From TFA

But from the LA Wallet Website FAQ

(Assuming that the Remote Verify is what the porn sites are expected to use to validate someone's age, as that is the only function I can see on their website that relates to this idea)

It may be that you can opt into what information is actually sent, but the LA Wallet site doesn't expand on what information can be sent, and there is currently no video or walk-through of using this feature.

Yeah, but a virtual person is a lot less likely to go off script than a real person.

It’s all fine and dandy to live and work remotely in an exotic location while sipping coconut juice from your balcony overlooking the sea. But that all falls flat on its face when you have to collaborate in real time with a team that is in a totally different time zone, or you have to work locally with specialized hardware.

I live in the SW of the US, but work for people on the east coast. Because of the collaborative nature of the work, I need to maintain east coast core hours. Which means regular 6:30am meetings for me. I might be able to go north or south, but I still need to remain contactable in real time during east coast business hours.

Yeah I know that isn’t a problem for the people these digital nomad visas are targeting, but it’s not always going to be possible to work like that.

I never said it was a good idea .. lol

I never said it was a good idea .. lol

I saw an advertisement video on TicTok this week for a mining rig that was being positioned as a combined heater and a bitcoin miner. I think the ad suggested 1300W of heating power. It was an interesting pitch, but not something I'd ever consider doing, and that's not even considering how the bitcoin price has been dropping in recent times.

Just taking out all the insulators and dropping high powered wires onto the ground is going to cause a significant amount of havoc in itself, as these are not the sorts of things you keep in a large stock ready for instant replacement (nor can be instantly replaced).

And given the fact that transmission lines cross large amounts of empty land, there are plenty of targets of opportunity even if the switch yards themselves are guarded.

The tactics of shutting down switch yards and transmission lines via rifles and throwing chains would be extremely obvious to both sides. It's only now that someone seems to have decided to make a deliberate effort, rather than typical rednecks taking pot shots every now and again for the yucks.

Yeah, it's not as if high powered rifles with scopes exist, that allow for the perpetrators to stand off and shoot up places from a distance.

And that's not even getting into the fact that man traps using deadly force are illegal in the US.

Or that you have now added additional risk to the people who legitimately work in these locations. OSHA would have a field day with just that alone.

While I don't disagree with you, the dick waving performance specs of various car companies makes for cars that can't be fully utilized in the real world. 0-60 in 3 seconds, or a top speed of over 200 mph isn't going to mean squat if 99% of the time you are in gridlock traffic, or driving down a road with a 30 mph speed limit.

There's an old joke that an engineer doesn't see a glass half full or half empty, they see a glass that is the wrong size.

Lawsuits are just a cost center to car manufacturers. Ford notoriously decided that paying for lawsuits from the Pinto debacle were cheaper than doing a recall to fix the problem.

As for subscriptions to go above speed limits. You shouldn't normally be driving above it in the first place, and there is a whole group of people dedicated to making sure you don't, and fining you if you do. And if you are driving above the speed limit, and cause an accident, it is your fault for doing so, not the manufacturer. And while excessive speeding is bad, having the ability to exceed the speed limit can be a safety system in itself, as it allows you the possibility of getting out of danger in various situations.

And finally how do you design a car to not exceed the speed limit? That is a non-trivial problem in itself.

Trying to not take the cynical viewpoint here (which is really hard to do), but while the car may be capable of the extra acceleration, that doesn't mean the extra acceleration is good for the car. And that the sort of people who would pay for this function are the sort of people who could cause issues for Mercedes by abusing that function. (What do you mean I can't do 0-60-0-60-0-60 over and over again in 5 minutes with out screwing my car up?)

So by charging for this feature, they are 1) Reducing the number of people who will use it, 2) Collecting money up front to pay for any future issues caused by said people.

Of course the true answer is probably more "because they can".

There has been a long history of apps asking/requiring permissions that they don't need, simply due to the stupidity of the coders not considering what they are actually doing and asking for everything.

OTOH such a meeting would be a target rich environment for various intelligence agencies. But without further proof you can't really say what the cause is.

OTTH (third hand) Por qué no los dos?

Will Bitcoin break 100k before the end of 2022? Consensus: No!

where do you think the price bottom is for bitcoin this cycle? Consensus: Below $15k

Wow. So the polls are good for something!

You're like that old joke about the person flying the helicopter in the fog, and is lost. He sees guy at the window of a building, and calls out to him to ask where he is. The guy at the window replies "You're in a helicopter". Where upon the pilot realizes he's flying over the top of the Microsoft campus, because the answer was technically correct, yet totally useless.

So yeah, a great definition of "atomic", but what does it actually mean for the code execution?

Twitter is trying to undo the snap
Apparently it's not a good idea to layoff key employees. Who'd have thunk it?

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BTW Kudos to you for the "snap" reference. It works on so many levels.