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EV are explicitly treated differently. Telsa insisted on it's direct sales model and it was more politically expedient for regulators in many states to carve out an exception to th…

> A key tradeoff is that Bronze does not guarantee thread safety Data races are currently prevented by the borrow checker. Any GC in order to provide equivalent correctness would n…

While I strongly agree this doesn't seem to match the sentiment of the paper. Which is prioritizing a lower barrier to entry for new programmers at the cost of safety checks that h…

The power consumption is a fundamental part of how phased array antennas work. You have hundreds of tiny antennas using constructive and destructive interference to steer the signa…

What defines cryptocurrency then? Not saying your wrong, but I'm curious.

This is new since the last time I took a deep dive into things. This does seem more straightforward, at the cost of essentially all of ETH2's advertised scalability and other featu…

Proof of stake Ethereum is very similar to 5G, yes there is real technology, yes it's 'working' in some capacity now. But you really shouldn't plan on it reaching you any time soon…

We're hiring. https://twitter.com/AltheaNetwork/status/1357794950843305984 https://althea.net/careers

It's not a matter of 'more' or 'less' rather than 'easier to deal with'. LEO sats will probably produce more space junk by mass but junk in LEO will be gone in a few years, no matt…

There are bridges to and from Ethereum right now. I use them every day because I need a fast sidechain for my application. Choosing ETH2 is predicated on the assumption that ETH1 w…

> and choosing to use ETH2 as their mainnet substrate chain instead. But why exactly? Until ETH1 is in the ETH2 chain ecosystem ETH2 is just another blockchain platform, providing …

The ETH2 'beacon chain' is a meta-chain that's supposed to checkpoint a bunch of 'sub chains' for scalability. But they have launched it with many big questions unanswered. What do…

don't forget peer to peer viruses! with access to microphones, smart power sockets, smart water meters, and smart sprinklers!

This has been announced very quietly today via email and it's the most stunningly ambitious IoT project I've ever seen. Considering the existing scale of Amazon smart device deploy…

> It's a war crime to attack hospitals and the risks of escalation for nation state actors are not aligned with their incentives. The primary point of nation-state cybercrime is th…

The interesting problem with decentralized messaging is not technical but with spam, moderation,and user acquisition

That's why lots of options are shipping with 5ghz failover. Still not the best case to reduce bandwidth during heavy rain but at least it still works.

> Regardless, they are not controlling what creators make or view. Are you claiming recommendations do not affect views and views do not affect what content people create? This is …

Laws (especially tax laws) are useless because. > You're basically giving people a playbook for how to game your system. You aren't wrong, but accepting secrecy for this reason is …

It's a Malthusian trap if you don't advertise 100 some other dude advertises 100 and customers think you need 100mbps to browse facebook because the 100 connection they got from th…

With modern congestion control oversubscribed connections can run smooth as butter for most users. Despite this essentially no ISPs use them. I have coworkers, friends, and family …

> is in fact quite far ahead of them This is like saying that AWS doesn't matter because people have been hosting servers for decades. It's technically correct but misses the entir…

In every other field people are reasonably held responsible for their failures. As a service tech if I fill a car with tomato sauce instead of oil I pay for the car. As a programme…