Twitter a GOAT service of our generation, Facebook WOAT

Twitter WOAT, Facebook WOAT

social media both a short and long term WOAT development, having hastened the downfalls of reasonable society, privacy, social health and objectivity without any countervailing benefit at all

basically an experiment in monetizing and dehumanizing each of us, with the hypothesis being that we are collectively stupid enough to pay off for the chance to be lab rats, and the evidence supporting the conclusion that we are collectively, indeed, that dumb

Agree.
I feel pretty strongly that the social media status quo is worsening humanity as a whole. I keep hoping that a subscription-based social media platform would come forward to eliminate the incentive for the networks to monopolize our attention with whatever garbage they can capture it with so they can max ad $ (and similarly changing ownership of user data to the user rather than the network). I've actually thought about trying to start one myself, but I am not nearly tech savvy enough to pull it off (probably not smart enough either tbh), but hey I've put some thought into it if anyone out there is reading this.

Honestly I really doubt something like that would work anyways--current newspapers are a great example of people not wanting to pay for something they can get for free, so I can't imagine enough people switching to a subscription-based network to give it critical mass. Basically, waaf.

The population didn't suddenly become dumb because twitter/facebook was invented

Social media doesn't build character. It reveals it.

Blazing, piping, scorching, ultrahot take: Pancakes are massively overrated

I mostly agree, but there are aspects of the structure of social media that draw out our worst traits in an unhealthy way (impulsiveness, tribalism, etc). I'd argue that these traits would be reduced in the absence of social media.

Hoya,

Yeah, obv, but Twitter is different and a GOAT source of immediate information everwhere

On a different topic, I legitimately do not understand cryptocurrency, so I have questions. I do not have takes, being that I don't know things required to have takes. These are genuine questions. To the extent they suggest positions critical of crypto, they're not supposed to.

- what is the utility of cryptocurrency, and what is the advantage that gives it value?

- what is the underlying security in the investment?

- why does it hold value?

- how do the various trading venues and storage venues work?

- what are the different currencies and why are there so many / what are the meaningful differences?

- oh, also, what is mining, really? is it paying money to someone else to crunch reams of data and the cryptocurrency of choice is the method of remuneration for the processing power?

The technology solves the double spending problems of online purchasing in a decentralized way without need of a third party. The transactions happen quickly and are publicly recorded with the miners doing the processing work in return for some of the currency. Value? Up to the people, arguably good insurance against FIAT, and like what really is money man

I do appreciate it. You're many levels ahead of me though, I really am asking the "treat me like I'm 105 and have never used a computer" nuts and bolts questions.

Explain bitcoin like im five

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John Nash GOAT

Didn't look into it apart from reading the wiki but apparently she quit a shoot cos the guy had done gay porn which got a ton of lgbt backlash which in turn was attacked for being cyber bullying. Must have been quite the cannibalistic sjw feeding frenzy to find yourself in the centre of.

yeah agree social media tends to reveal the badness, but it amplifies it too. especially for young people. like school age kids. you see similar behavior among adults ofc, but imagine it damages kids more

Stuff like this is good at explaining what bitcoin and the blockchain is but not why it is valuable. I was where Hoya was about a month ago, asking "why is bitcoin valuable, how does it make peoples lives better, what problem does it solve with regard to fiat currency" and I still feel like I haven't received a good answer.

The technology long term has a trillion+ dollar value to society, so if society deems/trusts X Crypto to have Y value it will provide stability against the whims of States, and be a way to transfer large(or tiny) sums of value very quickly without the need of a third party or close proximity.

Sounds a little too Ron Paul to me

. . . are there digital banks charging fees for secure access to and/or storage of crypto yet?

She'll leave a hole that would be tough to fill.

It's a little bit like gold but you can't trade a guy in India gold dust nor trade a Sultan a ton very easily/cheaply

I don't understand how the "public ledger" syncs. The article says that everyone can download a copy of the public ledger to their computer so no one really controls it. Okay, but then how do changes to the public ledger get made to the copy I have on my computer? It seems to me that their would have to be "one true copy" of the ledger out their somewhere and everyone would have to make their changes to that one copy.

I'm in Hoya's shoes as well. I have a question about this paragraph:

Where would these 25 apples come from? Are they given to me by someone? Or does entry into the system cause the system to just create 25 more and put them in my possession? Wouldn't that devalue all existing apples (in a vacuum)?

Also, is that the only way to earn them? How does one earn more if you already have a ledger?

I personally use it to sports gambool. People in India, Vietnam, China, etc. use it to get it around capital controls.