1. With NFTs games can take a cut of resales. With something like cs:go there was a substantial secondary resale market for things like skins, which valve wasn’t able to capture but with NFTs they could have taken say 10% of each resale.

2. Because the data is public it’s possible for other games to bootstrap off the data (we have seen this with “airdrops” in the crypto land). Meaning a game which is coming out can give some perk to people who own X in fortnite because they think their game is similar and want to entice people to try their game, especially people who they know like fortnite.

In the tech world we are always talking about how valuable data is. The blockchain makes that data public so secondary products can exist to serve needs the game doesn’t care about. And provides the ability for the original game to capture part of that market if they wish because they own the initial contract. But because the data is public, other games can also use that data how they want.

So what is EA's incentive to join the Valve blockchain where Valve gets 10% of each resale? And if there's no incentive for EA to join, why isn't it just a centralized marketplace rather than a blockchain?

> 2. Because the data is public it’s possible for other games to bootstrap off the data (we have seen this with “airdrops” in the crypto land). Meaning a game which is coming out can give some perk to people who own X in fortnite because they think their game is similar and want to entice people to try their game, especially people who they know like fortnite.

Valve and other companies already have this data, in much greater specificity than "this wallet owns a longsword".

They already can do this via the [non-nft-based] Steam marketplace where Steam itself takes a 5% fee from every transaction.

Am I missing something?

How is this a positive? Where were the people begging GameStop to write publishers a check for the used games they bought and resold?

Penny Arcade explains: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2021/12/22/ubisoft

Is this specifically for distributed SQL only? I think there are some scalable SQL systems that don't support sessions either.

Multi-query transactions can be useful, but the FaunaDB query language is functional, rather than declarative like SQL, so composing queries that can do everything you want is usually easier than SQL.

Would you create a single operation that reads one record, checks that it's enough, then adds the amount to another record?

Or maybe you'd first read both accounts, then issue a conditional write operation that makes sure the data hasn't changed before doing the write?

edit: here's an example in our Scala DSL:

  Let {
    val amount = 50
    val balanceA = Select("data" / "balance", Get(Ref("accountA"))
    val balanceB = Select("data" / "balance", Get(Ref("accountB"))
    If(Gteq(balanceA, amount),
      Do(
        Update(Ref("accountA"), Obj("data" -> Obj("balance" -> Subtract(balanceA, amount)))),
        Update(Ref("accountB"), Obj("data" -> Obj("balance" -> Add(balanceB, amount)))),
        "Transfer Success"
      ),
      "Insufficient Funds"
    )
  }

(BTW, would be nice if I could read your API docs without signing up for an account.)

The docs will eventually be available without an account.

The dashboard also left a lot to be desired. It limits how many tables it shows on the left so you end up having to hack the URL. I believe they finally offered a "fullscreen" mode rather than having a fixed width and height which is nice. Basically we would have to drop down to the Ruby client to audit the data often which isn't the worst.

Parse would also just write random blank rows all the time whenever we did concurrent writes (this is a known bug https://www.parse.com/questions/duplicated-empty-objects-cre...). They have just moved over to the Facebook Developer bug tracking which is pretty awful as well.

Parse was really good to prototype on which was nice, but it is extremely likely if you want to launch anything to the app store and don't want to deal with downtime you have no control over you will need to rewrite it. For this reason I would suggest with just using something home grown.

Improving reliability is our #1 priority right now. The bulk of our team is solely focused on it. We've made some good progress and hope to have things in a much better place by the end of the year. You can follow it all on our status page. We try to be very transparent with post mortems and such.

That bug sounds nasty. I'll take a look to see if it's still an issue but I believe it was fixed a while ago.

The Facebook bugs flow has its pros and cons but I believe it's been great for our community on balance. We have an awesome team of folks triaging and repro'ing bugs and interacting with the community thanks to our integration there.

Drop me a note at ilya@parse.com if you have more thoughts about the dashboard or anything else.

But I do appreciate that yall have started posting on status.parse.com! That is a major improvement in the right direction.

I just mean to say that we've prioritized it above all else and are really crunching to make it a non-issue for our developers. Our traffic has exploded in the last year so we need to rework some things.

In all seriousness, point out the racism, please?

The above statement implies that if you let smart people out prison, the racial makeup of prisons would change. This indicates a position of assigning a pretty high correlation to intelligence and race; ie, a prejudice based on ethnicity. Seems pretty clearly racist to me.

This doesn't make this any less impressive, but I am not sure that it is fair to make the comparison of a company which needs to generate novelty year after year (like Jaguar and Porsche) with an entirely novel company (like Tesla).

If Tesla was putting out yearly models than this would be much more news.

....meeeeh, nobody really neeeeds a Porsche, they just buy them for the novelty (of sportiness) one could say. I think a Tesla in certain areas (anywhere near a big city) could make a much more practical purchase than a Porsche...

edit: Also, 60k ain't what it used to be. Heck, you'll pay that for a 3-series BMW these days (335i).

A quick, semi-personal connection between two people across a distance. This can further be boiled down as humans interest in connection and conversation.

It turns out that Twitter, due to the social network (both existing and being one sided) solves this problem better then text messaging. So really it evolved text messaging.

This is much like the quote by Henry Ford "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." Ford was not "solving a real problem" -- the problem of transportation had already been solved since the dawn of time. He was evolving the solution to a faster, more convenient method.

There's an infinite variety of cool stuff we can build, but what will have the biggest payoff for my time now, what can I and my team members execute best on right this moment.

Responding to a phone call on a train during rush hour. Saying "I'm almost there", or "Ill be 5 minutes late" without getting dragged into a conversation in a crowded public space.