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Yeah, that's just a copium answer from people who simply want to hand wave away the issue instead of admitting they have no good answers.

Like a politician who's asked about this in a town hall, but thinks that "our plan is to do absolutely nothing" doesn't sound very appealing.

If that's how you feel, maybe the applications you're making are too simple to need any of your unique contribution.

The answer could be to just push further, and try solving harder problems.

This depends entirely on your local laws and the kinds of loans banks offer.

In most places, you can only get recourse mortgages. You will be liable for the rest of the mortgage, if the value of the house drops so much that selling it doesn't cover the remaining debt.

House values dropping a lot is something that happens fairly rarely, but it tends to happen exactly during the times when you are most likely to be unable to pay your mortgage (recessions, industry downturns, etc.)

working bid/ask spread when factories buy or sell on the market to make pricing dynamic and realistic

Does it deliver on the "realistic" part? My experience with most models is they make something that technically fulfills the ask, but often in a way that doesn't really capture my intent (this is with regular Claude Code though).

The point of Bitcoin is to avoid exactly that sort of trust relationship, otherwise use the banking system.

Most participants don't care about this. For almost everyone, the point of Bitcoin is to go up. As long as they can find enough buyers that also believe it will go up, the rest is optional. Especially if it's temporary, for a one-time migration.

Ah, then yeah, in that case, it'd be basically over.

Maybe large exchanges would try to step in to make a fresh chain based on their combined account data, and just drop the people relying on self-custody. But I doubt the market would go for it - the uncertainty would crash it hard enough that it would never recover.

In practice, what you really need is consensus. As long as enough of the important participants agree, that's how it will be.

And since there are millions of identical copies of the entire pre-attack ledger out there, this should not be that difficult.

Potential future buyers might reevaluate whether this whole thing has any monetary value, but that's a separate concern. Bitcoin's market value was never about the technical details.

Well they are doing the same to website owners who rely on human visitors for their revenue streams.

Both scraping and on-demand agent-driven interactions erode that. So you could look at people doing the same to them as a sort of poetic justice, from a purely moral standpoint at least.

Speaking of the macOS menu bar, is there some way to make it overflow into a hidden area behind an "expand" button that would appear when there is no more room, like the notification area in Windows does?

The macOS UI decision of "just pretend that whatever doesn't fit to the right of the notch doesn't exist" is baffling.

I've seen a few apps that claim to do that, but it's always done in some really hacky way (such as needing screen recording permissions), and the behavior is never that of simple overflow handling. Instead they have "always hidden" sections and things like that, which is not what I want.

GPT Image 1.5 7 months ago

The other side however has the "if you restrict us, China will win" argument on their side.

Roc Camera 9 months ago

Just include a depth sensor, lidar, etc. I'm sure over time that will become increasingly easy to defeat too, but then we can just keep improving the sensors too.