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by kalverra 3y ago
Agreed it's crazy, but it's a good political move. Everyone agrees we should ban it, but no one wants the blame because you'll have a huge amount of teenagers and young adults who will blindly hate you for it. So if you'
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by kalverra 3y ago
Nate Silver did a nice write up on the probability and implications of all this here: https://open.substack.com/pub/natesilver/p/why-the-political... When Biden passes this bill (which he said he would), I ca
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by kalverra 3y ago
Chainlink has solved this. Worth taking a look if you're still interested in this sort of thing.
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by kalverra 3y ago
I'm late to the party, but CGP Grey has an excellent video detailing the flaws of how SSNs are utilized. https://youtu.be/Erp8IAUouus?si=KzjB2v3bimLE79Ny
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by kalverra 3y ago
He does do that from time to time. Most of his stuff is pretty deep in the weeds and decision trees of specific Ethereum implementations (e.g. this article), but occasionally he'll have one that's more legible to a wider audience.
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by kalverra 3y ago
Vitalik's audience is primarily people who are deep into blockchains and Ethereum. Plenty of good content is out there for freshman level info, he's more for your senior year.
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by kalverra 3y ago
Unless it's some shitcoin with 0 trading volume, no chance. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and plenty of other currencies handle that volume daily with no issue.
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by kalverra 3y ago
I was expecting something like advice to avoid distraction, but found the author just as distracted as I constantly am. Not only by his own admission, but the piece itself just weaves in and out of his main point, taking as many detours as
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by kalverra 3y ago
Pretty much. Essays are a great medium for this style, I think of them like a curated conversation almost. You've organized your thoughts in a way that you could present them to a friend in polite conversation; you're trying to co
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by kalverra 3y ago
As a WVU grad who grew up there: ya, pretty much. Outside of some select towns and cities, WV is poor as shit, and it's only getting worse. Lots of abandoned towns, homelessness, and very few jobs. Even when coal mining was big, it was
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by kalverra 3y ago
This is sad to see as a WVU CS grad. WVU is pretty much the only place to go outside of Marshall and some teeny tiny schools if you're in WV. I suspect a lot of this has to do with bad management by Gee and admin bloat, but the state i
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by kalverra 3y ago
My freshman year at WVU was the year Gee took over as president. That was definitely his thing to ingratiate himself to the students. The whole frost couple weeks he would go up and down frat row, and through all the big house parties and s
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by kalverra 3y ago
PG has some real bangers, unfortunately this is not one of them. Feels like he's just sucking himself (and a couple YC peeps) off the whole time without providing a whole lot of insight.
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by kalverra 3y ago
Not specifically computers, but if you want a very deep dive into the creation of the internet (including some bits about the earliest computers) The Dream Machine is a great, and extensive look at the history of the internet through the le
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by kalverra 3y ago
In the case of Celsius, this seems like one of those a case of starting with good intentions, but quickly turning into fraud city in desperate attempts to keep the boat afloat. For the more run-of-the-mill crypto scammers, there's a co
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by kalverra 3y ago
Boy oh boy, made a couple big oofs in this one: http://thebear.org/essays2.html#anchor506009 Called global warming, hole in the ozone, and "your car causes smog" as grand modern myths, while also proclaiming himse
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by kalverra 3y ago
Well part of the issue is that there are a lot of RCs (Research Chemicals) that dealers often try to pass off as LSD, but are really slight tweaks on the chemical. They tend to be much easier and cheaper to make, so the street market is flo
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by kalverra 3y ago
> Grateful Dead soundman Owsley “Bear” Stanley synthesized “the purest form of LSD ever to hit the street This is pretty crazy. LSD isn't Meth, you can't just grab a couple things from Home Depot and get to work in your bathroo
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by kalverra 3y ago
> My understanding is that they use NFTs on the Ethereum chain for authentication Your understanding is imperfect. You use your private key on Ethereum to authenticate, not an NFT. It does seem like certain NFTs gate access to different
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by kalverra 3y ago
I went to WVU where we have still actively use the PRT system built in the 70s. It's the school's main system of transport, and when it worked, it was pretty great. When I was there, it was infamously unreliable, but supposedly th
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by kalverra 3y ago
This is great! I enjoyed the breakdown of the ATS logic you use. Did you look at how others like Lever use ATS and replicate that? Or was this a green field build?
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by kalverra 3y ago
They're referring to DMCA compliance. Basically, if you're hosting a site where people can post videos, images, text, etc. You have to accept the possibility that someone will try and post every Disney movie in full on there. And
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by kalverra 3y ago
I'm confused why people hold him in any esteem. Is it just because he's a maverick? Cause you can find better ones. It's like when people mourned John McAfee like he was some great martyr; there are better rebels to attach yo
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by kalverra 3y ago
Well that's a real bummer, one of my top 3 authors, and the only one that was still alive.