Cartonju

I'm curious to see how this tee shirt is received among Bitcoin maximalists. On one hand, it's Bitcoin positive, on the other hand, it uses Ethereum technology.

Writing an academic essay means fashioning a coherent set of ideas into an argument. Because essays are essentially linear—they offer one idea at a time—they must present their ideas in the order that makes most sense to a reader. Successfully structuring an essay means attending to a reader's logic.

Whether one agrees or disagrees, this is at least a coherent, well-written argument. Those are rare enough in crypto that it deserves credit on that basis alone.

It seems, though, like the author is prematurely dismissing a large and evolving sector of the crypto space. No rational investor thinks that every project is going to succeed in exactly its current form. Improvements will continue, and the projects that ultimately become mainstream household names will have developed a long way past today's versions. In that regard, the author's criticisms have merit regarding projects as they exist right now, but the question is really how polished can we reasonably expect such new ideas to be at this point? Being a work in progress is not the same thing as being fundamentally 'ill-suited' or a failure.

If final judgement is rendered solely based on where we are today then, frankly, all of crypto is a failure. That's a bit short-sighted, no?

Most fake news is generated by humans and then spread on social media. But the rise of robust systems such as OpenAI’s controversial GPT-2 point toward a future where AI-generated articles are close enough to the real thing to obfuscate nearly any issue.

Another source:

https://noyb.eu/three-gdpr-complaints-filed-against-grindr-t...

Research by the Norwegian Consumer Council (Forbrukerrådet) shows that many smartphone apps send highly personal data to thousands of advertising partners. The report uncovers how a large number of shadowy entities are receiving personal data about our interests, habits, and behavior, every time we use certain apps on our phones. This information is used to create comprehensive profiles about us, which can be used for targeted advertising and other purposes.

“These practices are out of control and are rife with privacy violations and breaches of European law. The extent of tracking makes it impossible for us to make informed choices about how our personal data is collected, shared and used. Consequently, this massive commercial surveillance is systematically at odds with our fundamental rights”, says Finn Myrstad, director of digital policy in the Norwegian Consumer Council.

“Every time you open an app like Grindr advertisement networks get your GPS location, device identifiers and even the fact that you use a gay dating app. This is an insane violation of users’ EU privacy rights”, says Max Schrems, founder of the European privacy non-profit noyb.

There is a 12 second delay in the video stream.