They're used as gifts for abundance in our festival called Alasitas, you can read more about it in the wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alasitas
So far as I know, essentially all grey market vulnerability sales are tranched, which is an important consideration when comparing bounty payouts to the grey market.
The report to the manufacturer with the remark that there is a existing weaponized exploit will lead to a much faster fix.
And why you are so sure that there was no weaponized exploit out there before?
So you are okay with submitting the exploit on a silver platter to people who murder dissidents because “you can’t be so sure that there wasn’t an existing weaponized exploit”?
The picture in the bottom of the article shows that varying sizes of pearls need to be counted at the same time, making using weight very unreliable.
Even if only similar size pearls are allowed, small variations multiplied by a large amount of pearls can cause issues, such as distinguishing 100 pearls of 99 grams each from 99 pearls of 100 grams each.
They could use a simple sorting machine that sorts pearls based on size (like how most coin sorting machines work - run all coins over a small hole, the smallest coins fall through, then run have a slightly larger hole after that, and so on).
Then they could have a simple optical/laser sensor below each hole to count how many smallest, smaller, small, medium, large, larger, and largest pearls fall through each hole.
The benefit would then be that if customers wanted pearls of a certain size, they are already sorted.
Maybe there is an enterprising user here that reads this, can easily create it, and reaches out to pearl companies.
What? A contractor usually will sign a contract and intellectual property agreements to their name, it's obviously not their right to share company information with a third party.
Subcontracting is not against the rules unless the contract specifically says so. Your job as the prime contractor is to manage the subcontractors so that means IP and privacy concerns etc... Houses are built by subs for example. Defense software is built by subs.
I believe that the cure for death would not be distributed evenly at first, and by the time everyone has access to it, there are two options:
1.- We haven't solved the problems caused by overpopulation, and in that case standards of living will drop and people will either have less children or choose to end their lives voluntarily.
2.- We have solved them and there is no longer any issue.
