This reminds me to the philosophy behind Erlang (a language/VM combo I sadly don’t speak yet): it got developed as a response to a lack of tools that would’ve been able to deal with a world where things broke but life couldn’t stop just because they did. So, they chose a somewhat inefficient but foolproof model: independent actors running parallel, zero shared state, communicating through messages alone.
Goodbye oil? If gasoline goes, so potentially do most oil products - from plastics to heating oil. The price per barrel will soar to a point that production effectively halts (because demand collapses).
Goodbye air travel, goodbye most transport. We are at a critical tipping point for humanity:
Maybe technological life won’t exist for much longer on our planet for much longer either. In any case I’d like a safe network to play with before it all comes crashing down!
It could be the driving force behind significantly increasing the use of cryptocurrency with people who have never been bothered before, 7th most visited site in the world.
I’m sure many of the people paying for memberships have had no need for crypto until now.
They removed also all user base content:
"The purge appears to have hit almost 9 million of the 13.5 million videos on Pornhub as of Sunday, or nearly two-thirds of all the content hosted on the site. "