One of the problems I have been thinking about, people can still solo mine when they have lots of capital to buy hardware. Now, most crypto miners are using pools that reward them for their hashrate. However, there are only a handful of pools that the majority of miners use, which means centralization.
It is in the interests of the miners to prevent a situation where one pool takes a majority of the hash rate. Miners will migrate to smaller pools if one is getting too big.
not OP but I do wish that the lobster metaphor was the worst part of the book. I think Petereson is a great speaker and he makes interesting points but his writing drags on and on. I could hardly finish the 12 rules of life, although I thoroughly enjoyed his lectures and interviews.
God to agree with the parent, his audio books are excellent. If you like Petersons work and lectures get Maps of Meaning on audio books, it's excellent.
For the past few years I've consumed vision health vitamins on a daily basis, and can't say that there was any noticeable improvement in my vision.
On the contrary I did notice that they reduce eye pain. Some weeks I could not afford the vitamins and after hours of exposure to the computer screen, an intense pain would hit the eyes making it very difficult to continue looking at the screen. When I can afford the vitamins, I continue to consume them, with the expectation that they will continue to reduce the pain.
From what I understand, the basis of placebo is brain convincing the body.
How else could this be achieved besides consuming the vitamins?
It seems to me that we haven't gotten that far yet.
I'm currently refreshing on math topics because of that, I do not mind very technical resources.
I find there is not a lot of information online regarding low-level details of video codecs, having any resources is greatly appreciated.
