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...and I feel fine.

Not just that, but a post above this one says how the constituency may have lost their faith in the democrat party and why the elite rhetoric used against democrats sort of has legs to stand on. If it's just a central body that decides the candidate and the constituency has no say, why even care? The choice has been made for you.

TL;Dr. From Wikipedia

IPFS allows users to host and receive content in a manner similar to BitTorrent. As opposed to a centrally located server, IPFS is built around a decentralized system of user-operators who hold a portion of the overall data. Any user in the network can serve a file by its content address, and other peers in the network can find and request that content from any node who has it using a distributed hash table (DHT).

So it's BitTorrent in the web browser... thanks. How is that to be competitive with CloudFlare and Quic again? It has the same network issues that the blockchain has, in that it will be cumbersome and slow - for anyone else that doesn't have millions to throw into infrastructure. Welcome to the same problem again, but in a different way.

The sustainability of it is questionable. If I'm not mistaken, IPFS is based on Ethereum, which has gone over to proof of stake rather than proof of work, but it's still a pretty cumbersome system.

We're talking about something that needs to compete with Quic and CloudFlare. I'm not sure that Ethereum or even crypto itself is efficient enough as a content delivery method, that IPFS - though a nice idea - is unrealistic.

But that's just speculation from someone who has zero knowledge behind IPFS as a technology and protocol, so take it with a grain of salt.

EDIT: honestly, why qualify with "I'm not sure" when besserwissers and their alts roam the fediverse instead of going to therapy. Smh. Give the people a Tl;Dr at least. I'm not here for long form content.

No.

Please read my original post again. Did I say "was and always has been" or did I say "is"?

It is gambling, because dark pools. That is the house. You're not trading the actual stock. The financial institutions do that. You buy stock from them, and they in turn give you a fake number and invest it in all secrecy.

In essence, you'll get your money, but they will handle the profits. So it is a rigged slot machine.

And before you go "it's to avoid liability", fucking duh - it doesn't make it right though.

Screw the privacy policy, bruh, read that TOS:

When you post Contributions, you grant us a license (including use of your name, trademarks, and logos): By posting any Contributions, you grant us an unrestricted, unlimited, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, fully-paid, worldwide right, and license to: use, copy, reproduce, distribute, sell, resell, publish, broadcast, retitle, store, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part), and exploit your Contributions (including, without limitation, your image, name, and voice) for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, your Contributions, and to sublicense the licenses granted in this section. Our use and distribution may occur in any media formats and through any media channels.

In other words, you put any content up there, they can resell it to some movie studio AND make an AI copy of you with no consequences... at least according to their ToS.

EU law however... well, time will tell how fast and violently EU lawyers will inject themselves into the urethra of the service provider.

Bruh, wtf you think stock trading is? Buying into funds is just hiring professional gamblers to work for you, "insider trading* is cheating and dark pools is just the high rollers table.

Ngl, Hitler 2.0 was not in my 2024 bingo card...

Land of the robber barons! What the founders would have intended.

Cus they can't access SWIFT, ofc they can't buy.

Besides, China is working on their own GPU/NPU/ASIC production line.

Russia (vassal state) x China (dommy mommy state).