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theelous3
·7 ay önce·discuss
> countries like Venezuela and certain regions in Africa

So approximately none of the world's money and only in the most desperate situations.

I'm all in favor of some kind of vehicle like this, a currency supplemental system that is decentralized and safe. What I don't give a shit about and what is obviously useless are the "usecases" people keep coming up with beyond currency. The absolute #1 best usecase is ticket NFTs - proving you did something on the network to the outside world. As soon as you need to prove to the network something you did on the outside world - 99.99% of the ideas people have - you are back to uselessland.
theelous3
·7 ay önce·discuss
"we sell gift cards :)"

"and we ban you for buying or redeeming them"

is just top tier comedy honestly.

As soon as I heard the first one of these stories about a guy getting google broad-spectrum banned because a junkbot AI thought his completely normal youtube comment was a nazi rant or whatever else it hallucinated - I bailed on the whole shebang. Hosting your own stuff is, if you're a reader of this site, easy enough and cheap enough there's little reason not to.
theelous3
·7 ay önce·discuss
All of this was obvious 8 or so years ago during the first real boom when cryptos pants fell down. All hype no usecase. Here we are now how far along in (20 odd years?) with how many smart people making a genuine concerted effort to build something useful (literally millions over the years?) - and still the only useful thing anyone has ever done with blockchain is buy drugs and have a good time.

As I say, crypto is only useful if the whole world is already on the chain. Until then you need to trust outside sources which undermines the entire deal in trustlessness and undermines it in performance.
theelous3
·7 ay önce·discuss
The people who occupy the b2b ram buying kind of jobs are not aliens from another planet. Brand awareness in consumer markets, especially ones that are so closely tied to people's jobs (nerds gonna nerd) is going to have a knock on effect. It's not like a clothing brand or something.
theelous3
·9 ay önce·discuss
I haven't seen anything that suggests chat control would do anything to e2e. I am genuinely curious. It seems to be an often parroted point but... ?

It's just local image hashing and matching? Or is this only one implementation idea?
theelous3
·12 ay önce·discuss
You heard it here first folks - children are too niche now.

2ish billion people, well known for their indirect spending power, are not worth figuring out a simple whitelist system for.
theelous3
·5 yıl önce·discuss
> not sure

I am absolutely certain that nobody should own it.
theelous3
·6 yıl önce·discuss
Firstly, it's about scheduling and prioritising. If anything comes up that might be a blocker, or has been blocking you, or will in the future, you mention that as it relates to scheduling, and go solve the block whenever you want. There is zero expectation for you to wait for standup to raise any issue.
theelous3
·6 yıl önce·discuss
We do them in 5 to 15 mins. If you're conveying complex information, you fucked up. If you have something you want to talk to someone about, you make a note with them in the standup that you want to discuss it further later, and move on. Standups are to create notes for action, not solve problems.
theelous3
·7 yıl önce·discuss
That's like complaining the yaml.org site was defaced, so we shouldn't use yaml.