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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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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 2 days ago
Grok vs ChatGPT: Which A.I. is DEAD WRONG About Tractor Safety
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Paul Allen 3 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 3 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 🤣
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Paul Allen 1 week ago
Countdown to the "While everyone was distracted by ICE shootings and Epstein Files, the government did this" headline...
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Paul Allen 1 week ago
If Claude's calculations are correct, it would take an hour for 10 kW worth of bitcoin miners to melt roughly 38 cubic feet of snow. 🤔 I assume compacted piles of snow in a parking lot would probably take longer.
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Paul Allen 1 week ago
Fire department dispatched to the local Sally's beauty store about a strange sulfur odor. Damn, girl! Didn't your mom ever give your aunt a home perm when you were a kid? That stench will run the devil out of the house 🤣
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Paul Allen 1 week ago
April 1988 Hit Parader metal magazine revisit
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Paul Allen 2 weeks ago
Is that all? 🤣 How to become a whole-coiner: 1) save 1 million sats 2) do that 99 more times