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Agreed it's crazy, but it's a good political move. Everyone agrees we should ban it, but no one wants the blame because you'll have a huge amount of teenagers and young adults who …

Nate Silver did a nice write up on the probability and implications of all this here: https://open.substack.com/pub/natesilver/p/why-the-political... When Biden passes this bill (w…

Chainlink has solved this. Worth taking a look if you're still interested in this sort of thing.

I'm late to the party, but CGP Grey has an excellent video detailing the flaws of how SSNs are utilized. https://youtu.be/Erp8IAUouus?si=KzjB2v3bimLE79Ny

He does do that from time to time. Most of his stuff is pretty deep in the weeds and decision trees of specific Ethereum implementations (e.g. this article), but occasionally he'll…

Vitalik's audience is primarily people who are deep into blockchains and Ethereum. Plenty of good content is out there for freshman level info, he's more for your senior year.

Unless it's some shitcoin with 0 trading volume, no chance. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and plenty of other currencies handle that volume daily with no issue.

I was expecting something like advice to avoid distraction, but found the author just as distracted as I constantly am. Not only by his own admission, but the piece itself just wea…

Pretty much. Essays are a great medium for this style, I think of them like a curated conversation almost. You've organized your thoughts in a way that you could present them to a …

As a WVU grad who grew up there: ya, pretty much. Outside of some select towns and cities, WV is poor as shit, and it's only getting worse. Lots of abandoned towns, homelessness, a…

This is sad to see as a WVU CS grad. WVU is pretty much the only place to go outside of Marshall and some teeny tiny schools if you're in WV. I suspect a lot of this has to do with…

My freshman year at WVU was the year Gee took over as president. That was definitely his thing to ingratiate himself to the students. The whole frost couple weeks he would go up an…

PG has some real bangers, unfortunately this is not one of them. Feels like he's just sucking himself (and a couple YC peeps) off the whole time without providing a whole lot of in…

Not specifically computers, but if you want a very deep dive into the creation of the internet (including some bits about the earliest computers) The Dream Machine is a great, and …

In the case of Celsius, this seems like one of those a case of starting with good intentions, but quickly turning into fraud city in desperate attempts to keep the boat afloat. For…

Boy oh boy, made a couple big oofs in this one: http://thebear.org/essays2.html#anchor506009 Called global warming, hole in the ozone, and "your car causes smog" as grand modern my…

Well part of the issue is that there are a lot of RCs (Research Chemicals) that dealers often try to pass off as LSD, but are really slight tweaks on the chemical. They tend to be …

> Grateful Dead soundman Owsley “Bear” Stanley synthesized “the purest form of LSD ever to hit the street This is pretty crazy. LSD isn't Meth, you can't just grab a couple things …

> My understanding is that they use NFTs on the Ethereum chain for authentication Your understanding is imperfect. You use your private key on Ethereum to authenticate, not an NFT.…

I went to WVU where we have still actively use the PRT system built in the 70s. It's the school's main system of transport, and when it worked, it was pretty great. When I was ther…

This is great! I enjoyed the breakdown of the ATS logic you use. Did you look at how others like Lever use ATS and replicate that? Or was this a green field build?

They're referring to DMCA compliance. Basically, if you're hosting a site where people can post videos, images, text, etc. You have to accept the possibility that someone will try …

I'm confused why people hold him in any esteem. Is it just because he's a maverick? Cause you can find better ones. It's like when people mourned John McAfee like he was some great…

Well that's a real bummer, one of my top 3 authors, and the only one that was still alive.