theWatcher37

Incorrect. The fact is the network lacked the capacity to handle the requested number of transactions, and in turn auctioned off the tickets to the lifeboat to whoever paid the most.

You’re arguing “nobody died in the titanic that didn’t pay enough”, when the problem is clearly there aren’t enough lifeboats.

This is certifiable.

This defeats the entire purpose of bitcoin. The goal is a decentralized currency that isn’t controlled by shady political interests, and can reasonably replace normal currency.

Why would you want Bank 2.0?

The entire purpose is to replace fiat. It’s objectively a failure if you can’t buy coffee with it.

This is by design. If you break bitcoin, such that it’s only usable by large financial institutions, you completely remove the decentralized nature that made it attractive in the first place.

Congratulations guys, you made the banks SWIFT 2.0. I’m sure they appreciate it very much.

The lighting network completely undermines the entire purpose of bitcoin, and blockstreams seeming desire to sabotage bitcoin for daily use coincides suspiciously with their outside “investment”.

If you read the original bitcoin white paper it is clearly evident that the purpose of bitcoin was as a currency. These insane fees, wait times, and rediculous technical decisions by core have made it such that bitcoin is becoming “bank coin” aka only used for settling between large groups and useless for individuals (unless you’re a speculator).

This has to change

Isn’t listening to someone exclusively because of the gender, and not the quality of their idea, exactly what we’re trying to get away from?

“Don’t discount someone just because they’re a woman” is very different from “believe them because they are a woman”.

OP seems to dance around saying the idea that punishing people is wrong.

OP is wrong.

We want cultural and financial incentives not to do wrong. We also want raw primal fear, if you do this evil shit they’re gonna get you and lock you away forever type fear... if you do this stuff.

Say what you want, but the buck ultimately stops at the feet of the Chinese people who allow this gross injustice.

Exactly! So glad to see the HighDPI fans gaining acceptance. 110PPI looks like garbage and needs to be relegated to the dust bin.

All it took was waiting over an hour with a large fee to make me realize there’s a huge problem in the bitcoin community.

The block size is fundamentally too small to support the current volume of transactions in a meaningful way, and the weak (and suspicious!) arguments in favor of letting bitcoin’s transaction time spiral into hell don’t hold water.

Yeah. Mass conformance is never suspicious.

I’m so glad that backwards thinking concepts like this are dominant, otherwise we might actually have secure software!

Think about it, an open-source OS is choosing backwards compatibility over security. This would have caused quite the stir in the 90’s Linux community.

Absolutely not.

If “do no harm” is a principle, then the kernel should ensure that no harm is taking place.

If flaws within the kernel allow harm to occur while otherwise normal transactions are occurring then it is absolutely preferable to panic and shut down over allowing that potential harm to occur.

To suggest otherwise, that detected errors that allow harm should be allowed, is pure insanity.

Linus is unquestionably wrong in the regaurd.

I mean, i’m Extremely hostile towards “old media” and my opinion towards google is highly negative.

If anything, there is probably a strong correlation between liking google and trusting old media.

If by “competition” you mean pseudo-moralist corporate agenda designed to suppress wages for engineers and developers.

Wages have been FLAT vs rising inflation for ages, mostly due to labor over-supply.

GJ&S’s primary argument is that whoever discovered (by accident!) agriculture first made all the later stages inevitable.

London already has a terrible problem with extremely narrow (and often jagged) roads.

As an American many of the streets were hell to navigate, and I understood why tiny cars are valued there

Except from an individual experience a train is one of the least efficient methods of travel.

Long waits at each stop, and tons of stops in between me and my destination, never reaching top speed for Long...

Meanwhile when it does stop I still need a car or bus to get to my destination. This is true in European cities as well, where the stop count gets absurd.

NSA made seemingly bening improvements to crypto standards that the academic community only discovered as valuable over a decade later.

They’re the largest single employer of mathmaticians in the world.

This is because our intelligence agencies currently view China as a tamed bitch and Russia as a wild threat.

This view may or not be in tune with reality, but that is the view none the less

Gawker somehow managed to be worse than the daily mail.

Racism totally existed in “free” states. His argument his the laws were more sneaky about it, since you couldn’t just say “no guns for blacks”

Might want to ask yourself where you learned that, then discount that source as a valid source of information in the future.

And by extension the government. Americans have a built in distrust of our government (often for good reason), which is why a lot of policies don’t happen here.

Like it or not, major figures in the financial industry saying “this is legit” helps bitcoin’s image which has knock-on effects. Bitcoin still struggles from the “its only used to buy drugs” stigma even with some on here.

Once we get to the point where machine learning can develop and deploy exploits/low-level bugs like these will become very interesting, and likely weapons of nation states.

Can confirm, in my emag applications class I had tools from "black magic something something" company printed on the top.

I'm not so sure, as it seems anti-tribalism can become it's own tribe.

>by appearance not genes

I'm sorry, but genes clearly determine appearance.