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I had an email from openai last night saying I now have to credit up front for api usage, rather than paying at the end of the month. Thought it was a bit odd for user paying like …

The Dutch flower markets are still a big tourist attraction, on the top lists of things to do in Amsterdam. People say “bubble” with their mind so focused on what they think is dum…

The more complete quote from Brand is: “Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive. ...That tension will not go away.” People often only remember the firs…

Just get them for free off GitHub https://github.com/search?q=delete+OPENAI_API_KEY%3D&type=co...

I’ve recently been enjoying using Alive with vscode(and copilot). Everyone suggests emacs+slime but it always felt like too many things to learn at once. Being able to use my usual…

All of your examples, bible etc, have all been repeatedly edited for different cultures and age groups. People act like this is the end of Dahls legacy, yet his stories have probab…

Capitalism. It’s paperclip maximisers all the way down.

Harberger taxes on ip could be neat

This is absolute nonsense conspiracy I keep seeing repeated. TikTok/Douyin is just as cringe over here in China too.

The idea of “official” is intentionally being rejected. There is no official version of anything, just community consensus of the spec, from which anyone can implement a client. In…

Ah yes, arrest developers of open source privacy code and blame them for North Korea money laundering rather than going after the people actually committing crimes. Sounds about ri…

You should understand that this is a very USA centred opinion. There’s a whole big world of different cultures and politics, and it is possible to believe there are other approache…

You are posting on hacker news. Hacker. The defining thing of hackers is taking things apart, understanding them, modifying, breaking, rebuilding, improving, dreaming! What a sad i…

I urge you to go flick through http://pessimistsarchive.org/

Stablecoins without collateral backing them have repeatedly failed (and they failed when they were tried before crypto too), but dai/rai/usdc are working fine. At this point I’d li…

I was surprised too. You have to have secret votes to stop intimidation, and also collusion. If people can prove they voted a certain way then they can be bribed.

I’m glad to see pushback on the “crypto means cryptography” meme, which is really just an indicator they aren’t interested in the leading cryptographic research.

I think it really is light client development that will make a big change to being decentralised e2e. Being able to talk with the chain directly from an app or webpage without need…

Groups like DappNode are doing good work here. You can buy a nuc from them with their os installed and then pick from a list of apps to install (owncloud/ eth nodes/ ipfs pinner/et…

It requires a change in mindset from “efficiency first” to “robust first”. That’s a tough learning curve for trad web devs, the best web3 dev I know comes from aerospace engineerin…

The closest attempt I can think of is status wallets token ranking for dapps. You could burn your tokens to say if you liked something in their listings and that would rank it for …

The idea of light clients is they will be bundled inside of apps/websites/extensions. So yes running a light client will be easy because it’s just happening in the background of th…

fwiw I follow a lot of crypto people on Twitter and 0 of them are following this message app, it has 700 followers and you decide to jump into the discord? To me that’s like gettin…

I’m not an economist or banker. Other people will have better answers. I’m sure there’s a lot of excellent stuff we can use in existing systems. But I just don’t hold it as a preci…