It’s wash trading to be exact, but that’s not really the point. The crypto markets as a whole have strong pyramid/ponzi scheme elements where most people are buying useless tokens with the sole intention of later selling them for a higher price to someone else. Not to mention obvious Ponzi schemes like Tether that provide much of the fake liquidity that feeds this mania.
a ponzi scheme pays out dividends or interest from deposits. unless tether is taking money from tether sales and paying it out to holders a kickback, it doesnt fit the definition.
printing shares of tether and having more shares out than underlying collateral (which im not accusing them of doing) is just fractional reserve lending...
As someone with RSI who uses speech recognition to control most software on my desktop, X11 -> Wayland has been a massive roadblock. Ad-infested Windows isn’t great, but at least it doesn’t feel like I’m fighting any devs just to be able to use my computer in an accessible manner.
Wayland is still very green, most distributions haven't switched yet, why did you? I can understand that you would want to try Wayland, but when you encountered problems why did you decide to move to Windows instead of going back to X11?
Wayland has been around for a decade and X.org is in maintenance mode. Linux users have to decide between barely maintained software with a problematic security model or an actively-maintained project that is still somewhat half-baked in places.
What speech recognition system did you use on Linux? I'm interested in using speech recognition more after getting used to it on iOS devices (where it works amazingly well).
I had the most success using Dragonfly with the Kaldi engine, which handles the heavy lifting of speech recognition and provides a nice API on top of xdotool for desktop interaction. You can also check out Talon, although I think its Linux support is still somewhat experimental.
Thank you. These keywords (Kaldi, Dragonfly) put me on the right track and I found nerd-dictation [1] which is easy to use and hackable. Perhaps not useful for your programming purposes, but I need something for writing prose and it's a decent start for that.
I’ve only ever used Windows and Linux so I couldn’t say for sure, but my impression is that it’s pretty good. Talon or Dragonfly with the Kaldi backend handle speech recognition and provide nice Python APIs for controlling the keyboard, mouse, windows etc.
Oh, yes, enterprise windows cuts out most of the ads. The personal additions fill the start menu with ads for various windows products (and paid placements, iirc? I can't remember, since them I disabled them all a long time ago).
The federal government should have shut down Tether years ago. At this point, Tether growing its tendrils into the real economy and becoming a systemic risk almost feels like an inevitability. Madoff 2.0, but even more obviously fraudulent.
Cryptocurrency enthusiasts talk endlessly about the virtues of decentralization, immutable transactions, “code is law” etc, but when they lose their keys or get scammed, it’s always some big, centralized entity that is apparently responsible for making them whole.
But Apple holds out the purported security of the IOS app store ecosystem[0] as the reason to pay them $1k for a phone (and the cheapest IOS phone is $450!) and 30% rent seeking for all transactions on the phone, and why they kick apps out of the store simply over speech that they disagree with, such as COVID misinformation or Chinese censorship.
Apple deliberately degrades the performance and functionality of web apps in the sole browser allowed on the IOS platform (Safari, all other browsers are a wrapper around it), slow walk and introduce bugs into standards such as WebRTC, and make it very difficult to install apps as a PWA in order to funnel everyone (50% of phone users in the U.S.) into the App Store, and ban all other app installation methods.
And, when they introduce new features like privacy nutrition labels, it's always so that they can force even more users into their walled garden, and strengthen proprietary apps like iMessage, and build up their ads business. It's like "nobody but us", where "us" is Apple.
So, yes, if they are holding out that all of this app review process is to benefit and protect the users, and the users get scammed because their app review process is apparently incapable of catching these obviously scam apps, then Apple should make the users whole.
> Apple charges 30% because they can, not because there is some sort of logical basis for it.
Agreed. Actually, they could probably jack it up to 90% if not for the inevitable lawsuits from state Attorneys General..
> If Apple was somehow deemed responsible for policing crypto-scams, the only rational thing to do would be to ban Crypto apps.
This might be true if the only scam apps were crypto related.
Apple's quest for control over the apps translates to a quest for increased control over their users;
Just as with Google's ability to control search results, when Apple can control how you work, which apps you can install, and even what you say in those apps, they ultimately control how and what you think.
That's a pretty powerful position for two of the most powerful companies in the world. It becomes self-perpetuating and people will automatically suppress any evidence that their opinions are being shaped.
I'm wondering how long it takes them to figure out people would immediately start scamming apple if they were liable. The risk of crypto is its freedom. I have no idea why people would not stay in regulated markets.
If nothing else, the absurd mining costs constantly pulls fiat out of the cryptocurrency markets. Tether has been able to keep things afloat (4 billion USDT printed in April so far), but it’s only a matter of time before everything collapses under its own weight.
Given the massive negative externalities and lack of widespread adoption beyond speculation and crime after more than ten years, I think that snark is a reasonable default response to any cryptocurrency-related news.
By that logic, we should have given up on the idea of cell phones in the late 20th century[1]. FWIW Motorola released the first commercial mobile phone in 1983.
The market for mobile communication was well established. In the mid 80s, car phones were already popular for rich executives and other people who needed to be accessible on the go, and it was the late 90s when flip phones started becoming accessible for middle class. In 2004, polyphonic ringtones raked in $4 billion in sales.
Bitcoin was released in 2009. By that metric, we should be far past the car phone stage by no, but we're still trying to figure out who needs this thing.
If we're talking about car phones, which I admittedly know very little about, those were released in 1946[1]. So that would mean it was ~40 years until they became popular for rich executives.
I think it's fair to say that crypto's "release" was in 2009. But the point being, technologies rarely hit "widespread adoption" within 10 years of release. I'd be curious to hear counterexamples.
Car phone service in Chicago was launched in 1946 and reached capacity within the year.
>On October 2, 1946, Motorola communications equipment carried the first calls on Illinois Bell Telephone Company's new car radiotelephone service in Chicago.[2][3] Due to the small number of radio frequencies available, the service quickly reached capacity.
Widespread adoption of mobile phones was limited by availability (or distribution) of radio frequencies. Laptops were adopted between 1987 and 1991 as soon as the input device was figured out. The 3G smart phone was figured out between 2003 and 2006 (the time most markets took to adopt 3G data). The modern touchscreen smartphone was figured out between 2007 and 2010 (the rise of the iPod touch and Android).
