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Healthcare and tech are basically the two "jobs of the future". "Local growth" pfffft. More people need more healthcare. There are few surer things.

"Expensive trains" seem in style, for whatever reason. There are routes that run buses every 4 minutes here. There are other routes that run every 10m, with electric buses on caternary wires. I'll take a good bus line over a non-existent rail line any day. I love trains but if bus lanes and BRT infra are politically expedient, good enough for me.

Forgot Vianna, the buses in Boston aren't great but 20m late is exceptional here.

Someone can mine and broadcast blocks that reference an old block, nodes will store the block, in case more are published and it becomes the longest chain, but will otherwise ignore it.

And you really only need to track UXTO for your own address if you're not a full node, and that will be very small.

This is obviously a very personal story so I'm not trying to shit on it, but isn't "sneaking in" just sitting in on a class? Professors don't care, you usually don't even have to ask, but if you did it seems like most people welcome it. I turn up for talks at schools I don't attend, its not like there's security at the door.

Testnet?

>they were custom-designed!).

I used to work at a VC funded company that had a $10,000 custom couch (which sucked, totally uncomfortable, the custom dollars went into the shape/making it fit) and prolly 10x that spent on custom lighting fixtures (also terrible, ridiculously dim for a work space, but looked nice). In a super high rent urban area. I assume they make up the difference with glass walls and giant open spaces. This is (unfortunately) how offices are built these days.

>I am probably upper middle class (whatever that means)

It means upper class

>People who know Zuckerberg think he’s losing touch with what it’s like to suffer real loss, and that he’s on his way to becoming a modern-day Howard Hughes

This is a prettyyyyyy unflattering comparison

Cmon, tho, they literally built a system to ID cops. It's no wonder people are giving them shit, even if you forgive it all you have to know its terrible optics. It's not really astounding.

And I don't think the blockchain world is any any way over regulated or stifled, 5ish years in and its still basically the wild west. Btce was one of the biggest exchanges until recently, and I doubt whatshisface would have even been arrested had they not vacationed in greece or w/e. And any random jerkoff can still make something just like it. Or implement some funny p2p exchange etc..

Hey yeah why not, I'd live in bits of Jersey. If I can work nearby in Jersey and be able hop on the PATH to The City on weekends, that doesn't sound half bad.

You weren't kidding about those comments. First story I clicked on:

>Well buddy, They have been shooting each other here since they opened I78 and they started moving here. 20+ years now. They have ruined a once great all American city with this BS and it is true. When it gets cold they go back inside.

> There is no creative destruction option

Know how I know you're not an American...?

This is comically simple, if I'm understanding correctly.

The attacker watches the mempool for rancor txs, and creates higher fee rancor txs to frontrun.

I think miners could monopolize this exploit, since they ultimately can order the txs however they like.

It's almost like if you shit on developers for a decade people don't wanna bother with your new platform.

>what would happen to all credentials once issued to some blockchain, if that blockchain ceases to operate? The raw blockchain data is of course still available and maintains its blockchain structure. Yet the integrity-preserving features of the blockchain disappear as soon as it is no longer actively used.

I'm not sure this is true. Info about the blockchain wouldn't evaporate instantly, it'd be easy to get the legit genesis block header and chain height, wouldn't it require a lot of "work" to produce a convincing counterfeit chain?

>It brings to mind a future of living in a 300 square foot government apartment in some hideous Brutalist concrete block of a building, eating our daily Amazon rations, knowing that's just how life is going to be, forever, no need to have dreams anymore.

If I don't have to work, sign me up.

The Ethereum guys proposed something like this in a super long rambling document with lots of made up terminology [1]

https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Sharding-FAQ

IOTA is amateur hour. The author implemented their own hashing algo, "curl", which is used all over the place in IOTA, until recently including signing transactions. Researchers were able to produce distinct transactions with colliding signatures [1].

Depending on whether you believe the author, either they did it intentionally for the implied purpose of attacking competing forks (as they claim), or unintentionally because they're incompetent. Neither situation sounds good to me.

IOTA also relies on a closed-source "coordinator" for consensus. They call it "training wheels". Who knows if their "tangle" will actually work in production. Crazy to me that people are pumping so much money into it w/o any due diligence.

[1] https://github.com/mit-dci/tangled-curl/blob/master/vuln-iot...

>while the Hero’s Journey functions as an engine driving the survival of the fittest (both physically and ideologically)

I think this is a pretty questionable interpretation. The Buddhist myth of Prince Five-Weapons contradicts this, for example, as do many other myths which adhere to the "formula".