Freedom comes with responsibility. Responsibility requires understanding truth. And truth leads to Truth.

Debugging Prinal

The loneliest booth

One of the most annoying things about messaging apps is when spammers add you to spam groups.

Ted Cruz is embarrassing

Gonna raw dog my keynote tomorrow. Wish me luck.

Shill me some fun things to do in Prague

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Modern war is a giant rent-seeking operation.

I love traveling. Borders suck, tho.

GM, shill me some places to go in Lisbon. (Zaps for the best suggestions)

The Bitcoin Dev mailing list has lots of middle school in-group, out-group dynamics right now.

GM, once you've lost the moral high ground, defeat is inevitable.

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In retrospect, it was obvious the letter they signed was justification to merge a clearly controversial PR. It's not obvious what the second and third order effects will be, but I guarantee this will not play out the way that the signers of the letter think it will. Happy to eat my words and say that I was wrong if a year from now if there isn't a significant growth (>100%) in large OP_RETURN outputs (>160 bytes). I challenge any signer of the letter to provide a similar metric to measure whether what they're doing works and under what conditions they'd be willing to admit they were wrong.

GM, at what age do you think it's reasonable for someone to start drinking coffee?

Just when you think an issue is done, the flames re-ignite and we're back to the same arguments again.

GM, that's not hunger you're feeling.

I majored in math and took a bunch of graduate level courses back in undergrad. And I wasn't taught anything about parametrization. Kinda pissed off I didn't get to learn this until now.

The United States with all the energy post 9/11 couldn't subdue Afghanistan or Iraq after 20 years. You really think a war with the country that sits between them, who has better organization and resources would be *easy*? And even if you did manage to topple that government, what then? You really want less stability, more poverty and more death in that region? Because that's exactly what you'll get.