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Somewhat related - I really like the model of authenticating users via a wallet for the Ethereum network. It's not without it's problems and it's friction, but it creates a single public profile a user can use across different walled gardens. If you happen to use a wallet anyway, the experience of logging into various websites with it is rather glorious.

I recently bought two TVs, one for my sister and one for my father. My sister's has Roku built in and my father's has GoogleTV built in. Meanwhile my sister dug out an old game console and wanted to see if we could get it to work. Upon unboxing and attempting to use the new TVs, I found absolutely no way to access an HDMI port without going through the process of creating and logging into an account on each. My next TV will be a dumb TV.

> You've failed to demonstrate that

I see that now. I should have been more careful while searching for and sharing links. I have shot myself in the foot. And I'm not going to waste my time or others digging for and sharing what I think I remembered reading. I've done enough damage today. Thank you for your thorough reply.

sometimes challenging, very challenging... but SO valuable.

I mean... the DNC thought Bernie hacked them so...

There's something of a difference between 'alternative scenarios' and demonstrating that the 'settled' story doesn't fit with the limited evidence. One popular example is that the exploit Crowdstrike claim was used wasn't in production until after they claimed it was used.

Several groups doubted the results such as Threat Connect and Ukraine's military:

https://threatconnect.com/resource/webinar-guccifer-2-0-the-...

https://www.voanews.com/a/crowdstrike-comey-russia-hack-dnc-...

I want to add something to the discussion but it's difficult for me to accurately summarize and cite things. In a nutshell, there appears to be a lot of tomfoolery with CrowdStrike and the stuff that happened with the DNC during the 2016 election. Here's some of what I'm talking about:

There's a strong link between the DNC, Hillary, and CrowdStrike. Here's once piece that links a cofounder of CrowdStrike with Hillary pretty far back: https://www.technologyreview.com/innovator/dmitri-alperovitc...

This 2017 piece talks about doubt behind CrowdStrike's analysis of the DNC hack being the result of Russian actors. One of the groups disputing CrowdStrike's analysis was Ukraine's military. https://www.voanews.com/a/crowdstrike-comey-russia-hack-dnc-...

This detailed analysis of CrowdStrike's explanation of the DNC hack goes so far as to say "this sounded made up" https://threatconnect.com/resource/webinar-guccifer-2-0-the-...

The Threat Connect analysis is also discussed here: https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/295670-prewritten-gu...

"For one, the vulnerability he claims to have used to hack the NGP VAN ... was not introduced into the code until an update more than three months after Guccifer claims to have entered the DNC system."

Noted at the end of this story they mention that CrowdStrike installed it's software on all of the DNC's systems: https://www.ft.com/content/5eeff6fc-3253-11e6-bda0-04585c31b...

Finally, there's this famous but largely forgotten story of the time Bernie's campaign was accused to accessing Hillary's data: https://www.npr.org/2015/12/18/460273748/bernie-sanders-camp...

"This was a very egregious breach and our data was stolen," Mook said. "We need to be sure that the Sanders campaign no longer has access to our data."

"This bug was a brief, isolated issue, and we are not aware of any previous reports of such data being inappropriately available," the company said in a blog post on its website.

(edited for spelling)

My next TV purchase will be a dumb TV.

Please forgive me if this was talked about already, but I don't see it. Do you have any thoughts on Web3 support of any kind? Metamask enabled dApp development, but it hasn't evolved particularly well. There have been other attempts to replace Metmask with a better wallet such as Coinbase's wallet or Tally. But I think the whole paradigm needs a rethink. Is any of this even on your radar at all?

He'll serve for less than 15 years, which is a blink of an eye given the devastation he caused.

has it though?

I'm not sure which of the many consensus protocols you may have in mind, but proof of stake is the most popular alternative.

A 51% attack for PoW requires that someone can afford to power 51% of the network. That's expensive. Once the attack is detected, the community can fork away from the moment of the attack.

A 51% attack for PoS requires that someone owns 51% of the tokens. At that point, the attack costs nothing. If the attack is detected and the community forks, the attacker still has enough tokens to attack again on the new network - at no cost.

All of this stuff is brand new. Saying that any of it is "proven" is pretty bold.

This is a tired complaint built on a faulty analysis of Bitcoin's power usage. There are a lot of things that use more power than the Bitcoin network, such as all of the idle electronics in the USA. Or christmas lights during the season. In the case of Bitcoin, the power used to mine is often power that would otherwise be wasted. Excess power from hydroelectric damns as well as gas being burned off in the oilfield are both used to mine Bitcoin. Bitcoin isn't robbing anyone of power they need for anything else because the moment the cost of power goes up, Bitcoin mining leaves town. Because Bitcoin creates a market for power and can be mined anywhere with power and Internet, it creates unique opportunities to improve our power grid. We can now build power stations in areas where there are not yet enough residential customers to fund it by using the excess power for Bitcoin mining. Net result is that Bitcoin is a value add for our power infrastructure and the negative impact of Bitcoin mining is grossly exaggerated. The current banking system has a significantly worse impact on the environment.

yes it's doing something useful - securing the network and ensuring consensus

It's a cycle. It's going to restart. And then die. And then restart again. For a while.

Legend

Bitcoin != Web3

Bitcoin == Web5

I see no problem, fundamentally, with leveraging the benefits of AI to generate content for whatever thing. I see the problem as those who contributed the content upon which the AI was trained not getting paid for the use of their content.

We'll find out.

I think it has to be said, correlation is not causation. While I believe that in this case it's almost certainly true, it's still not scientific to claim that it is indeed true until you can prove causation.

When you do the math, it turns out that 100% of people who confuse correlation with causation end up dead. Dangerous stuff.

I made this in Turbo Pascal: https://dosgames.com/game/bob-and-his-amazing-journey-home/

Capitalism is all of about 200 years old. It's a revolutionary idea. Previously, if a group of people wanted to pool capital for a venture, they had to have the support of the state or the church, usually one in the same. The US allowed for the pooling of capital for ventures that were purely for profit. The result was the rapid expansion of the country.

But that's the initial effect of a system that's relatively brand new. Now we're facing the constant conglomeration of ownership of capital, resources, and production. We used to push back against the monopolization of industry but we're losing that battle. And as anyone who's played a lot of Monopoly knows, it never ends well.

Capitalism results in many improvements, such as funding for research towards medicines that impact millions of people around the globe. However, capitalism overlooks many improvments such as funding research of medicines that only effect a few people - because that's not profitable enough.

The biggest failure of our model of capitalism thus far is that we have allowed the corporate takeover of our political system. Laws are now crafted by corporate lawyers and politicians spend all of their time raising more campaign funds for the next election cycle. Anyone we would actually want to vote into positions of leadership are overshadowed by corporate-sponsored puppets.

A democracy can not function without an informed populous. Our populous is informed by one of few corporate owned and controlled media channels. Since the telecommunications act of 1996, the quality of news reporting has plummeted and now pushes one of 2 available narratives, both equally fabricated.

Yes, capitalism was an amazing evolutionary step in society. But if we don't take the next step forward soon, we'll be taking a step backwards.

Believing something is intractable is the first step in it becoming intractable.

Meanwhile, campaign finance reform is a prerequisite to actually solving any of those "less intractable" problems that never ever get solved because those issues are more financially valuable to the Democratic party leaders when left unresolved.

Example: the right to choose an abortion could have been codified into law for decades, but the risk of losing the right to an abortion was more valuable to Democratic leadership. Source: Andrew Yang

I bought a shirt from his presidential campaign and frequently wear it when traveling through airports. Not once has anyone recognized it and I think that's a shame.

Ah, at least now I know there's a reason.

I think this was meant for another post. You're on the CRISPR post.

"If you're not the customer, you're the product."

Basically, it's when the wet-bulb temperature exceeds 35C. From the Wikipedia entry:

"It has been thought that a sustained wet-bulb temperature exceeding 35 °C (95 °F)—given the body's requirement to maintain a core temperature of about 37°C—is likely to be fatal even to fit and healthy people, unclothed in the shade next to a fan; at this temperature human bodies switch from shedding heat to the environment, to gaining heat from it"

> But to get people on board, you can't just propose burning it all down, you need to point to a viable alternative.

This may be true for most people, I don't know. However, I personally am fully on board the "burn it all down" train and have been for a while.

I'm going to use this as an excuse to springboard off on a tangent I've been thinking a lot about.

I think my social media story might be pretty common. Early on, all my social graphs across various platforms were well managed mappings of my real life friends. Today, all my social graphs are a mess. Platforms seem to push to make it easier to discover and find new friends. I want the opposite of this.

I want to have to go through a series of steps in real life in order to add someone to my contact list. I want to classify this friend in some way that acknowledges what the level of trust is. Is this person a casual acquaintance or a trusted family member?

When content is "shared" and I'm receiving it in my news feed, I don't just want to see how many "likes" it has. I want to heuristics on how my personal network responded to that piece of content. And, of course, I want to own that data and I want my hardware to crunch the data. So this could be built in a decentralized way.

This paradigm is far less susceptible to Sybil attacks, such as paid upvotes on a sites like Hacker News. It would isolate us, in a way, from the zeitgeist. But it would connect us more closely with our real world social network.