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While you are undoubtedly correct to some extent, there's also the entire academic side of decentralised systems which is more about solving the our (plural) system vs their (singular) system problem. The same tech that makes these complex decentralised services work also often functions just as well if not better (performance wise) in federated/centralised contexts.

These decentralised systems are a natural abstraction for so many different types of problems and systems. If you leverage them you can still get high performance systems in a centralised manner but the hard work making those systems resilient, localised, and highly available has already been solved. If you design your systems on top of this technical layer you can leverage the benefits without the costs of centralisation for the most part.

The other academic argument to be made is that this is basically the only industry that is meaningfully pushing cryptography forwards (IMHO). Concepts like Functional Encryption, Fully Homomorphic Encryption, Secure Multi-Party Computation, and Zero Knowledge Proof Systems have been primarily funded by cryptocurrency research and towards the application in decentralised zero trust systems (which are basically the "ideal" environment for exploring cryptography and game theoretic technologies).

Code doesn't fix people problems but it can augment existing systems and letting those systems evolve to their logical conclusions is a worthwhile endeavour.
Yes the ride you get on a laptop completely depends on the laptop. I have a Dell XPS and everything is working great under Linux with that, except sleep that Intel seem to have screwed with to keep the cpu awake. Other HP laptops have been either a similar ride for higher-end one or quite difficult to get working well for a cheap one.

Part of it is the laptops are developed for windows ACPI interpreter, for windows wifi drivers, for windows system level hack drivers etc. It takes time for Linux to figure out individual workarounds. At least for XPS Dell seem to be developing also for it to work on Linux.
Interesting. Things monitored and systematically captured can often be translated into ML models.

What do you think? Is this how white collar workers become more fully outsourced via automation, as an unintended side effect?
An employer owns your productivity, not you for the 8 hours (or whatever logged time) you work a day.

"Owning people" in the classic sense (even during limited periods of working hours) is slavery, and that's not legal (any more, at least).

Through over 20 years of work in IT, I've learned that managers get this wrong far too often. Even performance reports are direct evidence of deep breaches of personal rights.

The model of employees not being able to use personal time as guaranteed by law, Surveillance tactics, hostile work environments, etc... have all been rampant in US culture forever.

If you're entry level you're a beast of burden, and deeply entrenched in proving yourself and solving critical problems, also at the mercy of accountability and almost always underpaid... At the "trusted top" they're playing golf on the clock and getting golden parachutes even if they under-perform... There is a better balance than this.

Now I'm not into a chaotic work protest as much as anyone else, but the truth is that even the poorest and least powerful masses can overwhelm and conquer any small handful of wealthy elites if they say "Let them eat cake" as history has shown...

We're facing a huge breakdown of everything that makes the world work unless people re-align their perspectives of equality and fairness in labor, and it's a lot bigger than just a few employees unionizing.

Employers own the productivity that employees agree to delivering, and if there is a performance issue, then there's already plenty of precedent to handle that. Expecting an employee to work every minute of an 8 hour day is insane, and not remotely realistic, even if they are a horse.

Employers adding surveillance to the mix only highlights the encroachment of the slave owner mentality in employment, and it could easily create a lawsuit over mis-use and abuse, and it probably will end up in court soon in a very public manner.

It's probably the USB "self-moving mouse" that created all this hype to be honest, but it's still a necessary move for many.
Web3 wouldn’t stop that scenario from happening though.
Murray was (among other qualifications) formerly a military intelligence officer, conducting horrendous, abusive, and unethical psychological experiments at Harvard, and Kaczynski was a 17 year old victim of his.

MKUltra was also a series of horrendous, abusive, and unethical psychological experiments conducted (in secret) by the CIA.

Ethically, Murray wasn't, unfortunately, much of an outlier; lots of psychological experimentation in the US during the 50s, 60s, and 70s was horrifying. Although Murray's background and professional history is suggestive, there is no evidence that he or his experiments on Kaczynski were actually part of the MKUltra program.
I would recommend you pay very close attention to how you feel in the first three hours after eating, say, a nice sized filet minion. One day it just hit me that meat always kicks my ass. I used to love going to Outback for the steak. Then it occurred to me, every single time I ate meat, digesting it would exhaust me. I'd usually lose consciousness within an hour after eating, and it is ordinary to feel sleepy after eating, but I'm talking about an overwhelming, irresistible tiredness that lasted hours. I'd be out for 2-3 hours, and always woken by GI discomfort. Without fail, meat ultimately puts me on the toilet. Once I realized the result was always the same, quitting meat was an easy decision, yet being a vegetarian is hard (because this society makes it hard, not only to be a vegetarian, this society makes it hard to find anything but crap to eat).
Wait what? Why is a centralized system being compared to a decentralized one?

I understand Web3 isn't there yet, but this comparison is egregious.
Depends on whether the NFT is on-chain or off-chain. Both are valid.
This statistic isn't enough to say whether unions are good or bad, even if you assume there's causation. How do you know they don't do that by slowing down productivity growth, rather than by speeding up wage growth?
I mean, I'm not aware of centralized tools built in to Teams that are used to systematically evaluate people, and if they exist, I wouldn't necessarily expect they are being exploited by my organization.

What I was referring to was simply that there is a little color coded status symbol by a person's chat icon, which is green if they are active, and turns yellow if they are not doing much.

However, if you have a meeting or appointment on your calendar, or you are presenting/videoconferencing it goes to red, so you really don't have to be green or yellow any more than you want to.
For all that we have instant-runoff preferential voting, we still have single-member districts for our House of Representatives (and 150 members of said House). We also have compulsory voting and (at the federal level, and in most states), a full-preferential ballot.

When you have 150 single-member districts you're probably going to get two major parties regardless of whether you have FPTP or IRV or even Approval voting. What compulsory voting and preferencing add on top of that is both of Australia's majors have to win the centre, rather than energising their base per the US.

What our system does allow for is for smaller parties in our Senate. It's generally elected 6 people at a time, allowing for e.g. 1 Green, 2 Labor, 2 Liberal-National and 1 One Nation (this is a very plausible result for Queensland next year).

So what does the US system allow then? Well, every system has to let its steam out somewhere. The US has its primaries, which often has a level of access and openness that greatly surpasses any Australian preselection (generally still getting out of the smoke-filled-room era).
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I think most digital services with longevity have endured because they make it easier for humans to achieve their existing wants and needs. Communicating via email is a lot faster than mailed letters - faster, cheaper, and saves you a trip to the post office. For all the shit social media has caused, it caught on because people want to talk to each other. Facebook became publicly available my senior year of high school - I'm in one of the first cohorts that didn't have to just drift apart from everyone I knew when I left my little hometown.

What are the things that VR makes easier? There are some exciting possibilities for games (I love playing around with Unity in VR!), but using a headset is more effort than a mouse and keyboard and monitor, and taking yourself completely out of your surroundings is an added level of separation. Qualitatively, it doesn't seem like the marginal benefits over games and social spaces on screens outweigh the costs for lots of users. Maybe further hardware and ergonomic improvements will tip that balance the other way though.

More egregious lately, in my mind, is how the conversation seems to have shifted to "the" metaverse, rather than "a" metaverse or metaverses. Having a single bounded spatial entity jibes with our intuitions drawn from the physical world and has made for some exciting settings in novels, but it's at odds with decades of precedent building virtual worlds for traditional computers. Metaverses should be like webpages - some small, some big, some simple, some elaborate, with no barriers to travel between them, built off a backbone of open protocols. An alternative of megacorp-curated experiences and artificially-imposed scarcity for the sake for making money seems far more bleak, I don't think it's a place where i could find fun or lasting value.
I am not talking about Crypto (I presume you mean crypto currencies). I am talking about technologies that enable centralization vs. decentralization.
I think part of this may be that the Internet is a Western world invention and we're used to somewhat functional governance in the West. In developing countries finding a trust-able entity is far more difficult, and in those instances it makes sense for people to come together and pool capital into these virtual institutions that can only operate according to their script(s).

We assume everyone in the world has access to non-rug-pulling companies like, say, BofA or TD Ameritrade but that's really not the case. These institutions have become trustworthy through decades of lawsuits and regulations.

Anecdote: My parents immigrated to the US from Albania, a few months before our planned move my dad's bank just decided to stop existing and the owners fled the country with all the (paper) money. My parents came to a new country with no money to their name because the FDIC is an American invention that a bunch of other countries still haven't copied.

So, I can see how it would work in that context, but I would agree here in the US where our tech overlords are generally benevolent it doesn't seem much more useful over web2.
It's definitely a worry for people doing illegal businesses, for example all the drug markets. Depending on your political allegiances, that's either a good thing or a bad thing, but either way, real value is being created for some people here.

It's also a worry for people who are traditionally blocked from doing business -- for example, anyone who's got some sanctions placed on them. Again, could be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your political opinions. But some people find it valuable, that's for sure.
I’m sure the brick and mortar stores felt similar before Amazon came and ate their lunch. Expensive and difficult to replicate infrastructure is a protective measure until it suddenly becomes a millstone around your neck due to its cost and inertia.

On the other hand customer trust is also a great moat to protect you from being usurped, and no company will ever come to rue having too much consumer trust. Amazon is foolish to spend this consumer trust down for increased profits.
The problem union advocates in America have is whenever things don't go their way, they immediately resort to calling the workers idiots. The workers aren't idiots. When they perceive that unions aren't listening to them, it's usually because that's true. The union corruption and contempt for workers is the cause, not the consequence, of workers giving up on unions.
so do you not have an email address and only use slack/fb to talk to people on the internet?
Unless there is a killer feature it enables, it's an implementation detail and I don't care. And I will gladly compare other solutions against blockchain despite not having the same implementation detail you claim puts it above comparison.

And so will everyone else that isn't blinded by fanaticism.
No it is not. There is no inherit value to bitcoin or any other token or coin. Those are just some hash values printed on a digital marker.

Imagine that I assign value to my monopoly money (as in the game), and it is traded in a stock exchange. Yes, it could reach 60K, but it is still monopoly money.
> Dapps running on the blockchain are immutable and highly resistant to being shutdown.

why the blockchain? There are other peer to peer tech that do not involve the blockchain, if your goal is avoiding being shutdown or censored.
FWIW, adding support for age in pass is listed as one of the goals of age. I'm considering sending an upstream patch in pass to support age and signify as well.
Nah, it's about censorship-free finance vs censorable finance.

If not for AML, KYC and basically the fact you just can't really use cash any more in significant sums for anything we wouldn't have had to bother.

I have 200,000 bitcoin, or maybe I have 0.2, no-one knows other than me. Good.
Ah my bad, I thought you were focusing on the features rather than the assurances. I'll respond to the other comment you made.
And they're are still important: the nuclear super-fuze, "boosting the overall killing power of existing US ballistic missile forces by a factor of roughly three."

https://thebulletin.org/2017/03/how-us-nuclear-force-moderni...
> or some of the long term ethos of the crypto developer community.

Do you mean "the code is the contract unless the contract would cause a substantial number of wealthy stakeholders to lose money, in which case the code is no longer the contract" (a stance, I might add, that is _formalized_ by PoS systems, if anyone ever manages to get one online)?
A more plausible division would be "Purdue’s rock-solid operational stability..." against "creditors, communities, and individuals ..."

Again, OP most plausibly referenced the first, I assert, with rock-solid certainty.
You think torrents are a better way to distribute files compared to alternatives?
Well your link discusses kids raised on it. Endocrine system is very different before and after puberty. I'm also talking about higher amounts then studies I've seen covered, as I said the guys I talked to were eating a lot, enough for 120+ grams protein every day. They may have been running close to the guy mentioned who was drinking .75 gallons soymilk every day since they were replacing that much protein. I'd probably have to consume that much to replace my protein intake from chicken, eggs, fish, beef, pork.

If you've got something on replacing that kind of animal protein intake with soy or something else I'd be interested in seeing but last time I looked studies on that much soy didn't exist. About all I know that is vegan and has comparable protein per calories to chicken breast is spirulina which tastes like absolute dogshit even in a shake. It is notoriously one of the worst tasting things many people have tried and I agree.

Fwiw I put gyno in parentheses in the first comment I just figured most people would know it as bitch tits because that's how its commonly referred to.

I'd also point out that my biggest opposition is still laws about what I can eat and how much. Agenda 2030, UN, WEF, and everybody else can fuck right off of my kitchen.
Do you feel the same about Tor? That the anonymity is an implementation detail and you don't care?
> (as an aside, the non-payment one seems kind of silly, since the blockchain apps don't work without payment either - network fees, etc. Sometimes they are covered, sometimes not)

There's a subtle difference here though: So long as I use AWS, I'm responsible for funding the account, and my non-payment means the app goes down. I have to continue to pay for the app to run, even if no one uses it.

On a blockchain, once I've deployed my app, I can walk away and never think about the app again. I only have to pay for the initial deployment of the contract without any further ongoing cost. The app will always be there ready to be used by an end user who's willing to pay to interact with it.
Would you mind trying again? I pushed a small change, which may improve the "reliability".
I’m not a crypto bro, but I don’t think it’s fair to criticize a prototype on its cost. Airplanes were very bad at the beginning. I think the valid criticism would be if there is some kind of physical limitation that prevents the system from evolving to something useful (think of the rocket equation, the ratio of useful mass/propellant is stuck at a ridiculous number).
Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission-type_tactics (which I've learned about because of Agile development)
You know what Carl Sagan said about Bozo the clown?

> "The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

Sometimes, Haters Gonna Hate and there's nothing more to it. But sometimes, Haters hate because they and you should hate what they hate, and one day, it will be clear to all. Problem is, of course, knowing if we're talking the equivalent of powered flight or Bozo the clown.
The comparison between Raspberry Pi and EVM is off by many, many orders of magnitude.

What Ethereum marketing likes to call a “global supercomputer” is slower than a 1950s computer built out of vacuum tubes, and running programs is more expensive than it was in 1955. (Programming ergonomics are also nearly punch card level.)

There are very few applications you’d actually want to execute on a platform like that. And every attempt to improve the design (including the long-promised PoS transition) is going to turn it into a centralized plutocracy.

It’s a fascinating science experiment that doesn’t have much purpose as an application environment. But because people are stubborn and the marketing was successful enough, “blockchain” is to this decade what “object-oriented” was in 1990s: a token gesture towards it will make managers and journalists happy.
Not the best example, since I’m pretty sure NASA has made similar tradeoffs.
Apple has severely cut back on QA and simply cannot claim to publish quality software anymore. The number of very easy to find bugs I run into makes that obvious. As an example, the latest iOS update introduced a bug that causes the input box to disappear completely on an iMessage thread so I can’t send messages unless I close it and come back. Happens daily. Embarrassing.

It doesn’t help that I have a friend who works at Apple and acts as though the continued bugginess is my fault unless I take the time to undergo the pain of submitting bugs, for which one never receives a response and which are ignored for literally years on end. We are all unappreciated beta testers.
I’m am specially speaking about blockchains, cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and the like, not IPFS, DHTs, or improvements to existing internet technologies (mutable torrents, webtorrent) to support decentralized storage, discovery, or name resolution. The “web3” nomenclature throws it all together, which is annoying. DeFi =! Dweb
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> What our votes really do is provide legitimacy to this system.

Are you really hoping that you can convince enough people to abstain that eventually the two major parties will have an epiphany and feel so ashamed that they'll fix the voting system to allow more competition and better representation?

I think you really need to consider who you are up against here, which is people who are prepared to fight dirty for unchecked and undeserved power, who will treat your abstention as being consent for their misrule.
Name any that execute Turing complete programs that have also shown resiliency to being taken down. Lot of darknet markets running on Tor have been shutdown over the years. Can't shut down a smart contract with no self-destruct function unless you shut down the entire Ethereum network.
> Dapps running on the blockchain are immutable and highly resistant to being shutdown.

Yeah, and that's why we have Ethereum Classic, a remnant of its own shameful history. Dapps are still man-made, so can be faulty, but Ethereum doesn't have any recovery scenario for faulty dapps other than forking out. No one can save you from your own deadly mistakes. This simply can't scale.
To me the two words (feature and assurance) are synonyms in this discussion. I meant both above.
I haven't even written that much go, but even with the little I have written, I have felt hindered in my "ability to get work done" by the lack of generics.
The image that insists I view it in desktop safari, is showing a weird blend of Mac and PC on my iPhone. So I guess it works there after all?

I don’t have access to desktop Safari so I’m not sure what it’s meant to do.
IMO that's an explicitly different issue than a comparison between Promises/async/await and Ruby's metaprogramming, though.

Not to mention that part of the issue with Promises is the various polyfills invented before broad acceptance, which is a separate can of worms, and a different type of complexity than the (relatively) heavy use of metaprogramming in Ruby (relative to JS).
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a dapp dependent on sufficient mining/distributed compute being in the network?. Of the network becomes small can someone attack it and change past transactions/hijack apps?