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Yeah, there's also a lot of Mormon-themed artwork and symbolism on the Nauvoo as well.

Yes, having a smarter population is likely a good thing and almost certainly possible.

Yes, humans are #1 in my book. But consider that as technology advances we have less need to disturb the natural environment.

I don't think we're living on credit forever as productivity/technology has improved over time.

Of course we must also build an environment where everyone can flourish. Not mutually exclusive.

Maybe. Problems on a global scale would be divided up among fewer people, which would mean that each person would bear a greater burden.

Can you provide a counterexample, hypothesis, or anything concrete?

Maybe. Can you provide an example?

This is also good. And also having more of a network effect for people to interact and cooperate helps as well.

I understand that you're pessimistic about this, but overall the human condition has gotten better as the population has grown.

We've been generally on positive trend.

You can have both.

More people means more geniuses who can help fix what's wrong.

Gary on South Park. Of course, that was 18 years ago. There's also a few very minor Mormon characters on The Expanse.

The population is getting older. https://www.statista.com/statistics/241494/median-age-of-the...

SpaceX has said otherwise: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/07/nyc-to-shanghai-in-40-minute...

Yes, let's wager on that.

Fair enough. But I don't really buy anyone saying it's "on its way", as I've heard that one before. You can see a lot of "on its way" in this thread as well.

I looked into this and IOTA requires special blessed "Coordinator" nodes, so it's not really decentralized.

I looked into it and Solana requires "Validator" nodes to be specially blessed by them to get rewards for running their software, so this isn't particularly de-centralized.

How many transactions per day are currently being run on Ethereum layer 2? I can't find this info.

>a decentralized settlement layer is probably where most of the value is anyway.

Why?

Here is the real world, Bitcoin is currently running a blazing 3.3 transactions per second.

Etherium dwarfs that at a mighty 14 transactions per second.

Meanwhile, PayPal crawls along with a pathetic 488 tps.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/730838/number-of-daily-c...

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/paypal-statistics/

More detailed info about the satellite constellations, ground stations, and a map: https://starlink.sx/

I believe he's better known as the author of "The Time Machine of Consciousness Quantum Physics and the Time Machine of Consciousness: Past Present Future Exist Simultaneously. Entanglement, Tachyons, Relative Time, Circle of Time, Quantum Time, Dream Time, PreCognition, Retrocausation, Deja Vu, and Premonitions".

Business idea: billing system for enterprise SaaS software.

It's not too bad. I'd get a small case for the stuff if I wanted to move it around regularly. It's a little pricy and might be delicate, so I leave it at my desk. Watch today's livestream to hear it in action: https://www.facebook.com/events/303545994740352

In my bag, I keep a USB lavalier mic, which is smaller, but not quite as good quality.

The USB adapter has a headphone jack so I plug my Samsung headphones into that.

Headworn dynamic mic.

I realized after many Zoom calls that a good presentation in both audio AND video are very important.

My choice for audio is a Shure headworn XLR dynamic microphone. These are the type used by professional singers, public speakers, etc. Being headworn means that you don't have to worry about talking directly into the mic; you can move around a bit.

This type of mic also has great noise rejection. We use it for livestreaming from our workshop which is VERY noisy, with compressors, waterjet cutters, and other loud machines running. Voice audio is quite clear despite all this.

To complement this, I got a Shure XLR to USB adapter. It turns out that the DAC in my Thinkpad is TERRIBLE, so upgrading to a USB adapter was a no brainer.

For video, I got an Osbot Tiny, which was great for a while, but seems to be broken now.

And if it's too cheap, waste heat from all the electricity we'll be using will heat up the earth again.