I think lot of your comments relate to Bitcoin, and that's a Gen1 cryptocoin. If you have a look at where Cardano (Gen3) is going, you might have a more favorable opinion.

Good point, I missed a few from my list.

* "Proof of stake will save us." Proof of stake embeds the rich getting richer into the very fabric of a currency. It provides a guaranteed net positive return for transaction validation, in the same way that proof of work provides a guaranteed net positive return for electricity usage. In both cases, if the return were not net positive, then transaction validation would not occur, and the "currency" couldn't be spent.

* "Proof of stake is at least better." I'll agree with that one, since it has fewer externalities. But that's like saying that a dumpster fire is better than a car fire. Neither are good, but one of them is less bad. There's also nothing stopping the proof-of-work transaction validators from switching to the next proof-of-work coin, so I don't think the existence of a marginally better alternative will remove the environmental impact of cryptocurrencies.

I thank you for making these problems explicit. I am very curious what the wealth distribution of Cardano looks like and will do some analysis.

Only if that the market you want to win in. Where's the synergy between Waymo and online ads?

What are you gonna stare at in during robotaxi ride? How about some ads?

I though shielding with water was the way forward there.

In science fiction novels...

Take out some subscriptions. Free news is basically news entertainment. If you want high quality long form articles, pay for them.

That's a good book.

If you liked that one you’ll love Westfall’s Never At Rest

It's a shame these large companies are are driven to extract as much value from their workers as possible.

Ah, the curse of the Shareholder Value obsession. A doctrine from the previous century that's so pernicious people assume it's law.

They chose the product to sell. That are absolutely part of the problem.

Consumers buying cheap shite is also a problem.

Yes, TCL TVs are largely venerable.

*vulnerable

You will enjoy this classic. It's a lovely image showing the dialup handshake . My first modem was a Hayes 1200 baud. Every modem after seemed to double. The protocols got better too. Bidirectional transfers, wow.

http://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured...

My first modem was a Hayes-brand 300 baud modem. Atari 800 computer.

So I'll kindly ask you to get off my lawn, whipper-snapper.

(BTW I listen to a lot of ambient / noise / drone music, and a while ago, some artist took those modem sounds, slowed them down, put in some reverb, etc. and it was downright ghostly).

It wasn't exactly this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF2v32xCD0Y

but it wasn't too far off.

80 Baud here. Dial-up to a Teletext service.

Whipper-snapper.

110 baud. 9 hours to download a book.

The fun things about 300 baud was I could pick up the phone and hear the individual keystrokes being sent. I couldn't distinguish what particular character was being sent, unless of course I was the one typing.

It gives me the same eerie feeling as listening to number stations.

I once did an IFFT of this very image and listened to it for fun!