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  • This is where you’re confused. It’s a 1099a. Lowercase a.

    It’s a secret form you can only download from Facebook after you post that “I HEREBY RESERVE MY COPYRIGHTS OF ALL WORKS PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE” then follow it up with “MARK ZUCKERBURG IS NOT ALLOWED TO SEE MY PICTURES” then a secret link shows up and lets you download them straight to your printer, but only a few, and the paper dissolves if you don’t use it within 18 months after printing them.



  • There are major disadvantages as well.

    You have a limited number of locations, which limits the rate of payloads. You can deploy them at the equator, so you’d have to transport things to the lifting pad beforehand, which would primarily need to be transported by sea.

    We don’t have a way to power the lifter, you can use microwaves or lasers, but that generates a lot of heat, which would be difficult to dissipate at high altitudes.

    We also don’t have a way to actually build one, but we do have a way to build reusable rockets (the details aren’t complete, but several companies are well on their way to building them.)

    By the time we’d be able to build a real space elevator, we’d probably already have asteroid mining, and in space constructions and manufacturing. So we’re really only sending small, highly technical, or human payloads up, at which point a space elevator isn’t really needed.

    On top of all that, a fully reusable rocket powered by fuel that can be synthetically created, would be just as environmentally sustainable (assuming any ozone or ionosphere issues don’t become an issue.)

    I’m all for working on it if it becomes possible, but it’s likely a technology that would be obsolete by the time it’s possible.







  • SMS is fine for 2FA, as long as you can’t use it for anything else, like a password reset.

    Once the SMS is used for account recovery, it’s now 1FA with a terrible security hole.

    If you have complex, single use passwords, and have SMS 2FA, then it’s pretty ok. Not the best security, but at least better than a most.

    Obviously offline time based passkeys are better for the 2FA, but typically the real problem is how to get into an account if you’ve lost one part of your login.