I guess I would say the high level functions of public key cryptography aren't that hard to grasp. Things like "hey either one of these keys can encrypt something the other one can decrypt and vise versa" is pretty straightforward. I don't think we have to teach the math involved if that's what you're implying.
Protecting the secrets words for a crypto wallet is pretty much the same thing as protecting the strong password for a password manager. If you lose that, then you're out of luck, and those are very popular.
You could also delegate trust in several places in the chain to trusted third parties if you feel the need, that could re-enable access, or shift assets into a new wallet.
Private property requires that a private individual stake a claim to it. Private property is mutually exclusive of a state. The state [typically] is the primary violator of private property by enforcement of some shared mode.
This is not actually how it works in the real world. Private property cannot be upheld by individuals alone because of unsolvable issues in legitimizing any property claim, and therefore it is absolutely impossible to practically have any private property at all without having a state.
Indeed, looking back at history, the State was created essentially the same time that private property was created. This is not a coincidence.
Odd. I would only assume people kept possessions they made (tools, weapons, trinkets, etc.) prior to any formal states existing (or pooled them voluntarily). But, then, you get into _de facto_ states and what that potentially means.
Here it is useful to make a distinction between personal property and private property. The idea of having ownership over your direct fabrications is of course natural, but even then was fluid and affected by community need strongly.
Private property on the other hand, for example the ownership of land or resources, did not exist until the creation of the state, because private property in this sense was not possible without it.
In actuality, even some agricultural civilizations didn't develop private property, and it turns out that those that didn't are also the ones that didn't develop the state.
Another frustration with the RPi cluster is the arm requirement. If you're only building/running your own stuff, that's fine, but finding containers and helm charts that support arm can be frustratingly difficult.
This is speaking from experience. I love my k3s RPi cluster, it's fantastic once you get things working. I just had to augment with some x86 nodes in order to _also_ run some software that just wouldn't run anywhere else.
"The Whole Brain Child" is an excellent primer on how children's brains work and behaviors are exhibited, and from researchers in this area. I'm now listening to the follow-up "No-Drama Discipline", and hoping it will provide even more practical advice in this area.
"How to Talk So Your Kids Will Listen, and How to Listen So Your Kids Will Talk" is also good.
"Parenting From The Inside Out" is a gut punch about getting your own psychological problems addressed first.
I'll also say that prioritizing sleep (as best as you can), proper diet, exercise, and healthy boundaries between work/home are sometimes so much more important than any book you could be reading.
Can you explain more in terms of the planet side of things? I get that you think the wealth can be generated, but I think the comment you are responding to is referring to how can the planet support that level of consumption?
There's nothing stopping us from using a lot more GHG-neutral energy. (Eg. nuclear, wind, solar.) We can then use the energy to power whatever processes we want (vertical farms are a lot more efficient than open fields and greenhouses, plus you can put them right next to population centers; beyond meat and impossible foods will be in no time better than the real thing; also if we really want we can simply put pastures under domes to capture the methane, we can put these pastures underground with artificial lights).
Look at how much unemployment there is around the world and how little inflation. This means we are nowhere near total economic output capacity. We can probably double our output if we want, especially if we start doing things on a big scale. (Big scale decarbonization, and eventual carbon capture to offset the remaining GHG emissions.)
Okay, so energy, food, transportation (full EV vehicles), what's next? Shelter. Prefab buildings. Arcologies preferably, because that leaves a lot of green space. After all instead of having an endless sprawl of 2-3 storey buildings it'd be quite better to have parks and ~100 storey ones. And affluent folks like high rises very much.
Standardization of processes drives down cost and increases quality. Yet, naturally, market players don't like that, because with fixed demanded quantity this simply shrinks the market, so they like to sell bespoke solution. (From power plants to housing.) But we are paying a lot more because we are not going big enough. (This applies veeery severely to transportation and other public works [eg power plants again]: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/07/22/new-report-on-... )
Furthermore, current UN/WHO predictions about the peak population is around 11-12 billion people, but most (I mean almost 99%) of the growth will happen in developing countries, in cities, and in particular in Africa. And we can make cities a lot more efficient than they are now.
So all in all, currently what stands in the way of providing an affluent Western lifestyle to everyone is global coordination toward cooperation instead of a zero-sum competition. (Every country wants to have strategic reserves of food, fuel, knowhow and so on. Which leads to every country inventing their own shitty stuff - see public works above, and protecting those incumbent interests, see subsidies of oil industry and for agriculture.)
I hope this starts to answer your question. If not, I'd like to know why. Thanks!
I am legitimately curious how a government entity can get a patent. Shouldn't anything funded with tax dollars automatically get put into the public domain?
I'd rather you write the code. Keep up the good work.
Hopefully these changes will allow you more time to focus on adding value to the vast majority of users. If a small subset of folks need the marginal functionality, it should be up to them to step up to the plate and make it happen.
> Hopefully these changes will allow you more time to focus on adding value to the vast majority of users. If a small subset of folks need the marginal functionality, it should be up to them to step up to the plate and make it happen.
One of my hobbies is birding: specifically going out and trying to count all the birds I can find down to a species level. This requires a good ear to do well. Many times I find myself closing my eyes and pausing all bodily motion to really listen intently for the low chips of a sparrow, or distant drumming of a woodpecker.
Any idea how you get known good samples for new drives (without buying a bunch of new drives)?