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It's downright embarrassing how hard people are pushing blockchain technology onto every damn thing they can, even when it makes zero sense. NFTs? Just a massiv
by Salgat 5y ago
It's downright embarrassing how hard people are pushing blockchain technology onto every damn thing they can, even when it makes zero sense. NFTs? Just a massive unnecessary overhead to a concept of ownership well grounded in every country's laws. Cryptocurrency? Outside of very niche applications (including and mostly for the black market), it's dramatically slower, more expensive, and higher risk than a slew of existing payment options. Now this bullshit about a blockchain tower to provide free wireless access for blockchain networks? All marketing nonsense, since every company in these skyscrapers already has access to high speed internet, and every person in the area already has access to high speed mobile data. It's all bullshit.
- DonHopkins 5y agoIt just sounds so childish. "Blockchain Tower". Woo! Woo! Pff... Just like a South Park or Rick and Morty parody of blockchain charlatan shills, but it's actually bona-fid blockchain charlatan shills performing a spot-on parody of themselves, without one iota of irony or self awareness. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Woo https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Woo >The term comes from "woo-woo", an epithet used in the 1990s by science and skeptical writers to ridicule people who believe or promote such things. This is in turn believed to have come from the onomatopoeia "woooooo!" as a reaction to dimmed lights or magic tricks. The term implies a lack of either intelligence or sincerity on the part of the person or concepts so described. >As a coincidence, the Chinese word 巫 (pronounced in the Mandarin dialect as Wū) means a shaman, usually with magic powers. Also coincidentally, the Chinese word 無/无 (pronounced Wú in Mandarin) means "nothing," "lacking," or "negation." Another Chinese word 误 (pronounced in the Mandarin dialect as Wù) means "mistake" or "incorrect". There is also the English verb "woo", which means to seek someone's love, especially with false promises; it can also be considered appropriate, because woo-meisters seek people's admiration, falsely promising them miraculous and easily understandable knowledge.
- echelon 5y agoThis is fantastic new verbiage. Blockchain charlatans are woowoos.
- TomSwirly 5y agoI've been using the term woo for decades, but I didn't know either of these. Just brilliant! Quibble - it's _bona fide_, pronounced "bonna feeday", because it's from the Latin literally meaning "good faith". It sounds Fidé as in "Semper Fidelis", always faithful, or "Adeste Fideles", "Oh, Come All Ye Faithful".
- DonHopkins 5y agoMy favorite use of the term "woo": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJMKGeICf0Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJMKGeICf0Y Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKmLUA2yHFE&ab_channel=BorreBlodBorreBlod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKmLUA2yHFE&ab_channel=Borre...