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Fantasy talk. Nobody knows how to build "nanoscale sensors".

My main use case is large scan jobs from scanners in the office, or very large print jobs.

I used around 200 litres of water in the bathtub I used yesterday. You can drown yourself in as little as 5 litres. 40 lives saved!

They don't even bother to take down this tweet. Amazing times we live in.

Yes, from what I understand, the transaction costs are going to become more and more important until they become the single source of income for miners (namely when the maximum number of bitcoins has been reached).

In any case, I believe the protocol is self-adjusting in the sense that the situation above - mining more expensive than reward - self-corrects quickly.

That doesn't make sense to me. The difficulty of mining a Bitcoin is adjusted every two weeks to get a block time around every 10 mins. That should make that situation very unlikely and self-correct quickly. Also, I believe the miners get something extra from the transaction costs.

Sorry for the brief outage today. That was a very very strange server crash caused by a simple reboot.

Who would Trump nominate to be pope? Mike Lindell, maybe?

@jon-nyc wrong thread?

If it can walk, why do they need to put it on a furniture roller?

Pizzaballa. You read it here first.

Independently of this story, I read recently that tourism from Germany to the US is down around 40%.

Wow. I've made many trips to the US where I didn't book everything in advance.

If it is mandatory to book every accommodation in advance, they should say so instead of making entry in the US a game of chance.

Very cool!

What? I for one love modern car lights and driving at night. It's just wonderful. The cold light temperature makes everything very clear. The light follows any curve I take. I can leave on the floodlight all time without blinding anyone because the car automatically makes a hole in its light cone where other cars are. It's no comparison to the pathetic lights we had 20 years ago.

Very cool photos! I've been to some of these places but not Gibraltar!

@taiwan_girl said in Trumpenomics:

@jon-nyc said in Trumpenomics:

Do we have any Tata cars in the US? And who’s Geely?

Tata is out of India. A huge "chaebol". Started out in cotton (I think). Kind of like FPC group in Taiwan and Mr. Hwang (though he started out in rice), which grew from selling one product and expanded a lot.

Geely is a big China car maker. I believe that they own Volvo now.

Tata makes pretty cool off-road trucks.

It might very well be that men are, on average, a little better at pool because it involves skills that men are, on average, a little better at, such as geometrical/spatial thinking and computations. And then at the top end these differences become large.

But even without any physical/mental advantage I'm fine with having separate events for women. It can be considered an invitation for women to participate in a male-dominated sport.

The trans thing is silly of course.

"Remain single" or "currently single"? That's a big difference.

His last post was 2 months ago. Did I miss something?