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Comment · 2 years ago
As someone working at a very large bank. I strongly disagree. The bank spun up a new business to experiment with blockchain technology and went hard at it for several years until they recently sidelined those projects... In favour of AI

The amount of internal hype across all areas of the business (especially in the tech areas of the business) with regards to AI has been frankly stunning to witness.

Comment · 2 years ago
My speculation on this is that China/Russia/whoever targets ISP's in order to identify people by IP that have come to their attention somehow. Your credentials aren't the only point of interest, your credentials gives up subscriber information name/email/address/etc. That's pretty valuable from an intelligence standpoint.
Comment · 2 years ago
Sure. And we should do nothing but subsistence farming as well. But that's not really practical.
Comment · 2 years ago
You might be surprised to learn that a lot of the world uses polymer banknotes which are siignificantly more durable and last a lot longer than traditional 'paper' based currencies. The are incredibly hard to tear/break and they do not wear out or stretch. We've been using these in Australia since 1996.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_banknote

Having handled a fair amount of US currency I can say it _feels_ disgusting to handle after a certain amount of wear and often reminds me of a moist tissue. It also doesn't help that visually the notes all look very similar (as opposed to on polymer notes which have significantly different appearances and colours)

Comment · 3 years ago
What is a 'Septemberite'?
Comment · 3 years ago
Japan especially as they are particularly well known for their civic honesty.
Comment · 3 years ago
Uh. 50,000 Lumens? That's a lotta lumens. Which is awesome. But that's also gonna be running at Imalent MS18 flashlights (which to be fair peak at 100,000 lumens) get well over 120 degrees C in temperature.

Your design seems to have cooling fins. But If it's radiating noticeable amount of heat, I'll only be running it in winter.

Comment · 3 years ago
Hello. These look great. But a few things that I'd like: 1) The glass does not specify a volume. 2) I'd love a wine-glass, highball and old fashioned style as well.\ 3) The Whisky & Spirits Tumbler does say 'lead free crystal' but doesn't specify it's titanium glassware. Is that correct? Cheers!
Comment · 3 years ago
From the article:

>> Speaking with Vince (the administrator of the .ai zone) over WhatsApp, we confirmed that compromising this server would give us full control over any .ai domain:

>> Once administrative access is gained to the CoCCA application, it is possible to control the nameservers for every domain for that ccTLD.

The point is to control domains in a ccTLD. Arbitrary domain hijacking is bad...

Comment · 3 years ago
This is huge! You could control entire ccTLDs?
Comment · 3 years ago
A page with a huge amount of lock picking and locksport resources / links.
Comment · 3 years ago
If that's the case, why can't they coerce Apple into compromising their phone entirely? Why stop at the app store? Or the browser?
Comment · 3 years ago
Uh. Did you miss a decimal point? 16.9 trillion divided by 200 million is $84,500. That's a huge difference.
Comment · 3 years ago
Perhaps I should have added how I noticed in the first place. I gave it a block of code with a few nested loops and asked it how many times would it run. For a small number 5 x 5 x 5, it calculated correctly. But for 5000 x 5000 x 5000 it gave the wrong answer.

I'd like to see an integration into wolfram alpha or something. That would be amazing.

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