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you mean like the klf buring a million pound was good for the gbp?

so bitcoin doesnt go to the moon?

i was expecting to find the nokia 9000 on this list. does this mean it was actually pc compatible?

have you considered buying some btc and send it to your family member? then they can convert it back to whatever that danish excuse for a currency is

am i the only one who expected a review of device drivers provided by tesla?

a society where people are blind to the cruelty of one half while denouncing the cruelty of the other half. that seems to be one of the ingreedience for violence. each side will justify their violence by pointing at the other side. i have seen it before - its not a very original story

it didnt go into detail about the purpose of the = / == padding. and it also didnt show in the example how to handle data that can not be devided into groups of 6 bits without bits left over. i think i have an understanding of how to do it but it would be nice to be certain. could someone address the following 2 questions in a short and exhaustive way:

- when do you use =, when do you use == and do you always add = / == or are there cases where you dont add = / == ?

- how to precisely handle leftover bits. for example the string "5byte". and is there anything to consider when decoding?

this content is not available in my region. what a joke

pascal was the 2nd language i learned after basic and it was the best time of my learning life. the fact that you could add inline assembler code and the early attempts of object oriented programming were amazing. it was turbo pascal 6.0 btw.

this made me think of a fun activity. ask chatgpt to come up with a new word and then google that word. sometimes the word exists in the context of a scify show or a plant. sometimes gpt just added a "se" or "us" to existing words. sometimes it changes a Z to a C but it never actually came up with a new word

whats the range of compensation?

one argument that was repeated over and over by pro fission folks was that an accident like chernobyl could not happen in a "good" country like france, german or japan. seening how one of the most technologicaly advanced countries suffered a contaminating incident that is comparable on scale with chernobyl was a shock to most germans and blew the mentioned agument away. if you were old enough to remember not being allowed to go outside as a child, to see your playgrounds demolished and the sand exchanged, you may be thinking differently about it. for decades it wasnt safe to collect mushrooms in the woods, something germans are or better were quite fond of. i am honestly not sure if its even safe today. nuclear may be safe for the most part but when it goes wrong it goes wrong in such a dramatic way that it is traumatizing.

about 5 decades to late, but non the less impressive

i am using kde neon and have a similar impression

maybe it would help if their users could actually listen to the end of a podcast without it just cutting off after 40ish minutes

i started using firefox for spotify since i dont want to install the app and it would stop playing during potcasts after about ~1hour on chrome

the added value would be decentralized and cencorship resistant. you will probably also not see a lot of ads

what is the point of creating yet another social network unless you have a key feature to make it distinct and valuable? if you just make a twitter / facebook clone for tech people all you are doing is dividing yourself from other people. that might be desireable for some people but i dont think its worth persueing in the long term.

i propose we create something that addresses existing problems and adds new features. a social network not based on yet another website, not based on yet another app with centralized ownership. blockchain is the new hype and promises new features and value. lets make a social network that exists entirely on a cryptoblock chain. i am not talking about creating yet another coin. this is entiely outside of the scope of monetary tokens. lets use the blockchain technology to host text and link posts in a distributed fashion. lets come up with a way to give an incentive to host a copy of the chain. and lets make it completely decentralized. then you have a social network worthy of hackers

given your insight in the matter, would you care to post the correct calculation then?

"If we take the moon's current rate of recession and project it back in time" is a very straight forward way of saying, lets assume the moon receeded from the earth at the current rate.

the "collision" between earth and moon is entirely hypothetical in this context. yes there was probably a colision involved in the creation of the moon, but that is an entirely different storry that has no relevance to this thread besides the fact that it also involves the earth, the moon and the word colision. if you must continue a conversation about the origin of the moon please do it in a new thread, as any further exploration in this context will lead to more confusion and will ultimately do more harm than good

thats true, however the author explicitly stated that the collision point of earth and moon at 1.5 billion years was calculated by assuming the moons CURRENT rate of recession

-- quote -- These have shown that the moon is currently moving 3.8 cm away from the Earth every year.

If we take the moon's current rate of recession and project it back in time, we end up with a collision between the Earth and moon around 1.5 billion years ago. -- end quote --

3.8 cm * 1.500.000.000 = 5.700.000.000 cm = 57.000.000 meter = 57.000 km

distance between earth and moon = 384,399 km according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_distance_(astronomy)

what is wrong here?

not only drinkingwater may be the outcome of this theoretical $4 device. one obsticle to produce cheap hydrogen is that one can not just apply electrolysis to salt water. and many areas with lots of sunlight have limited freshwater to split into its atomic compounds. i am thinking large scale solar in the sahara, used for electrolysis of mediteranian and atlantic sea water

i wonder if this kind of pattern emerges natuarlly from a community of experts. think of how you need lawers who studied for years, to understand whats going on with laws and regulations a similar pattern most certainly emerged within the german tax system. maybe the complexity of the health system is (in part) a similar pattern.

i hypothesis that a community of expert will reiterate on the rules that are present within the community, over and over, until only experts who studied the topic for years can even begin to deal with it.

perhaps there is even a self regulating mechnism. you need to understand a system to a certain degree in order to contribute. at some point the group who can contribute consists soley of experts who studied their field for years. those experts will then contribute and make it slightly more complex. the complexity raises but only to a degree that allows a group of experts to "catch up" with the complexity in order to contribute themselves. if it gets "to complex" it runs out of contributers

ok thank you. after studying he article again it gets clear.

they way the puzzle is described in the article i really dont get whats the problem of a 6x6. especially after looking at the chess board 5x5. assume every number represents a different chess figure:

    1 2 3 4 5 6    21
    2 3 1 5 6 4    21
    3 1 2 6 4 5    21
    4 5 6 1 2 3    21
    5 6 4 2 3 1    21
    6 4 5 3 1 2    21

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