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Lots of people take Ibuprofen when they have a fever.

This is absolutely correct. Not only is an individual's private data nearly worthless, but they can protect it for free simply by using the Brave browser or other adblocking/tracki…

We can even still have voting at registered polling places with judges. But, instead of throwing our votes into a magic black box, how about we put them on a blockchain and receive…

I'm not sure what scientific bar of proof you would need to see passed, but Google stalks users and targets them because it makes them more money. The ads perform better. Their sys…

Yes. It will make a good investment: https://twitter.com/CL207/status/1142651211310485504?s=20 50-100k a coin by December 2021 is what many are targeting this time.

Transparency.

I must have struck a nerve. I use the Brave browser now. I think other people should too. Downvotes welcome.

They broke my YouTube account a number of years ago in an attempt to force Google+ across their systems and artificially inflate user numbers. Yesterday I got an email from them sa…

Even then, the yearly USD value of a 2-10% return on your ethers will be unknown, but hey... Compounding interest is compounding interest.

The collateral is your stake, in this case ethers. If you engage in provably Byzantine actions, your stake can be slashed, burned, or otherwise sacrificed or redistributed. There a…

Has sharding just recreated the double-spend problem by shattering the consensus mechanism that solved it into 100 pieces? Are we now free-floating, hoping to find a new solution t…

So the data availability problem renders the fisherman solution useless in a pragmatic sense?

Thanks for expressing these problems clearly and succinctly. Does the Fisherman approach involve validators randomly checking other validators for phony transactions? Will validato…

I bounced around hosting providers for years until I landed on DO. I have nothing but good things to say about them.

How does Uber burn so much money? Isn't it a fundamentally profitable enterprise? Aren't they just skimming off contractors' wear-and-tear? Won't they eventually hit a point where …

Fortunately, Chicago burned to the ground, which gave them an opportunity to replan. They adopted the Daniel Burnam plan, which reclaimed the lakefront from industrial shipping and…

I'm a small to medium sized publisher and I've had to travel through Google's compliance funnels more than I would have liked. I've never had any compliance issues with any other a…

One issue that is not addressed by the subscription model is the subsidizing effect that the ad-based model has: The finance professional who lives in New York has very valuable pa…

>"None of this points to 'trying to do away with URLs'" Except for that "trying to identify an alternative" part. But let's ignore that, because doing so makes you comfortable.