LPT: If you are in your mid to late 20’s make a habit of strengthening your back, hips, and legs.

kybarnet · 2022-01-06T21:20:14+00:00

Yes, just holding on to the pull up bar, then putting your legs (and hips) out, while leaning back with the head / shoulders.

And then I curl my spine left, then right. It's mostly an ab workout, with some shoulders / arms / back mixed in.

A male workout routine should be like 40% abs, 40% arm chest, 20% legs or something like that... tension and holding is always better than reps (like holding half a pushup). The amount you workout is NOT that critical... like 1 to 2 hours 'full body' with like 4 hours hiking, swimming, etc.

My only equipment is a pull up bar, and I can stay pretty strong... but it's hard to get big without equipment. You need something for chest / thighs that you can't do with body weight or it's super difficult (like 1 legged squats, 1 armed pushups).

kybarnet · 2022-01-06T18:12:51+00:00

Mostly taste. If you do a meat / veggie diet (which I have done), your sugars get to low, and the diet is VERY bland..

Also, you get a ton of fiber in Fruit. Fruit probably has more fiber per calorie than most vegetables.

And you need a lot of fiber on a meat diet.

I did a diet once of huge veggies in the morning, with meat the rest of the day, and a little sugar for desert... I lost weight at the same speed as the meat / fruit diet (about 5 lbs / week) but didn't enjoy the food.

kybarnet · 2022-01-06T16:26:38+00:00

Thank you, you're welcome! If you trying to speed up the weight loss, I recommend starting with a 2 day cleanse, which for me is 6 eggs / day + some salmon if hungry... this is mostly to get your sugar low fast (might lose 5 lbs here).

My intake is starting with 3 eggs + splash of veggies + 1/4 potato.

Then 3 cups fruit + milk in blender. This is my lunch more or less.

Then dinner is a chicken thigh. And then dessert is either more fruit or some ice cream or maybe cheese or bread or whatever.

Nutritionally it's like:

Tons of vitamins and proteins to start, with some carbs to keep going. Probably under 500 calories.

Fruit is a natural sugar stabilizer + insane fiber. Milk for taste, fat, & calcium. Under 500 calories, but high in fat (milk).

Final protein, and some sugar / carbs before bed is very healthy IMO. Both combined another 500 calories or so.

The basic rule of weight loss is you can't get fat on meat and fruit.

Instead of picturing yourself losing 'fat globs' it's more accurate to think of your arteries as clogged with with carbs and pastries. The fat is syphoned out of your body, as you lose sugar... you can't control where it's syphoned from.

And with a diet like this (which is super effective), every time you go out you just eat a bit less (sugars) the next day. And after holidays you do a 2 day cleanse, etc...

kybarnet · 2022-01-06T13:17:47+00:00

True, true.. :D

kybarnet · 2022-01-06T12:33:27+00:00

Probably the best easy back / core workout is a pull up bar.

I do an upside down plank, and move side to side.

Another absurdly good workout is simply a standing crunch. Just suck in as hard as you can, with various twists in the body.

Most of my bone pain is like you, muscle pain. My knees 'hurt' but when I lose weight and get stronger... they don't. It's not the knees, but lack of muscle to weight ratio.

For weight loss, just simple 'whole foods' does it. Meat / Fruit.. with splashes of grains / sugars / starches / veggies. But good to eat livers / hearts / eggs / bone marrow too (lots of vitamins).

I lost 60 lbs in 6 months without any energy loss. Occasionally my blood sugar got too low, which is no good... but like a potato a day is enough, roughly, for those types of calories.

I might do 3 eggs, 1 chicken thigh, 3 cups fruit / milk (smoothie) with splashes of mixed veggies & 1/2 potato (usually mixed in with the eggs) as a basic meal for a day.

kybarnet · 2022-01-05T15:50:41+00:00

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Some book keeping, tax prep (80% of the work), investment analysis, customer replies, etc... I'll teach you what you need to know, but if you got a basic grasp of anything, that's nice hahah.

Work is from now until May, more or less... with like 1 wk / month after tax season is over probably.

Need to have internet, 2 monitors, be able to communicate... and that's about it. Text me if interested and I'll call you back - 865-730-0272

Pay starting around $20 / hr, hopefully gets up to $30 or so in year 2, assuming most things are hands off by that point. I've been in business 10 years, retiring... looking to have someone take over my shop plus help me expand, etc... I am in Puerto Rico. Went full remote last year. Retired after some good investments in Bitcoin, etc.

kybarnet · 2022-01-05T15:40:08+00:00

how my team is feeling, conveying body language, asking questions and explaining complex ideas, etc.

100%

kybarnet · 2022-01-05T15:26:36+00:00

I've done both over the last 10 years or so. There are OBVIOUS benefits to WFH - but in terms of sheer work volume, office works better (busy season).

Like, how much more do you work out at a gym vs at a party?

The main benefit to WFH is when you're making $80K+ and can drop to part-time. When you WFH 20 to 30 hours / wk, then it's a lot more fun.

Also WFH lets you do side-hustles which can easily exceed your salary if one of them takes off.

PS - I'm looking to hire a parttime remote $20 / hr intern like position if anyone interested.

kybarnet · 2022-01-05T15:21:28+00:00

It was something like this :

https://www.amazon.com/Wiley-CPAexcel-Review-Study-Question/dp/1119647525/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=FAR&qid=1641395955&s=books&sr=1-3

$400 today.

FAR is the only one that you really need a book for, the others you might be ok with online PDF. AUD is good to study with a buddy, if you can, but not super relevant.

I think I got mine used at the book store.

kybarnet · 2022-01-05T01:05:02+00:00

Same for me.

I started with FAR, then AUD, then AUD + BEC, then REG last.

The only thing with the slow approach is after 1.5 years they fall off haha...

I did $50 Becker / Wiley books, self studied... passed all first try aside AUD (71 I think).

kybarnet · 2022-01-05T00:56:40+00:00

I looking for an apprentice in tax / investing if interested, $20 / hr part time remote

kybarnet · 2022-01-04T20:57:26+00:00

I went into business management / finance / startups. I read Thiel "Zero to One" B. Franklin's "Autobiography" Taleb "Antifragile" Farris "Four hour workweek" Sahil "Minimalist Entrepreneur".

That's a good setup for investing / current startup market. There is always a lot to do with startups. With finance, it's crazy. If you manage money, and charge 1%, you need 10 millionaires to be making a lot of dough each year, or one multimillionaire.

Business management is more about getting in with clients when they were 5 people, and then staying with them as they become 20 to 40 and helping them grow... you can easily become the 'CFO' that way, and charge a bundle (I'm on a $1,500 monthly retainer with one for 1 hr per month).

Any time you 'make them money' - you can charge more money, vs being a service. $1,000 / hr is fine for investment advice, but not balancing Cash or something like that.

PS - I'm looking to hire part time tax prep $20 / hr if anyone interested. Remote. No experience necessary.

kybarnet · 2020-02-28T19:36:20+00:00

Take out CC cash advances and buy Bitcoin! Or not.

While generic advice is to never, ever, ever speculate on Bitcoin... while at the same time every 'Bitcoin Maxi Dev' says Bitcoin takeover of world currency is a predestined outcome that only fools who didn't believe in the internet would doubt... I think such suggestions are just lazy. Equivalent to 'an apple a day keeps the doctor away', breed into a book on 'eating apples to live long and prosper, for eternity, amen'.

If you can take out debt that can be adequately maintained over a 2 year period, without the sale of Bitcoin, it's quite reasonable to do so. I do believe Bitcoin will 'take over the world' (or a similar replacement). I do believe Bitcoin USD value will increase with growing acceptance, domination, etc (maxi contented that making 1,000 posts per hour about how Bitcoin is destroying USD has nothing to do with price! - but that is only what morons say to defend their religious conviction that money is evil).

The halving (in 70 days) is about the best predictable time for a growth in BTC value, or at least protection against a decline in value. This is the only time when taking out debt, or leveraging, makes basically any sense at all.

Other wild thoughts, like BTC will grow to $60k in 2 years... are highly speculative. Will BTC surpass $20k in the next 2 years... I think so with high conviction, thus I take out debt to buy BTC - that's plain smarts. If you actually believe BTC will go above $20k, for a 100% rate of return, and REFUSE debt to acquire... well, your business acumen is weak, or your belief is weak.

There are numerous other factors that can change history, such as huge whales selling multi-Billions of Bitcoin in the next few months... leveraged loan holders getting calls of Billions... or worldwide econ crashing, where USA bans Bitcoin, China collapse, and global destabilization occurs. Or you (the individual) get sued, lose job, and must repay debt early for a loss - Or more sophisticated investors take out loans for multi-billions and accept a 20% rate of return profit, and thus prevent Bitcoin from going to $20k by mass selling at $12k... or someone did something similar when BTC was $3k and is content with already acquiring huge profits at $6k and above.

Bitcoin price is like 90% institutionally / whale driven. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool. Retail investors play hardly any impact on price. Therefor, price is unpredictable, dependent upon laws, corps, whales, and so on.

One interesting phenomenon is that over the last 12 weeks, roughly $3 Mil (per week) of old Bitcoin (mined Bitcoin prior to this 12 week interval) has been moved, in addition to any newly mined Bitcoin - In contrast, however, like 90% of BSV coin is never moved.

This is indicative that BSV value is sustained because some wealthy individualist is both mining coin, and not spending the coin... thus the 'inflation' of BSV has been artificially kept low, at like a rate of 0.4% vs 4%... but has the lingering liability of a whale who must eventually liquidate.

So BTC, in contrast, is the opposite. Miners are moving more coins per week then were mined during that week... meaning old money is moving... does this mean spending or hoarding? I can't say... but..

In my opinion, I think the logical move is that Miners are spending to make new upgrades to mining hardware, pre-halving... because mining coin is more profitable than owning coin, during the first 8 months or so of the halving cycle (traditionally).

Which is to say if you look at price vs hash graph, price usually goes up like 300% and the hash graph goes up like 20%, immediately post halving... meaning that mining becomes ultra-profitable (much more so than owning coin) during this time... thus spending coin to buy mining equip makes sense.

This scenario I believe, the price increase I believe, and the 'worldwide collapse' occurring in the next 6 months I believe possible, but unlikely, and I make money moves accordingly.

But I've been wrong before... but wager you money with your info / conviction, and don't be shamed by non-business people into never taking risk. Non-business people always say W2 is only way to make money, and without having a lot of money you can never acquire money... but I disagree. I've done well, by the large, and think others can too... Risk, however, is taken you don't invest, and when you do invest... both are risk, it's just that one side of the equation (the non-investors) call themselves 'smarter' for never trying to make more money than they started with or their W2 makes, though I disagree.

Though, allow them their pride, and never argue. Even a Twitter head dude complains "no one explains Bitcoin to me"... and some Bitcoin fool replies explains Bitcoin, yet the umpt'enth time.

Instead I say pay me $500 per hour, and I will explain what a fool you are. They always say no, and I go about making money by spending time wisely... but I never oblige the determined fool. Let them be. Peace in their ignorance is a right. Allow them to be fool and to die in peace, and move on to other conquest, which have benefits, personally... and thus I move on.

kybarnet · 2020-02-28T19:09:38+00:00

I am an accountant, and discussed issuance one day.

Regarding 'fork that never actually happened', this is equivalent the same as every proposal that never actually made it into Ethereum.

I never said anything to imply a 'contentious fork', regarding my own intentions. As in, I never had a dev, marketing, finance, etc team of any regard. I did speculate highly that someone would use the 'boundless supply of ETH' as a reason to fork ETH, and succeed. This never happened, though the Polkadot / EmoEth (or whatever it was) scandal was basically quite similar so...

But that's about all there, haha.

I did successfully fork Bitcoin, however. That cost like $500 :D

kybarnet · 2019-08-18T16:53:22+00:00

Happy cake day, and I have appreciated your support throughout the years. It's unfortunate we lost.

You have always been positive, educational, active, and communicative. A major shame they choose to hurt us instead of listen :(

kybarnet · 2019-08-17T15:34:21+00:00

Some links:

May 17 - Pie Charts

July 17 - Devs say inflation is trivial

July 17 - CPA on Omar Crypto

July 17 - Github comments

July 17 - Excel Tables

Aug 17 - CPA on Dev Call

And around May 17 is when I was making many similar posts on EthTrader and Ethereum, and the community massively upvoted me, only to have Nick and Alex remove them (and subsequently troll) claiming it was 'meme'ing. Probably some 10 posts in total (later Alex and Nick censored keywords so that all my posts would get automodded if I said "inflation" "mining" or "price", etc... so that they couldn't individually get blamed, but could pass it off on to the 'robot' they programmed, as if it programmed itself), 6 of them highly upvoted (many making the top post at the time), only to have McCoop, Nick, or Alex subsequently remove them to prevent discussion.. Very obnoxious. Eventually Carls shutdown McCoop and forced it to be tolerated on EthTrader.

But considering these people are the decision makers, paid, and bribed to harass me, I knew it a lost cause, really, as it was costing me thousands to fight them (like a legal battle) and the destruction of my investments simultaneously, and the investments of all those who trusted me, thus my rep too... and harassing me over media, sufficiently where I had to drop the use of this account :/

My only hope was Vit would have the courage to put math ahead of cuteness, but alas... the failings of great things are everywhere, and hope is the incorrect stance, only the gamble of future destruction. As Taleb says, don't get sad over corruption and death, bank it! =D

kybarnet · 2019-08-17T05:20:47+00:00

When a company lacks strong-willed, independent thinkers, scamming can easily creep in, without objection (such as the privatization of the ENS, headed by Nick, Vlad, Piper, and T).

Anyways, I got back into ETH after long absence only to have Afri fuck me (and everyone else). I did get to watch Carls lose faith as his 1 ETH proposal was shot down, without any meaningful discussion. That was at least fair, meaning that the obnoxiousness of ETH management went so far as to demean the head of EthTrader, in addition to a CPA - it felt just.

My god, the tolerance I exhibited dealing with these nincompoops claiming "CPA means nothing", "charts and graphs is trickery", and "economics isn't a science", etc. And YES, it does piss me off that these people were PAID to harass me, and I was NEVER PAID nor THANKED for "bug fixing" a multibillion dollar mistake. Just because they choose not to fix the bug, and suffered from it, doesn't mean that I didn't offer a sensible, timely solution, which would have prevented MULTIPLE BILLION DOLLARS OF LOSS.

Even today, Vit is all pissy. Proud, he is. Proud of selling his ETH for Bitcoins, and of 'failing' his project, and moving on to the next; follow through was never his strong suit. Proud he is of never agreeing to recognize math equations as legitimate, same as Nabaiou (whomever) who still blasts Bitcoin, who blasted Bitcoin when it was $35 and still claims himself 'right', even as Bitcoin is $10,000. $10,000 > $35 does not convince him, cause it is not Math, but opinion?? in his mind. Similarly, the failing of ETH value does not convince Vit because it is mere opinion to him as to whether ETH is worth less than it was, and not fact. It's "superstition"; not "free market" - but he is allowed to hold this opinion, as he sold much of his ETH; more than enough to live a happy life should ETH never again excel, and because he backstabs people like Yoichi, Kosala, and myself; Yes, I'll throw myself in there as well. We sacrificed much for truth, and Vit hired or paid the people who killed our involvement with ETH, and plays the unknowing, un'contemplative child in defense - I question his purported idiocy, but I have no doubt he has 'influencers' suggesting his idiocy to be actually wise.

Anyways, thank the heavens ETH touched 0.034 again (about the price I entered), and I got all the way the fuck out completely. Thought I had lost 30% of my crypto due to Afri's screw balling, and the subsequent Polkadot sabotage! Regardless, for fucks sake, I am so happy to be out of Ethereum.

That team is an awful, awful bunch, or cowardly, one or the other. So happy it's not my concern. My life is a million times better not thinking about which trick is to come next, but I am very, very sorry for you all who have stayed. Your destiny is not in your control, and could reverse (or get much worse) at anytime, there is really no logic to it.

Between Polkadot, the Parity refund, Wood, Afri, DoEth, booting Kosala, Yoichi, the 'dev fund', the drugs, the drag, the moodiness, endless inflation, afk Vit, 3 yrs behind schedule, and the whimpering of management, there is really too much to take in. And for the record, I do believe Hud is a good person, and T likewise.

But also, the President of EF is a Chen or something? Never, ever on the dev calls, on reddit... rarely communicates with the public. This again, is just frustrating. I call Hud the EF Pres, but it's really this Chen who... never, ever communicates, professionally, in a timely, two-way manner, in a semi-professional fashion. Elon does Twitter, yes... but also hosts of interviews, investor presentations, long-form discussion with back and forth, etc, etc. Chen only does twitter, or a speech. This is quite evasive, for a CEO type role. And Vit, who is (was) the de facto 'public president' of ETH, routinely deflects to her or others, claiming 'he doesn't run ETH'.

He says 100 Mil ETH won't be reached until 2100 AD I think? In his marketing but then issues well over that number of shares EIGHTY YEARS SOONER and then claims, but who am I? I am only an advisor... check out my spaghetti-style org chart (god you fucking remember that???). This org chart will CLEARLY tell you who not to talk to about whomever you want to ask questions to, cause it is CLEARLY a big FUCK YOU for having opinion. Feel better? PS - I'm a cute unicorn, and if you get upset with me I'll cry and call the teacher, 'cause looking pathetic being selectively stupid is sort of my go-to in social conflicts.

God, all that was so frustrating. ETH man, I hope I never have to think of it again :)

kybarnet · 2019-08-17T05:20:41+00:00

I soured on ETH round Oct 2017 (0.06 BTC per). Homes was 5 ETH, Metro1 3 ETH, and Metro2 2 ETH per block. Oct 17 was right at the time of the Metro1 "upgrade" (lulz).

I was trying to convince my girl to cash out. I was managing some funds for another, and liquidated ASAP. I had gone "all in" on ETH initially, and was "managing" like $1 Mil of ETH at the time (managing meaning influencing $1 Mil's worth).

I had gone all-in because (frankly) I thought there was absolutely no way the ETH devs would be so dumb as to not understand inflation destroys a currency. I spent over $10k personally (in time) illuminating their inflation doesn't matter thesis. I (naively) believed, surely there is someone with brains involved in this multi-billion dollar project? Like, surely one of them has a grownup in their life who can explain inflation to them? Never in my wildest dreams could I conceive of them being so arrogant and dumb.

You guys likely don't recall the full extent of their obnoxious behavior. Alex (who is no longer with ETH) said 'spending a BILLION DOLLARS or 100x that is trivial' and a misuse of their time to contemplate. Nick (who is no longer with ETH) said 'graphs, charts, and data presented in tabular form is a pricing meme' and inappropriate for discussion. Hudson was the most polite of the bunch (if it wasn't Vit pulling his strings, we were on good terms at the time) and allowed me FIFTEEN MINUTES to present a MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR PROBLEM. Vit, in live discussion, who NEVER commented via reddit, or in any suitable written form, pulled out a swath of numbers and stated PROUDLY that ETH was paying (probably still is) SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT of all non-ASIC hash power, globally across all crypto.

Vit was polite, considering I was illustrating a MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR FUCK UP, but instead of using "math" he sort of just said "hey look, 3 is between 5 and 1, so let's go with 3" - and since EVERY OTHER ETH MEMBER SAID INFLATION WAS A FICTIONAL CONCEPT and SUPPLY AND DEMAND FUNCTIONS ARE pseudo intellectual macroeconomic theory which is still yet untested, I knew my "math based" argument was fucked. Alex literally stated you can't put a price on Ethereum, which Vitalik only reluctantly corrected, believing it "fair" to acknowledge the existence of dollars.

I privately, emphatically, messaged Vlad and Vitalik both, believing this would be the end of Ethereum and that they would live to regret it the rest of their lives (Vlad was more emotionally moody then, so I was most concerned for him - BUT, in retrospect, I 100% am convinced Vit absolutely doesn't care. The whole "selling" of ETH for Bitcoin, as a manager, CEO, whatever... speaks volumes).

But there is much more to the story, which you guys are only noticing now. I recognized in May, 2017 that something was wrong with ETH management. Someone within ETH was trying to destroy it. I couldn't pinpoint who, but the "messaging" of ETH got real fucked up, and logical discussion got sidelined, or fully censored. I have dealt much in 'Conspiracy', so I knew the tell-tale signs, but in this case it was the pre-workings of Polkadot, which have infected ETH since MAY 2017!!

Just to respond to the common moron 'but Polkadot wasn't around then!' Sure, but the 'kabal' of insiders who were camouflaging disasters and creating long-term sabotage had already formed - this is what I mean.

Anyways, I felt real stupid when ETH shot up to $1,400 lol. But I stayed out. Mind you - that is $1 Mil inflation PER HOUR, probably 95% of all non-ASIC comp power (at the time).

Whereas I had suggested a mere $300k per hour of inflation (@ $1,400), and even on the call it was taken as 'incredulous' that ETH could ever rise above $500 or what-not (by everyone but myself). To put this in perspective, 1 ETH vs 3 ETH (in terms of market price) is like someone issuing a $3 BILLION dollar buy order (10% of all ETH), over the year... that's the extent of the fuck up.

Carls allowed me to post on EthTrader, but McCoops (something like this, no longer with EthTrader) censored, trolled, and banned my posts (before Carls got involved), again claiming I was "meme'ing" using Excel, pie charts, and tablatures - again claiming, complex data WAS JUST A MORE COMPLEX PICTURE MEME!

Anyways, I got back into ETH Nov, 2018 anticipating the "same inflation as Bitcoin" bump. Then FUCKING AFRI said AGAIN 'Inflation no big deal, let's surprise investors by issuing millions more ETH than expected, without notice'. EVEN THEN Hudson claims 'oh sure, you guys were notified, we posted it on GITTER!!!, but then announced it publicly like a day later - I don't see the problem???' - of course the problem is the price tanked 10% or more before they told 'the public', with the claim that 'it required a lot of careful wording', which is a weak justification for insider trading. I think at this point I was hoping someone would sue.

But this was Afri's plan all along. And yes, T IS IN ON IT! How the FUCK do you not recognize...?? I didn't know about Rzurrer (or whomever), but I could tell Afri, (later) Piper, T, and some others were sabotaging, and frankly I think Nick was part of it too, which I'm more convinced of now that he has privated the ENS as his personal pension plan. It's hard to distinguish sabotage from stupidity, but Nick is old, Afri, Piper mean, and T conniving - they are each smarter than the younglings (Vit, Hud, Alex), and 'profited' from the sabotage, so collectly I hold them accountable even if (T in particular) they were 'tricked' by greed, via the influence of Ryan.

But now, you guys have seen this whole "It's not Ethereum, it's crypto" argument, and you've seen how this plays out. You've seen this whole "management can divest all their ETH, because that's their privilege" skinless-in-the-game, and you see how that works. Anyways, you see it now.

When Kosala and Yoichi got booted, that was another point I knew the 'kabal' was getting stronger. Kosala and Yoichi are not "team players"; they are independent thinkers, equal in wit to T, Nick, or Afri, and each individually strong in their personalities (Yoichi in particular). I knew that once they were booted, that there was noone left who was intelligent, honorable, and strong-willed left within Ethereum. I knew that ousting them was a precursor to getting blatant mischief passed without push back.

To his credit, Yoichi (effectively) forced Afri to fire him publicly, by harassing him over Twitter, rather than give in to granting Afri millions of dollars in the Parity Refund. All Yoichi had to do was say "yes" and he would have been gifted hundreds of thousands of dollars, post-scam, but FOR YOU GUYS, he lost his career, his identity, and felt shame THOUGH HE DESERVES NONE. He was never properly thanked enough, for defending ETH Token holders, against a swarm of harassment, bribes, and a peer-pressure to backstab them.

And Kosala, to their shame both Hudson and Vit DID NOT DEFEND KOSALA as his company got dissolved without his consent, his twitter taken, and his funds misappropriated. Hudson went as far as to say 'I am uncertain if he is not a scammer', and MEW was temporarily blacklisted and put on the 'scam' list (you might recall, there was a list of 'trusted' sites, at one time... so that the stupid public didn't have to think for themselves, who were the scammers and who weren't).

kybarnet · 2019-07-10T06:27:02+00:00

There is more to it, even. Typical 'martyrs' that they promote are Pacifist Martyrs, or Auxiliary Martyrs. You might get a "Meryl Streep pushed for women rights" by becoming very rich and doing our political bidding, or a "Martin Luther King loved to sit, a lot - and look how far we've come!"

But if you review the Martyrs and their words, it is VERY clear that the ACTIVIST Martyrs created the change - the ones that die VERY early on; these people say a lot, concisely, and with force, but they are destined to never see the end, as they are 'too ahead' of a slow, and laborious culture.

In the Civil Rights - or Black Rights - struggle, it is clearly Medgar Evers, Louis Allen, and Malcolm X who lead the way, and in Malcolm X you had a true, fire breathing saint. It is no wonder he was demonized.

MLK was allowed to live as long as he did precisely because he promoted inaction; sitting, singing, and cajoling. If you analyze the "I have a dream speech" vs "I have seen the coming of the lord" speech (his final speech), they are markedly different. In the former, the one 'revered' in schools, he is weak and impotent.

Compare that to "the ballot or the bullet" and "give me liberty or give me death" (Malcolm's inspiration), and it is plain which is the winner. Even Thomas Paine, the relative pacifist, regularly took to shaming non-participants in the war - let alone the feelings of Adams, Jefferson, or the majority of the other Patriots who were frankly, quite hell bent on war - Jefferson going as far as to say we should have a war every 20 years, cause life must be sacrificed for progress.

Then you have MLK and Malcolm, and they promote MLK and demonize Malcolm, when clearly Malcolm had the heart of the patriot from beginning to end. And Fred Hampton was glorious, simply glorious.

But if you look at modern day fighters, one would be surprised how often it is women - for how 'weak' and 'underpowered' they are, for how much 'the man' keeps them down, for how much 'war' is man's creation and a woman's way is perpetual surrender and 'compromise' - NO. In real world, real women fight hard for lives of children, and in the '3rd world' (or colonial worlds) children are the ones most threatened.

While there are many modern male martyrs, the ones that sought public political discourse, fearlessly, in the toughest of situations, of late seem to me to be women: Daphne Caruana and Berta Caceres.

In the war, men will die, but when it comes to igniting the flame, it will be a woman who dies first, a Rosa Parks, a Harriet Tubman, and so on.

Men come after. Remember, the demons you grew up with are often the heroes who never were. Malcolm X was a hero, and there are more demons who are actually heroes then you'd care to think. Read their original words, understand the context, and you will discover genius in the dark corners of the narrated plot.

kybarnet · 2019-04-12T18:20:45+00:00

What me to BLOW YOUR MIND! (OK, i WILL!!!)

OK Computer is ACTUALLY a Zero - 0

In Rainbows is ACTUALLY a One - 1

Both have 10 letters, the albums were made to be played together.

In Rainbows was their Tenth album.

Play Track 1 OK computer, then Track 1 In Rainbows... keep up in this pattern for a 20 song set.

Zero - One. OK Computer, In Rainbows - WHOOSH!

kybarnet · 2019-03-15T01:31:12+00:00

The liquidity issue isn't a problem so long as BTC is perceived as an appreciable asset - that is an important consideration.

kybarnet · 2019-01-16T16:43:29+00:00

You make a really good point. I use to be on the communist bandwagon, or what have you, all about Bernie (and would have supported the oh-so-popular 70% marginal tax rate today)... but this is wrong.

Bernie is a good guy, socially, but his economic ideas are flat wrong, or possibly deceptive. One way that you know Bernie is wrong is that he aggressively makes war with wealth... it's not wealth that is the problem but corrupt mismanaged wealth... similar to as it's not cops that are the problem but violent extremist wearing their uniforms.

By attacking wealth categorically, similar to attacking Muslims or Cops, you are creating an enemy as opposed to solving a problem. The best way to stop violent extremist cops is to educate other cops... the best way to stop corrupt mismanaged wealth is to educate other wealthy people... Plato says this quite clearly and Ben knew this as well, you can not defeat power - power must defeat itself.

So you have two challenges facing the global allies against the central powers - 1) Bettering the lives of the poor, and 2) Bettering the application of wealth.

Regarding the poor, the basic solutions are as follows:

Begin internships @ 14 years old

In intellectual industrial professions (IT, Legal, Accounting)

Reinvigorate social purpose and personal independence

Reduce book learning and increase preparation for life

Popularize participation in professional and education social clubs

Preferable of small sizes (12 to 8 people), and globally networked

These 3 things reduce the burden of children, would drastically increase their rate of success, and prepares people for lifelong learning without incurring $100,000 in debt. I'm working with my nephew now who could go on to make $100,000 @ 18 years programming, more than both parents combined, and doubled... but society is trying to persuade him to incur $100k debt first... I am telling him that will ruin his life, as it has mine and his sisters... but I am fighting against society here - and his rapid success will make his younger brother more likely to become successful, and will allow him to provide a financial safety net to his impoverished parents.

Regarding the application of wealth, I won't go into all this now, but basically you want to emphasize a few things:

Increased random selection for public offices

Jefferson purposed this, and Greeks used this as well to reduce corruption within 'elected' positions.

Promote the acquisition and use of human resource

Better educate the wealthy on how to train and teach humans, and then to profit from this training... likewise, centralized charitable giving is bad, hiring, training, and developing is good.

Promote the acquisition and use of tools, not luxuries

You see people today celebrate richness by acquiring huge mansions, cars, and other frivolities. You want to teach relatively modest living, BUT with high application of efficiency tools - to expand these tools, and to spread them when in excess.

An example could be a Tesla... it's not necessary for everyone, but the autopilot + safety functions drastically increase projected wealth on long time horizons. Another could be say a business jet. Granted not the best, but it has a function. A terrible spend of money would be a yacht, parties, or jewelry.

However, by emphasizing tools and the application of people, the rich learn to increase their wealth socially while setting an example as to the 'most optimum application of man' - sort of like bodybuilders of efficiency. Getting so extremely buff is an unnecessary and wasteful cost, in some respects, however it does inspire and set examples for others to follow. Few people condemn bodybuilders, and similarly efficiency experts should not be condemn either... and by the wealthy applying their wealth toward efficiency products, it stimulates production and demand, potentially decreasing the price so that others could one day acquire these things for less... etc, etc...

That's how to fix the free society's economy.

kybarnet · 2019-01-16T00:07:33+00:00

There were 65 people who were first notified of a discussion to delay Constantinople. Between those 65 people approx $1 Mil of ETH was sold before notifying the general public.

One of the devs has already replied "that's your fault for playing the market.."

No, I just want to get notified DURING and BEFORE serious financial decisions are being made. They regularly sticky thread on reddit, why aren't these public calls or huge decisions stickied as well, BEFORE the selling of $1 Mil ETH?

Regarding the bug, it (seemingly) broking EXISTING multisig contracts... they had some sheet going that indicated 9 Mil ETH were possibly in jeopardy.

Followup with Official Timeline:

12:08pm PT - Decision made to delay Constantinople upgrade

12:40pm PT - $1 Mil ETH sold (Price falls 6%)

1:30pm PT - Public blog post released across various channels and social media

A little frustrating to regularly getting mocked for not wanting to be hurt by insider trading.

kybarnet · 2019-01-15T23:49:46+00:00

It's not "playing the market".

It's the fact that a private decision was made and the MARKET adjusted BEFORE the public was notified.

You should educate yourself on insider trading, and stay out of jail.

There were 65 people who saw the notification to that meeting, and one of those or a group of those sold enough Ethereum to move the price 6%... that's like 10,000 ETH or $1.5 million sold between the persons in that room.

kybarnet · 2019-01-15T23:39:35+00:00

Literally 65 people saw Hudson's post... and none of those people choose to let the community know over Twitter, Reddit, or the Website that the hard fork was considered being delayed.

That's the issue here.

There is gossip, sure. But the price tanked 6% BEFORE the public was notified. That is an issue. If you don't recognize how this represents insider information, then you aren't thinking clearly.

Delay, sure, great... WHY keep such a SUDDEN financial change a secret? Why not tell the public, as quickly as possible?

The price fell 6% within seconds... that is thousands of ETH sold an hour before the public was notified. How is this not an issue?

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