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The entire economy relies on circular flows. That’s why we look at something called “net profit”.

In America, banks don’t lose deposits, and we have a financial and legal system set up to ensure that.

Yes, and we could have a paper money system where a registry of stolen serial numbers is kept and they can’t be deposited at any bank or used to pay the government ever again.

From an evolutionary perspective, it might be the only way the human species survives and thrives.

Not much fun being the one naturally selected out.

Majority of people here in USA I know have some kind of allergy, including people of EE / Slavic descent.

The banks and government go out of their way to make fraud difficult and prevent accountholders from being defrauded of their deposits.

You don’t. It’s not networked. It doesn’t need updates.

In fact, updates are only a risk. You physically remove anything that can allow updates to happen + anything that allows wireless networking.

I did a similar stunt with an old PowerBook where I electrically disabled the WiFi/Bluetooth so it wouldn’t be online unless I plugged in Ethernet, generated keys, and played around with mining. This was back in 2010 when this was all just basically toys for fun. I also encrypted it all with FileVault.

Then I forgot my pass phrase and have never been able to recover any of it. I don’t even know how many btc were mined/lost.

Before anyone asks, no, there aren’t any usable exploits / vulns found for the encryption methods used. And from what I can tell the coins in question have still sat frozen for going in a decade and a half now. I suspect many other hackers did the same thing…

For client devices who PXE boot (rare) and also are on Ethernet during boot (basically desktops and docked laptops) and also reachable by pings (so the attacker needs to be inside the network).

I simply bill full rate for it. The handful of people who rely on it for their business are happy to pay.

Or even a kid in the 90s and 2000s. The lightning bugs are mostly gone.

My kids think it's a big deal when they see one, and we live in a rural area with very little spraying happening.

Firefox runs fine on High Sierra.

Old M series runs Linux well.

Maybe I’m just dreaming here but how far off is libghostty for Linux consoles?

Does “support” really matter? My 2020 iMac still performs great, although I use Sequoia on it instead of Tahoe. It also runs Windows or Linux very well and was easy to upgrade to 128GB RAM.

My 2015 iMac is 11 years old and still works fine - I use it to run Windows 10 for the occasional thing that needs that and to test builds of software in High Sierra. It also runs Linux great.

Yes. Make sure both source and destination are the same macOS version. I use 27.0.1, you could upgrade to 27.2 first though.

Then do a fresh install on your new system and then use Migration Assistant. Use a USB-4 or a Thunderbolt cable to speed it up.

Yes.

Which most governments will be strongly incentivised to prevent.

The ones that aren’t (basically rogue states under sanctions like Russia or DPRK) will have the rest of the governments very interested in preventing them from owning these securities.

In the U.S. things like this (eg Contract for Differences) are illegal, and the SEC regulates these sort of things.

Fair enough. I’ve noticed Kenyan English speakers to be quite erudite.

Google’s scrapers very explicitly identify themselves and come from unique netblocks.

Most our sites don’t need to be in Google anyway.

I’ve been pushing hard to get clients who prefer to see us at their offices/factories a lot, since that gives us a better moat.

Downside: wear and tear on vehicles, carbon emissions. Expenses are billed to the customer who is happy to pay them.

It is illegal to download copyrighted material from a website and make copies of it in violation of its licence.

I can’t go scrape New York Times articles and make copies of them without first licensing them from NYT.

The copyright terms on my own site make ignoring it and scraping it expressly illegal.

Unless copyright law has been entirely repealed?

There used to be editors who would read press releases to catch this.

As someone with their own company, AI doesn't magically make things better. If anything, it makes it worse since you have far more competition from other people who are not good at programming but are good at sales/marketing.

The skillset needed to be a productive employee who is, say, a programmer is not the same at all as the skillset to run an entire business.

For example, skills with sales are far more important than actual software engineering.

Except someone can explicitly licence their content saying "this cannot be used for training models, or you're violating the licence you used to download it in the first place".

I do. It's wrong to ignore a robots.txt.

The fact someone else may have licenced content for commercial use doesn't entitle someone else to do the same without paying for it. That's the whole point of copyright law.

You'd think! But they don't. Roblox is also notorious for tolerating a ridiculous amount of grooming.