personal email. I had to do a bit of fenagling with my dns records, which is old hat at this point, to get it to work but it basically costs $4 per month per user and since I'm the only user it gives me the freedom to use my own domain name and not have to worry about selfhosting. Prior to that I was using exim as my SMTP server and dovecot as my imap/pop3. But managing it was a huge hassle. $4 a month is worth the effort of not maintaining it myself.

I run docker desktop on my windows machine which I have setup for k8s and have gitlab running as a helm deployment. What's wrong with having windows but using WSL for dev work. That's how most of my flow works, I installed gitlab this way because I want to learn its cicd stuff without having to rely on the work instance or gitlab.com. I prefer selfhosting.

But code is law therefore this is good for bitcoin.

I've been using linux since '97, RH 5.1 that came on cd in the back of a linux tome I can't even recall the name of now was my first distro. The partitioning tool was called disk druid and the desktop? Fuck man the desktop was ugly, I don't even remember what it was called. Hahaha I just looked it up it was gnome, the beta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkD9jY8cxIY god I'm old.

This seems like something pretty easy to spoof.

I was full of holes.

Oh I absolutely agree, you can view my comment history if you don't believe me. But that is not how Musk has framed his support for free speech in the past. Musk has made it clear that he is "anti-moderation", the case of things like banning Trump from social media with the reasoning that moderation is not free speech. But this kind of behavior is de facto retaliatory employee censorship. You can't have your cake and eat it too, you are either pro free speech or not.

For being such a huge proponent of free speech he sure seems to hate it when people talk.

The original case for Bitcoin was made after the 2008 market crash to allow for a tool that could act as a hedge against the market instabilities that led up to the crash. So yeah, it is a spurious argument. It's a spurious argument that was made for bitcoin.

To me it seems to be amplified here. Additionally, I've been noticing that market fluctuations in cryptocoins seem to actually be a leading indicator of market instability.