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by sdiacom 4y ago
I have never worked in a company directly funded through advertising dollars, either. But I have worked in companies that make software for the marketing people to bother their advertising-found customers with, companies that make softwar
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Is it really surprising? Our primary role in society is to distort the internet, a platform who could be used for the most outstanding purposes of cooperation and advancement of the collective human condition, into an increasingly restricti
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by sdiacom 4y ago
I don't really like CSS either, but I suspect that, like I did, OP has half-learned "enough CSS to be dangerous" from the era before flexbox and grid. I think it's worth pointing out to someone with this knee-jerk reacti
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by sdiacom 4y ago
I see no obvious reason why software cannot be both reliable and changeable. Whether software that is reliable but not changeable (or software that is not reliable but changeable) is good software will depend on what the requirements are fo
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by sdiacom 4y ago
This is a good thing. The more outwardly toxic the reaction against cryptocurrency grifts becomes, the less outreach these ideas will have, and the less people will be affected by them. At its core, it's a form of herd immunity. You do
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Distributed programmable Turing machines are indeed very powerful. We're talking through a network of distributed programmable Turing machines right now. It does not involve a blockchain.
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by sdiacom 4y ago
I agree with you completely, the "blockchain" term is confusing, and by the definition I'm using, Git would also be a sort of blockchain. The more that blockchain (the grift) expands, the more that the meaning of blockchain (
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Thankfully, no. I don't think that's a requirement for a blockchain, though.
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Most of us were very interested in cryptocurrencies at some point in our lives. At some point, we have to accept that things are not what we think they could or should be . They're just what they are . If I build weapons for freedo
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by sdiacom 4y ago
So do you believe they opened talks with the people working on a word processor in order to "[deepen] their understanding of cryptographic primitives"? Is that what the LibreOffice blog post is about? Cryptographic primitives? It
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Per the Wikipedia article: > User content in SSB is organized as an append-only sequence of immutable messages, where messages cryptographically sign adjacent messages for the purpose of guaranteeing unforgeabilitity of the sequences as
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by sdiacom 4y ago
They are talking about crypto, though. What do you think the Ethereum foundation does? Wax poetry about Merkle trees?
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Correct, but the word "blockchain" has two meanings. You're talking about the technology known as blockchain. The blogpost is not about the technology known as blockchain, it's about the grift known as blockchain. Here&#
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Good. The mere mention of "combining existing successful open-source product with blockchain" should get about the same reaction as "combining fruit bowls with metal spikes". This is a good thing, it means that people ar
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by sdiacom 4y ago
It's easy to be "less wrong", or "wrong less often", by not predicting a recession in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007/2008, 2011 and 2013. Yet it is not any more useful.
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Ah, that would be interesting to see. I wonder, where would the money coming from for this fund? Would it be real money, or magic beans money? What does it mean for a financial product to be "otherwise strong" when it is "in
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Because letting the fake crypto economy go to zero has no tangible effects on the real world, while letting stocks and housing go to zero has very real, very negative effects on people's lives.
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Ideally, yes. But if we haven't figured out a way around the whole "too big to fail" thing, let's not bail out the fake economy along with the real economy.
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by sdiacom 4y ago
My understanding is that banks have invested directly to some extent in the safer end of crypto (Bitcoin) and indirectly on more risky stuff, through funding crypto hedge funds and the like. I don't have any sources that I trust at han
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by sdiacom 4y ago
> Earlier at the same event, CZ [said] the crypto industry “will be fine,” and there was “significant interest” in his proposal for a crypto recovery fund. Oh hell no. I'd rather let crypto collapse, take the banks down with them, a
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Is the difficulty of running a company proportional to the technical difficulty of the problems it attempts to solve? I believe there's a lot more to running a company than finding a solution to a technical problem without killing anyo
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by sdiacom 4y ago
I'm not so sure about this. I don't have a college degree, but I don't think the issue with crypto/defi/web3 is a lack of understanding of distributed systems or cryptography. I'd say they're doing alright
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by sdiacom 4y ago
I would be wary of groups that rely in a strong in-group/out-group separation, where the outsiders can't understand the truthfulness and inherent value of an ideology relying on a complex web of interrelated concepts, while the in
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by sdiacom 4y ago
I hang out in spaces for people entering tech, and I see the crypto advocates and grifters creeping in and around these spaces. It's extremely successful. Lately, I'm even seeing crypto grifts specifically aimed at people entering
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by sdiacom 4y ago
This blog post already puts way more thought into whatever "web3" is than web3 advocates do. Everything must be web3 because web3 is cool, it's the future, it's got electrolytes, it's what plants crave. It's a
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Isn't buying political influence with money what most people with absurd amounts of money do? I don't like it one bit either, but it's hardly unique to SBF. With SBF, there seems to be this attempt at drawing guilt-by-associa
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Not to subtract from your point at all, but newer versions of Git allow you to use `--staged` as a synonym for `--cached`. That this is the default behaviour still makes no sense, but at least the name does.
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by sdiacom 4y ago
A country like the economic and industrial powerhouse of the European Union? Yes, I think they're doing fine without business owners who are not interested in being business literate in the market they intend to participate in.
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by sdiacom 4y ago
The only currently existing purpose of those things is to trade scam tokens for other scam tokens, which makes them effectively meta-scams. What I mean is that, like Ethereum, they're not scams in itself, but their only real-world use-
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by sdiacom 4y ago
As someone with a similar-ish position to yours, I think by the time someone figures out how to build something useful with this technology, the terminology of cryptocurrencies (blockchain, "defi", NFTs and whatever a "web3&q

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