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by Lazare 6y ago
> I no longer think the environmental argument is really plausible here. Clearly crypto mining is emitting using a lot of power and some of that is CO2. But the competition is fiat; backed by fighter jets and nukes; literally. That seems
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by Lazare 6y ago
Conventional wisdom in the US is that Maduro is a ruthless, violent dictator, who has suppressed opposition, smuggled drugs, funded terrorism, violated human rights, etc. But that doesn't get you kicked off Facebook. Facebook and Twitt
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by Lazare 6y ago
RSS is a bit of a relic of an earlier, more open web, and Google Reader was at the time the best, most popular RSS client. Killing it was bad for users, and bad for RSS, but it was also a very visible marker of a shift towards a more closed
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by Lazare 6y ago
I'm not sure I could disagree more. I'd phrase it more like "ORMs are as popular as they always were, most DBs today are SQL DBs, same as always, and the only recent change in the last 10 years is people have stopped speculat
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by Lazare 6y ago
That seems broadly accurate, yes. If anything, you're leaving out a few pivots, mistakes, and embarrassing backtracks. This article from 2019 is a bit out of date ( https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/03/the-long-co
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by Lazare 6y ago
Data point: I've never browsed Substack for content. I have no idea what may or may not be on the platform, and I don't really care. The quality of the median post - or author - could decline any amount, and I wouldn't even
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by Lazare 6y ago
Reading between the lines, Medium tried a model where they hired authors, paid them to create content, and sold subscriptions to this content, and it was very unprofitable. Worse, it was unprofitable in a difficult to fix way, because it&#x
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by Lazare 6y ago
Here's one way of thinking about it: Let's say I need $1000 now. I'd like to borrow it, and I'm willing to pay some amount of money back over time to obtain it. Money now is more valuable than money later, so I know the
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by Lazare 6y ago
> The substack writers are media stars [...] They are rich and powerful The vanishingly small minority of Substack writers who are media stars , and who are rich and powerful, yes. That's not true of the overwhelming majority of Su
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by Lazare 6y ago
> - MOST people will not want to pay for articles. Especially in an ever increasing world of subscription payments across tv, music, SaaS, I really don’t see how email newsletters will be high on people’s lists I've subscribed to th
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by Lazare 6y ago
> He's definitely the most prolific 3D artist, ever. That is either false, or it's true in a way that is meaningless. There are artists who have spent every day creating art. Daily art exercises and sketchbooks are commonplace.
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by Lazare 6y ago
> Beeple isn't a "complete unknown", pretty much every 3D artist knows him, he's produced and published more digital art than anyone else. He's arguably the Andy Warhol of 3D rendering. I cannot stress enough how
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by Lazare 6y ago
Yes. Buying an NFT isn't like buying a piece of art you can put on your wall, it's like buying a signed, numbered, limited edition card that has the address of where the actual owner has the art on his wall. ...except the addres
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by Lazare 6y ago
Agreed, 100%, to everything you said. Although on top of that, note also that consent is specifically for specific acts with a specific person (or people) in a certain context. Exact legal rules may vary over time and between places, and we
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by Lazare 6y ago
Correct. Snake oil is intrinsically bad. We all agree it's bad, and thus, nobody is allowed to sell it, even if they disclose that it is snake oil. But Hertz shares are apparently not bad. We're clearly happy to see people buy
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by Lazare 6y ago
Nope. With snake oil, we would way that it is immoral for ANYONE to sell it. As a result, we (mostly) make it illegal too. With Hertz stock, nobody seems willing to say that all sales of such stock are immoral. And certainly they're
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by Lazare 6y ago
Absolutely not. At the moment, he has some containers full of rocks with paper work that says "copper". Put it on the blockchain, and you'd have some containers full of rocks with paper work on the blockchain that says &quo
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by Lazare 6y ago
> That's wildly different from issuing new shares when you have inside information which prices them at zero. Hertz executives were in possession of no such information. The information was very public.
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1) US securities laws are very focused on disclosure and filling out the correct forms. Hertz did say the stock was (likely) worthless when they filled out the correct form to sell some stock. 2) People were buying (and selling) Hertz sto
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by Lazare 6y ago
> People pay for mods and skins all the time. People will pay secondlife furniture. They will pay to be be able to display it in their VR houses. They will display it like badges on their forum avatars. All of those are neat ideas which
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by Lazare 6y ago
> if they sold a digital art piece in traditional terms People do sell licenses to digital art, yes. I've both bought and sold such licenses, primarily on TurboSquid ( https://www.turbosquid.com/ ), a digital market p
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by Lazare 6y ago
The problem I think, is that their art still isn't selling. NFTs aren't art, they are effectively trading cards referencing art. These trading cards are, somewhat mysteriously, selling, and that does get money into the hands o
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by Lazare 6y ago
> It's a digital unfakeable deed to an asset, that asset being a trading card, artwork or something else. Well...no. Quite the opposite. The art is an asset. NFTs are not the artwork, and they're not a deed to the artwork.
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by Lazare 6y ago
There's a fair bit to agree with here, but... First, one of the arguments being made here is that previous ad revenue subsidised content, but now it subsidises social media, so content must cover its costs directly. One of the implicat
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by Lazare 6y ago
It's worse than that, at the peak of the crisis not only were the capped at $9k/MWh, they were also floored at that price. As in, prices were administratively set to be $9k for a few days. ERCOT can just set prices to whatever t
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by Lazare 6y ago
> It seems like the easiest answer is to fork the cryptography library I would suggest that not only isn't the easiest answer, it's not an answer at all. Because... > new maintainers and those on unsupported architectures c
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by Lazare 6y ago
> If you have an issue with JSON, go create your own spec And many people have. You're literally posting this in response to someone submitting the new spec they created to solve this. I don't understand what you're trying
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by Lazare 6y ago
It's absurdly complicated, but....as I understand it, yes. 1. CCIV sold shared at $10 each, raising a bit over $2b 2. Those shares were trading around $55. This price represents a "pre-pop"; the price spiked on rumours CCIV w
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by Lazare 6y ago
And I suppose the vast amounts of XML (still!) flowing across the internet show there's no need for JSON at all , so the real mistake was even inventing JSON? (Also, as gets pointed out every time this topic pops up on HN, including m
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by Lazare 6y ago
Yes, the SPACs have their own IPO with underwriters and fees. And then more fees for doing the merger with the target company. It is somewhat more streamlined, so fees will be on the low side. Often 2% for the initial IPO, then and othe

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