Well I certainly don't think it was your fault. From what I've read he had a very troubled past, and was only 83 pounds when he died, so clearly had been starving, possibly intentionally or possibly in a sleeping "outage" that he apparently did on occasion to deal with problems. With thousands in cash on hand, and just 5 miles from a town.

It certainly is intriguing you report he told you himself he is Satoshi. Did you ask questions and did he elaborate further? If someone told me that, I would want to know why he chose to disappear, what he had been doing since then, etc.

I did a quick search and all I could dig up regarding employment is that he worked as a "star programmer" for a company named "Shopper's Choice", but quit sometime around 2013, after which he may have done some contracting and/or lived off savings. He did a lot of gaming, and supposedly used the handle "vaejor" for "decades". Yet searching on "vaejor" yields few results from before his identify was announced, and I didn't see any github or linkedin account matching that username.

Basically, I was looking for anything that seemed to indicate he had the necessary skills/background, and that he had free time 2008-2009, that he had a libertarian+cypherpunk bent, but not seeing evidences yet.

Also, some articles say he left everything in his apartment including wallet, keys, credit cards, but no mention of anything related to bitcoin.

This is the first time I've heard anyone make this claim/connection. Kinda fun speculatio, but can you point to any evidence? "Worked in tech" and "hid his identity" are hardly conclusive...

I tried it out for about 10 minutes.

Maybe I'm using it wrong, but...

1. I added a URL to the canvas. A link to a github repo. I was expecting a little preview to appear, or possibly just a link. Instead there is a big mostly empty, useless area that just says "github.com", not even the repo name. and I have the option to "view in a new tab". And this is *after* I explicitly set a title, as the repo name. Oh, and if I click on "View in sidebar", then I get the same mostly empty area with "View in a new tab". wow. a stupendous way to organize and preview links.

2. I imported a text file, with .txt extension. I was expecting, ya know, text to appear on the canvas. Instead, you guessed it, another huge amount of whitespace with "Download" at the top. I guess it's too tricky to figure out how to display... text.

Other things I tried were about equally as (un)intuitive. Gonna give this one a pass I think.

this is true. the thought-police are strong on HN.

Yay for herd mentality.

I believe jumbo jets could run on hydrogen and that would be "climate friendly", at least the burning of it in the sky. Though I don't know if we are able to store it densely enough yet to be practical.

Also, hydrogen producing wells have been discovered in the past few years, so that's kind of interesting.

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nice citation.

It should be obvious to everyone that wearing a mask non-stop is a bad idea for the same reason we don't route a hose from the car's exhaust to the air intake.

spot on. I made a similar comment.

Also, people have been talking about this since the Matrix movie first came out, and even before just less publicly. Hell Rene Descarte taught us all about it in the 17th century.

Physicists don't seem to be making much real progress these days, so I guess they come up with stuff like this instead....

"cogito, ergo sum". whoops.

heh, in 25+ years slashdot has never figured out how to make an 'edit comment' feature.

Of course we *could* be living in a simulation. Or a cosmic video game. Or in an endless series of simulations, Or as part of some Alien's imagination. or maybe only I exist. Or God(s) made us, or..., or..., or... ad infinitum.

Descarte taught us long ago, ergo cogito, sum. I think therefore I am. I exist, somehow. And that's all I can ever really know because my every sense could be deceived.

Let's say we are in a simulation. That implies there is an underlying physical reality of the realm that created the simulation. Regardless, our simulation exists in some form within that reality. Just as a video game character exists in some fashion within our reality, even if they do not exist in the same manner that we do.

To the video game character, our reality is unknowable. It could speculate all it wants, but it will only ever be guesses. So why bother, other than to understand there are infinite, unknowable possibilities, duh.

So we go about our daily lives operating under occam's razor. This is the true reality, or at least A true reality. Other people actually exist. Acting otherwise all the time would be insanity.

And some of us understood all this already as children, so why do we need to keep hearing physicists talking about it like some kind of great discovery?

well said!

Hey where can I get a software upgrade that will increase my laptop's processing power 37 times and memory 20 times over current capabilities"?

Government *is* organized crime. By definition.

Government is a protection racket. They have territories. They do not allow the population with those territories to opt-out of their "protection". They require a cut of the population's earnings. If people do not pay, they send henchmen around to collect... or else. They tell the population they are "here to help" and will protect you.

The boundary between organized crime and state actors is not blurred at all. There is no boundary.

Government is simply the biggest and most successful mafia in a particular territory. It is so successful that it takes on a (thin) veneer of legitimacy. It defends its supremacy vigorously and with lethal force.

Any programmer could submit a pull-request to implement the proposed changes.

Almost guaranteed it would be rejected by the other developers. However, even if somehow they all agreed to accept it and that code got into an "official" release of bitcoin-core, the entire community would need to upgrade to it, creating a hard-fork in the process.

This would be so hugely controversial that it is inconceivable a majority of the network would upgrade.

Craig Wright knows this. It is unclear what his true motivations are. He's a weird guy.

Anyway, regardless of what happens with this court case, there is no way the bitcoin network (aka community) will ever accept such a change. not even (and especially) if a judge were to somehow decree the change be made in bitcoin-core.

People would simply a) not upgrade, and b) fork to a different software repository.

and partial autonomy is all that will ever be achieved. These things are not sentient. At some point VC money is going to run out and society is going to decide this driverless car thing was worth trying but ultimately doomed to failure.