Peer review is a scam.

There are always unintended consequences of new tech.

If you haven't gone down the parasite rabbit hole... Let's just say it explains way too many things, particularly the morality around food and sexual mores of past societies.

I like that Trump is considering pardoning the Samourai devs, but we're trending to be dependent on centralization to solve problems.

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Bitcoin Tech Talk #479

Interesting Stuff

Solving a small problem for a lot of people is generally going to be more impactful than solving a big problem for a few people. The former is usually the better fit for decentralized systems, anyway.

A government that doesn't punish violations of Natural Law is not a legitimate government.

Bitcoin Fixes This #134: Charity and Legacy with Johann Kurtz https://rumble.com/v72ttx8-bitcoin-fixes-this-134-charity-and-legacy-with-johann-kurtz.html We talked about his book Leaving a Legacy.

Once you have Bitcoin, you can start thinking about accomplishing things that can't be done with just money.

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.

The whole concept of platforming assumes centralization. The people that get upset about it don't understand what decentralization means.

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Bitcoin Tech Talk #478

Interesting Stuff

"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

If you don't have a hill you'll die on, your either a coward, a nihilist or both.

Garbage in, garbage out. True for programs, true for brains.

Savings, not debt.

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.

There's a thin line between being charitable and making excuses for other people.

Despite the prevalence of GLP-1 drugs, you can still tell how much self-control and agency people have just by looking at them.

The Neocon schtick is so tiresome.