Won’t geothermal cool the Earth’s core?

I'm not a geologist, but for comparison, the Siberian Traps[1] erupted for 2 million years, and there have been other large events on that scale. Any heat we release will be insignificant in comparison.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_Traps

Technically it would, but the same way an individual ant's breath contribute to global warming.

Note that the thermal energy contained in the inner earth isn't a fixed amount: the earth constantly generates new heat from friction and radioactivity, and that new heat is radiated away in space at night, alone the heat captured from the sun during the day. So technically geothermal will increase the efficiency of this heat transfer a tiny bit, but it's really a negligible amount. (In reality the ant's contribution to global warming is probably orders of magnitude than the phenomenon we're talking about here).

Not the core measurably, but my understanding is that it can very slowly cool the volume of earth immediately around the heat extraction site.

I have full faith in modern engineers' ability to account for these effects in the plant designs.

It could prevent volcanoes from erupting perhaps.

Nope. It is very far away from core. Core is very big. And energy is already flowing outwards. So just using it really have not any significant impact.

Real issue is that it is not actually usable everywhere. Again Earth is big and going deep in some places is very hard.

“Over time, some [problems] fade away while connections begin to appear between others that initially seemed unrelated.”

Reminds me of https://youtu.be/DSjbTC-hvqQ?t=1159

Is it illegal to attack cryptocurrency?

If crypto needs legal protection from attacks, I think that would invalidate most of its value proposition.

That seems to be a reasonable position. I'm kind-of comfortable with the position of bitcoin as being large enough to attract significant attacks, but not so dominant that a catestrophic failure of the system would have significant global impact.

I have nothing against bitcoin being the money of the future, but if it is to become that, this is the sort of trial by fire that it should endure.

Definitely reduces the cost of consensus though.

You will probably end up in court. But you might not get convicted.

Shakeeb Ahmed was convicted of wire fraud for exploiting a smart contract bug.

Avi Eisenberg was also convicted for exploiting a smart contract bug, but he had his conviction overturned on appeal.

The Peraire-Bueno brothers were in court for exploiting a bug in the MEV mechanism but it ended in a mis-trial so we're going to have to wait to find out.

Not legal advice ;-)

IANAL, but from my understanding, the primary law used to prosecute hacking is the CFAA's broad "without authorization" and "exceeding authorized access" clauses.

That said, authorization implies an entity with ownership rights granting some kind of limited license to others to interact with the owner's property.

For a permissionless decentralized network with no owner, where the attack is against the consensus of which chain is valid, I'd have a hard time arguing that "authorization" as a concept is even applicable or relevant.

As wmf suggested, market manipulation laws may still apply, but I'm not sure traditional CFAA "without authorization" / "exceeding authorized access" hacking charges could apply, though I'd be willing to bet a prosecutor could make a case for wire fraud - a scheme to defraud using interstate communications.

The attack described in this article might violate CFTC market manipulation regulations.

Depending on the currency, it's celebrated. (Code is law, etc.)

That says nothing about actual legality though, just like how me saying I am the law doesn't make me the king of the world.

Didn’t the Google Translate AI invent its own intermediate language for translating between languages?

Titanium? I thought they’d learned that lesson with the Powerbook G4.

What would the executives have said if the deployment team had said to them "The product can stay online, but these are the risks of doing so while we work on them."?

I guess you’ve fallen foul of the rules to protect against trademark “squatting”. They surely weren’t designed with (non-commercial) OSS projects in mind.

Could the friends access the server through the VPN?

> It's secured behind our own VPN.

> So, how do I create a shared photo album with my friends where we can all upload pictures from our latest trip? Well...since our friends can't access our server

Definitely! But even if I could convince everyone I know to do that, that feels like a nightmare to manage haha. Thanks for reading and commenting!

You haven’t happened to find a list of companies that do tryouts, have you?

Haha, I wish. Very random that this has happened. One of them was Assembla - Boston based. The other, that I work in now - Vinted - Lithuania based.

Indeed, calling it “progress” is political.