satronaut

you're welcome, I love telling people I got a tesla =)

This article is horrible. It fails to discuss the benefits of using proof of work as a consensus protocol. It uses chips, it doesn't waste chips.

I bought a tesla about a year ago. I only had to wait a week for it. 0 down and something like 2% APR. I feel like I really lucked out there

i really miss the pre 2011 internet sometimes

I think it's 1 in 70 who've tried it, not 1 in 7. While 1/70 is still substantial; ~1.3%, way less concerning than ~14% of the population

with that logic, what's the threshold for forcing them to spend down their wealth? 1 billion, half a billion, 1 million, 1 hundred thousand?

If the government takes it, what are they going to spend it on? Foreign wars, jails, lavish mansions for leaders?

But quite honestly, if somebody makes a successful business, wise investments, or works their ass off building an empire, who's to say they can't enjoy all the wealth they've brought in?

Bezos may be filthy rich, but because of the countless hours of work he put in (don't tell me he didn't work nights and weekends while his employees worked 9-5) so you can enjoy groceries on demand, 2 day delivery on almost anything you want, and great video streaming. Stop using the services he created if you want his wealth to go down.

what does the government need all that money for anyways?

don't vote in the politicians that have been enabling this for the last 20 years

Source on this? I thought they were American made but the manufacturer feared for their life so they never publicly said who made them

yeah, outside of a tech job people still heavily rely on phone calls to get their jobs done. Sales, HR, field services, etc all call people directly since a text message could be missed for hours. And a lot of stuff is still based on legacy systems (manually inputing info or hand writing records)

Imma go dehydrate real quick

So somebody like her would have a very valid excuse to vote my mail (and could send it via FedEx or ups), but an able bodied person should walk to the polling place, show their ID, and vote. You get 4 hours off by law to vote

don't forget how the biden administration is kneecapping domestic oil production because of politics

you'd go to the polling location and vote

not really. Everything they offer, private industry offers a better version of. Who sends letters? Email is way faster and cheaper Sending a package? Amazon, ups, or fedex Need a passport? USPS shouldn't handle this, since they're so incompetent at handling passport applications

this isn't the twitter the world wants, this is the twitter the world needs

make them more expensive, less comfortable, and less reliable?

what are the logistics for this? There were 263.6 million cars in the US in 2015 (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_vehicles_in_the_Unit...), so I'm sure there's even more today. I could see having manufacturers install speed governers in new cars, but how would you coordinate installing in all the "old" cars? There'd be a period (probably years) where some, but not all cars don't have that limitation.

i made this argument a few weeks ago on HN, and was promptly downvoted by anti self driving shills.

I knew a girl (in the sf bay area) who hated self driving cars. She said people should just learn to drive better. While at the same time, you go to the DMV and people are on their phones in the testing area getting the test answers. Anybody with a CA drivers license should be audited by an out of state driving agency

I've heard that humans are evolving to become more dumb. The idea is that it's easier for an idiot to survive and procreate than it was in the past

tbh they were probably way more advanced than we give, or want to give, them credit for

"unknown source", probably bill gates trolling you /s

they're doing it via lightning, which is off-chain until payment channels are settled.

There's R&D, and then there's the actual manufacturing. Sure, prices go down after a while, but you can track costs accordingly.

If you know (because you have blue prints) that the materials will cost 1,000,000 to build the plane (because your suppliers gave your price quotes), you can have a very good idea of what that plane will cost before putting it on the assembly line.

I'm talking about the x-ray, nothing more and nothing less. If they have a broken foot and need a cast, the cast should be an estimatable line item based on where it's broken, age/gender/size of the patient, and materials used. If a doctor has put a cast on 1,000 broken feet on men aged 12-16, they should have a very good idea of the material and time it will take and the number of nurses or whatever else they need to put it on.

You could say the same about any other service work. If I have the internet guy come out there's probably 50 admin job positions that bill for that time too. Internally they bill the installation department. Hospitals are just complaining to make it seem more complicated than it actually is.

You're in charge of literally saving lives but you can't handle something as standard as cost estimation? How can you joke about that? Figuring out the cost to the hospital in terms of materials and labor should be standard.

Example, an x-ray. You know you need to pay an x-ray tech X$/Hour and after doing 1,000's of x-rays, a hospital should have it down that somebody with a broken leg will require N hours (maybe .5, maybe 1.5) to setup and take the x-ray. x-ray film costs HAVE to be known. the x-ray machine life time and number of shots should be known. Then do something like a 30% surcharge for admin fees and boom, x-ray cost.

Every other industry estimates this way, what makes a hospital different?

Where's your source for that? Is there a metric to define a ransomware attack as "major", and a verifiable list to show the amount and means of payment?

Bitcoin is used daily for remittance payments, which is huge since it's way cheaper than sending money through western mutual

There's also Bitcoin Beach in El Salvador which is a bitcoin only circular economy

Paxful provides a service for people to trade gift cards for Bitcoin

do you have a metric for what is reliable and unbiased? Any time I see an article on Bitcoin or altcoins on a MSM page its factually incorrect and heavily biased.

Also, can you provide an article showing that Bitcoin is used for "tons" (whatever percentage tons means) of illegal activity?

nah, just quoting satoshi