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- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 14 hours ago:
Sharks have been around for over 450 million years.
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 18 hours ago:
That was about climate change.
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 18 hours ago:
Alternatively, be amazed at how much we’ve tamed.
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 18 hours ago:
Are sharks the best example?
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 18 hours ago:
Nah. I’ve seen those Flintstone documentaries. They had all the consumer mod cons.
- Comment on What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts 5 days ago:
No. Take the mean, not the mode.
- Comment on Anon remembers a family guy cutaway 5 days ago:
- Comment on Over 450 Diablo developers at Blizzard have unionized 6 days ago:
Roses are red, Violets are teal.
- Comment on This was a big deal. You could play a game on your cell phone 1 week ago:
Bring-ding-ding-ding
Bring-ding-ding-ding
Baaa-ba-ba-Bowaaaaar
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 1 week ago:
To be fair, there are some good retrospective economists. “A happened because of X, Y and Z.”
But an economist that predicts the future is always wrong, often spectacularly.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 1 week ago:
Jay Bhattacharya, said here that I don’t think anyone disputes that it increases the rate of myocarditis, especially in young men..
Likely he is referring to this study that:-
But this statement does not mean the vaccine is net more harmful. The fact you came away with that impression just shows how easy it is to misrepresent facts.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 1 week ago:
- Comment on As a treat 1 week ago:
But as a treat?
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 1 week ago:
Economists can do real good for the world
If you put 10 economists in a room, you’ll get 11 opinions.
- Comment on Please bro 1 week ago:
For specific use cases, yes.
- Comment on Please bro 1 week ago:
Yes, Bitcoin uses the electricity of Belgium.
No, Ethereum uses the electricity of a single wind turbine.
Modern blockchains are much less resource intensive.
- Comment on Please bro 1 week ago:
write access is algorithmic, not centrally controlled.
- Comment on Please bro 1 week ago:
Blockchain is just an incredibly inefficient distributed database.
Agreed. Most of the time a traditional database is far cheaper and better performing.
The key innovation of blockchain is that write access is algorithmic, not centrally controlled. This feature is not possible with any other technology.
- Comment on Please bro 1 week ago:
If you are hung up on value, let’s just consider stablecoins.
The price of a particular token has nothing to with how blockchain works. It works.
- Comment on Please bro 1 week ago:
I think i made a mistake by using the market cap as evidence that it works, because this just shows people believe it is valuable. Not that it works.
What I mean is that the technology is mature and adopted by a large number of independent users. However, it doesn’t yet have mass adoption because the user experience is not yet seamlessly integrated into legacy systems.
- Comment on Please bro 1 week ago:
Ethereum has solved it’s trillemas. Fiat has it’s own flaws.
User experience is certainly a blocker. The only way round that at the moment is to put a familiar medium between the user and the crypto layer.
- Comment on do what you love 1 week ago:
A PhD is only worth it (both in time and money) if you have a real interest in what you are researching.
- Comment on Please bro 1 week ago:
There is no central entity, so it is decentralized in the original definition. I gave Canton as the example because it could be immediately substituted for Swift. It’s permissioned access by design, because banks don’t want to risk their monopoly position.
For speed and cheapest, go for solana.
For reliability go for Ethereum. For reliability, speed and cheapness choose an L2 on Ethereum.
For illegal stuff use monero.
There are trade offs between them, but I wouldn’t call them flaws. Blockchain as a technology definitely “works”.
- Comment on Please bro 1 week ago:
Works as a publicly shared, immutable, secure database (and small calculation) engine.
- Comment on Please bro 1 week ago:
You’ve not heard of it because it is banking focused. It’s the newer option made to compete with Quorum and Corda.
It is decentralized, but it is not open write access. It a public permissioned network of private ledgers.
You and I could validate that the network is cryptographicly consistent, but we don’t have decentralized permission to interact.
- Comment on Please bro 1 week ago:
Lightning can, in theory, do one million transactions per second. But Bitcoin networks aren’t really a drop in replacement for Swift.
Banks like J.P. Morgan prefer chains like Canton that are privacy enabled and have no upper limit on transaction.
- Comment on Please bro 1 week ago:
From an end UI perspective, certainly.
But if SWIFT was suddenly replaced by a blockchain technology then the world wouldn’t even blink.
- Comment on Please bro 1 week ago:
Oh yes. A huge amount of speculation. Just like NVDA.
My point is that you can say a lot of negative things about crypto, but you can’t say it doesn’t work. It definitely works.
- Comment on Please bro 1 week ago:
crypto was the previous shiny new toy until it dint work
The market cap of crypto is currently at all time highs.
- Comment on I NEED to eat this! 2 weeks ago:
You need to think about area. That’s a lot of ghost pepper.