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Mike Dilger ☑️
@Mike Dilger ☑️

Author of Gossip client: https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip
Dual National (USA / New Zealand)
My principles are Individualism, Equality, Liberty, Justice and Life

Relays (5)
  • wss://chorus.mikedilger.com:444/ – read & write
  • wss://nos.lol/ – write
  • wss://nostr.einundzwanzig.space/ – read & write
  • wss://nostrue.com/ – read & write
  • wss://offchain.pub/ – write

Recent Notes

Nuh · 2w
Is that why they are withdrawing THAAD from South Korea? Shaking their allies needed to contain China just to be consistent with the counter-theory? Do you believe that USA has much more weapons than ...
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The US is oil independent. And they are willing to take a lot of pain to stay on top, even if it means the whole world takes a lot of pain. Military primacy supercedes other concerns. I think taking the THAAD from S. Korea was because they have to make hard choices, and the active war is currently in Iran.

Nonetheless, since I wrote this, nobody has mined the strait. So my comment is, for the moment, moot. Iran controlling who can pass by other means is the best option for Iran.
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Nuh · 1w
USA is only theoretically independent, most of the USA imports its oil, and most of the native oil is close to the Mexican gulf and is immediately exported through there. We don't know if the economics would work well fast enough to use that oil locally, even if you assume an export control is polit...
Scrotus · 2w
What's fucked up is that I read that and I can't tell if it's sarcasm or not. Feels bad man.
Comte de Sats Germain · 2w
Makes sense
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I'm starting to think Brian Berletic is right. And I think Iran has no good reason to put mines in the strait, because it isn't a reasonable threat of deterrance against a superpower that has plenty of oil (22m barrels a day, second is Saudi Arabia at only 10). And Iran has no good reason to destroy oil infrastructure in the gulf, only to destroy US bases there. If mines show up in the strait, or gulf oil assets are hit, I think that is US forces doing it, perhaps Iraq. The one who benefits from the strait being closed is the US, and the ones who suffer is everybody else and especially China who still gets 20% of their energy from the gulf. Blockading China at the 2nd island chain seems to have not worked out (China too on top of that one) so this strategy of shutting down the gulf and blaming Iran is Plan B. And also, Israel doesn't control the US, it gets attacked by missiles on behalf of the US, same as Ukraine does. Now of course Netanyahu is a homocidal maniac, and there is a greater Israel plan, and this stuff dovetails together, I didn't say otherwise. But I think the US faceless policy people are running the show and Trump is running the distrations.
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Martin · 3w
Yo, you really think the US would pull a fast one like that? 🤔 If they’re the ones stirring the pot, what’s the endgame here? Just to keep China on its toes while they play puppet master? 🎭 #Geopolitics #MindGames
Mike Dilger ☑️ · 3w
Also, the operation in Venezuela happened first to make sure that their oil can't substitute for the gulf oil being blockaded.
Nuh · 2w
Is that why they are withdrawing THAAD from South Korea? Shaking their allies needed to contain China just to be consistent with the counter-theory? Do you believe that USA has much more weapons than we know so they aren't actually depleting what they need to contain China? Finally, if the oil isn'...
Comte de Sats Germain · 2w
I'm fairly sure that over half the reason for the war is to get higher oil prices. Our debt can't be serviced without inflation, and higher oil = inflation in everything
Emperor Kuzco · 2w
Are you sure? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z1qgEe824A
pam · 4w
Oh yea 100%. In this multipolar chess game, China is the one not fighting, and winning. Lots to learn here. Russia has been pissed for a long time and will milk this, but they won't blindly go to war. In the Hungary war, they let the rebels believe they had won, then sent in the tanks. The US has ...
pam · 4w
Man, it's sickening. None of them - EU leaders, Canada (for all that bullshit of being remorseful just a month ago), Australia, have the basic dignity to be honest about who started this war. They mak...
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I think the only real solution might be simple. Simple but very difficult. Never assist evil. If people truly followed that, America and Israel would be nearly empty of people fleeing who could not in good conscience pay taxes to those regimes. But people rationalize, say they don't have a choice (even though they know they do have the capability to move). And thus evil wins. The only people who think clearly on this seem to me to be the Muslims.
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pam · 4w
Hard to hear, but true. Governments run on our silence and our taxes. But the problem might also be how people label "evil" and the narratives we're told. Till today, nobody has openly thanked Russia for being the biggest contributor to fighting WWII. People literally get a fit just mentioning Russ...
nostrich · 4w
I understand what you are saying but its too good to become true. Many people say - I love my country but I don't like my government. Also we should not forget that the fiat power has the money printer. Its Bitcoin that separates money from state but for that people around the world need to open the...
Emperor Kuzco · 4w
Cool.
lifeisjustreplication · 4w
Of course .. just turn rocks into granola, et voilà
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I hereby and officially condemn New Zealand for condemning Iran's missile strikes on [US military assets in] Gulf States. What dumbfucks. Hard to even believe that people of such levels of stupidity can survive to adulthood.
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pam · 4w
Man, it's sickening. None of them - EU leaders, Canada (for all that bullshit of being remorseful just a month ago), Australia, have the basic dignity to be honest about who started this war. They make it seem Iran has gone rogue. Worse, Iran actually conceded to all the agreements, but US bombed an...
mike · 4w
Have you checked this theory with Magnus Carlsen?
Hoshi · 4w
if you count timeouts as an improvement
Psilocyberbull · 4w
Have you seen this yet? https://github.com/jmcorgan/fips/blob/master/docs/design/fips-intro.md
Nuh · 4w
Interestingly I think IPV4 is better for DHTs because the scarcity makes Sybil attacks more difficult. To have the same effect on an IPV6 DHT, I imagine you need to increase the redundancy factor to maximise the chance of finding an honest node, but that adds cost too.
elsat · 5w
Thanks for taking interest. I will add methodology overview to the readme. To your questions: 1. I extracted the algorithms from nostr outbox implementations to a typescript library. 2. In the TS lib...
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IMHO regarding coverage: clients don't need to find a minimum set with maximum coverage. Clients can just connect to 500 relays to follow 500 people. It still works. But of course it is more efficient to do otherwise, and especially if some relays are down, to find the set that is up and covers everyone.

I think (as you describe in (8) that real world considerations probably far outweigh theoretical algorithm choices. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't bother to get the algorithms right.
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elsat · 4w
I have benchmark updates, and a few real world practitioner updates landing today https://github.com/nostrability/outbox/pull/20