There’s no reason a company couldn’t release the info legally unless it was under something like AML (anti money laundering) laws and you were flagged as a criminal. They legally can’t disclose why in that case.

Using a different OS isn’t reason enough, if they were telling the truth about the legal restrictions.

It’s used to help secure the businesses app yes. It helps with things like preventing resource abuse which would cost the company money. E.g. querying mass amounts of data on a loop to increase the companies bill.

It did kindle. Major companies started accepting it. Then the blocksize wars happened, and the 1mb forever people won through massive censorship and deceit. Then companies stopped accepting it directly as a result of the problems a 1mb limit causes. Now it might never happen again for BTC. The war and the signs leading up to it though spawned other cryptocurrencies, so those might succeed where Bitcoin has failed. We’re still suffering from the damage caused though as companies that stopped accepting it are now skeptical of accepting anything else again.

Edit: This is steams post on the matter - https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1464096684955433613

1mb limit -> transaction backlog grows -> higher fees to get in next block -> transactions get delayed from fee volatility and having used the wrong fee which moments ago was the right fee -> now the heavily delayed transaction is the wrong amount due to price volatility and steam and the customer are fucked.

It kindled, and was in turn murdered as it had been intended to be used.

Right, but they can’t just do it without reason which he was implying, and he replied to me with

“Yea but that wasn’t the point of me pointing it out. The point was that they don’t need to resort to such measures in order to clandestinely acquire your unlocked phone.”

In this case he was on parole where they have the right to search him. That mention of blood draw etc, you’re already under arrest and they can search your person anyway.

I’m not aware of any law where a cop can walk up to you on the street and demand they unlock your phone with biometrics and search it without cause.

Credit card fees can actually get quite large as well, they’re just hidden from the consumer, and we all pay a higher price because of it.

E.g stripe is 2.9% + $0.30

Even BTC with its current high (not peak high fees) fees is cheaper than CC’s when you start getting into a few hundred dollars purchase.

They need a warrant or probable cause for that, but yes they can compel it unlike a password. It’s still a search and needs to be lawfully done in the first place.

Ya, if you have a miner at home, it will reduce your heating bill. You just gotta find a good use for it when it’s not cold outside, so something like supplementing your water heater as you mentioned would work ya.

I think there’s merit in the idea. Someone makes an electric water heater purpose built for this and they build a miner card you can swap in/out as technology improves the the current one becomes obsolete. Uses the miner for primary heat, and when it’s not enough uses regular electricity to make the heat.

I don’t know if the output of the desalination is what we actually need or how much refinement it would need, but the salt output would probably still outpace our ability to use it. Sodium is just 1 factor of building these newer batteries.

e.g Tesla has a factory with a 40gwh storage output when fully scaled, and it’s taken years to get there. Cells weren’t the only factor in that.

Well ya we could definitely use the excess energy to desalinize and then try and find a use for that one plant that handles over capacity. Millions of people rely on it for clean water, but today we mostly just dump it back into the ocean which causes problems and isn’t a long term solution.

It’s just not a solution to the problem at scale, more like a band aid. But it could buy enough time to build more batteries.

I imagine so, but were talking about at best case of a 50% water 50% brine solution with reverse osmosis, and worse if it’s a thermal desalination plant. It’s a fuck ton of liquid, more than we could ever hope to use in a reactor like that.

Some other ideas are evaporate the brine and use the salt for roads in winter, but again, it’s more than we could manage at scale, and salting roads isn’t ideal either.

We don’t have to get the hydrogen from sea water. It really just depends on where the excess is. Maybe that’s not great for Australia or California… but for other places it could be.

The salt batteries will be even cheaper than lfp, they just take even more space, but we got lots of space to put batteries.

You wouldn’t cover the cost of the miners if you had to shut turn them off and on like that. The worth of their hashing capabilities is nearly always declining as more and better miners come online.

But using the miners to do something else was always an interesting idea, like using them to heat a building. Maybe you could heat a swimming pool with them.

That still leaves the brine problem. Youve just traded one for another.

Hydrogen wouldn’t cause another problem.

I tend to think half of it is bots judging by the pattern of what gets said on the mirad of topics touching the companies he runs.

Then the way they rabidly pounce on anything like the water deluge system at starbase causing massive pollution that wasn’t true, then the court basically reaffirms everything SpaceX said happens and denys an injunction to stop it’s use and they will still forever hate it, is quite telling of their hatred or ignorance.

Never had a bad Uber drive.

I’ve had countless terrifying cab rides.

Okay… so lets say Musk wins, and the infowars handle isn’t transferred.

The Onion should then file an impersonation complaint with X and have the handle handed to them. I would assume in the auction the onion purchased the rights to the trademark InfoWars.

Ignoring transmission losses, which could be improved as well, the whole USA could be solar powered by a very tiny fraction of the deserts it has.

But that’d be a huge target to attack if it was all in one spot.

Much better to decentralize it

Getting the GPU memory requirements down would be huge as well.

Any software that has backend needs is unfortunately going to have to find a way to pay for it.

You don’t have to be super shitty about what you do to get there though.