Two former US presidents who also happened to be among the signers of the declaration of independence (Thomas Jefferson and John Adams), died exactly on the day of the 50th anniversary of the adoption of that declaration, i.e. they both died on July 4, 1826.

Extra "fun fact": five years later, so on the day of 55th anniversary of the declaration, James Monroe died - also a former US president.

In similar spirit of geographical facts about France, France borders The Netherlands however actually not in Europe (there is Belgium in between) but on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin.

I honestly spent a few minutes browsing stacker.news and using search so I don't post a duplicate, didn't see anything like it. Can you give me a link to this story posted here before?

Oh, I like how the war just broke out on its own in your story.

What you barely mention in a cryptic way is that in 1947 the UN General Assembly voted in favor of resolution no. 181 of splitting the former British mandate into two, allowing both interested parties to establish their own independent states. What Jews did? Declared independence. What Palestinian Arabs did? Didn't bother declaring independence, even though they had their chance and full support of the UN to do that just like Jews did. But were more than happy to declare war on Israel. Go figure.

Fuck Israel for how they have been treating Arabs since then but dear Palestinians, go ask your grandparents why killing Jews was more important to them than freedom.

Praying does not work.

I have another idea. Let's use this 20BTC to set up a foundation that sole purpose would be providing a free legal advise and representation for people and small businesses that suffered from PayPal unfair decision to just close their account / freeze their funds, etc.

They should consider returning the coins in question to Paxos/Paypal but only if the Paypal CEO goes through full KYC/AML and provides proof of legal source for each UTXO they mistakingly combined into miner's fee. Let them taste their own medicine.

Yeah right, good idea to stop funding your own government while you are being attacked, 'coz people in the country of your enemy will do the same... and pigs fly.

You know who loves your non existent government? Your neighbours' existent government and their army freely marching into your country. Dysfunctions of governments are something to fix, not a reason to dissolve them completely so your whole country can get rekt by a foreign, hostile power. World is not some idyllic utopia - you weaken considerably your government and other countries will take advantage of that. Sad but true.

Sure there are but they have plenty of other taxes. Besides, the OP's poll is not about your opinion on just income tax.

OK, so people answering "None (Taxation is theft)", can you please elaborate on how do you imagine a functioning government without taxes whatsoever? And please don't bs me on "minimal government" becasue even if the whole government is just one guy doing everything on their own, we still need to pay them somehow.

I guess you don't like having a reliable mobile phone service and undisturbed wifi at home.

The Polish radiostop system is completely unsecured, so it is rather bad example to have this discussion. But in general, when it comes to radio, it is unfortunately not as simple as "secure it better". Sure, you can use spread spectrum, CDMA and whatever else is there when it comes to radio, cryptography and information theory techniques but all of this goes down the drain if you just use strong enough jammer emitting carrier on top of your desired signal.

For those who don't know, every train in Poland is equipped with an automated breaking system that can be triggered over the radio. It's an, let's say "area-wide" system i.e. if you broadcast a radiostop signal it will stop all trains around you as far as your radio broadcast is heard. There is no selectivity - you don't stop a specific train, you stop all of them, it's like shouting "everybody on the ground". Also, the signal is not encrypted, the specification for it is public knowledge, and it is extremely cheap and easy to do it yourself - you can pretty much record the signal on your mobile phone - it's just 3 different tones, and later play it while holding transmit button on your cheap $20 baofeng. Because of that, there are around 600 cases of unauthorized use of radiostop in Poland every year! Imagine what it does to train schedules.

I have no idea how things like thise work in other countries, as far as I know this is not a universal solution and it looks like something that was specifically invented for Polish railroads that did not have a signalling system that would be able to properly detect and warn about two trains on the same track. I guess that other countries just have more advanced signalling than Poland... correct me if I'm wrong.

BTW, this system started to be implemented in 1987. It was probably fine at that time but nowadays anyone can buy a cheap radio, trigger it and run. The whole thing suddenly got media coverage because this time someone not only transmitted radiostop signal but also broadcasted Russian anthem and Putin's speech on a frequency used by Polish railroads (BTW they also use analog and unencrypted modes so similarly to radiostop feature, anyone can listen, transmit and jam it). There is an EU-wide railroad radio telecommunication system being implented right now (GSM-R). The problem is it has already been like 15 years since they started building it in Poland and it is still not finished, 3 years behind the schedule.

If you want to know more this Polish article has a pretty detailed info on radiostop.

What? I have Ventura 13.5 on intel macbook, I was able to install Bitcoin Core v.25.0.0, it works no problem. I don't know about the system upgrade process, this indeed sometimes brakes some stuff like you say e.g. "disappear" app shortcuts from the dock but I highly doubt they specifically target Bitcoin Core.

All these praising Bukele.

Look, Bukele is a politician, he has an agenda. It may be partially aligned with ours, and sure, good for us while it lasts. But as soon as he gets into some political trouble and for some reasons, staying in power requires him to ditch this whole Bitcoin thing, he won't blink an eye.

@blockstream_official <OP will surely deliver meme>

I'm grateful to Raspberry Pi Foundation for popularizing microcomputers and making SBC devices affordable but I wish their decision making processes put more weight on other factors than their cost and logistics of manufacturing. So far, it looks like their product management team completely ignored users' convenience and e-waste issues when designing I/Os. RPi Zero devices notoriously using micro USB B even for peripherals (so they need ancient standard charger and special OTG adapter cable to connect any peripheral), all Raspberries using completely unpopular HDMI variants (micro and mini, either way, who has such a spare cable at home?), with every iteration users call on the foundation to finally include some other storage option, even if that means old SATA controller on USB bus - no, we need to live with SD cards that die on us randomly or again, buy USB to SATA adapters purposely for the Raspberry Pi, that no one will ever use for anything else (do I smell e-waste again?), not to mention that f*ck tons of those cheap adapters are pretty much incompatible with ARM Linux and the ones that do work properly cost like 5 times more than the ones that don't (last time I checked it was like 2019 so maybe this has changed for better, don't know). Anyway, I pretty much gave up on them.

I don't think I can edit this post anymore but Crypto Guide just released a new video on how to DIY Jade but now with a camera.