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The danger is they're not dead, they're alive and well with a large part of a voting population.
Terrible idea.
As is [1]. Let's spend money for no reason, and also it makes it harder to integrate with the outside world, where the money London needs to launder is
Why? Genuine question, my gut feel is there's something wrong about it too but I can't put words to it nor have I found a benchmark that convinced me, but it's worth noting I'm not sure what I'm looking for
Theoretically, sure. If you _really_ know your stuff.
However, you can naively pack hundreds of thousands of go routines into a single thread in a go routine after a week or two of using it.
I'm not saying go is better, I'm just saying Java copied this abstraction for a reason: doing it right is hard
Propaganda is an effective drag net. We're all susceptible to some form of it. Outright lying works more effectively than it should.
You're just looking for a morale high ground, no need to pretend otherwise.
Nevermind the student loan debt crisis, the floundering economy or the authoritarianism sneaking in.
Definitely social media.
Spoken like the disconnected politicians creating these laws. Hilariously off the mark.
Social media is as dangerous for kids as video games. There's an argument to be made for advertising but I sense that is far beyond the perception of the people blaming social media for the state of the democratic society they've participated in for the past few decades...
So do cats [1]
This just proves "the market" are not the experts they charge you to believe they are.
[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickallen/2013/01/15/cat-b...
It's an asset (for some reason). That's what happens to assets when you file bankruptcy.
What do you think happens when a bank collapses? Your money is magically protected?
Nevermind how it's produced, it's the configuration of transistors and how they are used that does real damage to the environment.
Coal? No no no, GPUs are the real killer!
I'll take the Patriot Act for $200, Alex
Predators keep population numbers low. Which prevents overgrazing, which protects the environment, which ensures herbivores can survive.
The Yellowstone park's reintroduction of wolves is a pretty good example of it.
It's really just arrogance to assume we need to or should interfere with nature, but I appreciate the good intentions and don't mean that in a negative manner.
Doesn't matter. RICA requires you to give a current and valid proof of address and government issued ID when buying a sim card.
Biometrics is unnecessary. Also probably useless, given how often those systems are broken
Chesterton's fence is about explicitly removing something. You can't implicitly invoke it.
What you're describing is a lack of explicitly removing things. Chesterton's fence does not apply here.
The Satoshi protocol is about creating a mechanism to achieve distributed, trustless consensus. Plenty of applications for such a platform.
Whether it's achieving that goal is a separate debate (so far it has managed to establish itself as a crazy high risk forex medium that's only slightly less unwieldy than FIX) and I'm not convinced anyone in the builder space has even a vague understanding of the problems crypto has to overcome to be _practical_, let alone replace _the entire global financial system_.
Call me a pessimist but it's not gonna happen without violent revolution (and let's not please).
But we can stop saying vacuous things like "cryptography doesn't have a problem to solve", it's clearly always been about replacing trust with verification. Que KGB expression.
The collorary is your "counter culture" was bought and sold too. That one stung to find out, but alternative lifestyles have been manufactured for a long, long time
1) poverty means people can't afford food
2) you're not reaching a great many villages by anything bigger than a land cruiser.
Distribution has always been the cause of global hunger issues, at least for the past few decades.
Food security is a wholly separate issue.
Yes, you nugget. That's why UX is a thing. Just because you know how to traverse your thinking patterns doesn't mean anyone else (wizzards included) can.
Surefire way to write garbage applications and APIs: don't think about the user.
I beat this mentality out of any junior that crosses my path. You're not paid to write code, you're paid to deliver a product. You studied how to write code. Massive difference
I don't need to strawman myself to try to understand your argument from a good faith perspective.
I'm also not sure how this format came to life, but it's highly aggravating to sift through
I agreed with epic when they made this argument with Apple but that's because the App Store was the only way around.
Epic could just distribute an APK they build themselves. They just can't use the play store. Simple link on a website. Or the app. Doesn't the desktop launcher auto update?
Android is a lot more open so it's just weird to cry foul here but I also understand it does have an effect on their visibility.
Bitcoin has no central authority. It's just utilitarian. Crypto needs regulation where it overlaps with fiat. We should start doing that instead of having these stupid debates.
None of these have anything to do with ponzi schemes, which is the act of using new investor money to payout old investors.
People buy and sell crypto like anything else. It's not legal tender (at least not everywhere or even anywhere that counts) but if you wanna call bitcoin a ponzi scheme then so is every fiat currency and the entire stock market.
The difference between the stock market and crypto is regulation at the fiat overlap.
So can we do that instead of giving air to these completely brain dead "decentralised technology nobody controls is clearly a scam to enrich early adopters, like the whole stock market except not like the whole stock market because economics is actually beyond me" style arguments, please and thank you
But we banned alcohol 3 times, and 3 times the hospital's casualty admission rate plummeted.
We have a problem with alcohol and we should be talking about it