I just saw the much talked about film “Project Hail Mary.” It's very entertaining and uplifting and features a fine performance from Ryan Gosling. But what most intrigued me were the powerful Christian themes at play in it. The title, of course, refers to the Hail Mary pass in football, since the adventure undertaken is a fairly desperate attempt to save the planet. But it also becomes eminently clear that the reference is not just to football but to the Blessed Mother herself, for the Gosling character is undoubtedly a Christ-figure. I don't want to give away too much of the plot, but it involves a willingness to sacrifice one's life utterly in order to deliver the entire human race from disaster. It is, of course, no accident that Gosling's character is called Ryland Grace, for throughout the movie, his presence and actions constitute undeserved favor to others. A particularly intriguing character in the film is a sober German scientist who relentlessly presses Grace to make the supreme sacrifice, even when he is unwilling. She represented for me the great moral demand that presses upon us throughout our lives, continually summoning us to self-gift. A last observation: Jesus had a second in command whom he called Peter (the Rock); Ryland Grace has a very unusual sidekick whom he calls “Rocky.” I'll leave it at that. I know lots of people say that Christianity is in irreversible decline and that we are inhabiting, at least in the West, a post-Christian society. I'm not so sure. Like it or not, we remain a Christ-haunted culture—and a film like “Project Hail Mary” makes this clear.

guys that have 128GB of RAM on their system right now:

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump announced the United States will be taking a 10% stake in chipmaker Intel, as part of a deal negotiated by Trump and Lutnick WOW! When asked why no other President did this, Trump said "because we were run by STUPID PEOPLE!" 🤣

BSV just died. Like for real… it just died

This conclusion is wrong. The difficulty target is NOT a function of total hashrate. It is a function of BLOCK TIME. There is NO mechanism in the code by which total hashrate is used, calculated, or ever know.

Correct me if I'm wrong but... If enough eth validators were owned by public ethereum treasury companies (~20% of total eth supply), you could 51% attack the public equities (ie take majority control, many ways to achieve that via capital markets)- and you'd have governance control over ethereum. In other words securities law would become eth's consensus mechanism.

just got rejected from yc for using all lowercase in our application

There is no sustained economic demand for >80 byte OP RETURNs. Core are *creating* the demand by making nodes start relaying it by default. The gaslighting will continue until understanding improves.

Best idea I've heard at Bitcoin Vegas US government should use quantum computers to take old coins to fund the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve If USG doesn't, CCP probably will

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definitive proof satoshi was a time traveler