There are plenty of satellite picture showing deforestation without people living on it.

Any further sources?

It demonstrate that they feel that the software is better free to push their GPUs and this has a higher return than otherwise.

I'm quite lost on what you think would pay for this kind of software?

They are kids.

Kids should be able to have their room door closed but that room is a save space.

The internet is not a save place it's like walking in an huge anyounmous city

You should not let your kids walk alone in a huge city until certain knowledge is learned.

Unfortunately the internet provides even more hurdles than a huge city.

I personally would even create a list of things I would teach my kids over a period of month and years. From grooming, pedophiles, scams, password management, spyware etc.

It's not you choice and it shouldn't not.

I thought there were plenty of stories of doctors/curios people buying dead people.

Even Leonardo da Vinci

Russia has plenty of things missing (chips etc.)

This will take much more than just a few years.

Sanctions will be lifted or eased long before tech embargo hits.

Putin has too many points to cause pain for European politicians.

For example grain shortage caused by his naval operations will cause hunger in North Africa. Revolts and refugee influx to Europe will follow.

It’s enough for Europeans to put pressure on Ukraine to surrender. If it doesn’t they will spoon-feed it arms so it will surrender by fall.

I feel like a protracted proxy war in Ukraine was never really on the table.

What we've seen so far is the US and its allies forcing Russia to pay a "price" for its adventurism. The value of this is both to act as a deterrent against future actions and to strengthen Ukraine's negotiating power when it ultimately surrenders.

I suspect that at a certain point everybody will be satisfied with the level of pain exacted, Ukraine surrenders, and Russia ends up with at least a large chunk of Ukraine.

Don't judge people by yourself Ukraine will not surrender.

Europeans will force it to, unfortunately.

Russians already tried to force something, will not work. No Ukrainian president will ever sign because he/she will be overthrown the next day.

Yes Ukrainian people is the bastion and are fighting bravely.

Feels like Europeans (namely Germany and France) will provide as little weapons as possible to exhaust Ukrainians so they get tired and surrender themselves.

Once Ukrainian public is ready, Biden will pressure Zelinsky. Biden has already said “we told him but he didn’t want to listen” hinting that he can throw Zelinsky under the bus if he doesn’t behave.

Surrender (“peace”) would be an awful option for Ukraine because Putin will regroup and in a couple of years launch a new assault on the remaining part of the country.

There won’t be mercy from him, judging by executions on occupied territory.

Poland will continue cooperating with America (who give most of the aid). The current government is anti-Russia and even if they lose elections, the only pro-Russia people are authoritarian right wing nutjobs who probably won't even win a single seat.

Yes Polish people have shown a lot of resilience and deserve great respect in this situation. Batlic states as well of course. Hope they won’t allow Germany sweep Ukraine under the rug.

It might be like this. It's already tremendous impressive how the Ukrainian people stood up to Putin.

But bombing so many civilians means after a while a tremendous loss as well.

It's just speculation and the hope would of course be Putin just getting out of Ukraine but Putin just has much less to loose besides his own death.

Not a critically high price anyway. Gas prices cover everything and complicit German politicians don’t consider stopping paying. Looks like Putin’s gamble played well once again, he knows his European counterparts well.

I also assume that they will have to surrender but the price will be much much higher than Putin though.

This will not motivate Putin to push forward.

What does there platform provide then?

Currency exchange. P2P Lending. Money services.

But the problem is that it's not real currency and you can't do anything useful with it beyond trying to trade it to a bigger idiot.

Some people want USDC, some people want non fungible assets, some people want ETH, some people want an ERC20 that backs an idea or organization. DeFi let’s these users manage these assets without placing them in the hands of a single actor.

Saying nobody wants ETH or USDC is like saying nobody wants AMZN or AAPL shares. What you really mean is that you are not interested in those assets.

Those are not "assets" in any meaningful sense. You're just making things up.

ETH or USDC are as much “assets” as stocks, gold, bonds, property, domain names. Humans and social consensus made all of this up.

Funny how you just list so many different things and don't think that alone might ne a neck breaker.

It's easier than ever to life more independent.

And I decided to do this soon due to my more pessimistic view.

We will be even more people in 30 years, weather changes but I'm able to stay connected through the internet and independent through my potential future farm.

But that's the point he made. It's not Blockchain it's Blockchain + escrow.

Escrow needs a third party. It destroys all your Blockchain advantage.

Escrow is handled on the blockchain with a smart contract. There are no trusted third parties.

https://academy.particl.io/en/latest/in-depth/indepth_escrow...

Sooo I write a smart contract and say you pay 10€ when you buy ice cream?

Who proofs that the smart contract is fulfilled?

Or let's asked different: how does a smart contract solves the trust issue from items not on the Blockchain?

You obviously didn't bother reading the link. Both parties add collateral ideally equal to the item price: so the buyer pays 2x the price and the seller pays the list price and sends the item. If the buyer is happy they've received the right item without issue both click a button to release their collateral back to themselves and the buyer's money to the seller. If not they have to agree how much to release to each other since they both have skin in the game.

So in your example you can sell an ice cream for £10. When I buy it for that I pay £20 and you pay £10 and send the item. I eat it and we're both £20 down. So I want my £10 back and click a button. It then releases £20 back to you - the item price and your collateral, and my £10 collateral back to me.

I did read it but you are right my comment doesn't reflect it.

I always thought that this part of a smart contract is ridiculous as it binds the same amount of capital as the transaction is worth on both sides.

It also doesn't fix the issue if someone with much more money than you wants to f** you over.

It also does assume you would find a good solution together just because of the capital invested but you know there are plenty of people who are not able to negotiate proper.

It just doesn't solve the issue and it doesn't solve issues like if the shipment is lost on sea. Or it's getting stolen.

A independent 3th party actually helps solving those issues.

Nothing is perfect but I think in the majority of cases it'll work as well as a trustable third party but without requiring one. If someone with much more money wants to screw people over at least they'll be paying a non-nominal amount. For bigger items that kind of attack would get expensive quickly.

The amount of collateral is configurable by sellers, and since buyers will soon be able to message sellers that means it's negotiable.

I don't think this works.

Normal companies with plenty of transactions per day don't have the motivation or money to put that much additional capital into the system.

Of course for a few transactions per month no one cares but I assume the goal is bigger than just a few transactions.

Aren't the authors of the smart contact a third party? Unless they're so simple a layperson can inspect, read, and understand them.

It's like any open source project that can be inspected, and it's not in the interests of the project or stakers to screw users. There's testing on testnet to catch bugs