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they already made arm chips, so this is an obvious next--step

yeah, arm is worldwide, but largest location is still Cambridge

Blockchains don't enforce anything. They are a record, nothing more, nothing less.

But that's all an NFT is too. It is simply a record in a blockchain following certain rules, stating that a certain identity"owns" the token. The rules of the blockchain could be designed so that in order to transfer the token from one account to another, a certain amount of currency must at the same time be transferred to a fixed identity we'll call the "artist".

I don't see how you could make sure it be a proportion of the sale price, because people could arrange to buy and sell outside the blockchain, paying each other in real money, and then put the transaction through with an artificially low price. But it should be possible to guarantee a fixed sum on every transfer.

As for enforcement, nothing about NFTs is enforced anyway. I could create my own blockchain declaring that I am the owner of all of these NFTs, and also declaring myself emperor of Canada for good measure. The blockchain is simply an accepted convention. So when I say "enforced in the blockchain" I mean specified as part of the code in the blockchain system. That code is the only thing which determines "ownership" of an NFT to start with. (If NFTs are subject to the real world system of copyright, that's a separate consideration really. You could agree to buy the rights to an NFT and never bother to update the blockchain.)

this is the truth behind the microcomputer revolution - everything allowing this thing to be created, then troubleshoot with simple multi-meter (or oscilloscope if you're doing tape, TV-out or audio) was because standards Ike ttl with fairly high-density packages predate the revolution!

it was easy for folks living near computer engineers to collect cheap clearance items, so all you needed to create an apple 1 was in your garage! HP pulled the same trick 40 years previous

Really, realizing the dream of a cheap system took other folks pushing the limits of tech, which is why 6502 cut everything they thought they could get away with, while pushing the limits f process tech ( N-channel Silicon Gate Depletion 5v process)

this, plus reusing masks made for a 10x total
reduction in [price for a CPU overnight (and the tools were similarly simple, high-density, which made the three-chip vcs and 3-chip + ram kim-1!

the only innovation was thew impressive 5-color mode added to the apple II, but that gap only happened because early computer users couldn't be bothered to justify color in the workplace

this is pretty normal wherever any tech product hits the Wall of diminished demand.

massive amounts of embedded micro-controllers for automotive, all the way up to entry-level arm+ Mali chips from Rockchip or MediaTek for sub 200 phones, or 100-ish tablets

other consolidated Chinese powerhouses have included active-matrix displays manufactures (since 2005, once generic displays became "good enough" for most users to kill everything in Korea except pro!) this means everything except oled is now made almost-exclusively in china

other more recent expansions include nand flash,and now that dram has hit a similar density wall, expect takeovers from china

semiconductors are very cyclical, so every-other-year downturns mean a fab/micro design-house near the bottom of its low-margin industry-specialty is always vulnerable to closure or takeover; even smaller Chinese units are just-as-vulnerable as those outside the country:

https://tech.hindustantimes.co...

no, is more than this:
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over the last year, big service have tried to monetize themselves to stop the bleeding - after HBO and Amazon both cut as metric shti ton of content, and Disney doubled prices while freezing all new series acquisitions, it was pretty easy for the existing powers (hulu and Netflix)To clean-up

WHEN you're The ONLY providers WITH A PROVEN WORKING SERVICE MODEL,ITS EASY TO PERSEVERE LONG-TERM,

and then you just end-up with the massive remixing that goes into any desalinization plant outlet (and if you have many concentrated, you make the slurry-effect worse!)

I'd say you could get more out of just improving lithium recycling infrastructure - better to save your seawater for something more-fitting

I used to work in an office that was very laid back. I usually wore chinos/jeans and a t-shirt + hoodie, which was decidedly upscale for the office. Anyway, on one random day I wore shorts and my boss came in and said "You need to dress for the position you aspire!" and at that exact moment our CTO walked by in board shorts, hoodie, and slides. I just pointed at him and went back to work.

What... is your name? Sir Galleri.
What... is your quest? To seek the Grail.
Do.... I have cancer? Yes. Er, I mean no -- aaarrgh!

If the service is free of charge, Google isn't going to employ human technical support staff to validate people's identity and make a best-guess attempt to restore locked accounts to their rightful owners. That's just too expensive.

If you pay for the service, even if it's only a couple of dollars a month, then you can always be identified as the account holder, just by tracing it back through your bank account (and identifying bank customers is a well known, if not completely solved, problem). Moreover if you're paying then you will have a human "account manager" whose job it is to sort out this stuff.

That's why for important things I prefer to use a paid service. That said, I haven't put the theory to the test - like if I lost access to my current email address and I had to ask for the password to be reset just on the basis of being the person paying for the account. There still might not be a clueful helpdesk, if 99% of accounts are free ones.

the problem with trying to distribute advanced engineering degrees is nearly impossible, because you really need talented faculty in a minimum number to entice students

Who the hell want to move to a shithole like Ohio? Even schools in border states like Purdue are still undesirable to most students from the rest of the nation

you have to have demand to maintain hot research faculty, which is essential for anything cutting-edge

the counter thought:

most trucks get closer to 10 mpg (mean the equivalent tax to Ev), and also do a lot more damage to the roads. also,. due to batteries extra weight, the average Ev SUV weighs almost ass much as a ice truck

I use Outlook and Teams at work but I've found the web versions to be faster. I just open outlook.office.com and teams.microsoft.com in Firefox. Outlook in particular responds faster (for me) than the desktop app -- though it' still pretty sluggish. Teams in the browser is about the same experience as the desktop version (which is currently an Electron app anyway), but at least you only have one browser engine running, saving a few hundred megs of memory.

So obviously, links also open in Firefox. One thing I haven't managed to fix is the obnoxious "safelinks" URI munging. There are Greasemonkey scripts for that but Microsoft has changed the munging slightly over the years so I haven't found (or managed to write) one that works.

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