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Compact cassettes were not a lossless medium. The DAT cassette was fought against with tooth and nail. The CD was okay as a read only medium.

Look how long it took for the music industry to accept DRM free audio formats. Without Apple's dominance we probably wouldn't still have them now.

The web had from the beginning the problem of monetizing digital content that you just could right-click and download.
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A game that exists in two blockchains would offer a way to bridge assets between them, or succeeded by one that does.

In fact the opposite is starting to be true: assets from game A being usable in game B.
https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/index.php
Haha, excellent! Hans Christian Andersen would be proud.
Not really, it assumes we all know how to right click, but only the gauche would actually right click rather than buy an NFT (and presumably right click on the image brought up by the resulting URL ...).
I think NFT's applied to art make only nominal sense. I myself had to come to the realization that NFT's are really just flexing for the rich, because as anyone realizes, right-click save-as is all you need to have the art too, just not the "key" or "ownership proof" to that art.

However when it comes to gameing, its a whole different story. Think of it more like a key to unlock something unique in the digital world.

Want to own some unique special edition sword with rare attributes in the Zelda-verse? Buy the NFT block chain address to it that says you and only you can have it. Want to own the penthouse apartment in the zucker-verse? Buy the NFT key that says only you have ownership rights. Want to be a unique character with unique pets in World-of-crypto-craft? Buy the NFT's to unlock these. Sell them if you get bored for more money, and the game developer gets a cut!

The gaming application scenarios are enormous. That's why crypto gaming will likely be huge and I myself have invested in it's foundations for the long term (Enjin, Seedify-fund, D-race, etc). It's one of the few applications that makes sense outside of rich snobs flexing.
NFTs are also a pre metaverse type setup to get people used to digital goods, that you will need to see through an spectacles. Spectacles that require spectacles.

Much like an online game when you buy cosmetic digital goods to improve the look or performance of your game/player, to show off really.

In the meta/game world there will be unique digital goods that could be built to use an ownership/db system that isn't proprietary to the game/app/world. This is almost a psychological operation or training mission for that type of setup from games to the "real" meta world.

Besides that, NFTs at the root were created as a product to buy with crypto that still essentially stores value. Like art today, they are a way to pass value, in some cases that will be to evade oversight, in other cases that will be to share, on other cases to own, in others to speculate. People buying actual goods with crypto would make it go down, so NFTs are a hedge to offset that essentially to keep speculation high.

Essentially cryptocurrency creators/developers wanted a way to increase circulation, but not decrease the value, so they chose art/interactives as that product. It was a product created for crypto and potentially the future. Whether NFTs are that solution or not, digital goods do need some way outside systems to share across other worlds/views/apps/games.

We have this already pretty much there with just the internet, but some want a large market within these systems with unique products being a way to create scarcity and potentially demand by limiting supply, but an external digital rights system.

In the end though the root cause of NFTs being created was increasing cryptocurrency circulation with a way to essentially "lock up" some value like a vault or staking would do.
getopt-like libs stop parsing options after “--“, so “rm -- *” should be safe, afair.
Ah, so it was _you_. My name is Geoff. You killed my /etc/ppp/options. Prepare to die. </joke>
I dont agree with the previous poster but I think you should recognize that the bank and the government in your example are not playing symmetric games. The incentives for each are different, even though at a point in time accounting principles can describe their respective balance sheets.
Silicon Valley has no idea about the ‘metaverse’
Almost all of the major marketplaces on Ethereum and Tezos facilitate artist royalties.
High level government members were hacked in Brazil using spoofed numbers to access voicemail. No social engineering, just bad systems.
I've always wondered why "open source architecture" never took off - i know every site has it's own challenges and each city it's own building codes but it seems like it would be pretty easy to make 50 types of buildings and essentially copy and paste them to make a nice city
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They are spreading FUD in their own community they are actively trying to scare people for their own cause. Insane that people around here are defending this.
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What does NFT add here that you can’t already do with DLC and a credit card?
I have a cheap Dymo label printer that has a keyboard and that prints on sticker tape (I believe this one: https://www.dymo.com/label-makers-printers/letratag-label-ma...)

It cost around €20, three meters of off-brand sticker tape is less than €5, and it takes AA batteries which then last forever.

Very useful to have somewhere in a drawer.
My point exactly. They have different ISA, and as such cannot be compared on the transistor count alone.

They each correspond to a different era, with different needs, as BCD clearly tells.

If today's HW engineers had a chance to implement a small cpu core with the same tr count, would they come up with the same ISA as the ARM1 or 8086? Would they choose to implement integer division (DIV and IDIV in x86), or not and leave it to software (ARM)? Would they pick CISC, RISC, VLIW, or something else?
Where do you get super cheap label rolls?
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Not sure I agree that those buildings are good looking.

Incidentally, I think there are some nice architectures in the "Dishonoured" series (and in fact many Arkane games, Prey included).
Japans stock market would like to have a word with you. (https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Datawatch/30-years-since-J...)

Yes, the US stock market has had a wonderful hundred year run during a time the market went from a backwater developing market to a global hedgemon and through a one-time demographic dividend where it halved its non-working population (children) and doubled its workforce (women) and had an extremely open immigration policy for working age adults.

Of course past performance is no indication of future concerns.
It's interesting to approach groups that way. Finding what drives the things around and check for conflicts. I think we all have inner reflexes / ego / reference frames and it's important to state them smoothly and negotiate (constructive negotiation if possible) to find the best balance.

I've been very curious about these because I sense a lot of paradoxical behavior. People ranting about state of affairs but refusing solutions (because it clashes with some unclear principle they hold, often a pavlovian reflex that doesn't work well in large groups, only creating political issues in the long run)
Is there any evidence that this is actually what's happening? Why does everyone hold on to a 20 year old mantra from a nearly totally different company? Especially when the "extinguish" phase is quite literally impossible. I get spite, I get hating MS, I get it, I really do. But this is pretty clearly not what's happening here.

If anything, this is a stab at Apple as it's reaching for web developers using Macbooks. Nobody who uses Linux because they want to is going to use WSL.
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Neither of those is a drop-in replacement for CPython.

It would be better to compare this project to, in addition to CPython: PyPy, GraalPython, Pyston, Cinder, Jython, and IronPython. As well as the now-inactive Psyco project, and possibly also Stackless Python.
It has relative soft power. The reason you hear lots of Brazilian devs wanting to move is due to the tremendous problems Brazil is facing. Not all countries have problems to this extent.

From a EU-centric perspective the soft power the US have is not that strong.
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There's utility in buying the steak at the restaurant though. Maybe not enough for most to buy it, but there is some utility in having someone else make a meal that you might screw up if you do it yourself.

There isn't a lot of utility in an NFT as compared to a normal JPEG except as a store of value, which nobody really wanted to use JPEGs for until this year.
Can I ask, is the Node ecosystem different in this respect to PyPI for example? Or is it not different at all and the same thing could (does?) happen there too?
As they used to (almost) say: NFTs want to be free!
> A Pascal operating system for instance would use Pascal strings

Only if the designers would make that decision, and they are not in any way obliged to make such decision! Nobody stops them from using e.g. a moral equivalent of "RECORD size: CARDINAL; str_ptr: ^CHAR END" for passing strings in their system calls (which would probably coincide with using "size_t size, char *str_ptr" in the C prototype at the binary level), or something else entirely.

Is the idea of an OS not exposing its implementation language in its public API that foreign so I have to express it three times in this thread and every time be replied with "No, what are you talking about, of course the OS would use reuse the structures of the runtime of the language that it is written in in its public syscall API"?

Gee, I wonder how the syscall calling convention would look if I wrote an OS entirely in assembly.
I don't have a great filing system, but it has been sufficient so far: have all documents in the same folder, put their respective date in the filename together with some tags ("yymmdd_name_and_tags.pdf"), and convert scans to searchable PDFs with "ocrmypdf" on Linux.

The date and comprehensive filename is often enough to find a document, but additionally I can do a "full text search" on all documents with the text layer that is put onto scans by the OCR.
Validated by whom? There are literally dozens if not hundreds of these NFT "systems" now, will they all be supported/supporting the metaverse(tm)?
I don't know if it's too late for that group. Macs are fashionable and I think people will feel they're being treated poorly if given a Windows laptop instead.

You're right on with WSL2 providing a standard usable environment though. Windows and Mac developers both need a ton of handholding to get started and WSL2 makes it a lot easier to hand them a wiki page and expect fewer 1:1 calls to tweak setups.
The simple answer is provenance and blockchain provided this much more than the physical world.

The old world analogy to your scenario is you go to a museum and take a picture of an Ansel Adams work, make a print and try to sell it to Bob. Why would bob pay for this. you have to convince him it's a real Ansel Adams.

Same thing with NFT. You would have to know artist on alpha is real and beta is not. It's non trivial but again I don't think it's actually that different from the real world today. NFT does not attempt to solve this part. Instead it let you check that the nft you're buying is from alpha and the original artist.
I would argue that the metaverse is not competing with Google Hangouts or Discord. In fact, you will still be able to use these things inside the metaverse and will still get value out of them.

The metaverse is not competing against the 2D internet by trying to make it immersive, but rather against the physical world by trying to make it more useful. From that perspective, VR offers value everywhere the laws of physics are inconvenient, which is just about everywhere.

Take the example of walking to a college class on a rainy day. In the physical world, you have to carry an umbrella, and the walk takes 15 minutes. In the metaverse, you can tell the rain not to make you wet, or you can teleport to class without ever going outside.
Pretty sure it's a dig at the US where people in many of its overseas (basically only Hawaii) territories don't get to vote in the presidential election, while it sounds like there is universal suffrage in all of France's territory.
Not post-Ballmer. Azure is where growth is and Linux is a huge part of this. Microsoft's future revenue is directly tied to the success of Linux in the cloud so these old idioms from the 1990s died along time ago.
Lets say I buy the NFT the penthouse apartment in Zucker-verse. What is to stop Zuck from selling 100 copies of my penthouse on other planets in his second life clone?
I don't know my Emacs timeline very well, but I'd be nervous about lexical scope and the more recent cooperative async features of Emacs (lisp) not being represented in a 20 year old book.

EDIT: Yeah, Emacs 24 had support for lexical scope, and that was in 2012. You'd be doing a disservice to yourself, IMO, to write dynamically scoped Elisp today, unless you had a specific reason. And if you don't even KNOW that lexical scoping is an option, it would be unfortunate.
How are access controls and permissions reconciled? I'm assuming user accounts on the Windows side and Linux side are different. Or would LDAP/AD help to make this WSL2 filesystem integration stuff even more seamless?
> Buy the NFT's to unlock these.

- Central authority over your ownership (The game developer/publisher)

- The right flag needs to be set to check if you own a specific item

- You buy the item from a central authority, who grants it to you in the game world (and can just as well choose to take it away from you again, they might not be able to delete the flag, but they can certainly ignore it)

You discovered databases.

If you move to player <-> player transactions, you have a basic ingame/platform marketplace...which exists already. Again no value is added here by adding NFTs.

> The gaming application scenarios are enormous.

The only way NFTs provide anything other than a slower, way less efficient database is if all publishers and developers somehow got together and agreed on a standard to carry your items across games from different publishers:

1. Why would any developer want this?

2. Why would developers want to develop and maintain a spec to make this work?
Frankly, if comfortable with large risk, I would be looking at crypto, specifically ETH, SOL, ADA and maybe some meme-coins. I don't think any public stock market funds offer that kind of risk/reward at the moment for the speculative investor.
Well, you're wrong. Seller declares income and pays taxes, but they don't have a duty to track down buyers real identity and check their income sources. Thus you could easily be both buyer and seller but only declare seller part.
I just tried it in Big Sur and it wouldn't allow it.
You’ve never seen a programming error triggered by a user rapidly mutating state?

The programming in question here is ucode instead of application code, but it’s programming nonetheless.
You can express your opinion of an article without implying that it should not even come up for discussion (which would, of course, have removed your means of expressing your disapproval to an audience that has, by its upvotes and participation in this discussion, demonstrated that the article does belong here! Arguably, it belongs here precisely because of the controversial ethical issue.)

You are clearly aware of the pointlessness of complaints couched in this manner, yet you chose to do so anyway. Are you also aware that the guidelines for HN specifically deprecate this sort of thing? Moderating a public forum is a difficult task, Dang does a great job, and, while I do not think you intended it, it can come across as somewhat disrespectful to express disapproval of the content of an article by suggesting that his moderation didn't match one's particular point of view.
> Police exist to make sure that white neighborhoods don't start to feel like black neighborhoods, and that black neighborhoods don't start to feel like white neighborhoods.

Ermmm.. what?
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> society can place value on many different abstract concepts

What society definitely can't place value on is a URL to a digital asset that may or may not be there tomorrow, because an uninsured, untrusted value store can't be relied on.

There's nothing saying NFT artifacts have to be digital, though, I'd think. Using them to facilitate trade of physical artifacts would back the trade with (relatively) reliable value stores (physical artifacts) while benefiting from the low transaction fees.
> I have a 5 year investment horizon […]

This seems… short. Can you put more context on why it is five years and not more?
For a similar reason, `touch ~/-i` can protect you from some problematic `rm -rf *`s.
> So, architects, be bold. Go crazy. Gothic futurism. Do it.

All other things being equal, yes please. My bias is to think that all other things are not equal. In particular:

1. The price of creating beautiful unique pieces is probably higher and more uncertain. It's probably cheaper to churn out boxes using prefab components and so the dominant architecture will follow that constraint.

2. It's not the architects that are too timid, it's committees that must be convinced and they are biased toward conservative designs.

The more productive call to action would be something like: Look at new fabrication methods, materials, workflows on the building site and ask how the envelope of design can be expanded without introducing cost and risk.
It bums me out how the HN crowd lacks any creativity when it comes to anything Crypto. NFTs do solve a problem, and the problem that they solve is that creatives are getting paid for their creative output. Not every NFT is a flex, or used to launder money. Some folks use NFTs as Patreon -> to support artists who's work they admire. "Why not just buy a painting?" Well people who make digital videos and 3d renderings are artists too, aren't they? The promise of NFTs is that they offer a different way for people to interact. Ownership is always based on social constructs, so folks that are involved in this space need to have some consensus of what it means to "own" an NFT on whatever chain. From there these items can be gamified. NFTs run on top of what is essentially programmable money. What if we designate an NFT to an application (a smart contract) that in exchange issues tokens to designate fractional ownership of that NFT? Never in history has anyone been able to buy shares of highly coveted art... maybe now you can? Using smart contracts you can you can also conduct trustless exchanges of digital assets (NFTs). This is huge.
I might mess up my computer!!

some people are helpless without their package manager and the maintainers that tell them what software that can run
Why is it okay to be paid $100,000 for the exact same job as your equivalent counterparts in the US make 3.5x for?

That's millions if you save the majority for retirement. It could be the difference between nursing homes and an independent travel-filled retirement at a reasonable age.

Of course, I'm not here to make decisions for anyone. And people have personal reasons to not pursue immigration, that's fine. They're making a steep trade-off, though.
What's interesting is that in the ~240 comments so far, no one has actually engaged with the topic of the article, which is the real world display of digital art.
> a in-game asset, a digital license

Neither of these are good examples: the real value comes from the outside legal relationships. If you have an in-game asset, what matters is whether EA thinks you own it and you get what they choose to implement. Similarly, a Windows license key is valid to the extent that you have a legal agreement with Microsoft — if you transfer it and the license doesn’t cover that, the blockchain doesn’t mean anything. If they do allow transfers, you don’t need a blockchain since their SQL Server database is what matters and it does the job faster and so much cheaper.

Very few NFT concepts are different than this: the legal weight comes from the outside world and the cheaper alternatives are likely to win out once the VCs drop the subsidies and start trying to get money out of the system.
For the most part I am with you, I would prefer either Linux or macOS if I want that sort of environment but I recently setup windows 10 with docker and wsl2 and it has come quite a long way since I first tried it. Like, I could actually see myself working in that environment.
Yeah this person clearly stole your article.
This isn't really an issue with NFTs though. It's an issue with people being dicks.
I prefer to work on windows. My hardware just works, all of the programs I need just work, and it has better integration with the shell I prefer (powershell). The only time I ever need Linux/Unix is when some Unix dev decides to not use cross platform tools in their project (e.g. posix shell).
That's the funny thing about npm though, is that it's so easy to nuke all of the packages that the first thing anyone tells you to do when you are troubleshooting is rm -rf node_modules. Python can be harder if you're not paying attention to where you're pip installing.
The Victorians had a concept of civic pride and public service which is completely absent today.

I owe a lot to this dude, because he made sure that when worker was housing was being built it would have a library on the periphery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Passmore_Edwards

There was an explicit goal of providing education and opportunities to working people. (Well - working men. But this was over a century ago now.)

Modern philanthropy has no equivalent. There is no interest in creating high quality useful public spaces for ordinary people. So there's no architectural tradition to support that goal.
All my NFT owner homies don't even use mice any more. We have VR workstations now. You right-click to save images? I save entire 3D models.

/lazy-sarcasm
ssh_rsa shouldn't be readable to browser, Spotify, Zoom or whatever is currently running. And browser files should be isolated from any other process etc.

Linux security model (and I suppose other OSes too, but I'm most familiar with) is fundamentally incompatible with desktop environments. Mobile OSes got it much better.

I love Snap because it confines processes to sandbox.