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> If that’s what you want throw a “transfer” button on your site.

Well when you buy a ticket from ticketmaster you can’t exactly dictate what features they offer through their platform...not to mention ticket master is a 3rd party service that they take a massive cut.

blockchain is cutting these 3rd parties out in these use cases, allowing the event holders to easily mint the admission tickets and users take advantage of peer to peer open source technology. Meaning easily trace the tickets and buy/trade/sell without relying on Ticketmaster.
After a few years, my old iPhone SE couldn't last for more than an hour of heavy use, or half a day mostly idle. iOS reported battery health at 90%...

yeah, 90% my ass. That battery was nearly dead.
An NFT really is just a commemorative plaque that says "I own [URL HERE]". It doesn't come with some crypto-backed security that only you can do anything with whatever is at the URL. It doesn't give you any legal rights unless backed by a separate contract (which could just as well have been made without the NFT). All it guarantees is that no other plaque with exactly the same words can exist on that blockchain.
Wow love this
Intelligence and Stupidity: The Orthogonality Thesis [video]
Where are you trying to go with this line?
Every digital clock in the store is 7-segment.
Drops divorce rates on what timeline? Reminds of Intervention, where all addicts relapse within 6 months.

I’ll never understand how divorce happens when two people have kids. Anything before that is just a dressed up break up.
Macsyma was the name of the CAS from the defunct Symbolics, Inc..

Maxima is an open source variant, based on an earlier version derived from the original Macsyma code base at MIT.
Really. You really sound like first making up your mind on something and trying to then justify it.

What are your saying?
Site uses a self-signed cert and HTTPSEverywhere gets mad.
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> if they sold a digital art piece in traditional terms

People do sell licenses to digital art, yes. I've both bought and sold such licenses, primarily on TurboSquid (https://www.turbosquid.com/), a digital market place which has been doing that for over 20 years.

That's neither a trading card nor the art itself, but it's certainly closer to "art" than "trading card", because I get specific legal rights to do specific things with the art, such as use it and reproduce it in a book, website, computer game, etc.

It is worth, I think, asking what is being offered by NFTs that TurboSquid (and it's endless competitors and equivalents for other media types) don't offer. Scarcity? Nothing stops such marketplaces from selling exclusive licenses, and some have tried, although I don't think it's ever been popular.

> the legal meaning of an NFT is less defined, true, but I suspect people will tie licensing contracts into that soon enough

Well, yes. People might start selling some sort of "NFT + rights" package at some point, but they don't come with any now, hence the "trading card" digs. Even if people start adding rights in the future, it's not clear that these rights will be (or will be seen to be) an integral part of the NFT. If I can sell an NFT of my 3D model now, and I can sell the right to use my 3D model in a game now, why would I combine these in a package and not just keep selling them independently?

(Now, one interesting thing is that the rights attached to NFTs would presumably be transferable, while licenses to digital art are currently overwhelmingly non-transferable. That is a big change. But...we could sell transferable licenses now; you don't need NFTs for that, and the concept is currently not popular. I rather think that rather than NFTs true value being that they enable transferable licenses, the transferability of licences attached to NFTs will be a drawback.)

> Especially in art, a lot of this comes ultimately down to social convention

That is true. Art prints are an interesting example; you're basically paying for 1) the right to reproduce an artwork on a single piece of physical media and 2) paying for the artist to do that reproduction for you. Both are legitimate services, but it's odd to find them packaged together like that so frequently. And yet, art prints are a huge and very well accepted part of the art market. If NFTs become widely accepted, they will seem less strange, to be sure.
Why are we introducing scarcity to digital goods? That's not a good thing and shouldn't be praised!

We rail against companies selling cosmetic additions to games. It doesn't add value.

We already have "ownership". The legal framework of copyrights, purchase or goods, and licenses.

NFTs are barcodes. People are selling cryptographic barcodes.
my problem isn't that it flagged some user-uploaded malware, my problem is that the entire site is blocked without warning.

I am genuinely curious how you would prevent your site from being blocked like this? Sure in this case it was a demo, but what if it was an actual image hosting service that required login? What's to stop a bad actor from creating an account and uploading malicious content. Maybe you even have some filter that does image recognition on the images and tries to detect if it is phishing. But unless your filter is able to catch the exact same content that google's malware detector uses, there's still a chance that you'll miss something that google finds, and starts blocking your site.
Cryptopunks will always have mindshare as an early mover. In the collectible world it will maintain decent value. More than the original purchase prices.

In many worlds, image NFTs you own are displayed with special indicators that they are yours. You can print out a picture of the Mona Lisa, but its not going to have the same impression as the real painting.

Original Beanie Babies are worth a fortune.

This craze is happening because many people realize that at the least, there is sustained value in first-mover NFTs of various types. Before dismissing this as yet another craze or bubble, consider that a digital world where 90% of NFTs are worthless is no different than real life with commoditized art.
Oh, you don't need math for this. Try moving a sofa with my wife instead. I think fate/god/the universe/whatever designed some problems that are impossible to solve so that couples never run out of things to fight about
Why is this relevant? Rules and laws are there for a reason. If
society lets taxi drivers steal from people because they are taxi drivers, where do you draw the line for expected fair treatment of everyone? Do only rich people have the expectation of behaving correctly?
I see. My habit is manually checking subs rather than relying on an aggregate or algorithmic view. I also sort by newest.
Can't an artist also mint as many NFTs as they want?
The video game SOMA asks this question yet in the game both the original and the copy live. It seemed like the copy still thought they were the original and the original wrestled with the idea that their conscience wasn't transfered.
Personally, I didn't make any claim about FLoC magically identifying people. It does help to identify people, though. IP address you can't do without, FLoC would be additional information beyond that, so it helps identify people.
Access to markets. Like it or not, there are many, many wealthy cryptocurrency holders. NFTs are a way of exposing the new artist class to the new rich.
That still doesn't make any sense to me. Would anybody have paid for a physical certificate of authenticity for a digital file pre-NFTs? If the NBA started selling certificates of authenticity for video clips that didn't come with any intellectual property ownership or exclusive ability, people would have laughed and would have never paid millions for them
Part of the reason why so many beer cans and bottles are found it because of how illegal it is to drink on a boat without a bathroom and bedroom. And criminal to be drunk and in command of your canoe/kayak (or even floatie depending on how the judge feels).

So people sink the evidence.
> People pay for mods and skins all the time. People will pay secondlife furniture. They will pay to be be able to display it in their VR houses. They will display it like badges on their forum avatars.

All of those are neat ideas which do not require NFTs, and are not enabled by NFTs. People already pay for Second Life furniture.
That may be Decentraland's business model.
What stops an original owner (of the to-be-digitized asset) from selling an NFT on the same thing multiple times? Perhaps on multiple different platforms?
My childhood was contemporaneous with the development of mobile phones. We also had a pool at home...

“Nooo....” changed to “my phone, my phone!”
Yes, I pay for BazQux
This. It's a pernicious temptation to infer motive, or make hostile generalizations about groups we disagree with, but this makes it impossible to cooperate or engage in good faith debate.
This already happens with identical twins, who split from a single embryo at some point in their development.

The only difference with splitting later in life is that you'd share more life memories from before the split.
The original posted video is a classic case of something that's impressive to someone who is ignorant of the field.
> It doesn't even give you ownership on anything other than a blockchain print.

I’m pretty sure my domain name NFTs give some ownership rights you are overlooking.
They only do that in markets where they're not established. It's just an extremely high marketing budget that gets spent on discount codes. As soon as Uber has a foothold the codes disappear and people have to pay for their rides.

Ita no different to the $10 PayPal gave people for signing up or the $7 of BTC Coinbase give to referrals really.
You realize that not all homes have thermostats, right?

Where I live our summers are cool enough and our winters warm enough that there is no need for climate controlled homes.

This has the concequence of widely fluctuating internal temperatures, especially in homes that are poorly insulated which is usually the case for older homes.
This makes sense.

There is other research indicating that intellectual knowledge does not translate into behavior. But direct or imagined experience does.

So for example someone who can give all the right answers on a psychology test still acts the same under pressure. But people who have had to go through and reflect on simulated experiences will have that change actual behavior.

Therefore watching and discussing relationship movies is in line with what is known to actually change behavior.

The two books that made this point most effectively to me were Enlightenment Now and Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow. The first in the context of how much the rise of fiction changed the amount of empathy that people in general had. And the second explains it in terms of how intellectual knowledge only helps with the "thinking slow" parts of our brains, but you have to affect the "thinking fast" parts to change actual behavior.
Interesting, that's certainly broken of the OSX calc.

Admittedly I only use the OSX calc for very basic +-*/ operations. Anything more than that and I grab the 28S!
A man can dream.
Do the authors disclose any conflicts of interest?
> What does re-encoding mean

It's something you may want done or not whenever a decoding step is happening by necessity anyway. The "possible benefit" would be if the original encoding was partially broken somewhere (which players/decoders can handle usually but they complain to stderr) or otherwise sub-par. Not sure about video but audio files floating about out there from the last 25 years are a wild mess, with "mp3"s really being layer 2 or 1 or not even mpeg at all inside etc.
Start with "peanut". It's not a nut. Peanuts are a type of pea, related to lentils and beans.

Call the result "goober goo".
People are attempting to create a new world so scary and different to what you know, that it seems insane and completely off base. But we know what we're doing. We know this is leading to the future of a world where artists and fans can take back and redefine ownership.

It doesn't matter what you think ownership is. We're redefining it. :)

See you on the other side.
Make clearer, monospaced, numeric fonts. Please do NOT use variably placed and sized numbers. IMO, that makes it extremely difficult to read things; and far worse to compare them. I do not need or want numerical calligraphy.

Edit: Within a fixed-width space, however, variable _weight_ numbers might work well. A very heavy 9, an extremely light 0.
re-encoding = transcoding. which means decoding one video codec and then encoding it into a different codec. OR, reading the source, but then recompressing it into the same codec. Either way, the new video is not the same as the original. `-c :v copy` literally takes the video from the source and places it into the output without doing anything than making it fit in the output.
I feel it's more like a gap in memory. We are usually not trained to remember our dreams. Even if I'm waken up in a non-REM phase, there is usually a kind of remembrance of how I felt during sleep.

Edit: Made my statement more vague. There is definitely more to sleep though than turning consciousness off and on again.
I wish Wikipedia would offer incremental downloads (e.g. rsync). That would make it much easier to host your own Wikipedia.
The article starts off with, Discussing five movies about relationships over a month could cut the three-year divorce rate for newlyweds in half...

So it reduces divorce rates in half.

I would be curious at how large the sample size was though.
It is even harder to argue this when Facebook's customers are advertisers, not users (which are a resource). Facebook does not have a monopoly on advertising. But this is the best avenue to show it does consumer harm, which is the legal critera for a monopoly. Here, "consumer" would be advertiser. How Facebook treats advertisers is going to determine the legality of any monopoly claim, regardless of whether people intuitively believe Facebook is "too big". To make that be a criteria for breakup, one would need to change the law, not issue any directives from administrators.
P.P.S. I would never ever had stood radially from the turbine. Off to one side is much better. At least he wore goggles. I'd also put a thick plate of steel between it and myself, and watched the engine via a mirror. Looks to me like there was no speed control on it, and a lot of power running through it.

I think Whittle's first test run had the turbine overspeed and suffer a catastrophic unplanned disassembly.
Well done! How does this relate to Node-Red?
Well nowadays you can get a certificate entirely for free from Let's Encrypt, but as for why, the site https://doesmysiteneedhttps.com/ covers it better than I can
Check out the podcast ‘Very Bad Wizards’ and their episodes about Borges
I have yet to get 42 as the output of any ffmpeg command I have ever used (and I use it daily). So not sure it is the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
For all the confused commenters, heres a hypothesis:

Talking about relationship movies gives a couple a platform to discuss issues that affect their current relationship, with much lower stakes than in the middle of a conflict. This doesn't have to effect change so much as it enables the partners to understand each other better, and accept the other more fully when conflicts arise. This can also enable the pair to adapt to each other better.

My girlfriend and I do this all the time, coincidentally, and i find it to be a great way to learn about her and to discuss how we might react in situations that would be difficult to resolve otherwise (like all the ones on the tele).

TLDR: It cuts the tension.
Yup. $200 per year (!!!) vs free is a world of difference.
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how is it ffmpeg's fault for a goofy user suppled input?
> BUYERS of NFTs may be blind to the fact that there’s no limit on the supply. In the case of baseball cards, there are only so many rookies a year. In the case of art, there’s a limited number of famous paintings and a limited amount of shelf space at Sotheby’s. NFTs are going to be more like Kindle books and YouTube videos.

Well, this is just flat out wrong. You can mint limited editions. And there are unlimited worthless paintings in real life which do not affect .

The author got so swept up in the NFT craze, wanting to write a trendy blog post that rides the hype wave while pretending not to, that they didn't actually do their due research before trying to distill a topic and worse, paint a biased, negative portrait.

> Let’s walk away from this one.

Let's not write ill-researched analytical blog posts with a narrative in mind before getting familiar with the subject, and then try and convince others to stay behind so we aren't the only ones missing out.
Alternatively, if the failure would cost you millions, stick in 2 of those displays which will cost you $1 each, so if they fail you're likely to notice.
The person who wrote the Star Trek TNG Technical Manual mentioned this, and how - as described in the show - it's probably killing you and building a clone with your memories instead of transporting you. He thought about tweaking the lore so it didn't do that, using wormholes or the like, but decided to stay true to the show's established canon.
> If you see them in person, you can see how the different brush strokes overlap and theoretically signify different things.

You had me until this bit
I've been reading it for years. It keeps me abreast of what I would consider many of my peers are paying attention to.

I find heaps of cool new programming libraries and languages and frameworks that would just slip through the cracks.

I also love reading the comments to get overall sentiment on various issues, from a group of people who are quite well behaved online!
And still, it's really cheap if you consider the amount of work you have to put into configuring other products like VS Code where you end up with an inferior experience. I think it pays off.
I switched from Atom to VSCode only 6 months ago.

I was pretty set with my Atom setup but it was clear that it is mostly EoL'd.
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I have not managed to get access to the paper yet but I wonder if they have considered "treating" only one of the partners to see how much that helps. Is the "treated" partner able to provide almost all of the advantage on their own? Or is the other partner the "blocker" then, making the effort completely futile?
Does it work to go through the process without being in a partnership at that time or does it require immediate practice to have a lasting effect on the behaviour?
There are so many interesting follow-up questions...

Edit: after reading the questions about the movies that the couple were asked to answer, I doubt that my questions actually make that much sense.
Less downtime and inefficiency perhaps
> What is its potential? What can someone do with NFTs that they couldn't do before?

The novelty comes from the underlying protocols that back the NFT. These protocols create marketplaces that are widely available and accessible and are reliably secure and robust.

Take copyright for example. Copyright laws vary across regions and marketplace. The encoding and repudiation of these copyright laws is based on analog processes. The data related to the assets in question are stored in databases with a widely varying degree of access. Verifiability across assets or even within a single asset class varies and to varying degrees of reliability. And I'm not saying this to point out that copyright laws and the assets relying on them have failed or are not value add in many ways. The fundamental point is that the technological infrastructure underlying the use of copyright laws today has a lot to be desired when it applies to ease of use for digital media.

Networks using blockchain protocols can offer a natively digital infrastructure solution that helps extend or replicate the value offered by something like copyright law. The natively digital aspect enables broader interaction which engenders more general purpose usage which ultimately leads to new consumer models (i.e. direct artist to consumer, peer to peer, etc.).

> Owning the NFT for something does nothing more than copyright already does. You can store the digital asset on your computer with or without the NFT. You can "consume" it either way as well.

The point is not to displace copyright law)(although others may argue this I do not). The value add here is in creating a widely accessible and reliable digital mechanism for creating, expressing, and modifying ownership rights. Different, or maybe even traditional, consumption models are then built on top of this to capture this value.

To your point about gaming creators choosing to do so or not; this question is really a question about what is the value of blockchain protocol networks in the first place and how would someone like a game creator benefit or capture this value? To this point, I can only point out the potential benefits as I'll be the first to agree the nature of blockchain and its value is still being explored. My arguments above are trying to express the value as I see it.

Would be curious to hear more thoughts and criticism.
This concept is addressed in the short story "Think Like a Dinosaur"[0], which also became an episode of "The Outer Limits".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Like_a_Dinosaur
The other issue being, in most cities, the argument was made to have high taxi fares but for it to be illegal to refuse rides based on distance/destination.

But the bargain was never 2-way in practice, the high fares stayed but the refusals remained.
>Hopefully the people who work there begin to realize the damage they are doing to this country.

They might not realise it now but I suspect they would should they leave. I for one would feel very uncomfortable working with someone who's ex-Facebook and I don't think I'm alone in that regard. FWIW the damage Facebook's caused goes far beyond the United States.
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> A very simple example is that it could partially solve the problem of verifying digital identities.

It does not. In fact, it reduces to the public/private key system we already have for verifying digital identities.

I have zero way of proving that I am the owner or creator of an NFT without the private key used to sign the original transaction. Why bother with an NFT and the complexity of a wallet when I can just sign whatever you'd like me to sign and you can verify it with the same public key that verifies my identity claim?

NFTs add _nothing_ to the equation.
Matrix is currently working on improved moderation and curation methods, right? I saw a blog post published to that effect, in response to the last administration's anti-encryption putsch.
It seems like it would optimally require the manufacturer to participate in creating a token representing that serial number and assigning it to the person who bought the bike who would have to transfer it to the next owner and so forth.
In Paris, the trip to get to you is on the meter.
Ctrl-u and Ctrl-d in vim, if I am not mistaken.
For that to matter, atoms would have to be unique. But an identical atom is literally identical. A transported you wouldn’t be any different than a printed you.

I rather suspect that “you” are simply information. If that information is copied, there’s another you—at least for the instant before that “you” starts having its own thoughts and receives information through its own senses.

For you to die on transport and “someone else” to come out the other side, you’d have to exist in some way separate from your physical self; which might suggest you can survive death anyway.
It's an intervention.