• @ttmrichter@lemmy.ml
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      12 years ago

      Please specify which “crypto”?

      Cryptography is doing just fine, thank you very much. I presume you meant “cryptocurrency” here?

      • @roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml
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        Bitcoin should have led to global currency reform, for a start. That failed. It could still lead to energy reform and other important societal progress. But regulation and other factors are killing it.

        • @ttmrichter@lemmy.ml
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          Bitcoin and its alternatives could never have been a currency. It’s eminently unsuited to that role. (It’s great for Ponzi schemes, extortion schemes, and other criminal enterprises mind.) And how does “using more energy than a medium-sized nation while doing three orders of magnitude fewer transactions than even ONE payment processor” translate to “energy reform”?

          Please, dude, stop being a cryptobro. It’s a really bad look.

          • @roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml
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            11 year ago

            I’ve spent too much time explaining currency theory to purple who aren’t really interested. So if you have a specific question I can answer it. But not many questions and not a debate.

  • @YouLookGraphics@lemmy.ml
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    Oh god, where do I even start?

    • VidMe and Vlare.
    • Vanillo.
    • 3D TV’s.
    • Onecoin.
    • XML.
    • Ubuntu Touch.
    • OS/2 WARP. (unfortunately.)
    • Mir and Unity. Not the game engine.
    • PeerTube.
    • Foldable smartphones.
    • Virtual assistants.
    • Dual-screen smartphones.
    • Ruqqus.
    • Zune.
    • Windows Phone.
    • Firefox OS.
    • Silverlight.
    • Tru64.
    • Theranos.
    • ZTE Hawkeye.
    • PlayStation Home.
    • There.
    • @AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
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      To be fair, at least Theranos and Onecoin were outright scams. They were never intended to be the next big thing so much a get even richer quick scheme.

      Also, why XML? It’s used everywhere.

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        I had to do a double take there. I read Theranos as Thanos the first time around :)

    • @morrowind@lemmy.ml
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      Virtual assistants weren’t as big as expected, but I wouldn’t say they flopped.

      Also, peertube, foldable smartphones, linux mobile (ubuntu touch might be an exception) are all still in early stages, its a bit early to say they flopped.

  • @gun@lemmy.ml
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    02 years ago

    Most if not all of Elon Musks ideas. And that theranos thing that’s been in the news.

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        With Elon, it’s easy to give examples, because he could brush his teeth and will claim it’s going to revolutionize everything.
        The hyperloop proposed 10 years ago was supposed to revolutionize transportation and get you between SF and LA in an hour. It’s totally dead in the water now.

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          The hyperloop is odd actually. Musk didn’t actually want to do it, he just tweeted out some random thing as a reaction to the price of California’s high speed rail proposal, but at that point his fanbase was used to him just doing crazy things so they piled on him. That’s why he set up that competition, to see if it was viable.

          Source: his biography

          Besides, that it doesn’t matter if musk just claims something, anyone can claim something. Anything he’s gotten behind has succeeded.

            • @morrowind@lemmy.ml
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              Musk didn’t own twitter when I made that comment. Twitter has revealed how bad he’s gotten. I don’t think my comment applies anymore.

          • @gun@lemmy.ml
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            The top speed recorded is 288 mph and hasn’t been beaten in 3 years. This isn’t even faster than the fastest train at 374 mph which doesn’t need vacuum tubes. Considering that hyperloop is just a fast train in a vacuum to make it go even faster, you’d expect it to at least beat trains after 10 years of work. So you tell me.

            • @X51@lemmy.ml
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              I think it’s supposed to be more efficient, not just fast. I worked with a guy who helped design Maglev trains for China. With my limited knowledge, I’d think that a train floating above a track with no friction and being propelled by a magnetic wave has more potential that a train in a tube. I’m not familiar with the power and technology it takes to create that magnetic wave, but I still think it has more potential. I should have asked how the wave was created, but I was too amazed that the technology even existed.

              • @gun@lemmy.ml
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                Idk, I think any argument that hyperloop is more energy efficient goes out the window when you consider the energy costs of having to keep depressurized a 500 mile long tube.

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    Capitalism, it was the new hot shit after feudalism, but it just caused colonialism, imperialism, and mass starvation because there has to be an enormous reserve army of labor. It also leads to cyclical economic collapses which impoverish more people at the bottom while enriching people at the top, creating an oligarchy.