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jimmysong 2 months ago
Once you have Bitcoin, you can start thinking about accomplishing things that can't be done with just money.
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jimmysong 2 months ago
Boredom is either a lack of purpose or the impatience felt when you have a purpose but can't make progress. If you're bored by the sideways action, that's what this is.
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jimmysong 2 months ago
The whole concept of platforming assumes centralization. The people that get upset about it don't understand what decentralization means.
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jimmysong 2 months ago
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jimmysong 2 months ago
"Jimmy and I agreed there is no economic incentive to use bigger up returns, right? so it's basically two sides of a coin. If nobody's going to use it, we should not enable it or we are not worried about enabling it, right? But either way, if nobody's going to use it, it's probably a pretty marginal issue." - @Murch I would say that there's no *obvious* economic incentives to use OP_RETURN, not that there were none. And this is an important difference. To say that there are none is to say that you know all possible future things that people might use it for. I don't think anyone can know that. h/t @Bitcoin_To_The_Oblivion
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jimmysong 2 months ago
If you don't have a hill you'll die on, your either a coward, a nihilist or both.
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jimmysong 2 months ago
Garbage in, garbage out. True for programs, true for brains.
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jimmysong 2 months ago
A life without risk is not that different than death. But risk without reward is just masochistic. Risks that have the right amount of reward in them, that's what makes life interesting.
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jimmysong 2 months ago
There's a thin line between being charitable and making excuses for other people.
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jimmysong 2 months ago
Despite the prevalence of GLP-1 drugs, you can still tell how much self-control and agency people have just by looking at them.
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jimmysong 2 months ago
Free issue for the first Monday of the month! Scam and Culture, Arts Bubble, H1B Abuse, Ozempic Trillions, AI Debt Bomb, Penlock, Nodewatch, BoltCanvas, lnemail, Poverty Line, Samourai Sentencing and more! #Bitcoin Tech Talk #477
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jimmysong 2 months ago
Contemporary content is all slop that's made to dull you or propagandize you. Pay for what you value or become a zombie of their making. Your choice.
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jimmysong 2 months ago
Community drives this platform, for better or for worse.
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jimmysong 2 months ago
You can lead a horse to water. But he won't drink until he understands that water is what will quench his thirst.
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jimmysong 2 months ago
Hot Thanksgiving Take: Weight loss drugs will have way more impact than AI over the next 10 years. Even Hotter Take: AI is a much bigger bubble than Bitcoin ever was.
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jimmysong 2 months ago
Propaganda is an enormous security hole in democracy.
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jimmysong 2 months ago
You can tell a lot about a people by what it holds sacred, or what you're not allowed to question. Mostly, it exposed who's really in charge.
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jimmysong 2 months ago
Holding during a downturn is a lot like holding your ground after getting punched in the face.