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We. Are. Switching.

Only for the top 1% does a fiat government currency work and we are in the tail end of this cycle.

The US knows this and it's why they are printing the dollar into oblivion. Get you Bitcoin Cash and Monero while you still can.

It keeps happening because people are stupid, especially children. This whole culture is being led by children on social media. Reddit is a bunch of teenagers, 4chan started the Trump and Q movements.

Now we are letting our speech be governed by kids who this they are being polite but are really a generation of self centered monsters.

We lost respect for our elders and worship at the feet of the teen instagram model. I think adult men are most immune to this but in my life I see 20-30 something women jumping on the bandwagon of calling themselves victims and identity politics.

The civil legal system has been destroyed by this mess and we are emptying out our institutions of any logical thought.

Corporate America is the last hold out for logic but even they are quickly succumbing to the idiocracy.

As a PhD student I found some data that made no sense. Basically a compound added to a plate of cells EXACTLY matched the increase in yield, the former student had just multiplied the yield by the same amount of the added compound. I reported it to my advisor but (of course) she swept it under the rug and did nothing.

I tried to contact the format student but also nothing. There were a few more similar instances before I became completely disillusioned and left the phd program after 4 years, totally burned out with little to show.

To this day I hate that lab and the whole institution. Rotten to the core.

Go to the gym sometime, women portray themselves in a sexualized manner, it's not some patriarchy telling them to sexualize themselves.

I agree! Ethereum is already to big and too expensive to use. I hold a lot but worry about both BTC and Ethereum. Normal people can no longer use either chain for everyday transactions and at this rate Ethereum will never work as a global computer. To me only Bitcoin Cash and Monero really have their use cases and code sussed out. Sia (and filecoin) work great but both have issues with their insentives, in Sia's case they issue too many coins and it's not profitable to host content.

Smoking weed to get into the proverbial, "flow" state.

Your comment is burried below dozens more optimistic views that life "should" exist and evolve intelligence, but I like your take. We are so wildly improbable that most of us can't even fathom it. That our minds exist at all is so impossibly unlikely that by all accounts we should not exist.

For most I think that we are hear seems to indicate some inevitably but I like that we are an anomaly, we shouldn't exist, the we die.

So happy to see actual discussion of cryptocurrency concepts and not just visceral hate for all things crypto on hacker news. New line it looks like you guys have really turned a corner I'm proud of you hacker news.

Similarly I've long been saying that our generation is the first to have no real connection to the natural world. Our grandparents grew up with their grandparents who would have been firmly planted in Terra-cognito or at least been hearing stores of it. But our parents, once removed, had nothing "real" to pass on to us, just stories at best. The baby-boomers specificlly sought to cut ties to their "stiff" parental figures and mostly were successful in reshaping the world as individualistic, something that NEVER would have worked as a survival strategy for any previous generation.

My take, the baby-boomers consciously severed our ties to the past as their children we have now lost all connections to the natural world. We get what we deserve which is utter destruction of the climate and mental suffering and disease until the day we die.

Pinker is a jackass and a jerk. Why anyone listens to him is beyond me. Just another New York Times know-nothing shouting psudo-liberal.

So, losers.

I was in the rubber industry for 5 years as a researcher and believe me, it's no God damn "mystery". We (a very large tire manufacturer you have heard of) spent several million a year coming up with plausible deniability for what we were doing to avoid this, mainly using more natural rubber. We spent more on advertising the "green" natural rubber tires then we did on actually manufacturing them.

Sorry to be cynical but I am so sick of this BS where big industry pollutes for decades while academics are eating right out of their hands then they pretend like it's a surprise when they "discover" the source of the pollution.

We have know FOR DECADES that tire pollution is arguably WORSE for the environment than tail pipe emissions. Don't buy this BS as if this is new research, it's just been successful ignored until it couldn't. Same as recycling plastics but ya'all ain't ready to talk about that scam yet apparently as I keep seeing people diligently filling their blue buckets with unrecyclables as if they are "doing their part".

Also, an actual peer reviewed paper came out recently that showed giving vitamin d to covid patients upon admitting them did not decrease death rates. I'll look for the link but it was front page here like two weeks ago.

Yep its just uses other search engines.

https://amp.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/bn4mvl/why_does...

I have to assume it's just meaningless pandering, otherwise what would such a system look like?

A platform would just provide an interface but each user would supply their own database of content and connections. Either self hosted or on some third party server?

If people had to "own" their data and the platforms never had full access to it how much would user experience suffer.

Is what she saying make any sense or am I missing something?

I disagree. BCH needed to fork before SegWit activated to stop Blockstream from co-opting Bitcoin into a settlement layer for their second layer products. Thank God we still have an untainted Bitcoin.

He said, "on the upside". In no way did he detract from the work they are doing.

I also don't get the downvoted.

> good team management...

You mean Blockstream and Adam Back in particular? Yikes, if that's what you call a good team I'd hate to be on a software project with you. They have severely diviated from the design layed out in the White Paper and Satoshi's intensions of having a cheap, Peer-to-Peer digital currency. The failure to raise the block size alone has been, at best, a massive misstep, at worst, a deliberat sabotage of the Bitcoin project.

> Cheap to transfer - Compared to wire transfers, transferring bitcoin is cheap.

You must be thinking of Bitcoin Cash. Only BCH follows the original design and intention of the Bitcoin White Paper to be Peer-to-Peer digital cash, the BTC chain was co-opted years ago by Blockstream and has been perverted into some wildly expensive settlement layer for their own 2nd layer products.

Exactly how I describe it! A super power but one most people can't even recognize.

They kept it quiet when they could have had the whole world on the look out. Who knows how many opportunities were missed to have them found in the meantime.

In this case it seems that (devistatingly) they knew they were lost 20 years ago and just kept quiet about it.