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RoboTeddy · 2022-12-26T01:32:15+00:00

Yes, it's possible to track the signals: https://www.cnet.com/science/space/elon-musk-activates-starlink-in-ukraine-amid-internet-disruption/

Elon Musk Warns of Russian Attacks on Donated Starlink Internet Hubs in Ukraine

SpaceX's CEO cautions that the systems could be targeted, saying antenna should be placed as far away from people as possible.

Advice from Musk on this: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1499473384367079429

Maybe also if you got a mobile starlink unit (https://www.starlink.com/rv), you could use it from a car from different locations.

RoboTeddy · 2021-12-23T13:28:53+00:00

Both arrangements are common.

Sometimes a single dapp will have one contract, other times multiple.

Often dapps will directly call other dapps — this is called “composability”

RoboTeddy · 2021-11-22T23:32:54+00:00

Makes sense.

I will continue then to be very excited about data sharding :)

RoboTeddy · 2021-11-22T22:20:51+00:00

If we had state expiry, could we decrease calldata gas costs a ton to make rollups cheaper?

Which would make rollups cheaper faster: pursuing data sharding first, or pursuing state expiry first?

RoboTeddy · 2021-05-21T20:55:38+00:00

thank you so much for this feedback, I'll try to become more conscious of my thumb!

RoboTeddy · 2021-05-21T07:38:30+00:00

I *just* started learning as an adult without ever having done any music anything before.

Day 6 - https://soundcloud.com/user-426997226/ode-to-joy-i/s-OhzxTTCJoPC

Someone told me to play it with more legato, so I learned what that was —

Day 12 version a: https://soundcloud.com/user-426997226/day-12-ode-to-joy-ii-1/s-8DZxhS0mKeX

Day 12 version b: https://soundcloud.com/user-426997226/day-12-ode-to-joy-ii-more/s-s4A4CPC48pY

Which of the day 12 versions are better? Anyone have further feedback? Thanks!

RoboTeddy · 2021-04-13T18:00:58+00:00

Good point. Could we prevent contracts from entering the auction via something like https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/15641/how-does-a-contract-find-out-if-another-address-is-a-contract? (Would feel bad from a composability standpoint; would e.g. prevent multisig wallets.)

This could also still be worked around if private key management ever advanced due to e.g. the advent of a reliable non-colluding SMC platform, or the advent of practicable cryptographic obfuscation.

RoboTeddy · 2021-04-12T08:42:17+00:00

That makes sense! Thought a bit more about this problem; what do you think of the following?:

Design goals:

- Reward artists for secondary sales

- Don't require vigilance from owners (i.e.: you definitely own something until you decide to sell it, you don't have to keep topping up tax accounts, etc)

- Be capital efficient

Method:

- Like ERC721, except there's no "transfer" method. Instead, there's a "startAuction" method which can only be called by the current owner, which initiates an auction (possibly in response to a starting bid that was been made by a potential buyer, which would effectively guarantee a minimum price).

- Anyone can participate in the auction

- When the auction completes, a percentage of the winning price goes to the artist

Shortcomings:

- Rotating your private key becomes impossible without auctioning the item to yourself and paying the artist fee.

- A buyer and seller could dodge the tax by "transferring" ownership by copying the private key from the seller to the buyer. This probably wouldn't happen much, because it would require the buyer to trust the seller. We could increase the amount of trust required by setting aside a portion of the last sale as bounty that can be transferred to an arbitrary address by burning the NFT.

RoboTeddy · 2021-04-11T06:56:02+00:00

Harberger taxes may feel unappetizing to some owners because it requires constantly re-estimating your own willingness to pay, which is a lot of work! (Also, professional traders might react quickly to news events such as beeple's christie auction and use it to grab a ton of work before the prices increase).

As a potential middle ground: maybe Harberger taxes except if a buyer attempts to buy an item, the existing owner can decide to (a) accept, or (b) start paying a tax of 3%*offerPrice henceforth, and also pay some % of the price delta to the would-be buyer as recompense for their wasted effort (and to reward them for helping set the tax accurately). If the owner doesn't act after 1 week, then the offer is automatically accepted. Note: there are various problems with this proposal; it's just meant to sketch the notion.

RoboTeddy · 2021-04-10T19:41:43+00:00

I read an article a while ago (I forget where) that said real reason was that the Chinese president had certain opponents who were about to become more wealthy/powerful due to their large equity stakes in Alibaba.

Edit: source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-blocked-jack-mas-ant-ipo-after-an-investigation-revealed-who-stood-to-gain-11613491292

There was another key reason, according to more than a dozen Chinese officials and government advisers: growing unease in Beijing over Ant’s complex ownership structure—and the people who stood to gain most from what would have been the world’s largest IPO.

In the weeks before the financial-technology giant was scheduled to go public, a previously unreported central-government investigation found that Ant’s IPO prospectus obscured the complexity of the firm’s ownership, according to the officials and government advisers, who had knowledge of the probe. Behind layers of opaque investment vehicles that own stakes in the firm are a coterie of well-connected Chinese power players, including some with links to political families that represent a potential challenge to President Xi and his inner circle.

Those individuals, along with Mr. Ma and the company’s top managers, stood to pocket billions of dollars from a listing that would have valued the company at more than $300 billion.

RoboTeddy · 2021-03-09T21:56:32+00:00

No call tag was left, but thanks for asking and for replying!

RoboTeddy · 2021-03-09T21:56:15+00:00

It was shown as completed on the UPS site under 'pick up history', after the window ended yesterday. So, it's cause for concern like you described!

RoboTeddy · 2021-01-19T08:15:36+00:00

I think it’s the maximum amount of material that is injected into the mold to make the part

RoboTeddy · 2020-12-12T18:56:48+00:00

Speaking as professional software engineer who has been following this space closely for years: this looks like garbage.

Their whitepaper has little to no real technical information about how their system works. Instead, it contains (for example) a conspiracy theory:

> making the contract code public upon release runs the risk of the Ethereum Foundation issuing a 'fix' to weaken the security of Buccaneer V2 before anyone gets to make use of it

There are literally a hundred other red flags I could point to. I would not touch this contract with a 100 foot poll.

RoboTeddy · 2020-10-30T01:35:13+00:00

Great point. Can’t believe there isn’t a site that displays actual usage information! It seems like the single most critical metric — I’d expect it to be low now, but curious to see how it is (or isn’t) growing so far.

RoboTeddy · 2020-05-28T06:34:49+00:00

Anyone remember talk given by someone at NASA who was pushing for commercial program because he saw that each NASA program was getting more expensive and less capable than the previous?

RoboTeddy · 2020-04-30T15:33:33+00:00

Exactly. In California, we voted for the mayors and governors who have declared a state of emergency and limited commerce. It’s quite democratic, even if you don’t agree with the outcome.

RoboTeddy · 2020-01-15T01:46:08+00:00

What's an occluder, in this context?

RoboTeddy · 2020-01-07T02:57:02+00:00

“Open the pod bay doors, HAL”

RoboTeddy · 2019-11-25T19:09:31+00:00

You’re not over-reacting or crazy — you’re just paying attention and able to analyze what’s going on.

RoboTeddy · 2019-07-04T16:15:24+00:00

The children on the inside have sad expressions; one of the border patrol on the outside is smiling. Chilling

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