Damn, can't boost or comment on @Fountain with Amber signing - getting some "FormatException: Unexpected character" error. Worked a few days ago :-/
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Low status fiat heretic. Often wrong. 2 + 2 = 4
I just realised why people still buy gold coins - if they're created by the Royal Mint, and you're a UK resident, there's no capital gains tax! Wtf!?
Bullion & Capital Gains Tax (CGT) | The Royal Mint
Discover more on capital gains tax and how it applies to bullion investments.
Fascinating read about the downfall of Lamba School. I remember occasionally seeing tweets from the founder and Paul Graham and thinking it must be really successful, although the Income Share Agreement model seemed sus. Turns out it was. Classic fiat grift.
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Fast Crimes at Lambda School
Two days after his company's downfall, Austen Allred wrote:
I wish people could see how ugly it is to be envious, and how obvious it is to those a...
LoL, maybe next time republicans can nominate someone who's not insane and even have conservative policies
When I was younger I naturally accepted that it was good for people to be equal. This was based on my Christian schooling, and the hyper-sensitivity to inequality in post-apartheid South Africa.
As I got older, studied economics, and started voting, I became frustrated with the dominant guilt-driven redistribution narrative since the associated policies were obviously ineffective. I wanted others to be better off than they were, but realised this couldn't be done just by penalizing the wealthy and productive. I started reading more libertarian materials, and associating more online with self-declared libertarians. However, many struck me as callous - it wasn't enough for them to argue that freedom could lead to more prosperity, they wanted freedom for the sake of getting rewarded for their own claimed superiority. They had the attitude that most poor people were deserving because they were dumb or didn't work hard enough. Note that I say "some" of these libertarians only.
This made me an uncomfortable libertarian. I couldn't deny the logic and ultimate moral clarity, but found many fellow travellers disdainful.
Bitcoin and open source gives me hope though. The ideas of capitalistic freedom interact with the ideas of shared resources and goals, without any conflict. I can advocate that a person who works hard and creates value should keep their profits and save it, but also promote the use of free tools, and advocate for helping dissidents and poorer communities. While these concepts have never been theoretically incompatible, I have found bitcoiners to be the community that embodies all of them.
Even my boyhood self could have been attracted to this, which makes me so bullish on this movement even if we remain at $58K forever.
Reading the forward to the 1947 edition of Brave New World. Aldous Huxley writes:
"To deal with confusion, power has been centralized and government control increased. It is probable that all the world's governments will be more or less completely totalitarian even before the harnessing of atomic energy; that they will be totalitarian during and after the harnessing seems almost certain. Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism. At present there is no sign that such a movement will take place."
"unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means, but as the means to producing a race of free individuals, we have only two alternatives to choose from: either a number of national, militarized totalitarianisms, having as their root the terror of the atomic bomb and as their consequence the destruction of civilization (or, if the warfare is limited, the perpetuation of militarism); or else one supranational totalitarianism, called into existence by the social chaos resulting from rapid technological progress in general and the atomic revolution in particular, and developing, under the need for efficiency and stability, into the welfare-tyranny of Utopia."
Both of these sections of the nearly 80 year old forword are strikingly prescient. They describe the increased authoritarianism we see (overt in places like China, but more insidious in the West - the supranational welfare-tyranny of the EU) that can only be reversed by a movement of decentralisation.
#nostr #bitcoin #FOSSAI
Testing Amber, Orbot, Amethyst
wait, is Harris the pro-fracking, strong borders, tough on crime, and pro-family candidate now? 😅
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My 2 year old thinks this lady's name is Banana 
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Shouting fire! in a crowded theatre:
*It's not actually illegal
*It's better for someone to inform the crowd that there's a fire with the risk of being wrong, rather than not at all
*If theatres were so concerned about this issue they could build more exits, let less people in, install fire alarms
Arguments against free speech are bullshit.
Been slowly removing all Apple services from my life, and finally deleted my iCloud account today 💪
HR and Finance departments appear to be some kind of DDoS attack on the productivity of companies
Fascinating to see how journalists call for more censorship for people they don't like. I used to wonder "but don't they see that more censorship will hurt them when their side is out of power?".
I think the paradox is solved when you consider that their side is global elites who speak and navigate the fashionable language of wokeness, and their arragonce makes them truly believe that they will always come out on top.
"I remain convinced that the policing of protests holds up a mirror to a society."
The Spectator
The truth about two-tier policing in Britain
Does Britain have a two-tier policing system? Accusations that some protesters are treated differently have emerged after this week’s riots
This Imane Khelif saga shows how powerful framing and selective info can be in swaying opinion.
When I came across content from the right I thought it was a typical case of a trans woman competing against biological women. Wrong.
When I read Wikipedia and watched a Daily Show clip (both left wing) I thought that the right was making up lies because apparently Khelif is a biological woman, grew up as one, always competed as one etc. Wrong.
The truth is far more complicated it seems, and actually the 100% truth is not available to anyone commenting online. Khelif failed a gender test at the IBA World Champs last year, but then some are arguing the testing process was flawed and motivated by Russian leadership. So there's clearly smoke, but no conclusive evidence one way or the other.
It's all so tiresome 😩
Why were people so psyched for RFK Jr again?
His policies are pretty terrible and he's not exactly any more normal than Trump.
Was it because he's ripped, anti-vax and says he likes Bitcoin?
Just told my wife we're now poor. She didn't think it was funny.