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Carbon tax would shift the economics in favor of renewables.

Unfortunately I feel this was inevitable as GoPro did not stay on top of hardware design. DJI and Insta360 offer compelling products. And budget, lower quality 1080p-4k action cams…

The data center money was private capital put up by individuals and corporations willingly. They are seeking to provide a product (compute) to paying consumers. You can have an opi…

What was gained from it?

How do TPUs perform compared to GPUs on LLMs and image generation?

Possibly. Who would be more efficient at pricing money: the market or the government?

Medical tourism

And 640k memory is enough for anyone!

I feel like this is a weak point. There are countless spam/scam websites out there, because anyone can spin up a page and publish something. That’s why you exercise a bit of cautio…

What self respecting lawyer would ever advise their client, whom is probably being investigated for criminal charges, to tell their story to the media?

> is of significantly more historical significance Hmm, maybe, or maybe a video representation of the moment, endorsed and co-branded by the league and the athletes, will come to b…

Yes, you could go and mint NFTs claiming to be authentic. The same way you can try selling fake Rolex’s or picasso’s. Any serious buyer would attempt to vet the items provenance to…

And cryptographic proofs are not a form of provenance?

You realize it’s not the pointer to a jpg that makes an NFT valuable, it’s the provability of the artist that published it?

So you pay money for cardboard with ink on it, and it’s worth thousands? Sounds sus

Lebron James rookie cards were always a scam.

But what happens if/when a large amount of user ETH gets staked in a single country, in a few entities? End users don’t have the motive or skills to move their ETH to platforms or …

You misuse the word “backed”. The US economy does not “back” the dollar, figuratively or literally. America, it’s workers, corporations, military, etc., will happily abandon the do…

Corporations generally avoid creating cryptocurrencies because of the immense regulation and legal work they would have to do. And because banking regulation and compliance is gene…

Creating something doesn’t automatically make it valuable. You’re failing to realize that value is socially derived.

Just because you can clone Facebook doesn’t mean you get a valuable user base

Even better: being able to create money out of thin air…oh wait.

> If you steal my gold or other metal store of value, I can pursue you in court and recover my loss Stolen property is stolen property. Not all stolen property is recoverable. Even…

Peer to peer money (low transaction cost, high scalability) is not immediately possible without tradeoffs to decentralization. You can increase block sizes to a degree, but that th…

Right, it doesn't necessarily grind the economy to a halt; it simply forces investments to be worthwhile, because now they have to generate enough return to satisfy a higher intere…