polyomino

I don't see why this is surprising at all. Apple has never cared about the privacy of their Chinese users. Privacy was never a principle for them, merely a marketing feature for technically illiterate westerners.

The whole network is a political facade, EEA controls the morals of the system so they can and will do whatever they want.

VR is more widespread than it would have been had FB stayed away and not subsidized it. They make up over 50% of VR hardware on steam now.[1]

[1]https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

Society has benefitted a net zero from software. Arguably a net negative.

Someone has not worked on wall street

And you'd end up building more trucks because of Jevon's paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox.

Bitcoin mining does respond to market pressure, if the price goes down, or you wait until the subsidy halves, there will be less incentive to mine.

When receiving a payment over lightning, there's no way to tell which node or which channel the funds originated from.

You can splice out bitcoin from a channel without closing the channel. The channel balance can go almost all outwards (some is kept to be able to pay transaction fees). In the channel factory scenario, one participant can receive bitcoin on chain without closing the whole factory. However, they will have to pay the transaction fee which could be prohibitively expensive.

Yes, but it would be worse for everyone involved

Once they started adding shitcoins you know they’re going the way of keybase

HL2 uses eye tracking for authentication so that one should be partially solved

What if instead of pulling carbon above ground, we inject oxygen underground, produce electricity and CO2 below ground and then leave the CO2 down there. Has anyone tried this?

lightning

Short answer is it doesn't work now and is not known to be able to work.

Much easier to make promises than keep them.

Single parent household needs to be a supported scenario for public services.

Transactions will move to lightning, and since this allows multiple transactions to be aggregated into a single on-chain transaction, fees will be higher per transaction on chain.

Microsoft Edge didn't even make the list

Also Uber would benefit from a higher price of advertising for upstart taxi companies.

Even if you click the ads, you're probably fine. Google isn't telling the advertiser what data they used to serve the ad.

the existence of Ethereum classic doesn't affect the governance of Ethereum in the same way that stellar does not make a difference to the governance of ripple.

Ethereum does not follow the SEC's definition of "decentralized":

  If the network on which the token or coin is to function is sufficiently decentralized – where purchasers would no longer reasonably expect a person or group to carry out essential managerial or entrepreneurial efforts – the assets may not represent an investment contract.

https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/speech-hinman-061418

However, in Ethereum's case, it is designed to literally implode due to ice age if Vitalik doesn't intervene. The SEC was probably not cognizant of this fact when they made their statement.

https://ethgasstation.info/blog/what-is-ethereums-ice-age/

In return for more effective ads.

Consumers care about "privacy" so products are getting privacy-washed

Ad targeting is largely informed by browsing history.

Should everyone be able to see which ads targeted at their peers? Still seems like an invasion of privacy.

Nonsense bills like this are what will keep social media giants honest. The market won't on its own because the network effects are (largely) insurmountable.

However, Facebook has to regain the goodwill of the public and fast, or they'll be legislated out of existence through bills like these.

Yeah, fair. The congress should go after robocalling spammers.

So a facebook account isn't required

Don't buy one?

I think the core function of a product should be up to the people making it, not congress.