miguelmota

Social stratification, genetic elitism, genetic profiling, bio-surveillance, etc. are all very real concerns. Brave New World will become non-fiction.

If someone sends physical cash to a person across the world, is there an undo button?

The money supply managed by an on-chain protocol where it’s fully open, trustless, and predictable is 100% times better then a small group of people at the treasury deciding to print money and inflate peoples savings always.

Then what is the future? Certainly not the government going haywire with the printer. It’s impossible to trustlessly verify the exact number of US dollars in circulation, but it’s trivial to do with cryptocurrencies.

> Is there any crypto out there without humans ?

What OP is referring to is that you don't need to trust people if the dex is on-chain and verifiable. FTX was a non-transparent and insolvent centralized exchange which wouldn't be possible if it was on-chain because anyone can see the funds that are available and the protocol would not allow leverage backed by non-existing collateral.

> Is there an undo button to reverse the transaction?

No there isn't. This is a double edge sword.

> All financial systems involve humans

To a degree, but centralized exchanges have more knobs controlled by humans while an on-chain dex and just be deployed once and require no human intervention. A dex can be audited fully on-chain and anyone can see if the contract has any master holder keys. The FTX fiasco is because they own all your crypto because they have the master keys. The future of finance is people being in charge of their own money and where no unexpected entity can arbitrarily inflate the supply, which is only possible with crypto.

It's a reality to the people of Latin America who use stablecoins on Ethereum to hedge against their own country's inflation.

For something that millions of people across the world rely on, with million+ transactions daily, it's definitely worth celebrating. It's using a magnitude less energy now than YouTube or Netflix [1] If YouTube had a similar decrease in energy, Hacker News would be all over it.

https://ethereum.org/en/energy-consumption/#proof-of-stake-e...

> I still cannot find any legitimate use cases for blockchain

Blockchains solve the double-spend problem. Allows for scarcity in the digital realm. Ethereum is a platform for decentralized finance, anyone can borderlessly lend and borrow in seconds. Endless possibilities.

Stablecoins are mostly what people use for payments. ETH is what's staked on the beacon chain.

Yes, it did work. No missed slots and high participation rate. Exceeded expectations. Congrats to all the devs!

Why do you use a pseudonym on here instead of your real name? Oh right because you care about privacy. Same reason tornado cash exists. Playing the ML card is like saying Tim Berners-Lee invented the internet to facilitate digital crime.

This is an interesting experiment that I'm excited about. The fact that a financial flash mob is possible is incredible. Anybody from anywhere can participate and have voting power by joining the DAO. Regardless of the outcome, it's good to see the convergence of DAOs into meatspace.

If something is hard in theory, it's 10x harder in implementation. Complex systems have a lot of 'unknown unknowns' that can't be forecasted. Ethereum is $300B+ live network so every small change takes time to research, test, and implement. Migrating from PoW to PoS is like swapping out the engine of an airplane in mid-air.

Stakers in a PoS system are incentivized to do what's best for the network. It wouldn't make sense for them to stake large amounts of funds and do something that could make Ethereum less valuable. The current marketcap of Ethereum is $325B, so a 51% attack in a PoS system means the attacker would need $165B. Even if a really bad attack occurred, the majority of validators can decide to fork (eg DAO fork). The social layer of Ethereum is a hidden force and I believe the majority are honest actors that would support any Ethereum improvement proposals that make the network more fair and decentralized.

We wake up and look at the small rectangle.

Go to work and stare at the medium rectangle.

Come home and watch the big rectangle.

It might reduce attacks but no operating system is bulletproof and attackers devote more resources to the operating system with more market share. If all infrastructure running on windows changed to linux, then linux would be the new target.

Another way to put it is that as you get older you start prioritizing things better that are of value to you as your time in existence is being depleted. Less time means more focus, which results in less fucks.

Most people I know that grew up in Southern California want to live long-term in California.

Most people I know that grew up in a different state and tried living in Southern California, end up hating it and leaving.

If you’re used to Southern California you’re probably more likely to put up with it’s many problems because it’s home, there’s great food, plenty of things to do, and of course the amazing weather. If you’re an outsider, I can see why living in California seems absurd if you’re not used to the heavy traffic and high prices.

I’ve tried xterm, terminator, termite, urxvt, st, kitty, and gnome-terminal but Alacritty is my go to because of it’s speed and simplicity. Alacritty has no menus, no tabs, no scroll bars, and configuration is done via a single config file. I pair it with tmux. The only minor thing I wished Alacritty would support is font ligatures.

Anyone remember rotten.com? It was a treasure trove for morbid curiosity. You can probably still visit some of the pages on the wayback machine if you're curious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten.com

This is interesting but a gofundme or regular fundraising event could achieve the same thing, without paying high miner fees too.

> Nvm is macos only

Half true; NVM also works on Linux and *BSD OS types.

The movie Life of Pi also comes to mind in regards to being stuck on a boat and retelling the story but Mohammed’s experience would make a great survival movie no doubt. Maybe Netflix will make a deal with him

Ditto. Firefox takes security and privacy more seriously as well. Google's business model is selling online advertising which by nature requires data collection and tracking. I've been using Firefox as main browser and for web development for years and never thought about going back to Chrome.

I'd think the company would be concerned of these pranks defaming the company if enough employees did them.

Similar effects of a Veblen good

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good

Website appears down. Here's the archive link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210321232118/https://melindawy...

I agree with the post for the most part. It's important to feel that your work is acknowledged to feel worthy.

I disagree with this statement however:

> I prefer being upfront with people rather than doing the "It is easier to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission" route a lot of folks suggest.

Asking your employer if you can work on a side project is like asking them if you can play golf on the weekend. It's your own time off-work hours and you're free to work on a project without begging for permission. If the side project directly competes with you're employer's product then that's a definitely a gray area but you'd know if you're purposely taking intellectual property or not. If you're not sure that your employer will screw you over then get something in writing.

Humans aren't going to stop consuming meat any time soon. It makes sense to try create more efficient 'farms' to minimize waste and engineer meat without a central nervous system.

I've been using sprunge.us for years

cat file.txt | curl -F 'sprunge=<-' http://sprunge.us