• alekwithak@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    No one is ever concerned with how much energy is used to feed ads to the entire population of earth 24/7.

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      Please propose a law or regulation structure for significantly reducing or eliminating advertisements. I’m serious. I fucking hate ads. I just don’t have a reasonable or effective way to get rid of them.

      Edit: Hey actually I just thought of one! If the consumer is paying for the product, it can’t come with ads, including things like product placement or ad reads!

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      10 months ago

      Hey, it’s not just fancy autocomplete!

      Thanks to years of innovation, it’s now copyright infringement as well.

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    …and, hear me out, that will be perfect for keeping messages untraceable by the government. Every single of those 200,000 computers will have full copies of all the messages ever transmitted, unencrypted, but they’ll never be able to tell who wrote them and who they were for.

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      No one who understands bitcoin ever thought it was untraceable.

      In the early days it was really common to place messages in the chain.

      There are literal marriage proposals among these message.

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      I’m still 90% convinced it was either invented by the CIA or the NSA for “reasons”. The US military invented the dark web and they even claim to have invented it, so it’s not a far stretch that another US gov. agency invented Bitcoin.

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      privacy or secrecy from the government isn’t a goal of Bitcoin - the protocol doesn’t even use encryption.

      the goal is protection from (government or other) control

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    Crypto =/= blockchain.

    If you can’t see the utility of blockchain with regards to things like actual, verifiable digital ownership, then I don’t know what to tell you.

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      I want to see what you mean in practical terms, because the only other example that I know besides questionable crypto currencies is NFTs and that was an epic lesson on what not to do. 😅

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        No, NFTs do have good uses, but things like image NFTs are just a misappropriation, like SPAM is to email.

        One use case, is clear, independently verifiable ownership of non-tangible things, like Intellectual Property rights. Movie rights for a book adaptation for instance moving between companies in IP sales and mergers/acquisitions.

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          And it’s ALWAYS the same problem. You can have all the lists you want. A central authority has to recognize and enforce that list. At which point, the structure of your list is completely irrelevant. It could be ANY list. What matters is that it’s chosen to be enforced. And currently, most power structures are happy with plain old databases. Or pen and paper.

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    The real charlatans were the “the technology has promise” people. No, the technology was dumb.

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      He says on a decentralized platform that became popular because the centralized equivalent became hostile towards their users.

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          Yes, in the same way that federated and decentralized aren’t interchangeable.

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            You’re dodging the point that being in favour of decentralising doesn’t mean being a blockchain bro