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> I wouldn't call it crappy, it's actually quite brilliant.

I agree with you, I always thought that the Bitcoin algorithm was very clever and "mind opening" in a way. It's one of these things I'd never have thought about but almost seems obvious in hindsight. What's even more interesting is that basically all of it is pre-existing technology: HashCash, ECC, Merkle trees etc... Just combined together in a clever way to create something that's more than the sum of their parts.

Now where I become a naysayer is when we switch from the realm of intellectual curiosity and into the world of cryptocurrencies today. Being clever and innovative doesn't necessarily mean useful or valuable. We have plenty of clever ideas out there that don't have much of a practical use (or used to have one but are now obsolete). Duff's Device, sleep sort, the fast inverse square root, one instruction set computers, code golf and 4KB demos ...

I think I do understand the technological value of Bitcoin's PoW blockchain, I just think that its only practical use is for a tiny niche. It's the Prolog of consensus algorithms, I'm sure it'll be useful to some but I doubt it's going to be the new C++. You say that "It uses proof-of-work to establish consensus over points in time which are universally unique" and it's true but how useful or valuable is that? Is it such a huge problem in our modern society to agree on a sequence of events? Do you often program something and think "man, I wish that there was a way to establish a consensus over points in time which are universally unique" and 1/ there's no other simpler solution to achieve that and 2/ a blockchain could actually solve it? There's only a tiny gap between these two propositions.

But I think at this point talk is cheap and all that needs to be said about the blockchain has been said long ago and multiple times. How many billion of dollars has been poured into "blockchain" technology these past few years, in the form of pre-mined coins or ICOs? How many hundreds of engineers are working on those killer blockchain applications? How many high profile companies have boldly announced blockchain-related tech investments lately? So.... where are the results? How long do we wait for them until we decide that maybe it's not that revolutionary?
HTML isn't even chunks of code, it's a Markup Language. It is declarative in the same way that a TeX file is.
> the rough areas now are mostly lack of really thorough documentation and dealing with software that is not packaged for Nix

So basically the same problems as every other Linux distribution? Only AppImage doesn't work out of the box either.

The more things change the more they stay the same.
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How about glTF? It's a JSON based scene description which uses inline data or references to external binary files, with an option for a single binary "glb" data file.

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF/tree/master/specificati...
This is a wonderfully thought out and articulated counter-position. I applaud the thoughtfulness of your comment.

I agree with your statement that "cultural heritage is worth preserving, it needs non-market-driven measures to preserve it in some form". However, I think that given situations in which the choice between access to the market and the preservation of culture are fundamentally at odds with one another, access to the market must dominate. I think the downstream effects of the preservation choice are devastating and counterproductive. Let's take an extreme example, if 50% of a given, highly productive, landmass is marked as culture heritage, that would mean that suddenly the available supply to meet housing/commercial demands is now artificially constrained to the remaining half. If the supply does not adequately increase in density to meet this demand, prices shall no doubt increase and people will be priced out of that area. I think this is what is happening across a whole slew of cities across the US and is contributing to homelessness, increase in crime, loss of access to high quality education, etc.

I don't think that this is a zero-sum situation, nor that the example I just gave is the canonical experience. I'm just saying that if I was forced to make a tradeoff, I think the preservation of cultural heritage must be placed as a secondary (albeit very important) value.
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The TL;DR is:

- blockchain systems still need trust;

- security is not solved;

- blockchains are overhyped and most followers don't want it for the problems serious actors try to use it to solve.

- it has many issues (need for infra, require tech knowhow, etc)

I agree, but I still don't see how it's crapy tech, nor how it's a bad vision of the future.

You have an system that make auditing easier, with one place only for the data to be read and written and yet robust enough because of the duplication.

You have transactions logs tided to identities you can fake organised in a timeline in an open format that is not only very well documented, but being actively tested right now on the field.

You have hundreds of start up engage in a Darwinism race to find out which use case we can make that's worth it on the long run.

And finally, the tech has enough impact to force state actors to create new laws, financial actors to adapt and a huge amount of money to be invested by a lot of people.

So on one hand one very interesting concept. On the other hand, pretty much hate for the sake of hate.
Before responsive, plain HTML was already responsive. This is from a era where folks were trying to ruin that with tables (and succeeded here).
FTA, a take on entry/mid/senior level distinctions I haven't heard before:

"If you are the guy asking for help from people below, to your side, and above you, you’re probably an entry-level engineer. If you frequently need support from those above you (excluding C-level and executive support, that my friends are a whole new level of hell), there’s a good chance you are a mid-level engineer. If you find yourself supporting and being supported by those at your side, you are likely a senior or lead level engineer."
It doesn't have to be either or, the banking system of the future can be a mix of different technologies. Personally I see bitcoin(and friends) as the higher layers of a hierarchy used by humans to securely trade value. The 3rd record of account doesn't have to contain 100% of all transactions taken by it's holders, but when the transaction is big enough, or the values held by 2 parties is questionable because the time since either of them updated the 3rd record has been too long, then write to the blockchain. Most other transactions can be taken care of between the 2 parties without involving the chain at all, as long as in the future someone squashes all their transactions and writes to the public ledger, to prove they haven't cheated or made a mistake.
It's an interesting book but I think a lot of its theses have become less groundbreaking over the years. Agree with most of the other commenters that "The Dispossessed" was better
EDMS = Electronic Document Management System? Like source control? I honestly don't remember. These source files all have rcsid tags so probably we were using CVS? In our previous project (Ultima Underworld) our computers weren't even networked and I would go around grabbing floppies with changes from coworkers and merging their code into the master by hand.

Here are some of my Ultima Underworld stories:

https://dfan.org/blog/2011/02/20/the-dangers-of-self-modifyi...

https://dfan.org/blog/2011/02/21/ultima-underworld-bugs/

https://dfan.org/blog/2011/03/17/one-more-ultima-underworld-...
The original post states that he bought in early 2017, and sold in late 2017. That makes it clearly all short term capital gains.
I think this is getting into map vs. territory issues. This is certainly the domain of economics -- the particular simplifying model used by many economists does not appear to paint a complete picture.

By analogy, adapting a James Morrow quote: "Economics does have all the answers. The problem is that we don’t have all the economics".

Power and knowledge asymmetries are well within the domain that economics tries to encompass.
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Depend on what you mean by financial services. For example, no bank can beat crypto in price for remitting ~$1k to Southeast Asia within a couple of hours. I spent years as a digital nomad and there was no traditional fiat solution that came close.

I couldn't even find a traditional solution that beat crypto for converting ~$10k USD in the US to CAD in Canada (although I did have to write a script to do this via crypto and it sometimes took a few days for the markets to align favourably).

On the other hand, I highly doubt blockchain is going to beat banks at their main business of being a middleman between savers and borrowers.
Does anyone know of any similar artists who sing in Spanish? I've been trying to practice my Spanish lately, and it would be awesome to do that while listening to someone similar to Tom Lehrer.
> Ultimately, legal tools should be limited to problems they can solve. Fake news is not one of these problems.

False. Replace "fake news" with "false advertising", and there's ample precedent for how this might be achieved. We've got laws at both state and federal levels that make deceptive or misleading claims illegal, to protect consumers; protecting consumers of news media needn't be any more problematic constitutionally.
I just won a freedom of speech lawsuit against NYC for my startup VUGO. We do not want to make governmental entities the judges of what information is fact or opinion, because the government will pick winners and losers based on what benefits them.

The good news is that the judicial branch is in favor of protecting the 1st amendment in all it's forms (press, political, religious and commercial)

Although a strong 1st amendment means that the responsibility falls on the citizen.

Caveat Emptor...In other words the the consumer of media alone is responsible for checking the quality and suitability of information before a accepting something as fact.

We need to do a better job of helping people think critically, I don't know what the answer is, but I do know that government regulation of Free Speech is definitely NOT the answer having fought content-based censorship in NYC.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16737642

It actually seems like journals could benefit from the application of this technology.

So yes, you don't need a block chain to set these requirements, and if you're using a blockchain you don't need these requirements, _but_, a blockchain journal and these requirements would likely pair very well together, as they cover respective weak-points (centralized journals might only ensure the journal's publisher can replicate; decentralized journals have to have some kind of automated validation).

Buzzwords become buzzwords because there's something to them, after all.
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I drive a Nissan myself, but from the sounds of it it's about the same. LDW (just warning in my case), FEB + pedestrian/moving object detection, blind spot detection, intelligent/adaptive cruise control. (There's also a lane keeping system option called ProPilot, but I skipped out on that - I don't think I'd trust it in the regular rain anyway)

Anyway, my point is these things are common now, and while getting the full package might cost a premium, the more important parts (like FEB) are certainly becoming fairly standard.
The banks should step up and secure the average joe's private keys.
Guns in the US.
The overall median wage is misleading.

The median full-time wage is $50,000 per year. That's closer to $25 per hour.

If you include an 18 or 70 year old working a part-time job, you'll dramatically reduce that median income and present a false picture of true labor earning potential.
I think the designer's own words are a better summary of the problem solved:

http://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/11/

The magical thing is that you can actually know that the distributed system is consistent by how much work was performed.
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Even if that statement is true, that does not imply that the inverse is true--just because you're not hanging onto the past doesn't mean you won't always lose in the end.
HN seems to have a bipolar relationship with decentralization. It's all love until blockchain is mentioned. Then everyone thinks centralization is superior.
> /usr/bin/env

That won't work everywhere either as the location of 'env' is not a fixed standard either. Eg. In some *nix's its at /bin/env.
Unity scenes are stored as yaml in the project, and are only baked to binary for built executables.
First amendment: “Congress shall make _no_ law”

Second amendment: “A well regulated militia, being necessary [predicate] .... the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”

Your analogy kind of fails and also isn’t really related to the article, TBH.
Quotation marks are the magic here. 'Hooked' means hooked but also not hooked.
> That is what prevents the market from being efficient

The problem is, nobody really wants labor markets to be efficient. Efficient labor markets mean that we would pay workers the subsistence wages, because, why they should be paid more?

That's the thing, labor is not like other commodities, say apples or computers. You want to make the price of other commodities to be as low as possible, and everybody (all humans in society) wins. But for price of labor this is not true.
Courts have commonly treated advertising as less constitutionally protected than other forms of speech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_speech
I'm terrible at networking, and I feel it is the largest factor holding me back in my career. I have been coding off and on since I was 14, have a bachelors degree in IT, and have a year and a half of tech support experience, yet can't for the life of me get a job that pays over $25k.

Do you have any advice on how to get started networking? What do you feel most people bad at it lack?
Imagine a few different personas, such as investment banker, retail store owner, and soccer mom. Then complete the following sentence: I need a decentralized method of sending bits to other academic computers across the country so that I can ...
Funny they want NOTHING to do with slots so that customers can add in multiple video cards or other ML cards from nVidia or AMD.
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> To me, "manufacturing consent" is scarier.

I don't know about that. The way in which Fox News now makes policy by influencing that 'audience of one' is having a real and direct impact on the world far outside of the United States.

As for malice: I think that purposefully destroying your country in order to pocket some $ is far more malicious than shaping public opinion, even though of course I would much rather have that people would really take the time to educate themselves on the various issues and that we would all follow the Swiss model of Democracy - in my opinion the only country that currently gets it right.

That's a pipe dream given the degree to which people typically wish to invest in the political process but that's the thing to strive for, even if it takes another couple of decades to get there.

And in Switzerland the media are of a fairly high quality for much the same reason: the electorate is pretty smart there and very hard to dupe.
> And once you outsource the security you're no longer in a "trustless" state. The "trustless" pipe-dream (in the consumer use case) all sort of unravels from there for me.

I think the conclusion doesn't follow. An analogous solution is that traditional public-key cryptography (e.g. as implemented in TLS) is supposed to be trustless, but I haven't personally audited or even read any of the relevant code (e.g. TLS), so I'm "not in a trustless state". It doesn't follow that TLS is useless for me.
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>How do you decide what the appropriate level is, gut feeling?

I would keep raising it incrementally until inflation hits around 4-5%.

This is probably the simplest, most effective way of solving the income inequality problem. Minimum wage hikes cut in to the bottom line first and prices second. There's a lot of profit at the top that an just be redirected to the bottom by increasing the minimum wage - barely even affecting the middle classes.

>why are we devaluing the completed labor of the lowest wage classes?

So the value of their labor above and beyond which they are compensated for can be extracted and redistributed - mostly in the form of profits.

This is done via outsourcing (lowering the demand for domestic labor), austerity (e.g. leaving portland's pothole fixing to the anarchists) and slashing benefits like SNAP/ unemployment (lowering the negotiating leverage of workers).
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/revolutions/miscellany/paul...

> A winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Paul Krugman wrote in 1998, “The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in ‘Metcalfe’s law’—which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants—becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.”
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I'd rather not wait until I'm 'acutely deficient' before acting -- mildly deficient is good enough for me, especially given the concept of triage: metabolism prioritises certain processes over other still important processes according to intake of key nutrients. Hence recommended minimal amounts may be sub-optimal in various cases.

Also, given the increased tendency to ban and censor stuff nowadays, I want to help protect individual choice in this area. If medics have to prescribe them you know they'll be slow and 50X pricier.
Damn, those rates seem low to be honest. I live in a way cheaper city and my firm's rate ranges from $155 to $225 an hour. USD
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The part about accessibility resonates strongly. I've definitely worked with visual designers who worked as if their primary audience was comprised primarily of other visual design professionals.

News flash: they're not. They're regular people with a variety of aesthetic preferences, some of which you would abhor. And for some of them, the accessibility features that you find clunky or inelegant are critical for their ability to read and understand your website.
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It's about time, but at the same time there will be many more months of damage and it will at the present rate of destruction take multiple election cycles, maybe as much as decades before the damage is undone, assuming it will even happen.
yes, one of the strangest spelling rules. Not useful at all
Fake news is not a market failure, because there is a large and robust market for fake news. It's driven by our wishes, whims and dreams. To defeat it you'll have to start by defeating those.
I've been pretty clear about not advocating the Iraq war. We're not talking about particular wars. Unfortunately, you don't get to pick and choose every thing that a government does with its power. Power comes from strength. Strength comes from weapons. Not building weapons is abdicating power. Abdicating power empowers others. Who are those others? Do we want them to have power? I think the answer is pretty clearly no.
So, the logical conclusion would be that every citizen has the right to privately own state of the art nuclear missiles?
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I drive a manual transmission BMW. The shifting, and speed control can be as smooth as glass. It's the driver not the machine. Take consideration for your passenger, and everyone else on the road.
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> HTML is just a datastructure

Sure, that's a nice way to put it. If you remove data from it using its normal contract, of course it's bound to behavior reasonably well. If you go and take a linked list and start zeroing out random bits of a node's next pointer, of course it isn't going to work, and the same is true with HTML.
You've never seen static powerpoint slides uploaded to the linkedin slideshare site? Besides pdf files this is what I run into sometimes with physics and computational science presentations

https://www.slideshare.net/linkedin
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You know, paypal may well suck. I have never used it as a developer or a seller, but I really, really, like to have it as an option when I am purchasing something from some rinky dink website that doesn't look like it has been updated int 10 years.
> "Personally, this one blows my mind - it it still somehow not a core requirement of being a front end developer. It should be a core skill, the default on any frontend developers resume."

Not sure if I agree with this. Ideally, this would be the case, but the tooling and dominant platforms just aren't as mature as they would need to be to consider it a required core skill. Doing Accessibility work feels like doing CSS work back in the late 90s. The dominant target platform, JAWS, is just a horribly coded product. It kinda, sorta, handles ARIA attributes and it kinda, sorta, does the same thing each time a page is loaded, but then also doesn't.

And it's a very expensive tool. The "pro" version, which is the only version approved for dev work is $1100 (outside of the extended 90 trial for $179, I guess). Now consider that not only do your devs need copies, but so do your testers. And if they want to stay up to date, you're really looking more like $1100 + $550 a year. And, yes, there's other options, but since a lot of accessibility work is really more for lawsuit avoidance than anything else, not going with the industry standard isn't a wise choice.

And, after all of that, unless you work someplace with enough funds to properly test out your product with, you know, actual users with visual impairment, what qualifies as good accessibility is difficult to suss out. You can run automated tools, but they're just code linting tools, more or less, and really speak nothing to the user experience. How do you really test out the UI you've developed? If you close your eyes or cover the screen you still know exactly what it looks like.
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There needs to be a substantial governmental reason to restrict any liberties granted in the constitution.

For example, guns are not allowed in post offices for a substantial governmental reason.
This is actually one of the use cases I really like. I'll often deliberately add a question with an answer if I think it is something I'll use again in future and is not found somewhere else obvious on the web.
I don't think you read the article at all. This has nothing to do about LinkedIn or networking. You have to be seriously deluded to think that LinkedIn or any other social media company, as well as general networking is the way to defeat our massive levels of income inequality. You're essentially telling bootless people to pull up their bootstraps by making friends with executives and managers. It's not that simple, and condensing the problem into what you're talking about is ignorant at best.
Well, a vowel shift isn't that unusual, with english however, and 17 vowels, the regularisation of the spelling never happened (and would be difficult now as folks would have to agree on one prestigious pronunciation to be the standard).