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The graphics card I just bought said "military grade" on it. What's military grade on a 3070? Not a clue. Obviously it's just bullshit marketing, written by som

The graphics card I just bought said "military grade" on it. What's military grade on a 3070? Not a clue. Obviously it's just bullshit marketing, written by someone who thought "military grade" sounded good or something. But I still trust nVidia to render my video games. Sometimes marketing department and copy-writers get ahead of themselves. It shouldn't discredit the entire project unless there are other signals as well. Which there might be with Arweave! I have no idea. But discrediting the technical part of a project because of the marketing part of the project can be short-sighted.

AlexandrB 4y ago
> But discrediting the technical part of a project because of the marketing part of the project can be short-sighted. Fundamentally, I disagree. "Too good to be true" marketing is a great sign you're being scammed. I wouldn't trust a used car salesman who's throwing in free "undercarriage protection" and other junk after "talking to his manager". Why should I trust a website that's doing the same? What's more, because Arweave like all crypto projects probably depends on users continuing to buy and mine tokens to function, unrealistic marketing contributes to boom-and-bust dynamics that might put my data at risk if enough people give up on the project/token. Whatever the underlying technology, this is enough of a reason to stay away. When Luna collapsed, a lot of people lost all their money. If the Arweave token collapses, users might also lose their "permanent" data. Incidentally, this prompted me to look at the Arweave "yellow paper", and I found this gem: > While the Arweave’s mechanism design is generally engineered to promote adaptivity to new circumstances, the core Arweave team does not expect that the network as it is currently formulated will continue to produce blocks in true perpetuity. This does not, however, mean that we expect that the information stored inside the weave will be lost after the final block is mined. It is our expectation that when eventually a permanent information storage system more suited to the challenges of the time emerges, the Arweave’s data will be ‘subsumed’ into this network. After the mining of the final block, the financial incentive mechanisms for data preservation will subside and give way to social incentives for data preservation. This effect will likely be compounded by the exceptionally low cost of storing the data from the network, due to its decreasing relative cost over time. So data is stored "forever", assuming someone comes along and archives all the data at some point in the future for free.
- ziddoap 4y ago
  >Fundamentally, I disagree. "Too good to be true" marketing is a great sign you're being scammed Sure, there is definitely a scale where something becomes "too good to be true" and increasing your own skepticism in proportion with that scale is a sensible approach. My point was that it can be short-sighted to judge something off a single data-point when that data-point comes from the marketing departments copywrite rather than the technical aspects of the project. I'll just go back to my example. If I swore off nVidia solely off the single data-point of the card being advertised as "military grade", that'd be rather unfortunate because the product itself is really quite good in my opinion. Even though "military grade" is a wildly stupid thing to advertise a graphic card as. All I'm saying is that technical projects should not solely be judged based on a single marketing claim. In the large projects I've been a member of, I have absolutely zero say in how it is advertised. And the marketing department making the advertising could not possibly care less about the technical merits of the project. The rest of what you said is applicable specifically to Arweave, which I don't care one bit about, so I don't have any specific comments on that.
blibble 4y ago
> What's military grade on a 3070? did it cost 10x RRP?
- ziddoap 4y ago
  I've never seen that acronym before, I've only ever seen it referred to as MSRP. Is that acronym more common in different areas (compared to MSRP)? Thankfully it did not appear like I paid the 'military-grade' tax.

AlexandrB 4y ago

> But discrediting the technical part of a project because of the marketing part of the project can be short-sighted. Fundamentally, I disagree. "Too good to be true" marketing is a great sign you're being scammed. I wouldn't trust a used car salesman who's throwing in free "undercarriage protection" and other junk after "talking to his manager". Why should I trust a website that's doing the same? What's more, because Arweave like all crypto projects probably depends on users continuing to buy and mine tokens to function, unrealistic marketing contributes to boom-and-bust dynamics that might put my data at risk if enough people give up on the project/token. Whatever the underlying technology, this is enough of a reason to stay away. When Luna collapsed, a lot of people lost all their money. If the Arweave token collapses, users might also lose their "permanent" data. Incidentally, this prompted me to look at the Arweave "yellow paper", and I found this gem: > While the Arweave’s mechanism design is generally engineered to promote adaptivity to new circumstances, the core Arweave team does not expect that the network as it is currently formulated will continue to produce blocks in true perpetuity. This does not, however, mean that we expect that the information stored inside the weave will be lost after the final block is mined. It is our expectation that when eventually a permanent information storage system more suited to the challenges of the time emerges, the Arweave’s data will be ‘subsumed’ into this network. After the mining of the final block, the financial incentive mechanisms for data preservation will subside and give way to social incentives for data preservation. This effect will likely be compounded by the exceptionally low cost of storing the data from the network, due to its decreasing relative cost over time. So data is stored "forever", assuming someone comes along and archives all the data at some point in the future for free.

ziddoap 4y ago
>Fundamentally, I disagree. "Too good to be true" marketing is a great sign you're being scammed Sure, there is definitely a scale where something becomes "too good to be true" and increasing your own skepticism in proportion with that scale is a sensible approach. My point was that it can be short-sighted to judge something off a single data-point when that data-point comes from the marketing departments copywrite rather than the technical aspects of the project. I'll just go back to my example. If I swore off nVidia solely off the single data-point of the card being advertised as "military grade", that'd be rather unfortunate because the product itself is really quite good in my opinion. Even though "military grade" is a wildly stupid thing to advertise a graphic card as. All I'm saying is that technical projects should not solely be judged based on a single marketing claim. In the large projects I've been a member of, I have absolutely zero say in how it is advertised. And the marketing department making the advertising could not possibly care less about the technical merits of the project. The rest of what you said is applicable specifically to Arweave, which I don't care one bit about, so I don't have any specific comments on that.

blibble 4y ago

> What's military grade on a 3070? did it cost 10x RRP?

ziddoap 4y ago
I've never seen that acronym before, I've only ever seen it referred to as MSRP. Is that acronym more common in different areas (compared to MSRP)? Thankfully it did not appear like I paid the 'military-grade' tax.