What does it mean to have cryptocurrency on the spacecraft, physically?

Sounds like a marketing falsehood to me.

I can't imagine what a statement like, "there was 1 bitcoin on board the spacecraft" would mean. It is nonsensical given what bitcoin is, and cryptocurrency in general.

You can have the keys printed on paper and placed onboard but that does not mean there was 1 bitcoin onboard.

> You can have the keys printed on paper and placed onboard but that does not mean there was 1 bitcoin onboard.

There is in the sense that if you go retrieve it (er, well, read and transmit the data) now you have the coin(s).

Unless someone saved a copy, of course.

I guess this was a stunt as a play on the whole "to the moon" thing with crypto? Literally (kinda) sending some to the moon.

Yes, continuing the running joke that is DOGE

https://twitter.com/DogecoinFdn/status/1744189433274941571

They were sending dogecoins. Both the coin and “sending it to the moon” were meant to be a joke in the first place.

>What does it mean to have cryptocurrency on the spacecraft, physically?

Someone took 'to the moon' literally?

Maybe it’s several bitcoins and the first person to get there keeps them all.

Imagine astronauts fight each other on the moon for the bitcoins!

Maybe they have a hardware wallet on board?

Which still wouldn’t change anything. The coin lives on the blockchain. Any sort of wallet or magic words is just the key to move what exists only on the blockchain.

And what exists on the blocking of a cryptocurrency is useless without magic words.

Yeah, maybe the blockchain is in there, too.

If employees are purposefully isolated from the company's expenses, they'll waste money left and right.

Also, they don't care since any incremental savings aren't shared with the employees. Misaligned incentives. In that mentally, it's best to take while you can.

The interesting question is how did you arrive at this site layout where the pricing is hidden in the sign up page when every single SaaS site on the internet has a pricing link in the header and in the footer. Genuinely curious.

> I don't see in your proposal what's moral about not allowing two entities to trade things fair and square.

I'm not sure I follow your point. Copyright operates by preventing trade. If something is under copyright, ~every person possible is banned from freely trading that thing.

You're trading the copyright itself. But you're proposal would ban that.

> it rubs me the wrong way when I buy a used car and lose the warranty by doing so.

That is because the warranty grantor chose to write that into the warranty, is it not? Or do you see someone else being the cause?

I wasn't asking for an explanation. Just pointing out it feels wrong.

Same way, it would feel wrong to have copyright protection and have it go away if the item is sold to someone else.

Amazon too.

Step 1: make sure it's not on the New York Times bestseller list.

That list is quite manipulated. Makes for fascinating reading to see the dynamics of it explained.

There are two processes at play:

- refuse the updated terms of service

- refuse the arbitration

The previous version of the TOS had arbitration too, so I'm not sure what all the stink is about.

Both versions tell you that you have 30 days to opt out of arbitration by emailing arbitrationoptout@...

As usual, the journalists failed at the job and are spreading misinformation.

Current version: https://www.23andme.com/legal/terms-of-service/full-version/

Previous version linked at the bottom: https://www.23andme.com/legal/terms-of-service/full-version/...

Go to both and search for arbitrationoptout@ and you'll see they both have the 30-day opt-out.

Ah, that makes sense now, thank you.

I was confused exactly because arbitration was in the previous ToS, so disagreeing with the new T&S doesn't give you new benefits (other than the full refund in case sampling doesn't work). See Bard [1] / ChatGPT's [2] assessment here.

It seems the 30d opt out was intentionally buried, so folks thought opting out of T&S would get you out of the forced arbitration.

[1] https://g.co/bard/share/9d7782eb4d99

[2] https://chat.openai.com/share/c63c4078-608c-46d7-8529-a9dcac...

"Hostile?" That's quite a loaded word. How about just "tougher?"

What do you base this belief on?

How is their anti-Adblock fight on YouTube not a clear sign?

A big desk. A bunch deeper and longer than the bare minimum. And L-shaped so that I can rest my hand on it.

Having an external monitor behind my laptop screen allows me to change the focal distance of my eyes back and forth, so that's probably good for the eyes.