artfulhippo

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by artfulhippo 6y ago
Ya there is an asymmetry for sure. If you already know about projects deep down the rabbit hole, you can go to their website/github/chain explorer/chat and do your own research. But if you don’t know anything except that bitc
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by artfulhippo 6y ago
The missing concept is trust. Blockchains are ideally trustless. Media brands are trustful. In a high-trust environment, a mention is an implied endorsement. If the Atlantic wanted to mention a blockchain project without encouraging their r
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by artfulhippo 6y ago
The Atlantic is an institution with a storied history and strong reputation. The blockchain is a wild west known for (at best) overpromising and underdelivering and (at worst) pump-and-dumps, fraud, and black-hat hacking. If they mention a
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by artfulhippo 6y ago
Your tech bubble mentality is leaking. Passionate feelings aren’t solutions. To date, Ethereum and IPFS have yet to provide value to regular people. The blockchain/DLT space is focused on financial infrastructure, and until scaling is
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by artfulhippo 6y ago
I loved Max Wang’s point that Facebook has chosen to focus on political engagement over social engagement. Like many people who used FB early, I remember when it was more about friends than allies (and opponents). Facebook profits massively
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by artfulhippo 6y ago
I may not be the target demo (I’m a solo founder) but I would never give another company my schedule to analyze and optimize. My time is my most valuable asset as a human and an entrepreneur, and I believe that for anyone intent on success,
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by artfulhippo 6y ago
If you're maximally interested in doing the job, you would ask questions to learn details that will accelerate your onboarding into your productive role and culture of the firm. Also, if you are unaware of the norm that asking question
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by artfulhippo 6y ago
If you’re not an ally, you’re not an ally.
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by artfulhippo 6y ago
How do you cope knowing that people inherit money from their parents? How do you cope knowing that people win the lottery? How do you cope knowing that janitors often work harder than landlords?
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by artfulhippo 6y ago
The Oculus Quest still has serious flaws in screen resolution, input latency, and controller ergonomics. It’s literally painful for me to use it. I get eye strain, a headache, and sore thumbs. VR is clearly useful but before it becomes main
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by artfulhippo 6y ago
Stimulation. Same reason people drink coffee and tea. Except for me, nicotine is way more effective.
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by artfulhippo 6y ago
I'm sorry, this book really doesn't speak to the reasons why I smoked (cognitive stimulation, social connection, a reason to take a break). I'm glad it's help other people but it feels out-of-touch in exactly the way tha
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by artfulhippo 6y ago
Smoking is clearly not healthy. But I wish the benefits of nicotine were more widely known and discussed. I smoked from age 16 to 23 and now I'm 27. I've had cravings for the stimulation that I miss for the last 4 years. I expect
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
Counterpoint: I think the typography is wonderful and highly readable as is.
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
The idea that a government could benefit sounds weird to me. I think of benefiting as requiring a subjective personal experience. When you fix your car, does your car benefit? When you remodel your house, does your house benefit? In my mind
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
This is a good test of capabilities, but not of humanity. A normal human response to such an order would be "f * off".
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
Meditation is great but this post is just an ad for a software subscription service.
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
Interesting work. How is MSL related to the concept of version control/revision control? I didn't see any reference to (centralized or decentralized) VCS, but that seems highly relevant to MSL.
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
No, its actually insane to take every written statement at its word.
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
>Private and Secure It’s as private as your email...which probably means not private. Like most people, I depend on an advertising company to host my emails. But I wouldn’t share my private diary with them.
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
I would love to use it but I wouldn’t pay. I hope you continue development but I understand if you don’t, since it’s hard to compete with many free alternatives.
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
Suspensions are not a punishment for most of the kids who get suspended (troublemakers). Troublemakers, mostly boys, are kids who will not silently sit still. It's easy to blame the parents of these children for their lack of disciplin
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
This was previously linked (e.g. [0]), but it didn’t get any attention, so I reposted it with a ‘more interesting’ title. Hope that’s acceptable, because I’m interested in learning more about this network architecture. Is a vpn mesh — if em
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Nebula mesh: a peer-to-peer VPN by Slack(arstechnica.com)
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
I don’t totally disagree with your criticism of Debord or other French pomo obscurantists. But there is some irony to complain on a coding forum that someone used language in a way that’s hard to appreciate without extensive experience in t
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
Cool. And good thing you open sourced it now, before you built failover strategies (e.g. supervision) — you still have time to change the name.
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
For me, it's hard to learn by making useless things. Without any impact for users, I have no motivation to make correct design decisions.
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
> Collison: when we sort of talk about the phenomenon of “progress,” you know, I think GDP or GDP per capita is a pretty good first approximation measure of it and it correlates strongly —— I got confused when Collison said that there wa
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
Haskell is extremely complex, and that’s the point: to isolate complexity at the language level, where safe patterns can be researched, developed, and then scaled out to arbitrary applications. Please call this “Towards a simple Haskell web
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
Awesome. Now who wants to make a hypercomplex numbers library (quaternions, Clifford, Cayley-Dixon...) in Swift?

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