Comment by whimsicalism
24 days ago
People overly beholden to tried and true 'known' way of addressing a problem space and not considering/belittling alternatives. Many of the things that have been most aggressively 'bitter lesson'ed in the last decade fall into this category.
Like this bug report?
The things that have been "disrupted" haven't delivered - Blockchains are still a scam, Food delivery services are worse than before (Restaurants are worse off, the people making the deliveries are worse off), Taxis still needed to go back and vet drivers to ensure that they weren't fiends.
> Blockchains are still a scam
Did you actually look at the blockchain nodes implementation as of 2025 and what's in the roadmap? Ethereum nodes/L2s with optimistic or zk-proofs are probably the most advanced distributed databases that actually work.
(not talking about "coins" and stuff obviously, another debate)
> Ethereum nodes/L2s with optimistic or zk-proofs are probably the most advanced distributed databases that actually work.
What are you comparing against? Aren't they slower, less convenient, and less available than, say, DynamoDB or Spanner, both of which have been in full-service, reliable operation since 2012?
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The traditional way is paper trails and/or WORM (write-once-read-many) devices, with local checksums.
You can have multiple replica without extra computation for hash and stuffs.
idk, sounds like you're ignoring tried and true microeconomic theoretical principles about consumer surplus. better get back to the books before commenting