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The real question is: what can it contribute to the people's quality of life?
Also, don't buy the top of the hype.
I also didn't know they did this. A couple of years ago, one of my friends told me the same happened to the Dashpay no-KYC VISA card, so this was predictable? From what I remember, the network came under pressure from some merchant (receiving) banks that the issuer wasn't compliant and it was basically said as: "either we will deny-list the issuer, or you fix this".
Banks are coercible, so all your bank rails are.
Per https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Covenants_support, there are still some
no 1 and a handful of weak 2. I think that with a functional demo on inquisition (or a similar signet), the notable no can be addressed and, if the weak opinions are correct that there is not enough benefit to be had on its own, this can also be used to show a combination.Instead of building an activation client, build a signet.
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most notably jonasnick/e9627f56, which is comprehensive ↩
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mostly arguing that it's too small a benefit to activate it on its own (instagibbs/eeb9d801, delbonis/14d1802c). ↩
Yes. Safety must come first. Many people deal with this for longer than they probably should, but leaving behind what you've built is hard, even if the outcome is bad.
But as Bitcoiners it’s our duty to be exceptionally paranoid.
The duty is opt-in. Only you can assign yourself that duty. No one else.
In the extreme, I think it would be doable to argue that we don't even care if the output you produced is in fact spendable (though it would be nice because everyone tracks it.) The only things we care about is that you're not counterfeiting your input amounts, and that miners aren't rewarding themselves more than the agreed upon block subsidy + fees. Everything else we really care only about when we are receiving a transaction.
Mainland (Western) Europe, the standard for new housing construction is now 3x25A at 230V =
17250W. So that you can just charge your Tesla while you use your 5-spot induction cooktops, run your 1500W microwave, boil some water in your 3000W boiler. All at the same time.Two step checklist:
- Did you get an email from OpenAI telling you that they lost your data?
- Did you get a letter from your bank about why you're not paying the interest on that $25M loan you took out from a Cambodian IP address?
If over the next few years you can answer both questions with no, you're probably fine.
instead of “too big to fail” banks, we have “too strategic to fail” AI companies
And worse, it's not even of actual strategic importance, because they're still talking about chatbot companies. Strategic importance would be real-time target acquisition from 120fps hi res satellite video. Analytic AI, not generative (i.e. the other way around)
Why would you pass your user's email address to a data analytics platform? That's insane on its own.
Edit: even ChatGPT says you should not do this.
Hmm I think that the reach of influencers is much wider now, and there are many more of them, so there is more reinforcement of concepts pounding on your senses now than there was a decade ago. I think all social change/justice is at least somewhat self-referencing. Doesn't need to be bad always, it is good to be aware of those around us and at least not make every interaction unpleasant; some awkwardness is useful, I think.
But I also like to be alert that not every little social feature becomes defined by racial/gender differences, or even cultural ones. The world has much to offer and it would be great to share and learn instead of judge. And for that you'd need 2 parties willing to interact.
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