After turning down a totally unlit dirt road into darkness, we got greeted by the chef and 5 dogs atthis place. The chef explained in very cheerful Spanish that they had 'langosta, pescado, camarones, ensalada, y piña coladas.' Which we said sounded lovely. They proceeded to sit us at a table under a palm tree (nobody else was around) and then 10-15 minute later served this GIANT platter of all of it. While the pack of the most well behaved stray dogs kept us company (but didn't engage in anything close to begging). If you go to the DR and eat at these fancy Italian, French, and Spanish food places, you're really just robbing yourself of a much more pleasant experience.

I made a few friends down at the beach today. Well, the dog was a friend. The cat didn't murder me, which I consider close enough.

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The No Thanks app is a great way to do this in a manageable manner. Just scan barcodes at the store and if it comes up red, find an alternative. They do provide deeper info on the brands if you want it, but it's very smooth to avoid interrupting shopping. Get it here for Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bashsoftware.boycott View quoted note →

Saw some street dogs with puppies today. It'd probably a good thing they won't let me bring these back on a plane. 3 dogs is a handful enough already.

Definitely learned a valuable lesson tonight about the importance of uninterruptible power supplies, or at least power banks when dealing with raspberry pi's, for Bitcoin nodes today. My HDD is corrupted -- rewriting it all with 0's, throwing a new filesystem on it, and starting over with IBD. Probably didn't help I was using ntfs on a linux system (sync'ed on my windows system before moving the drive to the pi). Not like I was needing to send any tx's from (or to) my stack for the next month, but definitely a less than pleasant experience.

GM. The argument around BIP 110 seeks to be summarized thusly: data in Op_Return is bad because it's contiguous. Data in fake addresses (which 110 doesn't stop) is bad because there's some data between the chunks of data, so they're not touching. Even if it's trivial to automate the extraction and display of this data. The first is nonmonetary data, the second is monetary. Because it's touching... Are we saying 'with a honey in the middle there's some leeway'?