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In some cases if you don't press the button the light will never change, like a small side street intersecting a major road.


Not to mention that blind people exist


And people that are mobility impaired, such that they cannot get across the street in a shorter amount of time or be agile enough to dodge vehicles that behave unexpectedly. But that's not really relevant to the vast majority of people being goaded into using walk buttons. Many times, it's just a disservice to yourself and a disservice to vehicles.

And yes, ideally we'd use our collective political will to stop further dystopian developments like advertising at traffic lights for everyone. But when that fails (which would be likely given how saturated our society is with advertising), it's still important we exercise our individual ability to reject it, even if not everybody can.


why should a 4.0 student with excellent test scores have "as good a chance" as a 3.5 student with bad test scores?


why not?


> No one claims NFT proves ownership of entities outside of the used blockchain. But within the chosen blockchain, they do prove ownership of that particular NFT. That's a fact.

what if i steal your private key? what if i upload a different NFT smart contract that gives me an NFT of the same image you have?


> what if i steal your private key?

As another commentator said, the key demonstrates the ownership so you're the owner now. Sometimes that's a bad thing indeed, but blockchains are very unforgiving at their core protocols.

> what if i upload a different NFT smart contract that gives me an NFT of the same image you have?

First off, images have nothing to do with NFTs and vice-versa. Yes, some NFTs links to images but those are uninteresting and hype-driven (or I don't understand it). Once a NFT has been created, you cannot replicate it as it's a single instance of a token (hence the name "non-fungible").


If you steal the key then you own it.

That's what "owning it" means; you have the key.


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