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Re:Vitalik Buterin Talks Georgism, Crypto, Voting Systems by amanj41 on Monday June 27, 2022 @11:30AM (#31895968)
It's not really Vitalik's fault how a decentralized platform is used, for better or for worse. Can only hope people lose interest in buying into crypto scams altogether, or that regulators do their job.

And yes, I know Ethereum is not that decentralized.

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Re:Vitalik Buterin Talks Georgism, Crypto, Voting Systems by beebmam on Monday June 27, 2022 @11:43AM (#31896166)
If an API allows for awful behavior, shouldn't you blame the designer of that API? Or at least, blame their unwillingness to change that API? What if the awful behavior is baked into the API at its heart?
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Re:Vitalik Buterin Talks Georgism, Crypto, Voting Systems by kvark on Monday June 27, 2022 @12:20PM (#31896765)
Nuclear physics “API” allows for wiping the life from Earth. So, we should abandon it at once?
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Re:Vitalik Buterin Talks Georgism, Crypto, Voting Systems by beebmam on Monday June 27, 2022 @12:27PM (#31896892)
We can patch it: https://www.icanw.org/

Virtually all nuclear physicists advocated for something that amounts to the ICAN. Here's Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell's manifesto for the abolishment of nuclear weapons: https://www.atomicheritage.org/key-documents/russell-einstei...

Vitalik doesn't give a shit about the harm he's done.

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