2024-09-26 11:46:48
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by npub1clk…pup9
It will never be a Mac, but it's a brilliant feat of engineering and product design. Get ready for less perfection, for lack of a better word, and less battery life.
But with that, I feel much better about supporting them than continuing to support Apple. And with Linux, there's always an escape hatch to a variety of other hardware.
2024-09-03 21:57:51
by npub1clk…pup9
I just ran a 3-hour workshop on business model design for a startup accelerator here in Nashville. I volunteer once or twice a year, and have for over a decade. These are earnest, devoted entrepreneurs. But it’s impossible not to see how, increasingly, their presumed paths to success hinge on government funding or related programs.
It’s yet another way in which the State intermediates itself into markets, interfering with their function and distorting their signals.
A Bitcoin standard fixes this.
2024-09-02 22:03:26
by npub1clk…pup9
This guy gets it.
> The only way to defend free speech is to nuke the idea of benevolent censorship from orbit. Nobody has a monopoly on the truth, nobody can discern "misinformation" from truth consistently or without bias, and nobody can define "hate speech" in universally acceptable terms that don't recall blasphemy laws of centuries past. The alternative, betting on more speech to counter bad speech, isn't a guaranteed win every time, but it's by far the best option we've found so far.”
https://world.hey.com/dhh/free-speech-isn-t-guaranteed-to-be-forever-e7654685
2024-08-27 17:38:17
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by npub1clk…pup9
I’m over my skis here, but I’d imagine it’s a replaceable event, where we can publish to effectively broadcast capabilities, offers, accomplishments, endorsements, etc. DVMs could source, match make, and the like.
2024-08-27 17:32:36
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by npub1clk…pup9
I’d love to see a lightweight schema that includes:
- skills
- projects (what are you working on?)
- organizations (who are you affiliated with, current, past, contract, etc.)
- collaboration (are you hiring? looking to be hired?)
Something like the json resume schema might be a good starting point, though it’s much heavier.
https://github.com/jsonresume/resume-schema
2024-08-25 18:00:09
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by npub1clk…pup9
I finally dug from my memory the sci-fi novels that this reminds me of.
Artemis Bridge is the protagonist of Gary Ballard’s Bridge Chronicles series. He’ss a freelance consultant and information broker operating in a near-future, cyberpunk world dominated by corporations and digital networks. Bridge thrives on his ability to connect the right people and resources, solving problems for his clients in exchange for digital credits. He operates in a morally gray area, leveraging his extensive network of contacts and his deep understanding of the digital underworld to broker deals, arrange meetings, and manipulate outcomes.
https://bridgechronicles.com/
2024-08-18 17:54:38
by npub1clk…pup9
Months later, deleting twitter feels like ending a relationship with someone who’d once been an uplifting influence, but became a self-destructive, emotional vampire. You knew it wasn’t healthy, but you kept making excuses.
Until, finally, you’d had enough. You cut them out, and you don’t look back.
2024-08-14 17:02:06
by npub1clk…pup9
“Bad Gurl Yellen doesn’t give two fucks about inflation. Her goal is to create nominal economic growth so that tax receipts rise and the US debt-to-GDP ratio falls. Given that no political party or their supporters are committed to cutting spending, deficits will continue for the foreseeable future. Furthermore, due to the magnitude of the federal deficit, the largest in peacetime history, she must use all the tools at her disposal to fund the government. Specifically, that means coaxing as much money as she can off of the Fed’s balance sheet and into the real economy.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/cryptohayes/p/water-water-every-where https://i.nostr.build/JbGfUnkbPyrlgAdu.jpg
2024-08-11 16:14:15
by npub1clk…pup9
1. I know full well that use of Apple gear and services has become an abusive relationship. It’s been that way for a while now.
2. I know from prior experience and recently dabbling that, while Linux is more than workable on desktop, there will be significant time required to migrate to different apps and, most notably, to change muscle memory.
3. I’m a “business user,” not a developer. I’m a nerd (neovim is my copilot) and enjoy tinkering, but ultimately I need shit to just work. I don’t have the time or patience to constantly find workarounds and fix broken things.
4. It’s most difficult to imagine letting go of iPhone, but I’m open to it. See # 3 regarding “need shit to just work.”
That said, I’m looking for input from other *non-developers* who’ve made or attempted to make the switch. What would you do differently? Would you do it at all? Did you relapse to Apple? Hit me.
#asknostr
2024-08-10 11:06:37
by npub1clk…pup9
“The result is what Matthew Crawford has noted is essentially government by psyop, or soft managerialism. The ruling elite, Labour and Tory wings alike, would rather try to manage the British public’s whole perception of reality than ever use force to stop illegal immigration, actual police crime, or attempt — in the longer-term — to salvage the cratering popular legitimacy of their regime. Such is the way of the fox.”
And such is the way of contemporary western governments.
https://unherd.com/2024/08/the-machiavellian-cause-of-britains-disorder/
2024-08-09 18:46:19
by npub1clk…pup9
The brutal, but best advice I have to offer builders/engineers/developers In Bitcoin, as with any emerging technology, is this: "Nobody cares." If you operate from this default assumption, you get out of the weeds and learn to focus on what truly matters to your customers and users, and that's getting a job done.
2024-08-06 13:27:13
by npub1clk…pup9
The waves of what I'll call Software Socialism (see Champaign Socialism) are increasing in frequency on nostr. They look something like this:
“Why would VCs have designs to generate outsized returns from their investments in [X, Y, and Z] startups?”
“How dare [insert for-profit company] choose to charge for [insert feature]!”
“Why isn't this commercial product open sourced to the degree that meets my personal satisfaction?”
“They took outside capital and decided to change direction after considerable struggle, reflection, and effort? F*ck those guys!”
To which I'll offer:
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
―Theodore Roosevelt