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Eh, I tried unfortunately and it's not the same. Especially with video processing, my older Macbook Pro heats up very quickly when using Firefox vs Chrome.

Firefox's history bar is still superior though

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The Defiant | NYC | Onsite or remote within 3-6 hrs of EST timezone | Full-time | Lead/Senior Backend, Data Engineer, Web Developer

The Defiant is building the essential information platform for decentralized finance. We aim to be the Bloomberg of DeFi, for both news and data.

Lead/Senior Backend:

- AWS EC2, Lambda, AWS Managed DB, PostgreSQL, Timescale DB

- Node.js/Typescript, Express

- Python for Lambda jobs

Lead Data Engineer:

- AWS EC2, Lambda, AWS Managed DB, PostgreSQL, Timescale DB

- Python for Lambda jobs

Web Developer

- Fullstack but more frontend heavy work

- Maintaining thedefiant.io

- Migrate to Ghost and away from Wordpress

Apply at: https://thedefiant.io/jobs

The Defiant | NYC | Onsite or remote within 3-6 hrs of EST timezone | Full-time | Lead/Senior Backend, Data Engineer

The Defiant is building the essential information platform for decentralized finance. We aim to be the Bloomberg of DeFi, for both news and data.

Lead/Senior Backend: - AWS EC2, Lambda, AWS Managed DB, PostgreSQL, Timescale DB - Node.js/Typescript, Express - Python for Lambda jobs

Lead Data Engineer: - AWS EC2, Lambda, AWS Managed DB, PostgreSQL, Timescale DB - Python for Lambda jobs

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I'd further add on to say PoS has the benefit of being able to eliminate bad actors unilaterally. You can't stop anyone from attacking a PoW chain over and over again. Attacking a PoS chain is much riskier as the attacker's stakes are held on chain and are at the mercy of the community who uses the network.

Moved from U.S. to Netherlands 6 months ago, and will stay for at least another year.

I moved for work, and I gained a cool new project to work on and new adventures, but didn't have my family, friends, or any familiarity of the culture.

It quite accustoms you to leaving your comfort zone, which is powerful and awesome. And it forced me to really value my relationships, and I found myself deliberately making an effort to catch up and keep in touch with some friends that I really valued.

Depends on the specific implementation. Just because you do it on a blockchain doesn't mean you can't require people to show up to a polling center and sign transactions in person.

With Ethereum, one way to do it is to make the voting weight non-transferable, meaning to give someone else your vote you'd need to give your private key.

It would be of course crazy to do that; like giving someone your bank card and PIN number to give them cash.

But then you've lost all of the advantages that the blockchain was claimed to possess.

That's a very wide brush stroke to paint. You just have to analyze each use case independently.

In the same example of land registry, just a transparent history is a huge value add when dealing with corrupt government officials. Here's a case study https://s3.amazonaws.com/ipri2016/casestudy_collindres.pdf . Voting transparency even with the government as the part of centralization is a huge value add imo.

Further, even allowing centralization in certain points, like a SpaceX IPO (which should def be centralized), allows whoever holds a share to make arbitrary, trustless mediums and rules of exchange.

If your code doesn't reach out beyond the blockchain, then there's very little it can actually do.

Asset issuance, voting, wills, identity/reputation systems, land registries.

Fundamentally, a blockchain is just public, transparent immutable data history. Of the above sample cases, all it takes is for the powers to be to recognize the data as a reflection of the real world; which is a barrier outside of the technology.

And sidenote, decentralized oracles will literally tie outside world to the blockchain.

Developers need to rely on trusted third party data providers, called oracles

It's ironic that they mention Augur by name in the article, but are apparently unaware its main innovation is the decentralized oracle that just so happens to have a prediction market built on top of it.

I feel like this is more of a feature than a bug.

That is indeed 100% by design. All smart contract code in Ethereum has to be deterministic to guarantee computational consensus, and of course this can only be done by having a closed EVM.

This statement is too broad.

Current state of software is only appropriate for some use cases. Email/text messaging (like 4chan) are not practical uses. Financial business logic handling is a great use case.

Scalability too. You could even boast a crazier achievement like a full node capable of running on every smart-phone, but the potential is handcuffed as the network can only handle ~7 transactions a second.