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People always say "with crypto, you are your own bank" like it's (only) a good thing and not realizing how hard it is to do right.


If people thought being their own bank was a good thing, we wouldn't have fucking banks


That's a good point. Have you tried to get an answer to that yet? For me it works out quite often to look for a reasonable explanation when something sounds unreasonable in first sight.


Yes, it does not understand (or has learned) the rules of the game then. For that being the case, it should be able to apply the rules correctly in a slightly different context.

Would it be possible to train an LLM on the rules how we would teach them to a human?


Does it matter? Apparently, laws were broken by the US administration once again. In working democracies, people don't just disappear.


Living in Germany which is a relatively small country by size, it is stunning to hear about all those story about long going power outtakes. Never heard of that before.

Experienced a relatively large outage a few weeks ago. I think I had one every ten years or so. Happened at 8pm. Online monitoring system (Mobile Internet is able to run on backup power for a day) said it would be fixed by 11pm, but it was actually fixed at 9pm. I watched Netflix on my tablet for the time being.

Needles to say, there's no big market here for such generators.


> ...it is stunning to hear about all those story about long going power outtakes.

Do remember that the ~2000 mile eastern section of the US is exposed to Atlantic hurricanes. Germany gets nothing like those. Additionally, US states exist in a large variety of climates, so the country as a whole has to deal with both freak heat and ice that Germany rarely faces.

Also remember that Germany is more densely populated and (until very recently) far richer than many of the US states that seem to be unable to plan for generally-uninterrupted power supply. Looking at the size and population of the various US states [0] might help put some of this into perspective.

[0] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories...>


Folks here in Spain felt much the same way up until about 2 weeks ago. Quite a mild power cut by hurricane-zone standards, despite the wide area affected, but that still means a lot of folks having to be rescued from elevators, and so on


I wonder which number theory proofs will happen from the fact that MTG has introduced prime number related mechanisms to their game.


Countries in general have a strong dislike for regions trying to become independent. There's just no way California will be able to become independent. Not sure about the US laws though, but in Europe there isn't even a legal framework for achieving something like this.


> There's just no way California will be able to become independent. Not sure about the US laws though, but in Europe there isn't even a legal framework for achieving something like this.

Even without a legal framework, it happens sometimes, through various means. Ireland used to be an integral part of the UK, say, Finland used to be part of (imperial) Russia, and the Baltic states were part of the Soviet Union.


Even if it came to war, it would be highly unlikely with a border as long and as undefendable as California has.


Yeah, I assume you mean California couldn't defend itself from the rest of the US under a California exit.


Yes, exactly. They basically have some mountains and a fairly large expanse of desert, but that's pretty much it, as far as geographical barriers go. And it is a very long border.


How would you replace the incentives for R&D for medication, for example? That often costs billions of dollars.


I take deep issue with this argument as if improving the lives of others isn't enough of an incentive. Ask most scientists whether they got into it for the money and you'll have your answer.


Copyright doesn't apply to ideas. It applies to concrete works.


Put 10,000 hours into writing a book. Watch somebody with more resources or media coverage take full credits for it and/or make money instead of yourself. Copyright is a good thing. Same principle applies to the core of similar laws.


Copyright can be a good or bad thing, it doesn't stop businesses from arguing fair/transformative use, and winning in many cases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....


but literally no one is doing that in this scenario so... huh? Also the number of hours you put into a thing does not make it valuable.


No one is taking credit, but no one is giving credit either, which is nearly the same.

Also, to your second point, when you (speaking of any regular person) put in the number of hours, it might not be valuable. When the domain expert puts in the same number of hours, it might be very valuable.


Sorry but no... theres no coorelation between value and lets call it effort over time. If a hole expert spends 10,000 hours digging a hole your left with... a hole.

If you have ever made an artwork you will know this fact in your bones.

Does a furniture maker credit the lumber yard?


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