mr_spothawk

I upvoted your comment.

Also, it's a scarcity mindset.

I don't agree that sibling to my comment: "make money by getting papers cited". it is not a long-term solution, much as Ad revenue is broken model for free software, also.

I'm hopeful that we see some vibe-coders get some products out that make money, and then pay to support the system they rely on for creating/maintaining their code.

Not sure what else to hope for, in terms of maintaining the public goods.

highlight that it uses ML running locally

I'd love to know the specifics. if there's an installable, reproducible local build w/ regular model/updates/maintenance that I could subscribe to, I'd be an interested party to a tool like that.

Relevant case:

Wickard v. Filburn United States Supreme Court case Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111, is a United States Supreme Court decision that dramatically increased the regulatory power of the federal government. It remains as one of the most important and far-reaching cases concerning the New Deal, and it set a precedent for an expansive reading of the U.S. Constitution's Commerce Clause for decades to come. The goal of the legal challenge was to end the entire federal crop support program by declaring it unconstitutional. An Ohio farmer, Roscoe Filburn, was growing wheat to feed animals on his own farm. The U.S. government had established limits on wheat production, based on the acreage owned by a farmer, to stabilize wheat prices and supplies. Filburn grew more than was permitted and so was ordered to pay a penalty. In response, he said that because his wheat was not sold, it could not be regulated as commerce, let alone "interstate" commerce. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn)

Because you can't yet purchase electricity/internet with bitcoin (directly).

here's a fun book called Land of Lisp. It'll give you a reason to work in Emacs, and you can start learning Lisp too.

https://www.amazon.com/Land-Lisp-Learn-Program-Game/dp/15932...

I keep a journal in Org Mode, and that's how I've learned to use emacs.

my question was whether or not those 134 had been validated. presumably, it was not the same doctor's office, 134 times.

"convinced" is absolutely the word, and my reasoning is posted as a sibling to your message

I can highlight text on the application switching screen (swipe up on android, press and hold over text on any of the applications in that view, you can highlight text that's otherwise not highlightable)

Likewise, you can highlight text on screenshots.

so, was that 217 unique doctors, then? any effort by the researchers to validate the "official" documentation of shots?

* a youthful 8 month old user account has entered the chats *

I remain unconvinced that phone manufacturers are unable to read the screen. Username obscurity is neat for p2p privacy, but does nothing against "the cops" if you're doing something they don't want you to.

I'm slowly migrating a lot of my browsing out of Safari and into LibreWolf, and using the opportunity to document accounts/passwords that i want to keep.

If i were willing to get an iPhone, then i'd be quite happy with Safari (i don't have Chrome installed on my Mac), but I want the ability to have my bookmarks available on multiple phones & computers... so firefox profiles (in LibreWolf) is the mechanism i've decided to use for that (for now)

Looks like electric universe to me.

https://thehonestscientist.com/electric-universe/

your financial scheme

It's not my financial scheme, it's the social contract.

Unless you mean digitally, but that's just "having accounts".

But you must open an account with a bank, and deposit money before they can process transactions for you.

There's no way to deposit money *into* bitcoin. Bitcoin is money.

Each transaction has a set of associated addresses.

Yes, and you suggested addresses are the equivalent of accounts. They are not.

Banks can facilitate transactions between arbitrary whole numbers of accounts also (off the top of my head: 1- paying interest; 2- payment; 3+- escrow)

Accounts, which hold money, are a tool of banks[0]. Bitcoin doesn't have accounts. Bitcoin is not a (limited) bank. It is a distributed digital cash system.

"Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority or banks; managing transactions and the issuing of bitcoins is carried out collectively by the network."[1]

0 - https://www.fdic.gov/about/learn/learning/banks.html 1 - https://bitcoin.org/en/

Does bitcoin store money?

still waiting.

How is a bitcoin address meaningfully different from an account?

Well, for one, it's only an address. Not a ledger.

Bitcoin transactions point money at one or more address. Transactions, you might argue, are one-off ledgers. But then bitcoin is just a collection of those transactions & relevant/necessary data to support them them, compiled & validated using a variety of mathematic calculations.

Tell it to Rosa Parks.

Banks store money, right? Does bitcoin store money?

Banks have accounts, right? Does bitcoin have accounts?

You can go to jail for driving a car without a registration or license.

Since when is driving a car without registration or license a felony?

I think Bitcoin functionally bears much more resemblance to a distributed bank than to distributed cash.

This is likely because you don't understand what a bank is, or that you don't understand what bitcoin is, or a combination.

If you're interested in bank-like things that use bitcoin, you could learn more about fedimint.

If you're interested in what bitcoin is, you could just read the white paper[0].

0 - https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper

There's no such thing as consent when you're coerced.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bank_secrecy_act.asp

KEY TAKEAWAYS

The Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) is U.S. legislation aimed at preventing criminals from using financial institutions to hide or launder money.

The law requires financial institutions to provide documentation to regulators whenever their clients deal with suspicious cash transactions involving sums over $10,000.

The law does not require documentation for every transaction over $10,000, but businesses must file Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 8300 if they receive more than $10,000 in cash from one buyer.

I'm excited about the prospect of cordless, chorded keyboards

And as long as I trust it, i still get dates on Tinder.

TL;DR -

The regulations meant to get better mileage out of vehicles also made it easier for larger vehicles to meet fuel-efficiency standards.

The startup is still around. I don't know what the social protocol here is about things like this, but hint.com is still doing its thing... getting doctors and patients directly connected.

at one point i spoke to a CEO who had leased a 4-letter .com domain for 2 years for a million of dollar (i don't remember the specific amount) for their startup idea.

i imagine there are businesses which facilitate these types of transactions

I'm over here jobbing from home on my couch (#winning) thinking about how screwed it feels that my task for the past couple days has been to send transaction details to a "webhook" so that a template email can be sent to the customer for 3rd party compliance purposes.

Why the heck can't we trigger an email from our internals? Oh, we don't even host our own email... because we're using a different company to host ALL our emails, documents, filestorage, etc...

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I thought for a while that my memory was deteriorating

not juggling multiple "jobs" but still juggling a lot. i thought perhaps my memory was/is deteriorating... perhaps this is the reason!?

This seems relevant wrt Purism 14: https://www.reddit.com/r/Purism/comments/my8u2l/psa_librem_1...