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I'd still almost certainly take a DSLR OVF if other things were equal (which of course they're not).

But modern EVF is good for most purposes. And I'm sure the newest Canon digital bodies have even better ones than my Fujifilm X-E3. (Which itself is at least "good enough," while the X-E1 was more like "mostly sufficient.")
> Interesting tech stack -- in the Rust world that I participate in, there is a lot of discussion about the lack of jobs (especially outside the blockchain industry), so if you can offer something that is more novel, that might help.

I've been trying to escape the C++ world, despite my mastery, and get into Common Lisp. I would honestly take a pay cut to work on only Common Lisp code.
I don’t think masochism is inherently negative and I did not mean to insult. For that I apologize. I was trying to characterize in a humorous fashion a difference between what I perceive to be the stated aims of the language and the experience of actually writing it.

It was also an oblique reference to this talk which is one of my favorites: https://youtu.be/mZyvIHYn2zk
The "cryptocurrencies are really useful" argument is now equivalent to the "gold has intrinsic value" argument. Technically they are both right, but the current price is so out of line with the actual value generated by those use cases as to be basically irrelevant. Both derive the majority of their value from people purchasing it as an speculative investment.
There is no question that many important ideas sounded crazy at first.

The problem is that these ideas are a tiny minority of all new ideas.

The vast majority of new ideas are eventually proven invalid.

So just because an idea is rejected, does not mean that it is guaranteed to triumph.
It doesn't depend on the climate, but it does depend on the concrete chemistry (that does vary geographically).

Anyway, the sequence is that micro cracks form on the concrete and expose the steel, then the exposed steel rusts and pushes more concrete away, exposing more steel. This too can be fixed before it becomes a problem.
I interned in the software process group for a defense company building sattelites. It had the other extreme of the process spectrum- true waterfall/CMMI processes in place, but they were so painful that people just did work and then figured out how to claim they followed the process afterwards.
They actually had a couple good processes that I walked away with (different levels of formality for code reviews, structured and a risk based QA processes), but overall it was about frustration and a molasses like movement. I was glad to end up on consumer software for a while after college.
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Who cares if they Adorn themselves in Banderillas or Leotards.
Geo blocking won't help, because EU users can use VPN.
The problem is they lost all credibility with the public for that very obvious deception.
If Google has my passwords, can I trust them not to crawl sites using them?
Okay, how should "middle class" be segmented by income?

I've always understood middle to mean... well, the middle of the distribution.
From the article, PG argues that the crazy idea should be taken seriously predicated on the person having deep domain expertise.

I don't think anyone with deep domain experience in banking would say "Who cares if someone gets my bank account info"
A very smart professor of mine once thought "They added pictures to hypertext, that's sort of cool I guess."

Looking backwards definitely biases you to seeing things you didn't see at the time. Even memories get tinged. But memories are probably the most accurate you can do.

I missed bitcoin entirely despite knowing many people who bought as I still don't understand what the appeal is. It doesn't seem efficient to me as a payments technology or from a privacy perspective. I kind of wish I bought early even though I probably would have cashed out way too soon, as the money would have been nice.

I liked Stripe due to my revulsion to PayPal but wasn't exactly going to be on them winning. I was pleasantly surprised. Ditto Shopify because of my dislike of Amazon stores. I think I underestimate the chances of good ideas and good products winning because I know it's very hard.

I took a few bets early in my career on start-ups. I think I underestimated the difficulty of selling into retail on one company that I still think had a good idea. The others ended up being acquisitions, although the products weren't continued. I still believe social notetaking is an interesting hard problem in need of a good solution but I don't think we had found it.

I think the big lesson for me is to not get taken in by the cult of personality around strong founders and focus more on the merits of the ideas. That can be tricky as you're not getting the full picture when you interview making it even harder to see a crazy idea as good for the right reasons but it's the right approach.
Never really used it.
In space, legs are not required.

To get out of a gravity well, being light is good.
> Based on our investigation so far, we believe that Disqus could not rely on legitimate interest as a legal basis for tracking across websites, services or devices, profiling and disclosure of personal data for marketing purposes, and that this type of tracking would require consent

Good to see them taking this seriously. I get the impression a lot of sites/services make expansive use of the legitimate interest provision.
Someone asked higher ups whether they should start bullying Netflix. Next, Apple started trying to placate Netflix by fixing issues and making things possible that they wanted.

Doesn’t sound like bullying to me.
Why don't web browsers have good password managers (like keepass or bitwarden) built in? It seems like a good solution would be to make random password generators more usabile than to throw out the baby with the bath water.
They really aren't unique. It's happened in many many different places.
It honestly is just what humans are capable of.
> You dont need a token. No, really you dont. Your tokens only use case is likely to transfer value

Other way round: transferring value to yourself is the only use case.

If you take a second to look in the mirror and see the wreckage of previous startups in this space, you'll see that - as pointed out in the OP thread - 99% of the community is there for the pump and dump. For all the practical purposes, distributed solutions end up worse than centralised ones. Except possibly for censorship resistance, which means you have the problem of attracting people who want to use it because they've been banned from other services.
I got to 4. How did you get to 5?
> It's interesting that he cannot prove that his "black swan" strategy has ever been actionable for his own or anyone's portfolio, how to use his theories to make significant money vs. normal strategies...

Mark Spitznagel, a cofounder of Empirica (Taleb's old fund), went on to start Universa which did pretty well with similar theories (tail-risk strategies and insurance via options against extreme market risk) in both the 2008-2009 period and last year, when they booked a huge return. So there's some evidence that the theories work to produce uncorrelated (or negatively correlated) returns that outperform the market[1].

[1]: Universa's flagship "Black Swan Protection Protocol" fund has produced a mean annual return on invested capital of 76% since the firm was created in 2008. https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2020/04/13/how-a-go...
I've had some difficulty getting a "basic" web server up and running too. Composing libraries together is a great way to build software, but when you're starting from such a low level with a new language where that kind of development style is the norm, it's a steep initial learning curve.

Have you looked into Luminus? I haven't tried it yet, but it's supposed to be a Rails-like starter kit for web apps: https://luminusweb.com/
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How wild would it be if you got a cavity and they just pulled the whole tooth and stimulated your body to grow a new one?

That would completely upend orthodontics too, if there was an option to regrow crooked teeth rather than yanking them into position with wires.
Had no idea that the creator of Hatetris was also the author for There Is No Antimemetics Division.
http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub
Well, if the Lenovo or Apple M1 were 3.5 to 5 times cheaper, they'd also be a good deal, right? In fact, they'd be a better deal than a 5 times cheaper Mighty, I would wager.
Super easy to power a Pi from DC only. Many (most) USB ports will work (the amperage draw can be a bit much for some older lighter-style USB power adapters).

The power draw from our dedicated device (https://floathub.com/store) is much lower than a Pi, but you don't get the advantage of a general purpose computer that can run other stuff at the same time.
> Why do I want to work with a bunch of people who are mainly there for the freebies?

I mean, some of us value work life balance. Even on projects I'm insanely passionate about, I need to pace myself, otherwise I'll get burnt out.
I love that quote, it reminds me of a similar one:

>If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Burning coal also produces a ton of radioactive waste. [1]

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...
On a smaller scale, I live in Baltimore and there are whole blocks of boarded-up three-story brick row-homes, some of them with the ceilings collapsed and trees growing up through them, and big wooden buttresses in place to keep the facade from collapsing.

I grew up around here, and spent a half-decade in Colorado. It feels like such a waste seeing the densely-packed tract housing appearing in the middle of the plains there as I drive by boarded-up crumbling ruins here.
> 98% of people I talk to don't understand that surgical mask / cloth mask will do extremely poor job of protecting them

This was the line for a while, but since we now know that it's an airborne infection that basically accumulates when you're in close proximity to someone infected until it reaches a critical point where it can grow faster than your body can fight it off, the mask is the only thing that's slowing it down.

Masks (and good ventilation) are about the only thing that protects you - social distancing means nothing because coronavirus isn't confined to the larger droplets we thought it was. Mask-wearing seems to result in less-serious infections even when you catch it because your initial infection was likely by less virus.

edit: I think there was an official reluctance to admit that it was completely airborne because the constant attempts to reopen businesses (like restaurants) would have been completely thwarted if social distancing (and constant surface sterilization) were meaningless.
How much toothpaste do you use on your toothbrush? Something the size of a pea, or the whole length of your toothbrush? 'Cause all you need is the first, but most people do the second. Why? Ads.

Why do people have such a great impression of John Deere tractors? To the point where there's a whole culture of "green iron" and other companies had huge trouble breaking into the market? Ads. Ads going back to childhood in the form of toys.

Why do folks trust some brands, and not others? Why is brand recognition such an influential thing when it comes to making purchasing decisions? Why do children beg their parents for certain toys? Why do adults pick TGI Friday's over the diner next door?

Ads.

EDIT: I think it's worth flipping the question a bit as well. Why would companies pay for ads if they had no value, if they did not change our behavior? If we'd do something naturally, there would be no need for ads in the first place.
Washington Monument was damaged in an earthquake in 2011.
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/08/24/virginia.quake/index.ht...
I'm not even sure how that makes sense. What is a truck to a monkey and how does it have anything to do with gender? How sensitive could this test be to the bias of the researchers? The abstract you posted says nothing about a difference in vision in day old children. At 13 weeks there's plenty of time for differences in environment to have already taken hold between males and females. I'm very unconvinced we could even measure such a cognitive difference divorced from environment.
The Atomic Rockets website (which is a great resource in general) has an interesting section about disabled astronauts: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/crew.php#id--Cr...?
> The problem occurs when someone thinks they can determine “best” from traits that probably don’t actually matter in space, like being shorter than average

You got me curious so I looked it up. NASA requires that astronauts be at least 62 inches (5'2", aka 1.57 meters.) So they already permit astronauts to be substantially shorter than average. They wouldn't take people with dwarfism I guess, or people without legs.

If I had to guess, these requirements exist because they need people who are compatible with existing equipment. For instance, astronauts on the ISS do not get personalized EVA suits; they pick one that fits from those which are already up there. Perhaps somebody without legs could fit in a suit with legs just fine (stuff the legs with some towels maybe, if the legs flopping around is a problem?) But for somebody with dwarfism or a related disorder, I can see this being a legitimate problem.

Incidentally, NASA also discriminates against the tall. For the Mercury program they wouldn't take anybody over 71 inches (5'11") and today they won't take anybody over 75 inches (6'3"). This doubtlessly is due to equipment that isn't sized for taller people.
That's actually really funny and point awarded. But the substance of boring beneath Chernobyl would still seem to bear some consideration, no?
Oh, and depend on the GOVERNMENT to protect my commodities contracts with fiat courts of law, or my physical commodities with their jackbooted thugs?
I don't think that new arrivals knocking down the ladder is the problem at all.

This is not a 'club trying to remain too clubby'.

It's more or less a thing that had viral appeal due to slight clubbyness, and has not been able to attract major content creators. Podcasters are staying away because they can't get paid.

The remaining content just isn't very good, and without the ability to 'time lapse' like every other platform (YouTube, TikTok) it means we have to struggle through the 99% garbage to get to the 1% 'good stuff' whereas TT and YT algorithms take care of that for us.

If Elon Musk stayed on, or, they were able to consistently get key industry insiders with promoted talks, then it 'might work'.

In short, the product just isn't that great, and what was originally appealing isn't working at any kind of scale.

Given the amount of money they've raised, and that the writing has been on the wall for some time, I'm really finding it odd they haven't secured much more consistently better content.

At very least, have 'serious investors' and 'media industry insiders' with known time-slots.

This sounds crazy but literally get Oprah a show, were she has 'open and honest, live conversations'. None of us would like that but a billion people would. They'd have to pay her a fortune... but they're at that level. Remember when YouTube sponsored presidential debates? That.
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I'm sure you know this because you read the article (lol) but the plant was shuttered due to lack of energy demand. So it isn't a question of coal vs. bitcoin, it's a question of beautiful lake frontage vs. bitcoin.
> Job that pays less than unemployment benefits....

Yeah that’s pretty much exactly why they reduced unemployment benefits. You seriously think it’s a good idea to pay people more to do nothing than they would get for their best option for doing something useful for somebody else?

You know the money comes from other people, right? Other people that work. And if they refuse to pay, they get arrested, and if they refuse arrest, they get shot. So, given that the potential punishment for work includes death, why would anybody do that?

I mean, somebody has to, right?
The first step to knowing what someone else thinks is to ask. You seem to have skipped that step, and when they clarified, you disagreed. Who are you to say what they think?

Again this is all you projecting thoughts onto other people.
Harder to store, transfer, many commodities are perishable, bulky, heavy, etc.
Your underestimating how much the OH head costs of employees is.
Their CEO said they treat everyone the same and they don’t retaliate.

If he was more honest about fighting for as much money as possible for Apple at the expense of consumer experience, then maybe people wouldn’t care as much?
AI consumes a lot of energy. Hackers could make it consume more
The best solution is to bury it on land that is already more irradiated than any more added nuclear waste would make it. There is plenty of land like that.
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Billionaires per capita I think is a pretty terrible way to describe the situation. 25% of all billionaires live in the US, same for China. 1.4% live in Sweden.
Not true, most stuff launching these days is either PoS or migrating.
>it was Karen Sandler who really pulled the strings

I would be interested to hear a source for that because I never heard of such a thing. I heard the exact opposite, that GNOME is still open to keeping things working on BSD. The latest version in FreeBSD is GNOME 3.36.
There is coming terreg law (already passed and will be implemented within a year) that specifically targets citizenship rather than location.
https://decoded.legal/blog/2021/04/the-eus-terrorist-content...
I believe that the key of the message was that the advertisement companies gather a plenty of personal data and vulnerable groups are very easy to find and target. The same private data is also useful for "all the people who host scam sites on the cloud".
> Because a nation state has a duty to protect the safety of its own citizens first and foremost.

I strongly agree, but that does not mean it has to be completely amoral in its interactions with other nations. Its own citizens may in fact be in favor of taking on some risk to help people beyond their borders.

There is also a pragmatic side to this. A nation that acts too selfishly may soon find itself without allies.
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No it wouldn't. Netflix provides entertainment. Bitcoin provides the ability for speculators to make money, however there are ways to do so that do not incur the same costs.

You could argue that energy spent on entertainment is a waste, but it's been done since the dawn of civilization (the wasting of energy for entertainment - dance, art, fireworks, etc. etc.). As far as I know there's no way to entertain yourself without spending any more marginal energy compared to alternatives.

Presumably you, the reader, are reading this, on a computer that uses energy. Such energy could be said to have been "wasted", since reading the text I'm typing now isn't inherently productive.
It's a governance token today, but it will likely become a capital asset earning revenue from the Uniswap protocol at some point.
The key part of my reply is: If/once the environmental cost is priced in, all will be fine.

There are many ways to waste electricity. Bitcoin is a big one, but so is electric heating of uninsulated houses (still very common in the US): https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=39293

=> All this will be solved by pricing in the environmental cost.
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It was converted to natural gas a few years ago. Its quite an editorialized title.
> The world is a scary and violent place. ... A lot is said about desensitization as a result of seeing horrible things on the internet, but in my experience, only the opposite was true. Seeing violence online when I was in my late teens sensitized me and made the stories on the TV real.

I can understand this idea. I tend to agree that confronting the harshness of reality (death, suffering) is an important act, particularly in your formative years, so that those confrontations don't paralyze you as an adult. Traditionally this is also done, differently, but getting your kid a pet and ceremoniously allowing them to process the grief of that pet's inevitable death (however it may come).

But... I don't know. Are any of us better people for watching a US soldier get executed on our computer screens when we were 14? Does that content, in fact, give people a sense of hopelessness and dread? When a confrontation with death or violence becomes a common (everyday?) occurrence, what does THAT do to the psyche of a child? Certainly if you watch enough, the hyperreality of exuberant violence serves to disassociate the viewer from conscious engagement and does become a morbid form of entertainment and I personally believe (despite the "free speech" angle) it is dangerous to condition your mind to be entertained by suffering.
>However what you're talking about is asset prices, which has nothing to do with inflation. There's a term for rising asset pricing: asset bubble.

I would agree with your view if the bubble was isolated but when most/all scarce assets bubble simultaneously, it is the first sign that your explanation is inadequate..
Keybase failed to expand on the on the one thing it was good at: Provide an identity root.

Rooting everyone's identity in a PGP is a great idea, any making that accesible to non-nerds would solve _a lot_ of problems faced in nearly every industry.
Yet, they don’t convince you to wildly increase your driving or top up a nearly full tank.

To change how much gas you’re buying in a lifetime it would need to change how far you drive. On the other hand T-Shirt advertising can convince you to buy significantly more clothes in a lifetime.

It’s a qualitative difference even if I didn’t express it well.
Ah, I didn't realize that natural gas was a carbon-free energy source. Nothing to see here! :)
It's mostly the S shaped piece for me.
Appreciate the reply. It looks like there's a bunch of sensors I can hook up to the pi as well. Again, really appreciate you sharing this!
Privacy Badger replaces it with a widget that allows you to enable it with a button click if you want. It is pretty nice.
i agree with the second half of your comment, but with regards to the first part, don’t you think that space travel — an endeavor that subjects the human body and mind to immense, unadapted-for stress — can/should only be undertaken by the most physically and mentally capable?

we’re hardly experts at space travel (google says only 533 people have been to orbit). given that number, any disability is significant for the job of going to space at this point, especially when every action can potentially bring immediate death to everyone around you.
> Not to sound too clever, but I would assume if I embed a third party on my website, all bets are off considering privacy/data flow.

That you have to take care of these things is kind of the point of GDPR. If you don't know what some embedded server will do with users data, don't use it. No more fast and loose.
It's like people will create their own desired footpaths over fields when the sidewalks are not in the right place, so it seems the word "crypto" is just a shortcut because there aren't any shorter words to describe blockchain.
When you buy commodities for investment they aren't exactly shipping trucks of corn to your house
If you click through to some of Jeff's other articles, you can see he's interested in effective altruism. Broadly, at the same total cost, paying for 5-6 globally wealthy people to attend college is going to have lower QALY impact than buying ~132,000 Long-Lasting Insecticidal bed nets ("LLINs") for people in regions with lots of malaria-carrying mosquitoes.

For more on effective altruism broadly, some resources:

https://www.givewell.org/giving101

https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/about-us/#our-mission