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The only way to prevent that would be a fully trustless "cell" structure where none of conspirators know each other, which has never been done in real life.

When properly done, such organization is almost impossible to find. I'd not be too sure about them not existing. The idea is well known, so someone must have tried it at least.

Post-GPT Computing 3 years ago

I'd guess 90% dev jobs don't involve any algo knowledge more complicated than "should I pick a list or hashmap" or "which columns need indices". They involve converting business logic into code and combining it with good UI/UX.

How hard can it be to keep a many-to-many mapping between account ids and skin ids, and then make a way to transfer those between accounts, potentially for some fee? Steam has had it for a decade without any issues.

The game publisher still has the final authority on whether a skin is displayed in game or not, and no blockchain is going to change that.

The reason Riot doesn't do this is that it would reduce profits. If they would make more money otherwise, they would be doing that already.

Consider having to decide between a 20 min trip by car, or 1 hour trip by train, and the car driving has 100x serious accident probability. However, you save 40 minutes if you drive. Likely, driving doesn't take 40 min off your life expectancy. And even if it did, you save the minutes now, and not at the end of your life.

Why Not Mars 4 years ago

Colonizing Mars is going to be easier than solving tragedy of the commons.

Too Much Internet 4 years ago

Life has no meaning. We are all as insignificant as grains of sand on a beach. Uniqueness is a big lie that everyone wants to believe. If you enjoy watching netflix more than doing slightly-less-common experiences, you should probably do so. The point of not just passively consuming content is creating memories that can be enjoyed later as well, particularly when discussing with other people.

The value is not in the winning part, it's in dreaming of winning. Compare that to a movie ticket, not an investment. At least before it becomes a habit. I'd guess people who buy one lottery ticket every year get much more enjoyment out of it than those who buy one every week.

I don't play either. I suppose it's a nice game if you can temporarily forget some leading zeroes.

I find it rather rare that a relatively compentent dev couldn't get approximately equal compensation working for some other company. So if offered $X for volutary severance, where $X at least N months total compensation, most devs who can get a similar job in less than N months will leave. This leaves you with least capable people, which is (usually) not what's wanted when doing layoffs. (This is of course assuming that interview performance is correlated with work performance, which is not necessarily a great assumption to do)