Leo Ariel

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the cost of semiconductor tools doubles every four years
Slowing Moore’s Law: How It Could Happen · Gwern.net
the escalating cost of a semiconductor fab plant, which is doubling every three years, a phenomenon dubbed Moore’s Second Law. Human ingenuity keeps shrinking the CMOS transistor, but with increasingly expensive manufacturing facilities
Slowing Moore’s Law: How It Could Happen · Gwern.net
Cost reduction via offshore investments in low-wage countries was not a feasible strategy because fabrication is so capital-intensive that labor typically accounts for 16% of costs (including depreciation) in U.S. fabs producing 200mm wafers, and less than 10% in the newer 300mm fabs
Slowing Moore’s Law: How It Could Happen · Gwern.net
lithography machines were $54.7 million a piece in 2009, and the most expensive single pieces of equipment (like steppers) can reach prices as high as $66.9 million dollars
Slowing Moore’s Law: How It Could Happen · Gwern.net
⁠<14 companies make up the majority of global manufacturing.
Slowing Moore’s Law: How It Could Happen · Gwern.net
The actual data isn't embedded in there, because it still sits somewhere in a database and doesn't get interpolated on the server anymore. That's the tradeoff you have to make when moving from server-side rendering to client-side rendering.
Web Applications 101
The term Web 2.0 and its popularity waned around 2010 as the features of Web 2.0 became ubiquitous and lost their novelty.
Web Applications 101
A case study is Coinbase and Uniswap, two cryptocurrency exchanges that enable users to swap various tokens.
The Ownership Economy 2022 – Variant
Uniswap is decentralized and facilitates automated transactions entirely through smart contracts.
The Ownership Economy 2022 – Variant
organizational building blocks
The Ownership Economy 2022 – Variant
DAOs, decentralized autonomous organizations, are online communities owned and governed by their members
The Ownership Economy 2022 – Variant
The Financial Times and Chainalysis estimated that there were 360,000 owners of NFTs as of 2021
The Ownership Economy 2022 – Variant
effectively free to deploy, and they can transfer value in the same way we transfer information—instantly, to anyone, anywhere in the world.
The Ownership Economy 2022 – Variant
distributed programmatically
The Ownership Economy 2022 – Variant
Ethereum, one of the more mature networks that supports the ownership economy, grew 46% in monthly average accounts in 2021.
The Ownership Economy 2022 – Variant
15,000 projects in the ownership economy
The Ownership Economy 2022 – Variant
digital ownership leveraged as a building block to enable novel user experiences
The Ownership Economy 2022 – Variant
If the last generation of software was built upon a foundation of user-generated content, the next generation of software will be user-owned
The Ownership Economy 2022 – Variant
secure the network with their native tokens
The Ownership Economy 2022 – Variant
ownership economy—often referred to as web3—with products and services that turn users into owners.
The Ownership Economy 2022 – Variant
These identities, also, can be cooperatively shared
Inventories, Not Identities. Why multisigs are the future of online… | by Kei Kreutler | Gnosis
“Offer unprecedented interoperability of data, digital items/assets, content, and so on across each of these experiences — your ‘Counter-Strike’ gun skin, for example, could also be used to decorate a gun in Fortnite, or be gifted to a friend on/through Facebook… Today, the digital world basically acts as though it were a mall where though every store used its own currency, required proprietary ID cards, etc.”
Inventories, Not Identities. Why multisigs are the future of online… | by Kei Kreutler | Gnosis
multi-signature accounts can be explained as a form of joint bank account
Inventories, Not Identities. Why multisigs are the future of online… | by Kei Kreutler | Gnosis
What we need, then, is a technical stack that supports not an identity, but a collection of identities to navigate the highly varied contexts of web 3.0.
Inventories, Not Identities. Why multisigs are the future of online… | by Kei Kreutler | Gnosis
a persistent pseudonymous account’s previous actions can be observed on the platform and accumulate public reputation over time
Inventories, Not Identities. Why multisigs are the future of online… | by Kei Kreutler | Gnosis
identity is always inherently relational
Inventories, Not Identities. Why multisigs are the future of online… | by Kei Kreutler | Gnosis
zero knowledge proofs, a subject can verify they possess personal data without having to publicly reveal it
Inventories, Not Identities. Why multisigs are the future of online… | by Kei Kreutler | Gnosis
identity standard as a universal login
Inventories, Not Identities. Why multisigs are the future of online… | by Kei Kreutler | Gnosis
self-custodial identity
Inventories, Not Identities. Why multisigs are the future of online… | by Kei Kreutler | Gnosis
our accounts of the future may look more like inventories, less like identities
Inventories, Not Identities. Why multisigs are the future of online… | by Kei Kreutler | Gnosis
identity collections
Inventories, Not Identities. Why multisigs are the future of online… | by Kei Kreutler | Gnosis
logic of individualized identity was baked into web 2.0
Inventories, Not Identities. Why multisigs are the future of online… | by Kei Kreutler | Gnosis
social platforms also, in part, dampened the imagination of a pseudonymous web
Inventories, Not Identities. Why multisigs are the future of online… | by Kei Kreutler | Gnosis