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by sp527 9y ago
It's not even worth thinking of it as a currency until the volatility stabilizes, which may never happen. It's a store of value.
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by sp527 9y ago
The problem is trust: why would anyone trust anything other than THE third party guarantor, who has enough available capital and an established reputation for providing recourse? Would you ever trust some random, small-time agent to collate
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by sp527 9y ago
I think he was alluding to Multi-Level Marketing as well, which seems like an even more apt comparison.
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by sp527 9y ago
This happens surprisingly often when reasoning about blockchains: you start with some concern and follow the trail of logic to some form of necessary centralization. For example, when someone on Twitter raised the problem of collaterizing s
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by sp527 9y ago
I honestly thought this was a parody and kept scrolling in hope of a punchline :(
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Eroom's Law(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by sp527 9y ago|0 comments
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by sp527 9y ago
I'm not entirely sure if this is a joke or not. One of the fundamental functions of a bank is to increase the money supply by creating debt.
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by sp527 9y ago
Striking parallels to the issues farmers had with John Deere tractors [0] (they ended up hacking them). [0] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xykkkd/why-americ...
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by sp527 9y ago
In this respect, I think you should look at history as a function of the maximum potential global throughput of wealth transfer as opposed to a function of time. The past few decades look more like several millennia on that scale.
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by sp527 9y ago
I'm not saying we shouldn't try. Each individual person willing to help should do so. I'm saying more broadly that we're all probably at the mercy of an inescapable cycle that may not end until humanity is willing to coo
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by sp527 9y ago
There's a fascinating argument in 'The Lessons of History' that suggests we simply haven't accepted, as a species, that inequality is an inherent characteristic. We are quite purposely endowed with varying capabilities.
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by sp527 9y ago
> Blockchain is there to replace tons of industries Can you elaborate at all on what industries and how blockchain will supplant them? There's far too much handwaving in the mire of crypto-utopianism.
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by sp527 9y ago
Redis is a bad choice for locks. Should be using ZK or something else that provides consensus.
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by sp527 9y ago
If you're using Node.js as a stateless web server (the principle use case motivating its design), when are you reading files off the local disk other than in the initialization phase? What's the problem with applying the 'rig
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by sp527 9y ago
You do have to live with an intentionally light footprint. One thing a backpacker learns quickly is we don't really need that much stuff :) Subletting is a good option. Most leases in major cities are year-long so you could time it ar
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by sp527 9y ago
Yup that's true. Another possibility is taking a bit of a risk and securing the position upon returning. I know a bunch of people who have done that without issue. This might come at the cost of some career advancement, but I'm as
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by sp527 9y ago
One bit of advice. Traveling solo gets rough after a while (say 3-4 months) because of the loneliness factor. Easier to do in 'bursts' in my opinion. In fact, I think a model of going on sabbatical every 1 to 1.5 years or so makes
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by sp527 9y ago
What's the likelihood that ISPs will levy higher rates on bandwidth for things like Storj and Filecoin? This 'next-generation' model of enabling people to profit off of cheap/unlimited internet packages seems like a juic
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by sp527 9y ago
The original comment was written hastily. I clarified what I meant in a separate comment (my mistake for not editing the original): >>> Yea didn't phrase that correctly. What I really meant was it's largely the standard s
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by sp527 9y ago
Agreed. There's a serious problem of information density in content these days. Most publisher-driven content is almost intentionally sparse. It takes tremendous expertise to weld information with context in a way that doesn't fee
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by sp527 9y ago
Yes, that was misstated. What I meant was that chunking is a realization of the principle of focusing on concepts instead of facts since chunks are the residual output of knowledge acquisition that actually sticks in the long term.
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by sp527 9y ago
Yea didn't phrase that correctly. What I really meant was it's largely the standard stuff you come across if you spend a handful of hours browsing on the subject. But there is a convenience in having it all in one place and extra
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by sp527 9y ago
Adults are forced to be much more pragmatic and less volatile. Plus, most of us suffer from time scarcity. There's a specific pivot point in life wherein you shift from primarily a learner to primarily a producer and I think the shift
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by sp527 9y ago
Had to clean up my notes a bit. Can find those here: https://pastebin.com/JNbGxvpQ . Sorry about the formatting. There really wasn't a good way to retain the styling I had in the original that made this easier on the ey
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by sp527 9y ago
Took the course. A lot of it is cruft and motivation for the underlying core ideas. The techniques suggested are things many people are already familiar with: recall, deliberate practice, interleaving, spaced repetition, Einstellung, Pomodo
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by sp527 9y ago
Agreed about marketing and sales. I feel like the hacker mindset tends towards 'build it and they will come', with a ???? for the phase in between.
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by sp527 9y ago
That last point you make is very PGesque. IIRC, he wrote that the truly good problems exhibit pants-on-fire demand amongst a small number of people, and are therefore at first generally very niche. I think he even said there's usually
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by sp527 9y ago
This is a really great account and it sounds like the experience at least helped inform your outlook on life in a positive way. Thanks!
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Ask HN: When and why did you give up on starting a company?
9 points by sp527 9y ago|6 comments
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by sp527 9y ago
> It's fine to be skeptical of course, and to be very skeptical of direct "hacking the election" (whatever that means) claims. It means hacking provably vulnerable voting systems [1] at a small number of polling locations

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