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> riding the hype of NFTs more than

Good on them for doing that. Their mission is to save as many lives as they can and if riding a hype train lets them do that, then the overall outcome is still very positive. The environmental externality is bad but trivial compared to the benefit of lives saved if this auction goes through.
I hadn't heard of CU-SeeMe before. It's videoconferencing software from 1992 (!), around the time the Web had just barely been formed.

There seems to be a lot of interesting history surrounding it: https://sattlers.org/mickey/CU-SeeMe/internetTVwithCUSeeMe/c...
If you want to see a graph about why many are so bullish on Ethereum - https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_p...

Blockchain is like the early days of the internet, probably like 1998 right now. There were competitors to all the major internet protocols - TCP/IP, WWW, HTTP, but once everyone standardized the web flourished.

I believe Ethereum is like that today. There are competitors, and loud internet commenters are financially incentivized to criticize it and promote others, but if you look at where organic development and new projects are founded on, Ethereum is far and away the most popular. Others are not even close.

Other chains who criticize the fees of Ethereum are essentially saying, "That place is so crowded, nobody goes there anymore." ETH is working on scaling, bit by bit, and now with Layer-2 solutions like Optimism, Arbitrum, Matic/Polygon, zkSync, Immutable, etc. etc. it's finally allowing scale in a significant way even before ETH2 is launched and takes over. Many chains pay projects to port their dapps to their own chain just to get some sort of third-party development, while the Ethereum Foundation primarily funds fundamental research and protocol improvements - Ethereum doesn't need to pay people to build on their chain.

If an alternative blockchain's only reason to exist is "Like Ethereum - but with lower fees!" I would be leery. Some chains like Monero exist with a very defined purpose (privacy), and I see Bitcoin as something else entirely (store of value). But as the one-chain-to-rule-them-all, Ethereum would be your best bet.
Hmm. And how much square footage do you estimate that would cover? How would you run electrical lines by and through the constantly moving (expansion/contraction, as well as vehicle weight) heavy steel elements? How would you deal with the constant maintenance that must be done on everything from light rail to heavy cargo lines? How would you make sure all your panels weren’t destroyed in one pass by a drug connector?

Roads are at least as bad, and near as I can tell, there is literally no road surface (from hardened steel to concrete to glass to asphalt!) that won’t get potholes and other damage decently quickly.

And they don’t have any sensitive electrical connections or need clear sunlight to do anything useful.
I don't think anyone is doing that. It's just the case that many (most?) people are happier and more fulfilled in a committed, long term relationship. It doesn't mean that there aren't people for whom that's not the case, and it doesn't mean that those people are somehow defective.

But this entire post is about how some people get sad, angry, and/or hateful when they want to be in a relationship but continually fail at it. It seems off-topic and missing the point to bring up a "well, actually" about how some people don't want or need that.
The numbers in the article itself state that more 18-29 year old women than men are having sex. Excluding gay sex this implies the “Don Juan hypothesis” as you call it.
I think Seaspiracies argument is that current "sustainable fishing" efforts are not actually sustainable and are designed to appear to solve the problem while avoiding regulations that would actually enforce sustainable fishing (and hence massively disrupt the industry.)

If that is their argument, the push to stop eating fish would be justified only in the current environment where there is no ecologically sustainable source.

Maybe I being too generous, but "fishing can never be sustainable" appears to be blatantly false so I feel we have to look for the "strongest plausible interpretation".
Nice....Appreciate the drive towards easier use and non-programmers in general. D3 and Observeable in general are doing excellent work
Would be cool to sign in with Facebook and then generate the ad set for yourself that they WOULD have made. I think it’d be quite telling.
I wonder if the other time wasting sites get a noticeable uptick in traffic when one has an outage.
I wonder if we could detect harassment today in a chat for example. With like GPT3 or something.
There is an enormous difference in how expensive capital is at the startup level vs public company level.

Startups have to convince Angel investors $25k at a time to invest in their startup through a long and laborious sales process. Publicly traded companies just have to issue stock and the market just pays for it out of millions of people's dividend reinvesting 401k plans.

The difference also comes into play in real estate. Putting together the money to do a multi-family apartment building takes lots of talking to banks, personal guarantees, developing relationships over decades with other investors, not hitting a bad market cycle, etc. Once a property becomes worth about $50 million dollars, usually due to a growing economy in the area or the neighborhood becoming more valuable, a REIT will come in and buy it like it's nothing. That's because the REITs have all that public market money to play around with that they get for a much lower cost of capital. The REIT doesn't even have to run it that well because their cost of capital is so low that the profitability requirements for the project are much less. Same thing goes for big tech which has bought hundreds of startups and shut them down or run them poorly.
what else would VC money be for other than a sweet vendor lock-in?
There is a SIM card in the glove box that supports the Infotainment system and in-car hotspot if you want. I pulled that one out. The car still has another one, somewhere, as I occasionally get calls into the car but I don't pay for that service. I found the fuse for the factory phone but not the SIM, you're right its somewhere but for all I know its not removeable.
At some point all of these effects would probably be better to produce computationally.

Lens hacks result in lost signal. You're sending fewer photons to less surface area, and you're losing readings.

The cameras of the future might look a lot less like the ones we have today: stereo and light field capture, explosion of sensors, and design that incorporates both advances in optics as well as ML-assisted optimization.

edit: -3 :( I've got unpopular opinions as always, I suppose. We'll see how it pans out in ten years. I predict we're in for a sea of changes. Photogrammetry is going to be huge.
Yes, but we are back at square one, where if I want to use "Chevy Play" or whatever their music player is, I have to battle a legion of dark patterns reaching for my data i.e "Allow this Stop Watch app to not don't allow prohibit from reading contacts"
I hope your wrong, for the sake of all the folks that invested in this.
As an amateur photographer… can someone smarter/more educated than me explain to me why practically I would prefer this over a computational solution? This looks really cool, but there are dozens of apps and filters out there that do stuff like this, no?

That’s not to take away from how cool this is, just asking as a practical thing why someone else beside the person in question would buy another lease and do this vs use a digital solution to get a similar effect.
From now on, you only get to pull that quote out if you make literally no compromises to your freedom for the sake of security. Lock your car doors, thus making yourself less free to open them in favor of a bit of security? Run a firewall on your server, reducing your freedom to connect frictionlessly however you like in favor of that also being true of others?
I remember becoming interested in finding a life partner from as young as 7 or 8. I spent my teens and early 20s turning off girls with my seriousness and didn't manage to get laid until my late 20s. I was sore about it at the time, but in retrospect I'm glad I didn't meet with more success because I likely would have ended up marrying someone who would not have been a suitable lifelong match.
Perhaps 1% of graduating seniors are ready to skip calculus upon entering college. But that’s an important 1%! It includes all professional mathematicians, statisticians, data scientists, and most high level engineers!
Sex work is in no way, shape or form the "antithesis of feminism". And I think it was clear that Kayla was suggesting that such work not be illegal, not that men go solve their problem in an illegal manner.
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I'm pretty sure this is why (in the US at least) we end up with online gambling sites located at .com addresses with "free" counterparts at .net addresses. You can advertise the free .net sites because they're not gambling with money, but people typing the addresses in simply go to the .com versions.
This article is a good overview of DAOs but spends a lot of time on terminology and taxonomy, without necessarily painting a clear picture to someone not familiar with DAOs as to how they operate in the wild today and perhaps how they will in the future. I continue to believe that DAOs are one of the most disruptive technologies of the 21st century. The ability to coordinate humans and capital in a decentralized way is powerful and will be used for everything from for-profit initiatives to non-profit foundations. The pluggable, open-source nature of these systems means that DAO treasury management and governance will become more and more sophisticated with time. Eventually, many of us are going to end up taking jobs working for DAOs.
Better title might be 'A "Magic Bokeh" Lens Modification' - from the original YouTube video.
I think other people have made money successfully with the few hours of manual labor version. At least, I think I've seen their customized products continue to exist and be available...
I have seen kids and seen both removed abruptly.

No, the activities don't generate the same behavior.
>no one owes you companionship or a relationship (platonic or not).

That's your opinion.

>is a real problematic stance.

Oh, no, not problematic! What if there are actually external factors that influence your ability to succeed, and you would like to advocate for modifying those external factors to increase your ability to succeed?
I mean, I believe in the concept, but I think humanity is far from reaching that state.

Which doesn't mean that I think we can't live above our means with the population we already have. I just think it's a question of optimizing production and not restricting population growth.
The graph is a few years out of date, fwiw.
If your partner offers to buy you a $5 McDonalds cheeseburger or a $50 McDonalds cheeseburger, which would you accept?
"the internet itself comes from ground stations on Earth connected to local fiber networks."

This is a funny line. I understand it, it just sounds ... odd.
From the sample photos it seems like the lens is rather useless this way. While some bokeh is awesome, this looks more like someone applied an LSD-filter and called it a day; nothing that you could use for a portrait. It also seems the pictures are not too sharp. Therefore, there's probably not too much money to be made.

If this could be a bit smoother in the background, on the other hand ...
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Always a joy to read your code and loved the 'In the spirit of show don’t tell' notebook. Quickly grasped what it's about.

Edit: deleted my question, as it is answered here https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/plot-vega-lite
Very cool, and nice to see the customization worked out.
Ironic considering Dogecoin was created as a joke not meant for real world application, like Pastafarianism.
Ethereum's pre-mine is worth more than half of ETH's market cap?
Is there an under-supply of blood in rich countries to the point where people are dying as a result? If 1 regular donor stopped donating, how many additional people will die?
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That makes much more sense although the argument I'd make is still that the issue wasn't the tracking and grouping, it was the allocation of resources. The schools/policy makers have to allocate resources in a zero sum way which makes the question whether to help those who are struggling or push those who are excelling, both, I think, are worthy motives.

The shame in all of this is that the choice has to be made at all. I think, ideally, every student should have a roughly equal amount of attention and dollars allocated to them and if a school is underfunded, everyone suffers until the problem is remediated.

I suspect there's some sort of incentive on the administrators of these schools, be through funding, personal career advancement or something else, that makes them want to max out the top end rather than raise the low end.
Industry factory farming is many horrible things but its not wasteful. They use every part of the animals to increase profit margins.
Oh, I see. Sure, you can take that perspective, but it's a bit abstract. When most HN readers ask about flags, they're interested in knowing who flagged it and why.
> I don't mind ABS and other "invisible" electronics as long as they are reliable which is not a given nowadays

These are pretty damned reliable, IMO, in absolute terms (before even giving credit for the fact than an automobile is pretty harsh environment for electronics with temperature and humidity swings, large voltage transients, poor grounds, mechanical shock/vibration, road salt, corrosion, etc). I've probably changed more power window regulators than ABS or EFI modules.
I know it's just simple shapes, but the name + logo combo makes me think of the Abstract[1] brand.

[1] https://www.abstract.com
McAfee is a good example when acquisitions didn’t went well…
Search for Judas Goats and the Galapagos Islands. Would be hard to do the same to mosquitoes due to the size and quantity but same concept :p
seems women's ideal sex frequency is lower than men’s. what to do ?

The market answer is to price relationships with women, weather short or long term. And the market does do this, under various names in increasing cost: hookups, porn, escort, dating, mistress, marriage.

People just don’t always manage risk: children, disease, divorce, alimony, dying married bedroom, aging...

banning / discouraging prostitution favors women over men. But it harms men more than it helps women.

Interestingly, encouraging female promiscuity actually work economically in the same direction as prostitution by adding to the total number of sexual encounters involving women (ie in favor of men, lowering the price of sex with women)
I setup sshd on the pop3 port back in high school in the 90s, so I could connect to my home machine and chat on irc during study hall.
Is it, have you had good experiences loading the backups? I was on the lookout recently for some offsite backup solution and came across this blog post that didn’t inspire confidence in backblaze.

https://messengergeek.wordpress.com/2018/03/09/backblaze-rev...
Long live the Sun
so you're quitting because they didn't allow political issues to be talked about at work. ok.
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Who said Bodily autonomy is bad? They are just explaining the consequences of it in human species.

Access to women's body obviously important for men (sex, kids etc.). Why is this even a question?
Don't international airports count as "the border" too?
The value of your employees voluntary contributions are capped at the least valuable thing you put on their list of things to do.

If your employee’s best chance at success are in the success of your business, they’ll do great things without being asked, that you don’t even know about. If not, it doesn’t matter what you ask them to do.
It's built entirely from the ground up – no ui libraries. It's focused on simple, PowerPoint-like usability instead of Webflow's complex, Photoshop-like approach.
Yes, ISPs tend to forward these. I think it's legally required in the USA? Though even here in Canada, you'll get any copyright-related complaints they receive regarding your account forwarded to you (including the endless automated DMCA notices which are legally meaningless here).

The ISP even wraps it in a disclaimer with the usual "behave or we'll cancel your service!" Though in practice, they never do. No idea with Starlink though. I wouldn't volunteer to test it. They definitely would want to drop bandwidth hogs for any excuse.
Just write your own. It's the new To-Do List app.
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I included a sample of what Honda[0] records when you pay for Honda Navigation System. It spams your VIN every minute it’s on WiFi, though, regardless of trim level.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/ryjones/73739f6a7e662b9ed9ba64d9141f...
Seriously cool. I love creative accidents like this.
True hacker culture.
Any ad person in 2021 who isn't aware of this must be a sophomore in college still.
what's the actual title of this book? I couldn't find it (my google-fu probably isn't very good, but "Nicholas Carson" is not a very unique patronym...)
Same reason folks generally like kaleidoscopes, but I don't see as many of those in screen savers anymore. That is, I don't think there is an objective answer. A lot of the fun in this is the unexpected and unrepeatable nature of the results.
I believe the chicken tender is a specific cut/part of the breast. I would guess it’s being used inaccurately for marketing/trendiness purposes, but originally it was probably not just a regional variation of “chicken finger”. See related: Chilean Sea Bass as a renaming of the less glamorous “toothfish”.
I used to use Nuzzel and I liked it a lot, although I stopped using it for some reasons I don't remember.

For me, the whole point of the service was to get interesting links without exposing myself to the hostility the social media tends to have. In other words, I could use Twitter without engaging with it.

I don't expect the less-engaging nature of the service lasts after the acquisition. If they create a paid link aggregation service however, that can be something loved from people who stay away from the timelines. I'll maintain a lukewarm hope there.
An extreme version of your question: Why even bother taking pictures? Just ray-trace or otherwise render your images.
That seems somewhat alien to me. I'd expect some kind of relationship insecurity. This kind of reminds me of that series Succession, where one of the running themes is that the hyper-rich clan considers themselves fundamentally distinct from the regular people.
If people bought whole fish instead, do you think those parts wouldn't still go to waste? I guess you could use them for stock, but really, how many people would bother. If anything, I would guess food processing companies would have an easier time finding some use for them (like you said, as pet food or whatever).
No one person controls more than 1% of ETH supply. Satoshi still owns 1M BTC, or 5% of all BTC and it's said that the Winklevoss twins control about 1% of BTC supply.
Yeah, because the potholes can't donate $1,000 to the mayor to keep them around. Perhaps in a future world with sentient potholes, this will become more of a problem.

Is it not obvious why this approach doesn't scale to confronting monopoly power?
I didn't really mean women, men share that sentiment too, if it was their decision to split (although I admit I met very few of them, most were women, but anecdotal evidence doesn't mean much).

And obviously, there are many cases where this argumentation is valid and every sane person would do the same, e.g. when the partner is getting violent, abuses alcohol, drugs, and so on. I feel even verbal aggression is enough: if your partner is calling you names in front of the kids, what kind of role models are you for them? In this case, if this is a regular thing rather than a single case, I feel it's better to part ways - and it will be better for kids.
Yes, 70% premine. Absolutely unethical
The Goal is one of my favorite “business” book (it’s written as a novel). it addresses all of the wasted energy when you target efficiency at the expense of hitting your true goals.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goal_(novel)
I will definitely read some more of his posts.
It's on his Linkedin.
"Investing" in Dogecoin is gambling, and I don't have a fundamental problem with legal gambling, so... I'm not sure what "we" are supposed to do about this.

As far as the market value, it's obviously nonsense because once a substantial number of people started to convert back to fiat, there would probably be a panic and the price would plummet.
It’s same reason you’ve already outlined. It’s cool.

With computational capabilities these days, you can really get whatever look like purely through software.
Copyrights and patents.
> the ones who have been in marriages that have lasted the entire lives are generally completely devoted to one another,

I've been happily married for 17 years and have been with my wife for over 20.

Trust me: there is a big BIG difference between being deeply devoted to your spouse and being co-dependent on them such that you cannot be happy during their absence.
Like should we be going out and voting for people who aren't incompetent leaders? That's not an option because by and large the people who want to be elected are puppets or sociopath. What do you suggest?
>Sure, but random change is different from what we do. That's not random, it's deliberate and usually ends up in a disaster.

We were randomly created though, right?
It's the old Joseph Campbell quote, how regrets are just illuminations come too late.

https://www.jcf.org/works/quote/every-failure-to-cope-with-a...
You'll probably need to do at least some disassembly to get to it (maybe next time you take the car for servicing). Then you can either wrap the antenna in some aluminum foil or just cut it (which would probably fry the transmitter).

I agree, though, all our devices are becoming hostile to us.
Why don't you think people deserve housing and food, in the richest country in the history of the world? Our society could absolutely provide them, it just doesn't because they're "not worthy".
Create a desktop app from any website
I grew up in Warneton/Waasten, but I live in London these days.
Why in HN of all places? Because engineers are more resistant to bullshit hype. Proof-of-stake has not been proven at a large distributed scale.
Serendipity in the real world can produce effects that you may not think to work to create digitally. On the flip side, digital processing can do things that would be a pain to do with a physical pipeline. Imho more possibilities from all avenues makes for a richer world.
> most disruptive technologies of the 21st century.

I couldn't agree more.

Though, as far as this article goes, I was looking for more of a playbook than high-level market analysis.
No, I really don't given the whole paragraph:

> I was a bit of an oddity in that I was anticipating marriage since early adolescence; that outsized-value for relationships came with what I feel were comparably overgrown feelings of loneliness. I got absurdly lucky when I found my wife, but I spent every day without her more or less miserable. It’s arguable she’s the only reason I’m able to be happy. I imagine some of these men are similar to me in the loneliness and not as lucky in finding someone, and it’s impossible for me to not feel something.
How does one learn this information? Do you have a link?
Interesting, I haven't seen a lot of Lisps with static type inference. The language seem very interesting, especially the multi-threading.
What is the argument? Why would we expect a version of Apple with decentralized governance to outperform the current Apple?