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Please watch the documentary “Cow”, by the author of movies “Fish tank” and “American Honey” (both are unrelated to animals btw)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_(2021_film)

There’s a scene where cows finally run out of the barn at the beginning of spring. Their joy is obvious.

Gold was the reserve asset for most part of human history and was less spendable than bitcoins (harder to divide some gold than to send a fraction of a bitcoin).

Who keep it stable ? Well, who keeps gold stable ? Once an asset becomes the reserve asset, it becomes the standard and other things are priced in that unit, or in units derived from it (here's a kilogram of beef, I'll sell it to you for 2 British pounds which are worth x units of reserve asset)

But maybe you're talking about the stability of its inner properties (its supply, for instance). That for sure is not as stable as gold's. But is its distributed consensus stable enough ? That's a good question. So far, so good.

Okay, it's not perfect equality but it is way, way more equitable than geographic features like "gold mine in your backyard"

Strong argument you're making here, thanks mate

Bitcoin would be the most fair choice for a new reserve currency. It has equivalent properties as gold but is more practical to use, and there's no geographic inequality to mining it.

No government could benefit from manipulating it. How cool is that ?

Very nice, but why does it require iOS 17 ? Jailbreakers are stuck on iOS 16 (and some are stuck even lower than that.. )

Article from 2021 with about 3 years of deployment data.

How would we cool transmission lines to liquid nitrogen temperature?

The real issue was that I didn't get that you were talking about Solar Orbiter, I thought you were saying that the irradiance of the sun was 20kW/m2, which seemed low to me, but I didn't even know the word "irradiance" so I didn't know what to type on Google to check it. Thanks for your detailed calculus :)

Only 20kw per square meter on the surface of the sun ? How come it is so low ?

We receive about 1kw of sunlight per square meter on Earth, and earth is 149M km from the sun. From napkin math, it should rather be ~45MW/sqm on the sun to receive 1kw/sqm on Earth (surface of the sphere of radius 149M km divided by surface of the sun gives ~45000, so 1 watt from the sun becomes 1/45000 watt when it reaches the Earth)

Where am I wrong ?

Well, they just introduced the “Repair Assistant” which allows you to pair new parts after a repair. They talk about it in this article, had you read it.

But, yeah, about fucking time, I agree on that.

Let’s call these 2 nodes N1 and N2. The case you mention only works if N1 is connected to the network only through N2, in which case when the attacker’s nodes receive a new transaction from N2 there is plausible deniability for both N1 and N2. In any other network topology, N1 and N2 are broadcasting their transactions to attackers node, which can then link then directly to N1 or N2. So no, this attack doesn’t require to own all the network.

I don’t know which threshold makes the attack practical though. I guess there is probably no threshold: the bigger the share of the network you own, the bigger your percentage of successful IP tagging is.

Yes, you're right However, even if Dandelion makes this task harder, the task remains essentially the same: controlling a significant amount of node

TLDR: no

Your own node is connected to other nodes to get latest blocks and publish transactions to the network. These peers are selected randomly among the pool of available nodes. If the attacker has enough nodes, there is a good probability that your node's peers are partly controlled by the attacker. When you publish a new transaction and broadcast it to your peers, the attacker can detect that it is indeed a new transaction (since it is the first time it's seen by the attacker nodes) and that the IP address of your node is the IP address of the transaction sender. It's not going to work 100% of the time (except if _all_ your node's peers are controlled by the attacker) but with a few transactions it's eventually going to lead the attacker to your IP address.

It's the same kind of attacks that are used to deanonymize people on TOR.

If you want to protect yourself from that, you need to add a few layers of trusted no-logs VPN in front of your node, so that the attacker is lead to a dead end.

That's nice ! Learned a few things today, it's more effective than hitting "random article" on wikipedia. It would be nice if you could add an icon to the site, so I could find it more easily in my bookmark toolbar.

Message backup on iOS device maybe ? Or the possibility to transfer messages history between iOS and Android devices ?

you skimmed over this part of his message:

> automatically charge this elevated rate for properties owned by non-natural persons

Just received 2 cheapo 64GB micro sd cards from aliexpress, they seemed legit, had tons of reviews with OK crystaldisk performance screenshots and... they're junk This tool quickly identified that they were counterfeit of type "Limbo", with 16GB of capacity instead of 64GB. Thanks to Michel Machado for writing this gem.

Sodium-Ion is actually starting to ship. It's possible to buy 18650 cells. Not exactly competitive yet, but at least it's not vaporware.

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Chromium is 5 times more abundant than Lithium in earth crust (0.01% vs 0.002%). Better, but not that much ?

"Regular" sodium-ion batteries with prussian blue has, it seems, the great advantage of not using any scarce elements. It would be nice to have a comparison between this solid state chemistry and the regular one.

I guess https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(game)

Not a single mention of what the magnets are made of nor how they compare to current state of the art.

Looks a bit like "New battery will replace lithium" articles

Side question: why are USD bank notes so dull ?

Still not getting the joke

Just adding my own data: I’ve been living next to a train station for a few years now, I’d say that freight is insanely more noisy than passenger trains, 100% of the time. I live in France btw, so it’s all electric trains.

Quite a straw man argument you’re making here

You’re right, parent read too fast

It’s only available for Pixels.

We've spend the last 2 centuries burning fossil fuels from the ground, significantly increasing the atmospheric CO2 levels. Capturing some of it back won't make a difference for plants. Also, when you burn methane, you release CO2 again. So it's not like there's a finite amount of CO2 to pump from the atmosphere, it will renew itself.

The same way Facebook/Google/openAI & others censored their own LLMs, I guess ?