Well no wonder you're poor. If you bought an espresso machine it would pay for itself in less than a month.

Strictly speaking, your "ownership" is only of the hash. Unless you register the film as a copyright, the US won't recognize your ownership of the film. You cannot stop people from sharing or deriving the work without legal protection, the utility the blockchain provides in this instance is entirely cosmetic. NFTs aren't just unnecessary - they're useless without external guarantees. The "chain of provenance" for the cloud is a scam. All digital works can be copied infinitely for $0/copy, and the ultimate irony is that the only way to stop that outcome is from abandoning the blockchain and relying on a government to protect you.

You want to know where all the talented, educated and principled technologists were during the NFT boom? Far, far away from any form of blockchain.

Unless your ownership confers some sort of meaningful control over the piece, society will entirely ignore your rules and distribute the work however they want. It's not like you can take the case to court, anyways. You're role-playing on a extralegal asset, not a tallying stocks and bonds.

This actually means nothing in a medium where you can create infinite perfect copies of something. If we had 100,000 identical replicas of Starry Night then there would be no value in a signed original. This is how digital art fundamentally works, your "ownership" persists insofar as people respect the authority of your notary.

Sure. Modern Chinese RoRo vessels fit more than 1 shirt on them. The average shipping manifest to America looks more like 125,000 shirts, 10,000 tons displacement of natural gas, 40,000 sex toys, 20,000 Macbooks and a few dozen merchant marines making the trip. The "great cost to the environment" was manufacturing these products. The carbon footprint for shipping linens around the world is negligible, and cheaper than buying American-made.

It doesn't take a genius to see that this isn't an environmental issue, China will fuel up their boats regardless and take their surplus elsewhere. This is about American businesses outright failing to compete in the free market in places that matter, like car manufacturing and $1 tee shirt factories.

If it wasn't for muscle memory and my bash aliases, I'd be using main too. Get a life and stop bitching about default environment variables, it's a huge red-flag to employers.

For the record; I still use master branch for personal projects. But trying to impose it on anyone else is madman-levels of obsession that you might want to work out with a therapist. It simply does not matter to anyone with actually relevant priorities.

If you mean the greater global consciousness... nobody cares. Main is 2 fewer letters to type, you'll sound like a madman advocating for anything else. It would be easier to bring back eight-space tabs or BSD coreutils. You should make your peace with it one way or another and find a productive hill to die on.

Apple has no interconnect technology comparable to what Nvidia ships to datacenters. The larger Nvidia clusters measure their addressable memory in terabytes, the value of Unified Memory at that scale is practically negligible (if not wasted bandwidth).

You're making some pretty handwavy generalizations here without a solid grasp on why Nvidia dominates GPGPU compute.

Unless Claude or ChatGPT is offering to pay that salary, I would take it with a grain of salt.

Not to mention the variety of Chinese EVs available to the international market. Aftermarket prices are hitting a desperate low for a very, very good reason.