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Are there good uses for the blockchain?
  • No

    Fine, I’ll elaborate a little more.

    Blockchain generates typically with huge cost and inefficiency a decentralised ledger of events. If you are going to use a blockchain you need to ask yourself tow questions. 1. Do I need a decentralised ledger/record of events and, 2. Am I willing to put up with the huge increase in costs for creating said ledger.

    In my opinion there is nothing that satisfies these two requirements. Blockchains can not remain decentralised for anything that interacts with the physical world as some needs to input the data in the blockchain. This requires you to trust a party destroying any notion of decentralisation (i.e. if an entity can control what goes into a blockchain then it really isn’t decentralised).

    Following from this if you are willing to accept and trust a centralised actor to control what enters your blockchain why not trust them to manage your ledger. It would be simpler and easier than using a blockchain.

    Finally, as for digital goods that don’t interact with the physical world. Why do you want to introduce a decentralised scarcity? It’s a silly idea. Either you own the intellectual property and you decide who has a license to use your digital goods (in which case you don’t need a blockchain) or you leverage some of the best attributes of the digital world and you leave the good to be freely copied, downloaded and used. A blockchain is just a wasteful unnecessary exercise at that point.

    Basically there’s no legitimate use case for blockchain. The best proof of this is just how little real world adoption blockchain technology has in the real world. It’s as old as the iPhone and yet I don’t know a single person who uses it to get things done in their day to day lives. If it had a use we would have found it already.

  • these folks sure are quiet these days
  • Kamala needed every vote she could get. Foolishly throwing away the votes of leftists and progressives is just stupid. Whether or not it was enough to change the election though is stupid. The proof is in the pudding. Kamala ran on doing nothing in Gaza and she lost.

  • these folks sure are quiet these days
  • Or you could have just not supported a genocide so that people would vote for you. Stop blaming the electorate for your own failings. No one is obliged to vote for you. Especially when you have terrible policies like funding a genocide.

  • Nature's Serenity
  • Yeah I was thinking that would be the other big one. It’s either ‘I’m down to fuck’ or throws gang signs. With the occasional ‘Prepare to sortie we’ve got an unidentified threat in our airspace!!’

  • The L1 line packed

    On a normal day the L1 line is pretty full from central, but on a rainy day when no one wants to walk and, the light rail is running less frequently the trains are absolutely packed and people can’t get on after Capital Square or even Central. Hopefully the metro can take some load off or there’s another plan to increase capacity.

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    Mexico, facing US pressure, will halt incentives to Chinese EV makers

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    An Australian aid worker has been killed in Gaza by an IDF strike

    www.smh.com.au ‘Our beautiful sister’: Friends pay tribute to Australian aid worker killed in Gaza

    Australian Zomi Frankcom was among four foreign aid workers killed in an apparent Israeli air strike while providing food assistance in Gaza.

    ‘Our beautiful sister’: Friends pay tribute to Australian aid worker killed in Gaza

    Watch as the Australian government condemns this in the weakest way possible.

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    Brother and sister killed in Heckenberg crash as police hunt for three men who allegedly fled the scene

    www.abc.net.au 'My kids are gone': Distraught mother of siblings killed in crash in Sydney's south-west visits site

    Alina Kauffman, 24, had just picked up her 15-year-old brother, Ernesto Salazer, from his new job and were just metres away from home when their car was struck in Heckenberg near Liverpool.

    'My kids are gone': Distraught mother of siblings killed in crash in Sydney's south-west visits site

    I hope they find the perpetrators and absolutely eviscerate them in the courts. Absolutely heinous behaviour.

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    Defiant North Korea tells UN its spy satellite program is its ‘legitimate right as a sovereign state’

    edition.cnn.com Defiant North Korea tells UN its spy satellite program is its 'legitimate right as a sovereign state' | CNN

    In a defiant speech to the UN Security Council, North Korea insisted its efforts to launch a spy satellite into space are transparent and within “its legitimate right as a sovereign state.”

    Defiant North Korea tells UN its spy satellite program is its 'legitimate right as a sovereign state' | CNN
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    Melbourne driver Alisha Fagan, who killed grandfather then blamed crash on 'African men', jailed

    www.abc.net.au Melbourne driver who killed grandfather then blamed crash on 'African men' jailed

    Alisha Fagan, who caused the death of 69-year-old grandfather Sedat Hassan in a 2022 crash, will be eligible for parole in less than six months.

    Melbourne driver who killed grandfather then blamed crash on 'African men' jailed

    Way too soft a punishment imo

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    He sits upon the garbage throne

    When you play the game of bin, you win or you die.

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    www.abc.net.au Unemployment has caused suicide in Australia, new research finds

    New research finds a direct causal relationship between unemployment and suicide, suggesting implications for public policy, writes Gareth Hutchens.

    Unemployment has caused suicide in Australia, new research finds

    Now when economists say that we need to raise unemployment they should just come out and admit that they just want some Australians to die to keep the wealth ponzi going.

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    www.abc.net.au What if soaring rates don't kill inflation? Central banks may be about to blow up the economy

    We could be wreaking havoc trying to reach the 2 to 3 per cent inflation target, writes business editor Ian Verrender. What if it's a goal that is unattainable?

    I’m curious how long central bankers will let this go on for before they begrudgingly admit that they got it wrong. For the sake of those already made homeless, ill or dead from the current inflation I hope the central banks aren’t wrong so that their suffering wasn’t for nothing.

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    When you jump the gates and get caught on abc news

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    Time pizza rule

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    Dad Rule

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    www.abc.net.au Economists want more unemployment. But do they care how the jobless will be treated?

    According to some economists, we need more unemployment in Australia to get inflation under control. But, Gareth Hutchens asks, do they know how jobseekers are treated?

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    Harry Triguboff requests NSW government fast-track rezoning eastern Sydney precinct so Meriton can build new homes

    www.abc.net.au Emails show how billionaire tried to fast-track rezoning of Sydney precinct as angry locals fight plans

    The email exchange between Harry Triguboff and senior New South Wales government figures provides a glimpse into the tactics the billionaire used to try and rezone an area around Little Bay.

    Australia's second-richest man asked the New South Wales government to fast-track rezoning plans in Sydney's east, arguing it would generate "billions" and provide money for Lismore's flood victims, emails have revealed.

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