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I'm skeptical of a few things in the medium post, for instance if you compare the etherium's ERC20 defi ecosystem to bitcoin, you will get more git repositories because there are s…

Miners want to maximize transaction fees. So more is better. But there is a massive tradeoff, being every transaction must be stored to verify later.

There are many other considerations that make a transaction possible. If you remove them, then a transaction wont have much value. For instance, security of chain's history or cens…

NFTs imply there is a platform which supports the contract and blocks all non-ownership AND people will use no other platforms

top signals for 600, Alex

Here's a nice source of revenue from google ($9 billion/year): https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-reportedly-pays-apple-...

yes it is.

Lindy effect. Sure you can copy it, but the original remains. The scarcity exists inside the network, and in a sense you cannot copy it, because the copy is just that - there is no…

your stonks liquidity is dependent on constant injection, so your "making" more than $60k may be temporary

umm, just use the Apple App store then... and let others have a choice

He could argue it's for experimentation/faucet. I doubt this goes anywhere, but still shady. This dude has a massive ego and gives off charlatan vibes edit:seems he is trying to ac…

Are we just going to pretend like this election was not different from every other election? Something very unique occurred in this election and I don't appreciate the media and le…

guilty of not reading article... but who could have guessed slicing an enormous code base and replacing it willy nilly would lead to mistakes

>buying journalism one journalist at a time is too expensive. I think this closed view is partially do to how we consume media as a service vs. a cheap one time payment/view. I'm n…

it is more than wishful, it is pragmatic, as all attempts before it were shut down by very powerful forces. The purpose of PoW is to create anti-fragile, unstoppable signals using …

second reply (a2dp mentioned) worked for me: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/437468/bluetooth-he... sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service Change ExecStart=/usr/l…

Likely projecting their own existential fear of loneliness. Fear is not a good place

The opportunity cost of electricity, what you call waste, is the most apolitical and ungameable resource available. Every other example to "vote" I've seen quickly devolves into an…

And there's also plenty of us that recognize what some are certain is best for the community, may not be. E.g. politicized forced vaccination

Why not then put it on the iPhone too. Considering Apple's stance on aesthetics and non-moving parts, seems unlikely

"We don't have a formal proof for this, and only have empirical evidence, measured on a large number of test instances. More on this in the paper. The learned algorithm is not enti…

If the work proof additionally became useful, it would develop a secondary market, and the difficulty would reset to that new cost. In other words, the useful problem solving would…