Devasta

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by Devasta 5y ago
Hundreds of millions in possession of bitcoin maybe, but the number using it for any legitimate purpose is a miniscule fraction of that. The vast majority are in it under the assumption that bigger rubes will come along later to buy it off
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by Devasta 5y ago
Lightning network still requires you to have on chain transactions to open your connections though, it's not nearly the fix that people pretend it is.
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by Devasta 5y ago
Let's ignore that Bitcoin is climate arson, and that its only used for money laundering and buying drugs. Bitcoin has a max throughput of 7 transactions per second. It's utter lunacy to suggest that it could function as a currency
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by Devasta 5y ago
Bitcoin cannot go green, it's designed to be as wasteful as possible. If I own a polluting coal plant mining coins and suddenly get my hands on an equivalent amount of green wind energy, why would I switch off the coal plant when I cou
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by Devasta 5y ago
Web standards stopped mattering in 2004, these days they are just whatever Chrome implements, and like Mozilla they are kept around so that Google can pretend they don't control the web.
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by Devasta 5y ago
Electrons advance into the desktop space means that MS has to put resources into enhancing the performance of Chromium on their platforms anyway, so really even if they wanted to carry on with Trident/EdgeHTML they'd end up compet
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by Devasta 5y ago
Web standards stopped mattering in 2004, these days the only browsers that need to be considered are Chrome and mobile Safari, everything else from other browsers to standards bodies is just an exercise in pretending those two browsers don&
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by Devasta 6y ago
Web standards are whatever Google says web standards are, and will always be adjusted to whatever Chrome does.
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by Devasta 6y ago
Honestly, when you look at the massive energy consumption compared to the tiny transaction volume, Bitcoin should be banned. Whatever about other cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin is climate arson.
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by Devasta 6y ago
This would be an appalling thing to happen to the web, so therefore it absolutely will be a real product in the next 5 years.
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by Devasta 7y ago
While I can appreciate its their project and they can do what ye want, at least have the fortitude to admit the 2.x API is depreciated. Please, no nonsense about compatibility builds, anyone who uses one of those might as well accept becomi
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by Devasta 8y ago
...Black people couldn't vote in the US 70 years ago.
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by Devasta 8y ago
But how would you do something like that with companies like Google? So many organisations probably rely on GCP, GMail etc that you couldn't stop them from operating without stutting huge numbers of businesses too.
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by Devasta 9y ago
But most protests make things a bit worse while they are happening, even in relatively benign ways as disrupting traffic. If they don't disrupt the status quo in some way then they are hardly going to be noticed.
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by Devasta 10y ago
>Why is it bad when businesses find that conditions for them constantly get better everywhere? If those conditions are getting better at the expense of the local populace, then it most certainly can be bad.