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9841.
by api 8y ago
The whole Ethereum VM is too complex. For a role like smart contracts you'd want something dirt simple with few operations and provability.
9842.
by api 8y ago
It is a bit of a double edge sword, but overall I think crypto is better. The best solution to the privacy problem is to do research and exercise consumer choice about what sorts of devices you purchase.
9843.
by api 8y ago
Interesting question, but I think it's more that language devs often don't understand that language adoption is about community and DX (developer experience) as much as the language itself. "Bad" languages often succeed
9844.
by api 8y ago
I was there, but barely. Sites were generally labors of love regardless of accuracy or credibility. There were cold hard facts and hard science. There was also a substantial amount of wild theorizing about UFOs, parapolitics, or bigfoot, bu
9845.
by api 8y ago
Wow, that is one high effort stalker / troll / ???wtf
9846.
by api 8y ago
This comment reminds me of something I read a while back about Tor, I2P, and Freenet-- that the fact that those services are loaded with child porn and other nasty stuff is in a way a positive commentary on our society. It shows that the ma
9847.
by api 8y ago
Agreed. There is no way to do layoffs that doesn't suck and doesn't harm morale. This avoids some of the worst of it and also keeps it somewhat private.
9848.
by api 8y ago
I was told more or less this many years ago by a friend who grew up in rough neighborhoods. Paraphrasing: "When you walk around in the ghetto just walk like you're packing heat in your jacket." Nobody messed with me. I guess
9849.
by api 8y ago
No, but I think the parent is correct. I grew up with the Internet. I was reading wacky conspiracy theories in my teens. It made me more skeptical of virtually anything I see in print since I learned how easy it is to create a BS narrativ
9850.
by api 8y ago
Years ago I realized that a hidden driver for the growth of cloud is this. The cloud is DRM, and almost uncrackable DRM at that since you have neither the code nor the hardware.
9851.
by api 8y ago
It's autocorrect. Mobile is the foot rub. (That's an autocorrect of "mobile is the future" that I saw once.)
9852.
by api 8y ago
If this is in fact true it means the rest of the world is freeloading off the US system. Not saying I'm convinced it is true. I'd like to see a deeper unbiased analysis.
9853.
by api 8y ago
This is lazy nonsense. Fusion is underfunded and yet we've still made fantastic progress on power density and stability.
9854.
by api 8y ago
I feel like the same phenomenon sometimes happens with adults at the scale of civil society. People start doing strange things like believing silly "alternative" conspiracy theories, withdrawing from society into online alternate
9855.
by api 8y ago
Your last sentence is total capitulation to a dystopia. The psychological effect of knowing you're always being watched could mean the end of any cultural or social innovation.
9856.
by api 8y ago
... for now. Apple has the resources to do that if they want to. Google search actually kind of sucks. It just sucks less than the competitors. Its not just privacy but the lack of truly advanced features that I know Google has the plumbing
9857.
by api 8y ago
I've come to believe that privacy "by design" is impossible in the hyper-connected age. There are too many vectors for tracking, linking, and de-anonymization and software in general is too insecure. The only solution to the
9858.
by api 8y ago
In this case 64-bit IPv4 that gives every IPv4 a /32 and is backward compatible in some way e.g. looking like UDP to V4 hosts.
9859.
by api 8y ago
I don't think Lennon saw the dystopia in that. There's plenty of dystopia in a nationalistic world where everyone is embedded in local cultural reality tunnels too. Every political paradigm seems to turn into some kind of dystopia
9860.
by api 8y ago
Worth reading simply for the term "oligarchia." What we may very ironically be witnessing with the recent international populist uprising that seems in part aligned with certain trans-national oligarchical interests is the emergen
9861.
by api 8y ago
None of these ideas are new if you've studied evolution, ecology, economics, complexity, game theory, etc. All those fields are inter-related and study emergent behaviors like these. Unfortunately few CS people or other engineers have
9862.
by api 8y ago
I felt the same way when they sang Imagine at New Years 2019 in Times Square. America is still stuck in the mid 20th century.
9863.
by api 8y ago
Thanks. I've seen that too but never had a fitting term.
9864.
by api 8y ago
It constantly shocks me how many hackers worship Singapore. I know many. I mean it's not anywhere close to the worst place. It has a good economy and better rule of (incredibly strict) law than many. But I just find it shocking to see
9865.
by api 8y ago
I dunno... a travel warning about a country with over a million people currently in camps seems reasonable.
9866.
by api 8y ago
Looks like Greenland could export tons of power if we could do transoceanic superconducting cables. Wow.
9867.
by api 8y ago
Brewing? We have had a national housing crisis since the bubble around 2005 made housing unthinkable to a generation and then the crash destroyed those who did manage to wedge into an overpriced house. Since then we've reinflated to sa
9868.
by api 8y ago
... or because it's been years since anything new has appeared in the mobile world compelling enough to justify an upgrade?
9869.
by api 8y ago
It usually takes more than 20 years to go from lab bench to wide application.
9870.
by api 8y ago
This is shocking awful. Of course the tunnel is small. It's a demo/test tunnel. This is like arguing in 2007 that SpaceX is a dead end because the Falcon 1 is a small rocket.

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