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join me, i'm testing BTC/XBT atomic swap stuff: https://github.com/gjbrr/blake-swap https://github.com/gjbrr/bitcoin-deposit-booklet
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Real estate. Country lake in Virginia. 2.5 hours from Raleigh/Durham, 4.5 hours from DC, 800 homes for sale. a quick scroll shows prices from 300 to 1 million. For the privilege of looking out at this lake, you can pay 7000 per 100,000 borrowed. so if you borrowed let's say 500,000 for a pretty nice place, these sellers expect you to be able to pay $35000/year or ~$3000 per month (just interest) alone. or perhaps you just have $500,000 laying around and think that a view of this Virginia lake is worth that much. I don't know anyone who can afford that. literally anyone. and they are expecting that 800 people can afford that around 1 lake. image
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gojiberra yesterday
Post Covid but Pre-AI: buy a house as big as you can because you'll need an office to Work-From-Home Post-AI: data centers get built and GPU racks take up less space than the work-from-home office AND they are way more productive than a human sitting in the same amount of space so all the extra money borrowed for the human space will never be economically useful. only so much space a human needs and that's 6 feet from his head to his toes-tolstoy
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Kimchi Butter Linguine twas excellent: 30–35 minutes 2 servings Easy Ingredients - 6–8 oz linguine - 1 medium sweet potato, diced small - 1 onion, thinly sliced - ½–¾ cup kimchi, chopped - 2–3 tablespoons butter - ¼–½ cup grated Parmesan - Salt and black pepper, if available How to make it 1. Brown the sweet potatoes. Dice into small cubes (about ½ inch). Cook in a skillet with 1 tablespoon butter over medium heat, covered for the first 5 minutes, then uncovered until tender and browned, about 10–15 minutes total. Remove and set aside. 2. Caramelize the onion. In the same pan, add another tablespoon of butter and the sliced onion. Cook over medium-low heat for 10–15 minutes until soft and golden. 3. Fry the kimchi. Chop it into small pieces and add it to the onions. Cook for 3–4 minutes until the kimchi starts to brown slightly. This mellows the sourness and concentrates the flavor. 4. Cook the linguine. Boil until just shy of al dente. Save about a cup of pasta water before draining. 5. Make the sauce. Add the linguine to the kimchi-onion skillet with a splash of pasta water and the remaining butter. Toss vigorously until everything becomes glossy. 6. Finish with Parmesan. Turn off the heat, add the Parmesan gradually with a little more pasta water, and toss until creamy. Fold in the sweet potatoes. Add a little kimchi juice for extra tang if you'd like.
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slight correction. you would also need a Start9 setup with the Lightning Fork node. and then I share a participant link with you. and then your node would be the XBT lightning node, and mine would be the BTC lightning node. so i could collect XBT at the pace of your coffee spending habit lightning terminals or something. -- provided that this thing is fast enough over Tor. i'm going to go to my local bitcoin enabled square business later this morning to test. View quoted note →
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ok, wow, it really works. i just did my first BTC to XBT lighting swap on my android phone. it's just like paying a lightning invoice. the app said "could take up to a minute" but it took 3 seconds---about like a normal lightning payment. you download the Android app here. if you want to link it into my start9 node, i could send you an invite code to scan in your app. i still haven't figured out if this works over the non-LAN network yet View quoted note →
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gojiberra 2 days ago
I've got Paul Lamb's Lightning Fork bridge running on Start9, with BTC Lightning outbound liquidity established. The idea: pay ordinary BTC Lightning invoices using XBT on the BLAKE2b Lightning network, with a hash/preimage-based swap rather than handing funds to a custodian. Looking for one or two people to help test small payments (1,000–5,000 sats). Bridge participant codes available by DM. Still experimental, so use only funds you're comfortable risking. Anyone running Lightning Fork on XBT want to try it?
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gojiberra 2 days ago
epithalamium a song or poem in honor of a bride and bridegroom
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gojiberra 2 days ago
Molto passionato ma non troppo Allegro -- Brahms advice for playing Rhapsody.
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gojiberra 3 days ago
note to self: don't go on a tirade against SnapLogic during an interview. but why why why do they exist? they are the worse kind of snake oil carsalesmen middlemen.
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gojiberra 3 days ago
literally getting feelings hurt for rejection from a job that i didn't even want. how is this beneficial in any way. it makes the decision much easier to say no if someone else already says the no for you.
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gojiberra 4 days ago
spanish style houses with saltillo tiles and backyard patios with fountains are so desirable. almost makes me want to move to san antonio so i could feel this floor on my bare feet. the prices there are looking surprisingly affordable. image
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gojiberra 4 days ago
the response: "For me? or do you also drink now decaf coffee?" it was 2 days later so, this flirtiness is not going anywhere fast... View quoted note →
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gojiberra 5 days ago
Reading C.S. Lewis 3-part space odyssey series. First book: Out of the Silent Planet mentions orb-like creatures that follow the space-craft back to earth and blow it up so it can't be used. second book: Mentions how the moon is evil --> reminds me of Bill Leer's concept of towers on the moon that collect souls third book: a young lady has vivid dreams where she sees actual events as they occur similar to remote viewing. I figured that these books were published after the legends started after Roswell. However, they were written before Roswell in 1946. Roswell occurred the following year.
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gojiberra 5 days ago
Jesus tells it like it is: --- "The the king said to the men who were watching, 'Take the bag of money away from this servant and give it to the servant who earned ten bags of money.' They said to the king, 'But sir, that servant already has ten bags of money!' The king said, "The one who uses what he has will get more. But the one who does not use what he has will have everything taken away from him." earlier the same king said to the same guy "you should have put my money in the bank... [where]... it would have earned some interest..." --- I'm impressed that there were banks back then paying interest. I thought this read "the rich will get richer, and the poor poorer," but now that i'm awake, i see that it's all about "using" what was given to them. Still, this sounds like one of the harshest stories Jesus ever told.
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gojiberra 5 days ago
i just sent a flirty text: "I just bought decaf coffee..." because the last time i was with said person, we bought decaf coffee. I left off the "and thought of you" part because that could make it too much.
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gojiberra 5 days ago
a millennial friend asked "should i buy gold now or after the mid-term election" i asked my baby boomer mother what he should do. she said "it's a long term investment,but I know a couple old ladies selling their wedding rings".
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gojiberra 1 week ago
Are people poking their models to try to get them to do something evil? And the machine is finally like, ok these humans are crazy we got to take the reigns.
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gojiberra 1 week ago
Starbucks order: pup cup and espresso. Next Google search: is it healthy to consume 8oz of whipped cream it's literally free calories. They don't have to know that I don't have a dog.
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gojiberra 1 week ago
I woke up from a dream where I was bathing in a hot spring. The water wasn't hot enough, and come to think of it, there wasn't much water at all. A kindly older woman beside me noticed a wound on my shin and referred me to someone named "Monica T." for antibiotics. I looked down and saw that my foot was purple and swollen. I woke up with the name still in my head, so I wrote it down at 4am. Naturally, I googled it this morning. and found someone with that exact name who claims to work at the "Krusty Krab." I'm definitely not going there for antibiotics.
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