What can I say? I woke up this morning and chose violence 🤷‍♀️

Valid point! But then how do you refer to the data structure/architecture/model concept? Sometimes we want a concise term (like bittorrent or ActivityPub) for the abstraction

Nobody said it wasn’t? But different models have different benefits and drawbacks?

See the link in my other replies for some examples of internal uses that still benefit from immutable, distributed ledgers.

Large organizations still have loss and risk from individual bad actors. Operating a central authority that validates every single transaction in a ledger, and validates ledger history and consistency, can be prohibitively complicated. A well designed blockchain implementation can resolve most of these issues.

A great example is a pharma/healthcare company that wants to manage medicine batch and expiration tracking, as well as distribution/patient assignment. With a traditional infrastructure every participant needs to phone home to a central authority. In a blockchain setup, peers can report ledger events one hop up and propagate it through the chain.

That’s a very simple example but I hope it gets my point across

Here, I provided a bunch of examples months ago of other ways blockchain is being used: https://lemmy.world/post/36683795/19677963

Lol you’re a judgemental prick. I have zero crypto because that shit is absolutely moronic.

It’s like you talked to someone who supports nuclear power and responded “good luck with the nuclear bombs you definitely don’t have, true believer”

Sounds like you just want to hate on shit you don’t understand. Go on with your bad self though 👍

EDIT: LMAO from the article you linked they even point out that the tech itself isn’t the problem, but the willingness of businesses to invest in the improvements (which is, like, an incredibly common problem in business that does not in any way make the tech bad)

Its plan to digitize global supply chains hasn’t received sufficient cooperation and support to remain viable.

That is the downside of corporate blockchain projects. They need everyone to share a mindset and commit to a long-term plan. Unfortunately, businesses face ever-changing conditions and financial problems. Few can warrant the cost of buying into such systems under the current market conditions.

You probably preach about how nuclear power is terrible, how if it were so great there would be more of it, and people sticking to coal is proof that coal power is better.

Big brain you’ve got there 😂🫡

Critical mass is not required for internal systems. Not all implementations of blockchain are intended for public use.

I’m really tired of this. Blockchain. Is not. Crypto.

Here’s the research I did for everyone four months ago: https://lemmy.world/post/36683795/19677963

I have a large number of examples in this comment from four months ago. Please read them: https://lemmy.world/post/36683795/19677963

Blockchain is not synonymous with crypto. Why are you bringing up crypto specifically? Crypto is garbage. But Blockchain is not crypto

You are making my point. Blockchain is not crypto. Blockchain can be useful in private, internal use cases (like a transaction ledger for bank branches) where trust is largely implicit.

You are exactly the type of person I’m talking about :\

Crypto is not the only use case for blockchain.

Blockchain can be useful in inherently trusted, closed ecosystems.

Depending on the use case, proof doesn’t even need to be anything more than a valid certificate (not work, not stake)

Consider a bank that develops its own blockchain ledger for internal use only, replacing their branch ledgers (which require daily reconciliation and propagation).

An immutable, distributed ledger has plenty of valid, valuable use cases without looking like crypto.

sigh

Once again:

Blockchain is not synonymous with cryptomining

Blockchain does not require proof of work

Cryptocurrency and NFT grifting does not devalue blockchain as an immutable distributed ledger

I swear to god people just copy paste whatever makes them feel good without any effort at understanding

Perhaps that is the point: peer auditing instead of blind forwarding

Logically terminating resources does not imply a terminating logic loop. Clever wordplay, though.

Recursion has a specific definition. It means solving a problem by breaking a process down into smaller and smaller self-similar pieces until reaching the “base case”. In programming, it (almost) always means a function that calls itself as part of its internal logic. Depending on what the function does and the conditions for returning a value from the function, it may do that one time, many times, or not at all. A classic example is the Boggle solver.

I did say I was being pedantic :P

Not to be pedantic, and I do appreciate the humor, but that’s not recursion either :3 Recursion doesn’t need to be endless. Recursive functions can absolutely have logical termination.

Previous work on task initiation has implicated a neural circuit connecting two parts of the brain known as the ventral striatum and ventral pallidum

yes they did. Ctrl-F helps

EDIT: shame that 11 people upvoted this without verifying the accusation when it’s so easy and even shows in the OP summary

Yup. Small claims is great if you just want compensation for yourself. But it is not an effective means of influencing these companies. If you have enough people filing small claims for them to care then you have a class action which is not small claims.

And small claims won’t accomplish what you want it to. They will settle or, again, drag it out, and chalk it up as a cost of doing business since the cost will be less than the profit they earn from this shady shit

I say this from a position of experience. The courts rarely if ever are an effective way to produce systemic change in matters between corporations and consumers. They just aren’t designed to work that way

The unfortunate reality is that court costs are awarded after the fact and that means you have to be able to put up the money first. A company as large as Corsair will drag it out until any non-wealthy individual can’t afford to pay their lawyers anymore and win by default. This is why hitting their bottom line is the only viable strategy these days