However, in the US I suspect it would slightly increase overall mortality due to the number of people crushed trying to simulate a magnitude 5 earthquake.

One of the downsides of the hidden volumes feature of TrueCrypt was that the data couldn't be actively protected from destructive overwrites - you can't plausibly deny a secret volume exists while also telling the OS not to overwrite your nonexistent volume. The solution here seems to be that all volumes are created, and if you don't use 15 secret volumes, whatever you don't use is essentially wasted space.

I suppose that is a win for data integrity, but at least with TrueCrypt most users probably didn't use the hidden volume feature, whereas I don't see why anyone would use such a wasteful file system unless they specifically needed hidden volumes. You immediately lose the plausible deniability that there isn't at least one hidden drive, and now you're getting hit over the head with a wrench until you come up with 15 passwords or pass out.

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...can AI help casinos make less money?

Thousands of years? The Earth currently is not exactly an eyesore from the moon, after all.

welcome a world where corporations can't set AI to work creating billions of pieces of "art" and suing anyone that happens to create something vaguely similar.

I was under the misguided impression that the Fitz-Haber method of generating ammonia from elemental nitrogen and large amounts of energy and pressure was actually a very useful discovery that spared us from scraping cave walls for saltpetre or harvesting bat guano. How exactly does the reverse help us?

...that owning a 1999 Honda Civic would be the best way to prevent theft.

Three times? Seriously?

I'm not against the idea of regulation to make these "shenanigans" illegal, the point is that this particular shenanigan is not effective when enacted on a blockchain. I do think that is an advantage.

Heh, well in a perfect world maybe...but then again it's not a great example, as I'd probably be charged for illegal gambling. But it does remind me of a story about a lottery winner who insisted in carrying around hundreds of thousands of dollars in his pickup truck. When it was inevitably stolen he was full of righteous indignation that the police couldn't solve the crime. When the police suggested that he not carry around huge amounts of cash, he insisted on his right as an American to carry around as much money as he pleased. Can't argue that he's wrong, but also can't argue with the results. I'd hope anyone making a half-billion dollar transaction would do their due diligence, but if not I'd say caveat emptor.

True, but if some guy rips $20 off me at three card monte I don't expect the police to come swooping in and save me. Prevention is better than enforcement after the fact, and trying to inflate prices this way is ultimately self-defeating irrespective of the law.

I'm no crypto evangelist. You can hate many things about crypto and still recognize some of the advantages.

Not sure why they would need to bother. It's not a viable scam if the whole process is there for anyone to see, just a waste of transaction fees.

...no one would've realized it immediately. One of the benefits of a transparent ledger, I guess.

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To be effective such a test would likely require the military to confiscate personal phones from military personnel, leading invariably to violent mutiny and the end of democracy.

Also, it's probably pretty difficult to truly understand how complex networked systems would truly function in the absence of GPS by just pretending it wasn't there.