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Thought we were going to a flat 5k route to attempt a PB. Turns out it was ‘Yorkshire Flat’ 😂 #runstr

Disagree, a lot of what I learnt was how to read and understand scientific literature and write my own reasoned and evidenced conclusions from that. This would have been much harder without guidance.

Spent the day with some old friends who we see, at best, once a year. Can’t remember the last time I laughed so hard.

Real friendships do not need to be cultivated or maintained they just are.

Dear Governments,

1984 was written as a warning not a playbook.

To avoid prosecution would need to also censor content if it ‘could’ be for UK citizen? Ie via vpn or tor

I never made that claim. All I said is that you cannot become immune to sunburn by spending more time outdoors, and, that what we consider attractive is cultural vs tanned skin being the universally accepted height of beauty.

“Yes we burn from the prolonged exposure to heat, as anything does on the planet. That doesn’t mean the sun is bad.”

But your assertion was that you won’t get burnt if you ‘acclimatise’.

“So our bodies evolved to produce melanin over 1,000’s of years of living outdoors and our natural attraction to this is a modern trend?”

Yes, the trend of what is considered ‘attractive’ is cultural not universal and changes over time. Try and find a painting from 18th century England where an ‘attractive’ person is depicted as being tanned. Being tanned meant you were poor and had to work outside for a living. People with ‘porcelain’ skin were considered to be beautiful.

1) No amount of acclimation can prevent getting sunburn if you spend 4hrs out in the sun in Saudi desert in the summer. I welcome you to prove me wrong g on this.

2) Attraction to the tanned skin is a distinctly western and quite modern ‘trend’. For a lot of Indians paler skin is more desirable and they sell skin whitening products. Until fairly recently in the west very pale skin was considered desirable.

Going to be in legoland later this week. Maybe there will be some other nerd dads there. Maybe.

At the very least you have to have some actors pretending to have been shot and some form of official signing fake death certificates (someone allegedly died right?)

Without the having the actual spread sheet this is about the best that I can respond.

Bennett's formula calculates refraction for light from distant celestial bodies (e.g., stars, the Sun) entering the atmosphere at high altitudes.

Terrestrial theodolite measurements (e.g., sighting distant peaks) require a different refraction coefficient due to localized atmospheric effects near Earth's surface, such as temperature gradients and pressure variations

Seems great while you’re watching for the 1st time until you realise they have no clue where they are going with the story.

The ending was so weak (the equivalent of how I would end stories when I was 10) it made me regret wasting my time watching the show.

Until the final season I would have given it a 7/10. After the final season 1/10.

Wouldn’t Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists (add any other religion you like) say the same thing but about their religion?

I believe absolutely that there is no god. Can you provide me with any verifiable, non anecdotal, evidence to convince me that only your god exists and all the others a hokum and / or every other religions interpretation is wrong?

If Abrahamic god does exist why did he give different messages to the Jews, Christians and Muslims? If he’s all powerful why allow for the confusion? Even within these branches there’s confusion; orthodox, Roman Catholic, Church of England, Methodist, Shia, Sunni. Are you trying to tell me that an all powerful god can’t even manage to communicate the proper way to worship him to us? And don’t give me any ‘free will’ BS. If he wants us to choose the correct religion and brand there of what possible reason could he have for marking it so difficult?

“Under all scrutiny”? No religion stands up to even the most light handed interrogation. Whenever the argument relies on ‘you just have to believe’ that’s a hard out for me. I can believe in Santa all I want it’s never going to make him real.

Believe in whatever makes you happy but don’t try and tell me something is truth based on the fact that you and some people you know believe it.

Replying to Avatar Bill Cypher

Here is what I learned arguing with people on both sides of the op_return argument. Cunningham's Law in full effect for sure.

1. The Bitcoin blocksize limit is unaffected by the PR. A full archival node is going to grow hard drive storage at up to 4MB every 10 minutes, that number does not change.

2. That 4MB is with maxed out witness data. The base block limit is 1MB, also unchanged.

3. Op_return is base block data while most current arbitrary data schemes store in the larger witness data area.

4. The true limits were always only at the block total level. The total can be made up of any combination of sizes of the sub fields, this is unchanged. My initial assumption on this was backwards. I thought the block limit came from the collection of limits of sub types of data because of my background in networking where that is how the TCPIP packet limits are set. See my incorrect posts earlier where I got this wrong and got corrected.

5. Any "limit" on any particular field size that you set only affects your mempool. This means those limits affect what is in RAM on your node only, not drive space or bandwidth consumption.

6. Your node always validated blocks with any op_return that fits into the base block. This is true of core, libre, and knots. This is why the large op_returns during the dispute did not cause a chain fork even though knots had a limit of 80.

7. More bluntly, nothing changes about what blocks validate. The node runners still have full control over validation and they are not being asked to change validation rules.

8. Only what is carried in mempool will change and no hardware usage changes for nodes.

9. From a TX side, getting nodes to carry the larger op_returns in mempool means they don't have to pay miner accelerator markups. Removing the markup will make op_returns cheaper than the witness data schemes used by most current arbitrary data. This is the entire purpose of the change.

10. Changing op_return to be cheaper than witness data should get arbitrary data users to prioritize using op_return.

11. Witness data cannot be purged from a pruned node without losing economic transactions. Op_returns can be purged in a pruned node, though this may change if future L2s require op_return arbitrary data. That would only affect node runners who wanted to support that L2.

12. 11 means that after the change pruned nodes should have lower hard drive capacity requirements for the same amount of arbitrary data stored on chain.

13. Very slowly for the back of the class. It should be easier for people who don't want to store arbitrary data to not store arbitrary on their node hard drives after the change.

14. Not keeping large op_returns in mempool means you have an incomplete view of who you are bidding against when you set fees for your on chain transactions. Right now this is not a big deal because there aren't many large open_returns. Once there are more, particularly during arbitrary data rushes like the taproot wizards craze, you may wait many blocks after paying what you thought was a next block fee.

15. 14 is most important for lightning where timely automated transactions can be critical such as justice transactions.

16. Mempool has a user set size limit. It drops transactions based on fee. Only the highest fee TXs stay in mempool if mempool size exceeds your limit. This means that storing large op_returns in mempool does not increase RAM requirements for your node.

17. Satoshi stored arbitrary data in op_return not witness data.

So TLDR.

I support the change now. For people who don't want their node resources used for arbitrary data, this makes it easier for you while Knots actually makes it harder. I'll be staying on core and I will be upgrading.

That said, I still think core and the insiders who support this handled it like a bunch of asshats. Pathetic public relations and they need to do much better in the future if they want to be taken seriously. If one person doesn't get it they may be an idiot, if the entire class doesn't get it you are a shitty teacher. Stop condescending and work on your teaching skills.

I can’t say I understand all of the technical aspects but from everything I have read and after listening to Shinobi on WBD I am in agreement. This is not as big a deal as people are making it out to be.

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