• PP_GIRL_@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Crypto =/= blockchain.

    If you can’t see the utility of blockchain with regards to things like actual, verifiable digital ownership, then I don’t know what to tell you.

    • Ibaudia@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Digital ownership on one (1) blockchain. Not really that great when you put it like that. What makes one Blockchain more authoritative than another? Even in a closed system, if you think the admins of these chains don’t keep a kill switch in their back pocket specifically for their advantage in ownership conflicts then you should probably read about Ethereum Classic. Even if they don’t want to hard fork, if a chain is controlled entirely by a company, then they can edit it however they want regardless since it’s not really decentralized. The idea that Blockchains will empower the customer with digital ownership is silly to me.

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        Is a chain is controlled by a single entity then it’s not a blockchain, it’s a linked list with extra steps.

        The whole point of a blockchain is that it’s independently verifiable/validated by all its users. Anything else is a literal scam.

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    5 months ago

    No one is ever concerned with how much energy is used to feed ads to the entire population of earth 24/7.

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      5 months ago

      Please propose a law or regulation structure for significantly reducing or eliminating advertisements. I’m serious. I fucking hate ads. I just don’t have a reasonable or effective way to get rid of them.

      Edit: Hey actually I just thought of one! If the consumer is paying for the product, it can’t come with ads, including things like product placement or ad reads!

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        In São Paulo, one of the biggest cities of the world, the municipality forbade by law all billboards and building disfiguring ‘decorations’ some 10 years ago. Since then, the city became much more bearable, aesthetically. Nothing special happened, everybody was happy, except a few bankrupt ads agencies. Maybe, you must be able to imagine that change is possible. However, there is this ideology, Americans seem to be so fond off, that seems to make such things very difficult.

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        Hey actually I just thought of one! If the consumer is paying for the product, it can’t come with ads, including things like product placement or ad reads!

        Smart TV manufacturers: “Impossible!”

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      5 months ago

      Hey, it’s not just fancy autocomplete!

      Thanks to years of innovation, it’s now copyright infringement as well.

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          The thing is its only the copyrights of individual artists and creators that will die to this.

          The big corpos will find a way to protect their value, just you wait.

          They will steal from every single creative in the world and then sue them to hell and back if they use anything they them selves “own”

          This is not a threat to the copyrights that you want to die.