You're welcome. I've taken to checking every quote I use against Quote Investigator to start, and then trying to find it elsewhere if they haven't done it. I've gone down some rabbit holes until I find a random letter written in 1787 that ties it conclusively to an author, but I think it's better that effort than getting the attribution wrong.

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. -Benjamin Franklin

There is no indication that Franklin ever said that, or anything like it. The earliest known version (with ages of 25 and 60) is from 1925, some 135 years after Franklin died, and was attributed to orator G.E. Marchand. The earliest attribution was a mention in 1987, but it contained no reference to any of his works.

Congrats to you as well! :) Baby is only slightly premature, being induced at 2.5-3 weeks early due to size.

Nice idea.

If you pinch "imply" hard enough you can make it mean "infer"

That statement itself is enough to pinch all the linguists out there. :P

What makes that the "correct" version? It seems the line has quite the history and has taken on many forms. Fwiw, Wikipedia justifies "implies".

I ought to be jealous of you. But i'm much too lazy.

I think they've been reluctant to do this because of concerns that not having it tied to a phone number will make spam easier. As it is, I get one or two spam messages every couple of months, and while it's not impacting me right now, it could become a major problem later, made worse by Signal being completely unable to filter based on content by design.

On top of that, if they see sharply higher uptake and use enabled by email addresses, they would also face higher bills, and as an organization that is heavily reliant on donations, they have to watch those costs. Their 2022 US Form 990 filings showed $26.1 million in revenues against $30.5 million in expenses. They had $37.3 million in assets against $33.1 million in liabilities. Their net assets have plummeted in the last few years from nearly $39 million in 2019 to only $4.2 million in 2022.

China is moving away from holding long-term US debt. Their holdings peaked at $1.3 trillion in 2014, and it's down to about $770 billion, give or take a few billion, in the last few months, a decline of 40%. Part of this is selling existing bonds, some of it is redeeming bonds that have matured. They are not buying nearly as much as they used to, and it's not an issue of trust that they won't be paid back. They bought them because they fully expected to be paid back, and they were. The Chinese government is in part worried about capital flight, and is trying to keep foreign currency in the country, partially for trade use and partially to prop up the market for the yuan (which officially trades within a narrow official band but unofficially trades much more widely). They're also shifting to other assets like agency bonds and short-term T-bills and notes, which gets them some profit but keeps dollars cycling back into China. They're not completely out of the T-bond market, but they are reducing their overall position.

It is not "full" with tritium. On Earth, tritium makes up 10E-18 of hydrogen atoms. There are about 4.6E49 molecules of water on/in Earth. Rounded off, that's about 10E48 hydrogen atoms in water. That means there are about 10E30 tritium atoms in all the water on/in the planet. Using Avogadro's number, that's 10E30/6.023E23, or 1.66 million grams of tritium. So yes, technically there is much more tritium in the oceans, but it is still less than two metric tons in the entire world, and that's only if you could process the entirety of the world's water supply. It would be much less expensive to manufacture it, whether by CANDU reactors, TPBARs, or lithium blankets.

That's just someone sending to a wallet. What was the last confirmed communication or transaction from Satoshi?