No we don't.
Readit NewsAqua commented on Chat Control proposal fails again after public opposition andreafortuna.org/2025/11... · Posted by u/speckx
Aqua commented on 36% of Americans Oppose Adoption of Bitcoin entrepreneur.com/article/... · Posted by u/MayurJBhatt
Misleading headline. Recognizing bitcoin as legal tender and adoption arent the same.
Aqua commented on Only Kabul Left Standing as Jalalabad Falls voanews.com/us-afghanista... · Posted by u/throwawaysea
The drawdawn has been a mess.
They are still 'working on visas', for the translators and helpers, which is an insane thing. Many could get slaughtered and the bureaucrats in DC are 'still working on visas'. Ridiculous:
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/14/forget-the-visas-th...
Lift them out first to safety, then work on their settlement. This looks like Vietnam 2.0.
In many way, this administration is revealing to be just as inept as the previous one. They should have foreseen this before hand. This looks really bad, at also paints the US gov. as completely inept and weak and frankly just completely naive. I wouldn't trust our young men and women in our armed forced to the decisions done by these inept bureaucrats.
Almost as? Can anyone have imagined a more disorderly retreat? A mess is an understatement.
Aqua commented on Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge blog.ethereum.org/2021/05... · Posted by u/vishnu_ks
Good. Very good.
This may be a radical take, but I think nations should introduce some unprecedented legislation: ban trade of proof-of-work cryptocurrencies.
Don't ban their trade because they make poor financial products, either because of rampant fraud or criminal activity. That's a different argument and requires different approaches. Ban their trade because global society shouldn't accept rampant incentives to literally burn up energy [1] to make financial products. Especially because proof-of-work simply just isn't necessary to have cryptocurrency.
Banning their trade won't categorically stop PoW cryptocurrencies. What it should do is completely tank their value and get the world to move on to less destructive coins.
I don't think there's any precedent for banning classes of financial products for environmental reasons, but it's time to create one.
[1]: In addition to environmental reasons, there's probably also economic ones. Mining burns through other scarce resources such as chip production capacity, although the true impact there is unclear.
I cringe every time I see such comments. Ban bitcoin or ban beef because it uses too much energy.
Humanity will continue to require energy as it advances and banning anything "because it uses too much energy" is a ridiculous advice. How about we ban gold mining, or set quotas on the number of children people may have, that will surely contribute to our CO2 reduction goals. It's also Orwellian and reminiscent of how the world looked like for citizens of the USSR back in 1960-1990
Aqua commented on Tesla no longer accepts Bitcoin due to climate impact m.dw.com/en/tesla-changes... · Posted by u/pistoriusp
I see this as market manipulation.
Tesla hasn't suddenly become aware of information not available when Tesla initially announced they'd accept bitcoin as payment.
Absolutely. If anyone believes this bs they're just enabling and encouraging musk to continue manipulating markets as he pleases. People will now start praising his decision but make no mistake, I don't know what was the real reason behind it but sure as hell it wasn't climate change and the way musk goes about releasing information that is moving markets is contemtable
Aqua commented on That time Sprinklr's VP of design tried to get me fired arb.substack.com/p/that-t... · Posted by u/devscreen
> So I looked at my husband and asked the big question: How far would he support me in taking this? What if I didn’t delete the tweet and I got fired for it and we lost our health insurance? He told me to stand my ground, even though he’s in multiple high-risk categories for COVID as a cancer survivor with asthma, and that’s why I love him so much.
Heh I'll probably get downvoted for saying this, but that's not brave, that's just plain irresponsible and stupid, she's literally trading more risk(and that risk concerns her family too) for no gain whatsoever (it costs nothing to delete a tweet, but the loss of her job could potentially cost her everything).
Be smarter and pick your battles wisely.
Aqua commented on Prediction Markets: Tales from the Election vitalik.ca/general/2021/0... · Posted by u/0-_-0
I've always had the impression that the cryptocurrency community was trending rightwards. So it's good to see some quantifiable evidence of it.
Which leaves the question: why? Technology as a whole is centre-left, so there's something else going on.
One common theme seems to a loss of trust in any institutions, and democracy itself: "the FED is just a private bank" isn't far away from "the mainstream media is lying", and even the latter is an opinion more common among the crypto bubble as far as I can tell.
Or are crytocurrencies of interest primarily to people interested in "getting rich, fast" and therefore liable to glorify a self-annoited master of making money with little work?
I'm not sure I understand your comment. Crypto was always about freedom, and as things stand the right is advocating for freedom more than the left (gun rights, freedom of speech, smaller taxes).
Crypto was always about freedom, you're liberated from the dependence on your country, bank, or whatever else it may be. Your fate is in your own hands, your wallet, your funds.
Aqua commented on Statement on New York Times Article astralcodexten.substack.c... · Posted by u/jger15
Can you articulate a coherent framework for how and why an American news publication should be prohibited from revealing legally obtained true information about the leader of a large, popular, or otherwise noteworthy community?
I won't because I'm neither American nor a lawyer, but I will answer your question.
The person in question wanted to remain anonymous for good reasons, they didn't consent to have their true identity revealed and yet a powerful news corp decided to do that anyway, clearly in bad faith and for their own gain, violating that person's and their relatives' privacy. It's obvious the aim was to incite verbal violence against and "cancel" that man because he committed the heinous crime of wrongthink.
Aqua commented on Statement on New York Times Article astralcodexten.substack.c... · Posted by u/jger15
What I find noteworthy about this story is how contentious and weaponized have gender and race become. Out of the four negative claims, one accused Scott of racism and two accused him of of some variant of misogyny. The fourth associated him with some other form of non-pure thinking.
I am afraid things will get worse before they get better. I expect the trumpism/fascism wave will provoke unhealthy reaction and further chain-reaction. My personal lacmus paper is the use of "white male" label as an argument, which is not totally uncommon even here on HN.
The whole story background story is extremely alarming. NYT unilaterally decided to reveal someone's real identity against that person's wishes. It should honestly be made illegal but given the current political climate it's doubtful such course of action will ever be considered. This whole situation gives even more credence to the idea that decentralisation is the only way forward for mankind if we intend to preserve the liberties our ancestors enjoyed for the past 300 years.
Aqua commented on Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech bbc.co.uk/news/technology... · Posted by u/mellosouls
I mean, I share your sentiment even if it doesn't add value to the conversation, but they are communists, it's quite the opposite of fascism and equally as or more evil.