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by nemild 8y ago
At the time, all the pundits thought it ($1 BN) was insane. They'd compare revenue and time since founding to acquisition price, and used it to dismiss the Silicon Valley bubble.
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There are still downstream effects with this. Exchanges, financial products on top, all have to deal with this. And this also goes against decentralization.
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So far, we have a long way to go to build higher quality code. There's a few reasons: 1. Blockchain smart contracts are often unchangeable, so you can't fix bugs 2. The language is being built as people write code, with some bad d
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by nemild 8y ago
I think there's a fair bit of nuance to the story. I wrote a three-part series on it: https://www.nemil.com/mongo/ Personally, I think that usability shouldn't be the primary decision criteria in a database f
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This is great! Added to my media literacy guide: https://github.com/nemild/hack-an-engineer/commit/3d8091960e...
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But even Dang is just a single person. We really need to design systems (social networks) that encourage this type of thoughtful debate. Right now, all the incentives in social media are around "engagement" (upvotes, likes, retwee
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by nemild 8y ago
There is not often a monolithic "HN", but instead a group of people who decide to engage or not based on the subject matter. We need more media literacy around HN and Reddit. You just need a few users to upvote something, and peop
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by nemild 8y ago
I've lived through a few eras, where open and/or decentralized systems were expected to win (Internet, crypto today). For most users, the critical things are usability and utility, not decentralization. If we care about decentrali
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Agreed, but see my edit. The problem is that readers will see heavy coverage as "this is important" and I should be worried about this. For example, after 9/11, 1k more Americans died in car crashes, because they decided not
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by nemild 8y ago
I think another way is to train readers to understand the issues, and over decades, change the incentives faced by media. Or for us to push back on the incentives that social networks set for media outlets. I wrote a media literacy guide fo
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Absolutely, but many people use this news coverage to then make decisions. Statistically, this is crazy. Like Rosling, the point is that we need to understand why the media covers things the way it does.
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by nemild 8y ago
Hans Rosling's work is famous for pointing out how media incentives, statistical illiteracy, and our preconceptions give us a flawed sense of the world. In the vein of Hans Rosling, I've done add'l research on media coverage
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I really like the succinctness of that. I wrote a lot of words, to say the same.
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I think it's a more complex picture. I did my own deep dive after years of reflecting on this: Inside the Bubble at Facebook "Management will laud what employees do, show them selective facts that justify their views, and hire
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by nemild 8y ago
I made a list of a good set of commands for a full stack engineer: https://github.com/nemild/cli_for_full_stack
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Like many tech executives, Ev's view is that it's up to users to demand more from social media algorithms and tech products: > But he is not convinced that the problems with social platforms can ever be fully solved, nor does h
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by nemild 8y ago
A tweet from Princeton's Professor Arvind Narayanan on this announcement: First Microsoft, now Google. Sends a message to researchers choosing between academia and industry that your work will be valued in the industry only if it'
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by nemild 8y ago
The visual image I like is that we're all puppets influenced by the media sources we consume. Each media source is shaped by its business model — and other goals, which gives us a (statistically) biased view of the world (e.g., social
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by nemild 8y ago
I'll respectfully disagree. Financial incentives influence everyone, including the editors at top publications who are constantly looking at what is read, watched, and shared to decide what to invest in and feature. You might really li
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by nemild 8y ago
I've been actively working on a media literacy guide for engineers, contributions welcome: https://github.com/nemild/hack-an-engineer (Think Reddit influences so much of engineering thought from things like r&#x2F
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How to Hack an Engineer(nemil.com)
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by nemild 8y ago
This is awesome! You might really like All the News That's Fit to Sell which is a deep dive into the media economics behind why things are covered — it gives lots of color for why coverage is the way it is (there's a famous journa
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by nemild 9y ago
But if it's an entitlement to a % of profits, then it is much more like equity.
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by nemild 9y ago
Feel free to send me your email and Github. I talk to a few Ethereum teams and can ask around.
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by nemild 9y ago
I hear this argument a lot, and let me just make one point: Human nature is really shapeable — and we (as a former product manager in this space) designed algorithms and product experiences to maximize certain outcomes that benefit social n
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by nemild 9y ago
For anyone interested, I'm always open to PRs for the "Media Literacy for Engineers" doc I put together: https://github.com/nemild/hacking-engineers Examples like this are what I include, about how third
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What we learned from auditing the top 20 ERC20 token contracts(blog.cryptofin.io)
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Bskt: a smart contract for creating decentralized token portfolios(blog.cryptofin.io)
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by nemild 9y ago
If useful, I wrote a media literacy guide for engineers that touches on a lot of things discussed in this thread: Hacking Engineers and Engineering Media https://github.com/nemild/hack-an-engineer
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by nemild 9y ago
That's a great point, I'll make it clear in the intro that it is for both. I wrote it initially for engineers, but then kept finding examples in other fields. For engineers, you can read part 3 in my MongoDB series ("The Mark

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