Datacenters in space is about circumventing nation states masked as ambitions to generate more power.

Follow the rationale:

1. Nation states ultimately control three key infrastructure pieces required to run data centers (a) land (protected by sovereign armed forces) (b) internet / internet infra (c) electricity. If crypto ever became a legitimate threat, nation states could simply seize any one of or all these three and basically negate any use of crypto.

2. So, if you have data centers that no longer rely on power derived from a nation state, land controller by a nation state or connectivity provided by the nation state's cabling infra, then you can always access your currency and assets.

> To me it feels like the AI inevitability will be much quicker.

AI is accelerating "let them eat cake" at rates never seen before in history, so I imagine the violence will follow soon after

Anyone else looking for a rocket propelled grenade guide?

There are high speed police chases (100mph+) in Los Angeles — no exaggeration — on an almost daily basis. Air support is the primary defense tool for law enforcement.

It's so bad that the local TV stations have their own choppers and a dedicated on-screen UI tailored for the chases with GPS-based tracking and speed.

If you're lucky you can catch one of the many YouTube live streams. Here's one from....two days ago: https://www.youtube.com/live/uGiJU-FlpdE

I fought off the local imposition of Dependabot by executive fiat about a year ago by pointing out that it maximizes vulnerabilities to supply chain attacks if blindly followed or used as a metric excessively stupidly. Maximizing vulnerabilities was not the goal, after all. You do not want to harass teams with the fact that DeeplyNestedDepen just went from 1.1.54-rc2 to 1.1.54-rc3 because the worst case is that they upgrade just to shut the bot up.

I think I wouldn't object to "Dependabot on a 2-week delay" as something that at least flags. However working in Go more than anything else it was often the case even so that dependency alerts were just an annoyance if they aren't tied to a security issue or something. Dynamic languages and static languages do not have the same risk profiles at all. The idea that some people have that all dependencies are super vital to update all the time and the casual expectation of a constant stream of vital security updates is not a general characteristic of programming, it is a specific characteristic not just of certain languages but arguably the community attached to those languages.

(What we really need is capabilities, even at a very gross level, so we can all notice that the supposed vector math library suddenly at version 1.43.2 wants to add network access, disk reading, command execution, and cryptography to the set of things it wants to do, which would raise all sorts of eyebrows immediately, even perhaps in an automated fashion. But that's a separate discussion.)

how about

    the wheel
    bicycles
    sewing machines
    hand tools
    musical instruments
    open radio bands like CB and FRS
    ham radio (licensing exists but not corporate control) 
    meshtastic
    blacksmithing
    glass blowing
    garden tools
    propane camp stoves
    mechanical clocks and watches
    open source software (the ecosystem overall, not specific projects)
    email as a protocol
    RSS
    SMS as a protocol
    USB storage devices
    SIP based VOIP
    mesh networking gear
    3d printers in the hobby market
    drones under 250g
    amateur astronomy gear
    microcontrollers like Arduino
    LED strips and controllers
    bicycles
    composting tech
    sourdough starter culture tech (yes really)

Would you keep using a programming language leaded by a racist? I wouldn't