Ah, that explains why my chatbot keeps telling me it is humbled and proud to announce all of its answers and tell me things I don't care about.

"216. Some leftists may seem to oppose technology, but they will oppose it only so long as they are outsiders and the technological system is controlled by non-leftists. If leftism ever becomes dominant in society, so that the technological system becomes a tool in the hands of leftists, they will enthusiastically use it and promote its growth. In doing this they will be repeating a pattern that leftism has shown again and again in the past. When the Bolsheviks in Russia were outsiders, they vigorously opposed censorship and the secret police, they advocated self-determination for ethnic minorities, and so forth; but as soon as they came into power themselves, they imposed a tighter censorship and created a more ruthless secret police than any that had existed under the tsars, and they oppressed ethnic minorities at least as much as the tsars had done. In the United States, a couple of decades ago when leftists were a minority in our universities, leftist professors were vigorous proponents of academic freedom, but today, in those of our universities where leftists have become dominant, they have shown themselves ready to take away from everyone else's academic freedom. (This is "political correctness.") The same will happen with leftists and technology: They will use it to oppress everyone else if they ever get it under their own control."

His methods may have been immoral but his diagnosis had some merit.

Put down the gun and we'll talk.

Apparently he took out a "Flash Loan" and borrowed the tokens. Once he executed his trades to grab the money he bought up enough tokens to repay the loan and all was fine.

It seems it is totally normal for 18-year-olds to take out multi-million dollar loans with no collateral to back them in the crypto world? I feel like this points to a whole lot of other potential problems in the crypto/DeFi world.

It's not a big deal.

I mean maybe we could so something to slow it down or at least contribute to a path to the reduction of greenhouse gases but if it means buying a Tesla, enriching Elon Musk and ending up letting more people post what they want on twitter is it really worth it?

The extinction of a few hundred species is a small price to pay to slightly silence people I disagree with.

Requiring companies to include it is not a 'slippery slope' - its already down the hill and off the cliff. PCs came with floppy drives forever then one day, they stopped. PCs came with CD/DVD drives forever. Then one day it stopped. Should the judge require that laptops ship with external floppy drives and CD/DVD drives now? If the box or ad claimed that it came with a charger, then its fraud and potentially within the realm of the state to respond. Other than that, this is an opinion with a gun.

I don't agree with Apple's policies. I don't support pointing guns at them to get them to change their behavior so I don't support forcing companies to act in a manner that the mob decides that they want. Have you already purchased a laptop from a company like Frame.Work? If so - great! If not, stop being so lazy and asking some third party to use threats of violence to achieve a goal that you are unwilling to approach by simply changing your purchasing behavior.

You only need a something over 50% of the mining power -- as long as they can add new blocks with no Assange transactions at a faster pace than than the rest of the mining pool they can keep the longest chain Assange donation free. A 51% attack isn't just for double spending, and simply blocking particular transactions is the kind of thing you might be able to get tacit agreement for; and it does only have to be tacit if you are fine with a few transactions getting through every now and then (which also helps hide any collusion).

Hell, he is polling at less than half of Rick Lynn Perry, who is not the former Governor Rick Perry but a "senior desktop technician" currently contracted out by a staffing agency to work for Lockheed-Martin.

It swaps in some different powers that be. If Wikileaks published something that embarrassed people behind a bunch of the major miner consortiums and they decided to just not include any bitcoin transfers to Assange or Wikileaks in blocks they mined that could severely limit or completely stop such transfers, depending on how big a proportion of the mining pool they pissed off. And let's be clear, there are a very small number of mining consortiums that control a very large fraction of the total hashing power; this is a lot more possible than it may appear at first blush.

Hell, even the old school powers that be could put a severe crimp in things if they were sufficiently motivated. If such a power decided to lean on the mining consortiums they could likely get the result they want with either enough bribes or a big enough stick (and they would have both).

I remember someone a few years ago ranting about what chemicals were doing to the frogs. He got de-platformed....

While we like to think hackers can solve every problem - it can't. This is not DVD or blu-ray. Regardless of how any given system works at the moment, with a limited number of devices that regularly return to the base station for rekeying can create a system that is impossible to have cracked without a daily insider threat. You better hope this is true or all of your bank accounts and all cryptocurrency is also broken

NH already took a step toward this in 2011/2012 when we passed HB418 (https://www.gencourtmobile.com/2012/HB418/Text). That bill was then copied by Oklahoma bill HB 2197 and perhaps others. This new legislation certainly goes beyond that. And with respect to other comments, yes, NH does not require motorcycle helmets, or seatbelts, or car insurance, or income tax or sales tax. And we don't require a permit to carry a firearm either open or concealed. And there are no knife laws. yeah - scary - stay away.

I spotted the fed.. ^

Smallpox is a DNA virus which mutates slower than the error prone RNA based viruses. We keep pointing to that one case as if it implies we could do the same with any other virus we want... Maybe .. maybe not. Pointing to a single example of anything and believing it means with high certainty that the example can be replicated is sort of why people end up losing all of their money when gambling. Efficacy matters as does the R0 value and probably durability of immunity as well as mutation rate of the virus.