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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Three indictments so far, each of which cover multiple crimes that were part of the same general activity. Multiple instances of the same crime, called charges, are totaled as separate “counts”. For example, the latest indictment has 4 charges of 4 different crimes, each of which only has one count. Compare that to the second indictment in the secret documents case, which has 31 counts of the same crime (“willful retention of national defense information”), plus a few more counts of additional crimes.

    You are correct that there are currently 78* individual instances of crime which the former President has been arrested and charged for committing. That was a crazy sentence to type, but here we are.

    Hopefully that helps make a bit more sense.

    * Sorry for paywalled article, but it was the only source I could find quickly to confirm the current charge total.



  • So, yes, the blockchain doesn’t make files smaller, but it could work to verify their authenticity, and that they have not been tampered with.

    As with every other suggested use of blockchain, there are already better ways to verify contents. It’s called hashing, it’s been around for decades, and we do it all the time.

    So instead of videos being hosted on 1 server, videos could be downloaded and made available by anyone to anyone at any time.

    This is going to run into all kinds of bottlenecks. Individual users may have a fast enough Internet connection to stream HD video, but uploading is often much slower. Even if not, one user could only co-host maybe 1-2 other users. Also, ISPs sure aren’t going to like all the increased bandwidth!

    People always vastly underestimate the bandwidth requirements for smooth, streaming video.