Readit NewsOne keeps hearing about the ability to build “decentralized applications” upon crypto/blockchain tech, but I have yet to actually encounter even one such app.
Is it just vaporware?
We know that the entire "web3" has the computing power of a Raspberry Pi while running on the computing hardware equivalent of a contry's worth of datacenters, so yeah, anything that helps "scaling" that mess is probably just some very exotic solution to a fake problem that was simply invented as a cover for some convoluted financial fraud.
Banks are different.
One of the greatest coups of lobbying was when the finance industry convinced politicians all over the world that banking ist just like any other industry and thus should not be regulated more than other industries.
What other modern battery device has that many interactions/uses without needing near daily recharges? It's like magic
What surprises me is how many podcasts are INSANELY long -- like, 2+ hours. Where do people find the time to listen?
(Granted, I say this as someone with a zero podcast diet. I'm not opposed to them or anything; I just don't have a place in my life for listening to them. I have no commute. I prefer music when cooking or cleaning or whatnot. My exercise is usually biking, and I don't listen to anything for that.)
But yeah, also VAT calculations should be outsourced how ever possible. In the US, sales tax is at the postcode level so it gets really crazy.
It sucks you have to pay VAT even on digital goods and services nowadays. Ideally it'd be abolished entirely.
Wonder if any open source EV projects have started.