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Too many game theoretic attacks with stablecoins - still unproven.

RSA accumulators is an active area of research that will help with unlinking inputs and outputs, see the grin forum thread for more discussion:

https://www.grin-forum.org/t/benedikt-bunzs-utxo-commitments...

> Community funded. Pure mine. Rust, inflationary economics, cuckoo cycles. No governance, but that is debatable. Small team making decisions. What is that?

Somebody has to do the work to bootstrap and develop the network. Whom do you expect to govern the project? Governance meetings are public, bi-weekly, in the Gitter Lobby chat, you are free to join.

Also since I am into nitpicking, economics are inflationary for the first couple of decades gradually switching to deflationary (1 grin per second forever).

You obviously have never been to a Greek hospital.

cri-o is a container runtime optimized for Kubernetes.

http://cri-o.io/

What about the waste generated by the banking system? Banks have to use electricity in order to operate, right? I haven't seen anybody complain about them as if they are eco-friendly or something. Or is it that since we are depending on our banks, they can do whatever they like but bitcoin being a ponzi scheme (or that's what I read on reddit) is an easy target to comment about on the Internets? As if Chinese miners have hooked their ASICs in your neighborhood's power supply. It is fascinating how people turn eco-friendly just to bash something but are part of a totally anti-ecological society.

Even the code is not enough, is it? Once you have it, how do you know that's what they deploy?

Do you really believe that Facebook (US company) has not complied with the US goverment and WhatsApp is safe for private communication?

> Remember Usenet? Remember email? Remember IRC? I think there's a false dichotomy in the mind of many nowadays, mainly that the internet is either centralized or "blockchain based", whatever that means. It's a lie. The internet is fundamentally decentralized, the centralization is a relatively new phenomenon that started in the early '00s.

The internet started in the early 90s so you are talking approximately about two thirds of its lifespan hence "new" doesn't really apply.

> Finally, it is a money system mainly used by organized criminals to launder money.

Citation needed.

Does this mean that we should sit back and enjoy the show because "actors with under-handed intentions" and "precedent"s? Wake up. We can only get through collectively.

None of the above. What the parent comment is sarcastic about is a line of argument people use, especially politicians who want to promote their agendas.

Generally, I try to avoid criticising others but this logic is really disturbing and dangerous and I am very worried about people who stand behind it. It hasn't gotten us anywhere. It never will.

Yeah, sorry, I replied to the parent while thinking forward. I agree that in order for cryptos to succeed, merchants have to use them first. It is definitely not simple and we are far from it because it involves rendering the current system obsolete and a mental shift in how we think about money and governance. Eventually I expect governments to be affected, too.

Wait until most cryptos support atomic swaps.

Once LN is established, I expect that this is going to be opaque for an end user. Example: Today, you don't need to specify http:// in order to use it in a browser.

I think that the area where you want fault-tolerance the most is decentralized cash. If you are going to take control of your money you better do it in a fault-tolerant system. Many people don't care about it today but there are those who do. That's why cryptocurrency is the real killer app for blockchain, like it or not.

To your comments re bitcoin, it sounds to me like somebody complaining that Internet is slow back in the 90s/00s.

EDIT:

I am not pontificating in favor of bitcoin. It's just that the technology is still immature but there is a lot of great and promising work happening today.

I happen to read Walden these days (almost done) and I am questioning the critic of Thoreau in this article. For one, Thoreau admits that he is not pure (also questionable is his definition of 'pure' and whether it matches the authors definition) and also mentions throughout the book that he sometimes would dine as a guest somewhere but it's unclear whether he rooted for those occasions from an eating standpoint or merely a social one (maybe a combination of both? maybe he tricks us to believe the later? Or he really didn't care about his food as long as he wasn't starving?).

Does the DDG addon replace other addons like HTTPSEverywhere or uBlock?

I recently discovered dietpi and I am very happy about it.

http://dietpi.com/

What is unselfish faith? Can you describe how do you perceive faith as a concept?

viable == introspectable

How do you know that AMD does not run its own version of ME?

The only viable solution I see is open hardware.

Other related acts:

https://www.mail-archive.com/cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org/ms...

Microsoft should write an ingress controller for Azure? Not sure how you can get into a vendor lock-in situation with k8s. Maybe Microsoft extends the API with its own blackbox controllers and force that instead of kube primitives?

FWIW, it seems that when you buy a Purism laptop there is an option to include a Qubes live usb in the deal. I just came across it while skimming through their website[1], not sure about anything else.

[1] https://puri.sm/shop/librem-13/ - see the Operating System choice

We need more than "trust". We need open software and open hardware.

> I don't think I've ever read a biography where the author spent ten years on something that ultimately went nowhere and then went on to do things of enough noteworthiness to merit said biography.

Didn't it occur to you that even if diaspora goes nowhere, the work these guys have been doing may be influential or even the foundation for something that will actually go somewhere in the future?

> Maybe OpenShift, but it is not "really K8S"

Can you elaborate more? What makes you think that this is true?

> it would also change the composition of the community from people who agree with our core ideals to a group of people who want to see a return on their investment.

Yes, it would. Good read, I like the overall reasoning. I can think of some use cases where an OB token could make sense but I would like to learn more about OB first.