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I would love to read some examples of this please!

I have dabbled extensively in the "traditional" *coin scene, but always shied from eth and the associated ecosystem. Stories like this are the reason why.

While I could articulate -and genuinely believe in- a raison d'être for the alt-finance tools created by blockchain systems, the premise and concrete value of the exceedingly sophisticated mechanisms in ethereum continue to elude me.

Given the primitives of account & transactions through distributed ledgers, one can construct a wide variety of services and use cases that interface with the real world on the user side and on the 3rd party service side.

Are there any services and use cases in ethereum-land that are actually oriented towards users? Because it seems to me that the only group getting measurable value beyond education are actors seeking to extract profit from "legitimate" value store or flow.

And I thought getting away from them was the entire point of Bitcoin et al. for the ordinary man.

Because the fact that the maths add up to allowing for planes to fly doesn't need to be understood to be accepted. On the other hand, the process of electing a representative from a group must be understood to not be contested or misrepresented.

I'd argue there is also depth within the "random dice rolls thrown by a [carefully designed] machine", specifically in the design and choices that went into said machine's implementation. It's certainly a bit meta, but I enjoy this more than human created superficial pop songs.

Could you give some examples, adjusting for risk?

Understand the user needs that are being fulfilled by the walled gardens,

Build and sell simple, useful and if not open then transparent services or products in order to foster variety in the face of anticompetitive or monopolistic entities,

Help resellers/repackagers/... to configure, integrate or adapt such services even if not my own.

Y'know, "do one thing and do it well"-style.

Have you looked into ActivityStreams? It might be the protocol you're looking for!

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/

I wonder why this mechanism (converting potentially derelict bonds into equity) isn't more widespread. In cases where the underlying company reasonably could be expected to continue operating were its debt ratio lowered, apart from legitimate resistance of bondholders expecting debt+interest payments why wouldn't this outcome be preferred to bankruptcy?

5% per tx?! Remember, in Europe debit is way more common than credit and the fees are capped.

This is only tangentially relevant. Japan has a culture where it's accepted that residential property is relatively medium term, and should be upgraded or rebuilt semi-regularily. Contrast that to real estate as an investment/heritance vehicule in the west.

Also, personnaly I wouldn't be ready to live in a Tokyo flat and I suspect most of the target population isn't either. That we may not have a choice down the line is likely, but another issue.

I disagree, insofar as the term "economy" interfaces with human nature and imperatives, such as the means to secure shelter and nurishment.

I believe I understand your opinion. In my very personal opinion you're ignoring a couple of variables:

It's probably not even possible to expand housing capacity to a significant degree in most locations it'd matters,

Even if it were, I contend the overall cost of living would go up dramatically (even in the hypothetical new high rises) due to transportation saturation and supply chain drama,

Also unless you literally double capacity everywhere what incentive do landlords (even new ones) have to moderate aggregate and individual rent growth? Since the state of the area is f'd today and demand is high, if there are any improvements demand can only go (dramatically) up.

Could you develop your train of thought to illustrate how this comment is coherent with another you've made elsewhere:

> Affordability has nothing to do with gentrification.

I'll pile on the Dishonored love thread: the mechanics and level design are world class, well worth your time in themselves. But the amazing parts are the stories and storytelling. You get to see both sides of every argument, and if you care to go through it again making different choices you'll experience the same stories but with a meaningfully different connotations.

That's not even getting into how the extensions/stand alone DLCs complement the main storylines.

TL;dr: If you've got 30-40h go crawling around Dishonored's universe a couple times. (Go Arkane studios!)

I think an interesting question is whether we are respectively good judges on the "real" value of those ten saved seconds vs more abstract quality of life issues such as mental health or reductions in stress.

> more time-consuming/expensive to defeat or steal than they're worth.

Do not underestimate the dire needs that drive some parts of the world.

Well, they were pretty cheap so if you could live slower execution python/java worked fine as an example

As a lay person I don't understand why they wouldn't, could you give some more information as to why?

And how would I go about contacting you in a professional, pleasant and unhassling way if I genuinely have good reason to reach out and we have no prior connection?

What I hear from your conclusion is "screw anyone who isn't already in my network", and that sounds... sad?

And store it where? Dry volume is at a premium, just look at the compactness of living quarters to get an idea how little room there is to spare.

My very personal opinion is that the allure is mostly to people with PR/Marketing/Comm tendencies. It's basically crack for individuals or roles who thrive on attention & engagement with others (or the illusion of it, if we're going to be cynical).

> obscurity is a totally valid tactic to impose additional costs on attackers

But there's the rub: you'll only impose additional costs to the least sophisticated/determined adversaries. While that works to keep random scriptkiddies/scans out, I'd argue it has little to no effect if you require serious security guarantees.

Your conclusion may well be correct but I must reject your reasons : 1) we have more (cheap!) hardware capacity than we can shake a stick at so sub-optimal performance is very tolerable and 2) depending on how you measure productivity, i'd argue high level/many layers of indirection languages let you deliver features and value faster than non ball-of-clay languages at the cost of weaker confidence in the code. Which can be mitigated to some extent by more clay :) Personnaly, give me mud over diamonds any day.

(I'm sorry hn but,) Philommedes probably came first! Bad jokes aside, it's interesting to read that epithet knowing that she was the goddess of love and beauty and stuff, but not actually of fertility or really anything to do with procreation apart the fun parts!

(Hopefully) Ease and flexibility of development for 3rd party applications?

I agree, but we collectively seem to agree that was a bad thing. Is it less evil now? Why should a similar wrong be tolerated if we recognise the damage it has caused in the past?

I believe the argument isn't so much about divinity identity, but rather about ideological imperialism.

Speaking of horrifying home chemistry, Australia is well represented with Explosions&Fire/Extractions&Ire https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVovvq34gd0ps5cVYNZrc7A/vid...

I despise this argument & your parent said monopolist behaviour. You can't just ignore the network/cool kid phenomenon when considering social networks; they're all trying to lock you into their own platform, and while you're right that they cannot be described as a full fledged monopoly they are trying their darndest to behave like one and disincentivise diversification.

Provided the conditions outlined in GP are met, why not?