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by zer01 4y ago
This is by no means an exhaustive list, just a smattering of some of the bigger projects doing neat things. The graph protocol - decentralized blockchain indexing feeding a network of graphQL servers hosting the data powering dapps https:&
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by zer01 4y ago
This interview with Tarn Adams (one of the creators of dwarf fortress) is amazing and gives a good idea of the depth and pace of development. It’s pretty bonkers TBH, I’d love to understand the abstractions and data models involved with sof
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by zer01 4y ago
The thing I never understand about this argument is that there’s a much higher likelihood of significant injury or death (getting shot) robbing the houses with guns, no? Guns may be “easy to liquidate” (not sure if that’s actually the case)
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by zer01 4y ago
This I think is where a lot of the "leave your politics at home" falls apart. People's identities are basically a collection of the things they believe in and advocate for. People work much better when they're happy an
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by zer01 4y ago
> When the "activist" types push politics into workplaces they are not doing it so they can talk about what they feel. They are doing it so they can find the people who disagree and damage their careers. This sounds like your p
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by zer01 4y ago
I disagree, having migrated multiple family members away from shitty plastic laptops full of bloat ware and ads and shitty Android phones full of the same they are much more able to use their devices. I also find as a dev that iPhones and M
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by zer01 4y ago
A “planned leak” with 0 demonstration of legitimacy is nothing more than creative writing on the internet. When planned leaks like this occur for real (or black hats are trying to prove possession of data they shouldn’t have like credit car
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by zer01 4y ago
I absolutely love speed runs and think they’re a great expression of the hacker mentality. To take a subtle bug in something like a physics engine and bend it to your will to eek out another 5s save off the world record is absolutely fascin
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by zer01 4y ago
Netflix is also down 66% YTD, Tesla down 41% while BTC is down 37% over the same span. Clearly Tesla and Netflix were speculative assets without intrinsic value too by that logic.
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by zer01 4y ago
Anecdotally I’ve personally seen a lot of “Bitcoin accepted here” signs while traveling around America. It’s not ubiquitous , but it is there. Hell, I bought a plane ticket with Bitcoin way back in 2014 for a family member to come see me.
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by zer01 4y ago
The theory generally goes that what convinces people to use the USD is that it’s backed by the full faith (and more importantly, full military force) of the US government. The Breton Woods Agreement and after getting off the gold standard t
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by zer01 4y ago
There’s a pretty clear logical contradiction in claiming definitively that no protocols are actually decentralized or work better than their centralized counterparts in crypto world while also signaling that you’re so unfamiliar with it tha
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by zer01 4y ago
This is an interesting write up! The only question I have is around your point on monorepos - every monorepo I’ve seen has been a discoverability nightmare with bespoke configurations and archaic incantations (and sometimes installing Java!
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by zer01 4y ago
I understand that contract law and notaries are a thing, but people’s signatures are easily forged and a huge amount of the legal system is currently dedicated to resolving conflicts with this. On the flip side building a smart contract to
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by zer01 4y ago
Right, people in the crypto space also feel like "If you don’t see it then you’re blind", which was the point I was trying to make. > What is the use case for crypto. Do you have a vision for it? Short term, the crypto space is
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by zer01 4y ago
Nice blog, I'll preface this response with the fact that I'm not an economist, but I am an engineer and a technologist at my core. I also work in security so that's usually a lens I use to look at these things. Also, sorr
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by zer01 4y ago
> I can't see anything useful from crypto other than laundering the proceeds of criminal activities. I think it's a pretty arrogant stance to say that just because you don't see the value in a thing that value doesn't
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by zer01 4y ago
Of course, happy to help! The unfortunate reality is these scams are designed to be believable, and without there being similar sophistication on the part of Google to fight them they’ll remain effective :-/. It’s definitely an issue t
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by zer01 4y ago
Proper treasury management for raised funds is something that needs done by everyone regardless of the business they’re in. In the non crypto world orgs usually hold short term t-bills or other cash equivalents to help offset inflation. In
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by zer01 4y ago
Yeah there’s a lot of examples now a days unfortunately. https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2020/07/10/crypto-giveaway-... I work in the security/user trust space and it was amazing how it went from 1
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by zer01 4y ago
Replace your arguments for crypto with arguments for the internet, and zoom back to the mid 90s. There were a ton of shady internet companies capitalizing on this sort of hype and swindling people out of their hard earned money. Beanie ba
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by zer01 4y ago
You know, I think if you take a time machine back to the early 90s you’d see similar sentiment about the internet and internet based companies. “You want to put CREDIT CARDS on the INTERNET?!” “You want to replace the POST OFFICE with the I
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by zer01 4y ago
What you’re describing is a popular scam where a scammer rebroadcasts a previously run live stream with famous people and instructions to send crypto to an address for a “giveaway”. Since the livestreams are about crypto, people tune in and
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by zer01 4y ago
I echo this, I come from a highly technical background (security) and the 1,000 hours thing is true - I think most people can do most things that have a large group of humans do them if they’re able to find a way to make the time investment
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by zer01 4y ago
I highly recommend the solo founder + consulting path. Look around you and find a problen you want to solve, and try to solve it well. Maximize for being able to spend time on that thing. Do consulting work when you need money or want to ch
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by zer01 4y ago
Do you understand how a spark plug works or how a hardware interrupt works within the Linux kernel? I don’t, but people who have specialized in those specific disciplines and spent their time thinking about how these things work have lead t
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by zer01 4y ago
The apps that power this sort of tracking are private entities which I’m sure check very low bar compliance checkboxes but have very little practical security or privacy engineering behind them. They are absolutely abused by black hat resel
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by zer01 5y ago
Sure, I generally think of these projects as experiments to try to make this “store something permanently” vision happen in reality. Just because the vision has hurdles to overcome doesn’t mean it’s not worth trying. Arguably GitHub’s Arct
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by zer01 5y ago
> It’s telling that you don’t know how wrong this is, but feel qualified to redesign a mature industry anyway. Banks are highly regulated and spend billions on security — that’s why the major breaches which are routine in the cryptocurre
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by zer01 5y ago
Right now smart contracts are very crappy computer programs, but people are still building amazing things with them (like DAOs or decentralized exchanges). It’s hard to say what people will be building 20 years from now or what they’ll look

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