netheril96

If we are talking about anecdotes, I took a lot of potassium when I was trying to lose weight in 2020. The two things were independent: I didn’t take potassium for weight loss, but they did happen at the same time.

The result: the weight loss was not any faster or less painful or more persistent than my other attempts.

Well, at least we can minimize the period when the keys are not ours. If we keep the coins only for a few days on the exchange, it is unlikely that the exchange falters just during that time. But if we keep it for years, it is likely we will lose it eventually.

If five person buys and one person sells, only one person actually has the buy order executed. The other four are just waiting in line.

In theory, the exchanges should lend their own money to margin traders.

If these generated arts just replace human created arts, then it can be construed as depressing.

But what if AI generates arts where humans do not scale?

For example, what if the AAA game you are expecting gets done in half of the time, or has ten times the size of explorable area, because it is cheap and fast to generate many of the arts needed by AI?

Or if some people excellent at story telling but mediocre at drawing can now produce world class manga due to the assistance of AI?

> They are really mostly copying whatever they were trained on, but on a scale that it appears indistinguishable from intelligent creation.

Which is what most humans do, and what most humans need.

> if AI is able to do these astonishingly difficult things, why shouldn't it, with some finagling, also be able to do the dumb, simple things most programmers do for their jobs?

Art is more difficult than programming for people with talents in programming but not in arts. Art is easier than programming for people with talents in arts but not in programming. Granted, those two sentences are tautology, but nonetheless a reminder that the difficulty of art and programming does not form a total order.

It has no freedom either. Circle can block any address from spending USDC.

Well, the other possibility is that he has high charisma and low intelligence.

> is almost universally hated by the whole population

Haters do not move the market at all, unless they are willing to short the coins. Only the participants, whatever their intentions are, move the market.

Most stable coins do have the power to restrict capital flows. USDT and USDC both can unilaterally freeze the coins of arbitrary addresses.

I wonder whether this will ever come to China.

GitHub could not control what lies other websites tell. They can have a button saying “Sign in with GitHub”but totally not signing in with GitHub.

That said GitHub should have banned that website for lying and abusing instead of OP.

Publicity stunt.

It’s not like sending a letter cost them anything, but now they are famous.

Well since you are ignoring the proportion of ownership, let me tell you I am also an owner of GOOG.

Then people will complain about their lost data. This will stay opt-in for a long time.

The number of workers needed for quality control is much lower than the number for actual work. It is not unreasonable to fear the loss of jobs to AI.

What kind of data loss? Some bits get flipped, whole sectors became garbage, or all zeros?

The point that “those jobs are the only (even the best) way out for most people to get out of poverty" stands. But the point that China has strict labor laws is laughable. The laws are indeed strict but seldom enforced.

Oh, please, as a Chinese I can say with 100% certainty that this is false. The Chinese state media and parents lament in the same way how douyin (tiktok’s version in China) dumb down the next generation of children.

> My entirely unsupported guess is that they may all share manufacturing for some models, and certificates may have been on site there?

I think manufacturing only needs the public key, so the compromise can’t really happen there.

I’m aware of the incident, but I don’t understand your reasoning. Had CNNIC been restricted to issue certificates only for .cn domains, the incident would have never been possible. That should be a supporting evidence for CA name constraints.

I don’t understand the “amplifying local law” part. How is restricting the power amplifying?

The browser vendors know what they are doing. The government has no idea.

> I think it would harm users relying on certain sites. This already happened with CNNIC and .cn

Care to elaborate? I don't really understand how it harms users.

> circumstantial evidence, but nothing that was definitive

CAs should be assumed guilty until proven otherwise.

> UTF-16 is simpler and more efficient to handle than UTF-8.

Only if you never go out of the basic multilingual plane. And then find out so many bugs when people start using emojis.

Hoe exactly are the files corrupted? How much of it?

Is it only the file system structure or file contents corrupted? How corrupted? Did a whole file get lost, missing a whole sector, or having bit flips?

They don't work in China anymore.

And when they worked, the domain was translate.google.cn instead.

SNI is still in the plaintext.