jksmith

Well you do have an example of this in BTC. For physical property, it might be backed by a smart contract, then whoever takes your land, does so at the risk of being deplatformed. IOW, take my land, then the world around you becomes off-limits. Then you would have to be Alexander the Great to expand your world. Then antagonist is back into an energy expenditure issue. It's just not worth the energy cost to steal your land, so I don't.

Willingness to fork, which requires human choices/intervention. Seems to me the extinction of forking is (was) a design goal of BTC. I know of no example of that with alts. In fact, there seems to be zero appetite for this goal with alts.

Not clear on your "Bitcoin will be the Yahoo" reduction. There's scarcity and commodity qualities to take into account, and making absolute statements about behavioral economics has a far greater chance of being wrong. Not arguing to a binary reduction; just suggesting signal to noise is way to low to make this kind of prognostication.

So a good qualifier for this space is to explicitly say "My gut tells me that..." While I don't know what my gut tells me about BTC yet, it does tell me that the compromise elemental to all non-BTC coins, including ETH will eventually damage or even destroy them. The one exception might be ZeroStableCoin.

Actually it's the elimination of a use case for a law.

Yes, owning property when that ownership does not require enforcement by a central authority.

Simply, not depending on a centralized authority for regulation. For instance, whatever value any gov offers regarding trading regulation can be codified into the network.

Here's the most obvious example right now: what is the argument for centrally regulating BTC at this point given its design? People will HODL no matter what happens. The set of all attributes of personal sovereignty includes self-regulation.

Nothing? How about the ability to self-regulate, and other acts of personal sovereignty? Learn and adapt, network gets stronger for all. Do Kwan is a circus act with elephants - he got implicitly deplatformed if not explicitly.

Hah, we are the creators, the self-created. Ironies are journey swag. Display proudly...

Doesn't mean we don't have to iterate a bit. Iterate from problem to solution, inspecting and adapting along the way.

Destroy aggregation - whether it's amazon or msft or airbnb or statism or whatever it's ultimately evil with the advance of technology. Codify trust reciprocation (objectives responded to with evidence) directly into every aspect of the network. Then aggregation becomes a middleman.

Windows won't support this model, neither with android or macos. Currently only linuxes have the inertia to play a role in this space.

That is indeed feature packed for BF. Because shut up.

I don't know about Apple, but I do have a ton of experience consulting for multiple F500's. Many at these companies who want people to come back to work are just middle managers who find it harder to justify their jobs since remote work has become so prevalent. They simply can't grasp how work can get done without them telling people what to do. And of course the easiest way to do that without requiring much thought is to see their underlings in person.

That's way off the mark with regard to purchasing power vs money supply. Check your M2 chart. And your time frame on BTC is too short. Yes, it's trending up, and also becoming less volatile over time.

Yes, crashing up.

You want volatile value trending up, or or value going to shit with certainty?

BTW, the only corruption I've run into with sqlite is plug-pullers with transaction frames still open, killing a debug session, the usual shenanigans that are improper with basic NTFS.

The whole scene was funny because while the MSFT Dynamics sales guy was really trying to be helpful, the MSFT Azure sales guys couldn't give two shits about the tool and wanted to give it away as bait to get customers into Azure. That was my take at the time.

I'm using for a suite of commercial desktop products and it's working out really well. You'll need to figure your multiple reader/single write connection pools, and graceful shutdowns in your custom server to avoid a data file corruption. This stuff you wouldn't normally do with a db server, but the discovery has made for some great learning and provided food for all kinds of load balancing and distributed db designs. Also started using fossil, which I really love for my small team.

Sqlite is one of the greatest open source projects in history, with awesome docs, and really is a tribute to the art of programming. I'm happy and honored to use it for the appropriate use cases (which are a lot more than one would think).

Oh lordy, this is waking up some bad memories of using Dynamics for a huge project. As a team of 50, we started having to extend the crap out of it with c#, which made me question the use of the tool in the first place. So we called in an expert, who proceeded to tell up that if you didn't stay as close out of the box as you could with as little c# customization as possible, then we'd run into problems, which of course was the issue. That was in 2015, and the tool may have gotten better, but at the time, it was only capable of some basic crud applications, along with some pretty good interop with msft office. Point is, if it's a no/low code solution, the whole solution ultimately better be in the box. Otherwise you're screwed.

So how do you come up with a uniquely competitive product from no/low code if the whole solution must already essentially be in the box? Maybe the best use case is internal IT needs.

Maybe, but I'd pay for better content and UX. Many movies above that royalty threshold just aren't available. Also Netflix must die because they canceled Cowboy Bebop.

About time anyway. Always next version of the business they put out of business. That's the way it works, especially with the deflation threat of technology. If you're a tech business and you can't maintain a margin so you have to raise rates, then something is up, broke, stockholder greed, personal greed, etc.

Aggregation business model ultimately can become evil. Doesn't make any diff whether it's Amazon, Google, Uber, AirBnB, etc. The network has to become strong and trustless enough that any aggregation business model must operate with the fear of being de-platformed.

In the US, the doctors see what the recommended standard treatment is, according to liability insurance. Keeps their costs down.

This is scaler talk about an issue that will require some vector solutions. Having consulted for several F500 corporations, I've seen first hand that they mostly suck, and a lot of this culture talk is driven by Bill Lumbergh not being able to do his cube circuit every day.

The direction of decentralized work effort has let people step back from the trees to see the forest, and simply ask why a company thinks it's even worth their in-person time. This should even be a stockholder fundamental question if a chunk of company expenses goes to keeping lights turned on.

Sure, so can Modula-2 or Ada. Point is, degrees of separation in our biases, especially when it comes to C sugared languages.

This. The tyranny of popularity continues with "c" sugared languages, among other factors.

I'd love to, and support the project with my bucks, but that seems a bit optimistic in the short term. Getting more and more work done with linux in the meantime.

With these efforts, at least my craving for sovereignty is mostly satisfied. With windows I feel like a crofter living on someone else's land.

Well it's current state also. VB is gone, Delphi survived. Green threads and a different error mechanism besides exceptions would have encouraged more attention to server dev.

Delphi was always challenged for a popularity slot because of the tyranny of C langs. My impression is that Anders went into "me too" mode, maybe from marketing pressure. They had a solid green thread lib but never made use of it in Delphi.

Geez louise I've made some money with this tool. Always been good to me. Anders adulterated it a little too much for me, and I wish it had gone more M2 green threads, but it's still the best win desktop tool available.

>> which LN is determined not to do.

What's the source of your opinion?

OT: Allegro CL is still hanging in there as a commercial chain. Anybody use it?