So... it is a Friday night, and I am feeling loquacious.  And no, that does not mean drubk.  Or Drumpt.  On Whisskey or anything else... sue me.  pip paf poofle.

If I were not lazy I could dig around and find a post where i said something along the lines of "...Until the powers that be figure out that ETH (or ETH like chains) will allow them to print all the digital money they want".

And much more recently I warned that the ETFs were a mixed blessing. Increasing adoption at the cost of centralization of holdings... following as similar pattern as gold.

A couple months or 3 back I said something on NOSTR along the lines of "prepare yourself to hear big 'maxi' type talking heads to start to front for 'stable coins'".

*sigh*

As much as I love to be right from a sort of egotistic view... I wish I was wrong.

That said.  We are not in the absolute woods.  The powers that be are taking a foothold for sure.  But they are also realizing there is a strong incentive to keep bolstering the network now that they are invested.  Think of the prior example of miner manufacturers "testing" their chips by "burning them in for months" lol.  Butterfly labs..  Bitmain.

And now people like Saylor and Lummis are inching towards the idea of issuing "stable coins" to save the USD.  And this mean ETH opr Solana or whatever other shitcoin centralized garbage is in vogue.   And maybe also BTC on LND? ( https://web.archive.org/web/20241201051720/https://www.weforum.org/organizations/lightning-labs/ )  It looks a lot like this is where we are going.

Ultimately all this does nothing other than change timeliness, and offer opportunities.

Bitcoin will never stop being king.  And more money coming into the digital realm means more money to get parked in the corn.  

Eventually.

Ok... loquacious mode off.  Read and merit (or hate) before i delete it lol.

- People remain at home.
- Those who are carriers can't spread the virus to other people.
- Those who don't have it can't get it.
- In total isolation with 100% follow-through rate, it would only take 14-28 days for the problem to subside completely.
- Seeing as how that is not a viable alternative, I think 60 days of fairly stringent quarantine measures is reasonable. People do have to go out to get food and supplies, and people do have to be present at workplaces to deliver them.
- Everybody else whose employment is deemed non-essential will suffer financially.
- A relatively large amount of people are going to die from inadequate medical care.

This is the best case scenario.

Do you disagree with any of these premises or conclusions?

How long you people think we will be under quarantine ?

Yeah, I agree. In 2017, I was getting phone calls from friends of friends asking for advice about whether to invest in BTC and a range of alts popular at the time. I was shocked by their lack of knowledge. Yes, just wanting a get-rich-quick scheme, an approach which backfired on all of them. I did months of research back in 2013 - it paid off - and I guess I assumed everyone else would do the same. I was proved wrong. Thankfully to their detriment and not mine.

5000ea stimulus distributed through new FEDCOIN

CUT YOUR LOOSE!!1

Good news, everyone.

While it is not really well documented, there is a workaround.

Apple has created a new type of symlink-like filesystem construct. Using this synthetic link, one can create a 'ghost link' in the root of the filesystem. This link can redirect to another place in your filesystem, like any normal symlink. It does not, however, exist on disk. It is instantiated at boot. One configures these links through an fstab-like mechanism: a new file /etc/synthetic.conf.

After creating a link using this mechanism and rebooting, my filesystem looks like it used to. I am now happily restoring over 400,000 files -- over 220GB -- from Time Machine to this new phantom filesystem location. So all my old scripts and such should work just fine.

More info at man synthetic.conf.

Why Apple's second-level support was utterly unaware of this workaround is a mystery. But there you go.