German might not be as predictable as French or Italian, but it’s still a lot less irregular than English. Only in terms of pronunciation, of course :)
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Because English pronunciation makes no fucking sense whatsoever learnenglish.de/pronunciatio…
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Am I the only one observing a certain well-know framework creator’s self-rationalizing descent into a more VC-bro compatible take on social issues with morbid fascination?
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As a big fan of your writing, I’d be happy to try and argue for the positive side if you’re serious about trying to find a balanced take
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WTF?
Of all the bizarre holiday traditions, the absolute worst has to be the expectation that workers give their boss a gift (1/3 of U.S. employees do it!) This year, let's end the predatory practice once and for all. inthesetimes.com/article/hol…
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Totally fair point. Just pointing out that not everyone interested and active in that space is a Ponzi-scheming, environment-hating, ignorant crypto bro
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Can’t see anything libertarian (a political viewpoint that disgusts me) about that. Anything that hurts the big labels and Spotify would have my full support.
OK, let’s assume there existed an NFT-based scheme for, say, music IP rights based on a PoS chain, enabling artists to do away with the old and new music monopolies – wouldn’t that be a good thing? Certainly from a commercial perspective, possibly from an energy view as well.
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The problem I have is that downplaying the (however rare) good intentions and actual technical innovation paints everyone who is interested in that space (obviously including myself) as completely stupid, or even evil (if you follow @smdiehl’s take)
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E.g. NFTs would make sense if they conveyed actual IP rights, but most often they are not. Bitcoin-style PoW currencies actually are the only mature answer to a certain set of requirements almost no one has. PoW alternatives address the energy problem, but are not yet used often.
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Kudos for the very good first part. Sad the 2nd part is 100% negative, which I think hurts the whole thing. I think it would be more convincing pointing out that Web3, the Blockchain, crypto currencies and NFTs were, say, 95% percent bad.
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