paid HOV lanes in the bay area are a so enraging. they created a problem by restricting the number of lanes and increasing traffic and offered a monetary solution at the same time by having you pay for the “fast” lane
I disagree. While it's true that early cryptocurrencies were based on well established cryptography, a lot of the modern (post 2017-ish) cryptocurrency tech involves cutting-edge cryptography. Especially with respect to post-quantum setups, zero-knowlege proofs, and new devices like adaptor signatures.
One reason for this is that cryptocurrencies are highly bandwidth-limited. Cryptography developed for other applications (such as voting systems, etc.) needs to be specialized to meet the size and computational restraints inherent to cryptocurrency design. Efficiency is everything.
I came here to post the same, a self aware artisan wouldn't spend extra time making it look older than it is. that makes me question every other design choice as well, was it thought through at all or was it just simply repeating what was learned...
What a violin is supposed to look like and how that affects price is interesting. As a violinist with a particular interest in old music I think it's sad how little diversity there is in violins. There's really only a couple of models that all luthiers build and those models all look similar to the untrained eye. In medieval, renaissance and baroque periods there was a lot more variability.
Aside from some experimental luthiers everyone builds the same style of violin because there's an assumption that if you're deviating from that form (e.g. cornerless violins such as the Chanot model, or baroque style piecrust violins) you must be sacrificing sound quality. And if you decorate your violin, it must be that it didn't sound good enough and you need to make it look good instead to sell it (strangely, as you mentioned, artificially making the violin look older is exempt... probably because it makes them fit in with the uniformity of classical violin)
The best sounding violins I've had were all a bit ... crooked. The simple reason is that being slightly asymmetric really hurts the value of a violin, even if the sound is fine. As a hobby musician I don't really care and am not ashamed of having a violin that looks a little "off" when close up. If you're not playing professionally this, or buying from upcoming luthiers who still have to make a name for themselves are good ways to find good-value buys.
I'm surprised they've chosen to release a medical focused model (Med-PaLM 2) before releasing a law focused model of PaLM. I'd think it would be simpler to train and also less liability?
On the one hand, yes. On the other hand, if they are both going to have liability issues, choosing the one that isn't literally full of lawyers seems like a smart play.
Idk, this feels like one of those things that would be a huge problem for a startup with a less established legal team, but fairly easy for big corporate Google lawyers to write language releasing them from all liability.
