What exactly are blockchains being used for in the real world?
Specific to this story: most of the world has instant payments without using blockchains or stablecoins, it’s only the U.S. where the banking system somehow hasn’t realised they can do instant payments using traditional banking technology.
Anyone posting that they’re skeptical about the use cases for blockchains on HN 10 years ago will have the same skepticism now. Nothing has changed.
>Banks see an opportunity for stablecoins to speed up more routine transactions, such as cross-border payments that can take days in the traditional payments system
I think it’s more appropriate to say conduction and convection doesn’t work well. When you have a suit, it’s meant to block radiation and that’s the mode of heat transfer in space. If space was a fantastic insulator, the suit itself would eventually overheat since you have to remove the heat somehow (they boil off water in vacuum similar to sweat).
And have them run on a regular schedule, within and between cities. Imagine the benefit to the public and the environment. It could even be funded by tax payers.
We used to have that in the flatter parts of Ohio (which is ~most of it), with street cars, and interurban lines linking many of even the tiniest towns together, and with passenger rail between larger cities.
It was privately-funded. It worked.
...until the automobile became more common and people stopped started driving cars instead. (The literal-conspiracy between General Motors and Firestone Tire didn't help, either.)
Also depends on where you're looking. Cities will have worse roads because they're always digging working on gas and water lines, some of which leak. That disturbance of the ground will make things a lot worse than some rural road where the ground hasn't been disturbed since it was created.
This works well in suburbs with modern setback rules. It doesn't work so well in established urban areas where buildings often go right up to the sidewalk which goes right up to the road.
It doesn't work well here either. It frees up the roads a little, but as someone who bikes on those "shared use" sidewalks there are regularly "yellow vest people" blocking the sidewalks.
Browsers should also come packages with the most popular is libraries like jQuery, bootstrap, vue, d3, etc (not a real list, just off the top of my head)
We already have CDNs so one site downloading a version of a library works for all. Maybe content-addressible dependencies could make that even better, for cross-CDN support?
