Open a PR that comments the code. Don't refactor it, *just comment*. Note that in the bug title. I'll bet it is much appreciated and merged, although of course YMMV. Everybody wants to hack in some feature that scratches their itch, few are willing to do the other 90% of the work to actually deliver robust code. If you do some of that work, you are in some non-binding way called "goodwill" buying a little of the maintainer's time to evaluate your eventual feature PR.

The problem is that if the proposed contribution needs additional work, the pull request is now a tradeoff between the maintainer's time and the contributor's time. And worse, there's typically a competence/task inversion. The person who is likely the most competent to implement changes is reduced to the manual labor of fixing formatting, adding comments and docs, and writing tests. This is why contributing by fixing a very clear and obvious bug in just a LOC or two is much appreciated. In contrast, reorganizing or refactoring is about the worst thing to do, because what took you 2 seconds to cut paste shows up as a deletion and insertion in git and therefore needs to be gone thru line by line to ensure that nothing got "slipped in". And as TFA states, doing the thankless job of actually going thru the docs step-by-step is great help! Also commenting the code, writing docs, or writing test cases are great first contributions!

Read about the Howey test and learn what defines a security.

Why not ask for all use in a region? Or all use over X megawatts? What possible use under the guidelines you stated does this data have that does not amount to a witchhunt?

Once you regulate what they can use energy for, don't be surprised when you have to justify your flight to disney world and your air conditioning to them.

Honestly, i'm in the situation you described with windows. They keep moving settings around, and burying stuff to make it hard to opt out. Online searches point to old versions or different flavors. The webcam and headset jack doesnt work half the time. Crapware slows stuff to a crawl, can't stop it from loading on start. Config is all thru menu items, rather than a simple file you can copy/paste into from the internet, or send to your new machine. Search bar searches the entire internet, when all i want to do is find zoom so i can start it up. Its nigh unusable.

There are extremely sophisticated restrictions, including multisig, delayed release, xfer only to another specific account, etc for cryptocurrency. The problem is getting people to use them, and also exchanges need some working capital (but 50m seems really high), that needs to be programatically accessible.

Your first should have been: as a completely dollarized country, El Sal was getting hurt by USD inflation. In the USA itself, at least there's the argument that that that the money created by inflation stays there; its paid out in covid checks for example. But in El Sal, its just gone. As the US found the political will to control inflation, the impetus for people/businesses in El Sal to switch today decreased. But it remains a good strategic move to have an option ready in case USD inflation gets out of control.

Or create subsidiary companies, 1 for each 45M users. Offer shares on a host country stock xchg & try to get huge PE. Next, charge an unsustainable amount to license the SW (yearly) from the parent to the sub, effecting a value xfer from child to parent. Run it under, and repeat selling the assets (user accounts) from the dead sub to the next. Repeat. /s

Dude, you are suggesting that we fine all car owners who do not properly tie their cars to the hitching post. You can make strong arguments that individual crypto assets are currencies, securities, a digital beanie baby, or gambling. And they do. People and orgs lump all crypto in one basket and make whatever classification buttresses their praise or vilification without deeper analysis. The SEC is afraid to make general guidance or to make a clear statement about a particular crypto asset, to avoid accidentally classifying similar traditional stock activity as the same. I think they'd be found to be gambling very quickly. Crypto's infinite flavors is blurring the lines between these activities and asset classes, and trad fi barely knows what to do about that.

Let me destroy your entire argument in 1 sentence: Unlike fiat, if you don't want to use it, don't.

...because both were designed by scientists/engineers not politicians.

I actually read it and the judge is saying that a use of a file format does not constitute a copyrightable description of it (even if some people are able to reverse engineer it), unless the use really does include a description. Inefficient formats like XML dialects effectively describe themselves with every use. Binary formats like how bitcoin block are stored do not. The software is hard coded to use these 80 bytes as the block header, etc. So if you wanted to claim copyright on a file format, you have to produce that description (eg. The code that saves/loads the files) not the files themselves.

Yes, and all that happened in the 2012 bubble that popped at $200

You can build one with a microprocessor and additional components... or even a 555 timer. But I think that its hard for a large complex product to be so flexible in its components. You'd have to massively upgrade your supply chain tracking database to record exactly what is in each vehicle. And its probably better from a PR perspective to ship deliberately non-functional stuff rather than low quality stuff, so its a lot of engineering work to design and test replacements.