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Not to mention multi-player editing [1]. They nailed the execution and no competitor comes close

[1] https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology...

That's an easy fix: https://www.techrepublic.com/a/hub/i/r/2020/07/10/22bb5b3d-c...

Out of curiosity, Konstanz and München sound like they should fit your constraints yet you said you need strong reasons to move back to. Why is that?

I’ve filed bug reports and the FSNotes developer fixed them within days. I’ll take a look at Obsidian too, thanks!

I’ve been very much enjoying FSNotes [0] as a replacement for Notational Velocity (and nvALT) which are both abandonware at this point. FSNotes is a native app, is FLOSS and is actively maintained. It lacks some of the advanced features of Obsidian (like Graph View) but it has the essentials (hyperlinks and tag sidebar).

[0] https://fsnot.es/

In Europe you do…

The insurer must earn enough income from investing the deposits to cover losses and operating expenses for the model to be economically viable

The above is a quote from the Wikipedia article. I suspect that with interest rates at an all time low, the environment is not exactly ripe for this kind of insurance model.

Not questioning this dang, but would be useful to add something about trollish usernames in the guidelines, and perhaps clarify what qualifies as trollish.

It was intentional. I am thinking probabilistically here, and the jury is still out on whether “digital gold” is the use case.

Your friends are most likely mining ethereum, not bitcoin.

Saying that Bitcoin blew the market for GPUs reveals that your knowledge is years out of date. Bitcoin is predominately mined on ASICs.

Viagra was originally developed as chest pain medication. Did it utterly fail, simply because a new use-case was unveiled?

Which begs the question, what is the new use case for Bitcoin? Some say digital gold, but only time will tell.

Right, but you can make a new WhatsApp out of thin air. There is no value in it because you can just make a new one.

It’s nice to have the option to be completely decentralised (…)

I think "nice" downplays the importance of the possibility of self-custody. Despite the majority of people perhaps not opting to control their own keys, the mere possibility has interesting game theoretical implications that will keep neobanks like Coinbase in check.

I am old enough to remember what Panic claimed to be the first ever emoji domain in 2011 [0]. But a quick look at the relevant wikipedia entry sets the record straight [1].

[0] https://panic.com/blog/the-worlds-first-emoji-domain/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji_domain

Similarly, for block chains, mining only occurs when the thing being mined has value. NFTs would not be mined if people weren't using them. Therefore I would absolutely call them an ecological disaster.

The point is that energy consumption due to mining on the Ethereum network does not scale with transaction count. So it does not matter if NFTs are issued ("minted") or not. They add no marginal energy cost in the mining process. That is why calling them an "ecological disaster" is a misnomer.

I know it sounds catchy to say that NFTs are an ecological disaster, but that statement is sensational and not accurate.

NFTs do not cause carbon emissions themselves, just like you don't add carbon emissions by occupying a seat on a public transportation bus. The bus is doing its daily route and has a fixed amount of emissions per day whether it has any occupants or not. This analogy breaks quickly, so I wouldn't look too much into it.

Maybe a better analogy is to think of your WiFi router. Its energy use is (predominantly) static regardless of how many packets you route through it. So by browsing, you are not causing additional carbon emissions.

In more technical terms: more transactions do not cause more hashrate. Ethereum's CO2 footprint does not scale with transactional count. So asking people to use the network less will not cause the hashrate to go down. The only way you reduce energy consumption is by getting miners to mine less, which triggers the protocol to adjust the mining difficulty accordingly. As laid out above, this has nothing to do with how many transactions are happening on ETH, or whether NFTs are being minted on it.

(3) reveals that you are not as well informed as you make it sound. Bitcoin hasn’t been mined on GPUs for years.

businesses start hoarding crypto tokens instead of investing in building stuff

Share buybacks. Tech businesses are buying their own shares to pump the stock price (and their options' value) rather than investing in building stuff.

At the city level, [Miami mayor] Suarez’s ambitions are equally ambitious. He’s “looking at” ways to pay municipal employees a percentage of their salary in bitcoin and allow residents to use bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for “payments and fees,” including taxes.

https://www.coindesk.com/miami-mayor-previews-favorable-cryp...

Great talk [0] given during the 2016 congress touching on the Amadeus flight booking system and the danger of posting your boarding pass on social media

[0] https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7964-where_in_the_world_is_carme...

Is it really 2FA if your password and your token are on the same device?

You can use the Tranquility addon [0] on Firefox to make it readable. It worked well for me.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tranquility-1...

Some German banks (e.g., Commerzbank) have an "Einzahlungsautomat", basically a reverse ATM that accepts deposits as bills or coins. Collect the coins in a jar and once a year hit the ATM.

This is great. Thank you for making it! Maybe you could run that cron job more often for people on the other side of the pond? Right now, I'm only seeing news for Saturday.

A bit off-topic: last time I tried to use a 50 GBP note in London I got strange looks and it was refused. Apparently anything beyond a 20 GBP note is seen as "too high". A worrying turn of events…

The planet doesn’t care, it will go on. With climate change, humans are at risk, not the planet.

Some counterpoints:

Untraceable theft from your wallet

Blockchain analysis is a flourishing field. Vanilla bitcoin is far from untraceable, in fact it is LE’s wet dream.

Unregulated merchants who aren't incentivized to play by the rules

There are two distinct sets of rules here. The ones merchants have to legally abide by (government imposed) and the ones that fit PayPal’s agenda. The latter is usually the problem (c.f. WikiLeaks blockade) because it is entirely based on the whims of a private company.

No third-party intermediary in the event you get ripped off.

I often see this argument. Schneier also mentions it as a drawback. Note that reversible transactions can be built on top of bitcoin, if it is desirable. The opposite is not true. At least bitcoin gives you the option to do irreversible transactions if you wish.

Ability for weed shops and porn sites to accept digital payments (This depends on your stance on these issues. Not everyone feels the same as you).

People need to be able to break the law and operate gray markets to move society forward. See Moxie’s excellent essay on the subject [0]

If you buy something on ebay, ebay and the credit card company have a record of your purchase. If you buy something from a bitcoin merchant, they will have a record of your purchase. How is that different?

The reason eBay needs your real name is to combat chargeback fraud and tax evasion (for merchants). The former is irrelevant with irreversible transactions, the latter remains valid in that particular case. But what about Joe-random-SaaS? Why does {Spotify|Shopify|Expensify} need my real name besides payment?

[0] https://moxie.org/blog/we-should-all-have-something-to-hide/

This is a straw man. Just because transaction fees were too high for your transaction to be economically viable, does not discredit the fact that bitcoin removes trust in third parties to send and receive currencies.

It is not up to the miners to increase the block size, in fact miners were very much in favor of doing it. Bitcoin has other important constituents (users, core devs, wallet devs, exchanges) that would need to be on board for any modifications made to the core protocol to go through.

I wonder if this is what a Minimum Viable Workout (MVW) would look like. I’m not trying to make my exercise life more efficient (I think time spent in the gym without a phone helps me disconnect), but because sometimes the effort barrier is too high for me and I fall into periods of inactivity. So I would find it appealing to maintain a baseline of fitness with a “no excuses” MVW.

For those wondering about how much the lightning network is actually used, have a look at the stats [0]. Adoption is growing steadily.

[0] https://1ml.com/statistics