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Comment Sure (Score 2) 277

But what about people who weigh way more than all the stuff that I'm carrying times 100? Why are not airlines addressing this "minor" issue as more weight means more fuel? Or it's not about it? If it's not about weight then what?

There are people who are overweight/obese due to medical issues (or even pregnancy), but the vast majority simply eat too much or eat junk food. Maybe extra body mass could be actually addressed first.

Comment Re:7 transactions per second is bad (Score 2) 68

Somebody needs to explain how its going to be the currency of the world when it can only do 7 transactions per second.

The Lightning Network but it's not perfect.

Also somebody should explain to me why bitcoin is the best of all cryptocurrencies, just because it was the first. Satoshi?

The first - yes, the best? doubtful. What really sets Bitcoin apart is that it has no creator (Satoshi has never been discovered, some believe he's not just one person, he represented an organization) or company behind it. There are developers but they don't run around advertising it or promising anything. There's a sense that it's truly public, decentralized and there's no personal interest involved.

Comment Great (Score 5, Insightful) 276

This is great news. Now please ban the use of plastic for packaging of small items. Literally everything is wrapped in tons of plastic.

And then it would be nice to see to return to glass packaging for milk and its derivatives, e.g. yogurt. And make it so that returning the packaging would grant you money or a discount on new purchases, so that people would be incentivized to do so.

Comment Re:Well, India is correct. (Score 1) 35

Fees are just fine for most coins except Bitcoin which is currently not meant to buy burgers.

Transaction fees per chain:
Ethereum: $1.4
Tether: from 0 to $1
BNB: under 0.45%, normally under 0.07%
Solana: $0.00025
XRP: $0.0002

And even for Bitcoin the fee now stands at $10 regardless of the transaction volume. You may send 1000 bitcoins ($47 million) and still pay exactly $10. Regular transfers between banks are a lot more expensive for such huge sums of money.

Speaking of crypto coins "largely" used for illegal activities. FBI reported a few years ago that the illegal volume of transactions on crypto chains was less than 1%.

Speaking of crypto coins not being used for anything useful: welcome to the world of failing economies where there's sky high inflation and people don't have any means to invest into something decent/worthy and countries with heavy money transfer restrictions.

Amazing how on /. ages old myths are regurgitated again and again. I mean Silk Road ceased to exist 11 years ago for Christ's sake.

Comment Onto the Q (Score 1) 148

What does it mean to "use"? To encode (lossless) audio in Ogg Vorbis? I stopped doing that over a decade ago. To have and listen to audio files encoded using Vorbis? I have those but I've long switched to AAC as my primary lossy audio codec.

As for raw numbers: in my audio collection there are 356 files in Ogg Vorbis, 127 in Opus (youtube rips), 2392 in AAC, 1430 in MP3 and 1292 in FLAC.

Vorbis had it limited run as a better/open/patent-free alternative to MP3 but then most people encode for themselves, so in the end the best supported codec wins out, and that's AAC nowadays. Why not MP3? AAC at roughly 192Kbps is comparable to MP3 at 320Kbps. And then Apple with all its might chose it.

As for online music stores, AAC is king (Apple iTunes), MP3 is close second, then come FLAC/PCM/WAV. And if not for downloading/buying but listening to, YouTube is primarily Opus, so you just cannot neglect it.

Vorbis? Spotify, some obscure online radio stations and that's probably it.

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