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by dmitriid 4y ago
It looks like the recent VW vehicles have all defaulted to this worst kind of gray: it's not just lifeless, it's devoid of light and expression and joy. I see it in all new Skodas and quite a few VWs. I want to ask the designers W
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> I don't need to care about the "absolute vast majority" of the tokens to make use of Uniswap I didn't say "absolute vast majority of tokens". I said "absolute vast majority of things happening on unis
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> Writing abstracted enough code often requires inventing new languages to hide the complexity behind abstractions. Human attention may pick out symbols more easily, but human comprehension benefits from things that actually have mea
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> Like most anti-crypto authors he still misses the forest for the trees. Like most crypto-maximalists you've missed the point, the article, the trees, the forest, and the entire planet Earth > Trusting software is better than tr
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Yes. And the solution to that is simplifying and digitising them. Blockchains are not required. I mean, if Moldova figured it out, so can "many other jurisdictions".
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> The real estate thing is interesting: transfer time goes down from around 4 months in the UK to a couple of days. The only delay is the KYCAMLCTFPEPOFACT checking: if that's done as a pre-clearing step the transfer of real estate
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Hybrid apps: voting, govt registries, corporate accounting, supply chain apps, tracking access auth. Yeah, no. Literally none of these benefit from blockchains. Moreover, blockchains make many of these things worse . This was already
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> is creating a decentralized, deflationary money Deflationary money means "whoever got in early and got the most money is going to be ultra-rich forever, unlike the poor sods who get in years/generations from now"
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There's no such thing as "liquidity" in these fantasy land tokens. The absolute vast majority of things happening on uniswap is indistinguishable from Forex and flash loans, only in these fantasy tokens.
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> chainlink etc Which are entirely dependent on centralised oracles etc. Hint: if there are only 2/5/10 centralised oracles providing you with data, no amount of fluffy "decentralised tamper-proof inputs" statements m
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> Its cheaper to develop and host your app on Cheaper than what ? That's the beauty of vague unverifiable statements like "for developers, there is no platform that realistically competes with 'web3 smart contract'.&
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> everything I wrote was about deploying smart contracts, and on a blockchain Yup. In a response to "Even if we pretend for a moment that there was some merit to the 'web3 smart contract', by now it should be painfully cle
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> the overhead costs are insanely low and are only one time for deployment with unlimited use, no other cloud deployment platform offers that Every cloud platform has a free tier that can probably handle the entirety of crypto, and then
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> This helps to coordinate human and financial capital, because rules can be programmed in the DAO or multisig "Rules can be programmed (in esoteric programming languages using new made up terms for everything)" and frictionles
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I can also write lists of things and pretend that long lists === list of value.
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> The value of decentralized platforms is that it gets rid of the tech bros and financial scams. Ah yes. No scams or tech bros. Except the implicit blind trust in programs written in esoteric programming languages on esoteric VMs that ar
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Aren't they the same thing? Ah. In my mind Canvas refers to the 2D API, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Canvas_API Which is different and separate from WebGL, https:/&#x2
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by dmitriid 4y ago
"We want FSD some day and are working on it" is aiming high. Calling it's driver assist Autopilot, calling its software FSD, repeatedly saying "FSD is coming next year" is overpromising, misleading marketing and lyi
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> On the other hand you have Figma and Google Docs as examples of canvas-based applications that work well enough. At what cost? Google Docs is run a by a trillion-dollar corporation, they have the resources to rebuild it in canvas. Figm
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In addition to my other comment, there's also this, for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33861831
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> Here's how we know they're real threats - They changed their entire business strategy as a response to them. So, you don't know they are threats. > False. https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/which-com
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> No, you don't, and even if that was the case you can just throw a <canvas> tag on a page and render whatever custom UI you want to that Ah, yes. Canvas. Tell me, what is the API for canvas exposed to WASM (hint: there isn&#x
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> A quick search show plenty of articles talking about the limitations of webapps on iOS. Again: "PWAs" are a dozen different standards (or perhaps more). And everyone selects a different subset of them to call "the one tr
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"PWAs" are a dozen different standards. And everyone selects a different subset of them to call "the one true PWA". Apple has supported the absolute vast majority of them since forever. And they have literally nothing to
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> a WebGPU backed canvas WebGPU won't be available for a while. It's API is Javascript-only browser API. Canvas are only accessible through Javascript through the browser. Next question is: how are you going to accommodate acce
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> replacing the entire browser development stack. No more html, css, typescript, or JavaScript. And how is it going to do that when wasm has literally no access to anything, except through browser's HTML, CSS, Javascript etc.?
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> And if apple had allowed it to work in safari like it does on android, it might have made progress. WASM has been on Safari since version 11 released 5 years ago. Same year it became available on Chrome and Firefox.
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> Doesn't that throw all of HTML, CSS, etc out the window? It doesn't. Because those things are already in the browser. With WASM you'll need to download the entire runtime for your app before you're able to run anyth
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> "We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products that we make, and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution" - Tim Cook This applies to literally every s
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In Stockholm we're joking that as soon as there's a singe leaf on the tracks in autumn, trains are screwed. Wet leaves on the tracks are no joke, and can be hazardous, but the commuter trains have been quite badly mismanaged

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