FreeFacts

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  • Well, the Union of South Africa were participants in the war against Germany, so that’s still a bit weird. Don’t know about the affiliation of the magazine in question, but the support for joining the allies wasn’t clear cut, but only a narrow majority among the ruling white class.







  • FreeFactstoMemes@lemmy.mlBlockchain: the wave of the future
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    1 year ago

    I know of one use case that seems viable, there is a digital housing market service in my country (called Dias). It uses blockchain to verify transactions related to selling and buying houses. That includes proof of sales, ownership, bank transaction status etc. The blockchain is operated by all the major banks. Their incentive is that it increases the security of the transactions thanks to the immutable digital trail, and also the fact that no single entity owns the “database” so no entity can alter it, or skim service fees etc from the others.


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    Why this hasn’t been done is pretty baffling to me.

    Because the blockchain needs an incentive. Who is going to be taking part in the blockchain if there is nothing in it for them? That’s why these tokens are often tied to crypto currencies, as mining is the incentive.






  • Apotti oli yksi artikkelin esimerkkijärjestelmä. En olis sekunttiakaan yllättyny, jos sen ympäriltä paljastuu ihan hervoton korruptiohimmeli. Siitä on tullu jo aika erikoisia kommentteja.

    Juuri tämä korruptio on se osa jota ei ihan kauheasti tuoda ilmi. Korruptio kun on melkein maan tapa mitä tulee julkisiin hankintoihin, mutta jostain syystä selkeästi huono valinta toimittajaksi tai jopa itse toteutukseksi tuodaan esiin digihankinnoissa, mutta ei muissa hankinnoissa.

    Historiasta löytyy kyllä esimerkkejä surkeista analoogisista hankinnoista, joista kärsitään yhä. Esimerkkinä Helsingin metro, joka päätettiin jostain syystä kaivaa maapallon ytimen syvyyteen eikä siihen ns. katutason alle, mikä tekee laajentamisesta työlästä ja kallista. Ja kun selvitellään että miksi se syvämetro nyt sitten silloin taannoin valittiin, niin korruptiohan se sielläkin hääräsi.



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    It’s interesting debate to observe from my perspective as my native tongue has no different pronunciations for letters, they are always the same regardless of their placement in words. G is always pronounced the same, and so is P. (Spoiler: it’s hard G and hard P).

    This brought another thing in my mind about soft G. Let’s take for example Gin, which is with soft G I believe (it’s hard G here because there is only hard G). Then there is the acronym GT for Gin & Tonic. The question is, in English language countries, is the acronym pronounced jay-T instead of gee-T?