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Comment · 4 years ago
Oh really? Try holding your breath for 60 seconds while telling yourself nothing matters…

You’ll get yourself in all sorts of entanglements by subscribing to these sorts of belief systems

In reality, nothing matters existentially yet everything matters in the moment. Your ability to accept both of these realities at the same time is freedom

Comment · 4 years ago
When are we going to admit that blockchain is just a new type of data store, useful for a limited number of use-cases that require certain sorts of irreversible, immutable guarantees across a worldwide network of computational devices? Crypto is cool, in so far as any other new data storage technology is cool. It is not a new world order
Comment · 4 years ago
This also makes it unlikely to be widely adopted. In a centralized evolution of the blockchain, rather than run by a widely public, known, and possibly elected entity, these nodes are run by an anonymous collective. That’s a regression in the trust-value chain for most real world applications
Comment · 4 years ago
Both centralized and decentralized systems can have a central authority. All of the examples above have one or more of such authorities. The fundamental premise of a blockchain is antithetical to this
Comment · 4 years ago
It’s unlikely that blockchain / NFT’s will become widely adopted. History proves that human’s like a central authority, just not one that actively works against them.
Comment · 4 years ago
Perfectly put
Comment · 4 years ago
There’s also a lot of YC companies that failed to gain traction. This is also seldom talked about
Comment · 4 years ago
How does PHP / Ruby fare?
Comment · 4 years ago
That’s great! Would love to see ruby supported for my use case
Comment · 4 years ago
Is this language agnostic?
Comment · 4 years ago
I understand the sentiment, but it shouldn’t be too difficult to add a little randomized imperfection to the robot’s programming. Or is it that after you know the pizza has been made by a robot, you’re expecting a perfect pie? Ahh, the future will be interesting indeed…
Comment · 4 years ago
It’s not that growth is inherently bad. It’s that we’ve turned a blind eye to the costs incurred both on an individual level and a planetary level to sustain that growth.

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