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901.
by skohan 5y ago
It's much, much less efficient if you measure the utility of the banking system vs. the utility of cryptocurrency.
902.
by skohan 5y ago
I think it's a bit disingenuous to use 2008 as the point of reference. Bitcoin didn't really reach the point of public consciousness before the 2017 boom (which was largely attributable to price manipulation. Prior to that the m
903.
by skohan 5y ago
Don't you think it could be aggressively regulated against? I doubt it could be completely stopped, but demand could be sharply reduced if using and mining cryptocurrency carried sharp legal penalties.
904.
by skohan 5y ago
I am not an expert, but I thought it was more like a few expensive decades than years. Intel is already in this business and they have only been able to fall farther behind TSM even given billions in investment.
905.
by skohan 5y ago
It's still mediated by the same bottlenecks right? NVidia would be able to produce more consumer GPU's if they weren't competing for capacity at TSMC and Samsung
906.
by skohan 5y ago
It's a different case. TSMC isn't colluding with Samsung to limit the supply of silicon, they're simply succeeding where others have failed.
907.
by skohan 5y ago
As it should be. Without competition, and with demand outstripping supply, TSMC is free to find the price the market will bear.
908.
by skohan 5y ago
I think you're vastly overestimating how much influence "customer complaints" could ever have over the global monetary system. Regulators are much more on the side of MasterCard than they are on the side of disgruntled pornog
909.
by skohan 5y ago
How long until their customer service system gets flooded with questions about how to use cryptocurrency, and complaints from users who's funds got stolen from XYZ shady exchange. 99% of normal people find cryptocurrency strange and in
910.
by skohan 5y ago
Realistically it would take decades, or great strides in usability, for cryptocurrency to really reach the main stream to the point it could be considered a serious alternative for credit cards.
911.
by skohan 5y ago
Honestly that seems even more far-fetched. Visa and MasterCard are essentially a duopoly. Where on earth are customers going to flee to on bad pr?
912.
by skohan 5y ago
I am very much a cryptocurrency skeptic, but you could imagine a token which is only used as a medium of exchange. I.e. you convert your USD into the token immediately before making the payment, and the recipient converts it back to USD mi
913.
by skohan 5y ago
There was also a massive PR campaign against it. I grew up in the 90's and there was an insane amount of anti-smoking messaging to kids my age.
914.
by skohan 5y ago
IIRC the "new coke" was exactly that. They never intended to change coke, but loss aversion was an effective lever in wresting mindshare away from the pepsi challenge.
915.
by skohan 5y ago
I don't know if they have much to worry about. Where would those creators move? Is there any even remotely comparable platform in terms of user-base and pop-culture penetration? If you were worried about stability would you really f
916.
by skohan 5y ago
If anything I thought maybe it was a publicity stunt.
917.
by skohan 5y ago
Partly due to challenges with the landscape right?
918.
by skohan 5y ago
There’s no reason these security measures couldn’t be opt-out
919.
by skohan 5y ago
As well as being a carpenter
920.
by skohan 5y ago
As far as I understand, MIRS is continuously reappearing in humans due to reservoirs in camel populations, and it's only able to be controlled du to vigilant monitoring in vulnerable areas.
921.
by skohan 5y ago
The existence of a greater social ill doesn't preclude the existence of another. I tend to think the harm from social media is more related to negative externalities: i.e. political instability, loss of social cohesion, and the spread
922.
by skohan 5y ago
You may be right about the harm with sugar. I think it is probably way more toxic than we give it credit for, but it's difficult to imagine any kind of regulation around it since it's so ingrained in society. When NYC for exampl
923.
by skohan 5y ago
From their point of view, they might see the rise in a gig-work as a threat against their workers. After all, if Uber and Lyft are allowed to replace unionized taxi drivers with underpaid "private contractors" with no labor right
924.
by skohan 5y ago
I guess they might also be running it on private servers, and cheap out on their hosted version for customers
925.
by skohan 5y ago
> I'm not fussed what the DSM says, especially about anything touching on psychology. I have heard that it's decisions carry a lot of weight in insurance and pharma circles. The DSM is literally the consensus of the American Ps
926.
by skohan 5y ago
I don't know why you are conflating addiction with life-threatening physical withdrawal. Gambling addiction is categorized as an addiction according to the DSM, and no definition of addiction that I know of, clinical or colloquial, li
927.
by skohan 5y ago
> That’s where i disagree with your characterisation of the difference between chess and slot machines. It depend entirely on the person involved. Folks who can enjoy responsibly shouldn’t penalised because there are others who can’t. Ar
928.
by skohan 5y ago
Couldn't agree more. I have to use JIRA at work, and it's absolutely awful. Every action takes up to a couple seconds to execute, many tasks have no way to be automated or done in batches, and some seemingly simple actions requir
929.
by skohan 5y ago
I don't know, it seems to me there was a continuous trend in pro-corporate neoliberal policies you can trace back to the 80's or mid-70's. Can you give any evidence of what changed after 9/11 in terms of pro-corporate po
930.
by skohan 5y ago
What does pro-corporate policy have to do with 9/11?

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