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“Hate speech” is actually a great example. I’m a fan of the fact trans people are getting better treatment in today’s society, but if some obnoxious jerk says “there are only two g…

HN has a long history of censoring particular groups of people based on identity. That’s why it’s become such a monoculture (a monoculture of people generally convinced than HN is …

Tyranny, in all its shapes and sizes, comes wrapped in claims that it is for the common good. In fact a good way to think critically about things you hear is to ask “how is the pol…

“By definition” people are just making up “Blockchain” as a desperate technology, usually people who don’t understand how bitcoin works and don’t realize they are throwing the baby…

The entire point of Bitcoin is the distributed trustless consensus mechanism. Read the Nakamoto white paper, it’s all about double spending. A chain of hashed data dates back to Me…

The entire point of Bitcoin is the distributed trustless consensus mechanism. Read the Nakamoto white paper, it’s all about double spending. A chain of hashed data dates back to Me…

A Merkle root including previous Merkle roots may have been innovative when Surety started, but while its required in bitcoin its not a key feature of what defines a Blockchain.

Because the term was coined by Nakamoto to describe the technology behind bitcoin. Decentralization, proof of work and other characteristics of bitcoin are intrinsic to making the …

Because the term was coined by Nakamoto to describe the technology behind bitcoin. Decentralization, proof of work and other characteristics of bitcoin are intrinsic to making the …

The fix was a hacknand as for “on time”, no we were already three Sadat’s into the heavyvsakes week, literally hours before thanksgiving when Bezos decided to cancel everyone’s tha…

I think selling drugs on campus to employees is a pretty bad result. He also drove off %80 of the talented team before I left. The DMV person was a dumpster fire and all the incomp…

Yes, and early in my career I was a technical sales person for a product I built... paired with a pure sales person. I don’t mean to say there was no value to his skills— but I am …

I’ve seen many software companies where for months on end each week more than a weeks worth of new work is added to the product, without changing the deadline, because “management”…

I believe they hire those “lunatics” because it’s believed that engineers can’t understand business. As an engineer that has started businesses this is BS. It’s really easy to lear…

The cause is that “leadership” is generally people who don’t understand technology, and the solution is to stop hiring such incompetence. No car company would allow a CEO who doesn…

Ballpoint was invented in 1888, around 40 years earlier: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballpoint_pen

5 years ago he claimed bitcoin was evil. He hadn’t adapted. He can’t adapt. He’s just a fraud.

He’s not held in high regard by economicists or even economics. He has been proven wrong repeatedly. He’s held in high regard by socialists because he white washes the death and de…

HN leftists can’t abide any facts that put Krugman in a bad light. I pointed out he advocated a housing bubble I’m getting downvoted too. HN is a farm for socialist sheep and expli…

Krugman, in a real way, is why Bitcoin exists. He literally advocated a housing bubble. (Broken Window fallacy) The housing bubble collapsed causing bailouts of banks. Bitcoin is a…

TLDR: 30 years experience, I learned: don’t go work for a SV style startup. Be a founder, even if you have no experience. Don’t take VC money for more than %10 of your equity in to…

The problem is that product and dev are different people. Product managers don’t understand their product as well as the devs do. devs should manage the product definition and work…

If you have deadlines, you already know management is incompetent. Deadlines presume a known fixed scope. But I’ve yet to meet a CEO or sales team or whomever gets to decide what f…

Hypothesis: There are more machines in consumer hands which support Metal than DirectX. This may sound crazy, but remember there are billions of iOS devices out there in the world,…

"Bitcoin has very few of the properties that one would consider desirable for a currency." The desirable properties of currency are: - difficult to counterfeit - fungibility - robu…