solotronics

In the US we have more or less replaced wild buffalo with cows.

There is a law already against harassing or protesting supreme court Justices. Is the intent behind this to cause further divide in society?

Gold having value over a long period of time is a counter argument. Nobody is transacting in gold yet it is valuable.

As neural networks become increasingly advanced I wonder where people will draw the actual line between "conscious" and "unconscious". A model can dream and produce unique art, play a game, and hold a conversation. It seems inevitable to me that some persistent implementation will eventually be able to pass as a conscious entity.

Christmas lights use 6.6 tWh per year. It's estimated that Bitcoin mining uses about the same amount of electricity as running clothes dryers. I never hear the argument that clothes drying is destroying the world.

Bitcoin isn't static or deflationary. There is a schedule of inflation built in via the mining reward which is currently at 1.5% until the next "halvening" where it will become 0.75%. The mining reward will continue to half every 4 years until roughly near the year 2140.

https://charts.woobull.com/bitcoin-inflation/

Thank God there are multiple real world examples of officers getting the order to fire a nuke and disobeying it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov

Cash app, Gemini, Strike

Skyking Skyking do not answer...

It's called a tree.

Some of this has to do with IPv4 and massive carrier NAT schemes. If technical people could get an ASN easier and route with each other on IPv6 it theoretically could provide backup paths for neighborhood level traffic. I guess the transit/ISP would have to enforce something like BGPsec with these little peers to prevent mistakes or malicious ASNs.

The fees are $0.36 right now for next block confirmation. If you can wait a few blocks it's $0.09

How do you even heat a house with wind? Aren't most homes in the US and EU are heated with gas?

Christmas lights use way more electricity per year than Bitcoin mining. 6.6 billion kw/h for Christmas lights, 33 million Christmas trees grown and shipped around.

The fees are around 1-2 satoshi per byte for the last couple weeks so about $0.04-6 per transaction

How is python better? If I want to say install 5 different yum packages and then do a kubernetes command the bash is pretty straightforward. With python I would have to do subprocess.call and then handle the exit codes and errors in python.

What language do you believe is better for DevOps / Linux systems engineering than Bash?

I think for smaller day to day transactions people are using Lightning or an app like Strike that is really using lightning underneath. For years now the problems of TX per second, fee, and speed have been worked on. https://strike.me/ is a Paypal like app that's built totally on Lightning and they just got setup in El Salvador recently. I think Jack Mallers and Strike are probably one of the main reasons were seeing this BTC law happen there now.

Land ownership is a totally abstract idea anyways it's just been a thing for longer.

Full copy of the law in English https://twitter.com/DocumentingBTC/status/140244839617106739...

Yeah in the Southern US there is a good chance if you reach out and touch someone with your knuckles they will think you are looking for a fight. If it's someone you are very comfortable with it would probably be taken as "playing we might fight" like you would do with a cousin or brother but probably don't do this lol.

I thought the video was from real life at first until I listened to the explanation. It's amazing that this is possible in real time.

Tesla bought $1.5 billion of BTC just a few weeks ago. The demand is there.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/08/tesla-buys-1point5-billion-i...

There are already states in the US accepting Bitcoin as payment for taxes. There are cantons in Switzerland where you can do this as well. https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/25/ohio-becomes-the-first-sta...

There is a lot of really funny analysis of the state of... computer science things in his description.

The richest man on earth bought $1.5B worth to hold as a corporate treasury.

No it goes up and down based on how "busy" the mempool is, its basically a measurement of the overall desire to get a transaction on the blockchain. When bitcoin goes through big price swings this tends to increase number of TX which therefore increases the fee.

I usually just ask one of the kids working there, you let them put a sticker on what your buying and they get a commission so it's a win-win to me. I go to the one near me every couple weeks and buy something mostly because I can't imagine living without a decent computer parts store to browse in. Heck I bought a DJI drone there it was the same price as on amazon so why not? Support a physical store or they will disappear.

How about if I sell a million pizzas to be delivered next month then put out articles about how Dominos has poison in their pizzas! People will forget or won't want the order and I will pocket the money. These short sellers are a scam.

Always funny to read articles like this from people who refuse to get it.

Related! A nice list of all the articles claiming bitcoin is dead and why. https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/