Are you being downvoted? Bitcoin Cash is the original, period. Longtime Bitcoiner here,transaction fees didn't exist for many years. Envisioned by the creators was money without borders nor barriers to entrance.
It keeps happening because people are stupid, especially children. This whole culture is being led by children on social media. Reddit is a bunch of teenagers, 4chan started the Trump and Q movements.
Now we are letting our speech be governed by kids who this they are being polite but are really a generation of self centered monsters.
We lost respect for our elders and worship at the feet of the teen instagram model. I think adult men are most immune to this but in my life I see 20-30 something women jumping on the bandwagon of calling themselves victims and identity politics.
The civil legal system has been destroyed by this mess and we are emptying out our institutions of any logical thought.
Corporate America is the last hold out for logic but even they are quickly succumbing to the idiocracy.
As a PhD student I found some data that made no sense. Basically a compound added to a plate of cells EXACTLY matched the increase in yield, the former student had just multiplied the yield by the same amount of the added compound. I reported it to my advisor but (of course) she swept it under the rug and did nothing.
I tried to contact the format student but also nothing. There were a few more similar instances before I became completely disillusioned and left the phd program after 4 years, totally burned out with little to show.
To this day I hate that lab and the whole institution. Rotten to the core.
I agree! Ethereum is already to big and too expensive to use. I hold a lot but worry about both BTC and Ethereum. Normal people can no longer use either chain for everyday transactions and at this rate Ethereum will never work as a global computer. To me only Bitcoin Cash and Monero really have their use cases and code sussed out. Sia (and filecoin) work great but both have issues with their insentives, in Sia's case they issue too many coins and it's not profitable to host content.
ETH has already solved scalability with Zero Knowledge Proofs and Optimistic Rollups. Some dapps are clocking 2000 transactions per second. Also, ETH 2's initial beacon chain has launched and when ETH2 fully rolls out, there will be 64x that available on the network.
I think you misunderstand the state that Eth2 is in. It's technically "released", but Eth2 cannot be used to transact. If you move money to Eth2, it must stay in the same wallet/address until more features are rolled out.
Everyone who uses Eth today is still on Eth1 because Eth2 is only good for having your coins sit there and accumulate interest.
No, they are making rapid progress on ETH2. The beacon chain is the root chain for the other 63 shards that will be launched. That is the chain that is currently running in parallel with the ETH1 chain.
You claim Sia issues too many coins. That is a myth. Inflation in 2021 will be no higher than 7%, declining every year after that. In case you are referring to the total supply, would it make you feel better to move the decimal to the left?
Hosts have been saving and serving content since the launch of the Sia network years ago. It is profitable if done at scale. For more information, https://siastats.info/storage_pricing
Lightning network is a joke tbh. It’s just gonna be a few large payment processors acting as banks (it can’t be decentralised cos the routing will just break.).
As the original post said BCH and Monero are real world ways to transact right now.
Although I figure long term the whole cryptocurrency space will implode (due to greed, infighting, technical problems etc.)
Your comment is burried below dozens more optimistic views that life "should" exist and evolve intelligence, but I like your take. We are so wildly improbable that most of us can't even fathom it. That our minds exist at all is so impossibly unlikely that by all accounts we should not exist.
For most I think that we are hear seems to indicate some inevitably but I like that we are an anomaly, we shouldn't exist, the we die.
So happy to see actual discussion of cryptocurrency concepts and not just visceral hate for all things crypto on hacker news. New line it looks like you guys have really turned a corner I'm proud of you hacker news.
Similarly I've long been saying that our generation is the first to have no real connection to the natural world. Our grandparents grew up with their grandparents who would have been firmly planted in Terra-cognito or at least been hearing stores of it. But our parents, once removed, had nothing "real" to pass on to us, just stories at best. The baby-boomers specificlly sought to cut ties to their "stiff" parental figures and mostly were successful in reshaping the world as individualistic, something that NEVER would have worked as a survival strategy for any previous generation.
My take, the baby-boomers consciously severed our ties to the past as their children we have now lost all connections to the natural world. We get what we deserve which is utter destruction of the climate and mental suffering and disease until the day we die.
He might be, but this comment provides no argument as to whether he is, nor does it say anything about the subject matter.
Not to mention that even a "jackass and a jerk" can be absolutely correct, since those accusations are mostly about behavioral and/or moral failings, not intellectual.
He provided defence for Jeffrey Epstein at his trial for being a pedophile rapist pimp, and then remained friends with him after he was convicted of that.
There are many more points than that that could be made, but it does not seem necessary.
If they are similar this point, yes, they're not necessary, as they are totally irrelevant to the longbet in discussion, or to Pinker's work in general.
If Einstein was a serial killer on the side, relativity would still be a great theory...
There are millions of people who can provide at least as much insight as Pinker can ever manage. Let's listen to them instead of the creep who hangs out with rapist pimps.
>There are millions of people who can provide at least as much insight as Pinker can ever manage
That takes for granted what it should instead prove. Pinker, regardless of who he fraternizes with or what moral causes he supports or not, is an acknowledged scientist.
>Let's listen to them instead of the creep who hangs out with rapist pimps.
Who people hang with is irrelevant. We don't and shouldn't change who we listen to on technical/scientific/etc matters based on their personal morality (even less so based on someone's idea about that). We change who we listen to on those matters based on the quality of their arguments and domain knowledge.
In any case, we should not bring moralizing and posturing into discussions and into who we listen to, except if the morals in question are related to the subject matter.
E.g. I would be suspect to economic arguments from an economist who has been found to take money from states to push some agenda. But I wouldn't be suspect to economic arguments from someones who enjoys killing kittens. I just wouldn't take environmental / pet advice from that person...
I think he's a bit of a prick too.. but seriously, this isn't how HN works. If you're not a linguist or in stats then the critique is at best third hand, and basically common knowledge sour grapes. (All of the ego scientist stuff makes me mad, but I try to keep away from that)
Guilt by association is really toxic. Please don't open this door. Epstein had a little black book with thousands of names and you're basically starting "the crucible" because you want to win an argument.
I don't like Pinker as a public intellectual and not because of the company he kept, because of how sloppy he is with numbers, and an extremely argumentative egotistical posture. Some of his ideas are interesting.
If you're going to start bone pointing to evil, do it somewhere else.
Only for the top 1% does a fiat government currency work and we are in the tail end of this cycle.
The US knows this and it's why they are printing the dollar into oblivion. Get you Bitcoin Cash and Monero while you still can.