For team.video it's a small thing, but the game while you wait for the meeting to start -- has actually gotten people to show up early for stand up, so we get to start on time. Which is a little bit of a miracle after nothing else seemed to really be able to make that happen
For a bunch of reasons -- I've seen a lot of shenanigans, and have no way to sort out who in the industry is trustworthy and who isn't. So I have to consider the entire industry untrustworthy.
Also, if something does go wrong, there's no technical or legal recourse (that I'm aware of). I'm just out of luck.
Also also, there isn't any regulation that I'm aware of. In the absence of regulation, there isn't legal recourse and anybody in the industry can do anything they like.
Because it has repeatedly demonstrated that it's untrustworthy!
Sure, some of that might be just hype around the bad things. But the sheer number of thefts, scams, hacks, etc, means that for many (most?) people, using a cryptocurrency is just not worth the risk.
The fact that massive profits can be made by the lucky few only serves to reinforce the impression that it's not a safe environment.
Fractional reserve banking is one of the most dangerous things homo sap does, it is right up there with Tide Pods and the Space Shuttle and is worse than nuclear power by a large margin.
(e.g. the basis for the instability is that banks borrow with a short term and lend with a long term; when there is a recession naturally some of those long term promises are broken, short term depositors walk, and banks can fail in a cascading chain failure.)
The 2008 crisis showed many reasons why you shouldn't trust ordinary banks. The folks involved with Bitcoin have the same problems, except unlike bankers they aren't regulated and we don't have any control over their bad behavior.
Commercial use of the outer space is quite popular these days. Still, the list of privately run companies that reach beyond the Earth’s atmosphere isn’t limited to the big three of SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactica.
There are companies like Axiom Space that plan to launch their own space station once the ISS is no longer operational. For now, they are using the station to start building their facility, which they promise will be nearly 70 times as cheap compared to the ISS. Sounds nice, right?
In this feature, lawless.tech explores the case of Axiom Space and take a look at the laws and agreements that regulate private space exploration.
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