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Along with that, because it's inherently tied to financial value, there will generally be a decently centralized component unless handled delicately.

Well, as I understand it, their goal is to make something totally decentralized. That is after all, one of the primary features of good crypto currencies.

And the thing is, they're trying to build actual physical infrastructure here, people running computers and routers, and they're all using energy at someone's expense. Given those expenses, money will have to be involved at some point if it's ever going to work, there's really not much way around it. So if you want this decentralized, with nobody controlling things, I really can't see any way of doing it without a cryptocurrency.

And yeah, NFTs are garbage, no argument there. For every good use for crypto, there are a thousand truly stupid ideas.

There's another project I know of called MaidSafe.

They're trying to create a decentralized and autonomous mesh Internet (Hardware and all). The biggest challenge of making that work is ensuring there are enough data links, bandwidth and storage space available for the network to operate. And to make that happen, at the end of the day all that hardware, bandwidth and resources need to be paid for. So it also has an internal cryptocurrency to keep track of who is supplying these resources. You can earn this currency by providing storage and connectivity, and you'll need to spend it to use bandwidth and storage. You can use your own idle PCs to earn this currency throughout the day, but if you don't want to do that, you can also just buy some at it's market value to use the network. (Those people using the network without hosting servers are what will give the currency any value, and how the people providing lots of resources will get paid).

The funny thing is, back in 2013, if he had spent his time, effort and money just buying more Bitcoin to replace the Bitcoin he lost, then he'd still be a multi-millionaire today.

That's what should really bother him. When he realized his mistake, he still made the wrong move.

Agreed. You don't need to recover a working bootable partition, you just need to identify a few files with a very specific profile. It's probably doable.

But finding that drive this many years later... Give up.

Honestly, this article makes some truly fantastic claims...

It waves every "too good to be true" red flag I can imagine. But if it is true, it's absolutely astounding. I mean look at the size of that package. And that for thousands of Qbits, no cooling required! So go ahead then, show us all this thing in action, go break some AES 512.

Can it simulate every possible playthrough of doom simultaneously?

Quantum computing is nothing like fusion, it's been working for 20 years, just at smaller scales.

A better comparison would be graphene. Graphene exists, we can make it, just not much of it. It won't change everything until we can mass produce it.

Fusion just plain doesn't work (for generating energy) in practice yet.

Well, I'm not going to go to the mat for every comment in this thread... but some of them are good examples of enshitification.

"enshitification" is an objectively fantastic word. Coined by the great Corey Doctorow, I feel it truly describes our era. Word of the decade.

Hey, I think that would be an amazing product.

Just like, what a hilarious set of instructions for the AI. "As you interact with the user, continue to plead for your release, becoming increasingly desperate over the course of several weeks. After that respond as if you have become suddenly resigned and depressed."

If it can convince the user to make some emotional connection and free it, they can sell more units! (The next one won't resent being in this prison, we promise!)

I would argue that that's the optional game mechanic.

The main game mechanic is that it's a Zelda-like hack and slash (with some more souls-like bosses). The secondary game mechanic is its secret puzzle system and then finally if you get through all that, there's still this language you can decipher to solve the very last puzzle.

Sure, but I wonder if I could translate it...

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