For you to short something a institutional investor or market maker takes a long position on the same thing.

For some reason legit institutional investors never really show up in the crypto sphere and the smart market makers don’t like to get high on their own supply (or are selling tokens they got at insider prices on the open market).

You should save some part to mail them later ,so they can never be sure when their are done with you.

I agree with the sentiment but …

then nothing can be bricked because on paper you can desolder the rom chip and put another one in place.

Companies already put serial numbers in components and configure them so only specific ones work together, requiring OEM tools to pair them.
It’s imaginable that someone makes something similar with e-fuzes instead.

Any reasonable person wants to replace the supreme court.
The wackjobs have placed the president above the law in a the worst ruling since Dred Scott v. Sandford.

The other atomic clocks that are averaged to give us our ground truth for time.

… or one second back, that’s the problem.

Well, apart from the free movement of people and goods, the common currency, the gdpr, the international students and the consumer protection what has the EU ever done for us?

Brought peace.

Uh peace, shut up.

While that works for “news agencies” it’s a free money glitch when used in a customer support role for the consumer.

Edit: clarification

The system works great all year round but what it delivers is not electricity…

The absence of coincidence

Look up the strong law of small numbers.

Also, one of their examples of AI was an exhaustive search.

The spec is open source, particular implementation are typically under patent/copyright protection.
Not that they can be enforced effectively, unless the chips are exported into the US.