#ElBosqueHabitado de #Radio3 (#RNE) ha dedicado la última media hora (al menos) a hacer apología de desobedecer las leyes, dando una plataforma y alabando a personas concretas que han sido detenidas, identificadas, retenidas durante unas horas y multadas por desórdenes, resistencia a la autoridad y otras faltas. Animando a la audiencia a actuar así para mejorar el mundo e incluso como antídoto contra la depresión. En #RTVE, medio público. ¿Alguien va a dar explicaciones?
https://www.rtve.es/play/audios/el-bosque-habitado/ — 3/7/2022
https://twitter.com/twobitidiot/status/1542692708401176577
Challenge accepted.
1. Trick question; don't engage. He's asking you to do something without #crypto _but also without banks and without cards_. He could as well ask you to do it without using the letter “m” in your keyboard. If the point is “crypto is how poor, unbanked people can take their wealth with them”, then someone with $25K and on an international flight is most definitely not poor and not unbankable.
1. Done. With Wise. Quick, easy and with reasonable fees. And there are others. What was the point?
1. Good one. I don't know how to do that, with or without crypto. I'm curious to see how it's done with crypto (not how it _would_ be done, but how it's _been_ done).
1. Again, trick question: why on Twitter? He could ask you to do it on IRC as well. Setting that aside: Kickstarter, GoFundMe, Indiegogo, etc.
1. This must be a trick question too, because it's too easy. DigitalOcean Spaces, DreamObjects, GCS, Azure, Wasabi, IBM, BitTorrent, IPFS, home server.
tripu
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Sea aquí este verso
el más simple que haya
que como del propio verso habla
en todo lo «meta» se halla inmerso
Por ser verso que de verso versa
es circular y autorreferente
desde la página me mira de frente
cobra vida, y conmigo conversa:
¿Qué es el #metaverso? dices de pronto
(cuando de los propios versos hablas tú)
¿Qué es el metaverso? ¿Y tú me lo preguntas?
El metaverso… eres tú.
I _think_ there will be other legitimate use cases sometime in the future.
For instance, notaries and other public institutions are very slow and expensive ways to keep track of property and of voluntary agreements. Blockchains might help there. On the other hand, we don't want everybody to know who owns every single vehicle, apartment or plot of land, and non-reversible transactions sounds like a dangerous idea when one's spending their life savings on a house. So it's unclear.
(Still, a problem with that: you have to hold certain political positions for those use cases to look “legitimate”.
For example: you have to find unjust what the Canadian government did to economically suffocate the protests of the truckers. Or you have to agree that it's justified for law-abiding citizens to do whatever they can to prevent the State from seizing their assets.
I am more or less there, and so I see blockchains as a benign tool for all that.
I'm not saying one has to be a hard-core libertarian. But a dash of individualism and scepticism towards States is necessary to see the merits of blockchains today.)
I do think there _are_ use cases for public, decentralised blockchains _today_: those having to do with **moving #wealth across time, across space or between people, in an ethical way, when unjust laws prevent people from doing so, or when the other mechanisms are too inefficient or burdensome**:
* Someone saving for their retirement storing BTC in a cold wallet to avoid bank fees, fiat devaluation, frozen deposits, expropriation.
* Economic migrants sending back home part of their good fortune in XMR to avoid putting their relatives at risk or arbitrary fees or delays.
* Refugees, activists or dissidents for whom the only way to keep some property theirs is to memorise a private key before crossing a border or entering jail.
* Supporters of rightful protesters or other causes (eg, the Canadian truckers) who due to abusive laws can only send them criptocurrency.
> _“I can’t find a #blockchain application whose value has anything to do with the blockchain part, that wouldn’t be made safer, more secure, more reliable, and just plain better by removing the blockchain part. […] Someone, please show me an application where blockchain is essential. That is, a problem that could not have been solved without blockchain that can now be solved with it.”_
— [Post](https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/06/on-the-dangers-of-cryptocurrencies-and-the-uselessness-of-blockchain.html) by #BruceSchneier
I mostly agree with this critique of #crypto, but…
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Advantages of sending **voice messages**:
✔️ Encourages sharing messages with those around you atm
✔️ (Unless you have earphones; then) gives you an opportunity to look for / disentangle / switch on / pair / wear / unmute earpieces
✔️ Provides plenty of ambiguity for misunderstandings due to bad audio quality / sloppy diction / background noise / insufficient volume
✔️ Gives you a wonderful reason to temporarily turn music down / mute video / get indoors / pause presentation
✔️ (Unless you can't interrupt what you're listening to; then) offers thrilling amounts of suspense and ignorance until you can listen to the message
✔️ Prevents cheeky recipient(s) from feeding message into automated workflows (eg bridges, bots, IFTTT, feeds, tagging systems)
✔️ Keeps you closer to the sender by forcing to listen to them for several minutes just to learn that their answer to your question is “around 11:30”
Advantages of sending **text**:
✔️ Much lighter (downloads faster, takes less storage)
✔️ Recipient(s) can read at their own speed
✔️ They can skim it
✔️ Searchable
✔️ Can copy it (eg to paste onto a translation service)
✔️ Can include URLs, hashtags, lists, verbatim quotes, etc
Settling an old debate: #texting vs. #voicemail!
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@tripu I cannot imagine a future in which doing this wouldn't end up as "fake rigor". There are too many degrees of freedom in investigating such things and controlling for other variables is never complete.
That being said, while I'm very skeptical about many applications of QALY, there are clearly areas in which they could be used more for specific interventions.
