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by gonehome 5y ago
The new bit is trivial public lookup and membership transfer without relying on a central data store or authority. That is a new capability and allows for new things.
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by gonehome 5y ago
I’m biased because I work at Tlon, but I think using low, but non-zero cost IDs for urbit auth is a really good way to do it and makes handling spam easy. For what it’s worth, I joined Tlon because of conviction in what is being built (not
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by gonehome 5y ago
There’s an active market, but it’s mostly winner takes all and ones that establish a brand/community (helped by the tokens gating access to merchandise or events). Also good when token includes IP. BAYC/MAYC is the biggest, milady
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The Upstairs/Downstairs Dichotomy(obscuredinosaurfacts.com)
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by gonehome 5y ago
> “So we are actually paying more” I suspect this is false and the ads and tracking enabled by smart TVs are instrumental in getting the price down . Price sensitivity on TVs I suspect is one of the main drivers of this. Still, I think
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by gonehome 5y ago
It’s exaggerated, but I did live with housemates in Palo Alto for my entire twenties because of housing costs. You’re hardly a poor college student, but you don’t have the same standard of living as friends in the Midwest that have their ow
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by gonehome 5y ago
This account has submitted 3 articles from this same paywalled site within the last 24hrs. Two of which have climbed up HN recently based on the headline alone. Maybe not spam, but at least suspicious? Poverty is a lot of things, but one in
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by gonehome 5y ago
HN’s audience is massive, global, and all on one board. This is pretty unusual. It also means there’s a lot of variety of ideas and opinions, but generally a unifying thread of curiosity. Still, the median view is often lame or mediocre, es
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by gonehome 5y ago
I think probably the latter. HN median has an anti-crypto bias, headlines that align with that are more likely to get reflexively upvoted.
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by gonehome 5y ago
There’s really not that much road noise in a lot of cities unless you live near a couple of particularly busy streets.
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by gonehome 5y ago
It does sound ridiculous but I’ve lived in DC, London, and SF now and all were quieter than the suburbs I’ve lived in. Mostly because of lawn stuff and garbage pickup. Also probably a factor that I’ve been in new city buildings with good in
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by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah - the joke is people say they move to suburbs to get 'peace and quiet' compared to a loud city, but city life is so much quieter (at least where I live). I'm sure that's not always the case, but I really hated the l
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by gonehome 5y ago
I find by far the biggest disruption in US suburbs is lawn equipment. Suburbs are louder than cities imo because there is always a leaf blower, lawn mower, and weedwacker going at all times during the day within 100 yards of you. Often for
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by gonehome 5y ago
[Edit] previous comment was edited to just be an attack. My response is for what was there before. I said “young person” which remains true and never said or implied forced. The pre-surgery stuff starts before 18. Your vitriol is an example
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by gonehome 5y ago
[Edit] Previous comment was modified to just be a straight up attack, kind of proving the heresy point. Eh you can be pedantic about terminology and use it to dismiss me entirely if you want, but I think you’re wrong about this: https:&#x2
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by gonehome 5y ago
It changed my mind because what I thought was a strawman is actually what some large group turned out to be arguing. Initially, I thought people were arguing that despite biological sex, there is a subset of people that feel like they shoul
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by gonehome 5y ago
I'd push back on 3 - I thought it was about gender and sex was a strawman, but the Lia Thomas stuff changed my mind. There are people arguing about sex in such a way that doesn't make sense, has substantial 'heretical risk&#x
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by gonehome 5y ago
David Shor’s firing is the common example since it’s the most egregious case (getting fired for retweeting a black professor's paper arguing riots are bad for black political movements). See: https://www.theatlantic.com&#x2F
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by gonehome 5y ago
Ah I understand - you’re commenting more on strategy around being able to get through to someone when a core value is in conflict with what may be true. Yeah, on that I agree - requires more deft communication skills. I think you can still
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by gonehome 5y ago
Sure you can? Someone can be affected by things and still end up with false beliefs. It’s possible to still be kind to someone and argue a belief they hold is wrong. What’s true can be in conflict with deeply held beliefs (and often is). Pa
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by gonehome 5y ago
I agree - I also think this post does a nice job getting into it: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WQFioaudEH8R7fyhm/local-vali... Main relevant bit copied below. ### “ The game-theoretic function of law can make f
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by gonehome 5y ago
That small minority seem to have disproportionate power (at least in the case of Lia Thomas). I’m not sure how small it is and I don’t want to enable it. There are people forcing/pressuring participation in the public display of pronou
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by gonehome 5y ago
I think a lot of users dropped it after brantly.eth was an ass.
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by gonehome 5y ago
I don’t do it because I think most of the time it’s more about signaling political affiliation than actually solving a problem. It also tends to then extend to things like pretending there are no sex differences and that everything is socia
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by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah, I think that’s the joke. The skull is being irritating bringing it up so he hits it into the water. Basically “yeah I know what I said, but fuck it”
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by gonehome 5y ago
https://zalberico.com/ I have a couple posts that I wrote when I felt like I had something to say. I link the serfs and zoom one here pretty frequently in comments when I think the arguments are relevant. How to Become a Ha
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by gonehome 5y ago
Your comment was more than about the macro level. > "You can't express yourself on Twitter due to the character limit, so all you can do is witty superficial takes. Threading and replies are a disaster making a structured discu
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by gonehome 5y ago
Twitter is what you make of it. It has some bad incentive issues that lead to outrage and dumb hostile retweets driving increased engagement/follower count, but it's also possible to just ignore and block all of that stuff. You ca
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by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah - it's a tradeoff. They need that information to actually carry out the service you're requesting of them (namely going around to all these shitty data brokers and going through their intentionally arduous processes to reques
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by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah - this kind of thing makes me think I might benefit from it. I get a very positive response to coffee (reducing anxiety, helps reduce compulsive tics, increased focus). My skepticism is that I suspect everyone shares the benefits you d

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