Is there really a dearth of maintainers for the originals? They already work fine, no? To me it sounds a bit like: "Addition has become stagnant, so we need to re-implement it in higher category theory. Sure, 99% of even research mathematicians don't benefit from that re-implementation. But no risk no reward! If vocal traditionalists refuse to contribute to reinventing the wheel, maybe they're working on something that hasn't been refined/stagnated decades ago, but I won't take their perspective (that addition already works fine) seriously, unless they start re-implementing addition as well."
"Interim releases will introduce new capabilities from Canonical and upstream open source projects, they serve as a proving ground for these new capabilities." https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle
the result of this licensing: in the future there's gonna be a shitty free linux variant, and a SaaS premium variant. of course for complete distros this has always been the case, but now we'll get it for the core components.
I was completely wrong about the cost. XMR mining rewards amount to only $150k/day.
At the height of the attack, Qubic (the company) paid people up to $3 in QUBIC for every $1 of XMR they mined through QUBIC, and they achieved around 33% of XMR's hashrate which was sufficient to mine the majority of blocks for a few hours.
If they were forced to buy back all those QUBICs they paid out, this might have cost them ~$100k/day. But thanks to the media attention it's likely that they didn't need to buy anything back and actually were able to emit more than they otherwise could have.
XMR needs to adapt -- switch to PoS, or ASICs-based POW, or a hybrid of both.
Not really. It's secured against the house so worst case is the lender repossesses. Either way, unless you have money you will be paying rent to the people who do, either via rent or interest payments. Yeah, I don't like it either, but that's the game.
The OP makes it seem like renting and saving huge piles of cash is the only way. It's not. You can buy and save into your house instead. As long as interest plus maintenance etc is the same as what you would have paid in rent, you'll probably end up better off if house ownership is your goal.
The British people, of course, includes those British Nationals with English as a first language, who served in the British armed forces in World War Two.
The UK government, needing workers to help fill post-war labour shortages and rebuild the economy, invited many British people to come to the metropole.
Like all those dark skinned folk of the Windrush generation, and a good number of people who came across to the UK from India and Pakistan.
In more recent, pre-Brexit, years that invitation to fill a labour vacuum went out to fellow EU member states.
Ethnic Brits are the people whose majority of ancestors two centuries ago were living on the British Isles.
But I was talking about Brits in a wider sense -- the people with British passports and voting rights at the time when those mass migration laws were passed. Which happened against their consent.
Ethnic Brits are immigrants .. all the way down. Wave after wave of them.
> the people whose majority of ancestors two centuries ago were living on the British Isles.
So .. not the House of Windsor then.
> Brits in a wider sense -- Which happened against their consent.
Near as I understand British history not much happened with the broad consent of the masses, hence all the castles and defensive structures built to protect "rulers" from "ethnic brits".
The people that migrated to Britain in the Windrush generation were also British citizens, if you check your history you may recall a long phase in which the then ethnic British majority (who all originated from outside of Britain having cleansed the prior group of ethnic brits) went about claiming large chunks of other peoples multi-generation lands as their own and dabbling in more than a smidgen of miscegenation.
This is just history, beware the seeds you sow, they have a way of coming home to roost.
Whenever anyone on earth does something bad, it's basically Nick's fault. Nobody except Nick has agency or responsibility. They're all victims, except Nick.
AFAIK Qubic (the company) is paying people extra to mine XMR through Qubic (if you mine $1 worth of XMR, you get $1.50 worth of QUBIC (the coin) which you can then sell). Qubic (indirectly) loses those extra $0.50. If on average the miners sell too much (more than two thirds of the rewards), then Qubic has to buy their own coins back in order to keep the price stable. Qubic bets on their coin pumping from the publicity.
yeah but that's an accusation without basis in reality.