Canotdohng

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   by Canotdohng 4y ago

   > even countries which don't look like dictatorships like Thailand Isn't Thailand a straight-up military dictatorship?
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   by Canotdohng 5y ago

   > (2) freezing an asset like impounding/towing a car away and the owner can eventually get the car back later (e.g. after Russia stops the war) ? At least in Europe AFAIK. The rationale is to prevent, at least temporarily, oligarchs
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   by Canotdohng 5y ago

   For context, the definition of web 3.0 from Tim Berners-Lee gives a good idea an the level of hazyness of this concept: > People keep asking what Web 3.0 is. I think maybe when you've got an overlay of scalable vector graphics — eve
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   by Canotdohng 5y ago

   Yes, fifteen to twenty years ago, it was used to refer to the emphasis on user-generated content and the generalization of social media.
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   by Canotdohng 5y ago

   > The hazy vision of new decentralized internet, built on the blockchain Ten years ago, web 3.0 was supposed to be the semantic web (whatever happened to this fad).
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   by Canotdohng 5y ago

   Feedback from Qatar is always taken with a grain of salt given the long history of Akbar Al Baker using fallacious pretexts to engage in ruthless contractual fights.