jarfil @ jarfil @lemmy.world

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I don't like either of your tones. You're both probably some of those people from a different country, who vote for some other parties. /s

mining is really just verifying transactions

Not correct.

Mining is a "proof of work", in the case of Bitcoin it's competing to be the first to find a hash that meets certain parameters (difficulty), for a block referencing the previous top one. Whether the new block has transactions in it or not, you get the same reward for being the first one to find and broadcast it.

Verifying is done by every node in the P2P network, both when deciding whether to relay candidate transactions, and when checking whether a new block's hash meets the mining requirements.

The Bitcoin blockchain has plenty of valid blocks with no transactions in them (part of a speculative mining strategy used by some to get the block reward faster than others).

The whole scheme works the same with any other kind of "proof of work", as long as the nodes relaying the new block can check whether the work happened or not (there are many ways in which that could be accomplished for AI training, the easiest of them by publishing the new model and having nodes check whether it meets some quality parameters).

No, that is the phone's built-in keyboard, look at what mine does around the UN flag:

(Google Gboard, on Android)

The UK flag is back there:

Musk can code... and this is about the quality one would expect.

But... Developers!... /s

Ok, hear me out: crypto, based on "proof of training an AI"

If it takes so much power, it must be secure, and this way it wouldn't be "totally wasted"...

The EU agreement included higher investments than the Russian one (aka: EU outbid Russia)... that's why, when Yanukovych (expectedly, as a Russian puppet) switched to the Russian one, the ordinary Ukrainians got... well, kind of pretty pissed.

Russia didn't outbid the EU, they puppeteered Ukraine away from the EU agreement, precisely because they could not outbid it.

The rest worked as expected.

The country that did the invading was the instigator, full stop.

Not how wars work. They're like domino chains, if you know which one to push, you get the desired result.

In this case:

• Desired result: get Putin's regime fucked
• First domino: (2012) European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement

Do you need me to look up sources for the remaining dominos? (I'm on mobile, so I'd rather not)

There is that... then there is this:

• Why Putin's Invasion of Ukraine is a Failure: https://youtu.be/D_Jizt8AAa4

It's failure after failure after failure after failure... and it keeps going, a full clown show. There are actually some more that aren't in the video.

Polls with a 50/50 split, are a poll structural fail. It means the questions are too ambiguous, and the poll didn't control for it. A split of 40/40 with 20% "undecided"? That would be a credible divisive poll. A 50/50? No way.

From the source you cited: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23897329-cnn-ukraine-poll

Look at the "trends" section on page 3, "not sure" between 7% and 14%, those are credible numbers. Now look at pages 10&11, 0% to 1% "no opinion"? That's BS.

can't account for 61% of it's $3.5 trillion in assets

That's the Men in Black fund. Defending the Earth ain't cheap. 👾

Technically... this war was "kind of instigated" by the EU out-bidding Russia in 2013 for the investment in a commercial agreement with Ukraine. Everybody at the time knew that Russia had to keep Ukraine under its boot or risk getting fucked long term in the Black Sea, so buying-out Ukraine's allegiance was sort of like poking a bear... and the bear reacted pretty much as expected, by instantly invading Crimea... which also worked as expected to fortify Ukraine's allegiance towards the West... which ultimately lead to Russia launching its "special military operation"... which everyone kind of expected to end in a couple days with the loss of Kyiv... but instead turned out to spectacularly show off Russia's hand and military weakness, allowing for a proxy war to begin.

The instigation was very tactful, playing the long game over 10 years, but it was there. Which is also expected when trying to start a proxy war against a nuclear power; even this low-key instigation, already got Russian crazies clamoring for nuclear retaliation, even when the war was obviously their own fail.

A 50/50 split also kind of proves that the answers are as thought out as a coin toss...

Spending doesn't mean quality or even quantity.

Americans get swindled big time by weapon manufacturers colluding with government contract drafters, and pharmaceutical companies colluding with medical insurance appraisers and hospitals to raise fictional treatment costs through the roof. All that, while having a taxation pressure pretty much on par with the average in the EU.

So far, the EU has managed to avoid the medical racketeering, it isn't unthinkable that it could also avoid the weapons racketeering... unless it keeps buying overpriced shit from the US big bully in town, instead of investing in it's own manufacturing.

An EU military, with weapons produced in the EU, would be a huge loss for the US, not necessarily much of a sacrifice for the EU.

You can have a lot of stuff at home, like a katana, a crossbow, a nail gun, or any sort of airsoft replica gun. You can also carry it in a bag, a backpack, or anywhere else out of easy reach.

The "out of easy reach" part is especially important for paintball, airsoft, archery and hunting enthusiasts; you better make sure that weapon is well packed and hard to reach while carrying it around in public, unless you want it confiscated and land your ass in jail way before you have a chance of using it for self defense.

Sumerians and Babylonians used the same cuneiform writing system with a base of 6×10, but it seems like they also used to count to 60 as 12×5... and what we're left with, is the simplified 5+5=10.

Also, we shall remember that:

𒀭 𒐏𒋰𒁀 𒎏𒀀𒉌 𒂄𒄀 𒍑𒆗𒂵 𒈗 𒋀𒀊𒆠𒈠 𒈗𒆠𒂗 𒄀𒆠𒌵𒆤 𒂍𒀀𒉌 𒈬𒈾𒆕

The problem is our brains have a limited operating memory. People can (unless disabled) easily track 1 o 2 items at once, even 3, 4, 5... and start losing track somewhere around 6 or 7; 8 is considered exceptional.

That's why kids don't generally use their fingers to count 2+2, but start using them for "harder" operations like 4+4.

Base 10 is already past our brain's limits... but we're kind of fine with it because we can use our fingers (think of it as evolving at a time before formal education when most people were illiterate).

Base 60 is also past our brain's limits, but it's easily divisible into easy to track 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 pieces (aka $lcm(1..6)$), which makes it highly useful. The Babylonians still used to write it down as base 6×10, and it was common to count on knuckles and fingers as 12×5.

The uneducated populace picked up the easiest part of the two: 5+5.

if we naturally leant towards base 12

If we had 12 fingers, we could've as easily ended up using base 12, only thing different would be 1/3 would equal exactly 0.4, while 1/5 would equal 0.24972497... oh well, we'd manage.

If our brains could track 12 items at once however, then we could benefit from base $lcm(1..12)$ or 27720. That... is hard to imagine, because we can't track 11 items at once; otherwise 27720 would jump out as "obviously" divisible by 11, 9, or 7.

Germany allows you to use "up to" deadly force... if you can argue there was no other way to stop the attacker... and basically with your bare hands, because guns and weapons are way more controlled than in the US.

To have a gun you need to pass not just a criminal check, but also a proficiency test, a fitness test, and then justify a "special need" to own a certain gun. Even carrying a foldable knife can land you in jail before you get a chance to use it for "deadly force".

On the bright side, you could probably legally run over a thief with your car.

The problem with Americans, is they live among people who actually are out to get them... and they don't seem to be doing much to try and fix that.

you have a responsibility to not immediately react to any pecieved fear by whipping it out and firing it off

What about "immediately" after telling the guy to stop 3 times, trying to retreat 3 times, and trying to swipe off his phone off your face?