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Two QR codes: one of the ticket's public key, and one of your public key. Their infrastructure verifies that you're the current owner and you're in. Or just have your phone broadca…

>I don't know why but the whole cryptocurrency space feels like a philosophical parody of the real world. Money without people. Contracts without enforcement. Ownership without pro…

Because the galaxy is a lot bigger than that subdivision, too.

What if meaningless busy-work is qualified professionals getting paid to leave meaningful problems alone because solving them is bad for the racket?

Let's face it, powerful forces in our society discourage self-control and critical reflection, and culture encourages people to have children regardless of whether they have learne…

Royalties, man, yeah.

Why not?

I can, but that's ugly - it violates standard semantics and generally introduces a new thing to know about.

This is also why I advocate for JS as a scripting language (if it's already a part of your stack, anyway). Curiously, every time I mention it HN gets mad at me.

Class static blocks are weird. Give me async constructors already!

Well put. Personal story: moved into a EU country and tried to import my car tax-free as personal property. Went to a customs agency because apparently you don't talk to customs di…

Wow, thanks! That's a wonderfully succinct way of putting it.

You asked what was the difference between my statement (that genetics is not more special than other causes of being more or less skilled at something) and the statement that "all …

That's why I brought up metaphysics and e-prime actually. We can't resolve societal contradictions in a fundamental way if we do not have the tools to reason about them, and the ma…

You now seem to be talking about something else entirely.

In the current state of the world, most scientific research will be co-opted by some violent apparatus or another. Does that mean we should lose hope and stop doing any research al…

Saying "there is no essential difference between genetics and other causative factors" is arbitrarily different from saying "all is one, separateness is an illusion". That is, it d…

Arbitrarily.

You're not supposed to be able to refer to other.#value, though, isn't that the entire point of a private field?

Fair enough. I still believe that tiptoeing around these issues gives power to those who consciously perpetrate and benefit from institutionalized violence. Like another commenter …

"Nature vs nurture" in the hairless ape presupposes free will, which is a linguistic universal but a metaphysical unprovable. Look closely enough and there is no essential differen…

I know they're not, that's why I'm objecting to them in principle (even though I use them and they're quite handy). JavaScript already has a solution - just put the private fields …

So, this, but with more steps? function Foo () { var x = 1 // "static initialization block" return { y: 2, z: function () { return x + y } } } const foo = Foo() There's been exactl…