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3 hours ago•••
Gods take away the discriminating intellect of a person when they wish to bring defeat to him and he sees things in a perverse manner.
— Mahabharata: Vidura Niti
यस्मै देवाः प्रयच्छन्ति पुरुषाय पराभवम्। बुद्धिं तस्यापकर्षन्ति सोऽवाचीनि पश्यति॥
yasmai devāḥ prayacchanti puruṣāya parābhavam। buddhiṃ tasyāpakarṣanti so'vācīni paśyati॥
देवाः devāḥ – The gods; यस्मै पुरुषाय yasmai puruṣāya – to the person to whom; प्रयच्छन्ति prayacchanti – (desire to) give; पराभवम् parābhavam – disgrace; बुद्धिं buddhiṃ – the intellect; तस्य tasya – of that person; अपकर्षन्ति apa-karṣanti – take away; सः saḥ – such person; पश्यति paśyati – sees; अवाचीनि avācīni – (things) topsy-turvy.
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3 hours ago•••
Goals are achieved only by effort and not by wishful thinking. Deer do not enter the mouth of a sleeping lion.
— Hitopadesha
उद्यमेन हि सिद्ध्यन्ति कार्याणि न मनोरथैः। न हि सुप्तस्य सिंहस्य प्रविशन्ति मुखे मृगाः॥
udyamena hi siddhyanti kāryāṇi na manorathaiḥ। na hi suptasya siṃhasya praviśanti mukhe mṛgāḥ॥
कार्याणि kāryāṇi – Actions; उद्यमेन हि udyamena hi – only by effort; सिद्ध्यन्ति siddhyanti – materialise, get achieved; न मनोरथैः na mano-rathaiḥ – not by mere desires. मृगाः mṛgāḥ – Animals; न हि प्रविशन्ति na hi praviśanti – do not enter; मुखे mukhe – into the mouth; सुप्तस्य सिंहस्य suptasya siṃhasya – of a sleeping lion.
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2 hours ago•••
The knowledge of an evil person is for arguing with others; his wealth is for arrogance and his strength is to harass the week. It is quite contrary in a good person, in whom they are used for imparting knowledge to others, for charity (good deeds) and for protecting the weak.
— Sanskrit Shloka (Sanskrit Verse)
विद्या विवादाय धनं मदाय शक्तिः परेषां परिपीडनाय। खलस्य साधोर्विपरीतमेतत् ज्ञानाय दानाय च रक्षणाय॥
vidyā vivādāya dhana ṃ madāya śakti ḥ pare ṣ ā ṃ paripī ḍ anāya । khalasya sādhor-viparītam-etat jñānāya dānāya ca rak ṣ a ṇ āya ॥
खलस्य khalasya – For a bad person; विद्या vidyā – knowledge; विवादाय vivādāya – is for the sake of argument; धनम् dhanam – wealth; मदाय madāya – for arrogance; शक्तिः śakti ḥ – strength; परिपीडनाय pari-pī ḍ anāya – in order to cause pain; परेषाम् pare ṣ ām – for others. साधोः sādho ḥ – For a good person; विपरीतम् एतत् viparītam etat – this is quite contrary; ज्ञानाय jñānāya – (knowledge) is for wisdom; दानाय dānāya – (money) for donating to the needy; च रक्षणाय ca rak ṣ a ṇ āya – and (strength) is for protecting others.
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3 hours ago•••
Gods, when they wish to protect a person, do not do so by holding a stick, like the cattle-herd. Whomever they wish to protect, they do so by endowing him with intellect.
— Mahabharata: Vidura Niti
न देवा दण्डमादाय रक्षन्ति पशुपालवत्। यं हि रक्षितुमिच्छन्ति बुद्ध्या संयोजयन्ति तम्॥
na devā daṇḍam-ādāya rakṣanti paśu-pālavat। yaṃ hi rakṣitum-icchanti buddhyā saṃyojayanti tam॥
देवाः devāḥ – The gods; पशुपालवत् paśu-pāla-vat – like a cattle-herd; दण्डमादाय daṇḍam-ādāya – by holding a stick in hand; न रक्षन्ति na rakṣanti – do not guard and protect. यं हि yaṃ hi – Whomever; रक्षितुम् इच्छन्ति rakṣitum icchanti – wish to protect; तम् tam – that person; बुद्ध्या संयोजयन्ति buddhyā saṃyojayanti – endow (him) with intellect.
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3 hours ago•••
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That's a big chunk of what I did in this article and I fully get your meaning. Since writing it I've pivoted away from that pitch because I know it's temporary. A huge part of what has kept Twitter popular is its propensity for controversy.
Controvery will be a double edged sword for nostr, but if we are ready to enable users to have control over what they see, controversy should be a net benefit. A lot needs to be done before we get there imo. A malicious reply guy, for example, would be a very easy attack.
This is why I don't focus on purple pilling normies. Not everyone will be able to stomach the growth process for nostr. Bitcoiners will.
4 hours ago•••
Looks like Saylor is just going to cause a bull rub on his own since all the other publicly traded companies haven't figured it out yet.
14 hours ago•••
This was a fascinating read. It covers various CIA shenanigans against the Soviet Union, mainly their support for Solidarity in Poland and the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. It was written long before 9/11 when the long term effects showed up.
But for the audience here, the most interesting tidbit is how they spread misleading technical documentation to delay the gas pipelines to Europe (and generally sabotage the economy).
18 hours ago•••
More generally, I agree with James' observation that Bitcoin Core devs are paying much less attention to soft forks than they used to.
I can only speak for myself here. Part of the problem is that the current proposals don't excite me, yet. That's even after spending time at the op_next conference.
SegWit (which happened before I was involved) brought the promise of Lightning. Taproot lets you build cold storage with hidden fallback options.
I'm still waiting for MuSig2 to finally have broad adoption, something that's higher on my review list than new soft forks, and I barely get to it.
In that light, talk of a vault soft fork seems premature. The tool development is too far behind even for forks that already activated.
Similarly congestion control doesn't excite me. I'm general I'm skeptical of claims that the masses are suddenly going to self-custody because of a dramatic event in US politics. Especially given that plenty of other countries are in worse shape and we don't see self custody blossom at a scale where it causes congestion. The US is 5% of the world population.
That's not to say that I'm against these ideas. If I see other people work on and activate them in a competent and careful manner I might be fine with it. It's sad that their main proponents and developers burned out, and that certainly won't speed things up. Maybe grants tailored for potential soft fork devs can help here, as long as the right expectations are set.
But not being opposed does not reach the bar of me actively reviewing it, which is part of what pushes things forward.
If I see a more fleshed out design for a (BitVM powered?) sidechain with unilateral (no 1 of N nonsense) exit that gives me full privacy (Shielded CSV?), that would get me more excited. Especially if it's clear which specific opcodes are best to get there.
Other devs will have other things and other thresholds that get them out of their soft-fork winter sleep. There's a "I know it when I see it" aspect to this too.
All that said, it might be the case that one day every single core dev is excited about a soft fork proposal, or would be if they read enough about it, yet is too distracted by their day to day focus. But I'm not sure if that is really what's happening.
19 hours ago•••
The problem is that time is running out.
Bitcoin has serious trauma with claims like this.
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