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It's possible that those critical periods can be manipulated or induced. See https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3848041/

You take a sample and check

> When you look at any new condo development in a Canadian city (without government affordable-housing involvement), there end up being no bachelor, 1bd, or even 2bd units in the development; it's all 3bd+. Picture a condo tower where every floor is the penthouse. Many Canadian property developers only build this type of condo building.

This is just blatantly wrong.

https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/professionals/housing-markets-da...

https://archive.is/c3Dtd#selection-47483.30-47483.95

What would you prefer to parking permits? The scam is living in a society that requires a car for normal day to day living.

This is too cynical of a take for me. I fell down the rabbit hole after reading/watching some of Vitalik's writing years ago. I think it's worth spending a small, insignificant amount to play around with some apps that have a genuine purpose. These days I'm most interested in gitcoin.co grants and the use of quadratic funding to support public goods (eg: open source software). You can read a summary write-up of a previous round [here](https://vitalik.ca/general/2020/10/18/round7.html) if curious.

Stick to protocols that have been around for even a year and you'll do much better than those listed in that article. How much has been lost via hacks from Uniswap, Aave or MakerDAO?

Most of those examples you linked are bridges that aren't considered Defi or half-baked protocols that scream "scam".

It looks like Uniswap has more volume for ETH/USD than almost any other centralized exchange right now

https://twitter.com/haydenzadams/status/1592188164218707969?...

FTX was a completely centralized entity.

The decentralized aspects of crypto ("defi") has been operating just fine through this entire shit-show.

It was released. https://insilicofilm.com/

I think these "money swarms" will learn and be able to coordinate more effectively relatively soon. One of my favourite projects is pooltogether.com, a no-loss lottery where the prize is generated from the interest on the pooled money that is deposited.

I can imagine similar efforts for crowdfunding projects where those that pool their money together don't actually have anything but the interest to lose. Maybe built on top of Alchemix platform? This will certainly be more likely once the transactions fees are lower and people are using layer-2s.

the headline is attention seeking since there are numerous pre-existing brain atlases that describe the anatomy/cellular/molecular parts in different ways. You can check https://portal.brain-map.org/ for many examples.

I think a good comparison to this kind of work is what has happened previously in astronomy, where scientists work to answer their specific questions using large open datasets acquired using shared infrastructure (fancy telescopes for astronomy, microscopes for biology).

Here is some more ongoing work from the Allen institute where you can make a scientific proposal for their openscope (https://alleninstitute.org/what-we-do/brain-science/research...)

I liked the idea of the moonshot bots https://decrypt.co/79606/moonshot-bots-nfts-gitcoin-ethereum... where the funds raised are used for public goods.

Ketamine should be a fairly cheap treatment, but there are lots of ways that many involved will try to extract money out of 'doing good'. Check out this take [1] by Slate star codex.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/11/ketamine-now-by-prescr...

Important to note there has been pushback on Matthew Walker's writing. Feel free to read more from Alexey Guzey [1] or Andrew Gelman [2].

[1]https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/ [2]https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/03/24/why-we-sle...

i'd prefer you ban cars

or you can fork and remove the bad actors, burning all their coins. good luck with their next attack. in contrast, you can't burn an attackers fleet of miners

those currencies already exist. people can choose to use them, while understanding the trade-offs.

I found the following article to be helpful in understanding some of these processes

https://haseebq.com/ethereum-is-now-unforkable-thanks-to-def...

I recently learned of zkDai[1]. Do you have any thoughts on this or the Aztec protocol?

[1] https://medium.com/aztec-protocol/introducing-zkdai-into-the...

It's particularly interesting given that it followed up on earlier stories related to the waste clearance in the brain. You can read up more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glymphatic_system

That's exactly what it was. Atul Gawande wrote a column in the New Yorker [0] and was presumably offered a deal to expand it into a book.

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist