The six days is the time between the first two blocks. I didn't know that before this episode, and it surprised me!

The genesis block was on Jan3 and had the headline from the same day

If the headline was in the morning paper, then he had about 12 hours until the timestamp in the first block

How much time was there between the famous headline and the genesis block which contained that headline?

Minutes? Hours?

I ask because maybe Satoshi let his CPU grind the smallest hash value for a few hours while he was doing last-minute fixes before release

What does it mean to "teach maths as a liberal art"?

You mentioned this a few times in the podcast with Rob

Why did you mention religion and atheism in this context?

Consciousness is profoundly mysterious to me. If I was religious, I don't think that it would change anything for me; consciousness definitely exists (in me, at a minimum) but it's also the least explicable thing

The existence of a creator wouldn't change any of that for me. At best I could say "God probably knows what consciousness is" but I couldn't say "God explains consciousness"

Consciousness is so bizarre and inexplicable to me, that "a universe with consciousness in it" makes as much sense as "a universe where 2+2=5"

This is a scam account. I'll block now

The real one is here: @nprofile1q...

Her X account mentions the same, correct, npub

https://xcancel.com/franfinney/status/1866877582324666482

Remember the "Ice Bucket Challenge" for ALS research? My variant of that is 15 minutes in icy water every weekend 🙂

Thanks to Hal and Fran for everything they've done for Bitcoin and ALS!



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Watching the ice skaters while prepping to go in:



One of us opening the ice:



@nevent1qqs...

Yes. Time for Bitchat!

It may be too late to help much in Iran, as presumably it would need a lot of adoption there in order to be usable when the state fully switches off the internet

In any case, we need more people everywhere to install it

It's starting to become urgent

Let's assume that governments continue to exist and collect non-negligible amounts of tax.

I think that a property tax is the fairest tax.

Georgism is an ...



What's the practical alternative, under the assumption described above?

Under hyperbitcoinization, where the state and corporations will have little able to monitor our transactions, I think that a property tax will be the main tax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

The creator closed it again with merging. I'm looking forward to seeing a polished version that works 😀

This paper is fake research, there is zero evidence that vaccination causes the flu, despite what this says

I've read the paper. No randomised control of the vaccination

People who are older and less healthy are more likely to agree to be vaccinated, and also more likely to get tested, and therefore you'll get these misleading numbers

I'll be unfollowing/blocking some people, I don't want my timeline filling up with this slop

So Claude is tired?

At first, I was annoyed that Claude forces me to take an hour-long break when I overuse it

But maybe it's a good thing; for example, this has reminded me to eat lunch 😀



(Maybe it's time to switch to Max20, up from my current Max5)