Peter Todd @Peter Todd - 9m
Stop making apps for iOS. You're just feeding a centralized ecosystem without side loading. nostr:nevent1qqs0cfma2rxjgjz0r3wscmkw0muff6yc07y55q6c6rxfcqhx98l5p7cpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3qxtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsxpqqqqqqzgmap7e
Peter Todd @Peter Todd - 2d
Neat, F2Pool is mining annex-containing transactions now, propagated via Libre Relay: https://mempool.space/tx/9a2018ada098d39ce37683c304d38ac91ee0c025bf91254c1680170948b12eac
Peter Todd @Peter Todd - 3d
Makes a lot of sense to do that while they're simultaneously cutting ties to Russia: nostr:nevent1qqs90vha8qeutn5s67gf87g6yyaalcl58g79u5hp07splvevnl430dcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsyg9er9ayem7j5ywgnpqxaukcj0ce06nuzx40ke40qul5cfnchz9reqpsgqqqqqqspds3rv They're going to need a strong currency and lots of savings.
Did Israel actually take credit for it?
That's fair.
Trump saved Khamenei's life, and the Iranian regime, by preventing Israel from simply assassinating him when they could, and coercing Israel into an idiotic ceasefire. Now Khamenei has issued a fatwa against Trump, calling for his death. Trump is a weak-willed loser, who might very well pay for cowardice with his life. nostr:nevent1qqsqnhragmvfq9ncdecv7lzwtsz63a56f93ntrxl0a00lj7jdzduhpqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygxv4fvwxlyeepdute65q298rz75vjz7t57txdzkj8k2hq782h2gespsgqqqqqqs8fa298
An ad I spotted in NYC last week: https://image.nostr.build/85c8a4ca4bddf58a25d5c7f3133c4c9af3253d6681c8f4c3cd181237ef441106.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d8477898713446d47808fccf4e5d5fd2a4610131ec829f786d73dd699ca25ca1.jpg nostr:nevent1qqsvh3tx99zudfwc8q89cf00a0zt9chumcymacggls9u697zs57mjzcpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qgszmxrnkfdl9hdxzstgf4zdt6mk4avlzemc3fvwxcatzeclalhg0usrqsqqqqqp2hd5mq
That is not as easy as you think it is. IP address space is relatively cheap per IP address. But it is much more expensive per IP address prefix, which is how the filtering actually works. Hence why these companies use VPNs to rent diverse IP address space.
Peter Todd @Peter Todd - 4d
That's not because of surveillance. Reuters and many other sites are trying to stop their content from being scraped by AI companies. Typically they put limits on total content downloaded per IP address. AI companies end up hitting those limits quickly. So they rent VPNs to try to get access to more.
Peter Todd @Peter Todd - 5d
With respect to peoples' freedoms, it'd be a better way to solve the problem than with censorship of phone calls.
Peter Todd @Peter Todd - 6d
Considering the intensity of the attacks thats pretty cheap. The US and Israel should be able to recover those costs from Iran pretty easily, e.g. from the ~$100 billion of seized Iranian assets.
https://video.nostr.build/1b5b86e94054eb8dd2e5a7ad53f92f1825b324cabbd453e5450609761d01ca81.mp4 😂😂😂
“History is one long laundry list of how you can’t kill ideas with brute force. What you can do is introduce better ideas.” I've been thinking about this statement by HRF's nostr:nprofile1qqs9336p4f3sctdrtft2wlqaq5upjz9azpgylhfd3dplwf005mfrr9spzamhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj7spz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wcq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kueg6g89xw for a few weeks. Notably, HRF as an organization is strictly "non-violent" – they're only willing to support diplomatic and educational efforts to stop tyranny. If you're using force, they want nothing to do with you. This week Russian finally took full control of the Shevchenko Lithium Ore Field in Ukraine. Yet another in a long list of minerals resources they've stolen. That one ore deposit is estimated to have $141 billion dollars worth of lithium in it: https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/ukraine-s-lithium-wealth-diminishes-as-key-deposits-fall-to The total value of land and resources Russia has stolen is in the trillions of dollars. Now ask yourself, is invading Ukraine a good idea for Russian? Can you convince Russians a better idea would be not invading Ukraine? You're not going to do it by appealing to their rational self interest: stealing trillions of dollars is incredibly profitable. You're not going to do it by appealing to their humanity: they're a nation of monsters who have no qualms murdering Ukrainians in their sleep. What you can do is change the incentives. At the moment, Russia has stolen something like $10 trillion worth of Ukrainian resources, at a cost of about 1 million casualties. That's $10 million of loot per casualty. That's a good deal, and it's precisely why they can pay soldiers enough to convince them to volunteer. If Russian gets a ceasefire now, they've profited enormously from their invasion. Taking that property back and killing a lot more Russians will make that a much worse deal. That's exactly what needs to happen. As for HRF, they're no different than the "defund the police" activists who tried to get incentives replaced with "dialogue". Just like those activists, HRF is a fraudulent organization whose non-profit status should be revoked. Furthermore, their connections to Russian imperialists and controlled opposition – who are literally on their board of directors – should be investigated thoroughly by the court system. In the meanwhile, if you want to actually help stop tyranny, donate money to one of the many Ukrainian military organizations who are defeating Russia by killing Russians more effectively. Most of them even accept Bitcoin, e.g. https://wildhornets.com/en/ and https://savelife.in.ua/en/ nostr:nevent1qqszzc5kd5wuy7fd8dxawjlh0xv6vaq9yc5d9j336xp0eukeg2l82xspr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qgs9336p4f3sctdrtft2wlqaq5upjz9azpgylhfd3dplwf005mfrr9srqsqqqqqp4rc38y
Iran does not have hypersonic missiles. "Hypersonic" isn't just about the speed of the missile. It's about the maneuverability of the missile at hypersonic speeds. Iran doesn't have any missiles with significant maneuverability at hypersonic speeds, which means Israel can intercept them in most situations. Also, Iran just doesn't have that many missiles, and Israel was able to quickly take out the launchers. At worst Israel can just absorb the damage.
Iran's nuclear program has been repeatedly attacked and sabotaged. They have in fact been close to get nuclear weapons multiple times. Fortunately, previous efforts to stop them did in fact delay the program significantly, over and over again.
From a friend who briefly left Ukraine to attend a wedding: “Since being back in Kyiv after a week of beautiful sleep all I want to do is send 100000s Shaheds at Moscow” 4.5 hours of air raids already tonight...
Obviously we'd rather Israeli's survive and members of the Iranian regime die.
Trump is old. It'll likely take Iran another 10+ years to rebuild their nuclear program and build a nuke. There's nothing "interesting" about observing that obvious fact.
It's incredible how weak and selfish Trump actually is. There's zero reason to negotiate anything with Iran. Israel has overwhelming firepower superiority over Iran – all Iran can do is hit Israeli civilian targets at random. Bomb them until they are forced to unconditionally surrender, or there just isn't a government left to surrender in the first place. I think what's really going on is Trump is pissed off that Israel was getting all the credit for a brilliant, overwhelming, military success. So he forced a ceasefire and negotiations to give himself a role. There's a high chance this leads to the death of millions of Israeli's through Iran successfully rebuilding their nuclear program. But Trump will probably be dead by then. Finally, give Israel the $6 billion in frozen funds to pay for rebuilding Israeli property destroyed by Iranian missiles. Zero reason to give Iran a penny. Heck, Israel hasn't even destroyed their oil and gas industry: they've still got plenty of revenue. Why do they need yet more billions? Ukraine would be a much better use of aid money. nostr:nevent1qqspxxagl0cpnzy83nmqf4jgrvx9q2ry8lp9mr0937tpk9pnhc7ghccpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsyg9er9ayem7j5ywgnpqxaukcj0ce06nuzx40ke40qul5cfnchz9reqpsgqqqqqqsfux7wt
Peter Todd @Peter Todd - 7d
All that's necessary is for Israel to say that any activities in a ~10km or so radius will be bombed ruthlessly, and actually follow through on that. Getting to the site from further than that I'm a reasonable amount of time would require a serious tunneling effort, which can very likely be detected.
