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As other comments have pointed out, there are other technical solutions to decentralized identity. The blockchain doesn't solve this problem any better than private keys or Persona or whatever. The article acknowledges this. The problem with existing solutions is not the technical problem, it's the social problem: making the new solution easy to use, fixing bugs and covering edge cases, and getting it deployed widely. The author claims that the social problem is what Web3 solves; that Web3 is the social solution counterpart to the blockchain technical solution.

Web3 is indeed a social solution to this social problem, but the real problem with Web3 is that it's a terrible social solution. Web3 (aka blockchain enthusiasts, aka cryptobros) is a community comprised of on one end by true believers who believe they're smarter than anyone else in the room and that anyone who brings up complaints are only mad because they didn't get in when the cryptocoin was cheap, and on the other end by grifters and scammers who fully acknowledge that they're only in it for a quick buck off the back of unsuspecting rubes.

This is the core problem with most crypto projects. Most blockchain projects have technical problems [0], but even for the few things that blockchain uniquely solves [1] the general scummyness of everyone involved means that anyone advertising they're solving problems with a blockchain is not someone to trust your money with [2].

Of course, the blockchain isn't the only technology to suffer this problem. Blockchain's at the top of the hype cycle right now so of course it's filled with scammers. But even though Pets.com may not have the most competent business, the technology behind ecommerce was generally sound. Blockchain on the other hand has so few useful niches that the only thing left are the hype-men.

[0] Eg you could use NFTs to prove ownership of IRL property, but why? You're just storing a deed in a different place. It used to be in a SQL server somewhere, now it's on a blockchain instead.

[1] That is, decentralized databases where you don't trust all parties not to modify the data. But uh, with whom do you need to share data that you don't trust, and how do you guarantee they're not just feeding false data into it in the first place?

[2] I'm not implying all blockchain enthusiasts are pretentious and/or scammers. Just that there's a much higher proportion of them in the Web3 community than elsewhere.
> think their job is just lines of code vs accomplishing the business goals

That's... not what he said at all. "Getting stuff done" means accomplishing business goals more than it means lines of code, so you're very nearly accusing him of saying the opposite of what he said. Feel free to go into the essay and search/replace "getting stuff done" with "accomplishing business goals" - it still makes sense and is completely accurate. Modern "scrum" gets in the way of just accomplishing business goals by pretending that they're perfectly predictable.
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I'm a very big fan of a game called Enderal [1] which is essentially a mod built upon Skyrim's engine. It's amazingly high quality considering it's a passion project by a small team of devs. They created an entirely new world complete with lore, quests, a new leveling/magic system, voice acting (!), etc.

It's really proved to me that all it takes is a few people with passion and creative control to craft a good RPG. Skyrim could not be the result of anything besides creative bankruptcy and a realization that impressive graphics sell games. Kind of ironic considering that Morrowind looked awful when it came out, even by the standards of the time.

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Separate from my other response, he is probably not a villain in his own mind. So, while Theranos wouldn't even register against some of his other acts from the opinions of many, it very well might in his own mind.

I also should have been clearer in my original comment and provided another aspect of the influence people at that level have: It can often be passive. It may not take a phone call to for the influence to manifest itself: The mere involvement of prominent people like this in a scandal could be all it takes to spark significant interest by the DOJ and prosecutors to investigate, it doesn't necessarily have to be a back-channel request from the person to look into an issue. On a much smaller scale that has happened where I work before.
Will it carry "gas" for a cryptocurrency?
See Envoy Proxy's Hot Restart [0]

0. https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/intro/arch_overv...
Yeah, like so many other things in the GPU world, main RAM texture storage is more of a hint to the graphics card driver — "this buffer isn't going away and won't change until I explicitly tell you otherwise".

It definitely used to be that GPUs did real DMA texture reads though, at least in the early days of dedicated GPUs with fairly little local RAM. I'm thinking back to when the Mac OS X accelerated window compositor was introduced — the graphics RAM simply wouldn't have been enough to hold more than a handful of window buffers.
Mushroom drawl is a pretty classical tell of usage, but I wouldn't consider it a de facto detriment.

For some people, being a little slower to speak means they're more careful with their thoughts, less likely to be carried away by engagement or perpetuate useless ideas, and more prone to patient reflection.

Mushrooms can't magically confer any of those skills, but some things are easier to learn when we're not leaning on only what comes most naturally to us.
Great thing about those recipes its not only the layout, it has the volumes in grams.
Because of Rice's theorem, I don't think there will ever be a tool that can do this even nearly as well as a human before AGI is realized.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%27s_theorem
0.5% per day according to this one example, but requires turning off sentry mode
Yes, but if you reduced the average amount of time stuck in traffic while the total number and distance of trips remained the same, you certainly wouldn't say that your local city is doing worse. Moreover, if you replaced some car trips with other ways of transporting the same person or freight, that certainly isn't a loss for your local city simply because the number of people driving decreased.
I think that Bogdanoff twins invented a time-machine, traveled to 2021 and used GPT-3 to generate their Ph.D. theses with correct Quantum Field Theory jargon but nonsensical otherwise :-)
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> I don’t agree that "every request to a web server is by definition a query",

Query is a synonym for ask.
Request is a synonym for ask.

We are now making request requests?

This is redundant and is not needed.
Based on what? I believed it was common sense that our mental state was a product of the neurochemical interactions going on our brains. If you get addicted to gaming, are you really addicted to gaming, or are you addicted to the huge amounts of hormones like dopamine and serotonin flooding your brain when you win a match? Is this really "psychological" addiction? If the answer is yes, should I decide to inject serotonin intravenously, is it still psychological addiction?
Reminds me of Asimov's Foundation trilogy.

"Seldon explains that his science of psychohistory foresees many alternatives, all of which result in the Galactic Empire eventually falling. If humanity follows its current path, the Empire will fall and 30,000 years of turmoil will overcome humanity before a second Empire arises. However, an alternative path allows for the intervening years to be only one thousand"

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First of all, I am fairly sure GrapheneOS is in no way affiliated to NitroPhone which just packages their work and sells it with no work done by themselves.

Second of all, the only accusation I see is on your part.
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You can coordinate and report without heavy duty micromanaging process like scrum. And you can achieve much better relationships between people then scrum generates too.

The one thing scrum ignores is human psychology.

The fact that defense of scrum is so often manipulative, attacking critics personally or twisting what other people said is not good reflection of that system.
> some of the top answers on StackOverflow were copied from my work without giving any credit to me

That's really frustrating. I'm building a faster search engine for programming queries and just added your site cyberciti.biz as a recommended and curated source of Unix/Linux material. Hope more devs get aware of your work and you (and your collaborators) receive the credits deserved. Thanks for your work of many years.
That means you didn't add enough lanes. You need to get ahead of induced demand, otherwise you city isn't meeting the needs of the people who live there. If you don't want to have many places you can reach in a reasonable amount of time can you can move to a rural area. The point of cities is to give people options to reach lots of places quickly. Get busying being a good city.

Note, it can be better to add transit other than lanes of road. Even though I said add lanes, adding lanes is but one possible solution. Good transit may well be better. Figure out how to make your city serve the people who want to get around.
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an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of abject confusion in this realm as fifty mind numbing years of the US Drug War sponsored by RAID Shadow Legends has rendered any independent attempt at scientific validation of the conditions applications and hazards of most recreational narcotics a fever dream of retraction, deflection, and outright lies.

For 50 years psychedelic drugs were the devils dingaling and always accompanied by a well-wishing naysayer who insisted the other shoe was filled with the cloven hoof of Mephistopheles himself. This is quality peer-reviewed research, the same kind used to ostensibly validate things like hydrocodone and Flintstones vitamins...but this sort of thing is happening alongside the haggard burro of western drug policy which makes it all the more precious. Any knowledge of the conditions and terms related to something like this as it pertains to PTSD is invaluable as 30 years ago such seditious mumblings would get you branded a communist hippie.

so yeah, terms and conditions apply and just as with everything else, theres a ladder of risk, but castigating the machine shop for their nefarious chainsaw sure to rain terror upon the good fae of the woods is a little silly.
I know exactly what you mean: I'm fond of pointing out that I probably wouldn't be a software engineer today if the computers I grew up with had been as locked down as an iPhone. It only sort-of works in a world that today also features a Raspberry Pi, but is not sustainable on its own. In my brain I refer to this as "educational sustainability" somehow (then again, isn't all education motivated by sustainability of civilization and culture?), but I'm sure smarter folks have discussed and given this a better label.

That said, luxury sports cars are an oddball market with non-obvious concerns and economics. A lot of the limited production run cars these restrictions apply to are essentially too valuable to actually drive. They're collectors' items, or acquired as speculative goods that will increase in value. It may be that making them more "tamper-proof" is in a strange way in the interest of the buyers.
I guess you're not a developer. JIRA is incredibly convoluted and backwards from a development perspective, because it was built for a different audience (product? sales? I'm not sure).

Just try to find a diff in a JIRA "issue". It's crazy how many clicks that takes.
It's astounding to watch consumer "activists" just demand higher wages without the willingness to pay more for what they buy.
> The claim in the article is categorical. The claim is that there are no detrimental side effects.

That is not the claim made in the article. The article claims that no detrimental side effects were found over the course of the study, which had participants take small dosages of psilocybin in a clinical setting. That's a very specific scenario and is a world away from habitual recreational use.

> This recent fad for "fixing" people by taking them on psychedelic trips is creepy.

When looked at in isolation, yes, it can appear creepy. However when you look at the known side effects of other pharmaceuticals commonly used to treat mental illness, the case for psychedelics becomes a lot more compelling. Right now, most pysch medication really sucks, so if something sucks a little bit less, that's a win.
This is a really good point, but I also want to bring up a (small) counterargument:

I live in Denver, CO. Cars basically make it impossible to walk around most of the city, even in the more residential areas. Walking is an essential part of the public transit/non-car transportation experience because essentially everyone has to walk a few blocks from a bus stop, train station, bike rack, etc. to complete their trip on both ends. If walking those few blocks is unpleasant, unsafe, or impossible, people will (reasonably) prefer cars.

Unfortunately, car and pedestrian traffic are at odds in most cities. Situations that seem better for cars (turning lanes, right-on-red, faster speed limits, street parking) often make life hell for pedestrians who try to cross the road. Or make life very, very noisy for pedestrians who need to walk or live or work near those roads.

I agree wholeheartedly that we can't just make driving suck to encourage more people to walk or take public transit. But there are aspects of driving that need to be sacrificed to make public transit better. A great example: changing 4-lane roads to 2-lane roads -- if you can introduce a bike lane, bus lane, or both, those methods of transportation become significantly faster, safer, and better. Biking is basically a non-starter without lanes; busses can be so slow as to be not worth using when they get stuck in normal traffic. The same argument applies to parking removal -- instead of using an entire effective lane of traffic for parked cars, we can dedicate it to bikes or buses.

Lowering the speed limit reduces noise at street level, makes streets safer to cross for pedestrians, and allows bikes to peacefully coexist with cars in an environment where you don't need to go that fast anyway.

It would be interesting to hear what holds you back from using buses, walking, or bikes instead of your car to get around town. In Denver, the main issues I encounter are:

- bike theft

- literal crazy people shouting at me on buses/trains

- drivers who park/stop in crosswalks, or try to kill me on my bicycle

- the bus network is extremely slow to get around town

I think there's a fair argument that we should focus on solving these problems first, before we degrade car traffic. Bike theft is a really bike one in Seattle, too, iirc, and a huge blocker for folks trying to switch away from cars. But eventually you need to degrade car traffic to make public transit as good as it can be.
> Something that's not true on Windows.

Getting python up an running on Windows is fairly trivial though. You don't even need local admin permissions if your machine is locked down by your IT dept.
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I agree with this.

The canadian report into the misuse of drugs (a pelican book from the 70s) drew a distinction between addiction and habituation which I think has stood the test of time. Addictive things cause change in the bodies own processes, such as the replacement of ?dopamine? by opiod drugs, and a decline in the bodys own production due to homeostasis: this means the withdrawal is a real physiological effect, lack of dopamine until the body restarts production.

Some drugs (I mean drugs in the wider sense not recreational drugs) can cause PERMANENT change in the bodys own hormone cycle and so you cease production of a function entirely. Menopause is an instance of this but there are others I believe, the endocrine system is fantastically complex. I believe some bone anti-demineralisation drugs have this side effect and so deciding to take them has huge longterm consequences (again unsure I have the right background drug issue here)

Habituation is the mental binding of pleasure or some other desired state (numbing, dissociation) to the repeated effect (as I understand it) and is a different thing: It feels good because you've learned the response, might be the way to put it. This is NOT the same as a homeostatic change in body function.
I like your cartoon. The difference with the dividend flow is that the payment was made... not for a good or service (which all the other flows have in common)
but tax on a repayment. Not a fixed, negotiated payment either... A repayment
that is, interestingly, not in the control of the shareholder. Thus differing
from a loan.

I would no longer purchase stocks -- I would then prefer bonds (loans).
Which means I would take risk into account, and this would stifle (some)
innovation.

I don't mind taxation at all!
How does Scrum micromanage and/or ignore human psychology?
I don't think anyone is claiming that is literally the only metric, because if it were, you could also just ban driving completely, or kill a bunch of people, etc.
Scrum was effective at my old workplace, but maybe for a bad reason. Almost every software engineer had a time split between at least two teams, usually 50-50 but sometimes imbalanced or split further. Since teams tended to ask as much of you as they could -- much like the proverbial professor who doesn't particularly care that you have other classes, theirs is the important one -- engineers were incentivized to stay shallow and get stuff done quickly rather than well.

In that context, the longer something could be put off, the less stressed you would be. Scrum was (mostly) effective at setting sprint-sized deadlines to hold people accountable to.

Personally, I'd much rather have used a lighter Kanban system, but the issues caused by the time splitting culture were very real; I don't think we could have moved off of Scrum without addressing the deeper issue.

I don't think this is the point Scrum wanted to win, but there you go: it's a decent backstop against bad policies elsewhere. Unfortunately, that's a pretty mediocre bar to set.
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Psychedelics are the opposite of additive. In general, when a healthy person does a higher dose with the correct set and setting they do not want to do a high dose again for months and sometimes years and in some cases ever.

Do not take my word for it. Research drug addiction statics. Compare Synthetic Opioid overdoes to Psilocybin overdoes.

Look at how the drug war has fueled the industrial prison complex and the expense of POC.

With a broader frame, of the risk profile, it's clear that Psilocybin is low on the list for healthy people.

And that the drug war has manifested as a modern cast system within the united states.
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Nobody said mentor is the only way to get help.

I have this model where you can get regular help with what you want and mentor help with what you need.

Mentor will be mature and experienced enough to be able to recognise your particular needs and be able to adjust to you. Mentor will be able to understand their own limitations and adjust for it, too.
I was fully expecting to see an empty HTML page.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only new idea here is to use a ledger to hold public keys associated with an identity. You could add keys by signing a new key with one of the previously globally accepted ones proving you are that entity and the same would go for removing a lost one, by signing a new message with all the remaining keys.

Having a key copied without your knowledge would be a major disaster, however.

Apart from that, this is not very different from using keys in SSH and providing a challenge/response login form would be very simple.
I've always found the multi-process approach taken by both nginx and apache to be nothing but a hindrance when you have to write a custom module. It means that you may have to use shared memory, which is a PITA.

I don't know why they haven't moved on from it; it only really made sense when uni-core processors were the norm.
Cross connections may matter less if the actual cultural differences tendd towards a monoculture… will be interesting to see how it plays out over the next millennia, but we won’t be here to know:)
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