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Jose Sammut · 3d
The Coldcard hack compromises the buyers of last resort. Coldcard consumers are the more sophisticated Bitcoin investors. Selfishly, this may be the worst thing to ever happen to Bitcoin. But maybe ...
Micha profile picture
It is also the best thing to happen to bitcoin. Nothing can be built on a foundation of sand. And in hindsight it has become clear, that simply using a hardware wallet that you got from some podcaster shilling his referral code is not a safe way to hold your coins.
The industry will need to evolve and provide simple to follow best practices. I don't know what they should look like, but without this incident no progress would have been made.

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Jose Sammut · 2d
The cold wallet was the "simple to follow best practices". I don't think anyone had signalled any doubt on the coldcard. I always found Jade to be simpler, and I'm more at peace because it's fully open source, and I generated some keys outside of the device. But I'll be honest, I used to think mor...
harpocrates · 3d
Maybe. But coinkite is dead to me now.
nostrich · 1w
Depends on your prompts to AI. Here’s my AIs answer about the “virgin birth” stories. In comparative religion, “virgin birth” often gets used loosely to mean a birth that is miraculous, div...
Micha profile picture
If the claim was "miraculous birth" I would agree. And I'm sure there are some parallels to be drawn. But the Table is clearly overstating the similarities. But I'm glad you now recognize that most of it is BS. I hope this allows you to take a less biased look at the resurrection of Jesus.

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nostrich · 1w
I appreciate you pointing out that the table was flawed.
Dav Bow · 1w
Have you crossed the border? The checks are often miles inside the country, not at the literal actual border.
Micha profile picture
Fair point, but it seems like they just Interpret border however it fits them best:

"The motion said that the border agents claimed they did not need a warrant to search Tunick’s phone because he had not yet crossed the U.S. border. The U.S. government has long claimed it can search and seize people’s devices without a search warrant or court order until they are permitted entry to the United States."

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Sjors · 1w
But this was a citizen, right? They pay taxes globally, so why not have constitutional protections? Can the US drone their own citizens abroad without a trial? I feel like these things have been debated before...
marjfri · 1w
Good question. I was wondering the same thing. From my understanding, the answer depends on the athlete, the training goal and the context rather than there being one universal rule.
nostrich · 1w
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_in_comparative_mythology https://blossom.primal.net/7f6ae8a6a43390a3517f431fd8f58f73792fe6d5cbbda5b9f44f5119ef8851ba.jpg
Micha profile picture
Bro, we now have AI that allows you to verify these claims within seconds. The fact that you posted this without taking the time to check any of the claims is just embarrassing and shows you are not interested in the truth.
You can put this into your own AI, but here are some Highlights:

“Virgin birth” (Horus, Krishna, Buddha): Misleading or incorrect.

Horus: Egyptian myths describe Isis reconstituting or conceiving Horus connected to Osiris’s body; that is not the same as the Christian doctrine of a human virgin conceiving by divine intervention. The precise Egyptian accounts and interpretations vary and do not match “virgin birth” in the Christian sense.
Krishna: born to Devaki and Vasudeva (human parents). No orthodox Hindu source describes a Christian-style virgin birth.
Buddha: some texts portray Queen Māyā’s birth story with miraculous elements, but it is not a virgin birth analogous to the Christian claim.
Jesus: the virgin-birth claim is found in Matthew and Luke in the New Testament — this is a distinct claim and has different theological meaning.
“Crucified / died and resurrected after three days”: Incorrect for most.

Jesus: historic crucifixion and the Easter resurrection claim are central to Christianity.
Osiris (Egyptian) is killed and later restored/incarnated in various ways in the myth cycle, but this is not a straightforward “crucifixion on a cross and resurrection after 3 days” parallel to the Gospel accounts.
Krishna: Hindu accounts record his death (for example, being pierced by an arrow); there is no canonical crucifixion–resurrection-after-3-days narrative.
Buddha: most traditions hold that he died (parinirvana) — there is no resurrection-after-3-days story comparable to Christian resurrection.

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nostrich · 1w
Depends on your prompts to AI. Here’s my AIs answer about the “virgin birth” stories. In comparative religion, “virgin birth” often gets used loosely to mean a birth that is miraculous, divinely caused, and not the result of ordinary human sexuality. Under that wider definition, Horus, Kr...
nostrich · 1w
Good point though - after running a few AI queries, I think a lot of this table is total garbage.
The Tim · 1w
It’s just for research purposes 😉 But thanks for this.. it’s quite the rabbit hole! Looks like you can run 12ft locally: https://github.com/everywall/ladder