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Very very spread out population.

And huge spikes and troughs of infrastructure investment over decades.

That's a good thing by the way. Inaccurate empathy is a lot safer than cruel reason.

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Of course, there are attempts to clarify this mess — to introduce standards and code reusability to help streamline these operations and make business interoperability a fact. You can choose from EDI, XMI-EDI, JSON, SOAP, XML-RPC, JSON-RPC, WSDL and half a dozen more standards to assist your integration processes.

Needless to say, the reason there are so many standards is because none of them work properly.

Finally, there is the problem of scaling collaboration. Say that two of us have paid the upfront costs of collaboration and have achieved seamless technical harmony, and now a third partner joins our union. And now a fourth, and a fifth. By five partners, we have 13 connections to debug. Six, seven… by ten the number is 45. The cost of collaboration keeps going up for each new partner as they join our network, and the result is small pools of collaboration which just will not grow.

Remember, this isn’t just an abstract problem — this is banking, this is finance, medicine, electrical grids, food supplies, and the government.

Our computers are a mess.

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My company uses XML in a sort of "semantic web" paradigm to describe products, and links to these documents from smart contracts to provide accurate machine-readable descriptions of things which are for sale. It works reasonably well, and maybe it'll turn into something a lot more powerful as operations expand. So we do walk the talk to some degree.

https://library.uniteddiversity.coop/Ecological_Building/Hex...

Fuller is an inspiration, not a terminus. We can build on and improve his work.

(not that we have that data, I am sure)

The only way this gets fixed is through liability: if they ship you a mass-produced thing, you get your money back. But if buyers are happy with the goods (and they seem to be, generally speaking) it's hard to say anybody's been defrauded -- making window shopping boring because most of the stuff is mass produced crap is not a crime, as it were.

No harm, no foul.

As for the "illicit" products, same applies: if the buyers don't care, it's hard to make the "system" care.

If there are eye witnesses they’re unreliable.

I guess to nail this down it’s going to take something like wreckage.

But then how would we authenticate wreckage?

Key to this plan is handling humidity. Metal buildings don’t breathe. Humidity condenses on the metal, turns into mould, then you have real problems.

But with humidity sensors and A2A heat exchangers you wind up with the best of both worlds. I think.

Let’s say I’m not going to be building this before I’ve had real analysis from a good hvac engineer or two.

https://www.kitbuildings.com/products/insulated-steel-buildi... For a sense of prices.

I should have clarified that in the earlier post. I should also note that I’m not a dharma teacher by trade: I do that as a hobby, mostly I run a tech company. I teach out of respect for my own teacher but am not making “a thing” of it.

Which I think keeps me honest: zero money changes hands etc.

The critical innovation is doing ten minute rounds of different practices, so no practice is held for very long. This seems to help a ton with "mind wanders" and surprisingly doesn't seem to impair overall progress at all. If anything the rotation of practices seems to improve overall concentration and keeps people from hallucinating because they've been staring at a blank wall for six hours!

That particular device is two completely different animals with and without the bottom plate. Mediocre and smokey with it, really kind of fantastic without it. The wire mesh stops the big lumps from falling through but lets the ash go, and the whole thing burns like a chimney stove. Really good.

I think (I could not find a clear description that was short and easy to understand, maybe I missed it) that it has a door on the box where the wood goes in, and a pipe that feeds fresh air into that box to keep the combustion going.

Did I get that right?

This is dirt cheap, light-ish, and excellent.

To get mostly-smokeless performance, leave out the bottom metal plate when you assemble it so it gets continuous air flow right through the device. I used to use https://www.solostove.com/en-us (car camping only) and it just burns too* clean - no smoke, hot fire, goes through fuel very fast, and all the heat goes straight up. Still love that thing, but actually for an "improved campfire experience" that collapsible grill thing is excellent. Particularly useful: the heat reflects off the inclined metal plates right on to the people sitting around the fire, in exactly the way it does not on a solo stove.

It's really good. Makes me happy.

Payments that stay paid, under all circumstances, with nobody intermediating.

The talk asks what a Socialist government would do with the State dating website, to contrast with the (equally terrible) incentives for a dating website generated by the free market.

There's no way out of this without open protocols and visible algorithms. The agency problem is not easy to solve.

That's why the judge's quote is relevant. They don't see a distinction between regular contracts and smart contracts. It's all just contracts.

I'm simplifying slightly (see Ricardian Contracts if you want the detail).

6. The theory is to dispel the myth that blockchain is a fringe technology used only by those wanting to risk their livelihoods or possibly make their fortunes on volatile cryptoassets like Bitcoin.

7. The blockchain is now at a stage in its development equivalent to where the internet was in or around 1995. The internet was unstoppable in 1995 and blockchain technology is unstoppable now. It will become ubiquitous in all major industrial and financial sectors, simply because it allows for the immutable recording of data, thereby reducing friction in commercial and consumer transactions and obliterating the scope for dispute as to what has occurred.

8. As the Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice in England and Wales, I hold an office that pre-dates modern trade in derivatives and reinsurance, even steam engines, powered flight, and certainly the internet. I am particularly and obviously concerned about the reputation and development of English law and the jurisdiction of England and Wales.

9. Many people do not realise that English law governs trading in €600 trillion of OTC derivatives annually, in €11.6 trillion in metals trading, in £250 billion in M&A deals, and in £80 billion in insurance contracts every year – just to take a few examples. My hope is that English law will prove to be the law of choice for borderless blockchain technology as its take up grows exponentially in the months and years to come.

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Speech-M...

It’s the important part of meditation.

No hubs, it's all 4x8 sheeting and long straight cuts. This one was taped together, but it could be plywood and screws as easily.

I have a valuation report, and I have details of the prior transaction.

I'm 100% sure that you have no intention of actually parting with your ten grand, but allow me to repeat myself here: actual real estate lawyers put this thing together, the land has a solid set of documentation including a valuation, and you're just trolling because you don't like blockchains and want to pretend you have expertise that you plainly do not.

So if you actually want to put ten grand into a charity, feel free to email me and we can arrange the details. We'll do a nice press release about your generous gesture and everything!

We're a serious team: mostly middle aged, mostly backgrounds doing pretty serious life-or-death work for the State. My MD worked on TB and HIV epidemiology in prisons preventing spread in prisons and to the community. I was a disaster planner working on worst case scenarios at the Pentagon and for a UK military think tank headed by a former UK Minister of Defense. Our CCO was commercial director of the UK home office for many years. Not a bunch of hicks, and not some fly-by-night operation.

Seriously people who do serious work.

Do email us about that ten grand. I think there are a couple of groups we would like to make a large donation to this Christmas.

Appreciate your engagement, but we do have the documents, and your plain desire for us to be amateurs and idiots is your problem, not mine.

Are we taking your money, or are you slinking back into a hole?

And the 7000 was part of a more complex transaction.

You simply don’t know what you’re talking about. You cannot buy a chunk of English coastline for 7000!

That’s just batshit. On your bike mate.