Comevius

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by Comevius 5y ago
I dabble in cryptography. 95% of the cryptocurrency landscape is marketing, the rest is a few Rust libraries. With all the hype you would expect a renaissance period of cryptography, but it's mostly bullshit artists copypasting and mos
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by Comevius 5y ago
I understand hardship, but crypto economies create nothing but wealth inequality. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbloc.2021.7301... What you are hoping for is that this time you will be the winner, b
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by Comevius 5y ago
"The tech founders who are building crypto platforms and tools, like the users who are buying and trading blockchain assets, are trying to produce wealth via rapidly appreciating speculative value." And nothing of value is produce
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by Comevius 5y ago
I especially don't like how crypto holders are hitching their wagons to monetizing and corporatizing the Web further and hiding this fact behind idealistic promises of decentralization, just so they can get rid of their tulips at a hig
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by Comevius 5y ago
I don't think abusing these bots is psychologically beneficial. Punching bags tend to create a psychological link between anger or flustration and aggression, or in this case abuse.
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by Comevius 5y ago
Existing crytocurrencies have high transaction fees and can only handle a few transactions per second. But even if that could be solved the theory here is that wealth or power distribution could be improved by giving away tokens. Obviously
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by Comevius 5y ago
I never liked philosophy. The problem with the Chinese room is the same as with consciousness. It's definition is a hotchpotch of magical qualities, then basically you show that a giant mill or computer can't be used to build it.
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by Comevius 5y ago
You can audit everything yourself, and if everyone could and would there would be much less opportunities for bad behavior. But that's why trust was invented. Trustless means you have to do everything yourself. In society there are inc
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by Comevius 5y ago
The entire crypto landscape is dirty tricks and frauds already. The blockchain is just an immutable data structure (a hash or vector commitment tree). It works like ink on a paper, but it's publicly verifiable. What happens on it, and
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by Comevius 5y ago
https://www.profgalloway.com/web3/ Another valuable insight into the dubious, duplicit world of crypto.
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by Comevius 5y ago
You can use this question to undo the entire thing. Once you start catalogizing how you are formed and shaped by others (not an island unto yourself) you would not want to use any model of reality where the focus is not on the rest of us an
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by Comevius 5y ago
That's not a problem, just pay for the pollution either by renting from the carbon budget the planet can naturally handle or by renting from the decarbonization budget. Better yet your gas company should take care of it and just put it
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by Comevius 5y ago
That's fair, but it's still an existential threat. The IPCC numbers are halfway between how could organized society exist within such circumstances and how could anyone survive this. We are practically sitting on a bomb. Scientist
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by Comevius 5y ago
In the movie humanity was technologically capable destroying the comet, the solution just got jammed between politics, the media and corporate idiocracy. Our tepid response to another existential threat called the climate crisis suggests th
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by Comevius 5y ago
I misunderstood your "buy this NFT" call to action. Should've read the paragraph before it more carefully. I'm sorry about that. But honestly why do you have to be the middleman for this and who would even ensure that yo
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by Comevius 5y ago
In an ideal world we would be able to quickly phase out gas stoves, but we live in a world where a company can pour a few million dollars into social media, create a new conspiracy theory about induction stoves and an equivalence between ga
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by Comevius 5y ago
So you wants us to buy that badly designed NFT that's totally not yours based on the listing, and it will somehow make computer science inclusive. My question is how would that work?
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by Comevius 5y ago
The Pfizer board is subject to a whole lot of examination from regulatory bodies. They can't just do whatever for money or power like a conspiracy theorist can. People would like to, but these markets are tight and regulated. Milking p
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by Comevius 5y ago
Substack should decide, and ultimately laws do. European laws are already in favor platform responsibility. It's an ongoing research of course, we are figuring it out, but Substack's approach of shrugging responsibility is not ten
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by Comevius 5y ago
Elon Musk and false advertisement are such an iconic duo. His cars are still marketed as fully self-driving, which is misleading and dangerous. However it is also true that he occasionally reliably delivers a subset of the claims. I don&#x2
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by Comevius 5y ago
I always thought it's a strange arrangement that everything is hooked on these big, stupid batteries called stars, and everything must work toward efficiency, which increases complexity, which increases energy consumption, thus entropy
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by Comevius 5y ago
Substantially overstating risks, and often making them up is what Dr. Robert Malone does for money. He is not a scholar, he is a grifter. Freedom of expression should never be freedom of harmful expression or freedom of consequences.
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by Comevius 5y ago
Hats of to The Guardian, their coverage of the climate crisis is excellent. I sincerely hope that they will be able to keep up the good work, because factual coverage is becoming a rarity.
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by Comevius 5y ago
HEPA filters can only filter out larger particles, many viruses, bacteria, mold spores and volatile organic compounds are not affected, and consequently neither bioweapons. Luckily bioweapons are not commonly used, so this marketing probabl
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by Comevius 5y ago
Of course they are promoting hodling to the moon, the entire thing rests on the tenet that people should never cash out. It's a zero-sum game where the greater fools end up holding the bag.
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by Comevius 5y ago
Great post, I almost forgot the ICO craze. I wish people would stop pushing crypto, it's disappointing to see them shilling for something so stupid, useless and harmful.
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by Comevius 5y ago
If you need a blockchain bring it to a server farm somewhere where energy is cheap, DigitalOcean will just eat up all your profit. If you need a database PostgreSQL can serve a lot more than a thousand users for a price of a salami sandwitc
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This site has a loading bar and it takes forever.
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by Comevius 5y ago
Potentially it would connect people together, which means new opportunities no matter where you are. But I think these companies ultimately don't have what it takes to make it work. They might figure it out, but a lot can go wrong. I&#
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by Comevius 5y ago
For one cryptocurrencies don't attain better wealth distribution than traditional economies. Crypto is now a pissing contest between the 1% and the 5%. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbloc.2021.7

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