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PoW provides significant economies of scale for those with lots of scale and makes mining with a single GPU a waste of time. PoS doesn't offer much economies of scale at all as the main cost is the ETH, so it's much fairer to smaller validators.

It's pathetic watching people from the safety of their own homes commenting on how Israel should be waging war. Israelis are being killed and if Hamas had their way they would go over the border and massacre all Israelis in sight.

No other democracy is currently fighting a war against a neighbor that's shooting missiles at them and located only a few km from 80% of their population.

Israel's use of kid gloves against the Palestinians just emboldens them and encourages more cycles of violence.

I don't think this study paints a complete picture. It asked about specific retirement funds, rather than wealth in general. If someone aged 50 has 20k in an earmarked retirement fund but a net worth of 1.5m, that person is fine, but considered by this study to be unprepared for retirement.

It's an interesting article, because after making assumptions about the Palestinians, she actually meets them and realises that there is plenty she doesn't understand yet.

She refers to American privilege in Ramallah, but glosses over the fact that had she been visibly identifiable as a Jew or Israeli, she would likely have been attacked.

The missing context to her observations about limits on freedom of movement is that Israelis aren't allowed into Palestinian areas because it's way to dangerous for them and that Palestinians aren't allowed free passage to Israel, because that would be way to dangerous to Israeli civilians.