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Sorry, it took me a bit to reply to you on this censorship laden bullshit “you’re replying to fast by posting more than 3 times a day” website.

Fuck dang, time to cycle residential proxies.

That said, see sibling comments about fineness. In addition to being fine in the shiny variety, starship is a portly fellow. It will be able to land in anything less than a hurricane.

Honestly I find most studies based solely on self-reported data worthless.

What people say they’ll do/buy is often only loosely correlated with what actually happens.

See:

-YouTube thumbnail controversy, vs what people actually click on

-/r/apple and other comment section’s obsession with the commercially-failed mini lineup of iPhones

-everyone says ads don’t work on them, but ads work

I could go on

It's not proprietary, you can hook up the drives to a linux box and pull files off them just fine if your box dies. I've never had to do this, but I've seen others say they've done so successfully.

Should be much better, you spend most of the time coasting and most of your acceleration in very thin atmosphere, vs a plane that has to cruise down in the soup.

Also, starship has more pressurized volume than a 747. You can fit a lot of people.

A short boat ride off the coast is all it will take to get form NY to Tokyo in 40 minutes or less. Worth it.

E2E payload weight will be much lower than typical LEO configs, total altitude lower. You don't need to circularize etc etc.

This means you can spend more fuel/be less efficient overall for a much more comfortable acceleration profile.

In terms of safety, starship will fly hundreds, perhaps thousands of times before people fly on them. They'll get there.

Starship E2E (earth 2 earth) will make in-atmo supersonic pointless.

>btrfs is a horrible mess that will likely lose your data.

Meanwhile the bazillion petabytes on the world's synology NAS run fine, and are BTRFS.

As opposed to the centralized extremism export machine we have now.

If they don’t censor, they’re not liable. If they censor, they are liable.

> Corporations are not bound by the restrictions laid out in the first amendment; only the government is.

I think that is no longer the consensus. We have corporations that rival governments now.

This couldn’t be more wrong or dishonest. The merge has been part of the plan since 2016. The users were onboard with this from the beginning.

Not yet, but when the combined effects of the merge + EIP 1559 drive ETH to flip BTC _and_ the ever-increasing "BTC wastes X countries worth of power per day" it will eventually happen.

No chance at all while BTC remains top dog (in market cap)

3x hash rate @ same $USD value == 1/3rd the rewards per hash

Exactly. This is a triumph and the entire open source community should be celebrating

>after years of the merge being “months” away

It's only been months aways for a few months though. I have endured years of gaslighting comments like this _specifically_ from this asymmetrically moderated community, despite knowing for example in 2017 that PoS was years away. The "maybe this year" started in Jan 2020. COVID happened. They didn't start saying "within a year" again until end of 2021.

Meanwhile the _beacon_ chain launched in 2020, which is what's taking over for the PoW chain in ... 1 hour.

Maybe you're acting in good faith and you misheard that the beacon chain was launching 2 years ago and thought that was this. But how likely is that really?

Perhaps that nuance is achievable, but I have seen none of that here.

That said, I fundamentally disagree that crypto is "overall negative", and with the move to PoS the largest negative aspect of crytpo (the environmental cost of PoW) goes away.

AirDrop is 100x slower than the equivalent wired solution. I say this as someone transfering 350GB of media off their phone on friday, Apple needs to fix wired file access from mac to phone.

This deserves to be the top spot on HN right now. Years of countless replies and mockery here across N accounts telling me this day would _never_ happen. Yet here we are, we're finally about to break away from the shackles of PoW and the crypto skeptics are silent.

EDIT: I'm rate limited/soft banned so I can't reply to most of you/anyone until tomorrow. While I can still edit:

-Cash is the ultimate scammer currency, it would take a ages for crypto to match or replace cash as the best "scam" currency"

-Privacy =/= laundering. Privately transacting is not implicitly a crime.

-Crypto has value as trustless value transfer outside the nation-state system, especially in these uncertain times

-Smart contracts are criminally undervalued. Programmable money is the future.

HN moderation has seriously diminished the value of this site to me, putting it nicely.

We'll see. I don't think it's controversial to suggest psychologists will be studying this cohort for the rest of their lives.

>Just line up the number of people who died / got sick of non-COVID19 diseases in 2020

This is _extremely_ difficult to do, as a mix of both incentive structures and poor policy lead to any death with a positive PCR test being counted as a COVID death.

It's practically impossible now to go back and figure out how many were _actually_ "killed by COVID" vs "died _with_ COVID".

>You are mixing up mortality and mortality attributed to COVID.

There's also the problem of governments playing funny games around deaths and "vaccinated". Someone who died from an adverse reaction immediately following their shot would not count as a vaccinated death, because the _definition_ of "vaccinated" meant you completed the vaccine schedule which was multiple shots over time.

Depending on the sharpness of the spire, it may even be the cutting edge!

Money laundering means concealing dirty cash, clean money doesn’t need to be laundered by definition.

A mixer concealing the public address of clean money is not nefarious in any way and should be perfectly legal.

>They are explicitly a product to facilitate money laundering

How is HN so consistently cryptophobic?

Imagine the reaction you’d get here suggesting say, E2EE is “explicitly a product for {crime}”. You’d be rightly mocked, but throw in crypto and it’s like 75% of the people here lose basic reasoning skills. I’d be less frustrated if it wasn’t so common.

>It's a service specifically designed to facilitate money laundering.

That’s like saying TLS was designed to protect CP.

Privacy =/= laundering

>The chief selling point of Tornado Cash is money laundering

Privacy =/= laundering.

Tornado is/should be perfectly legal to use to pay IRL vendors without revealing the entire contents of your hot/cold wallets.

It’s also useful to move money between hot/cold wallets safely.

Modern ones work, like you said, down to -20F. One important caveat however is that they don't not-work below -20F, they just fall back to "emergency heat" aka resistive coils. While of course emergency-heat uses far more power that power can still be green.

The biggest problem remaining is cost, $20k+ for a 24 SEER heat pump is just bonkers.

>A good programmer will not be lulled into complacency by such reasoning

And that's the crux of it. Donald neglected to understand that most programmers will takeaway "optimization is bad" and all the subtleties of his point will be lost.

Then we get things like electron (ducks for cover)