@bobmcelrath
Theoretical physicist who dabbles in Bitcoin.
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Why haven't we discovered alien life? There's a missing element from the Fermi Paradox: life is rare because if a planet has only one metabolic mechanism, it will consume its source material until it is gone, resulting in a remaining atmosphere that is the by-product of that metabolism. I hypothesize this is why Mars is red, Venus is CO2, Titan is methane, and Europa is oxygen and water.
Earth evolved oxygen respiration and photosynthesis close enough in time for them to achieve a self-regulating balance. Self-regulating balances are rare in chemistry. Most of the time it burns out.
Earth evolved oxygen respiration and photosynthesis close enough in time for them to achieve a self-regulating balance. Self-regulating balances are rare in chemistry. Most of the time it burns out.
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A drug that lets you forget everything you know about the movie The Matrix so you can watch it like it's 1999.
Aaaaaahhhhh I took so many friends to see it. One at a time. I saw it at least 5 times in the theater. Each time as great as the last. Such a masterpiece!
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I block all promoted tweets on Twitter. It's like 1 every 3 now. I don't have time for this.
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⚡⚡TEN MILLION sats giveaway!⚡⚡
To celebrate 10,000,000 #Lightning payments,
we are giving away 10 x 1,000,000 sats!!🥳
To enter:
🔸Post your best video involving Wallet of Satoshi (old...
What now I have to block scammy giveaways on Nostr too?
For shame.
For shame.
price history charts printed on the wall to show bitcoin goes up over time 🥹
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_fa47be7b2224985ce2cdc41a4d68a505d0d8293c771acffbe6d7873cdac94ffc.jpg
For a good time visit Fidelity in Boston. They have a visitor's room with the walls covered in charts from various important points in history.
Banning doesn't work on Nostr except for the the extreme measure of the relay blocking the client IP. Since they often can't meaningfully block IP's without collateral damage and administrative burden...
A long time ago SMTP (email) crossed having the majority of messages being spam. This is because the cost of distribution is placed on the RECEIVER. Nostr is the same way with the cost on the relays and receiver. This is a breeding ground for spam and within a few months Nostr will be unusable. The true solution to this is to place the cost on the sender, somehow. But with zaps in place I think there's probably a way to do it.
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Client side filtering means mobile clients and mobile data resource consumption is a lot higher than what normal users might expect.
Well that's the price you pay. But it could also be a syndicated/centralized service.
Content (topical) discovery is another problem...
Content (topical) discovery is another problem...
Is anyone developing local filters for Nostr? It will soon have an information overload problem that Twitter etc al handle with centralized algorithms, but Nostr will handle with local filtering.
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Thinkpad E480 & E490: 32GB, nvme+SATA
E14 Gen 1: 16GB, nvme+SATA
E14 Gen 2: 32GB, nvme 2242+2280
E14 Gen 3: same as gen 2
Newer models actually get *worse* for the dual redundant disk LN node use cas...
This is literally the first and only thing I look at when buying a laptop: appropriate dual NVME.