ubergeek @ ubergeek @lemmy.today

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Yeah. He had Cheney as his handler. The same Cheney who was on stage talking about great Harris is.

MAGA congress critters are all generally in safe, gerrymandered districts.

How does one push their elected to a desired position, if there's nothing backing that push?

Remember: Our vote is like the only tool we have to hold electeds to account.

They tend to take those fictional tales of warning, and use them as blueprints. Like, they read "Don't Build the Toment Nexus" and decided that building the Torment Nexus was a grand idea.

"Get into the idiot squishers!"

I guarantee those execs think they will be building Star Trek / Federation level society

Nah, they know they will just be building the Ferengi Trade Empire.

Smart contracts are designed, programmed and, if they’re done right, rigorously audited for correctness.

What do these "smart contracts" make? And why do we need to burn up tons of fossil fuels, just to have contracts like we had before?

And how is this better than a typical contract?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/hackers-hijack-smart-contracts-in-new-cryptocurrency-token-rug-pull-scams/

Bitcoin was relatively simple, Ethereum is not.

Both are simple ponzi schemes.

They’ve spent years crafting these systems to function for PoS, L2 support, sharding, rollups, etc., at scale.

And all that time, they are still ponzi schemes that do none of the above very well. We've had all of that in the merchant payment systems for decades now, all without the need to consume more electricity than many small nations, just to approve a transaction.

Your name here isn't auto-generated? :P

"Work"

Well, we can be rather certain it's not going up over the next month, wouldn't you agree? Not unless somehow we can re-wind international politics.

There is no utility really, for ponzicoins. You can't make anything from it. You can use it to make anything. You can't eat it. You can't hydrate with it. And you can't use the notes to summon military aid.

I suppose you can buy drugs with it. Maybe.

So yes, it's a Greatest Fool game.

It just would be difficult to find one outside of a hospital or care home.

Hey now! Elon and Rubio are right there

You’re just as likely to wait JUST a little too long and then end up buying when it’s higher than it is now.

I think you're overestimating the performance of the stock market for the next 1-4 years.

A country, itself, cannot go "bankrupt".

You wanna know how we can settle debts, for pennies on the dollar, today, right now?

Mint a 10 gajillion USD coin. Now, pay all debts. Now, destroy 10 gajillion USD coin.

See? Impossible to go bankrupt, if you're the buyer, generator, and seller of something, and there's always a willing buyer.

They’re valuable as long as someone is willing to purchase it.

Government based fiats always has the guarantee that the government will accept them to settle your taxes.

So, as long as the government exists, there's a buyer for the currency.

Not the case with made up ponzicoins.

Basically all modern money is based on faith,

Wrong.

Fiat currencies are based on military might, not hopes and dreams.

Now’s a time to buy.

Never is it a good time to invest in a ponzi scheme. It's just a matter of playing "Greatest Fool".

The only way to make Nazis afraid again is to warn them, in their own language: violence.

Initially makes me wonder how the employer could be so dumb as to give one employee so much access.

Right now, just based purely on the access I need to do my day-to-day job involves me having access where I can pretty much nuke everything from orbit, with an ssh loop.

At some point, you need to trust your employees, in order to get work done. Sure, you can lock it all down tightly, but then you just made work take longer. It's a trade off.

so opaque and impenetrable that the employer can’t replace or fire you without their shit catching fire soon after.

Somehow, that's the kinda roles I always land in lol