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by dmitriid 4y ago
It unsurprising how you went from "could potentially scale to 1B users -- and nobody could stop it, this is new" to "of course it cannot scale, but this is still new" So what exactly is new, and how can it scale? Note: f
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> could potentially scale to 1B users -- and nobody could stop it. Some static assets would need to be tuned in a real App, to be hosted by a CDN like Cloudflare You've just show at least one way how it would be stopped. Who exactly
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Godwin's Law does not involve any rebuttals. Neither does reductio ad absurdum. You've managed to do both. Adieu.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> An even cursory reading of the list does not disqualify all Did i ever say all . Read what I write, not what you think I write. For the fourth time: vanishingly few goods or services that can be exchanged for crypto > anyone who
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> By your logic, Nazi Germany Mmm. Godwin's Law. I haven't seen one in the wild for a loooong time.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Apparently, I must be dreaming this entire list. I'll say this again: "In reality there are vanishingly few goods or services that can be exchanged for crypto." > Provided was a rather substantial, yet not exhaustive
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by dmitriid 4y ago
"Not if your country is under tyrannical or authoritarian rule and disallows access to basic financial services for some arbitrary reason." became "flee Brazil or Russia with financial assets". Why is it that "we&#x
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Point 2 is strictly false, crypto can be exchanged for goods or services on its own. In dreams, maybe. In reality there are vanishingly few goods or services that can be exchanged for crypto. For obvious reasons immediately obvious t
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Ownership of your funds, Which ends the moment that oppressive government makes you give up your keys. > This sort black and white thinking provides lacks a valuable analysis of actual power structures. The "blockchain is godse
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> imagine that database holds a lot of your money and you live in an oppressive regime That opressive regime holds: - your access to the internet (crypto requires continuous access to internet to function) - your access to exchange offic
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> controlled by no one, with standardized API's Controlled by no one, but suddenly standardized APIs exist. Who standardized them? Controlled by no one, but suddenly everyone is going to use those standardized APIs that appeared by
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> So you would assert that the use of centralized relational databases would would not reduce the cost and complexity of enforcing property rights, in comparison to the use of paper records? 1. No, I wouldn't assert that 2. It depen
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Yes - it is a solution to the problem of power and corruption. It's not. Question: who is the rightful owner of the marked land? See my comments in this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27212564 &g
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Why would a corrupt state agree to use a system resistant to their influence? Blockchain isn't resistant to their influence. Case in point: courts still exist. What's to stop me to get a court order showing I'm the rig
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> can reduce the cost and complexity of enforcing property rights and adjudicating contractual disputes to a meaningful extent No, they can't. A blockchain is, at best, a database. A database cannot do anything.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Weak institutions, corrupt legal systems, and low levels of trust undermine development and prevent people from building and maintaining wealth for themselves and their families. > For me, the promise of the blockchain is that it ca
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> It's about giving people slightly better odds of escaping abuse. It's about helping humanity. Save pontification for investors. Crypto is a first-world solution to mostly non-existent problems. "The poor unwashed and hud
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> in the beginning of the 21st century, some said cars are not for the masses. And there I was thinking that the stupid comparisons of crypto to cars or internet finally stopped. > And if it is worth it… that nobody knows Tell me you
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Since we literally build all of this our B.S. detection meter is really high. Oh no. The only thing that's high is our conviction that our BS meter is high. We fall prey to, come up with and promote as much BS as the next person.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Sublime is too expensive. $99 is too much. On the other hand I have 437 games in my Steam account and countless gadgets I don't use. I guess I can skip a couple of games and a gadget or two to pay for software I use.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
This could've been human-friendly nix. And then they went ahead and bolted NFTs onto it.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Who are you to say what's knowledge and what's not? Why can't I, a speaker in language X, buy books in that language outside of the country where this language is spoken on the same platform where it's sold. See e.g. a
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by dmitriid 4y ago
"an increase in illegal consumption over time is found to correlate with an increase in legal consumption and vice versa" In a study commissioned by Google: https://www.ivir.nl/publicaties/download/Global
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> That's still 70% to the author (and publishers, agents and other middlemen if the author chooses to hire them). Your mistake is putting the author first in this list.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> By glossing over important points and focusing on ones you feel you can argue against That's exactly what the person suggesting using VPN and encrypting file names is doing.
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Whatever your fears for Twitter future are, Mastodon is already that(twitter.com)
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Wow, 10 years before document.querySelectorAll() querySelectorAll wouldn't ever appear without jQuery which got its idea from Simon's idea. And even then querySelectorAll was so poorly implemented that it didn't even hav
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by dmitriid 4y ago
No. People who wouldn't pay otherwise now have easy and relatively cheap access which reduces the friction so much, it doesn't make sense to scour the web for keygens and cracks and what not. Now, with a gazillion streaming servic
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Is it a better Rust? The whole language evolution looks like "let's just throw things at the wall with random syntax, maybe it will stick" and "if syntax doesn't work, let's do random one-off constructs, and se
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Twitter is undoubtedly overstaffed. Their website is a trash fire that fails in spectacular ways to deliver the most basic funcionality inherent in the browser : show some text and some pictures. And it's been this way for years while

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