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vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Blockchain topics have become a proxy war for Keynes/Hayek poorly framed as a technical discussion. I think most people who are passionately against crypto hold that view for non-technical reasons and more related to monetary policy. Which is valid, but suckers like me used to think questions like yours were posted in good-faith. I'd answer questions such as upgrades to PoW/PoS, TX rate limitations, side-chains, multi-sig, etc. After enough down-votes for factual answers you realize it was never about the technology.

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

And then he'll get a job at Deutsche Bank. Point is the 60M could be liquid if needed to be.

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

"Hey ma, if I'm locked up I need you to give this pass phrase to my lawyer - he'll know what to do".

Lots of multi-sig schemes you could invent to make your funds accessible.

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

> the effect of a disingenuous Wiki article is far higher than your average FB "fake news"

Wikipedia doesn't profit by weaponizing misinformation. That's FB's business model.

All those people who stormed the capital. You think they were FB users or Wiki users? The thought of them diligently reading encyclopedia entries and becoming radicalized has me cackling.

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

It's a great article for HN. All the folks here working on ad-tech to polarize the good people of this country so they can squeeze another penny out of them. Then they have the gals to complain about people becoming radicalized. "Oh gee how did that happennnn"

They got polarized on Facebook. Because you wanted them to. Because it keeps them coming back and your stock goes up.

If you're a Facebook employee - congrats! This is what you've created. A radicalized cesspool of idiots to increase your bottom line.

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

As a bitcoiner none of those things sound too crazy. Community banks, community ISPs, and market-based money? Sweet. Kick Comcast and BoA to the curb.

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Would be interesting if WSB was allowed to invest in private startups as easily as they can invest in meme stocks.

Robinhood doesn't like us? We'll start out own.

Reddit doesn't like us? Let's just kickstart and crowd-source another.

This idea that the common man needs to be protected from himself is paternalistic and condescending. Private equity is the means of collective action and the rich people don't want us to organize without their blessings.

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

> You say you want free speech yet people can't even invest in your own hardware.

We already have the hardware. A modern phone has as much computing power as an early server. Computing power isn't what's lacking, it's the permission to use it.

Will Apple and our ISP's allow p2p networking using our own hardware? Apple denied bitcoin wallets from the app store because "reasons". Many ISP's have policies against hosting servers.

The real solution to this is the decentralized web and it too can be clamped down by a handful of companies. If these companies want to act like publishers they should be treated as such.

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Your single blade on a rack isn't going to stand up against non-stop ddos attacks. That requires ISP level infrastructure. That's why companies like Cloudflare are publicly listed.

From the wiki "Cloudflare was created in 2009 by Matthew Prince, Lee Holloway, and Michelle Zatlyn.[2] It received media attention in June 2011 for providing security services to the website of LulzSec, a black hat hacking group.[3]"

> Womp womp. We warned you.

Your multiple personalities are seeking vengeance on free speech because.. you wanted self hosted hardware??

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

> When (enough) people think voting software is broken, they topple governments and start civil wars.

But why would they be distrustful unless non-sequitur arguments are presented as the holy grail of truth? "Bro trust me, software engineers and our entire profession are total hacks". Thanks XKCD, very cool.

Yet you fly in airplanes and drive in cars that are digitally controlled. You trust the unsecured web with your banking details because a green padlock appears in your browser. The federal reserve and their network banks don't mail each other IOU's "to be secure" so why should that be the MO for accounting public consensus? I'd call it tired reasoning but it's not even reasoning, it's just some hand-wavy appeal to.. p a p e r

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Except software does control airplanes and elevators..

Subscribing to this kind of "digital bad" dogma is lazy because you don't have to think for yourself.

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

There's so much cargo-cult mentality in react that it's difficult to perform DD and predict the technical landscape years into the future. So perhaps we're in agreement the author should have picked another technology.

Personally I think the author's original architecture was most likely satisfactory, but there should've been design guidelines to enforce a single coding style. You don't have to re architect your app because dan abramov tweeted something.

If there was no value added in adopting hooks then the architect shouldn't have wasted energy adopting it. And let's be real, there was no value added in adopting hooks lol.

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

Preach. Cancel Paul Graham. Defending Sci-Hub is a dog whistle for people who want to preserve hate-speech! That's literally defending fascism!

#cancel_pg

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

I think when VR technology improves a bit more it'll be the superior learning experience.

Imagine learning history interactively. Don't just read about Julius Caesar being stabbed, why not stab him yourself?

You could explore physics in a sandbox environment. Learn geography by going there. Practice theater by performing.

Grabbing a cup of coffee is fun but so is hopping into a game of virtual paintball.

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

You're continuing to demonstrate that if I answer your questions it has no bearing on your ideology.

Now you want to know if Twitter has an active account with AWS. I could answer that. But does it matter? Nah. That's what my last sentence meant.

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

If I link you to examples of people with blue checkmarks calling for violence then what? Would you support twitter becoming deplatformed? Is principled based reasoning something you're capable of or even interested in?

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

> it's all about figuring out how this should be codified and enforced.

Democratically maybe?

Don't we have an entire police state apparatus to monitor the public and snoop on bad hombres? Why should Silicon Valley play the roll of unelected police-state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_center

Brainwashed is the perfect term to describe the cognitive dissonance and mental gymnastics required to adopt authoritarian and undemocratic ideals to "combat fascism".

> For our lives to have meaning we need "sacred" things to protect, things to fight against, things to think about

Like blasphemy laws? Brain. Washed.

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

People rioting under the guise of "antifa" killed innocent people in Portland. They even bombed a court house. There's videos of "antifa" who tried to molotov police but accidentally self-immolated instead. It's a meme that the media will call these "peaceful protests".

As someone who has no dog in the race, and hates violence -- is this "fake news"?? Do these rabid maga idiots actually have a point?

If these protests were organized using FB or Twitter then why aren't they also removed from the app stores?

FB profited from radicalizing people using "engagement metrics" and machine learning at a massive scale just to sell ads. Now they want to wash their hands clean?

These billionaires weren't democratically elected and they shouldn't be shaping our democracy.

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

Jobs rescued Apple from the brink of bankruptcy.. There would be no Apple to be up 900%.

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

FWIW I only discovered reddit because I was "deplatformed" from Digg due to sharing the image below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers...

Can't be the only one. Reddit was a libertarian cesspool at the time, a crime for sure. RIP Mr.Swartz <3