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Paul Allen
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"A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight."
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Paul Allen 10 hours ago
The problem isn't that nobody is coming to save us. The problem is getting the scammers to leave us alone and stop trying to 'save us'.
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Paul Allen 20 hours ago
I've read this before but never like this. Value-per-coin would be dependent on: a) user growth, or b) "the amount of fiat sloshing around in the system" God bless everyone trying to make Bitcoin easier to use 🫡 View quoted note →
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Paul Allen 23 hours ago
If you think Bitcoin is volatile, it's 6F this morning and tomorrow's forecasted high is 59F. Virginia's weather is as retarded as its politics.
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Paul Allen 2 days ago
This will ruffle some feathers but I believe it's a disservice to keep pretending that the reason for nostr's dwindling usage is due to the absence of dopamine-feeding algos when - at least in my experience - it's the least reliable and consistent social media that most people will ever try. When I try to zap someone through primal web, my default zap amount gets arbitrarily changed to 42 with no explanation. So in the back of my mind I'm thinking, if it can change it to 42 without my knowledge, what's to stop it from changing to something like 42K and empty my entire wallet in my first zap of the day? Zap, Like and Repost icons that just sit there spinning all day after you click them. Home feeds whose chronological order is randomly dependent on relay connections, caching servers or who knows what? To my mind, the only people who will endure this for much more than a year are those with an ideological desire to see nostr succeed, and that has to be a much smaller number than want to see bitcoin succeed.
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Paul Allen 3 days ago
Grok vs ChatGPT: Which A.I. is DEAD WRONG About Tractor Safety
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Paul Allen 5 days ago
Does 'Gell-Mann Amnesia' apply only to journalism, or does it also apply to any institution or system which requires a mass perception of authority to remain functional (medical experts, government agencies, etc)? At the risk of giving the impression of defending bad people who did bad things, it seems important we remember not only the content but also the sources of the Epstein Files, as well as their historical challenges in always being honest and transparent. At a time when these institutions seem to be making every effort to abolish personal privacy, we must continue to ask whether some of the horrors revealed in these files might have been prevented if these same institutions didn't enjoy so much secrecy. It's not enough to vigorously defend personal privacy. At some point you actually have to play offense to put points on the scoreboard. If no privacy for the people, then no secrecy for the state.
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Paul Allen 5 days ago
Ever convert a pre-coiner by giving them a gift card purchased using sats through something like bitrefill?
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Paul Allen 1 week ago
Somebody tell Brennan and Gates to bring a shovel and digging bar and come clear their stratospheric aerosol injections off my sidewalk 🤣