In retrospect, it was obvious the letter they signed was justification to merge a clearly controversial PR. It's not obvious what the second and third order effects will be, but I guarantee this will not play out the way that the signers of the letter think it will. Happy to eat my words and say that I was wrong if a year from now if there isn't a significant growth (>100%) in large OP_RETURN outputs (>160 bytes). I challenge any signer of the letter to provide a similar metric to measure whether what they're doing works and under what conditions they'd be willing to admit they were wrong.

GM, at what age do you think it's reasonable for someone to start drinking coffee?

Just when you think an issue is done, the flames re-ignite and we're back to the same arguments again.

GM, that's not hunger you're feeling.

I majored in math and took a bunch of graduate level courses back in undergrad. And I wasn't taught anything about parametrization. Kinda pissed off I didn't get to learn this until now.

The United States with all the energy post 9/11 couldn't subdue Afghanistan or Iraq after 20 years. You really think a war with the country that sits between them, who has better organization and resources would be *easy*? And even if you did manage to topple that government, what then? You really want less stability, more poverty and more death in that region? Because that's exactly what you'll get.

GM, you'd be more bullish if you studied Austrian economics.

GM, appeal to GMax is not an argument.

Math thing I learned in using rational geometry instead of trigonometry: Find the area of a triangle whose corners are at (1,1), (4,6), (8,3) You can use Heron's formula, which would be really messy and have all sorts of square roots that you need to get. You can be way more clever and get the enclosing rectangle and subtract the three right triangle areas. But fundamentally, these areas are rational. You don't need heavy machinery of trigonometry to solve them and there are some really nice formulas you can derive that make problems like this trivial and less prone to using calculus-derived, complicated functions over irrational or transcendental numbers.

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