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Ferrari Luce 2 months ago

On top of this, it's 5x more expensive than a Xiaomi SU7 Ultra... which may be the better car regardless of price.

BBEdit 16 2 months ago

I consider my phone scrap as soon as it stops getting security updates. Same goes for almost all proprietary software.

Open source needs updates too, but somehow we take that for granted.

Is Trail of Bits transitioning out of "crypto"?

Imho, they are one of the best auditors out there for smart contracts. Wouldn't be surprising to see some of these talented teams find bigger markets.

It's hard to believe anything from the Economist these days.

They are basically sold to some circles of influence, such as Qatar and are merely propaganda.

Example, the world cup:

" The Economist

https://www.economist.com › leaders › 2022 › 11 › 17 › in-defence-of-qatars-hosting-of-the-world-cup

In defence of Qatar's hosting of the World Cup - The Economist The claim that Qatar is a den of homophobia is also misleading. "

The Economist

https://www.economist.com › middle-east-and-africa › 2022 › 11 › 02 › qatar-races-to-ready-itself-for-an-unusual-world-cup

Qatar races to ready itself for an unusual World Cup - The Economist

The Economist

https://www.economist.com › international › 2022 › 11 › 17 › the-qatar-world-cup-shows-how-football-is-changing

The Qatar World Cup shows how football is changing - The Economist Much of a broader $300bn economic development plan called Qatar 2030

etc.

Brendan Eich is also the inventor of JavaScript and the former CTO of Mozilla.

While I don't support Prop 8 personally, I don't think we should judge technical products on political opinions of their author. You may think it's funny to advocate for bans and boycotts, until the other side does it too and we get a world split in 2 (or more).

Report which you don't get from centralized exchanges. So you have to trust them and they should somehow be liable for the provenance of what they sell to you.

Probably most CEX don't allocate UTXOs upon buying, but only for withdrawals

You can't be more wrong.

If anything, from my personal experience, "crypto" brought financial resources to minorities, especially PoC in the US. Some of them would never had that chance in the traditional world if you identify to that cause.

It's not "old fashioned", I think you are being fed propaganda by these NGOs.

Sadly, same goes for a huge part of the mainstream media that becomes an echo chamber for them (Guardian, NYT for example that used to be reference of truth but lost that status).

Don't take my word for it, please take the time to read opposite views and try to honestly make your own opinion.

just makes me think less of him (King)

He's a great writer and I was following him on X, but his constant attacks on random people who don't share his political ideas had me.

He's still a great writer but probably a real AH too...

The main problem with blockchain is identical to the one with LLMs. When snake oil salesmen try to apply the same solution to every problem, you stop wasting your time with those salesmen.

+100

Rule in blockchain: Whenever there is money beyond paying for services/infra like AWS, there is a problem.

I don't think you are getting downvoted for supporting crypto

Still, every of my post that is more or less supportive of crypto gets downvoted. And I am the first to tell the ecosystem is one of the worst in tech so that's always mild support.

But yes, you're right it's probably sem web people overreacting to _my_ rant :)

Scams and bad actors haven't changed sadly.

But zk-based really decentralized consensus now does 400 tps and it's extraordinary when you think about it and all the safety and security properties it brings.

And that's with proof-of-stake of course with decentralized sequencers for L2.

But I get that people here prefer centralized databases, managed by admins and censorship-empowering platforms. Your bank stack looks like it's designed for fraud too. Manual operations and months-long audits with errors, but that is by design. Thanks everyone for all the downvotes.

For my part, I stopped reading at the free bashing of blockchain•.

Reminded me of the angst and negativity of these original "Web3" people, already bashing everything that was not in their mood back then.

• The crypto ecosystem is shady, I know, but the tech is great

Funny to see the main question in the forum is "How stable is it?" and does it crash less than other options.

Haiku is fantastic and seeing it still developed after 20 years is awesome.

But maybe it would benefit from some modern tech. Given the recent discussion on Swift for Ladybird, since huge parts of Haiku are written in C++ it might make sense to gradually introduce Swift to benefit from the language safety features.

Unless people show up late for the talk.

I once had the first morning time slot at a conference. Despite the breakfast break before (or rather because of it...), the room filled like a progress bar.