This screams “exit scam the CCS” from the rooftops IMO.

The primary reason to not use PoS is simply having an ongoing cost and expense external to the network.

So when we quantify mining revenue and staking revenue, what we usually do is quantify risk. A miner must make an investment and has an average expected return, their exposure is partly to volatility of bitcoin for example and to energy prices and what not. A staker of ethereum for example doesnt really have this, their risk is only in making mistakes, server downtime, opportunity cost. The slashing rates and things are designed with incentive in mind primarily, and expected risk losses are downstream of those decisions. But we always quantify it in terms of risk, but theres another big side of this: ongoing expense.

There is a minimal ongoing cost to staking. Make your initial investment, get high uptime on your node, youre good. A miner has an ongoing cost, in energy, in big facilities, in hardware depracation. Additionally, a miner has an ongoing cost external tp the network. This os a very big thing. they have to buy energy, hardware. A staker doesn’t have anything like that, their activity is entirely internal to the network.

There are major game theoretical implications to these big differences. There are pros and cons, but all in all I and most people, and particularly in the Monero world, think PoW handily wins out.

If you had anything you wouldn’t still be fucking around in the Monero spaces defending yourself saying anything and everything except actually demonstrating that you’re not full of shit.

He’s got 2 articles about how none of the accusations are true. He just couldn’t figure out how to link them in here, just like he can’t figure out how to release the source code he supposedly has so he can get paid.

Here’s his drivel if you want to read it https://kewbit.org/kewbit-responds-to-creator-of-basicswapdex-com-ofrnxmr/ https://kewbit.org/addressing-the-false-proclamation-of-exit-scamming-allegations-by-basicswapdex/

I say, ditch sunk cost fallacy and call this a 75 XMR lesson. Nobody needs to trifle with this guy any longer.

Good god Iran’s shit is all over the place. He gets sentenced to 6 years, appeals it, gets sentenced to death. Death dude. For saying something out loud. How do governments like this expect to ever gain legitimacy in the eyes of the people they rule?

A civil agreement between private parties cannot be under penalty of purjury. A civil penalty could be levied if it is specified in the contract, but I’ve never seen a rent contract that specified a penalty beyond the landlord having the right to break the agreement if they find out.

Generally speaking, a landlord has an incentive to keep you if you pay on time and don’t damage property, regardless what you lied about.

If These Trees Could Talk. Polyphia. Those are two I like quite a bit. Explosions In the Sky. This Will Destroy You.

In order for something to be fraud someone has to be defrauded. If she pays her rent there’s no crime. I doubt they’d try to get her charged with fraud for not paying her rent.

It will work either way but I personally would.

Yes.

A rule of thumb: any and all proprietary applications spy on you, this goes doubly so for the big social corps. There is an epidemic of spyware and it’s all being sold to you as a benefit.

Now let’s talk about stickers on produce that leave adhesive behind. Yet another user experience principle thrown to the wayside by middle management who don’t understand the problem the old stickers solved.

Well, I think tools that allow spontaneous organization are fantastic. The ability to encode an organizational structure would be great. You can formalize institutions and relationships and describe them completely, enable enforcement of any formal agreements automatically, I would love to see that.

There’s a problem with using technology to distribute resources though. It’s mostly a network topology problem, but also an issue of processing power and lossy information channels. Think of every person as a node on a network doing computation constantly about the optimal distribution of resources. This is a self organizing distributed system, one in which no node knows more than it needs to about it’s needs and resource availability, and makes no computation about the needs of other nodes. This is a system where the outcome, optimal distribution of resources, is an emergent property. An artificial system with a more centralized structure cannot be as efficient because 1) the route between nodes is inefficient because it must traverse the central node, 2) the processing power the central node needs to decide everything is at a minimum as high as all other nodes combined, and 3) the information available to it about needs and availability is noisy and missing important pieces; it is lossy. As a result of these problems, a system in which resource distribution is centrally controlled cannot outcompete a system in which the computation is distributed; essentially, described from a cybernetics viewpoint, a centrally planned economy cannot be more efficient than a market economy. So, designing systems to run an economy is infeasible, this set of problems cannot be overcome with any technology, the only way to do it would be to take humans out of the equation, and humans are the whole point of distributing resources in the first place.

Fuck man it’s hard. All of the search engines are broken. I don’t know, I look for research papers, read books, internet searches fenagling with phrasing and keywords, try 5 different engines, talk to people online and offline.

I don’t use LLMs for research.

Time almost always proves you correct

This is a very pessimistic outlook, well done on being internally consistent.

Depends what causes it. Red blood is usually from hemorrhoids, which 1/4th of all people have. So in a sense it’s normal, as in common, but you should still get it resolved if you can

Amazon delivers value to me, banks are rent seeking middlemen that want a cut of every transaction and control of all capital and deliver no value whatsoever.

I may use banks in the future if I have a better reason than “debit card” but I’d probably use a credit union if I needed more than that anyway.

I don’t know if I boycott. I refuse to do business with certain companies, if that counts. I suppose that’s what a boycott is.

• Google, first and foremost
• Microsoft
• Meta
• Apple
• Visa
• MasterCard
• Paypal, including Venmo
• all banks
• oil change places
• all outlet stores

There’s probably more I’m not thinking of. Generally speaking I use all FOSS software, always buy things used from a person who owns it, don’t buy processed food and cook my own 99% of the time, don’t use chemical products on my skin or in the shower, buy clothes used and use cash for everything. For Amazon, which I do use, I get gift cards.

Justice be done though the heavens fall. It’s a very old quote, originally in Latin, it’s a core principle of a functioning justice system.

Where’s the data sourced from?

Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works I’d say are a little left? And exploding-heads, less authoritarian right, more boomer gab people instance with misused meme formats galore, totally unfun. Big R Republicans packed to the brim. Boring as fuck.

There’s not really a top right corner instance anymore, there used to be one, hosted at nobodyhasthe.biz. Those guys were what you’d expect, N word everywhere everything is about Jews chud memes black sun all of that shit.