The problem is all these claimed reactionless drives are claimed to produce really small amounts of thrust, making it very difficult to measure whether or not they're actually doing that on earth.

If they tested these things by launching cube sats into space, whether or not they actually worked would be much easier to determine as you'd quickly notice a change in orbit.

You mean worse?

Fuck warm weather. 🇨🇦

IVPN accepts lightning. That's why I use them over mullvad, which doesn't.

The Bitcoin community should be getting prepared politically, by setting up legal defense funds (including for the present case) as well as setting up lobbying organizations.

The tendency of bitcoiners to just say "fuck politics" and disengage is deadly. You can't avoid politics with code. You can gain some power. But not enough to resist all politics.

I'll warn you, bivy bags really suck.

Source: I've spent in total something like three weeks camping in them, including many days in horrible rain.

Moisture always collects on the inside of them to a degree, because your body perspires, and the bivy bag interior is colder than you are. I have a really fancy and expensive gore-tex like one, and even it still gets a bit wet in the inside.

They're also really claustrophobic during wet weather when you have no choice but to lie down and wait.

These days you can get ultralite tents that weigh about as much as a bivy bag, and pack down almost as small. I strongly recommend getting one of those instead for places like the Netherlands where extreme winds aren't a concern.

The only reason I personally have used bivy bags is 1) desperate trips where I really needed to cut down on weight and bulk, or 2) because I couldn't bring a tent, and wanted to buy something cheap and lite that I would throw away later, or 3) intentional camping in places like caves where you are already protected from most weather and just need to keep drips off.

Now, all that said, the Observer bag you got it kinda tent like... and it weighs even more than my lightest tent!

Professional guides will often do day-by-day plans outlining what you expect to accomplish on each day and where you expect to be. Each day is the associated with a given amount of supplies (mainly food).

Just go through it, add it all up, and pack it!

Last time I did a reasonable serious trip I was in the Drakensburg mountains in South Africa. I just figured out where I was hopefully going to stay each night, and then laid out my food on the floor of the hotel to figure out what I needed each day. I also planned for a shorter route I could take to leave early.

In the end I wasn't feeling so great and ate a lot less food than I brought... Fortunately I'm fat, so I've got plenty extra. 😂 (Seriously, pretty much everyone who isn't a cancer patient has at least a week or two worth of calories stored as fat!)

I also ended up using my backup plan, as I lost a day due to being unable to find enough water in one spot. So I spent a night somewhere I wasn't intending to that did have water, and made up for it by hiking out a shorter route with one less night spent somewhere else.

If I personally was planning on doing what I think you're doing – hiking around in fairly civilized areas where supplies are plentiful and other options for transport exist – I'd probably just throw what looked like two or three days of food in my backpack based on calories and just wing it without a plan.

Getting some experience doing that first is IMO a good idea. You get a feel for what it actually feels like to hike long distances, and what you actually eat, and how to problem solve.

This is not how you should approach a long distance trip in serious terrain, where failure has consequences and help is a long way away. But where you are planning to go, if you run out of supplies you can just walk to the nearest road and catch a bus pretty easily.

You should always have a paper map and a compass if you don't know the area confidently. Phones do break, and power banks often fail in bad weather.

Though from the sounds of it, you're not doing anything serious where you'll actually be far away from civilization and roads. In your case, since the consequences of failure aren't a big deal, you don't need backups.

I'm sure a lot of people have bought Bitcoin with leverage, debt, and more so than most assets because yolo. It makes sense to de-leverage during times of uncertainty, because you'd be better off having less risk overall.

Bitcoin's price would probably fall even farther if it weren't also an asset that can make sense during times of uncertainty.

This service costs money, because it does one transaction per document. My OpenTimestamps protocol uses merkle trees to allow time-stamping for free: https://opentimestamps.org

Also, if you're running my Libre Relay fork, I've already updated it to v26.1: https://github.com/petertodd/bitcoin/tree/libre-relay-v26.1

Agreed.

First of all, you were talking about "a majority of miners being honest". Even dishonest miners can't censor by themselves: they need coordination. You're mixing up "majority honest" with 51% attacks.

Second, the defense in this scenario is transaction fees and inflation subsidy: you're paying miners both immediately and an expected return in the future for mining transactions the way we all want them too be mined. That is an example of economic incentives. Not honesty.

Keep in mind that in academic protocol literature, the term "honest" is used to mean someone who rigorously follows a set protocol. Most Bitcoin hash power does not even begin to do that, as they differ from Core in lots of ways.

Bitcoin does not require a majority of miners to be honest. It requires a large percentage¹ to be independent, and economically rational. That's a much weaker requirement than honest.

If we were happy with a majority honest assumption, we could have just increased the block size: there would be no need for others to validate the chain. The majority of miners could be trusted to do that for us.

2.6 million customers / 5,601 orbiting satellites = 464 customers / satellite.

It's like it's your neighborhood satellite! 😂

Negotiations have been tried many times over. Russia simply uses ceasefires as an opportunity to rearm, and tries again later. Which isn't surprising, as their goal is clearly to take land and resources and subjugate the population. War is profitable for Russia too.

This is exactly like negotiating with a thief. Their goal is simply to take your stuff. Nothing you give up in negotiations will change that.

Frankly this type of anti-military sentiment is just the right wing version of Defund The Police, and equally misguided. Bad people, and bad countries, exist in the world. The only long term solution is to defeat them.

From the official transcript:

MR JUSTICE MELLOR: Thank you. Well, I thank all the parties for their written closing and oral arguments, and they've been very helpful indeed. They will require me to prepare a fairly lengthy written judgment, which will be handed down in due course. And for all those who have already been hassling my clerk as to when the judgment will be ready, the short answer is as follows: it will be ready when it's ready and not before. However, having considered all the evidence and submissions presented to me in this trial, I've reached the conclusion that the evidence is overwhelming.
Therefore, for the reasons which will be explained in that written judgment in due course, I will make certain declarations which I am satisfied are useful and are necessary to do justice between the parties. First, that Dr Wright is not the author of the Bitcoin White Paper. Second, Dr Wright is not the person who adopted or operated under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto in the period 2008 to 2011. Third, Dr Wright is not the person who created the Bitcoin System. And, fourth, he is not the author of the initial versions of the Bitcoin software. Any further relief will be dealt with in my written judgment. I will extend time for filing any appellant's notice until 21 days after the form of order hearing, which will be appointed following the hand down of my written judgment and I ask the parties to seek to agree an order giving effect to what I have just stated. So I'm afraid, for any further information, you'll to wait for the written judgment.

Better late than never!

Rick and Morty's take on Captain Planet was awesome.

...and yes, as a kid I didn't buy into Captain Planet. We need miners and loggers.

Dune is the story of an economic and ecological tragedy: an incredibly valuable and unique ecosystem that forms the basis of a ecologically friendly resource extraction industry that the galactic economy is based on, is destroyed by a bunch of technologically backwards eco terrorist natives who replaced that fragile ecosystem with yet another boring garden.

Like come on guys. Green, watery, planets are a dime a dozen. Couldn't you just settle for some greenhouses or something? Can't we learn to coexist with sandworms? Canada has learned to coexist with bears.