Wow you typed a LOT to defend not making a GitHub issue. That energy redirected to writing a GitHub issue would be stellar.

Because information is power. They can use knowledge of another’s wrongdoings to buy support for things.

It’s not a benefit in the example that you provide. It’s a benefit to the seller for sure. For that type of transaction it benefits you with lower prices due to retailers not having fraudulent sales result in chargebacks. This is the reason you’ll see it adopted by merchants (not Bitcoin, but stablecoins on Solana or Eth L2s).

The benefits on the consumer side are around freedom of money - no seizures, no bank runs, no fraudulent cc charges (but added key management risk), no inflation (eh, but added volatility rn), instantaneous worldwide transfers (that’s where you see the remittance market buying in). Also new decentralized financial markets which bring better yield rates than banks.

It’s a little more gray on the consumer side and I would expect services built on top to add insurance, escrow, and custody (exchanges and banks) type features.

The other place it’s making waves is with larger amounts of money. Hedge funds, venture capital, and higher net worth individuals. It makes moving capital around much easier.

So in that realm we see growth with it making its way into traditional markets - like stocks and commodities. Instantaneous settlement in this world is huge. Stock transactions can take anywhere from a day to 3 days in the tradfi system. On-chain we make atomic, irreversible, censorship resistant transactions instantly.

You can already see companies launching stock backed tokens on chains now. Just a couple weeks ago StockX went live on Solana. Anyone can buy US stocks, anonymously, with no onboarding requirements. This disrupts global capital markets.

So in summary, the benefits down at the consumer level focus more around access to new, secure products for earning yield and availability of alternative inflation-free assets with instant availability.

Also, privacy. This world really re-enables us as consumers to have some financial privacy. That’s another whole rabbit hole tho and my thumbs are tired.

At its core, it represents an irreversible proof of digital existance. Blockchain is the only technology that can do this, and it makes it more valuable than you’d think.

Bitcoin itself has first mover advantage, and that keeps it on top. It’s hard to point to any particular feature of bitcoin that warrants this first place position, aside from pure decentralization of holdings.

The irreversibility of blockchain transactions is very underrated to most of us, but think about it… no bank or government, even with military involvement, can reverse a transaction or seize assets. For most of us in nations with sophisticated financial infrastructure and govt, this doesn’t sound like a big deal, but for the majority of the world, this is a huge deal.

It also represents freedom from fiat. Since the beginning of currency govts have used it as a means to extract wealth from the populace. Printing, confiscating, and controlling as it pleases them. We’ve historically used gold to hedge against this, and there’s even instances in history where govts have devalued and confiscated gold as a means of supporting itself. Bitcoin brings all the freedom of gold, with all the benefits of the digital world.

They added an option to pay the gestapo so you don’t have to take off your shoes. That’s the only change in the last decade.

The collapse of the US empire will be influenced by this red v blue battle, but that’s not the cause of the collapse. It’s the ponzi US Dollar finally collapsing that will destroy it. All that other drama is just side stage crap to let both sides point at each other.

1995 - the peak of civilization

On voyager it’s cut off bad. Missing 1.5 letters

Factory building games help me with this as I get older. Factorio, Dyson Sphere Program, Satisfactory. They’re endless puzzles.

This guy injects

This guy autisms

I need an engineer familiar with data pipelines but specifically on the SQL side and financial type analysis and schema design.

dm me

I enjoyed the way they did the historical uniform and weapons display. It was pretty neat. I wouldn’t call it “thrilling” but it was decent background material while working. Parades aren’t what they used to be of course, the internet kinda changed everything.

I realize you’re being cheeky, and that’s ok. I expect it here.

You are t screwed at all. That’s perfectly fine to pay for legal tools using legal forms of payment.

Case in point

I was able to watch it on youtube in the comfort of my home without having to deal with travel, parking, and protester crap.

Heya, long time dev here.

If you’re not expecting millions of rows, you could just use the country code directly in the user table and not use a foreign key/table at all. Just an idea.

However, if you want the country table, i would find this list in a csv format (or copy paste into goog sheets or such and massage it) and then use a tool or write a quick script to ingest it into the db. If you’re doing that you should design the country table to have id, code, name. It can be used for populating dropdowns or autocomplete or such too.

Over-engineering is a thing; keep it simple. If you’re doing this mainly as an exercise to learn, over-engineering can be ok - just understand that it doesn’t HAVE to be done any particular way, and there is no “right” way. Design is subjective and varies based on the needs of your software.

Is he making military orders that are against the constitution? U mean the marines in LA thing?

That’s a whole lot of words to try and justify not maintaining a 1:1 ratio on my server bro.

Wow sounds like my life. What field are you in?