OP is about NFTs failing due to an Instagram account being hacked. No, it is very much not perfect.
The fact that banks aren't running off with people's life savings is empirical evidence that the system works. They might try to find legal loopholes, like reordering transactions to make overdraft fees come out higher, but they are strongly incentivized to never fuck with the audit system. This stuff gets written down.
There are audit trails and compliance for this stuff. It's a solved problem. Techbros just don't understand what's already there and think it needs to be fixed with something that happens to make them rich.
Somewhat. Mostly because you have a lot of suburban people in America who like manicured lawns and expect you to do the same. Even without an HOA, you still have people calling the city if your lawn gets too out of sorts.
In the documentary "The Power Of Nightmares", it's mentioned that Sayyid Qutb (an Egyptian political theorist who's ideas directly influenced Osama Bin Laden) saw Americans being overly concerned with lawncare as a decadent and repulsive thing. I can't say he's wrong. He wasn't even around to see what TruGreen does to things. It should be noted, too, that his criticism wasn't from afar. He spent two years as a student in the US after WWII, and he didn't come away liking the place.
There's nothing there that can't be done with a standard, public database. What's lacking is the political will to modernize these systems. NFTs don't solve that.
I brought up Ticketmaster because it's a common thing to bring up for NFT replacement. A dumb thing to bring up, because while everyone hates Ticketmaster, people don't understand why venues are beholden to them and how NFTs won't solve that.
Barrett is an interesting one. She was there to provide a woman's voice against abortion. That job is done now. She was expected to line up with everything else in MAGA, but she's slowly realizing what a hell hole that is. Like Serena Waterford discovering that this isn't the world she wanted after all.
Nah, even if it's popular, there's no way for them to make enough to compete with Ford. It would be years before they can get the capital investment to spin up that kind of output.
I have a deposit on a Telo, and they're talking about a few thousand models in the first year. I'm around 6000 on the list, and I don't expect to get one until the second or third year of production. Ford sold over 7000 F150 Lightnings this past quarter, and their market is still growing.
All that comes down to abstraction. Lots of stuff has been implemented in bare metal without making the distinction. Every DOS program was almost entirely bare metal except for loading it into memory and some disk I/O.
Firmware is just a subtype of software.
ROM doesn't really exist anymore except on some legacy stuff. Certainly not on the ATmega series you were talking about. At most, these things have fuses that can be intentionally burned out after flashing so they can't be overwitten later.
Needed to make two charge stops in the Chicago area. The first stop wasn't too bad.
Second stop was a disaster. Went to a dealership, but you had to go inside and ask the staff to turn it on, but they were closed on a Sunday. Went to a casino resort that supposedly had a charger, but they had moved it to the employee-only lot after offering it to the public for awhile. Went to a grocery store, and the app wouldn't work. Went to another grocery store, and that one finally did it.
Now, some of that is just bad charging infrastructure that can be fixed, but making two 30 minute stops on this journey isn't ideal even if the chargers all worked properly. At 100 miles of range, you pretty much have to for this distance, and that's only one way.
At around 200 miles of range, I wouldn't have needed any stops on the way there, but would on the way back. At 350 miles, I could have made it there and back no problem. I think that 350 mile number is the sweet spot. If you calculate off 20% for cold weather and 30% to stay within the ideal 10-80% charge range, then you can still get far enough that you ought to be taking a 30 minute break, anyway.
OP is about NFTs failing due to an Instagram account being hacked. No, it is very much not perfect.
The fact that banks aren't running off with people's life savings is empirical evidence that the system works. They might try to find legal loopholes, like reordering transactions to make overdraft fees come out higher, but they are strongly incentivized to never fuck with the audit system. This stuff gets written down.