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by prohobo 5y ago
The frenzy is caused by the erosion of previous barriers to entry for investing (the same thing is happening on the traditional stock market), as well as the slow collapse of the middle class, leading people to taking risks and hoping for m
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That's not what my point was about. The point was autonomous services, and I also outlined an idea for one that would have real-world benefit (if properly designed). You can argue that there are no "useful" services yet, but
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The first two are not gambling. There is no mechanism where you can lose your pooled funds. Don't believe me? Read the fucking contracts. How much clearer can this be? As for the rest of your comment, I think your diagnosis is wrong.
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Autonomous services (similar to vending machines): See PoolTogether, a service which before blockchain would be considered almost certainly a scam, and would be nearly impossible to audit. Because it's on Ethereum the contract is publi
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This is the guy who has been writing the same things about crypto for the past 2 years. He makes a lot of extremely arrogant assumptions then extrapolates from them to weave a narrative that confirms the biases of his readership. I'm n
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What? I haven't actually! Is that a key phrase they use in the show?
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Any proof of this claim?
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Can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs, y'know? I'd like to believe that people will stop using Windows now, but I think at best they might just lose some market share over the next 5 years.
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How is it ironic? They're not at all arguing about "how to not contract Covid", they're talking about something completely different. It'd be more ironic if doctors went to a conference stating that vaccinating is t
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I'm not sure what the point of this is, are we expecting them to not get Covid if their arguments are supposedly correct? Pretty sure people who are against Covid vaccination are not saying that if you are against it then you'll m
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They'd probably stop pirating if it caused film culture to collapse; whereas so far, the only agents currently destroying film culture are production/licensing companies like Disney. It's a social activity after all, and soci
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While your comment is needlessly inflammatory, you're right that this kind of behavior is considered "backwards escape" and is ultimately harmful towards the aims of dissenters. The right way to challenge totalitarianism is t
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First dose is not sufficient for access to restricted activities, and the second dose requires a waiting period of 2-3 weeks AFAIK. Then there's the likely possibility of requiring a third dose ( https://www.thetimes.co.uk&#x
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I'm not hating on him, I like him almost as much as John Carmack. I think he brings criticism on himself though because he's very negative on some topics, obviously not making friends. While he's doing his niche work he'
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Hackernews works. I respect the mods and appreciate their work keeping everything running. We're living in increasingly volatile times, and while a lot of us are stubborn and hard of hearing - myself included - and people like Jonathan
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They know which parts people skip, the analytics is quite granular and viewable in their dashboards.
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I kind of object to this because it's directly messing with creators' efforts. Obviously I'm not telling people not to use it, but I think it's worth thinking about the channels/creators you enjoy - especially if th
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Conspiracy and Social Struggle(illwill.com)
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They're not controversial right now, they're politicized - people have to agree on the reality before they can start arguing about whether it's good or not. Most of what you stated isn't even epistemically agreed upon, a
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Nice side-step, you're right the interventions have nothing to do with it (even though all of the articles, besides the first, explicitly state that it's the core cause). Where do you think the inflation is coming from? I wouldn
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Rapidly shifting ethics, scientism, totalitarian discourse, and stripping people's rights - all over a background of harming people while claiming to help them - is not what I consider "inconvenience". I consider it stupid an
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We don't really know. A lot of work has gone into trying to minimize incentive for 51% attacks though, and it continues. "Fork off" is a classic argument, that the attacker may take over the chain but then cause a fork where
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by prohobo 5y ago
I got the virus in late January 2020, before any lockdowns or vaccines. Haven't been ill since then. Now I'm hanging out in the periphery and listening to vaccinated people calling me a burden while the entire western world falls
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I would say less technically savvy people probably use more electricity, not less. And you're assuming that you're the average American consumer. There are probably old toasters and electrical heaters that contribute significant
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I think of it more in terms of a highly secure and decentralized online videogame. Most people will be happy just to play the game, some people will start guilds and min/max, some people will try to cheat. When someone is found cheatin
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I actually looked into it and got the quote wrong, it's not Amazon Alexas globally, it's all "always on devices" in America; including computers, gaming consoles, etc. From googling and "This Machine Greens" do
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I don't dispute that this is mostly theoretical. But I wouldn't say it's naive, because we know that when people buy into systems they follow the rules as best they can. The problem occurs when others take advantage of the sy
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I don't think you quite grasp that people are already building blockchains for government use. You keep saying "why haven't they done it yet then?" while they are actively working on it. I don't know why it took so
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No, they didn't. Most people just make inflammatory comments or make extremely complex "gotcha" claims that aren't true, which need both parties to be cooperative to resolve. I was busy trying to make arguments against w
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You're wrong about "lacking initiative and the detailed procedures" - that's exactly what blockchains were created for: As a response to opaque and unreliable systems. This is the solution to a systematic problem in gove

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