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Crypto is supposed to be about DeFi... but to your point, its just a rehash of CeFi. (Centralized Finance)

The major paradox here is that Coinbase, a company that has banked its success on crypto for the masses, derives most of its marketcap through listing on the NYSE. Go figure...
Think of using a bum gun like taking a shower over the toilet.

There is no reason why you can't use all the same fun toys over a toilet as you do in the shower, while holding what amounts to a smaller shower head. Hands, soap, towels and even sponges!

The lack of mental creativity here is very entertaining!
No worries, understood, hold harmless and all that jazz. Thank you for the time and the info.
I built https://operandio.com/
"Snow Crash" is awesome at so many levels - including inventing what is now Google Earth. I've read it once and listened to the audio book twice. And will again.
When Mt Gox went under and it took my father's $11k gift to me along with it, it messed me up for awhile. The idea that my father had worked so many years to save up for me, and that I had squandered it in one day... it took a long, long time to make peace with that.

"Not your keys, not your coin" is trite, but true. I was an ardent, outspoken critic of Coinbase for a long time.

I was also wrong. Coinbase didn't lose the crypto. I don't know how they managed not to, but it was an excellent reminder that the most successful startups in history often seem like terrible ideas at the start. I'm weirdly proud of them, because I understand how difficult of an achievement that was to pull off at scale.

Just remember that the losers like me are forgotten in the sands of history. For every winner, there were dozens of horror stories you never hear about. Keep control over the assets that matter to you.
Yes absolutely. If someone engineered something so deadly in a lab, in a non war political climate, and can be so irresponsible as to leak it and cause all this death then yes. They are absolutely responsible.
irreversibility is mostly a negative for anyone who is interested in getting a scam/fraudulent charge taken back. What happens when you purchase an item from some web shop with ETH and it never arrives?
Another thing I feel would be a flaw is the inability to increase and decrease the money supply - something central banks often do with fiat money to stimulate the economy.

Most crypto currency seem proud even that they can only deflate … which is the worst thing for a currency since it will just result in hoarding and ever decreasing economic activity (AKA deflationary spiral) - at the end of the day, economic activity is what we want, it’s what put food on supermarket shelves, we can’t eat money.
Note that the leaked documents were released three days ago, and this is just The Intercept's reporting on them. They can be found here: https://drasticresearch.org/2021/09/21/the-defuse-project-do...
It's actually completely different. Your code can co-exist on GitHub and your PC, which coins (mostly) can not [0]. Git's decentralization is also just a side feature, most people use it for managing versions and collaborating.

On the coin side, though, decentralization is the main selling point. When you manage your coins via regulated exchange your really don't have much more than stocks with some added payment functionality. The threat scenario is completely different.

[0] Technically, your code could still be stolen from GitHub, but it won't be a total loss like coins would be.
Refusal to investigate whether this is the biggest disaster in scientific history is odd.

If dangerous research killed 15 million people we need to know.
Hourly priced electricity will be the future. Solar is creating this huge abundance of power during the day and electric cars are basically a huge grid of batteries. Since you are not using your car for the majority of the day and usually not during the middle of the day where peak solar kicks in, you can just plug your car in every time you leave it parked and then a charge controller sits and does nothing until power prices drop to the expected lowest price before charging. With some kind of fail safe where they charge anyway if no expected low occurred.

But another problem is that road construction itself is a huge cause of greenhouse gas emissions and isn't solved at all by electric cars. Only fewer and lighter cars would make things better. Personally I think electric scooters could replace a fair bit of car travel. The little sit down ones are sufficient to get you around for most trips and carry a bags worth of stuff.
This is a very good point. You figure out a new use for a generic drug, then anyone can use the generic in that way. We also (I mentioned this in a comment a couple of weeks ago) did some therapeutic development that we realized any compounding pharmacy could make up the formulation. We dropped all work.

On our product it was an approved API with different dosage and a different mode of administration. Still in trials, but if approved it will have normal patent protection.

Edit: the first “is” was autocorrected into “isn’t”. Glad I saw it!
Did you read your link because it says nothing about high fees due to cartels or kyc or anything else. In fact it say big old banks are the most expensive while new internet services are the cheapest. Remittance is already paid for with crypto and increasing. It’s a perfect application for it.
It’s not just Daszak. The NIH itself has refused to cooperate with members of Congress who’ve called for transparency. I’m not sure why the Biden administration is OK with agencies being secretive about something that like this that clearly deserves public scrutiny:
https://www.newsweek.com/its-time-nih-transparency-wuhan-res...
Never heard of such a schedule, and I've worked for startups for the past 15 years.
This is actually an argument I totally disagree with. Businesses are long-lived, have reputations to maintain, and need to build trust. They have every incentive possible to treat their customers right, and issue refunds on valid issues. It is the customers that are sketchy and usually one-offs, and thus use stolen credit cards to burn the business with chargebacks. Businesses lose a huge amount to fraudulent payments.

I would rather let businesses decide whether to choose payment options that allow chargebacks or not, and then customers can choose which businesses to support. The method of payment becomes one factor in shopping decisions. Businesses that eliminate chargeback risk are ultimately more competitive and can pass savings onto consumers. The whole chargeback thing is a ridiculous byproduct of our antiquated payment rails.
This isn't a "lately" thing. In 2007, a friend of mine postponed his Windows updates often enough that the machine just restarted to install updates _in the middle of the day while he was using it_. This wasn't a glitch either: there was an Update pop-up that just informed him "fuck you I'm restarting in X minutes".

I'm in awe at how much contempt some guy at Microsoft must have for users and their use-cases to conceive of a feature like that. One imagines Microsoft thinks of all of their users as yokels doing nothing more important than playing Solitaire all day.

It solidified in my mind the impression that Windows is not meant to be run on any machine you consider more important than a toy.
I personally hate the color banding you get from things like big drop shadow radiuses in webpages. Look at them from juuust the wrong angle and... war flashbacks to Windows 3.1 in 256 colors.

I'm not sure if newer tech has better viewing angles than my old (but not that old) IPS LCD, but having having greater color depth to represent color fades with finer progression, and having more pixels to spread the fade across (hidpi), does sound like a nice step forward to me.

~"1.07 billion colors" though? Ehhh, I can't deny that does feel like overkill, but I'm honestly not even sure if there's a way to fix the above problem with a smaller colorspace.
It isn't actually the only wireless headset. ByteDance has one, and I think I can recall a couple more, but I'm not sure about it.

They are, however, the only company with good inside out tracking. Their competitors are pretty bad so far.
Isn't that really bad though? I paid for a VPS with my credit card recently. The transaction appeared to complete instantly. No 25 dollar transaction fee, no multiple hops through different software interfaces, just click and done. If it turned out the VPS company was a scam, I could've made a single phone call and reversed the charge saving my money.

Crypto is slower, more expensive, and less safe. True, it's only eight years old, but the important thing is it's much worse than current solutions - at least on the dimensions that I think most people care about. Plus, it's not like online credit cards are that much older.