ButtSpark69

"You'd just have a list of authorized signers of new blocks and if someone does something bad you kick them off the list."

Are you saying that the incentives provided for successfully mining a block in crypto's isn't necessary to their security? I can't think of a single expert that agrees, or an example in the space of that working. Block reward is typically thought of as a tradeoff between security and inflation.

upvotes & downvotes are just the most obvious solution to the noise problem that plagues the internet. Nothing at cost is a blessing and a curse at the same time. We won't solve the internet until we figure out how to solve these fundamental issues in a sustainable bottom-up and incentive-driven way. Which is clearly an immensely hard problem.

It's not the same thing to develop and keep an exploit for yourself, as it is to require the public companies in your country to report the important bugs they find while effectively also under a temporary gag order. They are super different things.

You're not wrong, but neither is the person you're responding to. You responded with logic for why the vaccine was a good idea, while they only talked about what was typical in the past. Past American medical philosophy has mostly been dictated by an attitude of "do no harm" rather than "optimize for least harm". These yield very different recommendations.

The juicy bits:

"it can get confusing to understand what’s so special about a Mercedes system that only operates on certain stretches of Germany’s Autobahn network, and only up to 60 km/h (37 mph)."

"but it can’t perform lane changes indecently"

You view the complexity of American law as a feature, not a bug??

Safety glassed would have been a good idea, any rubber can suddenly fail. But he is absolutely right that "creaking noises" are common in wood far far far below their breaking point. I suspect he calculated the strength of all these things if he went to that much trouble for the sling. Also the markings on the bolt heads showed they were grade 8 (those 6 radial lines) which are near the best common off-the-shelf bolt strengths you can get. The OG wooden sling breaking was likely a nuanced issue stemming from it's rotational speed, so not a risk during the cranking stage. The sling wasn't even under load at that point. High-speed rotational effects are many orders of magnitude harder to predict than the needed strength of a base structure. But yes, safety glasses would have been wiser.

Which means a giant physical structure to support that giant lever arm. When you scale up to things that can knock down castle walls I suspect the difference is incredible.

In Brave you can just turn the adds off. They're optional for if you want to earn their token.

Is the abuse typically just people re-signing up continually every two weeks? Or are there other super common abuses? This isn't my field and I have always detested the commonly required CC inputs for free trials, so interested to know more about the motivation from software builders.

How sure are you their assets are really worth 2T? Isn't that a lot of the question here?

I think it's also important to keep in mind that at minimum it would take a generation to truly solve in a root-cause way (one that won't just come back the minute you focus on something else). Many of these biases get built during childhood when your brain is so so much more plastic.

As an Eth staker I get paid for a portion of every transaction that the network processes.

Survived the 90%+ drop about 4 years ago. I don't know if it's backed or not, but it means something.