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Let’s hope the vulnerability isn’t injected into all the deps your OS pulls down to run the VM
Physics informs us a perfectly secure system is impossible.
We need to socially accept it rather than make ourselves paranoid.
Using the same environmental concern logic, the carbon footprint of traditional banking, which still hauls around, protects, and produces real currency, plastic cards, and financing for every other destructive activity… rather dwarfs Bitcoin.
Where are all your posts pointedly taking apart the system you are surely heavily invested in?
You’re part of the problem by being part of human society. Collective economic inaction must be part of the solution.
Producing less superfluous junk at scale must be part of the solution. That means our individual narratives around value stores must change; traditional banking scales even worse than Bitcoin.
Since it’s just math in a machine and we have the math written down all over, what would be losing of long term value to the human species?
I have made a lot of money thanks to SV, but it’s not what puts food on my table; people where I live do. I don’t live near SV.
Billions of us don’t give af about SV. It’s all hype and our daily lives will look pretty much the same without it.
Good news; when the economy implodes there will be no financial costs, but you’ll have skills.
5% of the public hunts. My guess is, should society collapse, there will be plenty of work cleaning up the bodies as millions go nuts in shock and kill themselves at home before a civil war can get off the ground.
More optimistically it’ll be like 9/11, NY blackouts; shock, awe, but people settle down and figure it out.
Who knows, maybe this is all embedded paranoia from the Cold War era and complete social collapse is impossible.
Local urban areas will surely clamp down and secure infra. Going it alone in the woods seems like a fine recipe for just putting the gun in your own mouth eventually.
So it is:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/technology/apple-google-s...
I mean the politicians are in on it, and turn against them when their ability to control elections for their own purposes comes into question.
Look at the “testimony” of Robinhood guy. It’s a scripted TV show; you lose.
What if there are no layers and you can’t think outside hierarchy?
There’s no reason for anyone else to take your view as sacrosanct since many many many apps and services are working just fine without ORMs.
You might accomplish something interesting today if you set aside protecting unimportant ephemera you talked yourself into believing.
Domain squatting, and all the security effort of protecting now worthless code IP, meta data analysis for private use, profit being funneled to fewer and fewer people are all outcomes of web 1 & 2
Take off the rose colored glasses; it’s all been a speculative game. That’s the root node of our economics at this point.
At the end of the day it’s electron state in a box of metal and plastic. It’s been generating “value” for owners distracting people from their lives.
I’ve been online since the 80s; people were complaining about web 1 ruining usenet, irc, and everything else.
Time moves on.
No, human behavior enables things like the Laffer curve to be defined and held up like a shiny bauble by a politically motivated half-wit.
Laffer has never had and never will have anything to do with pre-existing human behavior itself.
He never defined any of the math objects he used. As far as I can see he’s not invented any net new value, he translated English economic babble into math. It’s elementary abstraction by today’s standards. Since most people could barely balance a checkbook in his day, he’s a genius for life.
It’s like taking a child’s drawing of a tree and acting like the child gave life to the tree.
It’s ridiculous to foist prestige on idiots wielding arithmetic. Look at the misogynistic, misandrist, classist, racist, culture our elders grew up in and chuck their prestige in the bin; they’re human like everyone else.
You want to put a number value on others? Here’s yours; 1 of 7 billion+.
Rich people are rich because everyone else worries if we tax them, everyone can’t magically become rich. They’re aren’t actually smarter, stronger, better; it’s just propaganda; aka today as data science.
The Laffer curve doesn’t dictate anything, laws do.
We don’t need to take every math object as a physical truth.
Laffer especially should be seen a political tool more than an economist.
Taken out of its context to prove a point on a web forum and I would agree
Lots of people negotiated these things and agreed to make commerce happen.
Novel to you does not mean novel to humanity.
Both sides of the aristocracy only care about hypocrisy on Main Street: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/02/us/politics/elaine-chao-c...
While I get the sentiment, western working hours are the lowest they’ve been in the industrial era, but we sure have a lot of nice tech. Your experience is subsidized by nation state brutality.
Spare us the high minded criticism and go do something about your own cognitive dissonance.