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So it's an honest Ponzi scheme?

If you're looking for the summary, it's about 1/4 the way in. > Usually, the viruses that humans care about are successful because they shut down both of these signalling programs.…

> any examples of any games [...] that let you meaningfully impact the game world? Dwarf Fortress

> and competing directly with well funded companies like Facebook, Google, Telegram, etc. As opposed to competing with well funded companies like Sun, IBM, SGI, and Microsoft? Some…

Life isn't a poker game. You can't take the same rules from Vegas and apply them to health care and human rights.

I think most people would prefer to decide for themselves if that's worth the $40,000/yr that they would have had if wages kept up with productivity.

If you want an asymmetric persistence layer where all writes are documents placed in a Kafka topic, and all reads are via relational queries. It's a distributed, eventually consist…

> I would love is an event store You know you can put a key with a null value onto a topic. If your backend object store gives you data by key, this should give you exactly what yo…

> This is a strange sentiment to find on a board that is at least a partially targeted at aspiring company founders. It's not inconsistent. Most founders are trying to create compa…

Assuming a JWT implementation accepts only a fixed header (all header fields must be present and match, no additional fields can be present), are there any other issues with "just …

> There is if the people in the DOJ suffer from identity theft and get their bank accounts cleaned out because some nefarious people exploited the backdoors People in the DOJ have …

I can't wait to see the flood of posts in 12 months about "why I'm leaving substack"

> Iron particles [...] Find another solution. Technically, seeding the ocean with iron particles is a suspension, not a solution. Luckily, the common technique is to use Iron(II) s…

While the War on (Americans who use (some)) Drugs is a decades-long tragedy whose human costs dwarf most natural disasters, it's pretty clear the goals of US drug policy aren't to …

So you're saying that society as a whole would be better off simply using banks? Given that the external costs of banks have already been paid, and we can save a ton of energy by n…

I can detail a process through which bitcoin is used primarily for speculation and criminal activity. Can you detail a feasible process whereby bitcoin gets rid of the aircraft car…

> Do you think banks exist for free? What are the costs of maintaining a system of banks capable of acting as a trusted custodian in such a transaction, covering every jurisdiction…

> Real estate is a hard case, but by no means impossible, particularly if a custodian can hold the assets in the transaction. This approach is well understood. So perhaps we could …

> "Again, the main function of a bitcoin exchange is to get its bitcoins stolen..." > Really? Really. Is there any other reason to open a bitcoin exchange other than to have fools …

Counterpoint, as technical people, we can agree that there is probably a better solution to an impending accident rather than sit still like a deer in the headlights. In fact, this…

> Why do futures exist for something that can be settled in 30 minutes? Because money. Or more specifically, someone is willing to sell these futures to someone who is willing to b…

> Anything that can be traded on such a scale will undoubtedly be manipulated. Conversely, the efficient markets hypothesis implies that in time, the prices of eTulips will converg…

Yes they are. And depending on your political beliefs, taxes are slavery, theft, or violence, and if you're ideological enough, you can see taxes as the moral equivalent of Lenin p…

This is why we should reject public education, public libraries, public safety, public unemployment funds, public retirement funds, and public medicine for the elderly. Because you…

> Usually what happens in these stories is that a kid makes something that is a pale imitation of current standards, and the parents use their industry connections to get a PR blas…