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Who else could have an estimated $40 billion and not bother touching it? My guess is that it's the Mars fund and when Starship is ready, those first coins will move.

There's a British startup founded by a hyperloop engineer trying to do this.

https://www.magway.com/

> A single marketplace providing an API for moving goods from point A to point B priced by weight, special requirements (refrigerated transport, etc), timeliness and the current state of the market (dynamic pricing) could work.

This is interesting but the debate between private/public services is political gridlock. Just like there's no single payer healthcare in the US because of insurance companies, this idea would be basically a nationalization of Amazon, Fedex, and UPS. I'm not sure how you'd pull that off.

I've thought about over-collateralized logistics smart contracts for something like this: post a request for transport with parcel details like size and speed desired then collect deposits from both shipper and carrier. I'm not sure people would want to deal with large deposit values to cover the potential for irresponsible carriers though.

Well, there is Nexo which is basically the same but headquartered in Bulgaria.

While using a vaporizer is better than smoking, try switching to edibles (especially ones without sugar like tablets or oils) so that there's no ritual involved with ingestion. Much of the habit is packing the vaporizer and holding it to your mouth. When this link is broken by minimizing the ritual (swallowing once) and disconnecting the action from the reaction, (takes about an hour to feel effect) you can be much more rational about your consumption.

Blockfi isn't defi. If they had used defi, like aave, they would have avoided this whole situation.

A related idea I've had is that: when a living being reproduces asexually, the conscious observer does not split, and is able to experience both bodies. That is, all bacteria exist as one living being with many bodies.

To test this, I've dreamed up an experiment.

> In April 2004, scientists at Tokyo University of Agriculture used parthenogenesis successfully to create a fatherless mouse. [0]

Create an enclosure where two mice live but are isolated from each other: the parent and the clone child produced asexually.

Then, provide food for one mouse in a place where the other cannot sense its presence and see if it reacts with salivation, a kind of macro-scale entanglement.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis#Mammals

> I believe that inertia might be quantized, and if so, it might be possible to take advantage of this to build spacecraft that don't need exhaust to work.

This idea is new to me. From (what appears to be a fan site) quantizedinertia.com: "This explains why stars at the edge of galaxies can orbit faster than expected but still remain bound to the galaxy. As a result, Quantised Inertia predicts galaxy rotation perfectly without the need for dark matter or any adjustment (McCulloch, 2012, 2017). More practically, quantized inertia also predicts that we can get thrust and energy from the vacuum."

> I believe that cold fusion works, it's just hard to replicate.

Although not exactly related, Terence McKenna used to like saying that science's demand for replication limits it from studying phenomenon that differ over time.

As I've gained years and felt like things keep getting stranger and stranger, I've come to wonder about this type of immortality, but I don't deliberately test it myself.

"From your own perspective, you will never die." Something will always happen so that your awareness continues but from others' point of view, you may have perished. This splitting is when you can no longer meet those others because your paths have separated. Hopefully in the splitting, that reorients you with a different set of others that you can now meet, otherwise it seems like a lonely trajectory.

Thanks for the clarification. The article was talking about shutting down Facebook so that is the source of the reference.

We found the anti-democrat!

Ideally power should go to the best ideas but since each of us is limited in knowledge, the wisdom of the crowd is the next best option.

Is being a read-only user of ENS, zero skin in the game?

> No doubt, these censors and would-be censors have the best of intentions.

I would contend that profit is at least partially the intention of these actors, largely indirectly by people who are invested in stock markets.

Capitalism is a symptom of power and information asymmetries. A few years ago, Zuckerberg said that all problems would be solved if everybody told the truth all the time. It's not that simple though. There's a Greg Egan story about a couple that undergoes a procedure to experience all the thoughts and feelings of each other for a period of time, which ultimately results in their breakup.

Until there's a viable solution to 1-person, 1-vote for DAOs, this is going to be the case everywhere.

Detailed in the "Who Watches the Watchmen" paper:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbloc.2020.5901...

> The Federal Reserve Act does not authorize direct Federal Reserve accounts for individuals, and such accounts would represent a significant expansion of the Federal Reserve’s role in the financial system and the economy. Under an intermediated model, the private sector would offer accounts or digital wallets to facilitate the management of CBDC holdings and payments. Potential intermediaries could include commercial banks and regulated nonbank financial service providers, and would operate in an open market for CBDC services.

They're aware they have the opportunity to use a CBDC to eliminate retail banks but they're choosing not to do it.

Just wait until you find out that there's not even a block explorer for monero.

Oh, come on. The hood height is still tall enough to block the view of any small humans.

The identity owned is the private key.

Messages are signed by cryptographic signatures so nobody can claim to be you.

This is how JWTs and many other protocols ensure message authenticity.

I haven't looked at his twitter recently but, to use Cornel West's brilliant term, being a long-distance revolutionary is a very difficult position to maintain.

Well, except for ransom attacks, nobody is forced to use a public cryptocurrency.

For it to be common and being proud of one's economic transaction history would be awesome.

In the 90s, experiments in publicity like reality TV and the Truman Show movie gave way to social media in the next decade. We are constantly finding new ways to publicize our lives because there is value in publicity.

Privacy shouldn't disappear absolutely but we've got a long ways to go towards greater publicity before reaching the limit of usefulness.

The parent comment doesn't deny climate change. Cars (even electric ones) are quite terrible for the environment: huge roads everywhere, each one only serves a few people, etc.

Public transit infrastructure is a much better option for saving the environment and society. Good public transit is such a pleasure to use.

How ridiculous that the main feature is to "sign" the document but it asks for name and email instead of a cryptographic signature

I haven't watched this video but I want to say that this movie, written by Dave Sirota, the editor of In These Times magazine from many years ago has spent so long working with climate scientists and journalists that this movie he created is a reflection of his career trying to get people to care about environmental and labor issues.

I would like to see more information about how Secret network's TEEs (trusted execution environments) are secure. The fact that they rely on special features of some Intel proessors makes me think that any sufficiently powerful actor would be able to break the encryption through backdoors that would exist in those processors.

A few issues with this:

1. Not all crypto currencies are public. See monero, haven, secret network. Although that last one depends on some specific features of some Intel processors... I'm of the opinion that the pseudonymous nature of public blockchains is very beneficial to society. I would love it if I could see what companies, governments, and people near me were spending their money on. It would enable me to make better decisions.

2. "Web3" is about decentralization but it doesn't necessarily mean storing data on a blockchain. The most important aspect is that users no longer have to sign up or log in. They submit responses which are signed by a key pair, which is their identity instead of a record in a "users" table.

Since credit card payment processors heavily restrict crowdfunding applications, cryptocurrency is the only option for unmoderated crowdfunding.

Combined with the public nature of blockchains, this massively increases the legibility of the economy. James C. Scott documents in his book, Seeing Like a State, how states have always worked to make populations more legible: squaring up plots of land, introduction of last names, and other measures to make it possible to reason about the population. (In order to better grasp its power.)

This trend has great potential to expand democracy, most importantly if Sybil resistance techniques are improved so that one vote is closer to one person than one token.

I've got a pet idea of starting a DAO to fund research into better techniques for Sybil Resistance. I have hope that there's something better than scanning eyeballs.

For me, the essential point of web 3.0 apps isn't the use of blockchain as datastore but user-generated keypairs for authentication instead of a `users` table in a database: no more "sign up" buttons, just connect.

This enables composition between services more freely than oauth.

Now that's a well-designed website!

Which is why emerging precision fermentation technologies for starches and proteins are very important so that land used for agriculture can be rewilded.

I'm not sure but I think that's referred to as Astral Projection.