> Long-term low-current electroplasticity, induced by the electromagnetic waves from the Arecibo telescope itself, may have sped up the zinc creep, it says.

I presume we aren't using most bridges as interstellar antennas.

> I presume we aren't using most bridges as interstellar antennas.

any like area of metal will receive as much interstellar emissions but I guess they did run a MW transmitter sometimes.

No, but there is a lot of potential for large structures to act like an accidental antenna and/or receive low level voltages from the environment or other equipment.

Likely won't matter in most cases, but there could be a few disasters waiting around.

That’s what the government (… and most rational people) wants you to think.

how could the government control the birds without using bridges as antennas?!

There's more than one kind of project manager.

The "I just manage the Gantt chart" folks are screwed, I think.

The ones that are good at translating between teams can be a huge force multiplier.

To me the ones doing scheduling, team coordination and chasing people down for answers to promises made are probably the safest. The more you deal with humans in meatspace the safer from AI you are.

This seems like tech news? ICE is hiring consultants to seize domains critical of them?

Is that an impossibility? Is WWII's good/bad guy split genuine?

Nobody's perfect, sure. But can one side be significantly better than the other in politics at times?

Let's reframe that; it's very useful for maintaining continuity of care in medicine!

"Done! I must note one issue. The classifier blocked my write of the private key. I'm sorry, it's not possible to reconstruct it."

That's totally on me. I should have asked you before shutting down the subagents. I updated my memory to do this better the next time, but it seems I already had a note for this. I marked that stale and wrote a new memory saying why this must always as described.

And honestly? I think it totally tracks that you pushed back on that.

He was briefly imprisoned (a couple of months). Later pardoned.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly1qrl9l1qo

"Pardoned" with implications of bribery, as opposed to being found innocent by a court.

Not your keys, not your crypto.

Keys? Hahaha, still not your crypto.

Unless it's Monero, the only currency to be declared illegal in most countries because it's too much like cash.

Monero is legal in most countries.

To possess, as long as you don't make a business out of exchanging it for things.

It’s legal (at least in the US) the government just advised every major exchange that they couldn’t uphold their KYC obligations with it so they dropped it.

So it's illegal to exchange.

The currency itself is legal. Being an exchanger for it the government is ever so gently nudging you away from.

"ever so gently" as in you'll get a 30 year sentence for doing so. I guess the government is "ever so gently" nudging me away from committing murder too.

Like cash except you can use it at crazy scale, so worse than cash when crime is considered.

That's why it's paramount for LEOs to go after people doing the bad deeds instead of simply banning a whole monetary ecosystem, just because it's easier to do.

If you ban a coin, instead of persuing the actual criminal, then you're both doing a disservice to honest users of the coin and leaving the bad actor to do harm to society in some other way.

There are only 8B people in the world - they all fit into a "box" of 2k by 2k by 2k of humans.

It really isn't that hard to know who's doing bad things to others, especially with current technology.

No, it's exactly why that works.

Criminals used to meet in person to discuss crime (because mail/phones can be intercepted) and meet in person to move cash. It was a hard limiting factor on what they can get away with. With e2e messengers and anonymous crypto both of those "issues" are fixed.

Do you know anyone who uses it for legit purposes? I don't. I bet you ban a coin like that and you kill orders of magnitude more crime revenue compared to .001% of honest users using it to send money home and save a few dollars on the transaction.

It really is hard, because time isn’t addressed in the idea.

It is an evolutionary process, with incentives are high enough for both sides to keep finding solutions.

> hey you know how the DoD has never passed an audit

It's the largest organization on the planet, with large rival and highly independent sub-organizations, some of its assets get blown up regularly, and some of those assets are highly classified. Congress is never going to give them the resources to do the largest accounting project in the history of the planet, either.

AI would either tell you it's an intractable problem, or make shit up.

> They also never understood a core principle of such platforms. The noise is not noise but what carries such platforms.

But it's also what wrecks such platforms.

SO didn't arise in a vacuum; it was explicitly a reaction to how shitty ExpertSexchange had gotten by then with an anything-goes moderation policy.

The solution was the one they arrived at way too late: have a "starter zone" for entry level stuff.