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You’re right but Elon’s idea of free speech is little more than “speech I like”, and is the opposite of what free speech is.

That being said, employees of a company don’t have free speech rights. And hypocrisy is not illegal.

Elon is well within his rights to fire people writing open letters, and everyone needs to realize that companies are not democracies.

How is that bad faith? Isn’t that, for example, exactly what Gitlab does?

It would be bad faith if they removed access to the open source code somehow.

I was wondering the same thing.

Also, I’m looking to start reusing VIM (company policies meant that VIM wasn’t available for me to use for a while, but thankfully we are rid of those ridiculous policies) and I’m wondering if I should switch over to Neovim this time round.

“We believe in free speech and no government interference”.

“How dare you leave an anonymous opinion on Glassdoor. Here are our lawyers and the government forcing you to be doxxed and the speech to be removed”.

“We value diversity of thought”.

“But not pronouns. Those are sacred.”

Also, the PR puff piece basically amounts to:

We have 500 roles open for the rest of the year and we will continue to keep those 500 roles open.

And also, we have a great transition plan if you want to quit the company, because your values don’t align with us.

See, they are pirates and not professionals, so it’s a “transition plan” and not a buyout package.

Well, even Coinbase was hiring until they were rescinding job offers.

A PR puff piece doesn’t tell anyone anything.

And gold doesn’t need ever increasing energy to be spent so it doesn’t vanish into thin air.

Also, drugs didn’t have a legal competitor.

Now that marijuana, for example, is largely being legalized through the U.S., illegal sales of marijuana have completely vaporized.

Very few will opt to use crypto if a government has deemed it illegal if there is a legal alternative.

I guess there is value in crypto if your government and civil society is completely collapsing, but those blockchains are being sustained entirely by first world gamblers hoping to make a buck on cryptos prices increasing.

Once they realize that crypto has been reduced to (as its backers are now insisting) a currency for failed states, they won’t gamble in crypto and they won’t fund the enormous amounts of energy needed to keep a blockchain running.

Maybe a non profit can run a blockchain that people in failed states can depend on. But then the question arises, why would that non profit use an expensive technology like the blockchain as opposed to simply using a Postgres DB. Something which all the biggest crypto exchanges already do to provide immediate transactions because the blockchain isn’t fast enough.

Which brings us to the point that the only reason anyone is using the blockchain is because it’s been successfully marketed to lay people as this magical inflation defying, freedom providing magic money tree that only goes up in value, when in reality it’s at best a pretty terrible database with some niche uses.

It’s special in that it has a special purpose. Just like bread has a special purpose.

And the purpose of a currency is to facilitate financial transactions.

Which crypto is horrible at, because it cannot maintain a decent value at any point.

Crypto is as good at being currency as iron is at being bread.

Man, the spinning is tremendous.

All this stuff is literally what all the crypto people were and still are saying.

No one’s against the existence of a web app.

But most people seem to prefer the desktop versions of chat apps.

They really should have both.

Well, so stem cell research is avoiding US laws because of Puritanism.

Why is crypto avoiding US laws?

Edit: Also, a quick Google of top stem cell research companies show that they are based in the U.S. or Europe, so I’m not sure how correct the claim of US avoidance is. But even if they are avoiding the U.S., they are choosing Europe instead, where “legal flexibility” is still not a thing.

The closest public info I can find is revenues of about $125mm in the past year.

With about 4000 employees, that’s an average of about $30k per employee.

That sounds pretty low to make any sort of profit.

How is crypto any better at doing this than say, Western Union?

Ultimately, as someone who finds blockchain technology really cool, what I struggle with is, in which scenarios is blockchain better than Postgres?