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Comment Re:Time to get local...ish... (Score 1) 289

It doesn't if it doesn't sell. It's only as controlled as much as China wants to hold out for a higher price. Like fracking oil its not worthless, its just too expensive to produce relative to other sources, until it isn't. I have a feeling these precious metals are not nearly as "controlled" by China as they seem to think they are.

Comment Re:Let me guess (Score 0) 137

Are you seriously trying to defend the credibility of a lobbyist? The governor may have said that, but when a story is written by someone with clear and obvious biases then you have to take the reporting with a huge grain of salt. The implication was that we should not pay any attention to this source, but it was not saying that everything said was a lie.

Comment No point to them (Score 1) 94

A suburb exists because people work IN the city, but don't want to be crammed together or pay the high prices that inner cities demand for space. So they live where the space is affordable and commute into the city. In a video game space is not a constraint, cost of space is not a constraint, transportation between places is not a constraint. So why would a suburb exist? You can create a portal or a command to wherever you want instantly. You can have every part of the game exist from a menu if you wanted. Suburbs serve a purpose in the real world, one that doesn't exist in a virtual one.

Comment Outsourced coders (Score 1) 80

Guess what your outsourced coders are too, but the difference is they will tell you its secure even though they didn't do anything different. At least the AI will tell you that it made a mistake because has no reason to feel shame or hide anything. It just didn't think about all the possible factors based on your initial request. Maybe the flaw was that you didn't ask for it to be secure in the first place?

Comment No one should be shocked (Score 1) 61

Kucoin one of the larger Crypto exchanges literally would only provide easy access to 6 months of transaction history. You had to put in a support ticket and request a longer one and there was no way to know if the transaction log was complete at all. There were functions on the website that allows any individual to execute literally thousands of transactions in seconds that would take individuals unbelievable number of hours to try and sort through. You can easily setup trading bots that would buy and sell hundreds or thousands of times a day each each with their own fees and cost basis. And none of the full transaction lists were necessarily easily accessible to the user who is running them.

The idea that a person could even fathom doing their taxes or something accurately on exchanges like this are impossible. There was no accounting and I would argue that if someone looks hard enough they figured out ways to get real banks to register trillions of dollars in transactions against assets that never existed because they were based upon totally fake traffic and transactions. I have a crypto coin that is trading $100m in transactions every day which means it has a market cap X and because I can show I'm in control of it I can borrow money against it. I can convince some bank to give me real dollars for my fake transactions. I take those real dollars and use it create more traffic in my coin to make sure those bankers don't get worried. Rinse repeat.

Comment Russia in Ukraine is writing on the wall (Score 1) 100

US is learning from Russia that in order to fight a 21st century war you need to have the whole supply chain for your weapons available in house or you run the risk of running out of important components. Even the simplest of parts could be crucial and non-replaceable in a critical moment. We no long live in a world where we could all go down to the factory and pound rivets for the war effort. We would need to seriously ramp up internal knowledge and production just to get back to square zero.

Comment Re: Is the Mind Computable? (Score 3, Interesting) 76

Just look at the existing AI models. Researchers were surprised that by training it on generalized knowledge of lots of things that it was able to solve problems it wasn't specifically trained to do. That ethereal unexplainably complex set of interactions could very well be what consciousness is. The culmination of a lot of tiny parameters interacting in a way that they suddenly becomes a feedback loop that creates consciousness. We don't even know when that occurs. It's very possible that consciousness spark doesn't happen until after birth or even later. Why can't we generally remember things before a certain age? How can we be sure that we have a consciousness at that point?

Comment Not sure the fear? (Score 3, Insightful) 47

I'm not sure why it is so important for humans not to leave a mark on the surface of the Earth? Why is it seen as destruction and pollution when humans do it but when animals shit in the woods its seen as "natural". When beavers change and destroy entire ecosystems its seen as natural in some places and invasive in others. I'm not sure why humans seem to think they get to control and dictate what is acceptable changes and which are not. Why is it a problem that a new animal species starts dominating a different ecosystem? Is that not how all the ecosystems formed in the first place? Just because we don't get that magical diversity that we crave in our tiny time sliver doesn't mean we get it. The Earth and life on it will go on with or without us.

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