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.net, dynamics, power, 365, azure, fabric, copilot.

There's always some pointless name change going on.


COM, OLE, ActiveX


"IBM for i" is up there


Making up a bigger fraction doesn't mean that transaction fees will increase over time.

For L1 fees to actually increase over time, we need increased L1 throughput. Without that, increased demand for transactions causes more batching of transactions (mostly between exchanges).

Given the failure of BCH for pseudo-religious reasons I don't have much hope.


Skiddies targeting an individual site are a drop in the ocean compared with the industrial scale LLM scraping, so blaming them for it is in bad taste.


> Skiddies targeting an individual site are a drop in the ocean compared with the industrial scale LLM scraping

They're not. Both are bad, but at least there's some utility to LLMs.


The difference is that the government won't charge a major LLM vendor with a crime, but they may kick in John Smith's front door and ruin their life.


Most token holders use exchanges, where freezing accounts and just keeping the tokens is a daily occurrence.

That's not something solved by cryptocurrency in its current form.


You do realize that they get frozen only because of the fiat system regulations/laws?

These exchanges freeze accounts in fear of what governments might do to them if they weren't cautious/suspicious enough. They have no economical interest in freezing account otherwise, that's one less customer trading and paying them fees.


> You do realize that they get frozen only because of the fiat system regulations/laws?

Well, sometimes. Sometimes they get frozen because the exchange operator decides to take the money and run.


That's infamously known as the "Oracle Problem".

Blockchain can't handle external state.

Smart contracts abstract it a bit by having a trusted third party or an automated pricing mechanism, but both are fragile.


It's funny that it just re-invented stuff already used for old world finances, and just invented escrow with more moving parts while still requiring non-compromised 3rd party.


No, not all smart contracts require external data (Oracle).

But you're right, it is reinventing traditional finance, that is kind of the point, except nobody controls it.


Not really. Smart contracts ensure that if all the conditions are met, the contract will be fulfilled. They achieve that through decentralisation: no one person can decide whether or not it will be fulfilled.

No real world contract can replicate that - you have to go to court to enforce a breach of contract and it isn't certain you will succeed. Even if you succeed the other party can refuse to comply, and then you need to try to enforce, which also may or may not work.


On the contrary, I think many real world contracts replicate the property that a bunch of people have to sign off on it and no one person decides whether it will be fulfilled.


> Not really. Smart contracts ensure that if all the conditions are met, the contract will be fulfilled.

Not really. Smart contracts ensure that if all the conditions IN THE CHAIN ITSELF are met, the contract will be fulfilled.

"The product you paid got delivered" is not on chain. It can't be verified without trusted party putting that info in the chain. Sure, it can be made into multiple entities confirming if needed but it is still dependent on "some people" rather than "true state of reality.

> No real world contract can replicate that - you have to go to court to enforce a breach of contract and it isn't certain you will succeed.

The oracle can lie and be unreliable too. It would be great system if you mangaged a video game where the currency system can see the objective state of the world, but ethereum can't, needs oracle(s).

In both cases you basically rely on reputation of oracle, or escrow company in case of old money transaction, to have high degree of safety.


yes it can, if that product is in the chain iteself. Not all contracts are external, most are not.


The stated purpose of RTO may be more-nimble-whatever.

In practice it makes more sense if you always assume the intended purpose is to thinly veil constructive dismissal.


The original release came with separate Allied/Soviet discs. You could put one in your buddy's computer.

Keygen was also easily available.


Forge is a good modern equivalent


https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/s...

This one is a classic for MSSQL, most of it is applicable on postgres.


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