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That is a category error, though. You can't entirely separate money from state power because ultimately all money represents a claim on resources within some political structure. And the place where you exchange money for those resources is always going to be within reach of the state, kind of by definition.

Until the SHTF lever was hacked to divert all hot wallets into somebody else's cold wallet

Internet infrastructure companies using '5' as their private key are sweating bullets. They know they are next.

Or they can put thick mitts on Zuckerberg's hands for a couple of years so he can't sign any checks.

That penalty is almost 1/3 of a Metaverse. That's got to sting!

I guess the future is people arguing in comments whether a high-severity vulnerability is the one under embargo, or one of various unrelated devastating bugs discovered when people got wind of the embargo and pointed their AI agents at the codebase.

It's demoralizing that we live in 2026 and a modest level of traffic is still enough to take down half the web.

Probably not with any technology; it's unlikely that fetal development and growth can happen properly in gravity much lower than 1 g.

Human colonies are not sustainable anywhere offworld.

Amazing discussion thread; thank you to all who shined a great white edifying light on the topic here.

Both were known to be Kuiper Belt objects, so it was expected there would at least be a family resemblance. I don't think anyone expected Pluto to be more active than Triton; that was certainly a surprise.

If there are planetologists reading the thread, I'd love to hear a more authorative perspective than mine!