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I agree and disagree. We should devote more total resources to the issue, but maybe not through media? I believe the government has 2 primary responsibilities: applying cost to externalities, and keeping it's constituents healthy. Everything else should be second class. If our (the US) nation's priorities were more than a half-baked set of corporate agendas we might actually have such a government.

It's catch 22. We need people to care about this, but shoving it down our throats on primetime tv isn't a productive way to accomplish this.

This hits home. Every time I've ever had to make the decision I've chosen yaml, for exactly this reason. Funny how the seemingly small things can be absolute show stoppers when it comes to making decisions in production.

It is useful for those things. I implemented a fairly involved scripting system that we now use inside all of our server instances. Each script in the system is an entry file mapping to an alias command and the entry file is invoked from the top level. To get the benefits of async/await, we write the logic of each entry script under main = async () => do_logic(), and call it at the end of the file as main().

I just don't see how this workaround is the correct solution. Just saying that's it's generally a bad idea is not enough for me. At some point there will come a time when you want to treat a file as a function, and when that day comes you will want async/await at the top level.

I believe this has to do with the level of fuck you money made by early devs of these systems and the nature of liquidity in crypto. I'm sitting here working on my non-blockchain product, exhausted after a long weekend of work and mentally preparing for another week of it. I can assure you if there were 10 million plus in my bank account I would have taken the weekend off and explored some of my less profitable interests. I would have written code, read papers, and all of that, just in a more relaxed way. Instead I focused solely on making the product of my business better. Unlike a tokenized system, I can only liquidate the value I have created once I have taken it to the finish line. Myself and my team won't be fat and happy until we get there.

I've had a few people hand wave this explanation, but I've been involved with Ethereum for about 2 1/2 years and this absolutely happens. Productive work is rarely the work that makes us happiest in the moment. That's why we must force founders to hold out for liquidity.

Easy wasn't the right word. Straightforward would have been better. I understand there is a great deal of effort that goes in to it.

I'm a bit cynical because I know good marketers maintain rep on many accounts on several key social network/forum sites. It's easy to do. Just queue up some actually interesting informative posts and the do a little automation to spread them out over time.

The nodes on our existing social graphs are too large. I'll define a node in this case as a user's potential social graph over time. A naive social network that mitigates this is nextdoor. I say naive because the concept of a "neighborhood" on nextdoor results in a lot of bigotry and noisy neighbor effects. Kind of literally in this case.

But the idea of breaking down large nodes in favor of smaller nodes tied to the community in which a user resides is a decent idea. I speculate we'd see greater efficiency in self-regulation, too. It's not a silver bullet, of course. At least globalization tends to decrease cultural ignorance.

I'd wager global social networks are here to stay, but I think a powerful network could arise that focuses on more refined slices of the social graph.

I've had my mind on this exact point for a while. But I'm slowly realizing that I tend towards new shiny things, like many people. And sometimes that project I've been grinding on for a couple years starts to look less appealing. So I lean on the argument that, 'hey, I put a lot of time into this. I should continue.' Continuing to work on the long boring project for this reason alone technically qualifies as the sunken cost fallacy. Yet it helps me override my internal *human bug I'm experiencing. That is, we associate boredom with a lack of progress.

An interesting aspect of this crypto boom over the last year has been the stress test on public internet infrastructure. Just the other day myetherwallet was hit with a nasty hack.

I'd say you owe that friend a round or two.

Sorry. Took off after I wrote this. Here's a good discussion that reveals the the debate/thinking going on around scalability. https://ethresear.ch/t/future-compatibility-for-sharding/386

This is all true at the moment. Heavy research is going into making blockchains more scalable and energy efficient within the Ethereum ecosystem. If fruitful, these improvements will address the concern you have about efficiency.

If you still use facebook on a daily basis, you are in part responsible for what is happening to the free web. Sorry. I said it. I'm getting bummed at the frequency I hear the excuse, "But I don't have a choice, network effects..blah blah blah." Doing the right thing isn't fucking easy. So stop the excuses.