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  • In what world is crypto free and open? Never mind the fact that the public ledger is undercut by the difficulty of tying a wallet (or wallets) to specific people, which is possible enough to make transactions traceable for the average person while letting sufficiently motivated bad actors hide their behavior from observation in a way physical cash doesn’t, the entire infrastructure is controlled by either whoever happens to have the biggest share of the crypto token or whoever has the most real money to buy server hardware and electricity.

    Unless you want to talk about actual private block chains like they seem to be suggesting here, in which case you’re literally dealing with a wildly inefficient but otherwise unremarkable database. If you think that replicating the ledger across multiple servers at different HUD locations is somehow more secure or open then I’ve got bad news for you about how modern IT infrastructure is already set up.





  • Nah, at that point you have the same problem that Bitcoin does. Well, one of the many problems that Bitcoin has. Okay it has another one of the many problems that Bitcoin has.

    In any event, you can’t realize that kind of gain without crashing the asset price and rendering it all worthless. I would like to repeat the proposed solution from Auric G. Et Al to instead detonate a dirty bomb inside of Fort Knox, possibly with an English misogynist handcuffed to it, which will allow us to instead reduce the global supply and earn significantly higher returns in appreciation of our existing holdings.











  • I mean, if you’re talking specifically in context about people with vaginas instead of women then using the gendered term does exclude both women without vaginas and men with them who are probably a relevant group in that context. But seriously how often does that come up for you? How often is the most important part of the woman you’re referring to her anatomy?

    And while “females” is probably just as accurate in most contexts it’s also been poisoned with incel vibes at this point and it’s gonna be some time before it can be salvaged for general use outside of specific biological contexts without sounding like you’re about to unload a whole lot of baggage into the thread instead of getting therapy.





  • I mean a lot of the services that companies are using are cloud-hosted, meaning that especially if you have branch offices or a lot of remote workers a normal firewall in the datacenter introduces an unnecessary bottleneck. Putting the logical edge of your organization’s network in the cloud too makes sense from a performance perspective in that case, and then turning the actual firewalls into SaaS seems much less absurd.