> Our democratic systems, laws, etc. are not built to do that, they are built on the idea of intrinsic stability of our world where incremental improvements do not need cutting through what was decided before.
Without totally derailing the thread, this is also obviously why climate and biosphere collapse is not (and likely will continue not) to be addressed, e.g. Timothy Morton's Hyperobjects
Ironically, the origin of "cognitive dissonance" as a concept is attributable to Leon Festinger who (with others) studied a UFO cult called The Seekers in the 1950s who believed in imminent apocalypse. As other commenters have noted, pushing the date back was inevitable. Time is a flat circle and we repeat the mistakes of our ancestors just with different coats of paint...
ArrayCast is a great podcast and I've enjoyed it quite a lot since it started. Listening to people talk about APL/K/J/BQN/etc is a great way to learn about the array languages. Maybe it's just me but hearing people use the glyphs in conversation went a long way to building intuition with how to think in arrays, so to speak.
Interesting! Well, I'm definitely not in whatever those regions are. Presumably if a threat actor was motivated enough this would be fairly easily circumvented :]
Edit: e.g. via residential proxy IPs and a bunch of cheap Android phones
Cool! I wasn't aware of nano; your point about the gas fees is really compelling, as there's a lot of stuff I've wanted to try building on Ethereum et al that I just haven't done because I can't get over the hurdle of paying transaction costs lol.
> also even if I like the tech, I think that crypto's fundamentally really really volatile and I prefer things like index funds being honest
At the risk of derailing the thread, I agree. However, I think "tokenization" is probably crypto's killer app if the messy problem of legal finality rectifying assets on the blockchain with their real-world counterparts can be solved. I touched upon this in a separate post on my blog.
You probably don't use Hinge. The verification is not necessary at all. It's merely used to "verify" your identity to other users. It has no bearing on what I cover in the post.
You don't have to do that? I touched upon it in the first section of the post. All you need is a valid phone number, which you can use throwaway trial SIM cards for.
Regarding your first point, extraction of the headers could be trivially automated. Also, using Hinge's CDN (which I think is CloudFlare and/or AWS) is more viable imo, as you don't need to provide headers to GET the files. If that also applies to user-uploaded videos then I do think there's some meat on this bone. But as the other user who replied to you pointed out, this was mostly for nerdy delight.
Also thanks for bringing up the blockchain C2 use, that's cool and news to me.
I want to thank you and the other user (hobofan) for pointing out the use of crypto currencies as C2s. I do bioinformatics for a living, not infosec, so that's another fun little rabbit hole for me to go on...
Annual lupin (L. angustifolius and L. albus) have been bred for better yields and low alkaloids. There are some existing commercial varieties. Australia is a large producer.
From an economic perspective, the yields on perennial lupin are just too low. Something that plant breeding could hopefully address long term.
Apparently the Land Institute already investigated it (https://landinstitute.org/our-work/perennial-crops/legumes/) and decided on sainfoin instead of lupin. I reached out some time back to ask why, because I was curious if their research found yield or alkaloid content too difficult to control for. Never got a reply.
That's true, the existing power infra (substation, etc) is big and would cost a pretty penny to build greenfield.
But the water is also right there and more than plentiful. In this case it pays to step back and look at the wider strategic value.
If anything, I want to inspire in people's minds a more thoughtful approach to locating techno-industrial infrastructure. To take a page from permaculture, we can work with the landscape instead of against it.
All that being said, I wish this was something other than a data center. Nuclear power, a second Micron plant, please anything but this!
https://github.com/matthewwiese