> choosing the standard Latin-alphabet language

And of course choosing the standard Cyrillic-alphabet language

I.e. all the things you would get from a proper package manager if there was one for C++.

Sure... but it would have to be proper-as-in-proper. And what are the chances of that? Seems to be hard enough to even enforce the rule that ``-O3 -g'' is a thing, let alone all the rest :(

It would be ok if it is voluntary - you can upload your face and choose what information about you is shown, not if someone scans the entire internet to collect as mush information as possible and make an app of that.

> it seems so inefficient to bring the entire computer online just to maintain its temperature

In what sense is it inefficient? In terms of energy 100% is converted to heat anyway

Some of that should be converted into lowering entropy (building neural structures etc) so I don’t think 100% escapes as heat.

Why is it a UNIX tool? What makes it UNIX? Would it not work on e.g. Windows?

It ostensibly is a tool that follows the model/philosophy of unix: ie, a command line utility that does one thing well, inputs and outputs are text so they can be piped together, etc.

> Surely AV1 would be infringing on at least some of HEVC's expansive patent pool

Yes, it probably would, but if these patents are owned by members of AOM it is not an issue

Natural art?

For art, exchange "natural" for "authentic."

What do you mean? How would it look like?

Adding noise to a signal to cause it to be perceived unintuitively. It's possible that, as others pointed out, optical illusions are an example of this. But in actuality, if such a thing existed, I'm not sure we'd be able to tell it's adversarial.

Ok, but why use a broken hash algorithm?

Because you're not actually trying to encrypt anything.

No, it wouldn't. First of all, it is obvious that there will be no consensus. And even if there was consensus it would be very challenging to do because deploying a hardfork takes time while criminal could transfer his money before the hardfork to a different address.