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not a downvoter, but a criticism is yhat BTC doesnt actually offer defenses agaisnt double spend, at least when you use it to buy something.

if the chain swaps a month from now and drops my bbq purchase, the bbq shop isnt getting their bbq back, even though i get my BTC back on the new chain. the ethereum fork for ethereum classic also doubled everyone's wallets, which i'd consider to be a double spend

The double spend protection is quite limited, so whats the big loss from lightning?


First, if people didn't believe that BTC protects from double spend, then it would not be used by anybody. Secondly, the whole point of the proof of work scheme is that it's impossible, or at least extraordinarily costly, for anyone to outrun the main chain enough to publish a new block that replaces blocks from a week ago. It's in fact considered impossible for blocks from an hour or so ago.

So, assuming the BBQ supplier waited about an hour for confirmation, the chance that the money would be lost is minuscule with BTC transactions. With Lightning transactions, the same is not true at all - the customer could close their channel abruptly two months later when the BBQ joint is on vacation, and the money would suddenly vanish forever (assuming they don't catch the fraud in the time window before it becomes permanent).

Of course, in both cases, if you're the person who sent the money and the BBQ never arrived, you're out of luck entirely. Which is why the claim that BTC or Lightning enable trustless monetary transactions is mostly bogus, even with a no-double-spend guarantee. And waiting one hour for a payment to a BBQ joint to clear is basically unworkable (and the reality is more like two hours - one hour for the transaction to make it to be mined, and the other hour to confirm the block where it was included remains permanent).


you could challenge it by saying youve touched US dollars, and therefore theres a US nexus where US law, and thus the constitution, applies


in this case its to make sure people arent criticising a third party.

say something bad about israel, and you lose entry to the US, if you're poor


i dont want to have to find it all those docs though.

its much faster if i hand it a packet


the value is being able to extend the internal website mcp, so it can grab the data i need.

i can script across a billion systems that i would never go through the work of getting auth/setting up all the service calls and workflows for.

the mcp doesnt need any new permissions, its just what ive got website access to


as the official communication tool for the US government national security team, isnt signal required by law to recall now?


is that trillion with some PPP correction or without?


if you dont make any other changes, it will have some detectable impact, but conductivity is linear with all of conductivity, depth, and area; and the other dimensions can also be changed like the screw diameter/pitch or the dimensions of the stud.

its very unlikely that this change will be an important consideration for house building or shopping though. theres simpler spots to reduce heat loss, like double paning your windows


cooked and warm are of course, indistinguishable.

in a mechanical sense, a compressed object goes back to normal when the stress is removed, unless you break it. if the work piece did not go back to its original shape, you arent just conpressing anymore. eg. you are likely "cold working" it instead.

if youre applying heat, you might be "forging" or "casting" while applying that compressive force.

theyre all quite distinct


5. more likely to be nearby certain types of random accidents

6. less likely to be nearby other types of random accidents


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