Yeah, whataboutism is essentially telling on one's self; an implicit recognition that one has no better arguments than to try to distract.
raktheundead
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The ultimate STEMlord misunderstanding of culture; something absolutely rife in the Silicon Valley tech-sphere.
F-35 was more the high-profile failure. The F-22 was just produced in lower numbers than planned because there was no perceived need for a specialised air superiority fighter in the expected numbers after the Soviet collapse.
I kind of feel like dating apps are sneer-worthy in another context anyway, but this comment does a decent job of summing everything up:
Wow, a new way to rip whatever joy was left in dating through the pursuit of profit!
As I've mentioned before, software "engineering" all too often produces the digital equivalent of the First Tay Bridge.
But then, I've had a reverse snobbery about the term "engineer" for several years and it still chagrins me that my job title includes the word when I'm really a technician.
The Atlantic Ocean is right there, though; perfect place to make them all get in the sea.
It's still something I'd rather have than not; not having it makes for a less fluid experience.
Ludwig von Mises as well, which I continue to claim was a mistake.
Yeah, the West kept semiconductor technology away from the Soviets for years and even though the Soviets managed ways of importing it through grey markets in other countries, their reverse-engineering attempts were consistently a decade or more behind the West, something that's continued to this day in Russia.
The vast majority of people who have any experience with crypto… will be people who were victims of rug-pulls
Don't forget ransomware!
James Bond vs. George Smiley
That'd be the same Lightning Network with NP-hard issues with routing and a whole host of problems right down to the fundamentals, right? (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
And even beyond that, having to stack another layer on there is a technical non-starter to begin with. For one thing, adoption of the Lightning Network is fundamentally bottlenecked by Bitcoin itself - if the entire Bitcoin network was dedicated entirely to onboarding people onto the Lightning Network, it'd take 28 months to onboard all of the people in the US alone, let alone the rest of the world's population.
There's a saying by Antoine de Saint-Éxupery that's rather relevant here: « Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher. » Roughly paraphrased, it means, "It appears that perfection is attained not when there is nothing left to add, but nothing left to take away." Trying to stack extra layers on top of a precarious base goes against any sound engineering principles. In this circumstance, Bitcoin would be the thing to take away - it offers nothing and is in fact detrimental to an efficient system of exchange.