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What issues with land registries are solved by blockchain technologies?

And are those issues actually bad enough that you would accept the new issues introduced by blockchain technologies?

I'm imagining my property becoming forever "unowned" because some real estate lawyer lost their escrow wallet key.
Super cool little fun product. I like that Snap tries to be different and take chances on hardware.

Their glasses never really took off but they still iterated on it and did a second version and I’m sure some of the lessons learned there were applied to this product.

I’m curious to learn about how it does indoors.
ScPrime and Storj use the blockchain to reduce micro-payment fees to data centers for data storage and bandwidth. Sure this could be done via traditional banking arrangements but the transaction fees would take a major bite out of the data center's profits.
>So basically, you're just arguing against more than a century of essentially universal law.

Yes, basically, and doubly so for the income tax.
A key problem to solve is how to create a reliable source of truth for the currency. If not a traditional bank or ledger built on distributed consensus, then you're into the territory of inventing something new. It's a hard problem but I'd love to see it.
That's weird. They don't bill for logs per GB/line, iirc, so from a financial perspective it seems an odd choice - it will cost them lots of money to just pile on lots of logs from users/companies who didn't ask for it ( if they needed them they would have enabled the feature themselves).
I do feel like "do the thing you did before, but fix the glaring mistakes you made before in hindsight" has some appeal.
I'm considering adding an "unlimited" bank of puzzles that you can play once you've solved the daily games (or instead of the dailies). I'll let you know if I do!
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So a database of some sort I suppose...who is going to be the host/arbiter?

Or is there a non-blockchain way to run a currency system that has no central authority?
"incited bullying of individuals with no public presence"

Elon Musk never even mentioned her - he simply referred to Twitter's actions as "obviously incredibly inappropriate" and linked to an article that happened to mention her.

> "bullying of individuals with no public presence"

You can't be serious. This person is literally responsible for burying the Hunter Biden laptop story and is personally responsible for banning Trump. That's a public position whether you like it or not. I don't think anyone would think we can stop criticizing Putin the moment he exits office.

Imagine if Jack Dorsey ran Twitter without a Twitter account. That would not negate your ability to criticize his leadership even if he never spoke.
It is indeed mostly semantics.

Interestingly (to me anyway) I was just following the news about Lake Powell being at a very low level, and noticed on a map just how "non-lake like" its shape is (even when at full capacity).... it just looks like a river and tributaries that are somewhat wider than they were before a dam was built.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lake+Powell/@37.0518007,-1...

Meanwhile, why is Greenland considered an island and Australia a continent? Who knows. You have to draw a line somewhere.
This is sooo cool.
For some people, getting funding is the only real goal.
It's not about whether clients wait for acks, but rather whether participants of the consensus (instances of the database servers, basically) wait for consensus prior to commiting.

If the client doesn't wait until the transaction is commited, a a client cannot 'proceed', as the transaction is not observable in any node. Giving this guarantee of consistency requires consensus among the nodes, and consensus introduces coordination, which introduces latency. That's the basic argument for PACELC.

It is also totally possible, but rare in practice, to design a PC/EL system. The cannonical example by Prof. Abadi is PNUTS: https://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2010/04/problems-with-cap-a...
For some things it's definitely possible. For "basic editing/writing" it's plenty good enough for Linux applications that aren't super compute hogs. Which is actually most things that everyday people use computers for. It's only a few niches that truly need more.

There are all the normal issues of "desktop linux".

They are useful for a lot of "portable computer" applications that would normally be assigned to laptops. For example as a controller to talk to the physical world like weather stations, 3D printers, etc.
Are you sure it's supposed to do that? I remember reading this story there back when it was printed, and I don't remember the text doing that. I went to read it again a year or so ago, but couldn't, because the text started growing out of control and froze Firefox (as it just did for me now).

How do you actually read it?

Edit: hmm, if I very quickly scroll to the bottom of the page, I can click the image to go to the next page before Firefox gets too unhappy.
I am teaching my 10 year old Python using Nano, and he’s picked it up surprisingly quickly. When I wanted him to upgrade to VS Code, he preferred the terminal! Nano’s a great product, thanks for the hard work on it all.
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With everything opening back up and experiencing a labor shortage it would be very difficult to justify any further stimulus monies. I don't think we have to worry about that.

Economists expected a rise in inflation due to stimulus spending in 2020 - that had already been factored in to their forecasts. What has surprised them is the rate of inflation is higher than expected. I'm arguing the reason they're surprised is they were only considering financial policy and not also including the effects of constrained supply - which is also why they also missed forecasting a shrinking economy.
Wow, Disney is pulling out all the stops on their Moon Knight promotions.
Bits travel one way, but dollars travel in the other. That's the distinction.
This was my experience as a contractor, at least for my niche at the time. I felt like when I was an employee I was being paid to learn and adapt, but as a contractor I had one thing I was good at and only did that over and over again, which meant no room to grow.
Literally just found this while leaving my piano class.
I think it is interesting to compare this to the previous attempt from 2013 by Gowers (and Mohan Ganesalingam) described in a blog series ending with https://gowers.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/answers-results-of-p... .
This is outstanding work.

You probably need to consult with arthropods to find a natural analog. Mantis shrimp produce accelerations far beyond the capacity of muscle working in real time. Springtails, too. It was only very recently anyone got a video of a springtail jumping that captured more than one frame of it.
> Absolute statments usually don't hold up well.

There you go. Otherwise I would not see YC's most valuable startup ignoring all these critics and reconsidering and using it for Crypto Payouts if it was so-called 'unnecessary' or 'useless' in the first place. [0]

That is the problem with statements that take a very absolutist direction. It goes either way for anti-crypto supporters and also crypto supporters.

> Chargebacks and unfavorable refunds can eat into profit. Quick settlements elimate this issue.

The customer can instead contact the merchant for a refund instead of abusing the disputes system with chargeback fraud.

[0] https://stripe.com/blog/expanding-global-payouts-with-crypto
The constitution was pretty clearly, from day one, written by educated 1%'ers, FOR educated 1%'ers. It was never meant to protect or privilege the laypeople except by accident and vague notions of "everyone deserves rights, except for those that improve self governance, only white landowners deserve that"
Musk’s offer explicitly didn’t demand this kind of data. I assume he figured that Twitter’s statements about its finances, number of users, growth, etc. were reliable and he didn’t need to do any additional due diligence. I thought it was reasonable at the time, and now I think he’s feeling some regret.
For smaller displays than you're looking for (<4 inch), AliExpress has some pretty reasonable prices. Even for color displays.

For larger ones, I think the best option is something like a recycled kindle. There was even a post on HN a few months ago from a company selling Kindle displays hooked up to breakout boards (may have even had on-onboard microcontroller, like an ESP-32?)
Take Microsoft's Java for Beginners
As usual the discussion pretends to be about the thing, when it's actually about the semantics.

The Great Lakes are measured, mapped, sounded and recorded. We know an awful lot about them, and that hasn't changed lately.

The discussion isn't about them. It's about the definition of 'sea' and 'lake'.
Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario are still there and whatever they are, they're doing it now.
This person drives in a small car in other drivers' blind spots, waits for them to try to merge in front of them, then uses a novelty car horn.

Then they upload the video, which Reddit loves because it is watching someone else possibly make an error thereby making the viewer feel better about themselves, and then they get an opportunity to share a link for the horn in the comments when people (or maybe the original poster’s alternative accounts) inevitably ask where they can also get a horn like it:

https://www.reddit.com/user/Muscles_Metal_Miata/

I do not see what other explanation there could be for why a person is recording and uploading so many incidents of the same type within such a short timespan.
As someone who lived through "64K should be plenty" and often used computers with little more than 4K RAM, I absolutely agree. This is one of the major "bloatware" features of modern computers which could extend Moore's Law a decade or more with mere software changes.
i feel like most blockchains are just used for

pushing data: i want to send money somewhere

pulling data: so and so (sometimes myself) has received money

you get a list of nodes by DNS resolving seed.bitcoin.sipa.be

then you connect at port 8333 and speak the "BTC" protocol or whatever and either listen for a bunch of data, or push your own data (like a transaction)

where is the validation part that you are referring to?
I was initially turned off by your web design -- not my style, but wow, it grew on me.

You have a great selection and you can kind of quickly scan the page by source and get a quick overview.

I'm adding your site to my regular reading!
not just wobbly but what small drone enthusiasts call "jello", significantly lower video quality than like a $399 dji mini 2

it is cheap and non gimbal stabilized, so can't expect much more
that's assuming politicians are compelled at least a little bit by the public good. unfortunately, our politico-economic systems have become more and more captured by moneyed interests, insulating politicians from those wider incentives.

but to be fair, that's not unique to georgism. we need to solve for that problem generally.
Technically sure, in practice dunno. You have to have a group of people that all agree the blockchain is the controlling entity for land registries instead of their regional government which probably has better laws and dispute resolution procedures built in. You'd also have to find a way to actually run the blockchain that is both robust and trustworthy even though it's low volume but high value transactions. At that point you might be onto something but you still have yet to sell to everyone why it's worth switching to just because it's technically possible.
And considering that socialization isn’t as productive without fellow socializers, we should consider the non-technical user path.

For my, say, brother— the first hurdle would be processing my explanation of the distinctions between an instance, a server, and a service, plus the basics of federation. The second hurdle would be figuring out how he’ll break it to me when he gives up and re-activates his Twitter account.
There is no way to link "ownership" of a physical asset to a blockchain, other than a trusted third party who ultimately has use of force as an enforcement method.
Exactly, you're getting at my point. Most of the anti-blockchain opinion pieces seem to be pointed at entrepreneurs or engineers. But how can you blame them for going where the money is.
The language police could care less how non French workers operate, merely that it’s fully possible for Francophones to operate fully in French. Maybe this is limited to 26+ or 50+ sized companies but I escaped years back. They’re quite aggressive about this and don’t care about the impact. Walmart, for example, needed to add magasin and KFC was PFK etc.
C# used to be quite a bad development experience for anything other than Windows Server + IIS for years. Many people who would not probably love the language abandoned it years ago and never came back with the bad 2010s era after image in their minds.

The thing about C# and Java is that they're not exactly exciting languages. They do what you want and not much more. They don't tend to break massively between releases. Their syntax was clearly designed decades ago. Their extensive package repositories are overwhelmingly filled with boring packages that solve boring business problems. I personally much prefer C# above Java, but even Java with its flaws is one of the most important programming languages for business in the world.

If you want to learn new things, you don't turn to these new languages. Up and coming languages come with interesting ideas and paradigms, even something as polarizing as Rust is now getting good market penetration. WASM is all the rage and every time you blink someone has a fancy new idea that can be hacked into Javascript.

Honestly, though, the boring languages work well for business. Yes, Go and Rust are very fast and you CAN run them as front-end frameworks if you wish to, but most applications are boring old CRUD apps that are much better served with something like C# or the JVM and its many many years of library maturity, guides, Q&As online, and books. It's not fun or exciting, but it gets the job done well.
My main takeaway from the blog post was really how much Windows sucks, not that Go is bad haha
I am curious what all those twitter engineers are doing as well. Presumably it's secret in some way?
I liked the article. I think it was really well written and these are great points. So if not Go, then what's the alternative? I too am starting to feel a bit burnt out by some of Go's deficiencies, but one of the things I really like about Go is its concurrency model. What other languages have great concurrency models? Please keep in mind that I want to keep things simple... having a single binary to deploy is incredibly efficient.

I've been wanting to use Crystal. Does anyone have experience running Crystal in production? Without getting into the specifics, the Go parts of my personal project are a websocket server that upgrades when a user is authenticated and authorized, and their actions spawn jobs in a queue. I have processors (written in Golang) that take these tasks and perform somewhat complex async actions. Would Crystal fit the bill here? I'd really like to avoid getting into Elixir/Erlang world or any kind of interpreted language that will complicate the deployment process (like Deno or Ruby).
>Internet in the 70s? Totally unnecessary for practical uses in the 70s and 80s.

ARPANET was necessary for rapidly exchanging data and compute resources among research labs, which precisely was what it was designed to do. It just happened to find way more uses beyond its initial goals, and evolved into the internet we know today.
Just like reddit did before their bait & switch.
That doesn't make much sense. There's APIs now, and API intermediaries line Zapier, IFTTT. AWS APIs are backwards compatible, as I'm sure is the case for whatever US government APIs there are.

So what's missing?
Australia has 3x the land area as Greenland so the line is probably somewhere in between there.
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the exact browser/device/screen size/OS combination that the devs test on

I doubt it. I run Linux and Firefox. And Firefox on Android.
They have nexus in California the moment they engage in business with an entity in California. When they hired an employee in California the employee was the entity and hiring them to do work while in California was engaging in business in California.

The idea that the employees and the work they do aren’t part of the business is some new idea that I hope doesn’t gain traction.

Say the federal government did allow for this line of reasoning and prevented states from treating remote employees as having nexus in the state they live and work in. How does that not end up with every company incorporating in one state and hiring all their employees in other states so they can avoid all state level regulation?
The P&I clause simply means that states can't discriminate against people from other states. This was explicitly clear in the original (Articles of Confederation) version of the clause, which stated that citizens of one state traveling to or doing business in other state were "subject to the same duties, impositions, and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof."

This means, for example, that if a state wants to tax residents of other states that do business in their state, they have to tax their own residents for the same activities.

So, if CA wants to tax an Illinois business for its activities in CA, it would have to tax CA residents for those same activities. And CA absolutely does.
I was talking about PA. They have proven themselves very reliable for it so far.

Fundamentals and other information is being pulled directly off NASDAQ etc, of course. Polygon does not offer a lot of data in these regards.

Realistically for $$$ systems you want to have more than one source for every datatype anyway and then aggregate the data yourself.
And the English library?

Ah, maybe it comes bundled.

Great news. I prefer Inform6, but having free languages
to code IF it's always good.
Yea.. i used Go for 5 years. I just can't agree that the simplicity is true. Yes, the language itself is, but it offloads complexity into my program and thus my day to day is jumping around huge piles of logic which could be made for easier to reason about and understand with some actual help in managing the complexity.

Your complex programs aren't easier in Go, in my experience. The simplicity of the language doesn't help me much when my day is spent fighting to figure out how to make a problem which is inherently complex easy to maintain, reason about, and be without bugs.

I want a language that makes my day simpler. Where at the end of the day, my "net complexity" is less. Go leaves all the complexity to you and offers you very few tools to solve this. Bugs, spread out logic, and even runtime costs of the overuse of Interface{} (prior to Generics at least) left me with a lot of things to solve myself. My days in aggregate were more complex with Go.

Just my experiences.
That is correct - if we were to price in "cancer" for coal maybe indeed coal may not be economic anymore.

But that's unrelated to the insurance cost of nuclear power. Either 'the market' (i.e. the people most knowledgeable to pricing the risk) are off or HN commentators don't see the whole picture?

I'm just pointing out nuclear power is no blanket solution to climate change (it may well be part of the solution), and that there are non-negligible risks that we have to consider as societies (and different societies already are dealing with the risk differently). For some reason HN tends to be a bit defensive when that is pointed out.
They aren't doing this though, it is just a Republican fever dream talking point that they're not getting the engagement they think they should have, or people unfollowing them because they're toxic. They're free to post what they want, but also free to risk being banned if they're posting harmful content.
We may not be able to go completely "without trust", but we can signifiantly reduce the amount of trust required. For financial contracts that can actually make a lot of sense.

There's an army of banking regulators in every country, and yet we still see bank failures where people lose money every year (even in developed countries with functioning deposit insurance there's usually a limit on the amount that is insured), plus we get the occasional financial crisis every few decades, after the memory of the last one has faded.
While cute, interstate anything is the realm of the federal government. The moment water from the Great Lakes is needed elsewhere, it'll be sent there.

If you follow the case of the Parker dam, the conclusion of the Supreme Court was that it required congressional approval. It did not have that, but Arizona eventually allowed it anyways.

The full text of the decision is here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/295/174
Isn't that just WoW or Eve Online in-game currency?

Or Amazon gift cards?
"Now, imagine that you lose your password to that really cool computer. Everything belonging to you is lost forever! Neat huh!"

"Also, imagine that this really cool computer might be one of the ones that uses more electricity than some countries! Really, really neat!"
I was never arguing for "minified" code, which is ridiculous. Lower your own rhetorical temperature.
I don't understand anyone that's bullish on SNAP. It's been my least-used social media app for years (except for FB proper, I still use IG daily), and doubly so now that TikTok is so addictive. Their glasses were a terrible flop, and this will probably be worse. There is absolutely no cohesive vision.

Are you a software company, a hardware company? A social network? I guess this is what happens when an app that was mainly used for sending nudes in high school goes meteoric with Silicon Valley money. This is probabbly what would've happened to Flappy Bird if the owner hadn't shut it down.
> If the bank pays the tax, why wouldn't they pass it on to the mortgage holder in the form of higher interest rates or other fees?

Because land has an inelastic supply, and therefore its value is driven entirely by demand. Banks already charge as high an interest rate as they can get away with (i.e. one commensurate with the buyer's credit rating and the value of the land); trying to raise it to account for LVT would immediately backfire due to the resulting profit loss (in this case, from people being less willing to take out such mortgages).
> The goal is not avoiding chicken cruelty, is stopping a outbreak virus and saving millions of domestic birds and wildlife.

People are not automatons who must follow a single goal at the expense of all other considerations.

> I'm more than open to discusse any ideas about how to do this task while making happy also the cruelty animal crew.

Yeah, you’re totally operating in good faith.

The answer is nitrogen poisoning by the way.
I think I need to think about this some more. It seems like the goal of government is to figure out the tax rate that counters the land value perfectly without taxing any more. The fact that it is unimproved land value means we aren't stuck in an efficiency trap since a diverse enough set of uses can improve the land sufficiently to generate a reasonable economic profit in non-rent form. Countering speculation is definitely a strong positive effect.

I worry that the overtaxation causing vacation mechanism isn't very efficient because if the tax takes a small part of the land value improvement it seems that the government gets additional unearned revenue while only land with little to no improvement would be vacated. I think people only vacate if the taxes cut into their additional revenues too steeply. I'm not sure exactly where the too steep point is, but I think governments would have an incentive to overestimate the value of land.
Well someone pointed out the Sea of Galilee (which is a lake, but then so is the Caspian Sea and the Dead Sea).