"You'd just have a list of authorized signers of new blocks and if someone does something bad you kick them off the list."
Are you saying that the incentives provided for successfully mining a block in crypto's isn't necessary to their security? I can't think of a single expert that agrees, or an example in the space of that working. Block reward is typically thought of as a tradeoff between security and inflation.
upvotes & downvotes are just the most obvious solution to the noise problem that plagues the internet. Nothing at cost is a blessing and a curse at the same time. We won't solve the internet until we figure out how to solve these fundamental issues in a sustainable bottom-up and incentive-driven way. Which is clearly an immensely hard problem.
It's not the same thing to develop and keep an exploit for yourself, as it is to require the public companies in your country to report the important bugs they find while effectively also under a temporary gag order. They are super different things.
Surely you can see that they're all bad actors, undermining the software and infrastructure that we all use, putting our systems and our data at risk through their grubby actions and even their grubby inaction, right?
I don't care which bunch of spies does it more. I don't want spies doing it at all.
Yah, I guess by not searching for new exploits tonight for public disclosure, I'm putting the entire software world marginally more at risk by "grubby inaction."
> I don't care which bunch of spies does it more. I don't want spies doing it at all.
I care: some bad actors in my government vs. forcing an entire massive economy to participate in bad actions will have massively different magnitudes of effect.
There's always going to be bad actors, but preventing 15% of the world's population from being good actors surely is a pretty significant thing.
There's nothing ethical about leaving your nation's infrastructure vulnerable to attack just because you want to indulge in the boy's own adventure of attacking the infrastructure of other nations.
It's not ethical. It's not professional. It's school boy stuff.
You're not wrong, but neither is the person you're responding to. You responded with logic for why the vaccine was a good idea, while they only talked about what was typical in the past. Past American medical philosophy has mostly been dictated by an attitude of "do no harm" rather than "optimize for least harm". These yield very different recommendations.
The smallpox vaccine causes roughly comparable rates of myocarditis, but that didn’t stop us from undertaking a worldwide vaccination campaign to eradicate the disease.
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If there were like 100x more common serious side effects, we should maybe have a conversation about whether certain populations with low Covid risk or heightened vaccine risk should pick which vaccine to take based on potential side effects. But we are so far away from that kind of risk that it is hard to see the commentary from the anti-vax side as any kind of good faith conversation, compared to grasping at whatever straws they can find to spread FUD.
The basic summary is: these vaccines are extremely safe and extremely effective for people of every age. Please everyone get vaccinated. If you have had 2 doses >4 months ago, get boosted. Anyone who tells you that the vaccine is unsafe compared to catching Covid is either grossly misinformed or lying.
"it can get confusing to understand what’s so special about a Mercedes system that only operates on certain stretches of Germany’s Autobahn network, and only up to 60 km/h (37 mph)."
The lane change quote is to describe a level 2 system by contrast, which implies this system can do lane change.
Full quote:
“Right now every other car claiming to have advanced autonomous features is currently only at Level 2 at the most, which means the car can stop steer and brake in certain conditions, but it can’t perform lane changes indecently and the driver can’t remove his hands from the wheel for extended periods.”
But yes, speed limit reduces usefulness to congested traffic situations as also noted in the article.
Legacy code (aka the American legal system) is routinely despised by those new to the problem space. Most experienced programmers will know that the (new to them) code isn’t all flaws, despite its initial appearance - there are a myriad of embedded edge cases and branches that at first blush seem like cruft, but in reality are the result of learning from various failure modes.
As with any complex rewrite I suspect we are doomed to rediscover the rationale for the original design. Hopefully it will end up meaningfully better, and not a Digg 3.0.
Safety glassed would have been a good idea, any rubber can suddenly fail. But he is absolutely right that "creaking noises" are common in wood far far far below their breaking point. I suspect he calculated the strength of all these things if he went to that much trouble for the sling. Also the markings on the bolt heads showed they were grade 8 (those 6 radial lines) which are near the best common off-the-shelf bolt strengths you can get. The OG wooden sling breaking was likely a nuanced issue stemming from it's rotational speed, so not a risk during the cranking stage. The sling wasn't even under load at that point. High-speed rotational effects are many orders of magnitude harder to predict than the needed strength of a base structure. But yes, safety glasses would have been wiser.
I don't think it's the bolts shearing we should be concerned about. Rather, the wooden beams might be split in the middle by the torque on the four bolts.
Which means a giant physical structure to support that giant lever arm. When you scale up to things that can knock down castle walls I suspect the difference is incredible.
You're still supporting the cryptocurrency ecosystem by using it though. It's not completely unreasonable to want to avoid doing that if you're opposed to cryptocurrencies in a wider context.
You can do that but they will eventually add a new ad.
One day they added a small widget to buy crypto in the new tab page. That was the breaking point for me. Like it happened with Firefox ads, I started to understand that Brave was working against me too.
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