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robinhood isnt the only one selling their requests, they basically all do it.

I'm not a robinhood fan - I moved all the investments I had out of their years ago. But, to think they are the only one selling order flow is disingenuous
The only DB problem blockchain solves is: when DB users don't agree on who should manage the DB. That's it.

Every other attempted use case for blockchain is most likely a newly minted "blockchain consultant" trying to sell you something you don't need.

That said, there are _a few_ cases where DB users don't agree on who should own the DB. Most prominently of which would be decentralized digital currency. Say what you will about blockchain hype, but millions of dark market consumers/sellers can't be wrong...
All situational disabilities? Should workplaces cater to people who are emotionally disabled in some way? Not that I completely disagree with you, I just want to understand what we are defining.

edit - Yes, workplaces should cater to legal disabilities. The question here is if employers should in any way cater to functional disabilities, not disabilities as diagnosed in the DSM. See elsewhere in this thread.
I heard about bitcoin first right here on HN, and I thought today would be a good day to return the favor. Let me know if you have any questions.
Should I know and/or care who this (seemingly) random person is?
haha, that's what I thought when I saw it pop up in my twitter feed :)
For me RSS never died
I agree! It's much harder to play in person due to the pandemic though.

There's a bonus though: each new physical deck and booster pack that you buy is also redeemable online, so you can buy a deck or two, redeem their codes in the online version, and immediately start playing them there.
Honestly 'its a Ponzi' has been debated a million times, it isn't, except in a really loose description into which any currency or asset could fall. They all rely on someone else wanting to pay more for an asset that you did. That's it.
I believe this is wrong. Creator percentage isn't coded into the Ethereum-based NFT's themselves, it's done at the marketplace level. Currently, if you bought an NFT on Foundation and sold it on Opensea, there isn't a way to encode directly into the NFT a guarantee Foundation's royalty agreement would be followed.

EIP-2981 is the draft protocol-level NFT royalty implementation, but you will note that it's opt-in and NFT marketplaces do not need to respect it (although theoretically they could be blacklisted/sued). It explicitly outlines why a non opt-in implementation wouldn't work:

> It is impossible to know which NFT transfers are the result of sales, and which are merely wallets moving or consolidating their NFTs. Therefore, we cannot force every transferFrom() call to involve a royalty payment, as not every transfer is a sale that would require such payment. We believe the NFT marketplace ecosystem will voluntarily implement this royalty payment standard to provide ongoing funding for artists and other creators, and NFT buyers will assess the royalty payment as a factor when making NFT purchasing decisions. [0]

The only non opt-in royalty percentage implementation I know of is Euler Beats, but that royalty percentage only applies to printing new NFTs through their bonding curve. If you bought an Euler Beat print through a third party, you could simply use the safeTransferFrom function and avoid royalties entirely.

As someone pointed out in this thread, this arrangement is very common for high end art already, since it helps keep incentives aligned between collectors and the artists.

[0] https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2981#universal-royalty-pa...
I have the same problem. Once I get some sense of understanding the overall skill or problem I lose interest? Novice skill is definitely a worse thing to have and getting better takes a lot of consistent work and time.

How do I fix this? It seems like a motivation problem, possibly some sort of craving for novelty perhaps (I don't want to say ADHD but sounds like it)?
But isn't that true of most reviewers? I don't feel compelled to act unless I have strong feelings in either direction.
when FTC will go after comcast for their monopoly and ridiculous prices?
> If anyone here has a similar experience helping an old blind person with tech, I’d love to hear it.

I'm afraid I don't, but you might find this helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrUMYePxzfM
I like the phrase "Luck is when preparation meets opportunity". So when you say you made bad decisions, didn't take it seriously, etc. it sounds like you recognize your own culpability in creating bad "luck".

There is something to be said for overcoming the inertia of the (bad) ideas we may have been raised with. Malcolm Gladwell wrote in Outliers how wealthy parent raise their children to be more assertive. One of his examples was a "genius" child with a 195 IQ who couldn't reach his goal of a PhD because of the ingrained passivity his parent taught him, which caused him to accept limitations he was told without questioning. To that extent, if we can't overcome those bad ideas, we're creating bad luck for ourselves.

And please don't take this as me piling on, because it's fairly clear from your post that you are still bothered by this. I imagine it's because you spend a lot of time imagining "what could have been", but to quote Theodore Roosevelt "comparison is the thief of joy". If you can get to a point where you're grateful for what you have rather than mulling over what you missed out on, you'll probably be happier for it. Genuinely wishing you the best of "luck" in the future.
That's funny. I consider the hacker mindset to include the exact opposite of this accusation - the ability to deconstruct reality, but also to perceive structure where there didn't appear to be any. And, really, of all things, blockchain is where you see excessive rigid thinking? I don't like it much myself, but it came about from a bunch of people going 'well, money is fake anyway'.
Ask HN: What do you use your iPad for?
I'm still wondering what people use iPad for and if it's really got a use-case. Especially tech community.
Libera.chat is actually an awful name, but I still embrace the change and have already bid Freenode a permanent farewell.
Trust me, I got super powers during parental leave. Some days I wondered why we need a second hand at all!
None of it's reflective of my decade plus working in the bay area. I think I've met just a couple people like that. There are almost certainly social bubbles like that, though, but that's not the vast majority of us.
A digital signature can never prove anything about the world. And this doesn’t change by putting it in a blockchain.
Only a moron would cloud mine crypto.

This is bad for a single reason. It creates apartheid based on compute purpose.

If you can’t figure that out yourself that’s ok. I’m sure you’ll be ok. You seem to know some really big words already.
Zionism is the idea that Jews should have a homeland in what is (now) Israel. It is not exclusionary - there are non-Jewish (including Muslim) citizens in Israel, and they have full rights (far more than they would have in most of the neighboring Arab countries, and yes there is sometimes racism - just like everywhere else in the world, though that is no excuse - but the that has nothing to do with Zionism).

You can choose not to support Zionism. But if you actively believe "Jews should not have a homeland" that is anti-semetic.
It will certainly be better with Proof of Stake & sharding, but I was curious how bad it is today, so I looked it up. One ETH transaction consumes 86.94 kWh of energy. Wikipedia says gasoline has 8.83 kWh/l energy content, so it looks like about 10L of gasoline per transaction (not 10gal). Still, there are about 3.8L/gal, so if you factor in that heat engines are about 25% efficient, then you are right. What a crazy world we live in.

https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption
Wow Rancher is just a juggernaut. I'm always impressed by them. I would be curious to hear your or anyone else's experience using Harvester and/or K3OS.
Stories like this make me sad and depressed.

Basically some greedy jerk didn't want to pay living wages to some programmers. Due to his position of already being rather well off he was able to put off (through even more cheap labor) until he found a naive sucker to do the work basically for free. In this case a college kid.

Its the reason I really want to get out of tech. Its a goldmine for spineless knowledge workers to get "put over the barrel" as the story says for a fraction of what they are worth. Then those of us that know what we are worth have to navigate

I don't see a heroic story here. I see someone that took off their armor and walked into battle to be slaughtered.
I can echo this exactly - 16GB RAM M1 MacBook Air, runs like a dream except for Android development, which is sluggish and downright broken. I can't even compile some APKs - I can't use an ARM JDK, and rosetta 2 fails during compilation, so I've got a separate laptop just for Android dev, which is less than ideal.

Other than that, no complaints! A fanless, performant laptop is a dream.
Fooled by Randomness by Nicholas Taleb is probably the most influential book I have read so far. It completely changed my world view. But at the same time it made life less meaningful. Are there any books to minimize the damage made by the book? Books that give propose and meaning back to life?
Do you take the same attitude to a rented apartment? A hotel room? Build your own datacenter if you want to own it.
And what if the blockchain and government disagree?

Does the blockchain have a police force?
does anyone have a sense for the daily active users across freenode? asking for a friend ;)
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Yeah I’m confused about this as well. Especially since tons of NFTs are images, couldn’t you just change 1 pixel to change the hash and make a new NFT?
You might know one of his books: "The Black Swan", "Antifragile" and "Skin in the Game".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb
People are always quite open to me, never had the issue that they didn't take the risk.
Sounds cool
Wonder no more!
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It's amazing how much ignorance of the state of DeFi you managed to display on just two paragraphs, and yet you are so quick to determine that only a pyramid scheme can provide these kind of returns.

First: I am sure you understand the difference between saying something has returned 2%/month on a given period and saying that something can offer "2% monthly returns". At no point I claimed guaranteed performance, all I did say is that I did get these returns on a very low-risk protocol and only used stable tokens to do it.

Second: the reason that I managed to get this type of return is because I provide liquidity to pools that have a better utilization rate (compound pool on Curve) than others that have more "popular" tokens. Effectively this means that if more people join the pool, its profitability will actually go down.

Third: the "profit" (mostly) comes from selling the tokens minted from the protocol that you are using (e.g, I am using Curve, so they mint their own CRV token as a reward for liquidity providers ) and not "in kind". The amount that you receive "in kind" is much smaller (to the order of 0.05%) and corresponds to some "transaction fee", so it's not compounded. It is physically impossible for these protocols to create more tokens out of thin air and therefore pyramid schemes (strictu sensu) are impossible to happen on the blockchain.

Am I "promoting a get rich bubble"? Quite the opposite: if you ever find me on these DeFi subreddits, you will find me clearly recommending people against buying these governance tokens. People buying them are speculating without any clue of the fundamentals of the protocols or how a competitor can come and destroy any kind of claimed competitive advantage. I lost count of how many threads I got on /r/uniswap telling them that any sensible person would never buy UNI, yet the token went up more than 10x in price in 6 months. For them, I am the conservative one because I am selling these tokens as early as possible, but I am more than happy to take their money.

Is this going to last for a long time? Quite unlikely, but my strategy is as low-risk as it can possibly be in the space, it keeps me liquid (I can withdraw my funds anytime), and has virtually no downside. Even if the profitability went down to 2%/year, it would be a better deal then leaving the money in a savings account.

To sum up: I'm all for healthy skepticism and informed criticism, but your comment provides neither.
wow, Taleb's Barbell strategy at play
Maybe this is a way to do so?
https://www.eyebuydirect.com/prescription-lens/prism-glasses?

Maybe it depends on the exact condition you have. Is it Binocular Vision Dysfunction?
>(I can read faster than I can understand speech).

Is this really true, or can you just read faster than most people talk?
All things being equal, I would prefer fewer syllables to pronounce when possible. But I'm a lazy English speaker.
It's called dyscalculia when severe enough.
I wish I better understood his critiques of other authors' statistical / data analysis errors, they're unfortunately mostly over my head.
> People didn't die of obesity related diseases in the sixties and seventies like they do today,

They also didn't eat huge portions or drink quite such vast quantities of sugary drinks.
I'm not even from the states, just giving you some perspective because it often seems the American snob past time is shitting on their own country and making comparisons they know very little about.
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Present in court. The descendant as proxy isn’t a new concept.

Failing to update the blockchain means the sale didn't go through. You can't assert ownership via a blockchain then believe failing to update the blockchain is acceptable. The buyer has records of transfer, eg payment. Right? That would be admissable in court.

The court orders new block chain transadtion/item. That new item refers to existing that presumably has all these details.

Edit: added "transaction".
I've had a work iPhone 7 for years now and I'm still entirely confused by its UI due entirely to inconsistency. Where are my apps? Certainly not organized in a handy alphabetical app drawer, they're just randomly arrayed over multiple home screens in whatever order they were installed in, requiring effort to organize and then memorize where every single one is, or requiring search using the keyboard (slower particularly when you don't quite remember the name of the app).

The fact that I can never figure out in any given app how the back button is supposed to work (is it in the taskbar? or at the top of the screen? or am I supposed to swipe from the left?) or where the settings can be (sometimes in the app, sometimes in the Settings app) is deeply confusing.

Sometimes when the keyboard is up, swiping down from the top closes it, sometimes it scrolls. I find that I genuinely have no idea what's going to happen whenever I tap anywhere. The keyboard decides to just change words using autocorrect far more aggressively than my SwiftKey on Android.

Maybe one day I'll learn how to use iOS, but I know that it's definitely not "strikingly consistent".
For big investment (time or money) I'd likely review even with a "meh" feedback or mixed feelings
Well that's not true. It's great for crime such as ransomware.
I love Taleb. he's full of piss and vinegar. His books are pretty interesting but really most of them could be one sentence long. Two examples:

Antifragile: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

Black Swan: Forecasting is really hard, perfect forecasting is impossible.
It's not the "same kind of network effects" though.
It'd be the same kind of network effects if the only reason people had Facebook (or telecoms) accounts is because they thought someone else might buy their account off them for more money. And if a social network came along with that value proposition - "sure, it doesn't actually do anything but the fact I sold some to this other sucker at a higher price than I bought it proves it's a store of value" - nobody would hesitate to call it a pyramid scheme.
These are not royalties. Royalties are paid when you buy a copy of a copyrighted work. And your not paying royalties again if the previous owner has already paid them.
I would find that kind of Spartan life to be pretty bleak and depressing. Sure, some people would like it, but I expect most people would not.
Not really. It might sound esoteric (I'd like to avoid that ...) but not many people find meaning in life through rationality. So I'd look elsewhere.
Look, this argument basically just boils down to "businesses can't fire customers for whom it doesn't make financial, operational, or reputational sense to serve." And like sure that sounds good except that we currently take the opposite stance by having protected classes. They are the single carve-out exception for the general idea that you can otherwise fire your customers for any reason you see fit.
I know more about the South Korean system.

They grade to a curve. When the students get better, the test gets harder. Their students spend 16 hours a day studying for their university exams, and start at the age of 12. 46% of students are depressed. Suicide is the leading cause of death in both 10-19 and 20-29 population, mostly due to the stress.

The goal of all students is to pass the test so that they can make it into Seoul University so that Samsung will hire them. The bottleneck is the test. Life afterwards is easy.

Rigorous testing does not give you the best 1% of the population, it filters the people willing to go through the system down to the top 1%. Some of them will be of the .1% best, and others will be those who worked harder as they did not have to help their little sister get home, or their parents clean the restaurant after school.

You can not know your false positives. You can not know your false negatives. Every Einstein born to a poor family who does not get to study is wasted potential to humanity. Every Einstein whose passion is in Machine Learning and spends all of his time on that topic will fail this test.
This is not possible to do while also having a UI that is pleasant to use and looks good. Nor will it get you a UI that is easy to use for disabled people.

What you get is a UI that is average-bad for everyone.
There is a new "browser.quitShortcut.disabled" setting in about:config to disable Ctrl+Q.
Maybe impaired is the better word? Similar to you are not driving while disabled from drinking, but you are driving impaired?
Why? Courts don't rule by consensus.
I am unfamiliar with Digital Ocean credits. What were you using them for, or going to use them for?

Have you been spending them or just amassing them?

(Not that either would justify summarily wiping them out. Just trying to understand.)
I think this is a good point. One of the main problems with new products and technologies is the inherent asymmetry of information: the producers know and the consumers sometimes don't.

However, this is a problem to be addressed by the FTC and it isn't something unique to NFTs. False advertising applies.

That being said, unfortunately it may be the case that many consumers are just ignorant of what they're buying in general (not including NFTs).
No, not at all. Oakland draws zero arched eyebrows (in my circles at least, which are made up of everyone from struggling to ultra-wealthy). If anything it's seen as a cooler place to live now that SF is stereotyped as boring techies.
Yeah I definitely see where you're coming from, unfortunately I just cowardly reboot on my Windows partition when I want to do "serious" audio work because Linux is just an exercise in frustration in my experience.
You can just request your ssd to be replaced if it fails/breaks/burns.
Yes! "Against the Gods": https://www.amazon.com/Against-Gods-Remarkable-Story-Risk-eb...

It's the opposite of Taleb. Basically, if people were rational and used financial instruments properly, a lot of the risks of our lives can be mitigated. The trick isn't so much to control everything but to trade the less desirable forms of risk for the ones you can handle.
If crypto mining on their systems becomes profitable for us, why would they continue renting out their servers? Instead, they could cease their operations and become full-time miners themselves.

Their pricing seems to rely on customers that don't maximize power consumption and hardware wear all the time, and I can fully understand if they ban specific use-cases like this from their hardware.
If you use a smart contract and encode only certain actions what a court can do, under what circumstances it would work maybe. However, the smart contracts would grow into highly complex source code propably...
> If someone can solve hard LeetCode problems why would they join Startups?

Uh, what lol? Is this really what it's like to have HN brain? Not everyone in the tech industry is just working their way up to a FAANG.
Let me know when someone's ready to take on the Regional Sports Fees. Every telecom participates, and I have to pay $7 a month to the Chicago Cubs because every cable provider in the state says I do.
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Blockchain is RECORD of ownership. It is a database with the stipulation it isn't so easy to mess up.

Nothing I wrote even asserts the legal system has no power.

I'm not an evangelist for blockchain but even I can see a benefit.
Crypto does not override reality as much as it creates new pockets for reality to exist within. Want to create a group project that splits funds with people in various parts of the world? Crypto might work well for that.

To partially address your question about the github "allmoney" repository, some people already have a similar system called Hawala. People who make that system need to have networks of trust set up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala
If it is unclear to start with which titles are valid, then filling the ledger will be an issue, i.e. the effort is in creating a clean register and not with the register "mechanics".

Btw. there are also countries with very well maintained registers where this is not a problem at all at present.
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If it's your thing, I highly recommend NNT's YouTube channel [1]. He uploads short videos (that he apparently films with a potato), where he explains stat concepts "for beginners." Of course, he also spends lots of time _roasting_ random researchers/statistics users/noobz.

Actually though, I've actually a bunch of his videos super educational and well made - if you can get past the terrible camera / sound quality.

I watched his explanation of the central limit theorem [2] the other day and found it super helpful. I'm not great at math, but I took multiple stat classes at uni (including two where we went through proofs for the CLT at some level). But this single 10 minute video helped me "get it" more than any class. The big observation that I was missing is that the sample mean is pretty much the same as the sample sum, and the sample sum can sum to "things in the middle" in more ways that things not in the middle (e.g. if you have two dice, rolling a 7 is more likely than rolling a 12).

I'm sure I'm butchering it mostly, but that little bit of intuition was just *nice* - especially after 2 stat classes of rote proof following w/ little to no intuition building.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8uY6yLP9BS4BUc9BSc0Jww

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfM9efdStN8