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Sovereign Matt · 151w
Have fun. I am not designer by trade by any means. Feel free to edit or whatever.
Petri Pulkkinen · 151w
Oh, and shout out to #[1] for all the amazing work. So much more under the hood than “just” a browser extension. #alby
iefan 🕊️ · 154w
Firstly, it is impossible for an object with mass to travel at the speed of light, Light does not carry any mass in the traditional sense, as it is composed of massless particles called photons. The...
Petri Pulkkinen profile picture
Sorry to butt in, but I think what iefan means is that the formula is E²=(mc²)²+(pc)².

E=mc² is only a special case of that: when an object is not moving relative to you and it has mass.

Light has no mass. And that’s why the special case for that is E=pc.

So no, E=mc² doesn’t always hold true. Unfortunately physicists have failed to explain that clearly to us laypeople. Alas, much lamenting among them about this confusion…
Gabor · 156w
What is a "zap"? Prefer explanation without using the terms Sat, Satoshi or NIP-57 Seriously, I tried reading 5-6 blogposts about them and my brain is now numb
Petri Pulkkinen profile picture
Ha, since I am newbie myself this might go hilariously wrong, but here we go: Zap is a fast and straightforward way of doing a small Bitcoin based payment. Underlying protocol name is Lighting Network from which we get the name zap.

Straightforward once it is all set up, that is… David b708f7392f588406212c3882e7b3bc0d9b08d62f95fa170d099127ece2770e5e made a YouTube video about it using Damus as a client app: https://youtu.be/FYbQLja9Oe8

I just gave him a zap for that.
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Gabor · 156w
Thanks, I'll check it out
nostrich · 156w
I don’t follow. What’s an example of something “true for Person A” but not universally true?
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Perhaps we could use the good ole principle: physical fact != cultural truth value? Not in the real world, that is. We might try to find those facts using scientific process, but it is not easy. Our wetware keeps interfering.

Physical facts gives us the background, human truth values float on top on that inside our brain. Deviate too far from the physical world and you are cruising for bruising. But when it comes to individual experience, opinions and cultural “truths”, we all have separate brain and therefore separate experience. It might be a similar experience, but physically inside different brains.
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Katie · 156w
I really like that! And welcome to nostr ☺️
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Once in a blue moon I was on #StumbleUpon. That was before random browsing became a security risk and before the corporate asshattery finally put an end to it.

Yes, the old innocent Internet… But I just realized that the odd change of meeting people with different viewpoints without the safety net of moderators can also keep things civilized. And refreshing. Up to a point, of course…

Hope this is not going to be one of those cases, where if one of us shits properly in the pool, no one gets to swim. Different relays, different pools, for sure, but only if the outside world realizes this.
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Petri Pulkkinen profile picture
Fascinating, absolutely fascinating.

I am here for conversation and different viewpoints. And just observing and studying fellow primates. Looks promising. Interesting times, interesting people.
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🇩​𝔢𝔠𝔢𝔫𝔱 🇼​𝔦𝔰𝔡𝔬𝔪 · 156w
National Geographic vibes 😄
johnny · 156w
Welcome to #nostr
BitcoinJujitsu · 156w
I see. Its human nature of wanting to collect shiny things vs the Bitcoin economics
Petri Pulkkinen profile picture
Isn’t it also a copyright problem? From a legal standpoint NFTs simple are not the same thing as copyrights of a creative work. In the future things are likely to change, licensing long before full rights transfer hassle. Or do you think the modern copyright system is broken beyond repair?

https://www.theverge.com/23139793/nft-crypto-copyright-ownership-primer-cornell-ic3