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> cryptocurrencies invite undesirable people and events. Many early adopters are salty that nobody would listen to us and investigate the criminals we were poi

> cryptocurrencies invite undesirable people and events. Many early adopters are salty that nobody would listen to us and investigate the criminals we were pointing out all along. > cryptocurrencies invite those who think it's a good idea to use them as a proxy to evade securities laws or KYC rules, luring in gullible morons in the process and leading to loss of money Generally the criminal schemes that actually took everyone's money were so simple as to not even be securities scams. The complex non-deliverable defi contracts were something people were playing around with to make prediction markets and other useful things. > when you can't get a new halfway-decent GPU for years because scalpers buy up all the stock then the market has fucking failed Okay, seriously, what system would actually create more cards here, some command economy where gaming is allocated a higher value than other activities? How does the company know how many fabs to buy/lease to prepare? > promoting outright Third Reich Nazi symbols and edgy far-right memes I don't see a lot of value in some censorship system that makes that enforceable. Should books not have been invented until we developed a technology to make it impossible to say mean things?

mschuster91 4y ago
> Okay, seriously, what system would actually create more cards here, some command economy where gaming is allocated a higher value than other activities? How does the company know how many fabs to buy/lease to prepare? I don't claim to have a solution that benefits everyone, but at least personally I prefer actual people having GPUs to have fun with them over some miners polluting the environment for a ponzi scheme with them that brings benefit to no one but a select very few. > I don't see a lot of value in some censorship system that makes that enforceable. Should books not have been invented until we developed a technology to make it impossible to say mean things? The Nazi crap was just the cherry on the cake. It just speaks volumes about just what kind of ideological toxicity was freely allowed to spread. Or, to use an older analogy, when a Nazi walks into a bar and isn't kicked out, well guess what you have? A Nazi bar.
- LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
  > personally I prefer actual people having GPUs I think Nvidia/etc missed some serious PR by not giving out tickets to buy cards via gaming and hardware sites, to be rewarded with more tickets if those cards ended up being used for gaming. However, I think it's unrealistic and unhelpful to call prices "scalping" when there are conflicting markets for a product. > a Nazi walks into a bar and isn't kicked out A bar is a private entity with a target clientele and limited availability. It makes sense that the patrons can be and should be curated. > ideological toxicity was freely allowed to spread. Now we're talking about NFTs, literally DeFi. How would you make NFTs that would allow for pro-Tibet messages, etc, and not also allow any other text/image that people want? The correct filter is in which markets list it, and which customers buy it. It's like a disgusting book - it doesn't invalidate the very concept of libraries.

mschuster91 4y ago

> Okay, seriously, what system would actually create more cards here, some command economy where gaming is allocated a higher value than other activities? How does the company know how many fabs to buy/lease to prepare? I don't claim to have a solution that benefits everyone, but at least personally I prefer actual people having GPUs to have fun with them over some miners polluting the environment for a ponzi scheme with them that brings benefit to no one but a select very few. > I don't see a lot of value in some censorship system that makes that enforceable. Should books not have been invented until we developed a technology to make it impossible to say mean things? The Nazi crap was just the cherry on the cake. It just speaks volumes about just what kind of ideological toxicity was freely allowed to spread. Or, to use an older analogy, when a Nazi walks into a bar and isn't kicked out, well guess what you have? A Nazi bar.

LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
> personally I prefer actual people having GPUs I think Nvidia/etc missed some serious PR by not giving out tickets to buy cards via gaming and hardware sites, to be rewarded with more tickets if those cards ended up being used for gaming. However, I think it's unrealistic and unhelpful to call prices "scalping" when there are conflicting markets for a product. > a Nazi walks into a bar and isn't kicked out A bar is a private entity with a target clientele and limited availability. It makes sense that the patrons can be and should be curated. > ideological toxicity was freely allowed to spread. Now we're talking about NFTs, literally DeFi. How would you make NFTs that would allow for pro-Tibet messages, etc, and not also allow any other text/image that people want? The correct filter is in which markets list it, and which customers buy it. It's like a disgusting book - it doesn't invalidate the very concept of libraries.