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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • Do you mind providing additional info on previous reusable rockets. I’m not able to find any successfully reused rockets prior to the Falcon 9.

    Edit: The space shuttle doesn’t count as a reusable rocket.

    Edit 2: Humanity as only achieved partial reusability so far. SpaceX will likey be the first to achieve full reusability with their Starship. Of course credit for this should not go to Elon but to Gwynne Shotwell and the rest of the SpaceX team.










  • I’m happy to briefly address those for you. For starters I’m only referring to Bitcoin, and not other “crypto”.

    • The base layer is indeed “to slow and expensive” to make day to day purchases such as coffee. However layer 2 applications built on top of the base layer, such as the lighting network, enable nearly instant transactions extremely cheaply.
    • Bitcoin solves many problems with existing currencies, all you have to do is look to countries with failed economic systems. Or the billion people around the world who lack access to even the most basic financial services, such as banking. You may not see a use for it but people living under failed regimes do.
    • This is much more complicated and it’s difficult to explain the advantages of securing a monetary system with energy in a concise way so I’ll instead say this. The energy necessary to secure the network is indeed a cost, but without a complete understanding of Bitcoin you cannot evaluate if it is outweighed by the benefits. Of course I believe the benefits far outweigh the cost.

    Hopefully that helps.





  • I’m glad you put the effort in, it’s the only way humanity can improve upon itself.

    I agree with what you’ve said and think this graphic agrees with you as well. I don’t believe it implies that violence should be used against the intolerant but rather that action should be taken to remedy intolerance.

    However I do see what you mean, as it’s phrasing doesn’t preclude violence either and could be further refined to highlight that point.