*Whatever remedy the court issues, there will be a simple measure of its effectiveness: namely, whether people who work at big companies like Google start quitting their jobs to start new companies. The 1956 antitrust agreement between AT&T and the Justice Department, which limited AT&T to the telecommunications industry, helped spawn America’s semiconductor industry as people fled Bell System to start new companies. The antitrust action taken against Microsoft in the 1990s paved the way for today’s internet platforms. Today’s tech sector, to a degree not always appreciated, is in the midst of a slow-moving succession drama. The central question is whether the dominant platforms, especially Google, can hold onto their power in the A.I. age. It would be a mistake to assess this or any other antitrust remedy too narrowly. Like the felling of a large tree in an old forest, the question is what it does for the ecosystem — or more precisely, what grows out of it.*

Opinion | Google Could Get Broken Up This Week. Here’s What It Would Mean.

It will be effective if people who work at big tech companies start quitting their jobs.

*People who trust the government think inflation is 2.7% or whatever don't see 13% true inflation. The MSTR products arbitrage this information asymetry while simutaniously b3coming the biggest honeypot for an Executive Order 6102 style confiscation* View quoted note →

PoW * optimism = path to glory *While everyone else is fighting over the scraps of centralized attention, we’re building the infrastructure of human connection itself* View quoted note →

*nostr is a different game. we can't just game the system and get blasted at the hugest number of people to get conversion. we have to actually target our niche properly* View quoted note →

👀 *Growing suspicions about the assassination of President Kennedy foreclosed the physical assassination of Nixon, so they assassinated him politically with the Watergate orchestration* View quoted note →

*you can't build independence using dependent infrastructure.* View quoted note →

*Your private key provides cryptographic proof of coin control without proving who you are as a person. This isn't technical detail, it's a philosophical revolution separating the right to act from the requirement to be known.* View quoted note →

*The more dependent you become on digital infrastructure for basic survival, the more vulnerable you become to algorithmic decapitation.* View quoted note →

*The great physicists, mathematicians and philosophers didn’t have a ledger of absolute scarcity to refer to, and our knowledge systems still reflect that bias* View quoted note →

"Bitcoin isn’t a get rich quick scheme. Pursue your passions, work hard" View quoted note →

*Money has to be money proper, which means a bearer instrument as opposed to credit linked to an account* View quoted note →

“High-altitude wind is a powerful and mostly unused energy source. At 1,500 metres, the wind blows three times faster than at ground level, which can produce up to 27 times more power,” Weng said in the lecture. Looks like an airship, acts like a windmill. Engineer says China on brink of turbine leap | South China Morning Post https://share.google/8qG27w917BUD60WUm

*Wild how everyone realizes government is broken but [when] you suggest the money is the issue, everyone completely disregards it* View quoted note →

*Bitcoin dances on the edges of traditional economies* View quoted note →

*By all means say kind things to everyone you meet. It will make life more pleasant for all concerned. But when those kind words also contain some insight and are spoken to the right person at the right moment, that is when the magic happens.* How a well-timed kind word can change everything | Tim Harford

Tim Harford

How a well-timed kind word can change everything

Can a kind word change your life? I know from experience that it can. More than three decades ago, during the summer vacation at the end of my firs...

Prompt: nostr how would a virtual relay based on geohashes work? Perplexity.ai: A virtual relay based on geohashes in the context of Nostr would work by routing messages or events according to geographic regions encoded as geohash tiles. Here’s how such a system functions in general terms: - The covered geographic area is divided into geohash tiles—rectangular regions encoded as short strings where more characters mean more precise (smaller) areas. - Each geohash tile or group of tiles is assigned to a specific virtual relay (or broker). - When a Nostr client sends an event containing geospatial coordinates, the system calculates a geohash from those coordinates. - It then matches this geohash to the smallest corresponding geohash tile in the routing rules. - Based on the matched geohash tile, the event is routed to the appropriate virtual relay responsible for that geographic region. - This allows traffic and events to be partitioned geographically, optimizing message distribution and possibly reducing load by localization. - The size and assignment of geohash tiles to virtual relays can be dynamically adjusted for efficient scaling and load balancing. In essence, a virtual relay using geohashes acts like a location-aware router for Nostr events, forwarding events to relays that manage specific geographic tiles encoded by geohashes. This is conceptually similar to how messages in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication systems are routed based on location geohashes. Nostr itself is a decentralized protocol where relays store and distribute events. A geohash-based virtual relay would augment this by adding spatial awareness to message routing, directing events to relays that handle events from specific geospatial areas. This method leverages geohashing's hierarchical spatial encoding—larger tiles cover broad areas, smaller tiles pinpoint finer locations—enabling scalable decentralized message routing based on geography within the Nostr network or similar decentralized systems[1][6][8]. Citations: [1] System and methods for edge-based geo-aware routing https://patents.justia.com/patent/12328657 [2] sandwichfarm/nostr-geotags - GitHub

GitHub

GitHub - sandwichfarm/nostr-geotags: Given some geodata, will generate an array of standardized geo ['g'] tags for inclusion in nostr event.tags

Given some geodata, will generate an array of standardized geo ['g'] tags for inclusion in nostr event.tags - sandwichfarm/nostr-geotags

[3] What is Geohashing? Examples and Use Cases - PubNub

PubNub

What is Geohashing?

An introduction to geohashing and example use cases.

[4] Geohashing Algorithm | Proximity Search Based Applications [5] What is Geohashing? - DEV Community

DEV Community

What is Geohashing?

Geohashing (or geohash) is a geocoding method used to encode geographic coordinates (latitude and...

[6] Nostr's Technical Architecture: The Basics - by Craig - Substack

Nostr’s Technical Architecture: The Basics

Nostr is a protocol, not a platform.

[7] Geohash: the algorithm inside and out - Part 1 - YouTube [8] Exploring the Nostr Ecosystem: A Study of Decentralization ... - arXiv

Exploring the Nostr Ecosystem: A Study of Decentralization and Resilience

[9] What is GeoHashing? - by Ashish Pratap Singh

What is GeoHashing?

Imagine you’re building a system like Uber, Google Maps, or a nearby restaurant finder.

[10] GitHub - aljazceru/awesome-nostr

GitHub

GitHub - aljazceru/awesome-nostr: nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things

nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things - GitHub - aljazce...

*the incumbent power will always fight entropy and lower prices are [akin to] entropy*

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"Housing prices are not high by any historical standard" - evoskuil \ stacker news

Here is a very entertaining thread about housing prices and wealth on X. It begins with a post made by Nic Carter: Eric Voskuil then quotes Nic's p...

*This is the blueprint for true resistance: not destruction, but creation. Not confrontation, but alternatives. Not begging for permission, but building parallel systems that make permission irrelevant. You don't need anyone's permission to opt out. You don't need to wait for political leaders to change course or for corporations to develop consciences. The tools exist right now.* View quoted note →

*You could just say no, without committing economic suicide.* View quoted note →

*You could just say no, without committing economic suicide.* View quoted note →