How is this not seen as a massive privacy oversight?
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The end goal isnt protecting US citizens. It's weaponizing information to use against perceived threats, both foreign and domestic.
If you evaluate it on a longer timeline, people achieve a greater political intelligence because of increased voter participation and a quicker policy feedback loop.
Yeah, collectively, humans are still idiots. That being said, we do have a decent amount of technological promise and maybe just enough idealism in our blood to sustain the species. It's probably worth a try.
I think you meant " fully takING advantafe of remote work ". Not to nitpick. I just genuinely thought you meant you were taken advantage of by your employer.
The problem facing Twitter 2.0 is that Musk is personally driving product development and 𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘯𝘰 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘺.
I fixed that for ya
A thousand years from now when they're digging up texts and artifacts from this period, there's likely going to be a lot of confused academics.
The bank run on Tether exposes Tether's systematic lies and inherently unworkable business model.
I'd take it a step further and say that we know Tether's USD coffers aren't deep enough to cover withdrawals. They've fully and publicly accounted for the assets that back UST and it's almost entirely in cryptocurrency which will nose dive the second people start divesting.
You seem to think that ignoring this glaring liability will somehow make it go away or will buy enough time for people to safely divest. It simply won't. The only cure for this cancer is sunlight and an ugly haircut for Tether holders.
The only way to fix this is for unstable stablecoins to fail hard and have it serve as a warning for future investors not to play with fire.
I've had a project shut down by Github because of petty ( and unfounded ) content flagging by a competitor. It took a week to get a human involved and it almost killed the project. I will never again put the fate of a product in the hands of someone else's arbitrary, black-box algorithms.
I trusted Volkswagen because of their reputation. Then the news broke about them systematically lying and breaking the law with respect to engine emissions. Shortly after this came to light, other "reputable car companies" turned out to have been not trustworthy at all.
Yes there are good standards in place and some companies claim to adhere to them but no company should be trusted on their word or reputation alone. The better question is what kind of regulatory oversight is in place to make sure those claiming to adhere to certain standards are actually doing so? Also, how much power do the regulatory organizations have in addressing violators?
Although I agree that Facebook isn't the problem here, taking it away might be a necessary first step.
Through what mechanism is the BBC able to delay podcasts?
This is far too generous. They intentionally withold features in an effort to push people towards their app store.
Not being snarky. Just trying to understand :)
You do make a good point about us under utilizing technology though. We should be pumping money into open courseware models as an alternative to encouraging children to start off their adult life in often irrecoverable debt.
There is a ton of value, both academic and not, in going to college but let's not be so naive as to think that we can sustain a system whereby it's worthwhile for everyone to attend a brick and mortar university. Let's give the poorest among us a great alternative using the amazing technology at our disposal, today.
Interesting. I have never hosted a site on IPFS but my assumption would be the opposite. I would expect more downtime from nodes frequently going on and offline. I would also expect longer load times because of the absence of CDNs and generally lower node uplink speeds.
I guess I'm working under the assumption that IPFS is still mostly comprised of hobby nodes hosted in basements. Sounds like IPFS has matured a bit since I last looked at it.
What role does the browser extension play in the speed gains you've seen? Is it slow without the extension? Also, would an IPFS compatible browser like Brave still require a separate extension for improved speeds?
Sorry for all the questions. I'm just super interested and eager to move back to a more censorship resistant version of the web, like the one I fell in love with as a kid.
That was definitely an oversimplification, and a slightly wrong one at that. In bitcoin, there isn't actually a concept of "coins". Just transactions which spend numbered UTXOs.
If I'm remembering correctly, the term "block chain" came from a conversation between Hal Finney and Satoshi Nakamoto about Bitcoin. If so, one could argue that it IS implicitly related to cryptocurrency.
That being said, the underlying "block chain" data structure is just an alteration of a previously existing data structure called a Merkle Tree which has data blocks that can be used for things that are not transaction data.
Blocks in a blockchain have a payload section reserved for transaction data. Theoretically you could put anything in the payload section but if you're calling the data structure a blockchain, people are probably going to expect transactions in it.
> I assume you could build a mastodon like that distributes and "authenticates" posts via a blockchain - perhaps with terrible performance though.
This has already been done many times actually and it's quite impressive. Basically, a cryptocurrency full node is modified to serve as a social client and an appropriate user interface is built on top. The mechanism by which cryptocurrency transactions are shared with other validating nodes is the very thing that keeps user's "streams" updated and in sync.
It has some major drawbacks but performance doesn't have to be one of them. With UTXO based blockchains like bitcoin, the "mempool" portion of the client code receives transactions containing social data embedded within. This means they are able to show the social media content immediately upon it being sent, even if the transactions containing that data have yet to be included in a block. One problem though, is that like transaction data, the social data doesn't get "finalized" until it's included then mined in a block. So you'd be able to see the messages in your feed but the content might change ten minutes later after it's finalized.
In my opinion, the Achilles heel of blockchain based social media is the Achilles heel of so many otherwise brilliant technologies: "What is someone uses it for child porn?"
Otherwise, most of the other drawbacks can be dealt with.
Blockchains only ensure that coins are never spent twice. They make no attempts to ensure that coins are sent to the correct recipients. At the end of the block, they only care that debits are equal to credits.
This can be confusing because the term "double spend" is also frequently used in cryptocurrency in the context of fraud prevention. In this context, you definitely do care that the coins get to the correct recipients but this concern is outside of the functional scope of the blockchain mechanism.
Instead, fraud prevention is typically satisfied through additional code, adjacent to the "blockchain stuff", which establishes signaling networks and transaction inclusion criteria.
They're very different mechanisms inside blockchain clients but, confusingly, they both make frequent use of the term "double spend".
Because of this, we'll all be stuck with POS Ethereum. Be sure to thank your favorite Maximalist for that.
Because of this, we'll all be stuck with POS Ethereum. Be sure to thank your favorite Maximalist for that.
Anyone in crypto who makes this assumption about any other entity in crypto is either brand spanking new or a fool.