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Oh dang... Why didn't I find this information 6 months ago. I freaking hate my life right now.

I've often wondered if "gravity feed" might be an option. In a tall liquid fueled rocket, Gravity, then thrust, could create arbitrarily high pressures at the nozzle if the column of fuel is tall enough.

A thing people seem to forget is that Elon isn't your average guy. He's consistently shown that he has wild ideas that fit the times.

Prepare for a new Twitter cryptocurrency that is based on verified humans, and instantly has more users than any others out there.

The price he paid to be able to do that is a steal.

I use a rooted phone and a call recorder in magisk. It's been the only way I've found to record reliably since the last recorder I used stopped working.

The problem with that is usability. If I need to sign a transaction that security is lost the moment the key is entered into the signing computer.

Proximity seems to be key to most of these attacks, so maybe physically excluding any possible eavesdroppers, and adding noise sources would create a shell equivalent to guarding that piece of paper.

I also anticipate gathering old/very limited electronics that can be visually inspected or don't have extra capacity to run malicious code to allow auditing the mechanisms of computation.

Wow, that article has a huge list of "data exfiltration channels" that are possible attack vectors.

This is an interesting problem, and I hope that I'm somehow able to trust again.

Ok, the key advantage is being able to visually see the amount of data being transmitted. With a CD, how do you know an extra kilobyte of data didn't hitch a ride on your disc.

You do realize that viruses existed before networks right? Your "method used daily in industry" can very easily carry an unwanted payload.

I'm trying to explore the intersection of high security and utility.

I contemplated building an airgapped secret machine that could only communicate data with outside machines via qr codes and a webcam.

The main reason to do this isn't that the airgapped computer isn't compromised, but that even if it is, I could monitor all data moving in and out of it.

Even a USB drive passed back and forth could secretly transfer data I don't know about. Secret data is so small compared to the size of modern storage that data could easily hide in too many places.

Is that system a little paranoid? Maybe, but I haven't fully trusted any computer since heartbleed.

One time for Easter, my friends and I went to the Liquor store and bought 1 of every kind of beer they had. We spray painted them all and hid them in the yard for a hunt that evening. Much fun.

I also like to post this video different places. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aERpL5IqqTo

Sometimes I find that the solution to some questions is so complete that I don't even remember what my issue was originally.

It's long been my hypothesis that the so-called "Mandela effect" is an effect of memory compression.

I feel the future is in the stars, but it needs to be a future for everyone. This doesn't feel like the right group to get behind.

Life on Bitcoin is a documentary about traveling using only Bitcoin, but it was made years and years ago. It's very interesting, and by some accounts is the most expensive documentary ever made :)

I imagine the 2 go hand in hand.

Without the belief that you are right, why would you spend time pursuing something? If you're right, but nobody you talk to understands what you're saying then who is bumbling?

It's a question of perspective.

I have designed a new fusion reactor. I feel like the design has potential, and nobody seems interested in helping to evaluate it. I know there is a communication gap as well. I get different responses from everyone I talk to, and it's clear from their objections that some are dismissing the idea without understanding it. This leads to me dismissing their objections.

I know what the optics are, but still feel like I have to expend time and effort on this. If I don't do it, nobody else will.

In the end, it will work or not regardless of anyone's opinion.

This is one of those articles that I can imagine coming to mind 10 years down the road when I'm looking at something weird and suddenly thinking "Ooh, that's what I'm looking at!"

One of my employees got in an accident, and I immediately had the vehicle moved to my property from the impound yard to avoid storage fees. We had them move it to a spot far in the back of my building and around a corner. There is no way anyone knew it was there.

A few days later, a couple of guys came to my property, and a video shows they went straight to that vehicle and cut the catalytic converter off of it, then looked around for other stuff to steal.

I'm SURE it was people from the towing company, mad they didn't get a chance to charge more fees.

I have several similar memory issues, but they manifest in different ways.

Information presented verbally is almost impossible for me to remember. Lists or processes that aren't written down are worthless. For this reason, I record all my phone calls, and often have to refer back to them to get times I'm supposed to be somewhere, or other things like that. I also like to record important in person meetings so I can remember what was said.

I also have trouble forming habits. I tend to wake up at different times, eat different foods, and generally work out what I should do next from first principals, eg. "I'm hungry, so I guess I need to eat." Etc.

I tend to not connect stimuli with consequences. I have tried to become addicted to things, even going so far as trying to start smoking several times. Eventually I just forget to buy a pack, and realize later that, once again, I accidentally quit.

I always struggled with subjects in school that required memorization such as history.

On the flip side, I'm really good at quickly solving novel problems, and coming up with novel solutions to things. I'm always coming up with new ideas because I basically invent everything as I go.

I was imagining a play like this utilizing insurance to smooth out the wrinkles. Seems like a fairly good bet that the restrictions are designed to essentially eliminate fault in the event of an accident.

I really like the way you talk through your process, and the way you approach problems. It's very entertaining, and I'm very excited to see more.

I'm hoping to start a new youtube channel myself. I've been surprised a few times by the way my experiments turn out, and I'm not sure I'm explaining well enough the differences between what I thought would happen, and what actually happened.

You did a great job!

I'm in Arkansas, and I've been fighting the city for 2 years to get my power turned on and be able to use a building that I bought. It's freaking ridiculous.

My current theory of whisker formation is single atom mercury impurities causing local mobility at the base of a whisker.

I noticed something along these lines when designing pages on a website that I'm working on.

Each page is the answer to a question. If you don't define the question well, it's difficult to know what that page should show.

I'm 10 minutes in, and thinking "So you want more programs to read from standard input?"

I'm sorry I keep forgetting to ask for your permission before I hire or fire someone.

It's difficult to find the right balance between details and general concepts, and it's clear that I haven't refined my message clearly enough.

I'm not an academic, but have a reasonable level of physics understanding. The concept is simple enough that it should be understandable by people that have a basic understanding of how charged particles behave in a magnetic field.

It should be taken seriously because it's a good idea, and deserves to be studied. I readily admit that a full analysis is beyond my abilities, but I haven't been able to find anyone that can do any better at evaluating it, and I've talked to a lot of people.

I'm moving forward with the self funded construction of the prototype, because with this type of thing, I don't think ANYBODY can say with certainty that it will work or not. Even simulations aren't enough to tell for sure.

And yeah, I'm also trying to restart Murfie among other things.

1 - I agree, I've been fighting too many battles on too many fronts and my optimism has been taking a hit.

2 - I see, I'll look into presenting more professionally.

3 - I believe Ideas should be evaluated on their merit, and what people think about the idea or myself isn't going to change the physics. It will either work or it won't

It's an easy article to write, and it's easy because so many others have written the same thing.

It's like articles about Facebook and how their value fluctuates and this or that privacy issue is going to be fixed soon. People have heard about the big players, so big players get the attention.

I'm trying to do some fusion research myself, but it's extremely difficult to get anyone to take what I'm doing seriously.

I've got a completely new design, and it still needs to be tested. Do you know how difficult that is when nobody will even look at it, and I have to do everything myself?

I don't even know why I talk about it at all.

I've got some info about it at http://www.DDproFusion.com

I've never seen a way to organize files that feels like it prioritizes files based on how much they mean to the user.

By that I mean pictures I take, papers I write, things I really wouldn't want to lose, vs 10,000 random system files.

For downloaded files sometimes the history of when it was downloaded, and from where, is almost as important as the contents.

Backups from old computers, and old phones start to pile up, and the chaos of trying to find that picture you took 3 phones ago, or the notes you took, or the recording you made, or the pdf you downloaded, or that code you wrote, or that map you made, is a real pain.

Digital clutter is one of my biggest problems.

I really need a good way to deduplicate and organize ALL my digital stuff. Tags might play a role, but I don't think they quite solve the problem.

Lol even Frank Lloyd Wright had problems with zoning officials and the permit process...

I really like it. My only feedback would be that some areas of interest are far from the steep contrast points.

Allowing someone to rotate the coloring and spacing while zoomed in might allow more insight into specific regions of interest. A slow animation descending the zero color at maybe 1m/s might be mesmerizing, as you watch the colors move like they were flowing down hill.