nuerow

> This discourages thoughtful and frequent commits that express the intent of a change because all the commits are just smashed together anyway so why bother.

This is only the case if said squashing just bundles commits without context or consistent logic. If merges to a mainline branch consist of feature branches whose pull request was already approved after a couple of iterations then the end result is a cleaner commit with it's history thoroughly audited. In practice it's equivalent to a fast-forward merge of a single-commit feature branch that just happened to be nearly lined up with mainline.

> The people that make separate higher standards for crypto are ignorant about how the thing they respect works too.

Not really, it's actually the other way around. Whataboutism aside, crypto proponents somehow try to maintain a cognitive dissonance of how crypto is designed to be unregulated and out of government's reach and at the same time show a kneejerk reaction to any comment on how crypto is used to perform transactions not allowed by regulation controlled by governments such as securities fraud and money laundering.

> Well, now I’m concerned that European satellites could be counting my farts. Great…

You only have anything to worry about if you're gunning for at least the fifth largest ever recorded in your part of the country.

> Where did I "blame" race? And for what?

Please don't play dumb. You accused, and I quote, "it's disingenuous to dismiss historical facts about what white people have done in Africa on the basis that it hurts white people in Africa's feelings."

> People who are white have done horrible things in Africa.

Please don't play dumb. You know very well your racist comment was a blanked accusation targeted at entire ethnical groups.

If you are honestly interested in learning about the crimes against humanity committed within the scope of imperialist agendas, you'll learn very well that the root cause is very specific. If on the other hand you're just invested in mindlessly spewing racist comments then you should really take a look at what you are doing.

> (...) then that truck of stolen graphics cards becomes much harder to move.

That sounds like a convoluted and impractical solution looking for a problem. Mobile service companies and hardware vendors managed to implement services that support activation and bricking without getting any crypto-related buzzword in the way.

> Universe rewards creativity

What? That means nothing at all.

> But it would cost too much of added gas fees(...)

If your goal was honestly to just buy art, why would "gas fees" matter? They only matter in a scenario involving wash trades and high rates of transactions involving small deltas in price.

> I think a lot of it is to just support artists.

To me that assertion, albeit convenient to paint a rosy picture, doesn't make any sense. No one needs a convoluted technical scheme to support artists as donating cash is easy and effortless. Buying the rights to a work from an artist also does not require a convoluted technical scheme, and considering that NFTs haven't been used to enforce any right then that hypothesis is also highly dubious.

What NFTs offer is the ability to perform transactions, and ones which don't have any artist or provenance in consideration.

> So do you have an argument to make (...)

I already did. You made an unsubstantiated claim, and I pointed out your personal assertion was wrong and baseless, and provided a time history of gas prices as evidence, including the fact that not so long ago they were over 3 times higher than the current market price.

If you have a problem with the facts feel free to point out what exactly leads you to believe that justifies the discrepancy between your personal beliefs and the facts.

> Now covid is less of a problem every day, and those things are coming back ... we have a huge demand shock.

I suspect that stimulus checks may have also played a role. Those who fall below the poverty line finally found themselves with a little disposable income to spend on basic everyday things, thus driving up demand. Stimulus check detractors prefer to spin this as inflation but you only get that with a generalized increase in demand for basic consumer goods and services.

My personal theory is that this effect is driven mainly by poor people finally getting a break. Those who were already well-off tend to either not change their consumer patterns with small changes in disposable income, or tend to spend it with one-off expenses such as luxury goods and services, or even dump it in risky investments like crypto as we've been seeing in the ongoing bull run.

> (...) nationals get one of the highest tax rates in Europe[0] and foreigners get a tax haven!

Why is this bad? If foreigners don't move to Portugal then they contribute zero in taxes and to the economy. If the Portuguese government convinces people to move to Portugal with tax benefits, they will pay taxes and spend their income in the local economy.