GaylordTuring

You mean buy and sell goods and services? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think basically anyone uses ETH for this (compared to BTC and BCH where at least some merchants exists). If you want to buy and sell tokens in a decentralized fashion, then you'll have to deal with smart contracts.

"It's an action noone ever has ever wanted or ever will want to perform."

That's not entirely true. Just look at one of the many burn addresses that people willingly send money to all the time, for example: https://etherscan.io/address/0x00000000000000000000000000000...

For example, some holder (maybe a founder) of a certain coin can burn a certain amount of their tokens, making it more rare. This is a quite common practice. If I were to burn a certain amount of tokens, I think the most natural thing to use as a burn address would be the contract address itself.

It is possible. That's why you have Ethereum and Ethereum Classic, two different chains. The latter one is the unaltered chain, while Ethereum (which is the most popular that's everybody are using) has been forked in such a way that you're describing once after a large hack.

Just monitor this address then and let me know if anyone moves anything out of it :) https://etherscan.io/address/0x00000000000000000000000000000...

And that's just for this particular token. You can go to just about any token contract and see how numerous people have sent their tokens to the contract address itself.

I don't understand why your comment was downvoted. If humans haven't transitioned into nuclear waste eating flying robots within a couple of thousand years, that's because they then have managed to go extinct, and in that case, whatever nuclear material that might leak into a nearby lake will only affect some fish and the occasional moose walking by (and these are creatures that we, today, kill for food, so it doesn't seem like most people care about them all that much).

Caring about how future generations of humans will handle our nuclear waste is akin to someone 2000 years ago being worried that leaving a heap of rocks somewhere would be to much of a hazzle for us to get rid off.

Number four, you meet lots of people, sounds like a downside to me :) Each to his own I guess.

When thinking about the concept of increasing prices, the company that comes to mind for me is Teenage Engineering, the Stockholm based design company most famous for their OP-1 synth/sampler. For example, both OP-1 and OD-11 (wireless speakers) have more or less been doubled in price over the years, and when they release new products such as their computer case Computer-1 and their portable speaker OB-4, there’s an endless outcry on different social media platforms and forums that the prices are ridiculous. That might be true for many people, but in the end, new products often are sold-out pretty much immediately, so there’s obviously enough people willing to pay these prices at the rate they’re able to produce them.

For me, this is a sign of a healthy price setting culture within a company. If there are people who are willing to pay much more than me, I wouldn’t want the products priced at my level. Let these people part with their money first, making me relatively richer than them and enriching the company who can put the money towards creating even better products that I eventually can scoop up on the second hand market for the same price I’ll be able to resell it for. The alternative is to keep the prices down, effectively creating some kind of lottery with regard to who happen to check their e-mail when a new batch is released.

This might have been a bit of a rambling, but in the end, I just want to say that I, as a consumer, wish that more companies would try to maximize their profits when it comes to pricing and that they should go against the sentiment that it’s somehow greedy to do so.

While we're plugging different software solutions for creating indented lists, I would recommend TaskPaper 3 for MacOS. It's a fantastic piece of software that runs natively on Mac.

I was thinking the exact opposite actually. I like how easy you can get a feel for the latest commits just by seeing the emoji, which is excellent! More people should enforce rules like this.

I don’t know. If a medicine cures 99 % of all cases (or even 10 %) would you say it’s ineffective? I’d say it’s effective, but depending on the your overall goal, not effective enough (if you’d like to call it ineffective, it would be ineffective with respect to a certain macro outcome, not with respect to individual cases). At some minuscule percentage (let’s say 0,1 %) I would probably be tempted to actually starting to call it ineffective.

Nerds find a way.

Which is a good thing, by the way!

Yeah, I also thought that I would be able to interact with these elements at first.

My big problem with YouTube recommendations isn't that they're so good that I get sucked in; it's that they're so bad. I would happily spend more time on the site watching interesting videos if they only would show up in my recommendation feed.

Instead, I get recommended the same old crap, all coming from a small set of the same video categories over and over again (except for the occasional America's Got Talent or any other clip that've reached over 100 million views). It's not like I don't like airplane and board repair videos, but it's not the only thing that I'm interested in, which YouTube seems to think.

Show me something new! Try recommending a video about how to grow flowers or about Titanic rather than thinking that the only thing I'm interested in are whatever I've been watching for the last couple of months.

A totally valid point. It seems like the proposed ban is based on the fact that the computations costs a lot of energy, are “wasteful”, and only makes the miner in question happy. I don’t see how this differs from playing high-end computer games. Surely, you could argue that kids in the 70’s, only having access to board games, could get just as much enjoyment out of these as kids today get out of playing CoD, with the added benefit that you have to meet other people in person and that you’re not getting addicted to loot boxes. So, should we follow China in banning computer games?

What is energy waste though? If I get more happy by mining Bitcoin than playing computer games, is it okay for me to use the energy I would have used for playing to mine instead?

I think that about 95 % of the activities that humans do professionally are a complete waste of time. Does it follow that I should be for banning these activities?

“It might be a competitive advantage to ban mining.”

I agree, but couldn’t this be said for a lot of activities? It might be a competitive advantage to ban the production of reality tv shows or video games or cars or steel. Is it really a good idea (or even morally defensible) for the state to make these kind of macro decisions (based on what might be best for the economy)?

This exact reasoning can be applied to the buying and selling of gold, can it not? I’m not saying that therefore it’s moot, but is there a difference? Would you call gold a ponzu scheme as well or do you see a difference between the two? It can also be applied to, for example, the buying and selling of old watches or art.

How? Because you simply amplify the sound too much?

I agree about the subscription part, but why is it useless and pseudo-AI? Would love to hear you elaborate on these matters.

I don't understand how people can put climate change out of all things to be afraid of. It's definitely an issue, but for me, it doesn't even make it in the top-10. I would, for example, be much, much more concerned that at any point, humankind is capable of launching an intercontinental nuclear war that would disrupt the entire civilization and create a multi-decade nuclear winter that would kill off whoever made it through round 1. That seems more scary to me than an extremely slow change that would force us to grow banans instead of potatoes and move from the beaches.

> Midi is an instrumental only declarative format.

There's nothing stopping you from using midi data to generate singing: https://youtu.be/Ab4zUFKxVpk?t=87

Yes. The same argument that he uses to defend “lazy” people can also be applied to “morally repugnant” people (e.g., they haven’t been taught to think correctly about these things and therefor draw erroneous conclusions). That doesn’t make the argument wrong, but it does mean that you have to give pretty much anyone a pass. Most people aren’t willing to do this.

I don’t want my search engine to somehow try to judge the believability of the results. I’d like to be the judge of that myself.

> I am astounded that software capable of these outputs is allowed on the roads.

Me too. However, in my encounter with software like this, it usually runs on meat brains.

Yes, but how much of that maternal leave is paid for by the company itself? It's easy to be generous when it's someone else's money.

I fail to see how this is the company's problem. What if I take on a baby sloth that needs two years of potty training before you can leave it alone. Is my employer somehow morally responsible to make sure that I can stay home for this amount of time? Isn't the responsibly with me who actually chose to get the sloth in the first place?

I have also been forded to take some vacation. It was late in the summer, and I think my boss started to feel that HR might be coming down on him if he let me work all summer :)

Prices are set by the order books, including how many that are willing to sell and to what price. If a large amount of coins are removed from the market, and the buying pressure stays the same, that will lead to higher prices.

> There might be some morons who didn't do any research before investing, but they won't be a huge loss if they sell out and stay out.

I think you're underestimating the size of this group.