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"Intranet has real promise, but Is anyone buying domains on the Internet for anything other than speculation?"
Seems like you read too many articles, and not enough white papers.
The bitcoin network leverages electricity/computing costs as a way to ensure competitive decentralized security.
It's driving electrical/computational consumption efficiency but its definitely a catch-22 as with most technology.
I agree Blue Apron is equally ridiculous and I totally agree that Juicero marketed to the wrong crowd.
Juicero was too visible in high-standard markets and thus became an easy target. Whereas Blue Apron flew under the critic radar (mostly in Facebook mom feeds) before gaining enough market share for consumers to shrug off ridicule
You could say that same about Soylent as it's simply a Pediasure/Ensure marketed towards hipster 20-somethings. People love drawing the conclusion that superior marketing/design equates to better products.
Often times, if you can make a consumer happy with the experience, they don't care if they're overpaying for a terrible product.
The problem with Juicero is that their user experience laid bare how futile and ridiculous their product was by having consumers manufacture the product themselves.
If the Juicero simply made those juices in a bottle (EVEN IF the nutritional value was lost during bottling) I can see them succeeding based purely on their marketing and people suspending disbelief to support their idea they were being healthy while looking cool.
Reminds me of an old tweet I made several years ago:
"The internet will do to society, what highways did to the landscape"
We see cheap fast food establishments scattered everywhere with bright signs while healthy whole food is being quietly digested by individuals and families amongst themselves after patient cooking (researching).
I've had this same problem on many websites lately and it's because they require Flash. Soundcloud and Glassdoor to name a couple.
Sad state of the current web.
You don't understand how currency functions and you certainly don't understand how bitcoin operates.
I'll leave you to consoling yourself.
The entire point of Cryptocurrency is to step away from institutional trust, not dive head-first into it.
Bitcoin succeeds as a scarce and sovereign wealth management tool but once you give away the private keys, you lose those advantages.
Soundcloud is a digital discovery platform mostly. And a centralized free library that artists can release music on. It solves many problems for small-time artists and underground listeners.
Bandcamp found a similar market for physical music collectors and somehow monetized it well. SoundCloud is much more accessible though in terms of UX/UI.
Seems they should try to push for album/track monetization by artists. (Purchases made on SoundCloud / SoundCloud takes 1% fee etc)
Does no one remember Jurassic Park?
Eating whole fruit is unbelievably more healthy, cheaper, and simple than the convoluted process this product serves.
The time spent setting up this machine, throwing away the bags, electricity used, resources used, etc VS peeling an orange seems comical and sad.
As far as your question about taking drugs/supplements to increase cognitive function, I can say with certainty any positive effect in the short term will eventually fall to long term dependencies and addictions which will, in turn actually decrease your resting cognitive function.
Your argument sounds similar to those who opposed the civil rights movement.
Good. Feelings need to be hurt. People need to be uncomfortable. Mud slinging is necessary to get people to give a shit and do something.
If the human experience hasn't ended, that means it is changing. And if it changes, then so too will the utility of art. The more people cry "art is dead", the greater the impending breakthrough.
I'm not sure of the fix, here.
1. We need a currency which supply and distribution of isn't under the control of corruptible humans.
2. We need to teach humans how to manage their own money and not give it away willingly to corruptible humans.
This is a problem everywhere not just in Slack.. politics, forums, social media etc
So teams can only be stacked financially and not talent-wise?
I really really really want to use DuckDuckGo.com but the search results are probably 10% as helpful as Google. As a developer it's nearly impossible to find a really specific answer using ddg whereas google will have 3 super-relevant links.
There's nothing stopping you from using your own speech recognition software once someone makes an open-source platform/database for it.
It's a step in the right direction.
Why not just wipe the comp/reinstall the browser? Seems easier and safer. Also get them on ublock so they cant click dangerous ads..
There are also a lot of "evil" male robots in popular culture.
This is exactly the kind of IoT I was hoping for. Not the bastardized corporate data-mining kind.
Hope this project keeps growing!
Go watch the Olympic Men's basketball team or the All-Star Game if you want "historic excellence"..
Having a team like this in the regular season is a joke and only serves the most base basketball fans.
On safari I get nothing except AMP links in google and cannot get myself routed to the actual site even with extensive searching. This disables sharing the link for me as well.
"Then use a different internet" -Free Market Evangelists