My best friend was in a famous cult half his life. That's nothing like a cult.
He had unlimited money ($25k a month was nothing) and freedom to do anything he wanted for 15 years. He was never harmed. The organization collapsed as the
elders passed away partially due to the rule of no proselytizing so no new members.
edit: they had about $50M split between 6 people near the end. I don't really know why more people don't do this: register a religious organization, require all members to assign all assets and money to the organization, work together for the rest of your life building your wealth tax free and watch how quick your wealth amplifies as you acquire properties and make investments.
Your friend was in an organisation which (a) didn't recruit new members, (b) gave its members total freedom to do whatever they wanted, and (c) gave its members money? And you're calling this organisation a cult?
No offence, but is English your first language? This sounds entirely unrelated to the concept of a cult. I think you're just describing a company, an LLP with a religious focus.
I think you believe a "cult" only means a situation where people are held against their will by crazy religious nuts trying to assert their sovereignty. Those are the only examples the media wants you to know about.
Hearing about a group of people who have successfully implemented small scale communism with a religion involved and they thrived for over 100 years isn't something you want to shout from the rooftops as it would encourage more of this behavior.
That's not a cult, then. Its just an odd religious community.
In contemporary English, cult refers specifically to brainwashy abusive practices that attempt to control every aspect of the person's life and tend not to allow you to leave.
Some groups like the Amish and the ultra-Orthodox Jews in North America live in insular communal societies, but most would not describe them as cults. (Though sometimes the more isolationist groups do get called so, maybe with some cause.)
a cult in the pejorative sense is one in which members exhibit what used to be called "snapping," where the confluence of dogma internalization and pressure to resist out-group messaging effectively disables one's ability to question their in-group messaging.
Honestly it’s not; the legal definition of a religion is so loose in the US that you can literally have a religion based around being rich bringing you closer to happiness. It would be fully legal and sheltered from taxes under the law (you, however, would have to pay taxes on any distribution from the “church”).
There aren't any distributions if you don't personally own any assets or have any bank accounts -- the "church" pays for it all on your behalf. You also don't fit any legal definition of an employee either.
I believe it is the norm, but nobody talks about the ones that are operating successfully. You only hear about the ones that end in shootouts with the feds.
That does sound similar except you'd have younger employed members making money to add to the pool of equity and also working on self sustainability like farming to feed the members. Not all members in the aforementioned org lived together past the 1970s or whatever; they often were sent to live and maintain on properties the org owned all around the world.
based on description (famous, 100 years old, pooling financial assets but no proselytizing so it amounts to a tontine with a dualist story attached) sounds like the Shakers or some offshoot.
"The file contains 16 zipped files, which again contains 16 zipped files, which again contains 16 zipped files, which again contains 16 zipped, which again contains 16 zipped files, which contain 1 file, with the size of 4.3GB. So, if you extract all files, you will most likely run out of space :-)"
Why recursively extract zip files? Well maybe a security tool is truing to inspect or process zip file contents
From another comment summarizing contents it seems this research focuses on danger of permanent damage. Just because there isn't permanent damage from blue screen light doesn't mean that it can't also be more comfortable to you and promote healthy sleep to filter it out
Not really what you were asking but I thought I'd throw it out there anyway.
On an iPhone, Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Color Filter > Select Color Tint > Select Deep Red > Intensity 100% & Hue 100%.
Go back to Accessibility and select Accessibility Shortcut > Select Color Filters.
When I'm reading in bed, I triple press the right button and it turns my red filter on. I've noticed a significant decrease in eye strain and I find it doesn't keep me up at night.
I know that is counter to this post, but it works for me so might be worth a try.
The human eye has quite a lot of chromatic aberration, and if you basically get rid of the blue it makes it a lot easier to focus on distant things.
My vision is perfectly corrected for infinity when I have my glasses on under normal conditions, but at night when my pupils are wide open, I simply cannot focus to infinity at blue wavelengths.
I used to get frequent headaches and eye strain during work. I bought blue light filtering glasses, and the problem went away instantly and hasn't come back. Placebo or not?
Same here but maybe it's simply a case the filtering out blue reduces the total light intensity enough to be easier on the eyes. Wonder if similar results could be accomplished by filtering red instead or simply turning down the brightness on our devices and using lower lumen bulbs around the house.
Blue light has more energy per photon (energy is proportional to frequency). Therefore, it is better at ejecting photons from atoms and damaging molecules than other visible light. UV is even worse.
Also, semi-related, eyes are less sensitive to blue light, so if you want to achieve the same effective perceptual brightness, you need more photons if it's a higher color temperature.
I also sleep better on days when I wear my glasses (which have a blue blocking coating) as compared to my contacts. Unfortunately the contacts provide better vision, thanks to my astigmatism.
It doesn't. But my contacts correct for my astigmatism much better than my glasses do (which may or may not have any astigmatism correction, I'm not sure). So the vision I get out of my contacts is sharper than my glasses, but my glasses offer blue blocking. Tradeoffs.
doesn't the zfs diff command mostly cover it? You have snapshots, diffs, and clones which is basically equivalent to commits, diffs, and branches. You're missing commit logs and that's it, right?
If you introduce a new file onto multiple ZFS 'branches', there is no way to have it stored copy-on-write.
But copying a file from one 'branch' to another is the only way to emulate a cherrypick or merge.
So after a while of active use with many branches, you're going to have a lot of redundant copies of files all over. You're no longer making proper use of snapshots, and it becomes less efficient than having a working directory and a directory full of commits that hard link to each other.
It's not about double spend. It's entirely possible two miners successfully mine a block simultaneously but one of the miners didn't include your transaction in the block they mined. Now there's two competing blockchains and every miner chooses which one is the truth... longest blockchain wins, so whichever gets the most participants is likely to be the final blockchain
Now your transaction may not be included until a future block or be lost forever, though I'm not certain what it takes to be dropped from the mempool.
The wait for confirmation is exactly to avoid double spend (but not only), as the Bitcoin wiki says[0].
> It's entirely possible two miners successfully mine a block simultaneously but one of the miners didn't include your transaction in the block they mined.
The example you make would work with just 1 block of confirmation, just keep try to include the transaction into the next block.
> longest blockchain wins, so whichever gets the most participants is likely to be the final blockchain
It's more about hashrate power rather than number of participants, however the longest blockchain of confirmed blocks wins, unconfirmed blocks may be invalidated and transactions pushed to the next ones or dropped.
> I'm not certain what it takes to be dropped from the mempool.
After 2 weeks[1] the transaction is considered invalid and should get dropped from the mempool (not all nodes use the same software version or they may run a fork with different settings)
I'm not really sure if this is the proof I'm looking for.
The author of the video was explaining how the LN works and it seems to be an exponential routing calculation problem ( similar to traveling salesman )
So while it could work for 75 k channels, it's not going to work for 1 million.
If the explanation of that video is correct (since you didn't disagree that), then how many channels it has now is irrelevant from my POV.
Considering how important it is to keep Lithium Ion batteries within a safe temp range for longevity and the risk of thermal runaway I'm not so sure we will ever see easily replaceable batteries again without a new chemistry.
Everyone seems to have fond memories of their AA's and NiCad's but ignores that replaceable Lithium tend to suck... all my old phones that had replaceable batteries like the Google Nexus had batteries that got way too hot and subsequently lost their ability to hold a full charge
He had unlimited money ($25k a month was nothing) and freedom to do anything he wanted for 15 years. He was never harmed. The organization collapsed as the elders passed away partially due to the rule of no proselytizing so no new members.
edit: they had about $50M split between 6 people near the end. I don't really know why more people don't do this: register a religious organization, require all members to assign all assets and money to the organization, work together for the rest of your life building your wealth tax free and watch how quick your wealth amplifies as you acquire properties and make investments.