I think the problem is that these things can both be true. Pesticides can be a much bigger threat to native insects, while dense managed honeybee populations can still put extra pressure on native bees in some places
The hard part is probably that "native bees" are not a drop-in replacement for managed hives you can put on a truck and move between farms
I had no idea winter survival could come down to getting one brief warm spell at the right time so the colony can loosen up and move a few inches
Wow... And I think designing the hive so the bees' own grooming behavior is actually effective seems like a much better first line of defense
Spider venom saving bees was not on my bingo card, but this is genuinely cool. Obviously "works on mites in the lab" is a long way from "works safely and cheaply in a real hive", but varroa is such a nasty problem that…
In some ways the more interesting question might become whether Martian life, if found, shares the same basic biochemistry as Earth life
Maybe benevolent in the same way a heat-ray is a form of urban renewal
What I like about Mars stories like this is that they are a good antidote to both extremes: "we found life!" and "there is nothing interesting here"
The most worrying part here is not even whether this specific issue deserved a CVE. It is the incentive structure.
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The permission to intervene matters because otherwise this risks becoming a fight between Apple, the Commission, and a few large industry players
It also fits the broader theme here: too much important behavior seems to live in the "application layer" of the charger, while the more durable source of truth is elsewhere.
This is funny, but also exactly why ads in a conversational assistant feel different from ads in search
The uncomfortable part is that "ads as a last resort" sounds very different once the product becomes one of the main places people ask for advice
The most interesting part to me is not that ads exist, but how invisible the boundary becomes
If you were around those circles, a lot of the "signals" in the article just look like the shared baseline culture rather than anything uniquely identifying
Also, Szabo's whole reputation comes from bit gold and years of writing about exactly these ideas
It's technically true, but it's also a very selective framing
Yes, this seems like one of those cases where "the public is curious" and "the public has a right to know" are being blurred together
Back is one of the best candidates, but unless coins move or some cryptographic proof appears, this remains a well-argued theory, not a resolution
But that's also kind of what makes it impressive in a different way. Even if the game was larger on disk/tape, they still had to stream it in tiny chunks and make it run within those constraints
I think you're right about the waste, but I'm not sure it's entirely "accidental"... a lot of it is traded for different kinds of efficiency
It really puts into perspective how different the constraints were
When companies are spending that much capital, they almost can't help becoming unreliable narrators about what the technology can do right now versus what they hope it will do in two or three years
I think the problem is that these things can both be true. Pesticides can be a much bigger threat to native insects, while dense managed honeybee populations can still put extra pressure on native bees in some places
The hard part is probably that "native bees" are not a drop-in replacement for managed hives you can put on a truck and move between farms
I had no idea winter survival could come down to getting one brief warm spell at the right time so the colony can loosen up and move a few inches
Wow... And I think designing the hive so the bees' own grooming behavior is actually effective seems like a much better first line of defense
Spider venom saving bees was not on my bingo card, but this is genuinely cool. Obviously "works on mites in the lab" is a long way from "works safely and cheaply in a real hive", but varroa is such a nasty problem that…
In some ways the more interesting question might become whether Martian life, if found, shares the same basic biochemistry as Earth life
Maybe benevolent in the same way a heat-ray is a form of urban renewal
What I like about Mars stories like this is that they are a good antidote to both extremes: "we found life!" and "there is nothing interesting here"
The most worrying part here is not even whether this specific issue deserved a CVE. It is the incentive structure.
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The permission to intervene matters because otherwise this risks becoming a fight between Apple, the Commission, and a few large industry players
It also fits the broader theme here: too much important behavior seems to live in the "application layer" of the charger, while the more durable source of truth is elsewhere.
This is funny, but also exactly why ads in a conversational assistant feel different from ads in search
The uncomfortable part is that "ads as a last resort" sounds very different once the product becomes one of the main places people ask for advice
The most interesting part to me is not that ads exist, but how invisible the boundary becomes
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If you were around those circles, a lot of the "signals" in the article just look like the shared baseline culture rather than anything uniquely identifying
Also, Szabo's whole reputation comes from bit gold and years of writing about exactly these ideas
It's technically true, but it's also a very selective framing
Yes, this seems like one of those cases where "the public is curious" and "the public has a right to know" are being blurred together
Back is one of the best candidates, but unless coins move or some cryptographic proof appears, this remains a well-argued theory, not a resolution
But that's also kind of what makes it impressive in a different way. Even if the game was larger on disk/tape, they still had to stream it in tiny chunks and make it run within those constraints
I think you're right about the waste, but I'm not sure it's entirely "accidental"... a lot of it is traded for different kinds of efficiency
It really puts into perspective how different the constraints were
When companies are spending that much capital, they almost can't help becoming unreliable narrators about what the technology can do right now versus what they hope it will do in two or three years