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  • What if we’re thinking about “Fediverse funding” the wrong way? (Non-crypto idea)

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  • Then you have a central org you need to trust with the money. It's not really distributed or federated system anymore.

  • What if we’re thinking about “Fediverse funding” the wrong way? (Non-crypto idea)

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  • Whatever the term, if the coins can be exchanged back into a real currency or goods, they have real value, and as such they're as good cash.

    Wikipedia:

    Pachinko balls won from games cannot be exchanged directly for money in the parlor, nor can they be removed from the premises or exchanged with other parlors. However, they can be legally traded to the parlor for so-called "special prize" tokens (tokushu keihin (特殊景品) [ja]), which can in turn be "sold" for cash to a separate vendor off-premises.

    That's still not going to work without either a blockchain or central trusted management org of some kind.

  • What if we’re thinking about “Fediverse funding” the wrong way? (Non-crypto idea)

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  • So if they have real cash value, how do you secure a distributed currency system without a blockchain? How do you stop the creation of fraudulent tokins?

  • What if we’re thinking about “Fediverse funding” the wrong way? (Non-crypto idea)

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  • I'm not sure what problem this is trying to solve exactly.Why not just a simple subscription to your home instance/server?What would people get from trading these tokins, can they cash them out?If not blockchain how do you guarantee or secure these tokins being traded across instance/servers?

  • Science Keeps Changing. So Why Should We Trust It?

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  • No. No, it proves what ideas are not true.That's what the falsifiable standard is all about.

    What you might be thinking of are unfalsifiable claims, like religion often makes. And in those cases yes, science can't say they're false. So science doesn't apply at all to those things. You may use logic or mathematics to try find a probability for those things, but that's not realy science. Those are different disciplines. Though they do have overlap, as science uses them also.

  • Artificial "Intelligence"

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  • Sewing machines don't make stiches the way people do. People tried for decades and failed to build machines that sewed like humans. They work by making their stiches in ways humans never would, or could realy. They had to invent a whole new way get the job done, not remotely the way a person would do it.

    AI will very likely be the same. Expecting machine minds to do things the same way a human mind would, to mimic human thought, strikes me as some kind of human centric bias.

  • Artificial "Intelligence"

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  • Complexity isn't relevant to my analogy.The lessons learned from the failures and eventual success of machine sewing are.

    Unless you're being sarcastic.Sewing really is surprisingly complex.

  • Artificial "Intelligence"

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  • That's like saying there's no way a machine can replicate hand sewing.

  • Science Keeps Changing. So Why Should We Trust It?

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  • At least in person I've had a little luck explaining that science doesn't actually claim to be the Truth. It does however prove what's false. So the current science is only the best idea we have so far. And when we have new information current science changes.

    Compared to faith or religion which has no idea if it's wrong, and refuses to change with new information. Which is more trustworthy for the most effective advice in a changing world?

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    "Starfleet Academy" early review round-up

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    Google’s new Android source code release schedule is bad news for custom ROMs

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  • Probably hereTitle and image matches

  • EVs remain a niche choice in the US, according to survey

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  • It's all about willful ignorance. If people complain about a lack of public chargers, they don't know what they're talking about. Public charging only matters on long road trips. For the other 350 days a year, you'll charge at home.

    If you live in an apartment, parking in a standard lot, with no way to run power out to your car? I get it. You need to look for another apartment first. It at least you know how actually owning an electric car works.

  • How to vote?

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  • That's the ideal.But I think most people conflate those with agree and disagree.

  • Trump May Have Accidentally Pardoned the Jan. 6 Pipe Bomber

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  • 😅

  • Trump May Have Accidentally Pardoned the Jan. 6 Pipe Bomber

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  • Yes.Don't doubt their incomitance incompetence.

  • This is Why Cycling is Dangerous in America [1:35:30]

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  • See my other replies on this rebuttal.

  • What's it going to take to truly stop the US?

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  • You're right this will (or should anyway) invite a major international response. But it won't be attacking our elections.

    It'll be in international politics and economics.Were I in charge of another nation, I'd immediately end all diplomatic ties with us. Deporting all US embassy/consolate staff and diplomats. Possibly even visa holders. I'd also end whatever exports my nation made to the US. Buying the goods from my nation's companies myself. If my nations banks had any money of US nationals, it would be frozen.

    But that's just me. We'll see what they decide to do.

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    Why is the US invading Venezuela?

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  • Lots of people say oil. Even Trump himself says it's about the oil. Since Trump says oil, it's a good bet it's got nothing to do with oil. Remember Trump just says what he wants people to think, he doesn't care about the truth. And Maduro already promised Trump all the oil he wants at whatever price he wants. So it's not oil.

    I've heard a hypothesis suggesting that it's being pushed by Marko Rubio and a contingent of Cuban Americans (mostly in Florida), who've wanted to take down the Cuban government for decades. They view Venezuela as a stepping stone, proof of concept in that direction. It's a test. A test of both what we can do, and how the world will react. If it goes well, Cuba will be next soon.

    That idea sounds actually plausible to me.

  • What ableist views do people have about you?

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  • I like to say: It's not even an illusion. It's a dillusion.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    Steve @communick.news

    Why do we use the term Ban when it's temporary? Why not the more accurate, Suspension?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    Steve @communick.news

    How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"?

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Cards Against Humanity sues SpaceX, alleges “invasion” of land on US/Mexico border

    arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2024/09/cards-against-humanity-sues-spacex-alleges-invasion-of-land-on-us-mexico-border/