Abusing terminology, especially by marketers, is frustrating and cringe. But don’t underestimate the value in having a simple, shared term to describe a paradigm many things fit into.
Abusing terminology, especially by marketers, is frustrating and cringe. But don’t underestimate the value in having a simple, shared term to describe a paradigm many things fit into.
Man that was trippy. Clicked my inbox and saw your message. Clicked it to reply and it brought the post back up. For the briefest if moments I saw dark blue/almost black and gold then it went right back go basically white. Like the image itself blinked but I have to assume it was my brain briefly interpreting it one way then reverting.
Wtf
Wait is it black and blue in the thumbnail for this post? I forgot how much this messed with my head. I honestly see white and gold.
Totally
Good for you but what about the search engine?
Insane? Yes. Unregulated, also yes. But if you remove the specific issues with bitcoin itself (like that it’s almost entirely used for speculation so far) and just look at the numbers you can see it’s not out of line for a brand new medium of exchange that starts trading at essentially zero but has the theoretical potential to be a major currency in world trade to have an almost unfathomable upside.
Mcap at launch: basically zero
“Mcap” of world trade: trillions (quadrillions?)
Depends how early, right? First days/months of bitcoin they were trading for fractions of a penny. What’s the ROI from $.0001 to $60,000? And in only 14yrs rather than 40.
I’ll have to check that out. I’ve enjoyed some of Vinge’s other work as well. The Peace War, Marooned in Realtime, and Rainbow’s End were all pretty great reads as I recall (been awhile).
Did you say sequels??? I’ve read A Fire Upon the Deep and a Deepness in the Sky. There are others???
It’s impressive that I missed the joke, read the explanation in thread here went back to the 3rd panel to see the “i” was missing but missed the 4th panel until reading that further downthread.
More layers than it has any right to have.
I’m up to date 🤙
I’m not seeing it in my settings and haven’t received the prompt but here’s hoping it reaches me soon!
All I’m missing is push notifications
Can’t quite put my finger on it but something about this doesn’t sit right with me