Crazy that this (random blog post with no points and zero comments) is the only discussion of a major Ethereum upgrade on here. Even if the average commenter is firmly against blockchains this is still a very interesting and impressive feat.
No, being unemployed is the coercive factor here. It's not fair to treat at-will employment as non-coercive unless non-employment is actually zero. Non-employment currently stands at about 7.7%: https://www.richmondfed.org/research/national_economy/non_em...
Why would anyone turn down a chance to make a living if a job is offered? Why do you think the fed ensures that there are never enough jobs for everyone? Why do you think the fed and the business world talks about the economy in terms of "jobs" and "unemployment" when these are metrics largely unrelated to stuff like "am I actually getting a fair wage" and "is housing priced anywhere near rationally"? etc—the non-coercive labor market is a complete illusion.
Not only is Western Union significantly less reliable and significantly more expensive, as someone who gets paid in crypto the most expensive and painful parts of my finances are those that touch the traditional banking system at all.
> significantly less reliable and significantly more expensive
Going to need a citation on those two claims. You can lookup fees for both, right now BTC fees are about one USD more than a WU transfer. WU is subject to banking laws and if you're going to claim it's "unreliable", you're going to need to provide some evidence of that. It's literally their business, and a heavily regulated one at that.
Yeah, doesn't even make sense for something like this to be decentralized, it should be run by Rolex so they can catch edge cases and correct them by fiat
Yup. If your father dies, and leaves you a Rolex, but does make a way to give you access to the keys to the nft, would the Rolex stop being authentic?
When we are talking about digital proof of ownership of physical goods, any solution that can fail synchronization of the record due to entirely foreseeable events like death, ownership disputes, etc is a failed solution.
Good remark. I think it is simpler to just use a public blockchain that having Rolex properly build "open" cloud services to do that and maintain it themselves over the long run.
>It is certainly possible the court will disagree with the SEC, but I wouldnt bet on it.
I would (not a lot, but I would). They lost on the Grayscale trust, they lost on XRP being a security (extremely relevant here), they're seemingly settling with Binance... the court has been disagreeing with the SEC a whole lot on the matter of blockchain regulation lately.
No, you aren't, and it isn't vocal fry. Overtone singing is a distinct technique in Tuvan throat singing, and comparing it to a bandpass filter is accurate — as a whole, Tuvan throat singing is a set of techniques designed to induce vocal sounds with extremely rich harmonics, which can then be modulated and selected for by shaping the mouth.
What you're thinking of is called "Kargyraa", a particular subset of Tuvan techniques that involves singing with the vocal cords as normal, but also tightening the voicebox such that your "false vocal cords" (some flaps somewhere in your throat) are struck at a frequency an octave below the sung note — for every full cycle your vocal cords complete, the false vocal cords complete half of 1. It creates a rich sound which can be useful for the "bandpass" technique, but is fundamentally something different.
Take this with a small grain of salt, I came to this technique through the modern beatboxing community who independently discovered it as the standard "throat bass" and only bothered researching the Tuvan equivalent a long time ago.
There is a bass singing technique called "subharmonics" that uses something similar (identical?) to vocal fry to create interference with a sung note for a similar effect.
Are there actual perverse incentives that come with "it being married to crypto" — keep in mind that there are demonstrable positive incentives — or is it just aesthetic distaste?
There is a demonstrable disincentive in that approximately everything related to crypto is a scam, so by being married to crypto they demonstrate at least a lack of good judgement.
In which Theodore Blackman, CTO of the Urbit Foundation, responds to the "Plunder and Urbit" piece that was submitted here yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37057471).
How is this published? On a single server somewhere? What country would you put it in? A friendly one I hope. Also one that won't block access to other countries that it might have petty disagreements with in the future. It might be a good idea for it to be replicated across a number of servers across the internet. We call those "nodes" in the blockchain space.
"...I find myself consistently reaching for the blog post that clearly articulates what Urbit is and why it is important, only to continuously be frustrated by the realization that this blog post doesn’t exist. I have yet to read an explanation of Urbit that captures the full scope of the project in language a normal person can understand.
