CRM still has a market cap of 180B after being the share price has been almost cut in half since November 2021. I don't think not many companies have the type of money to buy out CRM.
The code Copilot suggest from any given project most of the time is not enough to credit such project, when I look up code in some GitHub repo, and copy it fully or part of it, I do not credit that project.
My dad ran a business that was totally centered around Facebook and suffered heavily when Facebook flipped a switch and disabled many of the APIs supporting my dad's business
It is not about the Kafala system, since even the West has similar systems. It is that they treat migrant workers that are not highly skilled specially from specific backgrounds bad.
In Saudi Arabia, Gulf States, and elsewhere in the region migrant workers have their passport taken by the employer and thus can’t leave the country. They are stuck. In most other countries the employer does not confiscate your passport. It’s weird to me that one needs a passport to leave a country. In the U.S. you don’t need a passport to leave.
If you’ve ever been to a GCC country, you’ll notice that passport control when leaving is extremely long. It’s filled with South Asian men (and some women) who are put through the ringer by the officials and often pulled aside for extra questioning before being able to board a flight. They all seem to be on pins and needles
That's not legal, and it doesn't happen in cases of the kind of workers you are talking about. Taking passport or treating to be accused of rape and similar things happen (not commonly) to domestic workers and drivers. In occasions they buy the right of Kafala from the Kafil for a couple of $1000s and you leaving before your contract ends feel to them like a loss of money, I would say the situation here is indeed similar to slavery. For industry workers, every worker is replaceable and the company hiring you has 0 incentive to force you to stay.
The real issue in gulf is not paying livable wages mainly. Anything else is comparable to farm workers in Europe.
They can (and often do, at least for deportations from the UK) demand to see evidence that the deportee is, in fact, one of their citizens. Which can be difficult to prove without a passport. We have people who have been in immigration detention for years because they won't cooperate in getting an emergency travel document, or their 'home' country doesn't accept that they have a right of admission there.
No, the West does not have similar systems. There is plenty of injustice in the Western treatment of immigrant workers, but it's nowhere close to the outright slavery taking place in the Saudi peninsula. To point out injustice in the West is fair, but to use that to excuse the level of injustice in Qatar is delusional.
It's not just migrant workers thought, my one cousin who is a white collar worker, making significantly more than me, lived under similar conditions with respect to passport and living...they even go through his mail. I have had other cousins in the are who have worked as labourers and the first hand accounts as bad as we've heard.
Say you go to your Airbnb, walk the stairs with a woman that could look like a sex worker, the neighbors will consider that disrespectful to be done "in front of their kids", and they will call the police on you. However not sure if that's enough to warrant the police entering your house, so they might just talk to you and ask you to be considerate or give you a warning.
I am someone from a developing country who regularly used crypto either to get paid, or to pay for things online.
Does crypto have issues? yes. Is it good enough that in occasion it was my preferred payment method? yes.
Crypto community and companies are maybe bad, but if you zoom out into IT overall there is a fair share of greed and misuse. The internet is full of scams, gurus selling courses with false claims, spam emails that drain your grandpa's account, affiliate programs with 70% margin to sell fake products from questionable weight loss ebooks with health-harming diets to fragrances claiming to be perfumes that attract females supported by endless fake video testimonies, online communities encouraging hate, demoralization, and lack of belief in society.
Seem to me that those articles are nothing but status quo bias, does crypto has bad aspects? yes, is it worse than say internet? I don't know.
In both of your examples, crypto provides an advancement in live valuation that the other industries cannot.
Despite you making them rhetorical demonizations of crypto, the answers are actually “maybe? we don't know, what does Forrester and other market research firms say, do they have that data?”
(Other times when this is pointed out, people typically reveal that they view everything else as more useful than crypto - which naturally would then include gurus and affiliate programs - so their market size and country size emissions doesn't actually matter when this point is more accurately challenged. Just wondering if you had a more articulate argument or a more predictable one)
An open and permission-less global monetary network that does not exclude anyone at all, is about as valuable to you as malformed viagra emails?
4 billion people today live under less than ideal circumstances.
Spending a fraction of a percent of global electricity is absolutely worth it. It provides those 4 billion people with access to the financial services that they would otherwise never get.
Nigeria alone has 34+ million users. Just one country.
1. Nigeria has 30 MILLION people that use it. Most of the usage is for cross-border transactions.
2. transaction rate limitations only apply to the settlement layer. retail does not need to use it, only very large transactions that need high settlement guarantees.
Lightning network has essentially unlimited tps, currently has close to 1 million (!!) live nodes, and even sub-penny transactions are perfectly viable because fees are even tinier or can be even nil.
If you truly do care about lives of 4 billion people on the planet, you should at least internalize these basic facts, as you are simply repeating misinformation: tps are low, no traction. it is simply not true.
1) You claimed it provided services for 4 billion people. 30 million != 4 billion.
2) Lightning requires BTC transactions to establish channels and for funding, no? While the TPS when funds are on lightning may be impressive, in order for 4 billion people to set up and fund lightning channels, at 7 TPS the bitcoin chain is going to take ~18 years to process that.
3) Are these 30 million people in Nigeria using BTC on the main chain? Are they using lightning? Or are they using one or more custodial, centralised wallet services/exchanges?
(I see 'sidecar channels' are a thing which may help onboarding speed, skipping the bitcoin blockchain entirely, but it all sounds hideously complex, with a bunch of fees in different places to a variety of service providers. It really all points to a failure in the L1 solution)
Certainly, but I don't see anyone trying to properly stop it in both cases here?
Amusingly the PoW as we know it in cryptocurrency came from attempts to combat email spam with HashCash, it's clearly referenced in the Bitcoin whitepaper as a precursor.
I am not sure if I am correctly interpreting your question here, but if I am then I can assure you that a great deal of time/energy/resources are devoted to stopping spamming/scamming, particularly over email. There is an entire public-private industrial sector focused on doing so and many billions of dollars per year are spent towards that end.
There is a couple of accounts that use the same attractive face in totally unrelated videos, like 1 second of it, in all their videos just to bait the algorithm and it works.
10% faster with literata, altho with bionic i had 0 issues losing tracks of where I was or skipping lines but accident, which made me think i was reading faster, but apparently i was not.
That assumes they are economically motivated. As we've seen in recent attacks on other coins, if its a possibility for someone to burn the system down out of spite/malice then the economic incentive doesn't matter.
1. If half of Bitcoin users (hashrate-wise) wanted to disrupt the network out of malice ignoring their economic wellbeing, say a movement similar to GME/WSB, then they can disrupt it.
2. We can go into lower levels and find a number of ISPs specially level 1 ones being able to disrupt the Bitcoin network. Some other single points of failure I can imagine are common routers firmware.
Can Bitcoin never be disrupted? no, does it have mechanisms in place that make it unlikely to be disrupted? yes.
it is nothing about incentive. Let's say a mining pool wants to disrupt the bitcoin network, do you think that pool will keep its hashrate ? I don't think so.
