We'll have to deal with it forever in network protocols. Thankfully that's rather walled off from most software.

As well as in a number of widely spread cryptographic algorithms (e.g. SHA-2), which use BE for historic reasons.

just call it 2-AHS and you're done :)

You still need to wait for it to complete to report the commit success to the user, the cost of syscall itself is rather minor here.

Avoiding the syscall cost is about maximizing throughput, not minimizing latency. The media's time-to-durability is what it is.

no, I think a fair + just world, both parties agree before they transact. There is no force in either direction (don't force creators to give their content on terms they don't want, don't force users to view ads they don't want). It's perfectly fine if people with strict preferences don't match. It's a big web, there are plenty of creators and consumers.

If the user doesn't want to view content with ads, that's okay and they can go elsewhere.

When lying and cheating doesn't get you ahead, there is no reason to do it.

If we look at any communist society, the only way to get ahead was lying and cheating. China was forced to adopt capitalist markets to deal with this, hence why modern China hardly resembles the USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, or Laos.

Communist with a capital C.

I've never seen a stateless, classless, moneyless society. It may be impossible.

You seriously think that mankind wasn't lying and cheating long before inventing capitalism?

Sure, but the risk/reward ratio was different.

I notice that you can do this recursively to arbitrary depth. The cost is terrible though.

it could be adaptive. only high-value tokens were allocated with more compute