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You remind me _exactly_ of what it like being a Linux advocate in the early 2000s when, sure, you could have WiFi, automounting media, and play videogames... if
by Daishiman 5y ago
You remind me _exactly_ of what it like being a Linux advocate in the early 2000s when, sure, you could have WiFi, automounting media, and play videogames... if you were willing to into week-long yak shaving expeditions recompiling your kernel with various flags, checking out experimental kernel branches, playing around with WPASupplicant, etc, just to be the only one, just for your stack to break next week with the next round of updates to the userland software.
Yes, it's fascinating to know that there's proof-of-stake. It's interesting to know there's a dozen improvements technologies in the pipeline to fix these issues. It's also curious that these technologies have been in said pipeline for a good half of a decade by now, with many barriers being political within miner group rather than technological, and with the number of BTC advocates showing actual concerns for these issues to be essentially nonexistent, drowned out by the voices of scammers and grifters.
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- jakupovic 5y agoThank you for the wifi + Linux analogy, which I lived through and enjoyed. If we didn't do any of the work then would we be happy with windows or macos 8.0? It's amazing the echo chamber that is HN on topic of crypto, bad bad just burn it. Completely not what I expect from hackers.
- inter_netuser 5y agoThere is something to be said about time and place. The early internet was a unique time and place. Crypto reminds me of that today, and really the only place that does.
- blueboo 5y agoWe gave it a shot until the scale and audacity of the grift so obviously dwarfed the practical use that it humiliates its depressingly unaware boosters.