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The idea that it is entirely due to conflicting values and not due to the shows unpopularity seems like a bit of a cope of the show's producer's part. If the show was driving people to subscribe to Apple TV+, it likely would not have been cancelled.

That’s a matter of opinion. Many happen to believe it is not wasted.

This improves the efficiency of Bitcoin.

This is a good thing. Instead of requiring every node to execute every instruction, parties can trustless prove computation happened off chain.

Every time I've tried to use Pascal (with Lazarus/FPC) I find myself incredibly confused as to the proper way to download and version packages. Separate project? Using Lazarus package manager? Git submodule?

The author hand-waved away the whole "exception" thing with "good luck getting C-level approval in time!" But if he was really as valuable as he claimed, all he had to do was just say "No" and he would have gotten C-level approval.

Are they finally letting the legacy ZZT staff go?

How many kiloyards in width is this new galaxy?

If JSON just originally had comments there wouldn't be such a proliferation of redundant configuration language, since JSON serves perfectly well 99% of cases.

This page is supposed to be a conversation starter, I think. You present the page to someone, then get them interested in the mystery so you can tell them what happened.

I don't think there's any doubt the conclusion you're supposed to reach is that it supports an Austrian economics view about the negative effects of our current monetary regime, and de-linking the USD from gold.

SHA256 is a one-way hashing function. Which means that feeding that sentence into SHA-256 and it starting with the characters in that sentence is very unlikely chance.

They probably wrote a script that tacked on a bunch of random letters and numbers to a sentence, then hashed it via brute force until it returned a hash that started with the exact same thing that the sentence said.

This is similar to how Bitcoin's proof of work algorithm.

I love all of the creative ways they use to exclude inflation from the inflation statistics.

I learned it originally because of Xircon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XiRCON

Everyone must know two passwords: their password manager's password, and their email password.

And now I need to listen to DragonForce.

On the floor, with a majority present.

I used paid relays. The reasons are higher quality content. It works alright for spam prevention. Also, I use the nostr.wine filter relay, which is pretty neat. You can connect to it and it will pull notes from your web of contacts (your follows, plus their follows). Additionally, it will rebroadcast your notes to public relays.

It's a pretty nice way to keep your feed quiet (not spammy), but also allow your notes to make it out to the broader public nostr sphere.

It uses the Lightning network, which is a separate network using off-chain transactions. The Lightning network crams upwards of infinite transactions into a single on-chain transaction, called a payment channel.

You’re implicitly admitting that “taxing the rich” will slow the economy and destroy demand.

Your articles don't say anything about raising electricity prices for consumers, except to speculate about it. At least the NYT piece recently on Bitcoin mining cited a study saying there was a 5% increase in electricity bills because of Bitcoin mining, even if it was using secret data.

Again, I would point out (not for you since your reasoning is clearly motivated, but for anyone else reading it) that Bitcoin miners overwhelmingly use electricity that would go to no other use, and thus is incredibly cheap, and would naturally be expected to have little to no effect on average electricity bills.

How is Bitcoin mining in any way a broken window?

Bitcoin miners don't compete for the same energy as residential and most industrial uses. Mining isn't profitable unless energy is a fraction of the price that typical consumers pay. The effect is that Bitcoin miners act as energy buyers of last resort. In other words, they buy wasted energy.

Having a buyer of last resort is good for energy grids (or any product), not bad for them. It incentivizes grid build out. Instead of worrying about whether a particular energy development will have enough demand, they can work out a deal with Bitcoin miners to sell wasted energy to them.

Industrial users of power frequently work out power agreements that will pay them in the event that they are required to shut down. This is completely normal. The difference is that Bitcoin miners are EVEN MORE flexible in that they can shut down at a moment's notice, unlike manufacturing or smelting. Again, this is good for grids, not bad.

Someone saying something that affects the price has nothing to do with creating new Bitcoin. That's just a function of it being a small market still, relative to larger and more deeper capital markets.

If any developers tried to convince anyone to run Bitcoin software that debased their savings, they are going to have a very bad time.

Bitcoin, specifically, is improving society in many ways, especially in Nigeria, Argentina, the Congo, etc. Even in the West, where our money is more stable and the benefits of it are less obvious, Bitcoin mining offers great benefits to energy grids.

Might I suggest for the future: https://vpn.sovereign.engineering

You can pay a Bitcoin lightning invoice on this site and get a redeemable Mullvad voucher instantly. Extremely convenient. Since you've only done 1 BTC transaction, I assume it was a large one for lots of time. However, when your time runs out, this option is great. It's an extra layer of privacy and you don't have to wait for the transaction to settle on chain.

I use https://vpn.sovereign.engineering to pay with Bitcoin.

You can pay a Lightning invoice to get a voucher which is redeemable on the website. You get an extra layer of privacy, and also don't need to wait for an on chain transaction.

Do you remember when mainstream media outlets like WaPo and The Guardian went out of their way to refuse to publish any details about the Trump resistance leaker, even after his identity became publicly known?

Now they go out of their way to expose this one. Mainstream media outlets are really arms of the Western security state. I should hope this is absolutely clear to everyone at this point.

The author is correct, in a sense, that Bitcoin's core security is social consensus, but he falsely equivocates it with fiat currency. They are most definitely not governed by the same sets of incentives. The incentives of Bitcoin ensure its monetary policy won't change, and those incentives have strengthened consistently over time.

He oversells the need of miners to band together to defend Bitcoin. They do not. All that's needed is for nodes to invalidate blocks, which is a simple command. No code changes or anything required. If an attacker is 10 blocks deep into an attack, node operators can just invalidate the first block of the attack, wasting all of the effort and resources of the attacker. Nodes can invalidate blocks longer than an attacker can stay solvent.

Miners must follow the economic majority of the network or risk wasting resources mining a losing chain. Miners aren't rule makers, they're rule takers. This was the main lesson of the Bitcoin Cash fork which the author mentions several times, but maybe he missed the point of it.

The author really undersells how difficult/nearly impossible this is and will be for a long time, at the very least. If the market transfers successfully from miner subsidy to transaction fees, then it will always be nearly impossible.

One of the things I always thought was funny was that Amazon always tells you to put everything in one DynamoDB table, but the Amplify splits everything across multiple tables.