atweiden

43 ms·

241.
by atweiden 5y ago
> America has poor control of its international borders and would be unconstitutional, not just unpopular, to lock down with a right of freedom of movement from state to state. It was also arguably “unconstitutional” [1] for Australian s
242.
by atweiden 5y ago
People in these EV conversations tend to underappreciate the magic of simply being able to pull into a gas station in “AnywhereTown” with an ICE vehicle, top up the tank in less than 15 minutes, and then drive another 500 miles or whatever.
243.
by atweiden 5y ago
> “Redneck” is a political slander as bad as “thug”. I enjoy the country lifestyle. And frankly, living somewhere peaceful and quiet with ample acreage and privacy, and little to no air, light or noise pollution is a lifestyle that is in
244.
by atweiden 5y ago
> but a downside of isolation turns out to have been that, now we are effectively Covid free here in Melbourne, hospitals are filling up due to (sometimes serious) other diseases, including cancer, that people left untreated during the v
245.
by atweiden 5y ago
> Humans are the first biosphere-changing organism that can actually think about what we do, and maybe not go off the deep end. Maybe not go off the deep end? David Attenborough would like to have a word [1]. [1]: https://en
246.
by atweiden 5y ago
Given how thoroughly humanity has polluted this planet seemingly entirely for its own selfish gain, surely from the perspective of “nature” the extinction of humanity would be no great loss. > Anything we do and anything we build, is nat
247.
by atweiden 6y ago
“One week of pumping” isn’t true at all: DOGE originally broke into the top 10 list off the back of the GME hype several weeks ago. This is now the second time it’s happened. In addition, DOGE has undeniably flippened numerous B-rate defi c
248.
by atweiden 6y ago
We’ve been constantly hearing about the importance of “innovation” in the cryptocurrency space. Meanwhile, Dogecoin hits $50B after having been all but dead for a solid decade. Makes you wonder just how important Defi’s so called “innovatio
249.
by atweiden 6y ago
> Inequality is only bad if you're in a zero-sum game The French Revolution disproves this.
250.
by atweiden 6y ago
> And so on and on. While I would still recommend everyone to pursue the dreams over never trying to do so - being poor is the single most powerful force that prevents people from doing that. IMO this is what offsets the dystopia of the
251.
by atweiden 6y ago
In a hypothetical society which leveled the playing field and started over again from scratch, I’d expect the two most important factors in wealth accumulation to be 1) an aesthetically pleasing facial bone structure and 2) g-factor intelli
252.
by atweiden 6y ago
> All calculations of this sort are fatally flawed because they assume all the coins in one address are owned by one person. But don’t the calculations equally assume coins spread out across multiple addresses aren’t owned by one perso
253.
by atweiden 6y ago
> I came here to say this exact same thing. There is seriously interesting and useful real work being done under the umbrella term "decentralized finance" or DeFi. It is hard to cut through the noise of get rich quick schemes,
254.
by atweiden 6y ago
> Ethereum/Cardano and other newer chains/tech are the actual "reason" for crypto Not according to the Bitcoin genesis block, without which Ethereum never would’ve existed.
255.
by atweiden 6y ago
> I'm a little ignorant about Raku, so take my comments with a grain of salt, but... That makes two of us. Albeit, I began working with Raku in 2015, when it was still called Perl 6. What follows is just my opinion, so take my comme
256.
by atweiden 6y ago
This could easily turn into a situation where Twitter / IG profiles contain NFT inventories, which is scary to think about. Social media looks to be on the verge of transitioning into something catastrophically superficial. The pendulu
257.
by atweiden 6y ago
Tether and Tether copycats command the lion’s share of stablecoin usage. While it’s true Tether isn’t a speculative store of value — custodial risk of Tether notwithstanding — it’s also an IOU, not a cryptocurrency. Contrary to popular beli
258.
by atweiden 6y ago
I'd just like to mention popol here [1]: Popol is designed as a minimal ergonomic wrapper around poll, built for use cases such as peer-to-peer networking, where you typically have no more than a few hundred concurren
259.
by atweiden 6y ago
> Then came the bitcoin core wars. Today bitcoin is a technological dead end, unable to evolve. Yet in spite of this, “speculative store of value” remains the only real world use case of cryptocurrency, full stop. No cryptocurrency has r
260.
by atweiden 6y ago
> I think we're going to see a worldwide disintegration of governments and then sort of a feudal anarchy - basically the Syrian Civil War, but spread across the globe. Your perspective on this seems to be a bit U.S.-centric. No deve
261.
by atweiden 6y ago
> In service of the BTC network, which has what utility? The safest safe haven asset. A global currency of fixed supply controlled by computer algorithms. > There are quite a number of criminal or at least grey market uses for BTC. Cr
262.
by atweiden 6y ago
> I would be ok with Bitcoin having had a 10% pre-mine if it also had a pre-sale, rather than limiting it to those technical enough to mine it on day one. “On day one” it was possible to CPU mine Bitcoin on any ordinary Windows PC using
263.
by atweiden 6y ago
I never see popol [1] mentioned in these discussions: Popol is designed as a minimal ergonomic wrapper around poll, built for use cases such as peer-to-peer networking, where you typically have no more than a few hundred c
264.
by atweiden 6y ago
> I'm talking about parasitism. Much if not all of the anti–Proof-of-Work narrative and the debunking thereof can be characterized by Brandolini’s law [1]. ITT “Sure, the overwhelming majority of `$COIN` was premined by insiders or
265.
by atweiden 6y ago
> What is the equivalent of parasites in blockchain-land? It’s the people insinuating impropriety of Proof-of-Work mining in the hopes of less than transparently promoting a competing premined/ICO’d Proof-of-Stake cryptocurrency san
266.
by atweiden 6y ago
In 2018, 50-60% of Monero hashrate was rumored to be from secret ASICs. How “successful” at warding off ASICs could hard forking a coin’s hashing algorithm really be if it doesn’t stop the ASIC manufacturers from building ASICs for any give
267.
by atweiden 6y ago
> PoS at least gives everyone an even playing field; big or small you get the same percentage return. Your cost basis in the underlying coin is by far the largest determinant of ROI. It’s like the old real estate adage: “money is made on
268.
by atweiden 6y ago
> In either case you can use your accumulating capital to accumulate more capital -- PoW just means consuming actual resources to do so, as you fold your earnings into more hardware and electricity to earn more. Proof-of-Work miners have
269.
by atweiden 6y ago
> A very simple example is that it could partially solve the problem of verifying digital identities. If I follow/friend your NFT based identity, and various virtual realms (games, social media, virtual spaces) integrate with that &
270.
by atweiden 6y ago
Just to add some colour to this: This. I moved outside of Portland a few months ago after three serious incidents on my property involving violent vagrants. In all three cases the police took over an hour to show up and di

More ›