I don't think it's obvious. Growth and innovation go hand and hand. A tug of war between capitalism and socialism is essential for a healthy society that can solve exciting problems via markets. It's not perfect, but the growth model keeps society agile, with many options via startups and market competition. It gives us the toolbelt to solve complex problems quickly. It's challenging to start up industries and maintain the plumbing to combat world problems when we have non-innovative, non-incentivized markets. It's apparent that I'm rattling off some generalizations.
I didn't say VS, I said a tug of war. Meaning they pull at each other, and play with each other well. Growth and government stability via policy, keeping each other in balance. Too much socialism leads to a central authority with too much power, too much capitalism leads to monopolies with too much power. And yes there is more than capitalism and socialism. But the author was OP was focused on growth and socialist policies.
I don't know any socialists that want to completely disassemble capitalism. I do know several capitalists that want to completely disassemble socialism, or at least greviously wound it at any opportunity.
I had similar issues. I went and saw a functional medicine doctor, had a stool test and he diagnosed me with candida overgrowth. Which may be what you had. Here is the diet protocol for beating back candida, which is similar to the diet you put yourself on. https://www.thecandidadiet.com/
Thank you, I suspect that I had a chronic infection of some kind like that. I'm leaving out a lot of details about my experience, because it's private and I lost hope several times. I want to stress that my self-medication and self-diagnosis prolonged my suffering. So please if anyone is reading this, see a doctor. They can run these tests and many more:
Antimitochondrial antibodies (AMA)
Baylisascaris Procyonis intestinal roundworm
Celiac
Epstein Barr virus
Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency EPI
Find a medication that does what ashwaghanda does (like Wellbutrin?)
H. Pylori
Hashimoto’s
Lactose intolerance
Lyme disease
Parasites
SIBO
Testosterone level
Thyroid level
Wheat sensitivity tests: 1) wheat allergy 2) celiac 3) non-celiac gluten sensitivity 4) non-celiac wheat sensitivity 5) non-celiac wheat intolerance
Worms
So half of those issues can be caused by candida overgrowth. If you get rid of the candida your body will reduce it’s heightened immune response and things like epstein barr and hashimotos will go away, testosterone will increase, etc.
Did you feel any different or notice change as it was dying off/reducing? I was treated for a fungal infection a while ago with some anti-fungal drugs and the side effects felt huge, but the doctor told me those drugs are considered very mild. It made me wonder if the fungus was affecting the way I feel and it dying down made me feel differently (better, but it was a big change).
I was also on antifungals and yes it was quite brutal. I was quite tired and had a red flush from the die off. I took off the shelf liposomal glutathione to help clear out the oxidative stress.
> By using the Apple Software, you agree that Apple may download and install automatic Apple Software Updates onto your Device and your peripheral devices.
> Apple and its licensors reserve the right to change, suspend, remove, or disable access to any Services at any time without notice.
Sure, they could probably push it through into any iOS, but all currently available documents claim it’s a iOS 15 feature and presumably there will be lot’s of new legalese like specifically for those new features.
You're not wrong about Apple's messaging around this. I was specifically responding to your claim that pushing it to iOS 14 would require modifications to the EULA. It would not.
There are a couple things that are nagging me though: 1) Apple has loads of legalese for each and every feature and 2) it sounds like they could just cut all that down to two points that you cited and be golden.
I definitely see your point and I guess we can leave it at that until a lawyer can explain this...
The neuralHash part, not the whole CSAM scanning daemon/pipeline, right?
Security updates to iOS 14 will let people (who might not be ready/able to switch from iOS) to actually do what GP said, without unnecessarily exposing themselves to security bugs in outdated OS.
I have been in the blockchain space for about three years, and there is an explosion in tech and innovation in the last six months. Visa, Mastercard etc... are integrating, bank regulators now allow banks to connect to public networks. It just astounds me sometimes how people can be so confident in a review of a platform type and done so little research. I urge you to take a second look. Blockchain is primed to disrupt the financial industry.
I find it very entertaining how suddenly Visa is a good thing, the moment they wanted to offer a crypto card. All this after how many articles decrying Visa and other “legacy” financial institutions?
Also, the idea that Visa is going to help the Blockchain finally scale is ... well, let’s just say that you’re not supposed to enthusiastically endorse what the detractors have been saying for years.
Yes, I went from Coinbase to managing my own wallet. Coinbase was my stepping stone, but now with my own wallet I have access to so many other products without Coinbase taking a fee and products that Coinbase doesn't offer. Coinbase helped me understand what was possible, now I have graduated to liquidity pools, staking and DEX's.
More transparent than the opaque financial industry. You as a user completely own your assets, with your public key. Yes blockchain wallets/public keys are bad UX, but at the same time they give you actual ownership of your securities/index funds. A person can have access to the same financial products that banks have access to, because they cost a fraction of a price to run then they normally do on CEX and instead of waiting for 3 days for a transaction to complete, it completes in 5 minutes. I could go on and on... Essentially blockchain makes financial products faster, cheaper and more accessible. No middlemen involved and a transparent audit trail.
> You as a user completely own your assets, with your public key.
Cool. Why is this a thing tons of people want?
> A person can have access to the same financial products that banks have access to, because they cost a fraction of a price to run then they normally do on CEX and instead of waiting for 3 days for a transaction to complete, it completes in 5 minutes.
Which financial products? How many people want those things?
For BTC to disrupt the financial industry I'd expect there to be a huge number of people who want its features over the alternative. But where are they? Where are the billions of people who want to manage the storage of their own wealth or trade derivatives daily?
They don't know they want it, till they know what it means. It means independence from central exchanges, it means the money in your savings account of .01% interest account can now be directly leveraged by loans on Aave, which return 5-9% interest. No middleman managing your money. Your assets can be directly accessed by people who need it.
Defi loans are not actually useful though. You overcollateralize 150% of your ETH or whatever, to get say 100% back in some stablecoin.
But you could have just sold the ETH in the first place...? If it truly is a "currency" then why are you taking a currency loan on your currency? That's like putting up $150 of collateral to get a $100 loan, it makes no sense.
Unless it's not a currency, in which case this is just a margin loan - I think my speculative asset is going to go up in price, so I will take out a loan against it instead of selling it. Which has only two use cases: I need the dollars and I'm avoiding paying capital gains, OR I want this margin loan to speculate on more cryptocurrency!
That's a pretty small use case compared to like, "loans" in general. Plus if/when the ETH/USD price crashes, all of these loans will get liquidated and push the price down further. I fully expect a "portfolio insurance"-Black Monday type crash if ETH ever falls by more than 30%.
I don't think you understand the relationship between interest rates and risk. The reason that bank savings accounts have low interest rates is that they are zero risk (FDIC). Any asset class with a 5-9% expected return carries a substantial risk of losing you principal. In other words, sometimes borrowers default.
DEXs and PLFs still lack integration into the traditional finance infrastructure. Outside of escrowed p2p sales of cryptocurrency, centralized exchanges are the only FIAT on and off ramps.
If stablecoins, custodial or noncustodial gain widespread adoption, DeFi will remain as a niche for hardcore crypto fans.
> If stablecoins, custodial or noncustodial gain widespread adoption, DeFi will remain as a niche for hardcore crypto fans.
Why? It seems the exact opposite to be — if stablecoins gain widespread adoption, there will be a lot more exposure to DeFi because you have stablecoins already and can directly partake in DeFi.
Right now the biggest hurdle is fiat -> crypto conversions and back, stablecoin or not. If you already have stablecoin because it’s widely used, then that won’t be a problem anymore.
> A person can have access to the same financial products that banks have access to
Like reverting transactions? Handling of disputes? Fraud detection?
> Essentially blockchain makes financial products faster, cheaper and more accessible.
You literally mentioned bad UX just a few sentences ago? How that makes it more accessible than existing systems?
Cheaper? What's the transaction cost at any given moment in time?
Faster? Credit card transactions are instant these days, have no fluctuating costs, and carry an added benefit of, you know, customer and seller protections.
It turned into a 1 trillion dollar market three weeks ago. DeFi has been on an upward trend for the past 6 months. It is happening. Banks were just allowed in January to start interacting with public blockchains, so give that a year. The regulatory walls are dropping and accessibility is increasing with the likes of Visa and Mastercard.
Even in the stock market the big institutions all use a prime broker for trading access and the sales and trading desks of IBs, and they all use bank run dark pools for liquidity.
Staking is lucrative for customers and is non-trivial to setup. Robinhood and Cash don't offer these services. I guess an argument that can be made is that Coinbase understands the technology and will continue to offer products from the innovative defi/blockchain space. Most people will use Coinbase for its product offerings and security. It sits right between, Robinhood and Uniswap. If defi truly disrupts then I'm sure all financial institutions will start offering staking and defi products, then Coinbase hopefully has some first mover advantage.
Umm.. hmm.. well I thought this was obvious and think there is benefit to the students who don't come from elite backgrounds. The point of these universities is to not only give an education but socially connect students. If you are a student without a family that has powerful connections you could potentially meet one of these students and become friends, thus increasing your social power. Going to a top notch University is not just about learning. I learned more and had better instructors at city college, because they cared more and were more available. Speaking with busy TAs at a top notch school weren't nearly as helpful. Going to a top notch school is about socially enriching yourself with others who are ambitious and connected. It's about synergy and having a diverse student body only increases that synergy.
