People either left the keys sitting around where the US government picked them up, or they handed it over willingly. If your key is secret, your coins cannot be taken away from you.
> If your key is secret, your coins cannot be taken away from you.
Governments have a legal monopoly on the use of force, and they have the means to employ it. If you can access your bitcoin, and a government can access you, that government can access your bitcoin.
> You don't have that option with digital fiat, even if you wanted to.
Yes, you could, you just need to acquire the digital fiat anonymously through one of many methods. Then burn all record of it and watch your money disappear the same way as taking it to the grave, just no death required. Or go ahead and die if you must, but you’ll still not prove that Bitcoin is any different or any less “takeable”.
Technically true! However, if you want to be dead and have nothing to pass on to your heirs, there are many other options which are easier and more fun.
You could possibly get around this by sharing the keys without sharing that they are keys like teaching your young children to sing a song or some other activity that matches the mnemonic phrase but can be passed off as a weird family ritual or something and only later revealing the secret to trusted beneficiaries.
Yes, socially undesirable qualities like being smaller than other children because they were pushed forward a year for being bright. Or because they wear a discount brand of clothing. Or because they were called a mocking name that rhymed and therefore stuck for years. Or because of jealously. Or because their father had to fire another child's father from their job.
In my experience bullying comes after humiliating public experience. Say something stupid in front of the whole school and made everyone laugh? Good, now you are first candidate for bullying
Yep. I got my share of bruises and ruined clothing for being praised in front of the class for top marks. To this day, I'm very uncomfortable in the spotlight.
I feel a strange sense of loss at learning that these exist. I cherished the Usborne books I did have, and I had to mainly teach myself Basic with LIST commands and such, because I didn't have any friends or comprehensive books to teach me, nor was I permitted to dial long distance numbers to reach a BBS. I would have loved these as a child.
There's some nuance here. If you soak your meat in lime juice for several hours, the acid is going to penetrate deep into the meat. It doesn't do nothing.
Wow. The original article was talking about doorbells and TV broadcast applications. That looks like the quality of the original moon landing broadcast.
In this interview I wasn't concerned about that. If you are looking to see if someone understands Linux by testing diagnostic skill, if they are coming up with 3-4 different failures to check for every step... They are doing their job.
GPT can make great sentences, it's just not the default operating mode. LLMs are capable of amazing things if you can get them into the right section of the latent space.
This applies only to under-specified prompting. I usually go in with a finished image in mind, and use very long prompts and inpainting to make it real. It can take dozens of images to get the prompt to reflect what I have in mind, then several more iterations to polish it. While I can technically produce several images per minute, I usually spend about 30 minutes to 1 hour to get the output I want, and more if it's going to be an extra large or complicated piece.
This is very much like the "is electronic music real music?" debates when people can quickly throw together some presets and hit play.
Take your chances with what? The vaccine was free for me all 3 times I had it. When I had Covid post-vaccine it was much more mild than when I had it pre-vaccine, though there are several confounding variables present there.
Literally. Seattle was pretty okay with taxi service in 2011, but in San Francisco, the same taxi company that dropped me off in South San Francisco one day in early 2012 just told me I was on my own and they could not help me when I tried to get a ride home. No numbers for partner companies or suggestions or anything. I was stranded, and willing to pay top dollar. I could not believe the complete failure of the market just a few minutes outside the city.
San Francisco taxis were the worst. It was impossible to get a cab on Friday and Saturday nights, and they always blocked any attempts to add more cabs to the roads. I have zero sympathy for them.
