> If got the math right, then about 1 in every 32,000 stars in the universe goes supernova each year

Can’t be right, can it? It would make the Sun (over 4 billion years old) an enormous outlier.

It also would mean stars, on average, do not get very old. Over 10% of the stars that the ancient Greeks saw in the sky would have to have gone supernova since then.

Agree.

"Two weeks later on 20 January, Dotcom, Finn Batato, Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk were arrested in Coatesville, New Zealand by the New Zealand Police, in an armed raid on Dotcom's house involving 76 officers and two helicopters. Seized assets included eighteen luxury cars, large TVs, works of art and US$175 million in cash. Dotcom's bank accounts were frozen, denying him access to 64 bank accounts world-wide[...]"

No one legit has 175MM in cash sitting around. That's the realm of dictators and drug lords.

Statisticians think it can be gotten down to 9.51 seconds ( https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090806080343.h... ), though, as with most things statistical, knowledge of the underlying sampling process (biology/physiology & physics in this case) may shed more light. { Similarly, knowledge (& tweaking!) of OS schedulers may be able to reduce measurement noise more than pure statistics in a project to time software like https://github.com/c-blake/bu/blob/main/doc/tim.md .}

They don't say if it was an Apple or Android device. Either way -- that was fast. I wonder what happened here? Did the suspect not have encryption turned on? Using an older phone with known vulnerabilities? Is the FBI sitting on some 0-days?

Once they are deployed, they aren’t connected to each other anymore and there is no way to perfectly align two satellites again. I’m assuming they don’t even have RCS they could achieve accurate translational movement with. If you push one satellite against another and they aren’t perfectly aligned so the thrust vector goes trough the combined CG, they will start to spin immediately.

Have you heard about mining pools? I think the future of PoW coins is huge payment commissions and payment pools which make the commission acceptable, this is what needed to make Satoshi's claim a reality.