This is why IMO blockchains should be designed to be inflationary. On one hand it just makes sense that as more compute is added transactions should be able to process faster and tokens should be minted more rapidly, such that by "mining" you are producing real value (allowing the chain to process more transactions per second and more people to acquire tokens), on the other very few people use crypto for anything besides speculation so such a coin would never be widely adopted.
I think this is why the fiat system is inflationary (low level inflation is seen as healthy). Assuming that productive projects exist, you never want lack of capital to be the reason that they're not done. The free market is never going to perfectly allocate capital, therefore there should be some extra money in the system to allow for errors. The errors would cause inflation (money supply increased, but productive output did not), but this is better than being overly cautious.
Incidentally this is why austerity in debt-laden countries is kind of a terrible idea. You're taking a broken economy and removing what little slack remains in the system. And if the economy was broken due to corruption or incompetent government, you're kind of just betting on regime change at this point, which (apart from the human toll) won't be great economically either.
What is it about free lipids and proteins spontaneously joining together in chaotic aquatic environments to form highly resilient microscopically sub-dividable shells that you find so trollishly unrelated to the concept of membranes forming in early earth conditions?
This would have been at a period before any real sophisticated attackers exist, and before life had built up any specific requirements of an "internal" environment too.
It seems intuitive that this would be how it started, goopy little bubbles filled with goo, just barely keeping out the other goo that would disrupt it.
When you find a living organism relying on sea foam to construct an organelle, you may file for your Nobel Prize.
Literally all the organisms we know about make all the membranes they use by adding to an existing membrane, not fetching them from out of their environment. And really, why should they?
Finally: a soap bubble film has air on both sides, and water solution between, and is thus the opposite of any membrane in a cell, which has water on both sides and glyceride in between.
> They didn't even teach building an emergency shelter.
This is now a requirement. I don't remember the exact merit badge, but one of them had me and a friend huddled up between two logs surrounded by pine boughs for a summer night somewhere in the sierras.
It was cold, but manageable. What got me was a bug of some sort fell into my ear and I spent the whole night alternating between trying to pick out out with my finger, shaking my head wildly in attempt to make it fall out, or just lying there listening to it scurry back and forth in my ear canal.
When I was a kid the badge was called “wilderness survival”. I took it every summer camp because it was so much fun to be sent off into the woods with a bit of food, matches, knife, and rope.
> Improvise a natural shelter. For the purpose of this demonstration, use techniques that have little negative impact on the environment. Spend a night in your shelter.
Yeah that was the best. I usually found a tree that was bent over dead and laid fallen branches across each side to form the shelter and then cover in leaves.
GH contributions primarily from three people, all affiliated with https://www.wearebraid.com/home. Seems to be some web dev consultancy that has open sourced part of their toolchain.
Same with utilities... I swear I need to provide more PII to pay my utilities than to login to my bank account. Who's going around paying other peoples bills and how do I become friends with them?
Research is research, but anecdotes are anecdotes. And anecdotally, I can tell you that having done the same drive in the same conditions many times with both a Jeep Wrangler and a Toyota Prius, the Wrangler consistently has far more bugs on it, and requires multiple cleanings per leg of the journey. The Prius requires no cleanings for the duration of the trip.
If you consider the military the end customer, sure. But take a step back and the military is the just the defense vendor for the People. If the People don't need their president to be supplied with all that tech, then the military has over-engineered their solution to the People's "our president should be able to move places relatively quickly and relatively safely" problem.
The President needs to be able to do their job as President from these planes while in the air, including some of the more unique responsibilities of the job like directing a nuclear war. The requirements go pretty far beyond just providing speedy and safe transit.
My point is that the presence of unusual or even absurd requirements is a different thing than over engineering, even though the results can seem similar. If a design incorporates complexity that is not warranted by the requirements or the constraints, it can be described as over engineered. Requirements can cause the same complexity, but it is now warranted.
You may, of course, disagree about the requirements, but that really is a matter of risk tolerance, and preexisting policy.
