#1. Swarm of robot builders to make the habitats for the next billions who will need to move from rural areas. By the mid of the decade, the battery industry will mass-produce the next generation of 10x or more capacity long-lasting and fast-charging batteries.
#2. Peer-to-peer mobile networks coupled with low orbit satellite networks.
#3. Privacy-aware end to end encrypted apps.
#4. End of fiat currency. A new global electronic money.
#5. Personalised 3d-printed medicine.
#6. Full immersion BCI VR spaces
#7. By the end of the decade digitisation of public administration will make space for direct democracy and fast-paced public projects based on real-time electronic voting.
What do they mean to "block Libra"?
To block merchants using it?
If yes, I think it won't matter at all.
EU already have real-time electronic payments
and mostly everyone uses contactless cards
or appley/android pay.
I think the benefit of Libra, as peer-to-peer money
is valuable for countries in Africa or other parts
of the world where cash is king and unsafe (due to high crime rate).
From what I've seen here in London (UK), mostly tourists use cash. Everybody else uses contactless payments. You can pay with contactless cards or apple/android pay on the public transport or on your corner grocery store.
And with the new fin-tech banks like Monzo, Starling or Revolut the banking apps are light years ahead of traditional banks.
Bitcoin and proof of work consensus is just the tip of the iceberg. Since then, lots of advancement happened in the field. You can easily choose from different implementations of prof stake or DAG systems.
You can have a bird's eye view of most common platforms on this infographic:
I think this view of inequality is misleading. It put emphasis that the top richest should be not rich, or they are not good people. It's a defeating viewpoint that blames other for not having success.
When in fact top 10% richest helped much more people along the way than all average combined. And the consequence is being rich.
Instead of complaining about inequality (aka making the rich poorer), better to think about how to make the poor richer.
Thanks for the input.
It picks randomly from the list; if the coin is not listed at that time it chose another one until fits.
"Oh Nooo" error is returned when cryptocompare api fails.
Nextjs provide out of the box server side rendering, routing, code splitting and all the new front-end stuff out of the box with just one command (no need to setup webpackj, babel, etc)
Graph.cool gets you backend as a service with grapgql. You can manage your db from their consle panel. You're not locked in to their service, you can install it on your cloud cluster too.
The problem exists for ages, from a libertarian point of view: the govs as oppressing power and the tax as a "legalised" theft mechanism to sustain only a few in power. And all related issues that come from it: corruption, lack of transparency and bureaucracy to name only a few.
The blockchain comes as the refactoring of this legacy system.
In this real time everything, voting for matters every few years does not make any sense. The issues are hanging for decades and the progress is slow.
50%+1 voting process it is not optimal. A statistically significant number could be way down than half of population.
If voting process is convenient (meaning a tap away), secure, cheap and real time all the issues could be resolved much faster. Instead of decades could be months.
We are still in the stone age when it comes to policy and democracy.
I laugh when I read the petition asking Amazon to support bitcoins payments. Not because of the volatility but because of being the slowest database to date. How can Amazon or other big retailer support a tech with 7 t/s for bitcoin or 20 for eth when they have in ten of millions of customers?
Back in 2013, I decided to delete my account because was spending more than 8 hours per day on it (mostly on groups and managing pages for fun).
Back then there was no option to remove it - the only option was to convert it to a page with the mention that all your friends will become page likes. Then you will lose all your content posted (statuses, pictures, messages, etc). It was written red on white as a warning prevention. They said it was not possible to revert back.
Id did that, and the next day I felt so good afterwards. No guilt or fear of missing stuff. There were other means to stay in contact with people.
Forward two years later I wanted facebook back because I moved to another country.
I searched if there is an option to recover an old profile, and it was (even before they explicitly said there is none, and all your data is lost). I got back all that I've posted, only friends I needed to add back manually.
Now I use news feed eradicator and I don't see anything. Also, I don't have that urge to scroll feeds anymore. Basically, I wanted only messenger, but back then there was no such option.
