That’s an embargo.

A blockade is military stopping traffic. “Effectively a blockade” is an embargo.

Samsung TVs

The second one.

Mirroring is good for speed, but a storage mechanism with parity checks will always be more recoverable. And you will have far more storage available.

Yes, a return to the unstructured hellscape glory of unranked comments of yesteryear. Every thread starting with a resounding “First!!1!!”. Relevant or interesting things hidden on page 5 of 31. Spam lurking around every corner, as a treat.

If you don’t care how long it takes to get there and can effectively use the ITN you don’t even need to leave going that fast.

[European utilities] have failsafes implemented to prevent back feeding electricity in the grid

Yeah but imagine if you could save money by not doing that? What are the odds that there’s going to be cheap(er) personal mass power generation in the next few decades.

I know what you’re talking about, but got an image of Harrison Ford being absolutely pampered in China. Which in fairness would probably happen.

Is your home connection down that much? I’d think that even syncing once every day or so would populate everything fine, and if you’re at home it should update over wifi.

I might just be spoiled because I’m the only one using mine and only for a handful of devices.

They have, but it’s never really been as bad as “the wind blew the pollen.”

The guy intentionally bought what he knew were Monsanto seeds from a grain elevator to plant in order to get them cheaper. That’s not a problem of “evil corporation sues unwitting farmer”. That’s “farmer tries to circumvent contract he signed.”

Also a gas! Astronomical spectroscopy is fascinating.

“The star radiates at [these] wavelengths meaning it has [this] composition, after the light bounces off/through the planet we see <these> wavelengths, meaning it has <this> composition.”

The camera is many sensors.

You can overload anything by tasking it to do too much.

Yes

Have a few ebooks and audiobooks in calibre that have been removed from Amazon/Audible. Nothing dramatic drama wise as far as I can tell other than the license expiring/moving.

It’s nice not having to worry about it.

The single screw version looks wrong somehow.

No because it’s assumed you’ll use the golfcart. Spinning in chairs counts if you do it long enough to work up a sweat.

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ENS is the root for a very small number of top level domains, half a dozen? Everything else just gets passed to the regular ICANN DNS root because most people don’t monitor their DNS/ENS traces and it would be bad™️ if google.com didn’t actually go to google.com.

ENS is in a weird place because it’s a non-profit operating a namespace database that charges money to update the database, which is just ICANN with extra steps. Both are more distributed than the previous solution, which was Jon, but they’re still a singular organization providing oversight. ENS seems to be struggling to find a way to mesh the whole blockchain ethos with that it can’t just let whoever register google.com (/google.eth/etc.). That’s a social issue that requires negotiation/oversight, not a tech issue. Or at least not one they’ve solved yet.

The Currency applications of blockchains make a lot of sense. It’s what the original BitCoin whitepaper was all about after all. They’re just hamstrung by the people using it for speculation/investment instead of… currency. It’s why virtually every business that accepted BitCoin in the 2010’s has stopped. It’s too volatile unless you’re getting in/out as fast as you can like with a quick transfer to a person that’s waiting for it.

It’s the attempts to graft a database onto blockchains that I find questionably useful. ENS/Handshake are interesting enough, but they are still ultimately a database that resolves via ICANN, plus some extra domains. The only intrinsic difference from just upgrading to DNSSEC or any of the other encrypted alternatives is that it takes more computing power to add or modify a database entry.

For a data carrying Blockchain? Ethereum doesn’t have any real competitors. But a serious contender for what?

Blockchain as a database is a solution looking for a problem. Most of the problems it solves other than decentralization are internal. Changing the format of the database to blockchain doesn’t get rid of existing problems with validation, it just abstracts them one more step. A contract isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on if there aren’t external systems ensuring it’s enforced. Calling that ‘paper’ a ‘smart contract’ doesn’t change that.

I attend a worldwide unicycling convention every other year with thousands of attendees and millions of people have seen unicyclists. I wouldn’t call it mainstream.

Ethereum is still in the “garage band” phase. It (and BitCoin) had some commodity speculators jump in to make a quick buck and generate headlines. But other than that there’s a few thousand enthusiasts and the people they’ve managed to get interested, and little clear idea of where/how to build from there. For basically every blockchain use case the non-decentralized versions are at least an order of magnitude faster and simpler for the end user to understand. Unfortunately “It’s more secure” has never been a huge selling point in tech.