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I’ve found the disorganization of writing is actually a benefit. I have a remarkable and I put almost everything in a single organizational notebook. There’s no pressure to do things right, no fretting about space or making clean shapes, just thought dumps and open notes.. which I condense down later on a computer if I ever decide I actually want to “go forward” with an idea. Works for me given I feel a friction with long term cleanly organized notes that sometimes inhibits the process altogether.

Returning to the job market sounds a bit defeatist. I’d take a different route and just look for some contracted work or consulting through your network. Go above and beyond with it and try to spin it to a full time role.

Presumably they aren’t taking photographs of the passport and viewing them at some later date from personal computers.

Just last month I had a DJ company ask for an ID and selfie for a $200 software purchase.

Maybe these things are designed for KYC’ing crypto and buying alcohol but it’s definitely a trend to apply this process broadly. All for the fear of generally preventing everyday fraud, piracy, and maybe just collecting data for some nebulous future use. Of course they rarely do the actual basics and apply any thought to not treating your real customers like criminals.

I don’t doubt Stripe can make the process better and do it in a good way, but can Stripe minimize what this process is even applied to in the first place and avoid manufactured consent.

I really despise this trend of uploading your ID and a selfie for verification. I know it makes sense in some legal frameworks, but beyond that I find it invasive and risky (and rude.)

Well, not necessarily yourself, but through an entity that would not gossip the pending transaction. If it paid well any pool or mining farm could include it. A high standard transaction fee would not help.

There’s no way to guarantee absolutely, but you could wait to announce until you got lucky with a couple consecutive blocks if you had a lot of hashpower (pool operators).

It would be an expensive endeavor since it involves throwing away solved blocks, but could of course package many QC safe(r) transactions so probably a profitable service in a QC compromised era.

It’s possible to skip the mempool, by including it directly in a block, giving no time to a QC attacker. Not worth it right now, but if QC was known to exist it could be done.

sounds like a bug, is there a reason to think it’s intentional?

Typically “movie” hallucinations like seeing elephants in the room or having strange people visit you or seeing bugs all over you are more typical of deleriants like diphenhydramine or datura, although high dose tryptamines can be so strong that there is no connection to the reality around you - overwhelmingly psychedelic. In that state hallucinations of a different type are possible (talking to entities, being somewhere else entirely, etc.) Movies are a very bad representation of psychedelics generally, though.

I doubt they could 51% Bitcoin with any sort of haste. Perhaps with a few year plan. Simply put it’s a procurement issue. There are limited ASICS and they are distributed among many operators, mostly foreign. There aren’t massive ASIC stockpiles in the US just waiting to be purchased. A government 51% attack would probably involve doing a private chip run.

I bring a fixed blade knife hiking. Can split wood in a pinch. Not nearly as heavy as a ka-bar, though.

Your point still stands, though. I had a military pack and couldn’t believe how heavy it was even when empty. Ultralight hiking gear is pretty amazing and optimized for an entirely different goal. That said, I still feel like specialty gear like this is a different class than the average consumer stuff.. closer to industrial or military in design than Amazon junk.

I agree consumers are misled but Apple is a poor example here. I know the App Store fee is a popular topic right now but they are one of the few companies making a consumer product that is bounds ahead of military or industrial versions.

What would you prefer the concept be called?

The drives are reportedly destroyed from the process relatively rapidly. So no, I’d probably not plan to be able to resell drives on eBay later.

Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters is a masterpiece, never read anything remotely like it.

Why are arguments of this form so pervasive?

Cryptocurrency is bad and must be banned because ransomware. Encryption is bad because pedos, let’s ban Tor and Signal. We need a permanent surveillance state and forfeit most of our rights to privacy because terrorists bad, what do you have to hide?

Is it an appeal to emotion? Fear?

Oil industry workers don’t seem to carry much clout, kind of a dirty job with a lot of physical labor, but pays quite well and has for a while.

Truckers can still make an upper middle class salary, especially if they own their truck or focus on a niche (refrigerated, military deliveries, cross border, etc.)

Perhaps they did invest time, but I’m not convinced that should give them the right to place a restriction on others.

If I have an empty hard drive and copy someone’s mp3 a thousand times on it, without permission, what is really lost? Have I really harmed this person or stolen from them in any meaningful sense? If I then delete the data, is that really justice?

Both directions lead to some laws that seem wrong at face value - illegal primes on one side and “pro” revenge porn on the other. I only argue it’s not as clear cut as physical property, and that we are probably too far on the digital copyright side, rather than the data is free side.

I feel like this is a rhetorical question, but I’m not very confident that they should when it comes to data. It’s definitely less clear cut than physical ownership in my opinion. Abstractly it seems wrong to limit people from certain bit arrangements without paying. The source is limitless.

The Sia team has let down customers for other tangential projects, and Sia has weaker guarantees than Filecoin. It’s been out a long time now and they have failed to address some core scaling and redundancy concerns. I wouldn’t say it’s bad, but it’s seeming more like maidsafe - never got enough traction and now the interest is on filecoin and arweave.

So could anyone have saved this guy by delivering enough fuel to get to port? I wonder what the costs would have been.

I’ve read a few of his other entries from when they were shared here. It’s interesting that someone can have such a different baseline view on reality than I (for example, the opening statement that humanity will just end itself in a couple centuries) but the posts are enjoyable nonetheless.

That’s a good point, I could see it happening, even if it wasn’t social - merely an association with “green” apps being more buggy and annoying to use.

I don’t care for iMessage particularly but I do know when it’s blue bubbles I have a lot more capabilities.

Apps in the Apple App Store must meet usability and standardization guidelines, and are deeply integrated into the OS. As a simple example that came up recently, all the payments on the phone go through Apple, so the payment process is the same cross ecosystem. While that is a point of discussion in the monopoly debate, it’s undeniably a simpler experience on the user side - and that translates to easy support. I don’t have to consider it it’s stripe or PayPal or freedompay or anything else when mom calls and wants help buying premium, payments just work.

With an open app ecosystem all guarantees of standardization or not using private APIs or (ideally) the app has been somewhat vetted are out the window.

I think it would still poison the “Apple experience” to have many AppStores all competing with their own closed ecosystems. The Apple Experience of not being able to install some apps sucks, but its always been easy for me to help someone with an iOS device. That’s not true with Android or Windows. A walled garden ecosystem isn’t for everyone, but it does have value.

Instead, I’d like to see Apple be forced to provide bootloader unlocks and some basic drivers for alternative operating systems. We own the hardware, after all. Then they could have their walled garden and people who wanted more could run something else.

It’s also a simpler and more generalizable goal, in my opinion. If you own it, you should have low level access. That sounds more reasonable than forcing a corporation to add open App Store access, maintain it, and deal with whatever market effects precipitate.

While that is the aim, I don’t find it convincing. Sure, the average person can mine, but the hashrate will be small compared to professionals with tens of thousands of units, purchased at special rates for bulk, with matching low energy rates. Or free energy in the case of botnet operators.

In practice this just degrades to a situation very similar to ASICs, admittedly with the benefit that the hardware has a purpose beyond mining and with multiple (uninterested) manufacturers. In that way it is perhaps more decentralized, while also open to additional vulnerabilities. All in all it’s mostly just a way to differentiate from btc on a theoretical point rather than have any real advantage.

A carton would be challenging. As a dumb smoking teenager I competed to smoke a whole pack and even then it made me quite nauseous. Took about 5 or 6 cigarettes back to back.

Did they not work out? I see people boosting servers and people with paid accounts very often. It seems they had a market willing to pay.

How about good old working for it. I’ve received payment in Bitcoin and paid employees in cryptocurrency.

The thing about fungible assets is that they are neutral money. They aren’t “blood money”, they are simply blind to whatever they are used for. At least they aren’t finding wars like the dollar.