> so now attackers can easily DoS your login system.

What keeps them for doing that with a traditional system? Even a traditional login screen should be throttled.

> Which is why you store it in a password-keeper

Another vector for hacking.

Correction: "With enough". Damn, I hope such simple typos are not a sign of Heimalzers, or whaddever itz called.

Without enough practice, many Alzheimer's patients can learn to get good enough.

The "requirements" for a secure passwords will keep trending up such that harassing users to write War and Peace to log in is a dead end.

The password server should be in a special box that throttles requests. It would have a very limited and primitive interface to the outside world; technicians would have to physically unlock it to service it. There would be a mirror server for a backup.

That way no hacker can run gajillion retries on a password without swiping the actual box.

The fact that everyone decides to settle is a pretty strong signal.

Cite? I'm not a CPA but AFAIK, being a PDT has no direct tax implications, it just invokes brokerage/margin rules.

As I understand it (and I skimmed the law), 475(f) elections are entirely optional. The tricky thing is that you have to make the decision of whether you're going to elect to mark to market by April 15 (e.g. you have to decide by April 15, 2026 if you'll mark to market on December 31, 2026), and you generally cannot change that decision. So if you think it's going to be a bad year, it's a good idea to elect, because it removes the cap on loss deductions. If you expect to make a lot of wash sales and don't want to bother tracking them, that's another reason to elect.

But as far as I can tell, it's purely voluntary. Can you point to evidence to the contrary? Ideally in the law, but a reputable investor information site would be fine. I checked several (e.g. https://www.optionstaxguy.com/...) and they all describe it as a choice. One that is binding once made, but still a choice.

This seems like a contradiction, I'm not following. Perhaps you mean "use" differently than I'm interpreting.

Schizophrenics are people too...including the orange guy who "sees" dog-eating Haitians tampering with voting machines using windmill radiation.

People with schizophrenia are usually considered "conscience" as long as they can usually dress themselves and eat on their own, so the bar is fairly low.

...than a big exercise in Laynes Law.

There is no consensus air-tight definition of "conscience", so enjoy your Never Ending Arguments.

It's also possible to pair it with a large residential roof solar installation. I installed solar recently (just in time to grab the 30% credit) and my system routinely generates 3X what my home uses in the course of a day (I typically use about 40 kWh per day, and often generate 130+kWh per day). I've been thinking I'd really like to find something to suck up that extra power, because the monthly net billing plan I have means that once I've zeroed out my bill for the month, I get no benefit from additional production.

As deployment of renewables continue, this "problem" of what do do with excess capacity will increase and spread.

However, if power for the mini-datacenter is only intermittently available, the cost of the hardware effectively increases on a per-token (or per FLOP or however you want to measure the system's work) basis... and hardware cost is already going to be a tough problem for this kind of deployment. Even if it could count on 100% utilization, it will struggle to compete with large datacenters for exactly the reason we build large datacenters: Economies of scale. Enclosures (buildings), cooling, maintenance... all of the overheads fall with scale.

Intermittent utilization just makes that problem worse.

On balance, I'm skeptical that this makes sense, unless the cost of the hardware falls significantly. It seems like that's a baseline requirement for a lot of the alternative datacenter ideas, though: orbital datacenters, floating datacenters, etc.

Depending on the jurisdiction; it might allow for some dishonest regulatory hackery; which bad people treat as equivalent to a solution.

If you are having trouble getting approval for a big fat grid hookup or rezoning of what was supposed to be a fairly low excitement commercial/industrial plot into a datacenter; you might have less trouble getting some nice, innocuous, residential development with what are totally just the next generation of cable boxes if you don't look too closely in the back yard pushed through; and once you've done that you aren't going to live next to the externalities or deal with the stressed edge of a grid; so not a you problem anymore.

> some come from other people.

Now I'll get sued for copyright infringement just for sleeping.

Presumably the developer who gets paid a kickback to add it that they at least hope will be larger than the loss in expected sale price from having it there.

Assuming you can slip the thing, and some sort of cryptic easement or covenant burned into the deed, to at least one sucker it no longer matters whether the 'owner' wants it or not.

Perfect ratios? Proof God-diddit! Now pray and lock up trans, like Fox Jesus wants! /s