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by jrsj 5y ago
You’re looking at it the wrong way. It’s not primarily a technology for transactions. Number of transactions doesn’t scale with the number of miners, the amount of value that can be securely stored in the network does. Environmental concern
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This isn’t just in India, I’ve seen this happen first hand in the U.S. in a majority Indian department before. With the added mess that comes with the people being fucked over also being the most likely to be here on an H1B visa so there wa
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by jrsj 5y ago
I honestly think keeping people in debt so they have to work more & for longer is considered a feature of the system by a majority of the people running it
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by jrsj 5y ago
Many now make room and board mandatory and when you factor that in with tuition, books, etc you can get to $25k total cost even with in-state tuition. I don’t know how common this is exactly but Ohio State does this for freshman and sophomo
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by jrsj 5y ago
I’m not an expert in this topic but to me this kind of seems like a big hand wavy extrapolation & it’s not clear how accurate any of the specific numbers in here are. In particular the corporate profits being cited are coming from ALL n
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by jrsj 5y ago
This would invite all sorts of workarounds. If accounting tricks and passing money between subsidiaries isn’t enough, then the last resort would be to buy the closest thing to liquid assets they could get away with. I guess this kind of law
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by jrsj 5y ago
Why would I ever willingly buy a vehicle that I’m not fully in control of and that can force me to pull over whenever it wants? False positives are an inevitability; the best you can do is make them infrequent. Still, I would prefer to not
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by jrsj 5y ago
This exactly. They use progressive language to create this image for themselves and their role is only to serve as controlled opposition and prevent any challenge to the current economic order from occurring. Being a Democrat these days is
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by jrsj 5y ago
In fact now that I think about it the only jokes I’ve heard about the opioid crisis have basically amounted to “lol white people are dying and they deserve it” despite the fact that this shit is killing everyone . So-called journalists hav
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by jrsj 5y ago
Waymo may be ahead but I’m not sure that’s good enough by itself. The largest manufacturers are all working on their own self driving systems. If Waymo software ends up shipping with Nissan, Jaguar/Land Rover, and Volvo products, that’
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by jrsj 5y ago
I didn’t say comedy specifically, no. But comedy should probably actually be funny and not feel like I’m being lectured to, which has become increasingly common. And at times comedy can cover even the darkest topics, that’s really up to t
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by jrsj 5y ago
Repeating a narrative that was crafted with a particular political intent is furthering that intent regardless of how you’re thinking about it internally. And unfortunately us Americans are really good at exporting our shittiest ideas every
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by jrsj 5y ago
If it were done well it would be one thing but it’s typically just thinly veiled (DNC) propaganda. Not much to be said on always climbing record fentanyl overdoses, class issues, etc though. If they were actually talking about anything of v
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by jrsj 5y ago
How is the Witcher woke? I actually haven’t really heard this before so I’m genuinely interested to hear your thoughts on it.
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For starters just looking at growth in the past year is very favorable for them, but look at the past 5 and they’re the weakest aside from Facebook and by a relatively small margin. Almost all of their growth has been post-COVID, so it’s ha
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by jrsj 5y ago
Google to me seems to be the one with the worst execution at the moment. For all of their spend in various areas when is the last time they’ve had a win? Their core business is still strong but they seem to have lost their ability to innova
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by jrsj 5y ago
Kind of silly to me the choice is FB when they are at least actively working to expand into new areas while Google is sort of just…existing
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by jrsj 5y ago
Decline doesn’t require people to stop using Google search. It just requires a lack of growth, and Google isn’t really doing much of anything innovative. At least FB sees stagnation as a threat and is responding accordingly, Google seems to
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by jrsj 5y ago
Facebook seems the most likely but that’s only if what they’re trying to do with Meta fails. Google on the other hand seems to have entirely lost their ability to innovate and it’s not clear to me that they’re even trying to do anything of
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by jrsj 5y ago
Ahh yeah I misread that a bit. Still I don’t necessarily think that’s accurate even regarding the VCs. Their investments and goals sort of run counter to the libertarian types in the crypto community who tend to be focused more on monetary
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by jrsj 5y ago
Everyone loves to say their politics are just common sense but characterizing all of crypto as “rich libertarians who see crypto as a way to protect their assets from the government” is an inherently political narrative and it simply isn’t
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by jrsj 5y ago
The only thing more annoying than libertarian crypto bros is progressives who don’t like crypto because people have made money off it or they see it as inherently right wing technology (the Soviet Union said that about computers originally,
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by jrsj 5y ago
The reason you see this is that the entire “web3” landscape is controlled by VCs. Also the underlying infra this stuff is running on isn’t very decentralized at all and with proof of stake it likely never will be. If you want true decentral
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by jrsj 5y ago
I don’t think those pushing this line are asking for our voluntary sacrifice. They’re just preparing us to swallow what’s going to be done to us – If they can’t maintain high growth anymore, they’ll settle for lower growth and compensate by
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by jrsj 5y ago
“Shrinking consumption” is just code for a transfer of wealth & income from consumers to asset holders. Meanwhile technology could potentially provide the opposite with the right approach. As others have mentioned, green energy as an ex
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It shouldn’t really matter, my understanding is that generally you’re running software that automatically mines the most profitable coin for a pool and get your profits in BTC. So as long as there is demand for GPU miners for something th
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by jrsj 5y ago
This is a common opinion but I think many miss the purpose of proof of work. You get compensated for making the network more resilient. Other systems do this to a lesser extent with a combination of proof of stake and validated, but at a tr
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by jrsj 5y ago
Relative to Linux desktop stuff in 2008, it’s not terrible. This stuff was never completed either so of course there’s obviously stuff that needs to be cleaned up. For its time and place it was decent.
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American “democracy” is a facade and none of these people work for you. They think of you as livestock. There isn’t any hope of this changing without challenging our corrupt government.
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The specific cases are less important than the overall trend which is social media companies using their control of who sees what to influence public opinion. It’s common to think in terms of users being banned or users being censored, but

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