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That explains it then. I don't know if your raise it, but all of this system already exists, so I'm not talking about problems in a system that doesn't exist. These are problems today that already happen. What I suggested previously was the future is how financial institutions are already using blockchain. JPMorgan and Citi are using blockchain technology, and other banks are considering allowing clients to hold crypto in bank accounts, Bank of America research finds | Currency News | Financial and Business News | Markets Insider MARKETS.BUSINESSINSIDER.COM BofA analysts found that 21% of banks they cover have incorporated blockchain technology into their businesses in some form. That's the real future here. Using the blockchain as a sort of digital ledger without the need for a large and centrally managed database. Why this works best because the entire blockchain is controlled by a single entity, so things like roll backs can happen and the worry over overly compute heavy transactions don't really exist because we're trading server hosting smaller proof of stake nodes along the chain with entire datacenters housing databases tracking all of this stuff. Like I said, proof of work crypto like NFT is a deadend technology. Half this country might not believe climate change is a thing, but future generations aren't going to be so happy to see all their electricity being wasted away on crypto. Either way, in the end, how much of your family do you trust to forever keep a single file on their computer safe? Now remember that when I ask that companies like Facebook, RSA, Equifax, Yahoo, Blue Cross, JPMogan, LinkedIn, and others have failed that very same task. I'm an IT pro with a secret security clearance working for a government contractor with a background in security. I don't trust myself with such a thing. My suggestion to anybody would be this. Get two secured USB drives like the ones from Apricorn and place them in two fire proof safes in two different buildings at least 20 miles from one another and then pray that works out for you. You so need to keep the combination to the safe and USB drive secured. Maybe you can trust those I'm an encrypted file in your Google Drive.

I think what's lost in translation here is that you haven't explained why any of the real already in existence problems with blockchain wouldn't be a problem when trying to affix virtual tokens into physical goods. Like, I totally agree with you that the current problems goes away. I just don't see how a whole new set of problems, problems that already exist in a world where only the most tech savvy are using the technology, isn't just swapping one set of problems for a whole other set of problems that also consumes a huge amount of compute. I'll make this simple. My mom owns a house. She stores the token for her property with her insurance company. Insurance company is irresponsible with their data and lose the token. What happens then when my mother wants to sell the house? My mother didn't trust the insurance company so she stores the token on her laptop. She gets hit with a "your computer has a virus" scam that steals her token. What does she do then? She stores her token at Iron Mountain, but gets social engineered into giving up access to her token. What does she do then? I'm not giving you any theoretical examples. Those are so real ones that already happen today. There isn't even a way to reverse fraudulent blockchain transactions, so yes, we can catch those fraudulent transactions and then do what with them? Issue a change that the previous token was fraudulent and then issue a new token to replace the old one? Who keeps track of that change? It can't be the blockchain because then anyone can make similar changes.

I'm pretty sure they acknowledge this in the trailer when whoever says "You really believe in this Loki variant?". I think that implies that there are other Loki's out there in time that are more trustworthy than the one we got in this series.

Yeah, but just moving everything into the blockchain just exchanges the current problems for a different set of equally troublesome problems. One problem isn't better or worse than the next problem, but there are some weird side effects here. If I lose the title to my car I can go to the RMV (sue me, Massachusetts doesn't do your regular ass DMV) and buy a new title. If I lost the token representing the title to my car, it's lost forever and ownership of the car is also lost forever. The car will then need to be junked/crushed because how can ownership of it ever be proven again? What's the solution there? A central authority with a database of all tokens? Just shred the car? Have the government take ownership of the car and use it along with others like it to build a levy for the incoming sea level rise? Generate a new token, thus invalidating the entire premise of unique tokens for unique items? Which token would even be valid then? I guess you'd need another token to track the transaction of the physical car from one token to another without needing ownership of the originating token. Want to tie your car's token to a biometric token? Good luck since your biometric token is just a digital representation of your squishy human parts. The worse part of biometrics is that losing that digital representation leaves you unable to change it in the future without some fun sounding surgery.

Nah, that's not true either. The actual future would be a combination of things, but the blockchain here would not be customer-facing. Think, a government managed proof of stake blockchain with tokens managed in a transactional databases managed by banks, insurance companies, the county registrar, DMV, whoever. In the end, it still looks the same for regular folks, but works differently on the backend. The problem with fraudulent crypto transactions is that even if you can prove the fraud, if the tokens are forever lost, you can't reverse them. The only way to reverse them would be reversing ALL transactions and that's only realistically possible if the entire blockchain is managed by a single entity. Another way to do it would anathema to the entire idea of unique tokens. That is, just generating a new token to replace the stolen one. If you own an NFT and lose your token, the NFT is lost forever and nobody can do anything about it. That's not really a big deal when that token represents a JPG. It's a bit more of a big deal with that token represents millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin, but those are also just ones and zeros, so nothing was really lost, more like made unredeemable. It's a whole other issue when that token represents a house that didn't also just disappear and is very real and taking up space in the physical world and has people living in it. When we're talking about money, this sucks, but it's not breaking society... Tens of billions worth of Bitcoin have been locked by people who forgot their key. - The New York Times WWW.NYTIMES.COM This problem cannot come for physical goods unless the default solution is just to have the government claim ownership of everything in no-owners' land. That doesn't seem ideal, though.

Proof of work blockchains like NFT will never be used for anything on a basis of policy. They are just far too energy intensive. Proof of stake? Sure, maybe, but that's more of an argument for decentralization than anything else. The same crimes happen, they just happen in a different place. You're talking about the difference between faking some documents and taking hold of someone's token. You'd still need a central authority to settle any disputes. Digital theft is far too rampant to make token ownership the be all, end all here. How would anyone go about proving that their token was used in a fraudulent way that isn't just a sidestep from proving registered documents were faked? If your token is stolen, how do you reverse the transaction while being unable to retrieve the token? This is a real problem with Bitcoin and NFT. Billions of dollars in Bitcoin lost to the ether, NFTs stolen by who knows with no means of getting them back. Sure, the current problem is cured, but it just introduces a completely new set of equally troubling problems. This sounds an awful lot like how biometrics are the future of passwords when they just sidestep the issue of weak passwords and don't actually solve the password problem. Both just move the problem somewhere else. Facebook can't manage to keep their user databases free of compromises and we're expecting regular folks to keep their tokens safe? The only reason it's not more of a problem, and believe me, it's a very big problem even today, is because cryptocurrencies are mostly still in the realm of the tech literate.

NFT wouldn't solve title theft in any different way than a transactional database would. At that point in terms of real world use, we're talking about the difference between a centralized versus blockchain database. Even then, no proof of work blockchain will ever become a standard for anything. The energy requirements are a nonstarter. It's a ridiculous way to do anything at scale.

Well then here's a fear we both shared as kids. Nothing quite like having it drilled into you that you're a sinner and everyone good was getting raptured and everyone left behind was getting tortured for years.

Wildly strict, Latin American Pentecostal. We call them rajatabla churches, but I don't know if there's any direct English translation for that. Let me see, Spanish to English dictionaries day "exact, strict, rigorous", so I guess in American terms, a crazy fundamentalist everyone is going to hell because none of you all are good enough church. I'm not any of that. I'm still very religious. I was at church just this morning, but I turned away from that craziness a long time ago.

So yourself a favor and check this one out... The series is based on the Viz licensed series by the same name... VIZ | The Official Website for The Way of the Househusband WWW.VIZ.COM It’s a day in the life of a househusband—only this one is the legendary yakuza “the Immortal Dragon”! Here's my quick summary. It's about a legendary yakuza hitman that hangs up his life of crime to support his new wife's career. He takes everything VERY seriously. It's hilarious. There really aren't enough sincerely great comedy anime that could work well for anybody, but this one fits the bill.

I should note that according to Facebook, this is not the same breach that was reported in September 2019. Unsecured Facebook Databases Leak Data Of 419 Million Users WWW.FORBES.COM Unsecured databases have exposed the phone numbers linked to more than 400 million Facebook accounts. Was your amongst them? Back in 2019 there was a breach of 419 million accounts Facebook attributed to a vulnerability they patched in 2018. This current breach Facebook says came from a vulnerability they patched in August 2019. Forgive me for not believing Facebook can be trusted with anybody's data or that they can be trusted to report on any actual breaches. I mention this because it seems like Facebook is trying to conflate these two breaches as one in the same, but that would run counter to what they said about the 2018 breach back in 2019. I'm thinking that they're hoping most people won't be able to tell the difference since it can sometimes be tricky to pull up old news articles with keywords that match current news.

Cool, 533 MILLION Facebook accounts were breached back in 2019. Facebook is only acknowledging the breadth of that breach now because it's all been leaked online. 533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online WWW.BUSINESSINSIDER.COM The data includes phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and — in some cases — email addresses.

I don't think she was either. She was listed as missing after the blip, but that didn't mean she was missing because she was dusted. Seems she was just really good at staying hidden.

Now I'm trying to imagine what Lebron, with his build, could do as a goon in the 80s and 90s. Lawd, he'll steamroll everyone and he'd be known as the best defensive player ever before even getting into his offensive game.

Blah. Friends of the family just had they're entire household wrecked with the newer COVID strain. Looks like no one will die, but one of them will now need to relearn how to walk and might be stuck with crutches for the rest of her life. Just had a conversation with family trying to explain, yeah, this is a thing that has been happening since the start. A year of this shit and people still don't get that it's not a black and white live or die thing.

This makes me sad... Space Jam: A New Legacy | Official Site WWW.SPACEJAM.COM Space Jam: A New Legacy – In theaters and streaming exclusively on HBO Max July 16 Looks like they've finally updated the site after 25 years.

She was on the run with Captain and everyone else when the Cap and his side refused to sign the Accords. I always assumed she was pardoned the same as all the heroes, but it looks like that wasn't the case. I believe she stole the shield and Falcon's wings.

Amazon apologizes for lying about pee — and attempts to shift the blame WWW.THEVERGE.COM "This was an own goal," the company admits However, now they're trying to shift the narrative to this being only about their drivers and how it's common for truck drivers to pee in bottles.

If the MLB had is ridiculous protections stripped I would feel so terribly owned.

This is correct. Nothing should ever been done to avoid fueling right-wing anger. Everything sends these people into outrage mode. These were the same people that were up in arms because Biden was said he was happy we might be able to return to normal by the 4th of July.

Yup. I also get a TON of text message spam with obviously malicious links. I just block each one and mark them as spam. It's obnoxious.

The people in this movie are so dumb. The greatest dumb thing in this movie, though? I loved this. I liked that we had Godzilla five minutes in and not dragged out into the middle of the movie. I love that Kong was the legit star of this movie, though now I need to know... The most surprising thing for me was how well paced this movie was. Sure, Wingard has had some great movies, but I want expecting a Godzilla film to work this well and at such a brisk pace. Five minutes in, I pause to get a drink, only to realize we were really twenty minutes in. Somewhere Snyder is trying to figure out why this movie isn't five hours long.

Glad I'm not being hyper sensitive here. My wife is always giving me crap for referring to her younger sister's friends as girls or kids. They're all in the early/mid twenties. The phrase "seventeen year old woman" is just sounds wrong and creepy.

I think the thing they don't want to acknowledge is how recent this is. Nobody bats an eye when Disney is putting these historic context labels on content created in years of Jim Crow. The stuff Peacock is looking to cut out was created in the last ~30 years.

That's fine, but I'm just trying to explain to you that's not the same as someone that lost their job and it's now getting rejected for other jobs because of poor results on their credit checks or people that are trying to move and are getting rejected for RENTALS because of bad credit. Medical debt is one of the top reasons people file for bankruptcy in this country and that's just wild to me when you consider that medical debt isn't really a thing anywhere else in the world.