10 million is only 1% of 1B. That’s enough for 100 years of yachting. Seems in the realm of reasonable to me.

I was thinking of a super yacht that was less than 10M, so 10% upkeep would be less than 1M.

Thanks, now I think I understand that you’re saying once you get above 50 million, the amount isn’t meaningful.

For me I can see where even $50 million would put limits on my spending. I would love to have a personal super yacht with well paid crew and be able to cruise wherever, whenever. I wouldn’t feel that $50M would be safe enough for that, whereas $1B would be. Not that I’ll ever have the opportunity to test that.

Some projects would take more than $50M, such as buying enough politicians to make the country a better place. The problem is, most people who lean more altruistic with spending are likely not to accumulate large amounts of money. They are more likely to spend it before it accumulates, or to not accumulate it at all due to their choices.

Yes, but the the same could be said about the post you’re replying to. The clarification is useful and more people need to be aware that LLMs are just next word guessing machines and the only AI in them is the guessing including a system prompt that tilts the guessing towards what it thinks an AI output would be. The "you"s in the post don’t need to be taken personally.

the idea that $50 million was the same as a billion.

Can you explain this more? Did he think that million and billion are the same quantity?

Could mTLS be used instead to force the browser to validate the correct cert?

How do you interpret Matthew 5:17 - 5:18 regarding the Jesus update? Isn’t this Jesus saying that the old testament still stands?

I guess the odd thing is, if the orange portal can be moved, the pressure from the brick wall would be directed at the attachment point of the orange portal, otherwise why wouldn’t the orange portal keep moving, since it is not “touching” anything?

If the blue portal was deep under water, the pressure would force the water out the orange portal.

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The problem with this analogy is that both sides of the window are at the same point in space so there is no pressure differential. What if the blue portal was at the bottom of the Mariana’s Trench? What force displaces the water to place the cube on the other side?

What if the blue portal is at the bottom of the Marianas Trench?

There are a fair number of dinosaur games

• Ark
• Jurassic World Evolution
• Paleo Pines
• Turok

https://store.steampowered.com/search?tags=5160&supportedlang=english&ndl=1

DRM has this same problem that I was referring to. Because Blu-ray players need to have a secret key to decode movies, attackers have been able to extract the keys. Same with DRM streaming 4K from video streaming sites like Netflix to phones. Attackers have rooted phones and extracted keys so that there is now software to download from Netflix in full 4K. I don’t know of a DRM that hasn’t been cracked.

What I meant with my second paragraph is that a government could secretly compel a respected camera company to hand over the keys. Then that government could deep fake photos to provide justification for actions and the photos would appear genuine due to the keys signing them.

How can a camera have access to the signing key and prevent an attacker gaining access to that key?

Also, this would give camera companies (and any entity with leverage over the camera company, including their government) the power to decide what images are ‘true’ in the public’s eye. Companies that control the keys would need to be good at securing the keys.

Even as a tool it lacks predictability / reproducability. If I give instructions to download a paint program, start a new canvas of 1920x1080 and use the gradient tool to go from red to green, you’re going to get the same result every time. If I instead told a class of students to ask an AI to generate a red to green gradient on a 1920x1080 canvas, the results would not be consistent.

I use AI, but it is a tool with flaws.

Taxes and maintenance wouldn’t be included in the mortgage. A new roof is expensive, so are HVACs, floors, etc. These things will need to be replaced. A rule of thumb is to budget 1% to 4% of the total house value per year. For a 400k house that could be up to $16k extra per year, or $1333 more per month than your mortgage. Those costs for maintenance and taxes don’t go towards paying down your principal so they aren’t directly gaining equity. With the rent and invest option, the investing is the counter to equity. When you sell your house you usually pay a realtor commission. There are a lot of factors to include when seeing if rent & invest is better than mortgage & buy.

That being said, I prefer to buy. I don’t plan on moving anytime soon.

Security Now https://twit.tv/shows/security-now

Every week there will be news topics, sometimes there are deep dives into technical topics.

What the funge?

“The new owners of VPN provider VPNSecure have drawn ire after canceling lifetime subscriptions. The owners told customers that they didn’t know about the lifetime subscriptions when they bought VPNSecure, and they cannot honor the purchases.”

Is this you? https://youtu.be/DhC1o_yc5GA

j/k, but eerily similar situation. Make sure your sister doesn’t feel trapped if she needs to get out someday.

https://github.com/zacharyreese/DualQRCode