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Ethereum based research projects are addressing this. There is a currently active and usable project called Railgun which allows for hidden balances and transactions. Aztec network is launching soon which is a fully private L2 chain. It has taken a really long time but it seems the next few years will bring real privacy.

I like node and have used it previously with home.assistant. However I pulled back from using it as hA's own automations got better. Node's big weakness is a lack of visibility into what happened. There is no easy debugging flow to see what happened or how, whereas ha shows you everything. The friction of poor debugging makes ha system superior even if it is a little "weaker" .

There are many countries in the EU that get many more funds per person than Poland and have much worse outcomes.

Some moron always show up with the "but it was all the EU subsidies" talking point, which is quite frankly part of racist tropes of eastern Europeans being dumb and worse than westerners. Could you imagine them accomplishing anything on their own? That's ridiculous. It's us, the western saviors, who did this with our penny subsidies!

Its been interesting how much of a nothingburger fednow ended up being.

Lack of adoption probably because it seems to function just as a faster ACH, without any of the UX improvements systems like Pix, UPI, blik, etc have...

Django honesty feels pretty outdated and behind these days.

The webdev race has sort of left python behind.

Yeah incredible. EVs are a bit questionable at the moment but I have no doubt that in 5 years they will just be straight up better than gas cars in every way.

Concerning part is that China has a massive lead in this industry, and the lone American company that can compete is being targeted by the petty regime we have in power.

Well the problem is that anti-"discrimination" laws will kill that startup if that "well defined subset of consumers" doesn't have enough black people.

Same reason IQ tests are banned and credit scores are only allowed to consider like 7 factors.

Classic case of overregulation killing things. Stock markets were originally invented to fund very risky new ventures in the Netherlands. Now you need to spend millions on lawyers and various forms before being allowed to list, after which the regulatory nonsense only spirals upwards to more and more.

There is no reason that random mom and pop shops shouldnt be able to list their sandwitch shop and raise 50k to remodel. Will there be tons of scams and nonsense? Yes. Dont invest in tiny companies with no track record then, easy solution. Will productive stuff also happen? Also yes. People can already waste their money gambling/smoking/lotteries/drugs/stock options/supid luxury goods - all of which have a guaranteed chance of working out poorly for society, but this is apparently ok and we instead need to protect people from the stock market.