Elon Musk

Staking allows for secure sharding. Shard chains allow Ethereum to create multiple blocks at the same time, increasing transaction throughput. Sharding the network in a proof-of-work system would simply lower the power needed to compromise a portion of the network.

ilx ideas: autoreplace "sharding" with "sharting" on this website

the cryptocommunity

CHINA CRYPTOCURRENCY MINING EQUIPMENT IS MOVING TO THE USA IN BULK!

The USA is about to become the crypto hub of the world and #Dogecoin/#Bitcoin will rise again. MASSIVELY.

— Matt Wallace ⚠️ (@MattWallace888) June 21, 2021

5000 likes, lmao. Just any old bullshit will do really.

But yeah thanks for clearing up proof of stake, much appreciated.

i wish people would just say "i don't care about energy and the environment and never will". it's the pretending that they actually do that drives me nuts

I think the half of them who aren't just flatly acting in bad faith probably think they do care, they're just stuck in the conceptual leap from tort law saving the planet they all bought into ten years ago.

No doubt it also gets into Silicon Valley technophilia, many dudes deeply invested in the notion that all it will take it is one good hack to sort everything out.

thanks for clearing up proof of stake, much appreciated.

you and jon both said this, and thank you and i appreciate it back!, but i don't know much about the entire thing. i have made numerous basic errors in yelling at people about cryptocurrency over the last couple months. and there are definitely crypto/PoS advocates that make a strong case for what's possible. HOWEVER, my thing with those cool advocates who I really do believe have their hearts in the right places is that it doesn't fucking matter, because they're embedded within a community of people who are obsessed with value, ie, there is no soul in there

imagine a bizarre 1880s argument where people are talking about the environmental consequences of fossil fuels, particularly oil and coal. (just fucking imagine ok!) and then someone is like "but there are clean energy sources that are already proven, like wind and solar and hydro, and they'll eventually dominate the industry so it will be ok, and holy shit it's 1886 and i'm saying this hahaha!". that's how i feel about the crypto/Proof of Stake people with their hearts in the right place.

it's like, yeah, you'll win the day eventually, after all these fucking turds you said Yes to have their way with it

#onethread

if you compare fossil fuels and the alternatives, fossil fuels have a clear advantage in storage and transportation. On top of this you have the inertia created by decades of infrastructure investment for mining, storage, and transportation. It seems like proof of work was easier to code and get running than proof of stake, so perhaps there's a similar issue there. Is there a large investment in coders to pivot to something better? It doesn't feel like it'd be on the same scale. I'm more worried that people making large investments in hardware or cheap and dirty power would be reluctant to switch and lose their investment into an advantage. So I agree with The Mailman, but I also don't know enough about it to say if a fast pivot to a more efficient algorithm is really so analogous to a pivot from fossil fuels.

Staking allows for secure sharding.

ive been saying this

thank you for clearing this up

your welcome

1/ A thread on the stunning deposition by Kimbal Musk in the SolarCity lawsuit. Find it here thanks to @PlainSite:https://t.co/Vggtqc7l79

It is document 328, attachment 2, starting on page 336 (exhibit 10). You really should read it for yourself. It is amazing. $TLSAQ

— TC (@TESLAcharts) October 29, 2019

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/01/tesla-model-s-plaid-caught-fire-while-being-driven-fire-chief.html

if i had a car company i'd prob make it so the cars didn't just catch fire but idk i prob won't ever have a car company

is it good for the environment when cars explode and burn for several hours? i heard that guy elon musk cares about the environment so i'm thinking this might be the reason for his cars catching fire.

is there some definition of 'plaid' that i'm unaware of

'Something that Elon Musk thought it would be funny to call a car line' seems to be the operative one here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk7VWcuVOf0

good news, Florida

The city of Fort Lauderdale has accepted an unsolicited bid from Elon Musk’s Boring Company to build an underground transportation system under Las Olas Boulevard from its downtown Brightline Station to Las Olas Oceanside Park. https://t.co/JYcEoT5jGS

— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) July 7, 2021

If only someone would dig a big hole in the ground for us to throw all these public funds down.

That seems like the worst ever idea.

It’ll be full of water by its second week of operation and the Tesla’s will short out and the windows won’t open.

It’ll prevent CO2 emissions from the equivalent of one Florida citizen who will now “take the hole to work”

on the other hand, if you could water slide for a couple miles to work, that would be pretty fun.

That would be incredible fun. Is ft lauderdale on the coast? I’m not sure if that’s advantageous for forts or not in 2021. But is it is you could just ride the hole all th way to the beach after work

wow this is a completely insane and stupid idea, please pass the popcorn

new hobby for disaffected FL youth: throwing bottlerockets down into that hole over there

Ft. L story is even worse than it seemed: https://www.businessinsider.com/emails-how-elon-musk-boring-company-got-fort-lauderdale-loop-2021-7

One of the founders of dogecoin had a good thread yesterday

Cryptocurrency is like taking the worst parts of today's capitalist system (eg. corruption, fraud, inequality) and using software to technically limit the use of interventions (eg. audits, regulation, taxation) which serve as protections or safety nets for the average person.

— Jackson Palmer (@ummjackson) July 14, 2021

Reminder: Elon Musk's conflict with Tesla's founders started over publicity. Not engineering, strategy, or product design, but the credit Elon got (or didn't) in a New York Times story. Just a few weeks after sending these emails he began a PR offensive that has never ended. pic.twitter.com/XKrWn1hMKR

— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) July 14, 2021

We have almost all the pieces needed for humanoid robots, since we already make robots with wheels

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 20, 2021

THIS JUST HAPPENED I’M NOT KIDDING$TSLAQ pic.twitter.com/Ayc9KemaUI

— TC (poorly dancing robot) (@TESLAcharts) August 20, 2021

Imagine just putting a guy in spandex and suddenly 200 tech reporters have to write about how you're building a robot pic.twitter.com/y6hkRC0sO3

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) August 20, 2021

it's real if we think it's real

blood diamond showerthoughts techbro twat

Amazon just released its own robot demo in response:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad65spfln8w

can't believe this guy finally did something legit funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI3BIrpxu5k

blood diamond showerthoughts techbro twat

I’ve decided that Elon’s grift is now funny to me

he also should probably be in jail for misleading his fans into thinking they don’t have to steer their cars

contradictory, but such is life

that clip is something straight out of one of the On Cinema Oscar Specials

That's grimes

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/29/the-smartest-person-in-any-room-anywhere-in-defence-of-elon-musk-by-douglas-coupland

Embarrassingly bad.

"He's a bad boss? Yeah so he's a dick, aren't we all, and you knew when you applied and stop being so woke" - good job sticking up for the microserfs there doug.

feel like it's time for us as a society to challenge the idea that this guy is some kind of hypergenius when everything he does and says makes him sound dumb as shit

Not really - Teslas are fucking fantastic cars.

did he build them

He brings them to market, as you know.

lol

Douglas coupland? Sheesh

for sure, some of the best engineers on the planet are probably working for Tesla and SpaceX, Elon himself on the other hand seems to have no good car ideas at all. maybe I'm wrong!!

here's a fun story, my little brother owns a Tesla and something got messed up with the security system, idk if he hit the wrong button or something but the car just started freaking out, like honking and flashing lights and all that. apparently when it thinks its getting "broken into" the stereo system also starts playing Trans-Siberian Orchestra at max volume, which you can't turn off. the problem was my brother's wife and his 1-year old son were trapped in the car, and now there's this deafening music playing while my brother literally has to Google how to turn the shit off, and you just know fucking Elon Musk brought that up at some meeting, "ha ha, here is funny idea, also very smart because it disorient the thief, ha ha" and everyone around him is afraid to tell him no so they just start working 90 hour weeks instead of 80 to make it happen, and now my nephew might have hearing damage