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871.
by gonehome 5y ago
I really try to resist being drawn into flame bait. > "Remember the golden rule of blockchain: except in the case of regulatory arbitrage, grift and crime, if you think a blockchain is a better solution to a problem than any classic
872.
by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah - it's quite frustrating because dumb knee-jerk responses like what we saw on HN make it harder to push back on actual bad policy. Another recent one was the Covid bluetooth exposure notifications that were cleverly designed in a
873.
by gonehome 5y ago
I wasn't missing it - that part is implied by the meat of the bit I quoted. The point is to keep in mind that just because people are laughing doesn't mean you're a genius, but people do also mock people doing great things.
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by gonehome 5y ago
> “ By constraining it to transfer of an intermediate representation you're not making a good faith representation of the process.” Yeah, I’m betting on the future utility enabled by the tech, not what it can do right now. Similarly
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by gonehome 5y ago
Maybe it’s better outside of America. I still see the crypto tech being more capable long term, but the ux is still in its infancy.
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by gonehome 5y ago
> “ That doesn't mean Enron was a sound company.” You’re right of course, my point was not that cynicism is always false, but that people are cynically dismissive about everything so it holds zero signal. It’s basically the Sagan qu
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by gonehome 5y ago
I think the art is the wrong thing to focus on. The more novel piece is a ticket to community membership and a way to align incentives within that community. It can take the form of art, but doesn't really have to. That said, yeah regu
878.
by gonehome 5y ago
Yep agreed, and other underlying applications (NFTs as evidence of group membership or ownership that can be easily owned and transferred, an auditable historical record) have a lot of value. The ability to hold decentralized state is a res
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by gonehome 5y ago
The irony is the CSAM measures they were doing may have enabled them to encrypt the iCloud iMessage backups since they’d still be able to help the feds with CSAM. Instead everything remains unencrypted.
880.
by gonehome 5y ago
It was only when upload to iCloud was enabled which is functionally equivalent to a check on server (and enables future roll out of encrypted content on the sever). The CSAM issue was mostly misunderstood by HN imo.
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by gonehome 5y ago
Sure, it’s when it’s hard that principles actually count for anything. Anyone can have “principles” when it’s also easy to have them. Someone should mention that to Ray Dalio.
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by gonehome 5y ago
Corporations are made up of people and people can make decisions despite incentives to behave otherwise. I’d argue Zuckerberg did this in his Georgetown speech [0]. Recently the head of the woman’s tennis association did too when pulling ou
883.
by gonehome 5y ago
Yes - Palantir was born out of 9/11. The idea being that US institutions need software that actually works and has tight controls around PCL. Otherwise more attacks will happen and the reflexive response will be an increase in author
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by gonehome 5y ago
It’s also about a defense of the west and western liberalism over China and the CCP authoritarianism. It’s Google leadership capitulating to the (imo naive) politics of its workforce to not work with the USG, while continuing to support the
885.
by gonehome 5y ago
I can’t go into it, but this is a misunderstanding of what Palantir does.
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by gonehome 5y ago
I think these things have a corrupting influence on the principles of the company over time: https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/06/13/zoom-in-china.html It's better to figure out an exit (imo) than co
887.
by gonehome 5y ago
> "why would the Chinese middle class have grown so much while the American middle class shrank?" Going through an industrial revolution has impressive growth effects that can cover up a lot of bad stuff. We'll see what ha
888.
by gonehome 5y ago
Ah I didn't realize this was a daily one (I subscribe) - he does a mixture of free and not free. I think the subscription is worth it though.
889.
by gonehome 5y ago
Apple’s approach to China remains the most disappointing (and hypocritical) thing about the company. When privacy really matters for the users that need it most, Apple sells them out for continued access to the Chinese market. https:/
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by gonehome 5y ago
It's also phonetically recognizable and distinct. It's one of the reasons you have to say "Hey Google" or "Hey Siri", but you're able to just say "Alexa" I find Siri the worst one for that, it of
891.
by gonehome 5y ago
It was clear to me he meant prior to taking the psychedelics.
892.
by gonehome 5y ago
It reduces infection risk on exposure substantially which translates to being less likely to spread (since you’re less likely to contract the disease in the first place). Once infected you’re right (at least last I read) that you still shed
893.
by gonehome 5y ago
Though in this case I suspect more was better. At least that’s my hypothesis for why moderna vaccine immunity held up better against delta than Pfizer
894.
by gonehome 5y ago
I think immune response doesn’t necessarily work that way. It’s possible the third shot could improve immunity for a longer time frame of 1-3yrs. I think I read there is also a new omicron specific mRNA vaccine in the works too.
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by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah, but it'll only drive prices up if supply is constrained. Land is scarce so there will always be some constraints in highly desirable areas, but today we're way way below what the land can support because of bad policy.
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by gonehome 5y ago
This is only an issue because of constrained supply driving prices up. If there was more supply, prices would stabilize somewhere lower. Given enough supply that point would be somewhere one income could support. It's the constrained s
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by gonehome 5y ago
This is surprising to me given the rubber tips - have you tried the other sizes?
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by gonehome 5y ago
I think it’s more of a subtle shift that that? Tech enables people to maintain communities digitally over distance and self select into ones they match with on metrics better than just location. This has pros and cons. The con is people use
899.
by gonehome 5y ago
I think it can be. What people “want” is sometimes constrained by what they think is possible.
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by gonehome 5y ago
There was another really good one on HN a while back about a husband doing research to try to save his wife from FFI. This was it and seems relevant: http://www.cureffi.org/2019/04/29/financial-modeling-in-rar

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