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by aeturnum 4y ago
People in the HNews community have been pushing for the ability for unaccredited investors to be able to put money into early-stage startups for years. I think the situation with crypto-currency* is a preview of the upsides and downsides of
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by aeturnum 4y ago
> uncensorable payments While it's true that you can't really censor the blockchain transfer, how much that allows someone to 'take' a payment depends a great deal on the legal circumstances where they live. I don&#
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I think owning your own platform is a really cool thing to do and I think we live in a golden age for doing it. It's never been easier and you've never had more options. I also think that placing self-ownership before all other co
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I think checksums can be used to verify that particular messages are the same, but ultimately I think there just aren't that many protocols for ensuring that every provider has every message. Some messages could get dropped and the sol
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by aeturnum 4y ago
No - but like...the key feature of blockchain is that you can design a system where you must do that to make a change. If you're running a 'centralized'* (let's say 'administered') system then you can just ch
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I think it's typically true? The instances I know of where transactions were undone involved convincing all the node runners to fork their nodes - they were not done "within" the blockchain system. Instead they used social co
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I think blockchain is an interesting technology that does have some unique qualities. It's cool that you can setup a system where the people running it don't have admin powers. I also think that relatively few real-world problems
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by aeturnum 4y ago
There's not exactly a smoking gun but Ricciardi doesn't come out looking great. With small insular communities like this, I wonder how often people end up making counterfeits they never intend to sell. Maybe you're having a d
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I feel the same way. I don't have too many compunctions about games whose revenue models gate the top 5% of possible progress. If Diablo 3 had a feature where you need to pay money to unlock the last 10% of each primal ancient item (so
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I don't remember my education over-emphasized Big-O too much - I mostly started thinking about it when I was preparing to do interviews at the end of my undergrad education. I suspect there's been a back-and-forth between industry
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by aeturnum 4y ago
> This is a big misconception about "Big-O". It does not "assume" anything. It's just not what people think it is. In my experience, we all spend more of our time dealing with what people think things are than
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Of course? That's why they are "micro"grants. Many projects that improve peoples' computers are done mostly for love - but that doesn't mean they don't get done a lot faster with a little money for expenses or
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I agree that "floating virtual monitors" isn't much of an improvement over real monitors - but it's an transitional step that you take to experiment with building a UI that's not possible with traditional physical i
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by aeturnum 4y ago
People are pointing out that Lyft and Uber often brought car service to towns without taxies and that is true (and good I suppose). But I do not think that's the business we should be sad about disrupting - Lyft and especially Uber hav
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I do think this is a little unfair, but I think it points to a real issue "around" driverless cars (that is not the cars' fault exactly): everyone is trained to deal only with human agents. It does seem like the car "act
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by aeturnum 4y ago
> do you expect any Lua to run in every environment Lua is used in? I do not, but again - I think "I should be able to run any version of a language in any place" is not related to "it is strangely hard to run a given Ja
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I agree that the C family has some similar problems but I think you're missing part of what makes Javascript uniquely frustrating. Javascript is deployed in many different environments and you need to learn not just how to include a li
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Oh wow - this is a much more extensive collection than the one I used to buy my last split mechanical (a perfectly functional but unimpressive Kinesis Freestyle2 Blue). Thank you!
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Though I think they should offer salary ranges (it's a legal requirement several places and is also just good practice), asking people to fill out essay questions seems...totally fine? If you want to build an engineering culture which
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by aeturnum 4y ago
> I think based on that conversation (and sure, call me biased) the "invasion of privacy" concerns were way overblown I mean, that's why this calls for a probe, right? I also suspect they were overblown - but that's
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I think you are mostly right, but I'd rank it like this (from best to worst combo of quality for time + cost): 1) "high end" webcam (~$200) 2) DSLR + capture card you already own 3) Any Webcam [...] 10) Buying a DSLR and capt
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Webcams often simply use cheap, small sensors but I think it's worth mentioning that these "proper" cameras are also not designed to do on-demand video well. It turns out that if you spend $1000 on camera + lens it will look
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I also really like the algorithmic feed. Though it's interesting that you like it because you check it infrequently - for me, it works because I check it often, so it's "close to chronological but with extra surprises" w
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Though I agree with you about housing, if you are making an argument for bureaucracy you'd probably assign bureaucracy as the cause of a large portion of high housing costs as well.
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by aeturnum 4y ago
> So...assume the most extreme views are correct and start forming our own personal thoughts based on this assumption This mis-represents what I said. This thread started with "how to disagree without being accused of being bigote
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by aeturnum 4y ago
> It's clear (to me anyway) that if one believes speech leads to violence, and if less extreme measures don't achieve the results you want, one will eventually attempt to have speech such as Chapelle's comedy routine lega
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I mean, fair enough, we can set the law aside. Again, my point is that trans people are not complaining about "people saying negative things" in a vacuum. They are complaining about a specific situation that is happening which goe
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by aeturnum 4y ago
> I don't think it's transphobic to push back on trans activists. You say you're part of several vulnerable populations, but you don't ask the world to "accommodate" you - but the complains trans people ha
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I genuinely do not understand these kinds of situations. Like, I've been at companies where we have well know critics and like...we know what they say and if they suffer a misfortune people might think that's funny - but we'r
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by aeturnum 4y ago
> My point here is more: if you plan on using the data, it becomes more and more expensive as your access patterns change. I don't think this is true either. Google does not need to keep much of its data in hot storage to use it e

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