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Then there is the argument that the rules around fair use aren't even reached because the training of the model doesn't even do anything that requires a fair use exemption.

> The higher the transaction fees, the more validators earn.

Not really. 95% of the gas fees get burned and do not go to the validators at all. Only the 'tip' or 'priority fee' goes to the validators and even that is barely anything. Most of the transaction related income validators get is from MEV - basically bribes to order transactions in the block in a particular manner allowing arbitrageurs to extract additional value. These bribes are somewhat correlated to the level of the gas fees, but not always.

Well, in ruby everything is an object that is a member of some class. Those classes have specific properties that only allow for specific methods to be applied on them. Ie, integers are members of the numeric::integer class, and if you want to use that integer as part of a string in output, you do have to convert it to a string first using a method defined as such.

So, what exactly do you see as missing in ruby's typing?

They mostly shut down at the beginning of the year - https://mycroft.ai/blog/update-from-the-ceo-part-1/

Arguably turning the site into a launch facility preserves the area from even more destructive future development. Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center is some of the last pristine waterfront on the eastern Florida coast. The rocket launches keep most people away, giving more space for wildlife.

Because it would require overland flight of populated areas. That would be even harder to get permission for - especially with a novel and experimental vehicle.

The most common use case for spoofing is trunk-to-trunk call forwarding while preserving the original caller's caller id.

You aren't wrong that government support of automotive transport is immense. But that government support comes from decades of popular electoral support for those policies from all across of the political spectrum. Why? Because cars give people more convenient and independent transportation then just about any other mode. And people push their politicians and representatives to support that kind of transportation.

If you want to undo the car centric culture and economy, you cannot just ignore the broad base of popular support it enjoys.

The healthier attitude to trust issues in crypto (and society at large too), is to find mechanisms (cryptographic, game theory, economic, legal) to manage and constrain the trust assumptions that are made. You can't eliminate trust, and you probably shouldn't try. But you should figure out ways to put good seatbelts and airbags on that trust so that when you do use trust as a social lubricant (it is very good at that), the damage from when it goes wrong is constrained.

One of the best moments in car talk was when Astronaut John Grunsfeld called in to complain about how his government vehicle, a 'Rockewell van kind of thing' was running. Ray and Tom finally caught on when Grunsfeld admitted he was going 17K MPH while a couple hundred miles north of Hawaii. ;)

The banter between them included memories of an unpaid bill and references to the 'small technical institute' nearby ("Oh, that place!").

Great stuff all around. https://youtube.com/watch?v=moAqzM4ptm8

It could probably be done with a merkle based signature log that whoever is hosting the service could provide.

To cheat, the party hosting it would probably have to forge signatures for everyone after the disputed signature.

This sounds about right to me. One of the points in the article that was really enlightening to me was the trade-off between lower-risk, subsistance production and higher-risk, but much higher reward excess production. Smaller and more insular communities tend to value the subsistance level production as they don't need to over-produce in order fulfill their community's needs. So, a reddit that is dominated by lots of niche communities that don't want to produce excess value that can be collected in 'rent' or 'taxes', really undermines the big dreams of the VC's that have funded reddit for so long.

"RFC 3021: Using 31-Bit Prefixes on IPv4 Point-to-Point Links" was published in December of 2000. Most systems have supported it for a long time, with Netgear (swearing under my breath) being the biggest outlier and straggler.

You could probably address 99% of the market only selling BTC, a stable coin, and small amounts of Eth needed for gas and then any other trading could happen on dex's. And you could make that a modestly profitable business if you run a tight ship. But you won't build an empire doing that.

5 years unless there is evidence of active fraud.

Bookworm now has lxd as natively packaged deb's in the main repository. It's very nice to setup.

There is a decent amount of inefficiency in doing this though because you still have to establish valuations between the bilateral currencies. How do you do that without using any reference to some kind of a reserve currency? Ie, how would you figure the 'correct' yen:peso rate with first refering to yen:usd and peso:usd? I mean, you can, but either party takes on a decent amount of risk of getting taken to the cleaners if they misjudge their direct currency ratios. Or, if you do use a reference currency, without actually settling with the reserve, the reference price can be more easily manipulated. So, that means everyone doing strict bilateral settlement has their guards up more which makes it harder to get any trade done.

This is really going to hit folks who were trying to host stuff behind cgnat. I suppose a cheap vps will have to do instead.

Qutebrowser can use the same adblock filters that ublock uses.

acme-dns[1] is probably what you might want if you are up for running your own bit of infra. Implements a simple rest api for changing the txt records for acme verifications and nothing more. It works nicely as a delegated nameserver.

[1] https://github.com/joohoi/acme-dns

It seems to me that posting flyers on mailboxes on the side of a street, without approaching any other people or or their property is pretty explicitly an excercise in free speech. Especially when describing public information about public officials.

Arresting those folks, putting them in solitary confinement, and holding them without bond when they were arrested for a non-violent charge and have no previous criminal record - that is more of an intimidation tactic than any fliers could be.

Folks who want a more traditional linux environment and libraries then what termux comes with might find proot-distro[1] to meet their needs. Basically it allows running an actual arm linux distro in a pseudo container created by (ab)using the ptrace syscall to emulate root privileges. This has a fairly big performance impact, but it works if you want to run arbitrary arm linux binaries.

[1] https://github.com/termux/proot-distro

And keep in mind, the US Treasury has said that it would issue licenses to Americans who need to be able to withdraw their legitimate funds from Tornado cash. Some validator needs to be able to process those transactions, and would have no idea whether any particular TC withdrawal is licensed or not.

Why does anyone give money to charity? Usually because they want to support the cause.

There is an interesting investigation into that claim written up on Talking Points Memo - https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-quick-look-at-the-lyi...

Basically the Claremont Institute tallied up announcements of corporate charity that went to anything related to racial minorities, and called that "giving to BLM and supporting riots."

The only way validators who have staked eth make any earnings is if they perform their validator duties. If they don't do the work, they get penalized. If they abuse or attack the network, they get slashed. Since a validator's earnings come from their own work, the whole 'To be derived from the efforts of others' prong completely fails.

There are pretty decent arguments why the other prongs fail as well.

What can be a security, is if a provider offered a managed yield service promising a certian return and guaranteed instant liquidity and then used staking in the background to generate that yield. This is what got Kraken in trouble. And why they settled so easily. Where Coinbase falls is going to heavily depend on the specific facts of their service.

When it comes to the staking side of things - Coinbase's position is that they are simply providing a technical service to their customers to do something that their customer's could do themselves. There isn't a borrower that Coinbase is lending the coins to. It is a protocol that locks them up.

Where this gets messy is with things like Eth when they stake amounts less then 32 Eth from a customer, which inherently means they are providing a pooling operation on top of what the protocol expects. Does that pooling make their activites a security?

But the SEC is not providing any kind of clear lines on any of this to identify where there is a line when "IT services" becomes a security.

Well, it is something of a he said/she said between Coinbase and the SEC. But the Judge in the Voyager bankruptcy case had similar concerns about the clarity provided by the SEC - https://twitter.com/BillHughesDC/status/1636069735006699523

The issue isn't whether proof of stake itself is a security, it's whether Coinbase's service of staking on behalf of its customers is a security.

Coinbase has argued that all they are doing is providing IT services to do what their customers could do on their own. How well that holds up in court really depends on the arguments that the SEC makes, and how the courts views Coinbase's response.

If it all is wash trading, it is a lot of money to be spent on it. The fees assessed by dex LP's and gas fees would make anyone doing a substantial amount of wash trading lose money quickly and the activity would burn out.

The 'real world' stuff naturally happens in the real world, and not on chain. An example - last year I used a lending app to cover some of my taxes for a few months. I deposited asset X that I didn't want to sell at the time, borrowed their bespoke stable coin against it, swapped that for USDC, withdrew the USDC to coinbase, swapped it to USD and put it in my bank account to pay my taxes. When I could pay it back, I basically did the reverse. And at the end of the day because the lending application was offering 'borrow incentives' with their governance token, I ended up slightly ahead in after paying their repayment fee and gas fees. And all this was done with only substantial human counterparty risk when it came to interacting with coinbase. I found that useful and certianly helpful to me in a real world way. But if you only looked on chain it would not look like anything in the real world was happening at all and just lots of virtual bits moving around.