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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @cointastical 1 Jun \ on: 🚂5 Years Without a Raise Now the Trains Stop Construction_and_Engineering
Soon, I will be able to schedule a RoboTaxi to pick me up near my office at 4:17 pm. I then will take that to a bus hub, where I board a RoboShuttle that will, in 5 minutes or less, depart to a hub closer to my home. From there I find my waiting RoboTaxi which brings me home.
Even if that takes 10 minutes longer than driving myself, I was able to check e-mail, text chat, make phone calls, etc., all the way -- because I wasn't driving.
In the morning I do that same route but in reverse.
With such an option there is no longer any reason for commuter rail to exist -- except perhaps for a couple direct and/or express routes that connect major hubs.
As more people discover the convenience and speed of this robotaxi/shuttle route method, highway congestion decreases.
If I share my wifi with a neighbor, I trust they aren't abusing that and are being respectful to not waste my bandwidth, for example.
WIth Tollgate-OS that lets me put a (minimal) price on that bandwidth, and if they want to stream video 24x7, they can -- they just would have to pay more for doing that. They can even run a Tollgate-OS router and re-sell my bandwidth to their neighbors, and earn a little profit themselves. And their neighbors can do the same (though, each additional hop increases latency, so there are limits).
I don't know meshnets well, but I presume they strive to ensure optimal routing and are fault tolerant where, if one path slows, or goes down, your traffic continues through another path.
I don't know Tollgate's roadmap for that specifically but the software choosing which upstream Tollgate node to automatically purchase from next, based on cost, is something planned.
Gift cards don't always get redeemed, and of those that do get redeemed, many are not redeemed right away.
It varies by issuer retailer and market category, but generally (rough estimates) about a quarter of cards remain unredeemed after one year.
That unredeemed amount is (eventually) booked as "breakage", which is pure profit to the retailer.
So they are getting cash for the sale of the gift card, and booking that as a liability until it is redeemed. So a gift card is like an interest-free loan (albeit with uncertain repayment date) to the retailer.
Why would they give that up? I suppose they could operate an underfunded mint and add funds as needed based on card redemption, but I suspect an electronically transferrable card balance would increase redemption rates. (e.g., due to regifting, as one example. I got a Best Buy card, but I'ld rather have the sats so I trade it online -- and since there's essentially no risk to the buyer I can sell it near its face value).
Made a typo and then found that someone registered and put up a post on StakerNews.com
What's surprising is how many of use cannot type:
AI AGENTS EMERGENCY DEBATE: These Jobs Won't Exist In 24 Months! We Must Prepare For What's Coming!
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Of course not. UBI is something completely else.
What I'm describing is how mining uses excess generation capacity, which increases the financial performance of the producer (generation), who then can lower rates charged to the utilities, who in turn lower the rates charged to the consumer.
Nothing universal about that. But it is fair.
That already happens. Bitcoin revenue from private mining ops paying for excess electricity generated permits the utility to lower rates for all ratepayers. This happens in Texas, Kenya, and elsewhere.
Tollgate is bitcoin-enabled hotspot (captive portal, payment required) software. To receive payment for bandwidth they use CashU. This works as the sender doesn't need to be online, and Tollgate can lock the payment once received as it is online.
Who is advising President Trump? This is nuts.
It was closed because it was so expensive to operate. it will still be extraordinarily expensive to operate compared to a prison built almost anywhere else. And there will be so much reconstruction required -- on an island, where the nearest land is nearly the most expensive in the country.
From a reply further down the thread ... he does really know how to make his point:
But it's also a poor argument because anything Satoshi said would have been a decade ago and said without the practical experience of actually seeing Bitcoin used, and that he was saying it as part of a discussion and not some contract or constitution. We have forum posts from him, not stone tablets.
One of surprises today was how well #meshtastic network worked for me during Portugal power outage. Thanks to my node I had enough information about what's going on even when I had no other connectivity (no TV, cellular, internet).