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Supporters and resistors of the utilitarian framing of benefits of (sub)urbanity are both being over-simplistic. Of course we make decisions on balance of their expected outcomes. …

How can you resist the dominant ideology without valuing freedom? How can you challenge the norms set by the elite without asserting your right as an individual to take a non-confo…

> Consider the average "big block chain" - very high block frequency, very high block size, many thousands of transactions per second, but also highly centralized: because the bloc…

Money spent on luxuries/social status signaling is money not given to reduce suffering. If you have any sense of empathy for the billions of people living with low incomes, it's ob…

Verified Users get a separate priority queue; the real benefit of being a Blue Check is that other Blue Checks will see when you mention them.

Is Twitter a platform or a publisher? If Twitter is a platform, it might make sense to charge the most prominent users the most. But if Twitter is thought of as a publisher, it mak…

Assuming that you "work on Twitter", ie, your career is in part built on Twitter, what do you think the value of a Blue Check is? I would bet it's worth more than $1000/yr to the a…

Twitter's success derives from how well it serves the people who work on Twitter. Think politicians, business leaders, investors, celebrities, influencers, tech workers, journalist…

I see. Could you say more about meta-meaning?

You're right, but you may want to consider that highly monotone communicators may not actually notice most of the non-literal signals that get passed in typical social situations. …

This thread, and the author's blog which I've but skimmed, are to me a microcosm of the clash between 2 archetypes that roughly correspond to Science and the Liberal Arts; let's ca…

I get what you mean, but I do see a difference between scaling strategies. Imagine if Facebook adopted multi-layer scaling, like Bitcoin and Ethereum are doing. Students and alumni…

Good question. I don't have the answer, but maybe it has to do with the market game theory? I mean, there's easier ways to make money. Like, copypasta smart contracts from Ethereum…

Gas fees have been too high since Cryptokitties in 2017. Actually, even before Ethereum launched, anyone with a calculator could have predicted the scaling issues. After all, bitco…

Totally agree. I use a Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB ram daily. CPU is only a bottleneck when compiling, but with just browser and terminal I regularly break 4GB ram usage.

tldr: "fake it til you make it" — even if you never make it you can still become a billionaire if you fake it charismatically.

Controversial take: as an insider, you are in a strong position to determine the value of the options. Is your company under- or overvalued? Is your product better or worse than pe…

Yes, but those games are made to distract you, the opposite of mindfulness, ie being present in the now.

A "perfectly shaped avatar" could be used by a young woman, or by an old man. So, in a way it's leveling. But that's also what makes it worse for people who are physically attracti…

Interesting, and news to me, thanks. Is this a business for these streamers, a way to make money from male fans? Or are girls using an anime avatar just to hang out with their frie…

I think there's a big gender and culture gap in the VR/AR debate. People who place significant value in their physical appearance (eg most young women) are not in a rush to replace…

You can't actually be a Master of only 1 language. This applies to human and computational languages. Consider that English derives from French, German, Latin, Greek, etc. Without …

Dude this is Hacker News. I'm surprised when I meet an engineer who doesn't have a maxed out laptop.