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by nwah1 6y ago
People were using the internet for useful things from pretty much day 1, and technology adoption curves have only compressed over time. It may have took a decade or two for the internet to become popular, but it only took a few years for sm
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You can pay artists without a blockchain. No actual benefit is provided to this concept by adding one.
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The difference between then and now is that they have given up attempting to use blockchains for anything, and simply now claim it is a "store of value." In other words, they've embraced that it is a ponzi scheme, and learned
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Microsoft has a lot of history building platforms for novices to produce functional systems. This one seems to be going in an open source direction, and building upon web standards. This gives it a much better chance of success. Obviously i
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This is indeed a killer feature. You would never be able to load a Microsoft Access ACCDB file into version control and extend it in any way beyond the limitations of the Access runtime. This provides a path to convert a rapid prototype int
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by nwah1 6y ago
The date of the provenance of the coin would be possible to note on the ledger, and cross-reference with the hashrate at the time to determine how much capital would be needed to mine the coin. Which in turn poses the question of where that
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by nwah1 6y ago
The only answer that makes any sense is that you can do things that are otherwise illegal or banned by major companies. But the drawbacks are plentiful, even for this sort of use case. And this use case doesn't get easier with a whole
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Same.
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Were you being ironic?
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>The reckless, degraded, and often vicious members of society, tend to increase at a quicker rate than the provident and generally virtuous members. Or as Mr. Greg puts the case: “The careless, squalid, unaspiring Irishman multiplies lik
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Most of humanity lives in urban settings. The UN in 2018 estimated 55% of humanity lives in urban settings. The EU estimated 76%. https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/news/how-our-planet-became-more-...
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Exactly. Spot price and "market cap" are meaningless for something with purely speculative value. The relevant figure is total paid-in, minus total withdrawn, to be more precise. And probably we can't know, given that entitie
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Transportation and logistics could've been handled differently. There was an article recently about pneumatic tube delivery of mail. Trash collection, package delivery, etc could've been delivered more like water. Via pipes. You w
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Or maybe we should hold off on paving over the Earth's surface, and recognize that cars are dangerous, noisy, state-subsidized machines that have created an ugly culture full of strip malls, big box stores, and drive thru fast food cha
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The volume is fake, which is the point. They want you to believe they are equivalent to dollars, and this fake money comprises the majority of purchase orders for all coins. If the spot price of the fake money falls to an accurate price (no
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The false data from exchanges likely is key to the belief that these coins have value, and thus affects the data even from exchanges that aren't noticeably faking data.
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Hardly. Barely a single actual piece of supporting evidence was given. It is left as an unstated assumption that we already believe Nixon was a heinous individual, without pointing out a single actual flaw. Just a series of insults.
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The only reason your statement here doesn't seem completely absurd is because you are invoking an issue which people have an acute emotional reaction on, to the point where even something which would be viewed as paranoid in another se
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Why is it important that peoples' intentions are obvious in every piece of writing? Journalists, anthropologists, and plenty of others strive towards rhetorical neutrality intentionally, and just as someone can be a citizen scientist,
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What you are talking about is a typical Malthusian understanding of reality. At some level, there are physical limits that cannot be exceeded. On a practical level, those limits are vastly beyond what we can currently comprehend or use, and
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The Personal Responsibility Vortex is a decent explanation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjNRtrZjkfE
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The inconvenience of existing services boils down mainly to issues such as ensuring that fraud and terrorism and such are prevented. Society intentionally added those hurdles. A new technology that has ignored the regulatory structure is no
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Just because traditional combustion engines can't do it doesn't mean much. More powerful nuclear thermal engines, direct fusion engines, etc are in development. There's other possibilities.
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Looks like a new switch for the high end mechanical keyboard market.
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Seems more practical to use conventional transport to go to and from the rig, such as a helicopter. A crash with a rocket is both more likely and more devastating, and thus should happen away from population centers. Even if the return trip
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It seems as if the virtual omniscience of the internet makes subcultures impossible since there is no mystery anymore. Subcultures were a primary driver of all this cultural churning through the decades. Greasers, hippies, metalheads, punks
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This all hinges on exchanges reporting USDT trades as if they are USD trades. This is only plausible if the spot price of Tether remains at $1. They will need to regularly inject money to keep the spot price of Tether at $1, but as you say
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He was the founder of COMDEX which many here should remember.
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ACH is free to the user, convenient, safe, well understood, and the energy requirements aren't insane. Any banks foolish enough to process cryptocurrency transactions will have to meet all the same banking requirements for anti-moneyla
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There's lots of things that sound good on paper. People have been working on things like fusion energy for decades. Actually demonstrating a breakthrough is very different. That people were unimpressed until the point of demonstration

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