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    1.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 13 Dec 2019
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      > So, the internet couldn't scale. This was the basic beginning of the scaling issue on the internet. It couldn't scale, wouldn't scale, clearly. Many people wrote their Ph.D. theses on why it wouldn't scale.

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      > [...] the internet couldn't scale because if you look at where email is today and where it was six months ago and draw a line, we cannot scale. The internet will melt down. People wrote more Ph.D. theses about how the internet would die under the load of email and never scale.

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      > Right now, there are a dozen people writing their Ph.D theses on how bitcoin will fail, has failed, is dying, was dead, and has died again.

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      All of these were quotes pulled from my book-form copy of Antonopoulos' The Internet of Money. I understand this is just a lot of the tech-academic posturing that goes on fucking endlessly (both ways) but...

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      People get that people who write Ph.D.s about how things break and fail in narrow domains tend to be obsessively interested in making them work, right?

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      He didn't cite these various theses and I was to young to have noticed them then but I'm willing to bet that a lot of those folks who wrote Ph.D. theses on it? They went on to engineer protocols and systems that afforded better scaling *because* of their earned insights.

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          So yea, court that "damn the naysayer's!" following all you want — it's very much part of the game. But, the idea that people doing Ph.D.'s are disinterested or pessimistic documentarian's is pretty fucking dumb. (Image source: http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/ …)pic.twitter.com/kCqkDDDTrL

          Matt Might's: The illustrated guide to a Ph.D. Shows a tiny dent. "That dent you've made is called a Ph.D.:"
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