cyphertruck

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by cyphertruck 7mo ago
I just read a series of his books involving "unspace" so nice to see a recommendation. Will check out Shroud.
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by cyphertruck 7mo ago
Been following this movie's development for over 20 years. I give props to Morgan Freeman for trying so hard all this time to get it made. Denis Villeneuve would be a great director for this, and he could make it work. Let's hop
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by cyphertruck 9mo ago
Economics rules everything. How much does this cost vs simply planting trees, when the value of harvesting the trees is included? Since tree farms are generally profitable, and wood is expensive, it seems this method is likely to be econo
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by cyphertruck 1y ago
I stopped when he flubbed the first point. No, it’s not correct users have to just hope big miners will mine their transactions. For two reasons: 1. They pay them. Do you trust “big grocery” will provide you food, or did you start a farm i
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by cyphertruck 1y ago
That money will be provided via a loan, from the US Government, at a reasonable interest rate. USG doesn't lose money, TSMC gets to expand into all of Intels fabs (when they raise the money to buy a controlling interest in INTC down t
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by cyphertruck 1y ago
This isn't corruption or coercion. This is a deal. These are terms being offered. They can say no, or counter. But these terms benefit all parties-- TSMC can eventually buy out intel, get lots of top end fabs, bring their superior p
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by cyphertruck 1y ago
It actually wouldn't. The sale price will be pretty close to the current market price, maybe %10 more. If the Government kicks in funds to underwrite the deal (say a loan to TSMC) then the deal would likely happen exactly at market p
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by cyphertruck 1y ago
This is like an old fashioned Civilization game trade. Taiwan gets a significant ownership in a blue chip US company, TSMC should then take %51 control over intel, and turn it around. The US gets a stronger position with China such that c
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by cyphertruck 1y ago
These cuts are absolutely not the ones I would make, but the reality is not as it is being portrayed. The claim that SpaceX does not do science is false. Not only do they launch most of NASA's science missions, which counts, they also
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by cyphertruck 1y ago
The traditional finance system is that a single central bank, owned by a cartel of rich banks- chase, jpm, etc-- issue the currency, charge us to use it and get first dibs on the benefits of monetary inflation -- google "cantillon effe
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by cyphertruck 2y ago
Apollo took up an appreciable percentage of the GDP… this is a small startup with a fraction of the funding. Firefly landed successfully, but they are bigger. This is a hardware rich, inexpensive program, and they could fly probably 100 mi
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by cyphertruck 2y ago
It's been announced, and is surely being designed, but they are only building hardware for V2 right now. Most likely V2 will continue as long as they need to get dialed in what they want V3 to be, then they will switch. V2 seems to b
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by cyphertruck 2y ago
Going somewhere and paying for things to boost the local economy is not "exploitation". This is just agitprop.
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by cyphertruck 2y ago
The internet was originally designed to be robust in the face of nuclear war, but that meant packets could be routed over the network even when individual point to point connections were lost. I remember seeing an ad for whose premise was a
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by cyphertruck 2y ago
It's kinda amazing the results you get just by putting your collection together in something like Jellyfin, and getting the metadata etc. Like having your own Netflix service.... I found I watched a lot more of my movies that way... th
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by cyphertruck 2y ago
From the CEO: https://x.com/lindayax/status/1820838625245880634
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by cyphertruck 2y ago
Government using force, whitewashed with a thin veneer of an NGO to cartelize advertisers and censor twitter is not “free speech”. You pretended to be unaware of the situation then you straight up lie to push the dishonest narrative. You su
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by cyphertruck 2y ago
Except he is not suing advertisers. The Verge is fake news. He is suing a literal cartel after their crime was exposed in congress.
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by cyphertruck 2y ago
Active users on the site is setting records pretty regularly, according to Linda. Usability and performance of the site is far higher than before in my experience as well. Revenue is down only due to an illegal cartel boycott, which X has
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by cyphertruck 2y ago
Criminality on the part of government will only tend to increase as legal recourse is denied, until or unless, illegal recourse becomes fashionable.
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by cyphertruck 2y ago
Yes, and every civil asset forfeiture, every traffic stop, is a felony under 18 U.S. Code § 241. Conspiracy against rights - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/241 or 18 U.S. Code § 242. Deprivation o
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by cyphertruck 2y ago
The "Citizens United" ruling simply said that citizens who pool money to pay for political media do not lose their first amendment rights by doing so in the form of a corporation. (or other entity). In this case it was a group wh
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by cyphertruck 3y ago
There are so many false premises here that it’s not worth listing them. But if the power in the area is coming from coal then every use of that power is equally coal based. Hair dryers use more power than bitcoin mining, ban them first. The
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by cyphertruck 3y ago
I have similar needs, but aldo need them to be outdoor/waterproof and PoE capable. I looked at DIY with Raspberry Pi high quality cameras, but the outdoor requirements mean I really need a manufactured housing. (Camera will be in an ar
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by cyphertruck 4y ago
Ah the old “violence makes it moral” argument. The government cannot do those things under the law, but only by violating the laws. Problem is they have done it so much you think its not only legal, but moral! Innocent until proven guilty.
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by cyphertruck 4y ago
Government had bo legal right to the bitcoin. Innocent until proven guilty, means the government stole the bitcoin in a criminal attempt to deny him an adequate defense. You can’t “steal” your own property. The government agents involved ar
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by cyphertruck 4y ago
That’s not a bonus, that’s the entire point. Regulations hamstring companies and then deny them the ability to even comply with the regulations because other regulations have hamstrung the supply chain after regulations forced everyone onto
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by cyphertruck 4y ago
I always find these kinds of articles hilarious. Its fun to go back and look at the ones when bitcoin died at $12k, or $3k, or $1k, or $300, and nobody can forget the terrible drop from $100 to $20! If your time horizon is a year, bitcoin
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by cyphertruck 4y ago
Bitcoin is not stuck. Transaction Fees are a little high, almost $0.60. No telling what’s going on with Binance. They may have been fractionally reserved.
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by cyphertruck 4y ago
Except apparently you need to be online to send them the info after you cut the note. So its not really cold storage. What if their company shuts down? You can do cold storage by securing seeds on metal, such as titanium, or any robust mate

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