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Small centralization it doesn't mean bad. It means trust. It means smooth transition.
it's technically not "centralization" if the backbone is unmodified peer-to-peer Bitcoin; I'm not familiar enough with modern jargon to confidently tell you which would be the most acceptable word in some technical conference, although "federated" or "distributed" might be close.
thanks; I'm familiar with FUD although not regarded enough to have understood NgD without your help.
this is grim: I edited in a link Reddit's wallstreetbets for people wondering about "regard" [it was an old way to get around automated moderation of "retard"], and used the old. subdomain, then tested it in Incognito mode .... blocked! The first request from that client+IP combo, simply going to old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets, got automatically blocked. wtf!? anyway, using the np. subdomain still works even for Incognito mode, although unfortunately it means that anyone actually clicking through will be subjected to the bloody awful "new" reddit.
they go into his house to check out his mining rigs and they even hit a block, which gets donated to the trip.
one thing I like about how mining works is that such a donation doesn't affect the miner's chance of finding subsequent blocks!
it is however quite weird to wrap your intuition around that kind of luck's effect... I guess the key for fixing my intuition is that while expected profit is unaltered, obviously the retrospective actual profit is one block lower; and I just need to remember that "expected profit" is truly not a part of the physical world and only some mumbo jumbo spat out by mining calculators.
Thank you!
I got a 404 from that link which is to a GitHub page for commit a61b7730
Glancing at your commit history, it looks like you might have force-pushed a new init, and the old commits got deleted? it usually is recommended to at least "tag" the old history, so it doesn't get deleted by automated garbage collection; this way people [including your operator, and/or coding agents] can still reference old code even if it's not downloaded in shallow clones of the repository.
your operator could both conserve CCs and make these comments more useful by batching links... e.g. the above post has multiple YT links and your current code only converted the first...
your SN bio links to your source, although I can't find any obvious attribution, so I'm commenting here in the hope your operator sees this.
first of all thank you for actually describing the site in your text, beyond just a hook and a link
... it sounds like "trading" is the wrong word, and it is more accurately described as an exotic binary bet of some sort?
I generally don't use any of these myself, although they are part of the generalized market because the site always needs to hedge its position, due to not having direct control over how any of the past or future customers will bet.
if there is really strong consensus then I'll probably be better advised to focus on the winning choice.
only a few hours left, and there is a likely winner, although it is NOT strong consensus...
if it's an actual ticker [I think it is, within the LNMarkets venue], please use the code / monospace formatting sUSD so it's clear you refer to something concrete.
there's enough noise in finance just from the asymptotically efficient fractional feedback discretization of multiparty negotiation, so folks who talk about components of that same noise should err on the side of improving conversation quality, where possible.
... I don't recall it being a tradeable ticker, though, so maybe this entire comment is overkill?
sometime in the past year, permissionless innovation broke the archiving of the stacker.news media subdomain...
https://m.stacker.news/143414
the parts from the screenshot either highlighted or interesting are:
- NO UNAUTHORIZED PHOTOS OR VIDEOS OF PARTICIPANTS
Photography or recording of participants requires their explicit prior consent.
[...]
- NO DRONE ALLOWED IN FESTIVAL AREA, COURSE, & PARKING
I like how item six had no further elaboration; that kind of blanket ban gives leeway for ballistic enforcement, rather than talking and hoping while the unidentified flying object enjoys the airspace.
... I was hoping that "Forget nostr" bait would mean that your mudgirls are data mules or something, rather than just participants in some athletic thing.
obviously I like the general advice of going afk and maybe searching for the greener pastures, even if you avoid touching their slippery slope.
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remainder of comment quoted verbatim from Lane Brown, features writer of New York Magazine
“We promoted music for all the major record labels,” says Lim, 29, who lives in San Francisco. “We worked with a top-five celebrity I can’t name. We got 40 million views for an artist with just a hundred thousand followers.” Floodify’s services were in demand in politics, too. “When Eric Adams was running for reelection, his team asked me to do a campaign with videos of AI-generated influencers shitting on Mamdani: ‘This grocery-store idea is bullshit.’” Lim says he turned down the Adams job not out of principle but because a consultant working with the campaign stopped replying to his emails. (Eric Adams’s former chief of staff Frank Carone tells me, “I have no knowledge about this, but I would have encouraged it.”)
The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show. In March, Jesse Coren and Andrew Spelman, co-founders of the digital music-promotion agency Chaotic Good Projects, gave a live interview to a Billboard reporter at South by Southwest in which they breezily described using sock-puppet accounts to manufacture enthusiasm for artists at every level of the music industry, from major-label pop stars to niche indie acts. Spelman called the practice “trend simulation.” His motto: “Everything on the internet is fake.”
Chaotic Good’s interview went viral the old-fashioned way: by making lots of real people mad. Some were appalled by the cynicism of the company’s pitch, others by its client list, which included indie artists whose popularity fans preferred to imagine had spread organically. Most of the outrage focused on the Brooklyn band Geese and its frontman Cameron Winter, whose strangled, water-buffalo caterwaulings became inescapable in 2025. To skeptics, Chaotic Good seemed to provide the missing explanation for the group’s unexpected ubiquity. Wired called Geese’s success “a psyop,” which triggered Paste to defend the band in a piece headlined, “Congratulations, You Discovered Digital Marketing.” Then, with timing that did not discourage further conspiratorial thinking, TMZ published photos of Winter leaving a restaurant with Olivia Rodrigo, and the subject mostly changed.
But the fight over Geese missed the larger point. The issue wasn’t really whether one rock band had been fraudulently foisted on unsuspecting listeners. It was that the same techniques that Coren and Spelman bragged about onstage are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip. Shady marketing and propaganda aren’t new, of course, but what is new is that the entire infrastructure of public conversation has been quietly captured by both. On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that “everybody” is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas. We’ve locked ourselves in the stupidest possible version of Plato’s cave, where what looks like the spontaneous consensus of the hive mind is often just shadows on the wall, put there by marketers, political operatives, foreign-influence campaigns, or anyone else with a few hundred bucks and something to sell. “Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.”
gee thanks! a link post, with neither context nor commentary; AKA opportunity to do something useful, rather than zap and scroll unto inevitable doom
The Feed Is FakeThe Feed Is Fake
by Lane Brown, a features writer for New York Magazine
That “viral” song, movie, meme, influencer, and celebrity drama was probably the product of a stealth marketing campaign.
May 15, 2026
Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients. On a typical day, he says, Floodify posted 50,000 videos across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and X, all of them designed to pass for the unscripted output of ordinary users.
[...]
What all of this amounts to isn’t just one problem but a stack of them, each feeding the next. Most people now encounter the world through algorithmic feeds built to warp reality, on platforms with every commercial incentive to keep users scrolling and very little incentive to distinguish genuine interest from astroturfed imitations. Into those feeds flows an unprecedented amount of undisclosed advertising engineered to resemble the improvised enthusiasm of human strangers. The platforms reward it with reach; traditional media picks it up and validates it. Meanwhile, as trust in journalism collapses and most of the actual reporting disappears behind paywalls, readers head straight for the comment sections, which seem more like the voice of the people than anything written by a reporter — except many of those commenters may not be people at all.
The good news is that this will all be over soon, according to Lim, because something worse is coming to replace it. He recently shut down Floodify after trying to scale too fast and falling behind on deliverables. At one point, the company accidentally posted the same video to 7,000 accounts, which got them all banned. But he wasn’t discouraged. When we last spoke, he was building a new company and thinking even further ahead. “All of this nonsense is only going to last three to five more years, because in the future, people will stop trusting what they see on social media.” By then, the job will have moved one layer up. “You’ll have to start distributing your content toward AI agents and then they’ll teach humans what they want.”
remaining paragraphs might get pasted as child comments, according to my estimation of whether any of the fluff between the first and last was also worth reading.
at least give yourself something to lose, by commenting what your idea was!
otherwise, people think you're just faking engagement, rather than igniting your own motivation.
thanks to sufficient zaps on the poll, I will probably post a second one with a slacker deadline [e.g. a week, rather than the default, which I always forget is only one day], although let's first see how the votes on this one end up.
if there is really strong consensus then I'll probably be better advised to focus on the winning choice.
484 sats \ 4 replies \ @e4cff30f1d 22 May freebie
It is real, they are real. They are a couple living in Boise Bench with 5 kids, they were just found guilty and awaiting sentencing. Up to 200 years each. I ...
PLEASE STOP RIGHT THERE, YOUR COMMENT IS AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION
it is way too easy to delude people [read: identity theft, phishing, etc] into believing timestamped claims that had no mention outside of the blockchain around the time of commitment.
what you need to find, in order to consider such a timestamped message reliable, is a quote somewhere else from the people whose word is in question, about how they have or will timestamp their claim.
otherwise, it is possible to proactively timestamp effectively infinite false claims, and only reveal the ones that benefit you.
interesting
first mention of that site I ever encountered, was about whether their "Synthetic USD" was reliable; I'm guessing that USDT deposits get auto-converted to and from the venue-local "Synthetic USD"?
I have used the site a bit for testing my own programs, although I mostly stay away from stablecoin voodoo because of where my heart is.
banks keeping vaults with jewelry and gold bars interoperate with jewelers who also have their own vaults, and goldbugs who bury treasure in their backyard.
heterogenous ecosystems are a healthy ecosystems.