> When you look at any new condo development in a Canadian city (without government affordable-housing involvement), there end up being no bachelor, 1bd, or even 2bd units in the development; it's all 3bd+. Picture a condo tower where every floor is the penthouse. Many Canadian property developers only build this type of condo building.
If the school has overbooked students:parking then its a scam to offer parking permits to students who probabilistically will never find a parking spot without resorting to the extremes (time or distance). There's no reason to offer a permit (or charge for it).
I don't think its because of cars. There wont ever be a high quality uni in walking distance for 20,000+ people simultaneously.
there's also cycling and public transport. a single parking spot can fit up to 12 bikes and - in a perfect world - there'd be park & ride facilities on the city outskirts with tram connections to the uni. thus you wouldn't have to drive your car through rush hour city traffic.
This is too cynical of a take for me. I fell down the rabbit hole after reading/watching some of Vitalik's writing years ago. I think it's worth spending a small, insignificant amount to play around with some apps that have a genuine purpose. These days I'm most interested in gitcoin.co grants and the use of quadratic funding to support public goods (eg: open source software). You can read a summary write-up of a previous round [here](https://vitalik.ca/general/2020/10/18/round7.html) if curious.
Stick to protocols that have been around for even a year and you'll do much better than those listed in that article. How much has been lost via hacks from Uniswap, Aave or MakerDAO?
Most of those examples you linked are bridges that aren't considered Defi or half-baked protocols that scream "scam".
And yet decentralized exchanges exist that have been operating successfully for years. Survival of the fittest is a good thing in this case. I would trust a defi exchange that's had people trying to break it constantly for years much more than I would trust, for example, the security of my money in a local bank. People get their money stolen in confidence scams and other exploits every day and that money is just as gone.
I think that depends on the flavor of robustness. spectacular failures occur with systems that have high interdependence of parts, high centrality, and recursive effects. There's also a relationship between cascading failure modes and complexity.
Systems that are robust due to being simple, flexible, highly independent tend to peter out over the long haul, as their failure is often an effect of a changing environment rather than some internal fracture.
Anything that's made "robust" artificially (like propping up a bridge with a loose piece of lumber, or injecting bailout money to maintain bank's solvency) is now completely dependant on that artificial prop. if the bridge is allowed to carry more traffic after being propped up this way, you can expect a catastrophe equal to the one you averted + everything that's been added since.
> The decentralized aspects of crypto ("defi") has been operating just fine through this entire shit-show.
There's a reason that exchanges like FTX are central to "crypto" as a practical matter, regardless of the technical underpinnings of crypto itself. These things are required to facilitate speculation and attract users who otherwise would be capable of interacting with the actual distributed stuff.
Without the much needed fiat currency of this class of users, the pyramids couldn't have been built nearly so high.
To most people defi = blockchain-ized ponzi schemes. Programs that have you deposit assets in exchange for unsustainable 'yield' drawn from other deposits, collateralize by illiquid magic beans.
There were massive 'defi' failures earlier this year. FTX itself appears to have been primarily invested in varrious defi schemes while being short Bitcoin, resulting in the current insolvency.
I think these "money swarms" will learn and be able to coordinate more effectively relatively soon. One of my favourite projects is pooltogether.com, a no-loss lottery where the prize is generated from the interest on the pooled money that is deposited.
I can imagine similar efforts for crowdfunding projects where those that pool their money together don't actually have anything but the interest to lose. Maybe built on top of Alchemix platform? This will certainly be more likely once the transactions fees are lower and people are using layer-2s.
the headline is attention seeking since there are numerous pre-existing brain atlases that describe the anatomy/cellular/molecular parts in different ways. You can check https://portal.brain-map.org/ for many examples.
I think a good comparison to this kind of work is what has happened previously in astronomy, where scientists work to answer their specific questions using large open datasets acquired using shared infrastructure (fancy telescopes for astronomy, microscopes for biology).
