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I completely agree with this. Why would the average Joe trust the chain you describe more than a Corporation with a physical address and humans to interact with?

What are your thoughts on stuff like the many blockchain real estate related projects? e.g. "tokenized real estate" "100% liquidity" etc etc.

that's why I said "part" of a conversation. If it's known that China (or any nation) is actively working against our citizens interests, it certainly makes sense to include in any conversations relating to foreign affairs with that country. Does that benefit people addicted to drugs in America? No. But it may benefit people who could *potentially be addicted in the future.

I discovered scooters recently and have rode them in three major cities during the past month. I have to say it is the most genius consumer tech product I've seen in a long time. I instantly felt a sense of "wow" after riding the first one (bird). The entire experience is so simple, so elegant (ui/ux), cheap, efficient, and most importantly FUN. I looked up bird and lime to discover they'd each received over 400M in funding and it makes perfect sense to me. This is a disruptive technology that's going to see major adoption in every city across the entire planet. You have to ride one to understand, especially in an urban, downtown, waterfront or metro type area. They're going to easily cut into bikeshare and short-trip rideshare services. Take a ride and you'll see, #scootlife!

Also worth noting, none of the technology is itself "new", but rather bird & lime particularly have packaged existing technologies together to make a product with all the qualities mentioned above. Innovation is usually just a twist on something that's already out there.

How do you reason such? Most if not all of the illicit fentanyl comes from China, where it is an uncontrolled substance. IMO this should definitely be part of a comprehensive conversation.

> Discussing which tools work best is an important question in software development.

I completely agree, but would you write an article titled "Spoons still blowing away Forks in digging holes"?

Why do people care which framework "blows" the other one away? In my opinion, it literally doesn't matter at all and arguing over such things seems amateur.

Use whatever tool gets the job done.

> What's worse is that they're not entirely wrong.

If your startup dies because of your choice in javascript framework, you were doomed from the get go.

Oh I'd love to go to that lake...

I agree it's foolish conjecture and I believe we are certainly not "alone". I had an experience when I was 10 that infused fear and curiosity in me.

I'd like to say I am hopeful about our future but we are just evolved organisms from a long chain of creatures designed to compete for survival... it's in our own nature to self-destruct.

but how do you know it exists if you've never been there? who told you?

> there are no reptile aliens secretly ruling Earth.

perhaps not ruling it...

where is this lake in WA state? have you been there? are you reptilian?

That's actually a great idea in my opinion, not sure why you were down voted. It seems that the incumbent large internet companies will easily be able to afford this burdensome regulation but new startups all the way through medium sized small businesses may struggle or even be suffocated by it. It would seem reasonable to have a tiered system where the penalties only kick in when the business has scaled.

I disagree, what is unique about Reddit that a smart team of engineers can't reproduce easily?

Like facebook their main advantage is network effect only.