Time traveler here. Eventually there would be DPI blackboxes. You do not have to be 100% successful there, blocking 99% and playing cat and mouse with the remaining 1% might be enough.

A government may introduce a list of identifiers of devices allowed to operate in their territory. With relatively frequent verification to prevent the use of captured devices.

Not a bad idea, but I doubt they know how many they have or their citizens have. Let alone serial numbers

IIUC the critical use is by military units, so a process to list all the serial numbers shall be quite straightforward

> They are, but archiving without publishing is pointless.

One may collect/archive now (when the data is, well, "available"), and publish later, when copyright expires and the material will likely be harder to obtain.

Both are illegal, if you just hoard you will never know if what you have is useful. Only way to judge that is by letting people use it.

the attitude of at least checking the code before running it, I suppose? Or is the curl | sudo bash approach more preferred nowadays?

So you are saying there would be a limited resource becoming exponentialy more expensive over time? I guess there might occur a demand for such a resource? And mayhaps in that case the holders might decide to exchange it for some other assets they desire?

(ofc thats not the 100% correct description of bitcoin which depreciated against most other assets ytd but the idea still stands)

> So you are saying there would be a limited resource becoming exponentialy more expensive over time?

I'm not saying it. It is literally what Bitcoin is, and other deflationary "currencies".

> And mayhaps in that case the holders might decide to exchange it for some other assets they desire?

Keyword is "some".

In 2010 when bitcoin was novelty and had no value at all, someone paid 10 000 (yes, that's ten thousand) bitcoins for two pizzas. Now imagine bitcoin becomes a currency, as some cryptobros still prophesize. You have a constant pool of money for all "assets", and no way to get more money.

What would be the best way to grow some small towns into new metro areas?

City planning certainly isn't my area of expertise. I think it's a fiendishly hard problem. For a small town to draw people in and thrive, it needs:

1. Jobs.

2. Good K-12 schools.

3. Some amount of things to do and cultural amenities.

Remote work can help a lot with #1. I think people are fairly tolerant of a lack of #3 and it's a thing that can grow organically over time. People will also accept fewer things to do if the area is quieter, they can afford bigger homes, and there's more outdoorsy stuff nearby.

But #2 is really hard. You need a strong tax base to fund it, which small towns don't have. They are sort of trapped in a death spiral where if they had more people coming in, they could have better schools with the increased tax base, but they don't, so they can't, so no one moves there.

Check "valcambi combibar". Its a gold plate pre-divided into 1g pieces you can break away (like a chocolate bar).

1g is ~100 of money today, which would be enough for a weekly supply of groceries for a person in HCOL areas.

Additionally, one need not use gold; silver is easier to subdivide into manageable units for even smaller monetary values.

Prior art: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21883875

I wonder how much of that 12% is due to USD tanking 10%

It is still there

App page => "About this app" => "App permissions / See more" at the bottom of the page => look for "have full network access" in "Other"