It’s a straw man cause you don’t have a windfall redistribution as only option

That's different because in Bitcoin's case there was a clear violation of the specification, of how it supposed to work. So the bug was fixed to make the software working as it intended to be. If there were two node implementations then one would just stop to work until fixed.

In Ethereum's case there were no violation of any specification. In fact there were no bug in the blockchain itself. Just someone took founder's money, they didn't like it and so they decided to get them back. And note that after that, there were bugs in the nodes code that were breaking the spec (which you should compare to the bitcoin's bug), but because of multiple node implementations only some of the nodes stopped and so we don't care about those issues.

I think you're referring to the Winston Churchill's "on Land Monopoly".

I don't remember exact details and may miss something, but the work is very short so please check it. In short, he described, I believe, a real situation when a major of people in a town got extra extra money because a toll on the bridge to the fabric was eliminated. But in a short time the town's rental cost grew up by exactly this amount.

I'm trying to understand if it works with an Electron (or Tauri) app on desktop? Cannot find any mention on the website. And how it works with apps that are not bases on React Router or anything similar, so it cannot learn all the possible screens.

I solved this in a repository I made a few years back. By switching languages, .missing.json files are generated with the words that don't have the other-language equivalent. Then, you run this script which calls the google translate API to generate the translations. https://github.com/reZach/secure-electron-template/blob/mast...

Granted, it still suffers that it's not a human translator, but it doesn't require a LLM.

With the community support we hope to support more platforms soon vs now, but I can confidently say that adding support for techs stacks using one of the following:

Vite Rollup webpack esbuild Rspack Rolldown Farm

should be reasonably straightforward, and we expect pull requests adding other setups soon.

That's a great question!

Or anything that the government don't like. Like donation to an opposition, journalists, etc. That's why authoritarian governments are first to fight the financial privacy / independence.

As someone who have been living in a couple of countries under a temporal residence I can say it's not that simple. In many cases the temporal residence is simply not accepted, or not in the list of standard docs, etc. Private companies don't really care about all those non standard cases, and they ask either for a passport of the country or a permanent residence at least.

So legally yes, you can pass a KYC, but in practice you're an edge case no one cares about

I'm wondering what should be the right way here. Taking the doorframe trim for £10K.

I see there could be like 3 options: 1) hide wealth / do not spend this money; 2) distribute to economy / i.e. pay a tradesman to curve the frame; 3) donate money to a fund or throw from a balcony to the crowd.

It doesn't seem that 1 cold be helpful to anyone. We see 2 in those examples, but it seem you imply that it's not the best way. So we have the only the 3rd option left, with donations. Is that what is considered as the best option? Is it sustainable in a long term?

Throwing from balconies doesn't work. Pavel Durov tried it in 2012, it quickly turned into a brawl under the balcony. So the one above got bad reputation, being called out by the media for making PR stunts in bad taste, and the ones below might have even had negative ROI, if that money went to pay for medical bills.

I have no idea, but what about investing the money? (yourself into something new, or just into the stock market)

I'm sure they do it at the first place. It seems to be p.2 here, but it even less acceptable by many, as it's just "greedy people multiplying their wealth." Speaking of "fixing outside world," I'm not sure why it's the better than paying to a tradesman?

Isn't the trim/joinery/etc effectively 'investing' the money into (hopefully) skilled craftspeople? In Australia, the equivalent project might involve using local premium timber instead of imported, or custom cabinetry over imported flat-pack.

Seems so. Article initially says that it takes ~7 days (168 hours) to decrypt on a single card, but later suggests to use multiple.

I would say it's opposite. No one contributes to open source and the developers have to make money on the side to work on the project (i.e., do consulting/tech support/etc). Or more often companies with money come to fork an open source project from the developer, and continue pretending it's their own now.

> I would say it's opposite. No one contributes to open source and the developers have to make money on the side to work on the project

You missed the important part of his sentence:

> All those open source copycat projects, using open source to get exposure then switching

The original open source here was Cassandra. Scylla exists to pick off that market share. They launch with a free license, pull customers, then swap license. The actual adoption of Scylla would have been a fraction had it been released under this license to start, which everyone understands.

> Or more often companies with money come to fork an open source project from the developer, and continue pretending it's their own now

It had already been AGPL, so it's not like they're protecting against competition. They already had a license that avoided the forking problem. This isn't protection against AWS (keyspaces likely has more OSS cassandra code in the protocol tier than it has Scylla code, if it has either). It's protection against free consumption.

> Copycat is a bit of a stretch here imho, considering it's in different language, and even the general architecture. But I agree they are very compatible on the protocol level, which they used as an advantage as people don't need to rewrite their code when they migrate

It's not a stretch. They literally copied the java code and re-implemented it class-by-class with Seastar/c++.

It's literally in the ORIGIN file in their repo: https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/blob/dc375b8cd3e8c7e85d...

Yes, I understand they looked at the source and re-implemented a bunch of it when they started 10 years ago. But in the result it's a very different code. I mean, it's 45K commits so I believe they implemented things by themselves in majority of those commits. I guess we just have different understanding of the copycat term.

Youre not far off, just use your original sentence and acknowledge that Scylla isn’t the OSS here, its the company that came in, forked a volunteer driven project, and tried to pretend its theirs:

> Or more often companies with money come to fork an open source project from the developer, and continue pretending it's their own now.

I like Scylla and we use it, so I wish them well. But what I don't understand with this announcement is how it supposed to work if they don't publish the pricing model. Just "contact us to get a quote". How people are supposed to make advance plans without clear pricing?