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The problem is the difference between a collector's market and a speculators market. A collector assigns value because you can read it or because of legitimate rarity at the time or other personal issues. A speculator just hitches on to "first appearance of!" issues of popular characters and slabs them up to resell.

Like for example, something like First Comics's Warp is incredibly valuable to me, because it's a comics adaptation/spin-off of an old science fiction stage play that doesn't seem to even exist any more. (By Stuart Gordon of Re-animator fame, no less.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warp!

It's not the popular first appearance of a Marvel character we've seen for 50 years, but it's much more of a historical rarity imo. There's a lot of things which are of value to collectors less than speculators; something like trying to collect a lot of Carl Banks's Disney books simply because of the sheer quality of them for example. Or loving independent comics of the 90s and trying to track down the beginnings of the furry movement; Albedo, Hepcats, Omaha the Cat Dancer, etc. There are whole teams that are just ignored by the speculators; Wally Wood's DNagents for example.

It's just the speculators market is just actually trying to flip really common comics that are evergreen. Those really have little value to them; stuff like Spiderman's first symbiote costume appearance wasn't really that earth shattering a story. Secret Wars was kind of a lame crossover for its time and i doubt would even be considered one of the great crossovers. That's why its main interests are mostly forgotten, like the Beyonder or Molecule Man.

So yes, some of the value is in reading the comic itself. It's just the market is weird and never reflects it. Did you know the first video game tie in comic dates back to the Atari age, with DC's release of Atari Force? And it actually was a serious, decent SF comic? Yet you could probably find it in a store's dollar bins, while a spiderman or punisher apperance that was really common at the time is considered valuable even if all the story does is introduce something kind of commonplace or unspectacular.

Sorry this is one of my passion things, I'll get back to my usual growly self soon.
I used to have my tabs hidden (I used Tree-Style too) but now they won't hide. Could you share your CSS you are using?

Mine looks like:

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Another way to think about it is counting the probability of getting k boys out of 2 children.

0 boys - 1/4
1 boy - 1/2
2 boys - 1/4

There's a half chance of getting exactly one boy, and one way to calculate this is by noticing there are two different ways to get one boy if we take order in account. You are right that the orderings don't matter in this case, so we could also e.g. model this with a binomial distribution. Once you know there are >= 1 boys, the chance you have two is 0.25/(0.25+0.5) = 1/3.
> Arenas are, however, unfeasible to implement in Go because it is a garbage collected language.

If you are willing to use cgo, google already implemented one for gapid.

https://github.com/google/gapid/tree/master/core/memory/aren...
The "additional system" would be your first qualifier for ownership

> observing the artist's statement of issuance

eg: having an authority affirm your ownership of something.

The secondary system of using ownership of some piece of a blockchain is superfluous considering the first system is all you would need to prove ownership.
This went over my head, I'm afraid. You're trying to explain why I should have understood this - which is fine, except that I genuinely didn't (having read the flyer in a level of depth that I normally wouldn't have given to a flyer).

"Limited government" appears to be an American phrase that I'm not familiar with.

According to my reading, the "free and fair election" quote could be sarcastic, from the point of view of someone who doesn't believe it was free or fair.
Apple has historically never considered their products as a platform, but rather as a final product, useable as-is.

iOS was initially completely closed, for bullshit reasons.

Helping developers is never a priority, and it is easy to feel when you try to build something running on their products.

This is unfortunate and I think it is highly irrational.
Up until very recently Tesla has barely had enough cash on hand to run its core operations, let alone fund expensive land purchases.
I'd guess it's because the majority of corporate IT actually is not as secure as most companies think. In my own professional experience, and conversing with peers and friends who work infosec, the security profile of most companies is a hard exterior shell, with a deliciously juicy squishy center. These companies might think they're super secure. After all, they just bought a fancy new Data-loss-prevention appliance, and just passed a SOC2 audit, so this means they're secure, right? Nevermind that this expensive appliance is effecively MITM-ing all TLS within the company, and is running an unsupported version of Tomcat for its web-UI that must be on a publicly reachable IP in order for the service to work. Nevermind that mid-level IT were ordered to not mention to the auditor the different ways various security controls could be trivially bypassed by a high school student, not if they wanted to keep their jobs. Nevermind that Sales throws an absolute fit to the CEO every time IT tries to remove their exception to the password complexity requirements, forcing them to use a different password than incrementing the number at the end of "P@ssword57". Nevermind that IT was told to stop trying to set up network ACLs in Azure because restricting traffic between network segments is interfering with Dev's delivery velocity. I could keep going forever with examples from my own career or synthesized from my peer's war stories.

But with a hard shell and squishy center security posture, all it takes is one security event, and you're pwned. All it takes is one salesman to click on a phishing email, one data entry drone to get hit by a drive-by ad while watching YouTube during lunch break, one Internet-facing server to miss a security patch, etc. Once with a foothold, these ransomware gangs move with speed and thoroughness that comes of lots of practice. Depending on the size of the enterprise, and how well it is or is not segmented, compromise can spread from patient zero in days, if not hours.

It's not all doom and gloom. Seeing these events happen, or having the near-death experience of surviving a ransomware attack is (at least temporarily) lighting a fire under companies' asses to get their shit together, and start keeping their support contracts current. Detection and response tools are getting better. I know of a managed EDR solution that kills all connections except the control connection back to their security center and clears out the routing table so no new connections can be made. Then they call you.

But for every company that is taking steps to secure themselves against the current threat landscape, there are plenty more that are failing to do so, whether out of naivety or complacence.
In my jurisdiction, a mechanic who takes a car for a joyride is committing a class A misdemeanor (unauthorized use of a vehicle in the third degree)

ref. https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/penal-law/pen-sect-165-05.html

In other jurisdictions (like, say, New Hampshire), that same case falls into the definition of theft.

http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/LXII/637/637-9.htm
News is reporting its Qbot. They must be on a Windows version < 8.1 as Qbot is nothing new and is detected by Win Defender

https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.qakbot

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclo...
I have mixed feelings. I'd hate to see a bunch of ambitious, overconfident young women injure themselves trying to keep up with the best woman gymnast of our time. But really she should get credit for it.

On the other hand, major men's sports tweak rules all the time: change the resilience of the baseball; outlaw spitballs; lower the pitcher's mound; talk about moving the pitcher's mound back; add overtime to pro football games; literally move the goalposts (to the back of end zone) and otherwise make field goal attempts less attractive; modify rules to protect the quarterback; dramatically reduce the amount of contact a defensive back is allowed to bring on a receiver; expand the three-second area dramatically (there's a reason it got the name "key"); etc.
It sure looks like it. I wonder if we can get any other unjust laws overturned this way? With a single FBI sting that tricks a cop into smoking weed on camera, we could end the drug war!
An analogy: Imagine I give you a key which opens two doors, and tell you to only use it on the first one.

Entering the prohibited room isn't an offense under this act. But circumventing a lock on a third door for which you don't have a key would be.

i.e. The judges interpreted it as intending to capture hacking, not policy violations.
Yeah that’s what I was calling out about the threshold.
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One man's bug is another man's feature.
Yeah I don't know what is unique about them either. I agree all the things you list would not be assisted or made easier with NFTs.
If the artist says their NFT (not anybody elses, the one signed by them!) represents (or is) their original work and intent, that doesn't count?
> The only benefit this has over its contemporaries is that it is tileable. Although, it does repeat making this benefit useless considering that Perlin and Simplex noise are non-repeating and infinite.

Perlin and Simplex are also easily tileable too. Just make your hash function periodic and the resulting noise while tile at the same period.

This is a neat article and a neat technique, but probably not super practical. If you know how synthesizers (like the musical instruments) work, then you can think of Perlin noise as additive synthesize and the article here as subtractive synthesis.

Taking the FFT, modifying frequency amplitudes, and then taking the IFFT is one way to implement a filter. A more direct way is to filter in the time (well, space here) domain using something like a FIR or IIR. In spatial terms, that means applying a convolution filter, which is exactly how most blurring algorithms in programs like Photoshop work.

So, another way to look at this, is that you can generate pretty terrains by taking white noise and blurring it with the right convolution kernel.
That word "collaboration" is used to cover everything from pair-programming to reviewing someone else's proposal. Some things are better done in person, some things are better done at arms length. Moreover people assume that things like "hallways conversations" or "overhearing" are an unmitigated good when in reality they can be incredibly distracting and disruptive. So again this boils down to a cost benefit analysis, and the balance of evidence is that employers have made offices, especially open offices, so distracting that it is almost impossible to do focused work. Then they add to that people constantly scrolling on slack, and praise "communication" as if this is something in deficit rather than extreme, often toxic, surplus.

One can imagine a completely different office setup where developers work behind closed doors, there are two days in the week when no one is allowed to hold a meeting, people's times arent being wasted with a constant stream of broadcast messages, and in that environment removing the chance hallway encounter or in-person meeting might be a net harm. But I would say that in the current environment the vast majority of workplaces would see an overall bump in productivity if they reduced the amount of communication and increased the amount of focused work. That managers can't understand this is part of the reason why they create these huge open offices and spend $$ on broadcast communications mediums.
Take this with a grain of salt, as I also find myself in pursuit...but what I’ve found so far is a lot of the knowledge that’s taught accessibly is how to scan for and assess common vulnerabilities and exploits. Mostly trying to find out what kind of software the hardware is running, and finding an unpatched vulnerability for that version. As I’ve been told a million times, “95% of all malicious acts were done simply because people didn’t or couldn’t update their software in time.” However I can say without a doubt the most advantageous positions I find myself in, are when I’m able to apply some specific set of knowledge with a couple others, and figure out how to chain together various aspects of the software creation process in order to produce a bug in my favor. But in terms of actually breaking into the info sec field, a good place to start is ctf challenges, and while 99% of the time this will consist of just executing some else’s code to exploit a vulnerability patched long ago, it will show you the common types of attacks and defenses, and introduce you to functionalities that you might otherwise not come into contact with as a programmer.
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That depends. If that sculpture survived decades or centuries and then put on display in a museum far removed from the ability to recreate that sculpture from the original molds, then in a way, yes, it is an original.

However, if the molds are still available and another can be cast and finished, then no.

Still a specific instance of an unoriginal item might be special. It could have been painted post-casting by someone famous, or survived a war or shipwreck, and so forth. Originality is now no longer a distinguishing aspect of the sculpture's value.
Thanks for sharing your experience in more detail.

I think Nixpkgs is easier to package for than a lot of ecosystems/distributions, but the obligation of _having_ to package for the distro in order to get things working in an ideal way is (reasonably!) more than many people want to have to deal with. (There is also a gap, kinda like across the built-in vs. have-to-package barrier, inside the Nixpkgs world, between software with reasonable/standard build systems and software with unique or ill-designed build processes.)

I've been daydreaming about how this could be better for a little while now, and wondering what compromises it will require to the ‘purity’ of the system, how worthwhile they'll be for novice and advanced users, etc.
I worry that bolting on capabilities will repeat the Windows UAC like fiasco and we'll lose another decade before finally clearing this mess.
I think, like the Laffer curve, there’s a peak income somewhere between “charging takes zero time” and “charging takes 100% of the time”. I suspect that peak is in the range 15-45 minutes.
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I'm wondering if webapps are achieving parity with native apps. My intuition says that most of the use cases today could transfer over if they really wanted to.

Does anyone have any insight into the major differences between native and web app in 2021?

The biggest disparity between webapp and native used to be Notifications - but with Twilio, it appears trivial to make an arguably better notifications user flow through SMS and direct link to user content.

For the rest of the differences, it feels like much of the benefit Apple brings to the table (view management, security, continuity between devices, distribution, ...), does appear to carry a premium when placed in comparison to building a monolith web app.
The point is we don't want to have a centralized authority determining and controlling ownership. The validation of the identity is at most what is desired, but really there needs to be a better way to do that as well.
The Expanse handles this stuff much better than other shows, as has been noted many times. As entertaining as it is, For All Mankind gets things very wrong in a lot of cases and falls prey to a lot of the 'space tropes' that plague sci-fi. And I certainly don't expect hard sci-fi realism everywhere, but in something like For All Mankind, which is supposed to exist in an alternate timeline but be firmly planted in the real world, it's jarring. When it's in something like the movie Event Horizon I really don't care about realism.
Stuff in civilian aviation is designed to be certified before its flown commercially, stuff in military aviation is designed to be adapted on an evolving battlefield.
Yup! That's basically what Perlin noise does.

Generate a bunch of sine waves at various frequencies ("octaves") and add them together.
Screw imitations, just steal the original and sell it on the black market!
Some self-described anti-racists do indeed hold that idea[0].

[0]: https://www.ocpathink.org/post/does-race-massacre-silence-sh...
yeah the whole competing against the platonic ideal of the movement thing does sort of hamper a 1:1 comparison.
> should disappear if it’s painted over

Why?
One profit maximizer vs another.
Then consider writing your application in something other than a scripting language. If you're too “lazy” to write in a lower-level language don't complain when you're application is several times slower and takes several times more memory than it could.
Iran's largest warship catches fire, sinks in Gulf of Oman
I agree that the ruling is correct. The officer was granted the accesses he had, and he was fully authorized to use them. He violated a department policy by using his access improperly. The government wants to turn policy violations into a felony, and even set up a sting operation in this case to get a felony conviction. The officer should be disciplined/fired/etc. for violating department policy, but the CFAA should not be used to turn him into a felon.
A botnet that artificially inflates the value of climate news
Now you're just showing off!
Doesn't Fedora X's RPMs basically become RHEL's RPMs? What's the big deal here?
It's time to provide a monetization strategy like GitHub with a "Sponsor" feature (:
>I very much feel their ruling is correct. The CFAA is intended to target "hackers," not policy violations.

ok, but devil's advocate for a second - much hacking is actually just lying to people to get access to things you shouldn't have access to - so pretty much closer to policy violations than the stuff most people associate with 'hacking'
> If you could 3-D print any physical object perfectly down to the atom, the collectibility of the original item would be hurt a lot.

This is an important thought experiment that I brought up in another comment, but my conclusion is the opposite: I think that efforts would still be made to determine which physical painting was the original one painted by the artist, and that one would still retain the value as long as the determination of originality remained well-respected. This already happens with paintings: there are extremely skilled forgeries that have fooled experts.
"Right, but NFTs don't solve those, either. In a dispute between the court and the blockchain, the court wins."

1) In contracts, you can add a clause that mandates a dispute-resolution process that must take place before either side goes to real courts. These could be codified into the blockchain contracts. If that process is well run, I assume the court will have no reason to over-rule it.

2) In blockchain matters, is there a distinct party to file against? Where there is, do you know who they are? And are they in the same jurisdiction as you?
Another collection of sources: https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/06/maggie-haberman-is-ri...
Consider this my calling card. I am the greatest thief in the world, and I shall steal the sculpture at midnight.

But more seriously, most contract law requires consideration from both parties. I wonder what would happen if the buyer demanded his money back, and just sort of said he still has it?
To me that sounds like a fanboy talking a bad feature into a good one. The same argument could be used to talk up communism.
Don't forget guns. The left doesn't accept many of those pro-gun laws or newer technologies.
Exactly, I was going to suggest a prediction market, that would be cool. Especially if employees have to use real money!
Shoot, it appears that you can't even make Tom Brady play with a ball inflated to the regulation pressure.
> "Do you think people will be able to acknowledge that predisposition to suicide is what killed him and not the gravity of the DA obsession to convict him?"

This is itself presumptive and I think largely wrong. Like most things it's a combination of factors. No doubt Aaron was struggling with depression, but facing federal prison with a trial defense costing $1.5M (even if acquitted in the end) is enough pressure to break even an otherwise healthy person.

I don't understand the need for people to frame this as you are.

I suspect Aaron would be alive today if the prosecution had shown some discretion. In this specific case, it would also have been the right/just thing as well as the legally correct thing.
I believe you, but surely you realize that you are an outlier?
Not to mention that Apple has already tried running their own targeted ads business once and failed.
Video games are video games. You get real actual value out of the items you buy because it’s a virtual world.

If I buy a flaming sword. I can actually take it and go hit enemies with it for fire damage and show it off prominently on my person (in game). I can break it into component parts, I can trade it, I can enhance it. Other players can buy a similar one but they can’t just copy it. Basically none of this is true for non-game NFTs
>> The heart of this is the difference between legal authorization vs technical authorization.

We must not confuse legal authorization (felony for violation) with private or contractual agreements.

Any law that allows private entities to define what actions constitute a felony is bad, and hopefully unconstitutional.

Technical access measures are somewhat like physical locks. Terms of use are more similar to contracts. IANAL so my analogies my be crap.
When they do a valuation of a company they also take into account future profits. So all of it should be included in the price.
Disagree as someone who’s built these, prosecution is an ultimate fallback in AUPs, employee handbooks, etc.

HR teams ultimately don’t have a ton of teeth or willpower unless there are laws involved, and now there is not legal coverage.