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You can see the state (volume, # daily users) of some of these promised "dapps" here: https://dappradar.com . It is indeed a barren wasteland. And when a new popular ICO comes along, the Ethereum network struggles and fees skyrocket.

It's weird because people compare it to the early days of the Internet... but the early Internet was useful from its beginning: you could at least send messages and files across the network, which was incredibly useful to academia and the military and was orders of magnitude more efficient than any alternative.

Now, all we see is rampant fraud and a complete disregard for the environment [0] with no gain in efficiency. It's high time we hold "crypto-anarchists" accountable for these issues.

[0] The Ethereum network consumes more electricity than Iceland https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption
I'm not surprised. ICO investors are crazy and ignorant. If they thought straight, they wouldn't invest at all.
I see you've spotted the flaw with this argument :)
So if you think all these things, why do you feel a need to convince us we're wrong? I mean, does your blarf just not embiggen the point yule's trying to make? I mean, depending on what you might think I instoll with a breem like 'your blarf'.

I do agree that it all glarps like slofting ar a six year old.
I’m pretty sure Marc invented the phrase so he gets to define it: https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part4.html
That's worthy of a blog post in its own right.
I don't know who this group or person is, but their "knowledge" of what they're talking about is tenuous at best, seemingly obtained from mediocre pop physics books. This is essentially empty garbage.
What if we make a currency where each ICO is one coin?
Letting people go didn’t get us to profitable. Massively increasing the ad inventory did.
IANAL, but from what I can tell, unions tend to be organized primarily to protect workers, not the general public. Refusing to do unethical work is usually legally protected (e.g., by whistleblower laws), so your union representation can help you out (they have lawyers, and experience dealing with labor law) but it's not necessarily their main purpose.
Indeed, it seems to be a nice business niche: charge a large premium for on-demand services, just hoping that clients are actively irrational in not re-evaluating their needs. Basically, you are betting they are too lazy to be moving over to a better baseline offer. Better: you can encourage this lazyness with lock-in, like Amazon does!!

That being said, cloud hosting is also funny in a different way: it reminds me of the late 90s, when you had to declare your hostname and use a ftp account to upload your files to your host.
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A downside of constantly electing dirty politicians.
I kinda disagree, they are left in the middle or take up a third of shared paths like the Burke-Gilman all of the time. Maybe we just gave up complaining?
The issue was never licensing. The issue was that he chased after margins and not market share.
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Right, but at that point, what's the difference between an ICO and a security? If I was an investor, why would I want to go into an ICO vs traditional means?
I worked as a charger - made $11k in a month. Only had a month until SF shut them down. I imagine payouts will get compressed as the market matures. Earnings are also highly dependent upon the scooter density of the area you service and the amount of charger competition in that area.
I never worked for Intel but they were clients for a number of years and I wrote an in-depth strategic analysis of them at one point.

"Toxic" seems a poor choice of phrase based on everything I've seen. Boring--which is to say very heavily into process in all things--is perhaps apropos.

Their biggest issue was projecting x86 into everything. Either by assuming they had the ability to push ecosystems into existence by dint of being Intel (see WiMax) or by inventing essentially non-reasons why x86 would succeed in areas like mobile (Flash will run better if it's the same architecture as desktop).
Is there some reason why there are so many F35 articles on HN recently? Is there an anniversary coming up or an appropriations bill? Is someone shorting Lockheed Martin?
No, it does not know that, or anything else about "ImageNet"

http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?c=8&sub=Change&o2...
There could be a good blog post in that? Planning to do right by your employees, even when times are hard.

(Also, I can't imagine what it'd be like for jobs to be easy to find!)
A nice snarky reply.

But I would put $10 down that if I asked you to assert that all medical software in current use that has never killed a patient because of its software issues is therefore "correct", you'd walk back hard. You'd have to be crazy to assert that all such software is "correct".

Unless you are willing to make that assertion, you don't really mean that as a definition.

This is also an example of what I mean in my cousin message about the temptation to turn this into a discussion about attention-grabbing bugs. But my framework already encompasses that. Software that kills patients is software very high on the costs side. There's a complicated discussion to be had about how to exactly quantify probabilities of failure vs. cost, but you can't have that discussion if you're stuck in a "correct or not correct" mindset.
Note that this is a small block of land. The article describes Quayside as "a dozen acres". 12 acres would make a square with side lengths of ~1/8th mile. About 2 blocks in Manhattan. I think $50 million is about the right amount for a handful of new buildings. The artistic render is useful to get a sense the scale involved.
Interesting, I wasn't thinking about that. Thanks
One thing I didn't see in the article:

As well as setting breakpoints, one can trigger the debugger by including the statement

debugger;

in a script. Then, having the Dev Tools console open when that statement executes will automatically hop you into the debugger with access to variables in scope, etc. Easier IMO than manually setting breakpoints, especially when working with some transpiled languages.
> Various people assign the ‘toxic’ label to various things. What may be ‘meh’ for one person could be ‘toxic’ to another.

So in your view, does toxic culture have shared meaning or not?
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Is there legit money to be made in ICOs without running a fraud?
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> Peer to peer protocols on mobile is a great way to achieve horrible bandwidth, even worse latency and excellent battery drain.

Is there some purely technical reason why this is the case, or is it mostly that nobody has bothered to make this efficient/fast?
If you have time, do you think you could edit the article to make the intent of that paragraph a little more clear? Right now it reads a bit tone-deaf, and the timeline is ambiguous.
It's also possible to change the value of these variables and test different code paths.
It's not really an argument to stop either.
From the OP's article:

> Asphalt is heated to a temperature of 170C (338F). Shredded plastic below 70 microns (including the multi-layer plastic shreds) is then sprinkled over it. The bits of plastic seemingly disappear, melting into the red heat.
If this can be generalized to "<Anyone> Needs to Stop <Saying> Things He Can’t Prove" nobody would be able to say things like "God exists." or "God doesn't exist." (because you can't prove this) and similar.
I think you get my point, though. Amnesty for rule violations does not discourage future violations. "Everyone's cheating on emissions testing and there's no penalty" isn't going to dissuade anyone from cheating on emissions testing.

You can compare it to "you are allowed to murder anyone you want, as long as you confess afterwards" and see that that's not the best public policy if your goal is to reduce murders.
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It's weird because people compare it to the early days of the Internet... but the early Internet was useful from its beginning: you could at least send messages and files across the network, which was incredibly useful to academia and the military and was orders of magnitude more efficient than any alternative.

How is running an ICO not useful to people? Get lot of money with only doing a lousy whitepaper, drive ferrari and live luxury life rest of your life. No joking, many people can't imagine anything better.
I thought they're called the "greater fools"
I would say that the last one places correctness first.

BTW, the quote is usually attributed to Einstein, but it seems he did't say it.
Back in his collection All the Myriad Ways, Larry Niven wrote a brief essay called "The Theory and Practice of Time Travel" that explored ideas like these. One excerpt:

> GIVEN: That the universe of discourse permits both time travel and the changing of the past.

> THEN: A time machine will not be invented in that universe.

> For, if a time machine is invented in that universe, somebody will change the past of that universe. There is just too much future subsequent to the invention of a time machine: too many people with too many good motives for meddling with too many events occurring in too much of the past.

thus

> Niven's Law: If the universe of discourse permits the possibility of time travel and of changing the past, then no time machine will be invented in that universe.
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, you seem to agree with me, with the exception of you thinking geography doesn't matter.

I'd disagree with your idea that geography doesn't matter. I would have more confidence in an ICO in the US than I would in say China where it can be hard to sue someone and collect your damages if you win.

but if you really feel geography doesn't matter then please share your argument for this, I'm ready to learn!!
Why would anyone issuing an ICO want this? Even if you're not a scammer, why would you want the community to be able to block your funding due to unforeseen circumstances?
For transpiled languages: if you set up source maps correctly, you can access the non-transpiled language and the devtools will set up rules on the correct places (in this case, breakpoints, which also jump automatically to the original source instead of the transpiled version)
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Smart contracts don't work because they require all the funds to be held in escrow. So if I see the need to release $50 million then I need to hold that in escrow and during that time I can't use the capital for other purposes.
The market for lemons argument (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons) suggests this is not true. When a sufficiently large percentage of the market is fraudulent (and in the ICO space it's damn close to 100%), buyers will demand a price premium to compensate for their risk to the point where honest actors can't participate profitably. That isn't happening yet because we're still in the tulip mania phase, but eventually people will want such high returns for the absurd amount of risk in the crypto space that no one will bother.
Yeah, they wouldn't work with fiat that well, since goverment wouldn't allow it (basically).
Maybe we'll know 50 years after everyone involved is dead. As your own article points out, the senators certainly had the power to hold the CIA accountable. The fact that they did not do so despite making angry noises in public can only be properly responded to with the thinking face emoji.
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Utah was just a small part of a vast region where proto-nahuan languages are theorized to have dominated. Proper Nahuatl is Aztec.
There's no end to amazement at how great Chrome tools are. When you think "they can't get anything more into them", they throw in additional things. Anything from full-page screen captures to animation profilers. I've yet to scratch the surface of what they have to offer.

And they add new stuff continuously. Once every few months you open DevTools to be greeted with a new What's new in DevTools".

And then there's Safari (I'm on a Mac). I still prefer Safari to Chrome and Firefox. But their DevTools... &-10 years ago their DevTools where best-in-class, putting even Chrome's DevTools to shame. And then they not only stagnated, they regressed. Good luck using any part of whatever the Safari DevTools are anymore.
Soviet Union was called "Russian" because it was built on remnants of Russian empire. Russians were not the largest group until Holodomor in 1932-1934, and political life was dominated by Jews.
And what is the the second test?
Can’t you just ask them if they have experience with the Chrome debugger? And if that’s such a deal breaker for you, you can teach them in the first week? I mean, it’s not like the Chrome debugger is such a complicated beast. Even if you have no experience with it, you can probably learn 90% of the useful tricks in a few hours.
Yes. Nobody is buying into an ICO in 2018 with their credit card or "checks" directly, so jerf's assertion is probably inaccurate.
It is more or less what ethereum is with ERC tokens
I'd like to add that you're always traveling at the speed of light. If stationary you're traveling through time at exactly the speed of light, but as you move through space you start traveling through time more slowly. In other words, the speed at which you travel through time + space is always c.
The short answer is "yes". The long answer is: the longer you live, the more your concerns lay elsewhere (career, health, kids, etc.) and you stop worrying so much about what you are going to miss, and start focusing more on what you might be missing right now.

From a philosophical aspect, it also helps to remind yourself that - for all we know - we might be living in the "Golden Age" of humanity and it's all downhill from here.

Enjoy the present, maybe experiment with psychedelics. It gets better :)
I think some of these ideas are logically impossible. For instance primates without weapons are not somehow suddenly enlightened. Far from it, they're primates waiting to be conquered and controlled by other primates with weapons -- something they probably won't have to wait too long for. Similarly, there is no such thing as free healthcare. Healthcare costs an immense amount of labor, technology, and resources to facilitate. These things have to be paid for by somebody. The same is true, to a lesser degree, of education. Paying for these things socially is not trivial. For instance the NHS in London has been one of the icons of success on this front, yet it's sustainability is now becoming a constant concern as people are living longer, growing fatter, and populations are increasing.

On other points, I don't even see an idea. #5 is the obvious one there, but I'm going to avoid that wasp's nest for now. Although even better education is perhaps the same thing. Today there are more people with college degrees than there were with high school degrees at a time that's still in the living memory of some in this nation. What do you mean and what would you expect to be the outcome?
Those are all good points! We are trying to build a marketplace for large GPU providers to plugin their hardware. This will drive GPU costs to a market price.

We are experimenting with pricing and if you want to rent for a whole month our price will be cheaper than that, email us. Just thinking about efficient utilization, you might end up paying less if you don't have 24/7h jobs running.

At the same time, we are building software stack to utilize these hardware efficiently for Deep Learning applications. We need those resources for offering higher level ML products.
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This is a serious question as I want to make sure I'm reading this right: CryptoKitties really had only 274 users in the past 24 hours? The USV/Andreessen company?
Why wouldn't you just do several rounds? No ned to commit that money.

These "entrepreneurs" are just raising as much as they can. And because there is so much dumb money in crypto, they raise a lot.
>>It's weird because people compare it to the early days of the Internet... but the early Internet was useful from its beginning

Exactly why so much wealth was created by the Internet boom. The wealth came from utility that already existed, just needed to be harnessed to its fullest potential. ICO scams are based on generating wealth first and hoping that utility follows at some undetermined time in the future.

It's all snake oil. Maybe snake oil can be useful to someone at some point in time, but until then it's still just a scam.
He links to this in the previous, larger post, but here is the full Coursera course which is pretty great. I took it and I got a lot out of it:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
Hello Shay, thank you very much! The content on your site is excellent; I have read the Course 101 and already feel much more confident on my CSS skills (and especially the really confusing things like floats and positioning).

Really great work!
Firefox didn't even have tabbed browsing in 2003 and everyone else was in the IE6 winter. FF was only 1 year old at this point. Were you using another browser?
The speed of light is actually the speed of causality. It just happens that since photons don't have rest mass, they always move at the speed of causality.

Gluons are also massless like light, but don't exist on their own. If there's a particle that carries gravity, it would also be massless. You could say light travels at the speed of gravity.
I'm a Mechanical Engineer that has a degree so I am not sure if this applies to you and my findings are anecdotal.

I work(ed) with a lot of people that did not have degree and moved from the production to design engineer. However, it took a lot of time for them to get there. Also, I find that people with higher degrees tend to get promoted to higher positions. Another big drawback of not having a degree is that it's harder to move to the same position in a different company. I know many coworkers who started at a lower engineering position (and lower pay) because of the lack of degree. They'll eventually get promoted to their previous level because of their expertise but this usually takes a couple years.
That’s absolutely a factor but I believe there’s more to the issue than that.

For a certain segment of people, Musk represents one of precious few glimmers of hope in several high impact fields. These people are sick of mega industry, boundless bureaucracy, and financially incentivized shortsightedness stymying progress and actively fighting to preserve the status quo. In their view, Musk possesses the qualities, resources, and initiative necessary to succeed in spite of these problems.

There aren’t many who fit that description or the or even give the appearance of such. It’s exceptionally rare, no matter how you slice it. With this in mind, it’s easy to imagine how some might feel inclined to defend Musk from perceived threats, even if it’s criticism rooted in truth. More than Musk himself, these peoples’ hopes are at stake, which naturally motivates strong reactions.

Personally, I feel conflicted. I do wish he’d tone down his tweeting and provide concrete proof of things like adequate factory safety, but I also feel that SpaceX, Tesla, and the Boring Company are all important for moving humanity forward (especially the first) and would hate to see them unduly impeded.
Google has more money and resources than duckduckgo. I suffer through duckduckgo because I rather anyone than Google. At this point, I might start giving bing a try.
Super interesting. Thanks for taking the time to clarify.
Possibly those entrepreneurs are just keeping the facade going on for a bit for their own sake?
I actually spent some time sketching out the math for an aborted science fiction world in which I had FTL that was prevented from time travel by a cosmic censor. You don't really have to "work it out" because the numbers are quite plain as day.

It turns out that if you use any remotely sane numbers on the speed of an FTL craft, it is extremely difficult to travel in time. To get time travel, you have to accelerate on the other end to very significant fractions of the speed of light, which itself takes so much time that it's hard to recover it via the FTL drive again. You have to put in absurd numbers for the speed of the drive and your ability to accelerate (and your ability to carry energy for conventional acceleration!) before you can get time travel out of most FTL drives, because bending your light cone enough to put the past into your FTL drive's path takes a lot of energy.

The only fictional drives that have serious time travel possibilities are the ones in universes where accelerating to significant fractions of the speed of light is easy-peasy, and the FTL drive is very, very fast (some are instantaneous) and can be arbitrarily steered. It's actually not that long of a list; a lot of FTL drives can hypothetically be used for time travel but the engineering in the universe still doesn't practically permit it. Just adding a cosmic censor post facto would preserve the story just fine. Many of the universes that meet those criteria are already so fantastical that they do in fact have time travel, so... those work out too.

(There's also several video universes where it's nominally possible, but the video wildly contracts the documentation. Both Star Wars and Star Trek have documentation that their ships can get to pretty significant fractions of the speed of light in small amounts of time, with ludicrous amounts of acceleration available to them, but on screen we only see them moving with absurd levels of acceleration like 50 or 100G, but which still takes a long time to get to light speed as a result, and with refueling being necessary often enough that it's hard to believe they could actually make it.)
OKRs came to Google via Doerr, I think.

It's a bit of an odd system and I wouldn't ascribe too much weight to it. It was never taken very seriously and there was a lot of gaming going on.

That said, it boils down to just writing down your goals and coming up with metrics to decide how close you got. That's not exactly revolutionary but not a bad idea either and most companies don't systematise it to the level that the OKR system does.
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But if that correction happens, why would those startups still be worth anything, either?
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I can see where updating the cache in all the right places for complex architectures could get hairy. For my own personal project, I'm using GraphQL Subscriptions to listen for mutations and piping those events directly to the client, which then updates the cache accordingly. I get that's not a solution for everyone as it would largely depend on your backend architecture having support for subscriptions.
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