Jameson Lopp
lopp@lopp.net
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Insights on security, privacy, technology, & money · Casa Co-founder & Chief Security Officer · https://bitcoin.page
249 years ago America declared its independence from Great Britain, motivated by tax disputes. Today I wish to bring to your attention how inflation's interaction with our tax policies results in even greater theft from citizens.
Cypherpunk Cogitations
Inflation is Multiple Taxation
How the interaction of inflation with the tax code results in even greater theft from taxpayers.
Ozempic, but for legislative bills.
It's difficult to imagine a more limp-dicked response to someone than telling them to shut up. Especially online, where you have no power to make someone shut up.
If you want someone to shut up, the best tactic is to intellectually eviscerate their arguments.
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I get so many of these. 
The early bird gets the worm.
The early worm gets eaten.
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That feeling when you skip a weight machine because someone's using it and then you complete all your other exercises only to return to the skipped machine and find the same guy there 20 minutes later. 😑
Playing handyman around the house is certainly not a good use of my time when I could easily afford to buy an expert's time, but it scratches my sovereignty itch.
Reading Bobiverse Book 4 and seeing a lot of parallels between what he describes as "replicative drift" amongst the Bobs and the fracturing of the Bitcoin community into more religious sects...
An annoying aspect of sleep trackers is if you read in bed before sleeping they penalize you for having "high sleep latency" because they assume you were trying to sleep while you were reading. Then you have to manually adjust your sleep times.
When I look at my calendar and see a day full of meetings, I can feel my life slipping away.
Meetings are where productivity goes to die.
I recorded a high level privacy guide with Proton!
28 Years Later is the most boring episode of the trilogy. SAD!