IMO, in 2020, in the US a politician running on a platform in which they commit to two plus two always equaling four would win in a landslide. I am curious as to what would have happened if Trump had declared that under his presidency, 2 + 2 will always equal 4.

Over the Summer (northern hemisphere), words and meanings were changed by institutions to fall in line with political winds, and the demands of the 'mob'. Few were brave enough to push back against most of this, or even call most of this out.

Obviously, two plus two will always equal 4. In the book 1984, the person who worked for 'big brother' torturing the main character to get him to 'accept' that 2 + 2 = 5 was aware that  2 + 2 actually equals 4.

In Democracies, the government is accountable to the people. Private companies are accountable to the market, however, if they have a large enough market share, they also control the market. Take YouTube, for example, content creators have to follow YouTube's rules in order to be able to publish their videos and advertise using YouTube's platform (monetize their videos). If YouTube has a rule that you don't like, you have the option to publish your content on another platform, however other platforms do not have the same reach that YouTube has, and you will not earn nearly as much posting on a competing platform. Therefore, content creators will adjust their content to follow YouTube's rules. In effect, YouTube is not accountable for its rules or policies. Modest government regulations could shift some rulemaking onto the government, who would be accountable for bad rules/regulations.

Modern tech companies have their founders have ownership structures in which their founders own a special class of shares that give them control of their companies. They are also the heads of their respective companies or have substantial influence over the heads of their companies.

I would like to believe that Zuckerberg wants Facebook to be a neutral institution so as to maintain public trust in it as an institution. Facebook has a very liberal employee base, so this is oftentimes difficult.

Dorsey on the other hand appears to be using Twitter as a propaganda tool for the far left.

In the US, there are countless local Democrat officials who were telling their constituents not to travel within minutes of traveling themselves. They are imposing restrictions on their constituents, and not following the restrictions themselves, and exempting their own political interests from said restrictions.

I don't think looking at the current state of the mempool is sufficient. What if for example, 4 or 5 blocks were recent found in a span of 3 minutes? A fee consistent with transactions 1 MB 'deep' in the mempool might not confirm for hours/days. On the other hand, if there have been 2 blocks found in the last 3 hours, a transaction 1 MB 'deep' might confirm in just a few blocks. In all cases, a transaction 1 MB 'deep' is unlikely to be confirmed in the next block.

IMO, any fee estimator needs to have an adjustable parameter that assumes the average block time for the next n blocks. Over the long term, blocks will be found on average, once every approximately every 10 minutes, but at 2:00 on a Saturday afternoon, the time until the next 6 blocks are found could be a wider range of times.

edit:
maybe a better analogy would be the last block was found 10 seconds ago versus the last block was found 90 minutes ago.

You are missing one key option:
Give the freedom of the authoritarians to impose restrictions on others, while not applying said regulations for themselves.

The above is reflective of what many leftists are trying to achieve, both here and in various other institutions, such as the education system and colleges.

The forum administration appears to be very libertarian. This is generally in line with my worldview. My experience on this forum has shaped my view that libertarianism is good, but the 'state' needs to wield a modest amount of power. If the 'state' is too weak, a quasi-state will form that will impose restrictions and regulations on citizens without any kind of real accountability. A good example of this would be the major tech social media companies. Social media companies today hold an outsized amount of influence on public discourse, in some cases, the owners want to remain neutral, but in all cases, the employees have their own non-business agenda, and are powerful enough such that they are not held accountable for their decisions. A modest amount of state regulations on social media companies would largely solve this issue.

Probably not. Our military is sufficiently strong enough so that our military would win in a conflict.

Most of the time that countries are seized by dictators, they will first be legitimately elected, and subsequently, make radical changes to the court system, such as packing the equivalent of the Supreme Court (cough cough). Once the courts are on the dictator's side, any other changes made are rubber-stamped by the courts and the Dictator can do as they choose.

I would refer you to the talk about "Russia" if you are concerned about disinformation and the integrity of the election.

We can let the courts decide if a particular lawsuit is "frivolous" or not. Everyone has the right to a vigorous legal team fighting for their rights in court. Putting pressure on law firms because of who they represent is indefensible.

Actually law firms have decided to not represent the Trump campaign because of public pressure against these law firms and their other clients.

The pressure campaign to get law firms to drop the Trump Campaign as a client should be condemned in the strongest way possible. Everyone has a right to legal representation.

Representing a client is not an endorsement of their alleged actions or viewpoints. Representing a client is a means to ensure their rights are not violated and that the law is properly enforced.

This would not stop a 51% attack.

There are 'legitimate' situations in which there would be a several-block-deep reorganization. Any cap on chain-reorganization attempts would need to exceed these possible situations.

A 51% attack is not simply one that double spends transactions that were confirmed 20 blocks ago. A 51% attack could also orphan blocks in a shallow chain-reorganization, which would cause the miners to follow the 51% attacker's chain in the future. It could blacklist addresses for arbitrary reasons, or force coin holders to pay an inflated fee to the attacker in order to have their transactions confirmed.

None of the above would require an attacker to execute a deep reorganization.

The lower court rulings have nothing to do with how higher courts will rule.

Case in point, how many lower (and appellate) courts ruled against Trump regarding his travel ban? How many times has the SC struck down lower courts who have ruled against Trump in the last 4 years?

This is not a problem today, but I can potentially see gifs becoming disallowed if enough people are sufficiently annoying with their GIFs.

This is after all a discussion forum, not a place that people should primarily be posting memes.

If Republicans keep the Senate, which looks likely, the Democrats will be forced to compromise and moderate how they govern.

A military coup would probably not last long because so many institutions are already against Trump.

Both GitLab and GitHub allow you to download your code. Most commonly, repositories will be managed with git, with a copy of a repository being on your computer at all times.

I personally have some repositories on GitHub that is private, and routinely download code in my repos (I update code with multiple computers).

People will typically carry around modest amounts of money in their pockets, and not significantly more than they expect to need. One reason for this is the risk they will lose some or all their money.

I believe the same principle applies to LN node operators. There is not a zero risk of running a LN node. The risks are similar to having a hot wallet on their computer. Many businesses and bitcoin holders will keep their coin on an offline wallet, sacrificing convenience for security.

Trump underperformed the down-ballot candidates almost everywhere. If the election stands, voters will have voted against Trump, rather than for Biden.

Loeffler should handily win as her opponent is especially radical in a Red state. Loeffler and Collins received a total of ~56% of votes, while her opponent only received ~32.9% of the vote.

Compare their reaction to Pence leaving the briefing room without taking questions about how the media was interacting with Biden at his press conference.

IMO Trump is avoiding interacting with the media to control the messaging regarding contesting the election. It will already be difficult to govern if he can prove fraud sufficiently in court and end up staying President in 2021. If he cannot control the messaging of his administration, he might as well concede even if there are sufficient irregularities that would overturn the election.

The lower court rulings are not going to matter. You should expect at least one PA case to make it to the SCOTUS.

Trump is challenging the election results in court. Expect there to be multiple lawsuits and SC rulings.

Say for example that the order book is as follows (for buy orders):
Price Amount
12,001 1
12,000 2
11,950 4
11,900 2

In the above example, if someone were to place a market sell order for 5 BTC, the highest bid price would be 11,950 and any limit sell orders above that price will not immediately execute. Someone with a limit sell order of 11,950 or below will have their order execute at 11,950 provided their order is for no more than the bid amount at that price.

Trump does not need to immediately make strong legal arguments, although the longer the delay, the harder it will be for him to govern if he ultimately stays president in 2021.

Trump needs to have strong legal arguments in place long enough before when the EC meets such that cases will have been able to reach the Supreme Court, and they make a ruling in his favor. Trump may make a case that would result in an initial ruling in his favor today, but Democrats might be able to find additional evidence over three weeks and make a compelling argument for an ultimate ruling in their favor.

Trump does need to have messaging to support the legitimacy of his second term if he ends up winning reelection in court. He needs to have proxies do this for him because doing so himself would expose himself to the propaganda arm of the Democratic party (the media).

Many exchanges have made their cold storage addresses public. Blockchain analysis companies can look at transactions to/from cold storage addresses (which will typically be addresses controlled by the exchange and not customer addresses).

Blockchain analysis companies will 'cluster' groups of addresses together using a variety of techniques. The simplest of which is looking at inputs to transactions, and connecting the addresses together. More advanced techniques involve looking at change addresses plus other criteria to add addresses to a cluster.

Don't boot from the disk you are using, and don't add any files/programs to this disk.

I am not sure what "quickformatted" means, but its name implies that references to all the files have been removed, and the allocation for disk space for your files has been removed. If this is true (or something close to true), you can use file recovery software to recover the wallet files.