Older millennial parents tend to integrate tech into their gen alpha lives? Gen Z knowing more about positives and challenges? FFS, middle and older Millennials and older gens learned the hard way how the internet operated. Gen Z never got the memo that "If it's free, you're the product," and that LilBonita2010 *is not* a 14 year old girl that lives the next town over, that the "olds" before them knew. GenZ is not the most tech savvy, by any stretch.
The stupidity I see daily in Gen Z age group vs. Millennial age groups and older is night-and-day.

And what's of the infinite number of alternatives that do just that? Or that you can simply copy paste and redo all of Bitcoin as often as necessary? Bitcoin 2, 3, n.... So, you want a small number of private individuals to be in control, with zero recourse, versus a large number of individuals exercising control, through government by and for the people...

well, cryptobros kinda forget that "force" part. When the community at large guarantees rights at the end of a barrel, there is recourse. Crypto intrinsically can never do that important step. And if you try and have an extrinsic guarantee through a private arm, well, you'll be fast tracked to the bad end of DOJ or DOD.

This reeks of contract and tort. Not copyright (since there doesn't appear to be any such copyright claim by the the gimp) Diversity of jurisdiction maybe, and sure it might be Federal District. However... they'll only be applying tort & contract law for the forum state. There's no legitimizing "blockchain" tech with this case. at all. There is an issue of publicizing the case to hope for a settlement since as this case looks likely to turn on the fact the gimped ape waived his rights under the T&C.

Without looking at the actual filed cases... What is the basis of the claim? It's head scratching logic, as the vice article alludes to "well, they forced a sale of a NFT" but if you don't possess the copyright assignment or have a contractual claim to it.... what damage is actually suffered? Loss of name listing and its association on a bulletin board?

Clearly not, because copyrights no longer exist as they stem from centralized authority and this Ape is about de-centralized grifts.

Cryptocurrency is mistakenly believed to prevent intrusive government meddling. If governments don't want it, they have the law. If those sovereigns and (if democratically elected - their people) want it banned or regulated, too bad. The myth of libertarian utopia isn't appealing to a vast swath of people who would be stripped of freedoms unless they were sufficiently wealthy. I'm gonna bet on the majority of global GDP choosing to regulate "crypto"currency speculation because that group doesnt want to play by the rules and chooses to be cute with the law.

Crypto is fiat. The choice is then fiat with random unknowns, or fiat from a system with redressability.

They both allow private actors to dictate your resources, track you, and consume country-scale levels of energy. But gotta pump those virtual numbers! Because while nothing of value was created, we sure used a lot of electricity to show that this string address "owns" the some other numbers! Wait... I've seen this dilemma before.
Sell nothings with marketing, hot potato to the greater fool, make out like a bandit. Oh.. right, pump-n-dumps.
Still an inherent flaw in the faith that somehow oligarchs should be in control of the economy instead of society. Cryptocurrency is just like diamonds, everywhere, but marketing put the gloss of scarcity on an infinite product. ZuckCoin,TwitCoin, BitCoin, anyCoin.

Yes it'd be nice to have that kind of a lab. But this article completely ignores the technology and physical tools necessary for non-dinosaur era chips (relatively speaking). Most inventors aren't going to be getting quality fab surplus nor at obtainable pricing.

The biggest fear: the crap you'd be pouring down the drain because you don't appreciate the ancillary lab equipment, safety, or a silicon guy wants to play with the fun crystals and starts outgassing As because his equipment is improper. There are certain equipment that are crazy expensive that could probably benefit from democratization of access, and would allow for some neat exploration in multiple fields. I do III-V and some fun shit with it, and got a couple of degrees in ME and EE under a decade ago... hats off to this bit younger nerd. But to speculate it's possible for inventors outside of a tiny bastion, is a nice sounding sales pitch.

I'd be more fascinated to see a home-brew capable lithography thats robust, not reliant on rare resale or insane optics, and has good feature size. EUV and that level-ish is not gonna be in the realm for home inventors, ever.

Hush, can't use logic when pumper's gotta pump their virtual fiat.

I remember how I learned about crypto in 2011, some spooks over in southern Maryland. They loved it not because of the chaos and speculative, but because you will have people willingly adopt the idea without actually knowing how the internet, data, and government works. My small company was formed to explore with governments (state, federal, and foreign) how to capture entire transactional histories within *desired* industries for compliance, auditing, and tax purposes. I've yet to meet a lawmaker who is not enthusiastic because, if you can get people to willingly adopt a digital currency that is pseudo-anonymous, and track the chain of custody for items, you can watch in real time (from the govt POV) compliance. Remit taxes on the fly to the appropriate governmental layer (think VAT or "sin taxed" goods), assess how much inventory is on hand in a business for property taxes purposes, know how much gross rev a biz is bringing in, what their COGS are based on other studies. Begin to build entire models of industries and players within your jurisdiction. Will it interfere with most people? no. It's like the interstate, you go along with the herd and dont stick out, you dont get pulled over. But tracking custody, amounts, and the nature of the transaction? Oh baby, it makes every government salivate. Ironically, it's why I'm hostile to bitcoin and the others... while they can ponzi under pseudo-scarcity, where it inevitably leads to is an era of transnational monitoring under the eye of force. They should pray to always hodl, because if there's a crash, nothing gives a greater incentive for gov to regulate top-down than coming to rescue the masses from their self-induced misery.

There is little overlap in a BSEE with a BSME; and so the time investment would be tremendous. Instead, focus on a specialization within EE that you find fascinating. I am getting my MSEE in semiconductor devices and solid states to complement my BSME. It's often been said to get a management degree, but save that bullet for when your already working in a company (if that's your decision); else it won't bridge as far you think. In a realistic standpoint, get a JD... you'll travel farther than a MBA student will. Use the legal knowledge as means to make sound business decisions and not go the average IP route.

Can't say this article is shocking. Perhaps if our society valued intellect, abhorred a gov't that is larger than all manufacturing jobs combined, and made personal responsibility a cornerstone and not a sound-byte.... nah, who am I kidding. We reaped our profits and sowed the seeds of our own destruction. Case in point: ChiCom... give China your IP if you want access to their economy, never mind that they'll create a knock-off the next day and bury you with your own product.

It really doesn't make sense why they push offshore wind energy when they can't even get 60% utilization of the wind farms located on farmland. Besides, the only people profiting from this kind of project are the generator manufacturers and the installers who snag ludicrously lucrative maintenance contracts. If it is as remotely bad as the rural wind farms are, then this ocean one will be a doozy in cost inefficiency.