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by gfodor 5y ago
You know how most web2 sites never delete data, but just flag it as hidden? The web3 argument is to create systems whereby this is the norm, when one chooses, with the lowest layer being durable and immutable, but a variety of higher level
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by gfodor 5y ago
At this point the end of human civilization and the end of the chain of technologies that began with Bitcoin probably will be the same event.
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by gfodor 5y ago
That’s helpful to understand. I’ve done a few contract jobs and they all had the characteristic of the feeling outlined in my post.
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by gfodor 5y ago
Contracting dials engineering work all the way up on some things but all the way down on others. You’re basically a hired gun. If you consider building software a creative pursuit you want to be connected to personally, and working on teams
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by gfodor 5y ago
I don’t disagree that is why I used the term risk-adjusted
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by gfodor 5y ago
Yea, it’s clear that even saying the world “Trump” triggers people enough that you stand to get more signal in responses if you avoid writing it. Don’t shoot the messenger, I don’t have TDS.
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by gfodor 5y ago
I have no such obligation nor a strong opinion. The author of the article said they don’t work. The burden you state is on them, not me. The passage you quoted had an “if” in front of it on purpose.
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by gfodor 5y ago
> Travel bans are not evidence-based: It may seem like travel bans for individual countries are a necessary step, but I cannot stress enough that they do not work. This one point compromised the article for me. The standard for “working”
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by gfodor 5y ago
Seems like a bad take since we already know the vaccine immunity is reduced with time.
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by gfodor 5y ago
People like to have mementos from events and show them off. See also: t-shirts, photographs, commemorative coins, plaques. This is just a digital analog. Not complicated and I’d argue not worth being angry over.
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by gfodor 5y ago
For a crypto-skeptic, this is actually a stunning admission: "Any application that could be done on a blockchain could be better done on a centralized database. Except crime." If you acknowledge this, then you acknowledge that cry
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by gfodor 5y ago
It turns out in history lots of people committed crimes where the evil party was not the criminal, but the state deeming their actions criminal.
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by gfodor 5y ago
My point is that it will be distinguishable from a community or club, but will also be distinguishable from a typical nation state.
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by gfodor 5y ago
I’m aware that there are international copyright laws but they are far from universal if that’s taken to mean human society on Earth.
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by gfodor 5y ago
Ah fair. I guess I can’t know if the OP was pulling in an assumption that people would be tied to a single monarch, given historical monarchies were based on physical dominions.
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by gfodor 5y ago
You seem determined to think with analogies. If my attempt above didn’t help you understand why people are paying tons of money for these things, I’m afraid I’ve run out of ways to help.
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by gfodor 5y ago
Satoshi shipped and published simultaneously.
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by gfodor 5y ago
Sure, that’d be a cult, not a monarchy. You join a cult. You’re born into a monarchy.
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by gfodor 5y ago
I think whenever you see someone say "owning media" you should re-write it in your brain as "owning the only author-signed copy of media" - that's probably the most effective rewrite that maximizes the utility of an
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by gfodor 5y ago
I think your analysis is largely correct. Fundamentally, the idea of a network state is a relatively inductive synthesis of the plausible emergent dynamics of several new technologies. Specifically, crypto and VR/AR seem to be importan
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by gfodor 5y ago
> Yay! Monarchy! Network states will only be like monarchy if you assume everyone will be a member of a single one and that it is impossible to leave the one you are a member of. Which is to say it will be nothing like monarchy: people w
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by gfodor 5y ago
The person you are replying to said there are key vulnerabilities that can be eliminated via decentralization, which is true, not that all vulnerabilities can be eliminated, which is self evident.
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by gfodor 5y ago
It’s probably not a good idea to lean into definitions for your mental model of what a network state is/will be. At various stages of growth it will have similarities to clubs, organizations, societies, communities, nation states, and
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by gfodor 5y ago
When it comes to physical land and real estate then I agree there is a pretty natural definition of “at large” - the sovereignties the land is located within. For other things like copyright and other extra-physical forms of ownership that
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by gfodor 5y ago
No, there are already a variety of uses of the term ownership. For example, copyright ownership, license ownership, or physical ownership. There isn’t a single definition, and the definitions of ownership have always been contextual and evo
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by gfodor 5y ago
> But what prevents me from simply taking the source image and simply minting my own NFT and displaying it? Because the NFT isn't just a pointer to an image, it's a tuple that also includes which wallet address is granting you
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by gfodor 5y ago
It has as much to do with NFTs as your example has to do with your parking lot, which is not nothing. The point is if 1M people all agreed to give a free milkshake to people who parked in your parking lot, the parking lot is pretty importan
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by gfodor 5y ago
I agree a lot is lost in the noise due to presumption about what the other side means when they’re using “ownership.”
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by gfodor 5y ago
I used meta because I assumed you’d be aware of what I was referring to instead of cryptovoxels, sommium space, or webaverse. If you grant that the meta example would be useful if it exists, then we’d just be haggling over if eg cryptovoxel
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by gfodor 5y ago
Most of the stuff going on in crypto like you state defies analogy, and in the end, will be used as the grounding example of future analogies.

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