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Even if it was known and it did tend to zero I don't see the issue, Bitcoin is divisible, almost infinitely if you count L2s system (e.g. Lightning Network operates on a millistaoshi base unit instead of satoshi). Inaccessible bitcoins mean that the accessible ones are more rare so in a way it benefits other holders this way.

They also serve the network as a form of security bounty, let's say tomorrow we discover a way to break encryption "soon" pepople will be provided with a path to safer addresses but these old addresses, the ones for which a public key is known, act as an incentive to look for such security flaws.

> Which situationally, some industrial sectors will want

No major US export sector operates exclusively as an exporter without any exposure to imports or global supply chains. Even the largest US exporting industries (oil and gas extraction, civilian aircraft and parts, and pharmaceuticals) rely in varying degrees on imported inputs, components, or capital equipment... which companies are you talking about?

> Under a "republican" administration, no less.

Are you under the impression that this is surprising? Republicans are consistently the ones spending more when they are in power. It's time to dispel this myth that they are fiscally "conservative", they have presented more unbalanced/defficitary budgets than Democrats and the latter in recent memories are the only ones who managed to present budget with surpluses, under Clinton.

You need a refresher on what police state means:

> a political unit characterized by repressive governmental control of political, economic, and social life usually by an arbitrary exercise of power by police

Simply enforcing laws is not "becoming a police state", the current administration is doing far worse than this, and is actually blatantly and arbitrarily breaking laws according to multiple courts in various jurisdictions.

This includes ICE which has become a tool of this police state by deporting people (including in a case a US citizen, a two-year-old girl) without due process.

Ever heard of the principle of "good faith" in the context of the Swiss law (Article 2 of the Civil Code)?

Sometimes I think it was a prescient concept of our law makers and judiciary, many decades ago they knew they would have to deal with this kind of reddit-tier smartassery... if you have a device to detect metal, and you use it to detect metal, it is a metal detector, no judge will give you a pass because you thought you were very clever.

Stable Diffusion or rather Automatic1111 which was initially the UI of choice for SD models had a joke/fake "watermark" setting too which was deliberately doing nothing besides poking fun at people who were thinking that open source projects would really waste time on developing something that could easily be stripped/reverted by the virtue of being open source anyways.

It just made me realize how the animal-and-kid genre of movies completely disappeared after the 90s... I guess animated films are much more profitable and less complicated to create.

It literally isn't, changing/reversing a premise and not adressing the point that was made is not a valid way to counter the initial argument in a logical way.

Just like your proposition that any "small" chance justifies investing "everything" disregards the same argument regarding the precautionary principle of potentially devastating technologies. You've also slipped in an additonal "with no real downside" which you cannot predict with certainty anyways, rendering this argument infalsifiable. At least tsimionescu didn't dare making such a sweeping (but baseless) statement.

That’s not how logic works. The GP is applying the precautionary principle: when there’s even a small chance of a catastrophic risk, it makes sense to take precautions-like restricting who can build superintelligent AI, similar to how we restrict access to nuclear technology.

Changing the premise to "superintelligence is the only thing that can save us" doesn’t invalidate the logic of being cautious. It just shifts the debate to which risk is more plausible. The reasoning about managing existential risks remains valid either way, the real question is which scenario is more likely, not whether the risk-based logic is flawed.

Just like with nuclear power, which can be both beneficial and dangerous, we need to be careful in how we develop and control powerful technologies. The recent deregulation by the US admin are an example of us doing the contrary currently.

Rightfully = Solitary detention for 9 days... without a set date for said deportation 20 days later, making it an indefinite detention?

Seems like the USA has very low standards for what's "right" these days.

Art. 19, Paragraph 4 of the Copyright Act (CopA [1]).

The article lists the "Published works [that] may be used for private use" and that paragraph closes it with:

> This Article does not apply to computer programs.

[1] https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1993/1798_1798_1798/en#ar...

A mobile phone number is required for certain Discord servers (a setting available to the admins) but not for sign-up (maybe if you are using an IP in a suspicious/VPN range they force it now?). Otherwise they only require a valid email.

For Telegram though there isn't really a way around it, a phone is required. There is/was a way to buy some TON crypto token instead to avoid this verification but it became prohibitively too expensive.

Plato allegedly said it better than you thoudands of years ago... and if you are "old", maybe he was talking about you? ;)

> What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?

All of this to say that generations judging each other are rarely objective and very prone to both confirmation bias and broad generalization.

But if are going to generalize, how about this, transgression is part of a healthy growth for most young people (we all test limits by crossing lines one time or an other, some more than others), and most old people (conveniently) forget that they were doing exactly the same with the tools they had at the time. Let's take a step back and appreciate that societies around the world tend to become less violent and less criminal... when these trends might reverse we can start talking again about the decadence of young people and it's consequences.

You were discussing "structural" inflation, referring to Bitcoin as a system, not relative to inflation of goods and services in a specific economy. These are two distinct economic phenomena that can influence each other but should not be conflated.

Bitcoin's supply doesn't become inflationary or deflationary "structurally" based on the growth of x or y economies. The word inflation is used for both concepts but, structurally, Bitcoin will remain an inflationary system until around year 2140... then block subsidies are going to to stop, no new bitcoins are going to be emitted and then you (or more likely our descendants) can call Bitcoin a structurally deflationary money. Hence the use of the word disinflationary, it currently is in the process of becoming a deflationary system by progressively reducing the inflation of its own money supply (through "halvings" approx. every 4 years).

It is structurally disinflationary, not just deflationary. Bitcoin is still emitted every ~10 minutes with currently an average inflation rate just under 1% of its supply per year.

The "massive risk" the IMF sees is that without central banks or even less influential central banks the IMF existence would be threatened.

If this was an order from the President as an official act, no scrutiny can be applied here in any court (broad immunity recently granted by the SCOTUS: absolute immunity for actions within his core constitutional powers and presumptive immunity for other official acts)... so good luck proving any wrongdoing without any evidence...

If you go after any of the underlings who executed such order, they are likely getting auto-pardonned by Trump if he gave the order (otherwise it will make it harder to find people to execute his "illegal" orders next). There is no such thing as illegal for this administration. Wake up.

I have received phishing attempts for cryptoscams that still had my tagged address and identified the source of the leak that way... but I'm sure there are more cautious scammers and spammers who removes it, still can be the poorman's version of a catchall address I guess.

It's simple, the surface of attack of their system is much larger with the mere existence of this backup scheme, even if none of their customer used it...for the convenience of a fringe of their customers (the real reason is to widen their userbase to less security conscious customers and make more money this way). They also have proven to be poor deciders in the past when it comes to protecting their customers' data. The two combined make me want to never purchase a device again from them, and made me demand that they delete all my PII from a former purchase.

If these red flags are not red enough for you, go on, use them, I refuse to recommend them anymore for the stated reasons, especially when there are alternatives with better security/track records.

If your intent is to lock funds for a specific number of blocks or a timestamp/block height you don't need more than these primitives (nLockTime, nSequenc, CLTV or CSV)... the first two are fields in any Bitcoin transactions, the others are scripting instructions. Some wallets allow to use these various flavors, from memory, both Bitcoin Core and Electrum offer some of these timelocks through their UI.

The point was not that this alone would make bank obsolete, but rather that this isn't just something "new" cryptocurrencies feature.

This sounds a lot like a sales pitch by Ledger, is the next service you are going to sell me involving me sending my seed, online, to Ledger so it can be sent to 3 third parties... because that is what made so many people laugh at them last year. They can add as many layers of cryptographic schemes on this, it so antithetical to what you should do with a seed you want to secure that it ruined their reputation for a lot of people. If you have missed this episode or prefer to forget about it, it doesn't make it less real.

I'll add that even if that didn't make them a joke to you, I am just as concerned by their customer data leak (similar to what I've mentioned above for Trezor) and that alone makes me not want to recommend them, I just didn't mention it as the other point is egregious enough on its own.

There are multiples alternatives to Ledger, they are the laughing stock of hardware crypto wallets since they've started their online seed backup solution... at least among power users.

Coldcard if you aren't into shitcoins, and Keepkey if you partake in them would be my choices. I would have recommended Trezor at some point but their customer data leak tainted their image for me, they've made a lot of their customers targets just because they chose to use a third party to handle customer data for marketing purpose, if you run a business this sensitive, do this in-house and apply banking standards for this data handling, seems like a no-brainer.

> Only newer currencies you could lock your money into a smart contract,

Bitcoin literally has timelockS (multiple kinds) built-in in its scripting since its first release...

It's also unlike most addictions, you have to eat few times a day if you don't want to die... alcohol, drugs, gambling are not required to survive, eating is.

Couldn't they argue that they use a description of what is on the photos and not the photos?

I'll add that if gold wasn't so impractical to transfer, store and verify we would most likely still be using it as a currency way more frequently (even in our inflatuonist systems, it would likely be seen as a more sound money).

Bitcoin improves a lot on all of these properties while introducing other properties (open/public network, borderless, public ledger, etc.). Its supply/issuance has also been much more stable than Gold ever was (and ever will be if we're to believe the predictions of giant mines and even future asteroid mining).

Have a look at the daily volume of trading for Bitcoin, these financial tools are a very small part of this... we are talking $50-100 billions daily. It does contribute, but in terms of scale way less than what you seem to suggest... arguably I would guess that these days the announcements of big purchases move the market more than the actual purchase itself.

> I probably spent 80% of the time I would have spent writing it from scratch.

A 20% time improvement sounds like a big win to me. That time can now be spent learning/improving skills.

Obviously learning when to use a specific tool to solve a problem is important... just like you wouldn't use a hammer to clean your windows, using a LLM for problems you know have never really been tackled before will often yield subpar/non-functional results. But even in these cases the answers can be a source of inspiration for me, even if I end up having to solve the problem "manually".

One question I've been thinking about lately is how will this work for people who always had this LLM "crutch" to solve problems when they've started learning how to solve problems? Will they skip a lot of the steps that currently help me know when to use a LLM and when it's rather pointless currently.

And I've started thinking of LLMs for coding as a form of abstraction, just like we have had the "crutch" of high-level programming languages for years, many people never learned or even needed to learn any low-level programming and still became proficient developers.

Obviously it isn't a perfect form of abstraction and they can have major issues with hallucinations, so the parallel isn't great... I'm still wondering how these models will integrate with the ways humans learn.

Just in terms of IRC as a protocol there are actually millions of daily users, many live chat features on the Web (like on video streaming websites such as Twitch) use IRC as a basis: https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/chat/irc/

Now for that example it isn't a full IRC implementation, but you can use a common IRC client to connect and chat on such services.

Small tip, and I know it doesn't make it much better, but in few cases I've seen this done (Discourse is the main culprit and it's widely used) pressing Ctrl+F a second time will go to the normal browser "Search in this page" function. Still annoying, but manageable.

> most people selling LLM today pretend it is AGI

Who exactly does this in this space? Would be good to be able to call them out on it right now.