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Comment · 2 years ago
The article checks the Mercator projection but doesn’t check the Equirectangular projection, which could have been known to the builders of each cathedral.

I wonder if the line is bang on in that projection.

Comment · 2 years ago
I remember stumbling upon this on YouTube and I really enjoyed the simplicity of it
Comment · 2 years ago
Fascinating, thanks for sharing! Makes me wonder if the great pyramid was partially submerged, and if so, by how much.

This account lends some credence to theories of the pyramids functioning as some sort of ram pump in my opinion. (Check out John Cadman’s work if you’re interested).

Comment · 2 years ago
D=document;E=“getElementById”; D[E](“myId”)
Comment · 2 years ago
A number of replies are wondering if I am misunderstanding bitcoin’s UTXO model. Considering the amount of replies I’m going to assume that is the case :). Thanks to most of you for your kind replies!

With that being said I’m still confused about how blockchain.com is representing this data. Consider block 825075 on the bitcoin blockchain.

https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/blocks/btc/825075?page=1...

Not all of the transactions in this block show with multiple outputs where one output is the originating address. In fact if you sort by value ascending you’ll be able to see multiple transactions from the same address to the same address amount to $.13 with fees $2.86 transaction ids 78b1741ee0946380d9ee31d51d160a637394b24b5cfdc2871861d8e1db484d2f and 201a94087323d152911575ea029df9d1a0d46626a1b18211727be913d747e72f and so on.

Now, contrast those transactions with transaction f395de972c4ba3fea85a2c1621bfe9fa238950f6a2eb3d3b4932f7f620f63ce2

Why do they display differently on blockchain.com?

Comment · 2 years ago
Has anybody else poked around in a bitcoin blockchain block explorer recently to look at the individual transactions of a block?

Honestly I find it kind of suspicious but I could easily be missing something. I see multiple transactions spend more on fees than the amount exchanged in the transaction. A number of transactions looked enormous but turned out to be some form of washing. E.g address X sends $100MM worth of bitcoin to two addresses, with ~$1k going to address Y and the rest going right back to address X.

What’s the point? Why not just send $1k to address Y.

I originally started looking around to get a sense for how much bitcoin is being transacted relative to the block reward. As the halvings continue I can’t imagine how miners can profit without exorbitant transaction fees. Many of the transaction fees in the block I looked at were comparable to wire transfer fees.

Why would anybody want to use bitcoin outside of speculation after nearly all 21mm bitcoin are mined? Why would anybody want to continue mining as well?

Comment · 2 years ago
I’m in the same boat. Outside of a professional setting atw style is the only way I write code. I find code easier to manage when I can see more of it at once. I like to use this style in JavaScript as well.
Comment · 2 years ago
Yes, k
Comment · 2 years ago
The fact that we have touch screens in cars in the first place is an abomination.
Comment · 3 years ago

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Comment · 3 years ago
:) we think similarly. I came here to post

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Comment · 3 years ago
Agreed I remember being faster than my friends who preferred the “abc” mode. Not sure if all phones did this but my phones would sort the words by frequency of use for each combination of button presses so T9 kept getting faster the more I used it.

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