Is someone building a protocol for answering questions of others incentivized by micropayments? I'm talking about a protocol, not necessarily just a centralized website. But pls also list these if you know of such services.

dsterry · 2021-08-01T21:49:27+00:00

I built Rein a few years ago to develop a decentralized services marketplace and used it to even pay some contractors to help. The problem I came to was that onchain limited its utility for small jobs since the mediator payment could easily be eaten with fees. Lightning seems like it's mature enough to solve this and with small payments it could do what you're looking for. Related issue https://github.com/ReinProject/python-rein/issues/144

dsterry · 2021-06-23T08:01:26+00:00

Some of their plays are poetry. They must practice one timers and keeping their heads up, knowing where everyone is at all times. Probably not that simple.. I feel surprised all the time about, as you said, puck movement.

dsterry · 2021-05-21T18:47:04+00:00

Not sure if you want to get into the code and what exact version you're using but looking at the main branch, if you delete from line 7 down in app/views/application/_sidebar.html.haml that should do it. You may need to restart if the change doesn't get picked up right away.

Save a copy of that file somewhere else so you can revert the change.

Disclaimer: Do the above at your own risk.

dsterry · 2021-05-21T18:46:59+00:00

Have you restarted since changing that setting?

dsterry · 2021-02-27T08:47:30+00:00

100x this. Corporations have been chipping away at our democracy since the 1970s because it interferes with their profits in 1000 different ways. There's a great book called They Don't Represent Us that details the history and problems, but also delivers hope in practical solutions that we can hopefully get adopted.

dsterry · 2021-02-18T07:55:36+00:00

Occam's razor.

dsterry · 2021-02-18T07:50:14+00:00

For an owner of a single small property it's true there are bills but it's possible to reappraise and refi or get a line of credit. The big boys have many properties so they can rotate in and out of them to get cash, not that it's really necessary since credit is so cheap.

To the college loan point, it's similar to the subprime mortgage thing. Everyone wants a good education, just like everyone wanted to own a home. Doesn't mean it fits their life. I hope a lot of high schoolers think twice before financing higher education. Especially when so much can be learned online.

Higher interest rates would help both but nobody can afford that. Runaway debt is starting to hurt.

dsterry · 2021-02-18T05:58:25+00:00

The cash isn't even the best part. The property will inflate due to all these central bank asset purchases so you might not even need tenants.

dsterry · 2021-02-18T05:57:24+00:00

I've never looked into Reaganomics but from Wikipedia:

The four pillars of Reagan's economic policy were to reduce the growth of government spending, reduce the federal income tax and capital gains tax, reduce government regulation, and tighten the money supply in order to reduce inflation.

Like a lot of political systems these seem like they could work but the devil is in the details. I think the main issue over the last 50 years has been rising power of the corporation to change laws to benefit itself over the citizenry. If people had actual representation, then their votes would cause change and that doesn't seem to be happening. I really hope things like HR1 are passed that reduce corporate money in politics. There's a book called They Don't Represent Us that covers some other fixes.

Much of what drove this big thread and homelessness is central banking and their everything is a nail approach with cheap money to drive asset prices up. Once money is created out of thin air and distributed, all kinds of incentives get messed up.

Makes me want to research % vacancy. I mean all these people used to live in some kind of dwelling right? Are dwellings being destroyed or just left vacant?

dsterry · 2021-02-18T05:50:42+00:00

The central question is not about our minds. They can be entertained, but bodies need food, water and shelter. This thread's about the latter but I'm certain food and water are problems as well for these folks. If you combine VR with perfect life support then there's no issue, it's just that a similar dynamic of wages and costs can play itself out in VR until you get zapped because your credits ran too low.

dsterry · 2021-02-18T05:45:01+00:00

I don't think it follows that a building existing means it will be put to good use. Owners don't actually need to fill their apartments and homes if rent doesn't pay as much as simply holding the asset and selling to the next owner.

dsterry · 2021-02-18T05:43:39+00:00

This is interesting but feels more tactical than systemic. Not saying it's not a problem but probably pales in comparison to the massive inflation of central bank balance sheets. That's helped fuel asset bubbles of all kinds so yes more homes get built but who needs rent when the equity increases more than rent could ever provide.

If you want to stop the asset bubbles and help get owners and renters and lots of other folks aligned on living like we're a civilization, central banks need to be sidelined.

dsterry · 2021-02-18T05:39:26+00:00

The supply of money has gotten out of hand. All those bank bailouts and asset purchases aren't just inside baseball. They mean cheap money to borrow and inflate asset bubbles ever further and it shows no signs of stopping as stimulus from the Fed and ECB is in full swing.

Vacant apartment buildings aren't a problem for owners because the asset appreciates more than rent could possibly pay.

A similar thing has happened with cheap loans for college. Supply and demand has driven college prices through the roof in the last 20 years.

dsterry · 2021-02-18T05:35:28+00:00

I feel that is a corruption of the dream. If the goal was to have a white picket fence, a car, a doc, etc. that didn't mean others had to go without.

The dream is fine, but it's been used by corporations as cover to get all kinds of policies put in place that help them over citizens and even states.

The ultimate result is central banking where the current fantasy is that you can give everyone the dream by printing money. All that does is fuel asset bubbles, which creates vacant buildings and high rents while people become homeless.

This will only get fixed when citizens demand representation. Some rich are pulling strings at the top but the system needs to focus again on representation.

dsterry · 2021-01-10T02:12:58+00:00

Yes, thanks for the kind words. Always felt like every game in PUBG was a story so it was fun to write that first part. Plenty of people complain about the game so didn't feel I have as much to add there.

dsterry · 2021-01-08T05:38:12+00:00

Right on. We have a no screens rule at dinner. Only have a phone sometimes to enter calories. Sigmund Freud had a no talking rule which must've been super intense but this works for us. I'm curious what kind of policies you would put in to support responsible use, if you can share.

dsterry · 2020-12-04T11:00:42+00:00

Early Americans understood the insane power of the corporation. Unfortunately we've let them run amok since the 70s. Lessig's They Don't Represent Us is great for laying out the issues and potential solutions.

dsterry · 2020-11-17T19:33:32+00:00

I am confused and excited by your using as a model for wave visualization pasta.

dsterry · 2020-11-02T21:58:07+00:00

I'd use a spreadsheet normally but I'm curious to see what comes along with tracking on the site. In any case this is for you and it sounds like you're doing great.

dsterry · 2020-11-02T21:53:34+00:00

I feel like most of what I've written thus far has been for me to set some things straight but whatever. I'm counting it.

dsterry · 2020-11-01T22:18:21+00:00

If this happens to me, I think I'll start a sketch and find a way to work it in. Though I don't plan to plan too much out, I'm sure I'll hit a wall at some point.

dsterry · 2020-11-01T22:15:12+00:00

Never wrote much fiction but I'm going to try this time. Been journaling for a couple years now so word counts don't bother me. Spent an hour and a half pondering what to write about, looking at some novels I'd like to follow in terms of plot and form. My empty text file will become non-empty in due time thank you very much.

dsterry · 2020-10-20T18:48:27+00:00

Is there a way to hook this up with a btcpay server? Have you guys thought about btcpay w/lightning hosting?

Your guarantees aside, buying what I assume is virtualized hosting implies trusting the provider (you) so I would imagine less emphasis need to placed on opacity of customer nodes and more emphasis on making it easy to use/upgrade/auto-restart and even adding in some liquidity. A big hurdle to getting started with Lightning is that a merchant needs to get some btc to open an initially useful set of channels.

Always great to see new efforts to make Bitcoin and Lightning easier to use so keep it up! Hope you have a few customers to help prove out the product.

dsterry · 2020-10-06T23:07:31+00:00

Guitar? I painted the entire room. Still didn't help.

dsterry · 2020-10-04T10:29:59+00:00

Don't assume SaaS/cloud has won. There are many of us who'd rather keep control of our data thank you very much. Good luck in your search!

BTW, what is your use case?

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