Blockchain topics have become a proxy war for Keynes/Hayek poorly framed as a technical discussion. I think most people who are passionately against crypto hold that view for non-technical reasons and more related to monetary policy. Which is valid, but suckers like me used to think questions like yours were posted in good-faith. I'd answer questions such as upgrades to PoW/PoS, TX rate limitations, side-chains, multi-sig, etc. After enough down-votes for factual answers you realize it was never about the technology.
> the effect of a disingenuous Wiki article is far higher than your average FB "fake news"
Wikipedia doesn't profit by weaponizing misinformation. That's FB's business model.
All those people who stormed the capital. You think they were FB users or Wiki users? The thought of them diligently reading encyclopedia entries and becoming radicalized has me cackling.
It's a great article for HN. All the folks here working on ad-tech to polarize the good people of this country so they can squeeze another penny out of them. Then they have the gals to complain about people becoming radicalized. "Oh gee how did that happennnn"
They got polarized on Facebook. Because you wanted them to. Because it keeps them coming back and your stock goes up.
If you're a Facebook employee - congrats! This is what you've created. A radicalized cesspool of idiots to increase your bottom line.
Google isn't helping anymore than Facebook. Apple is dipping their toes into privacy focused features that hurt Facebook and Amazon but I suspect they're making a long adtech play.
Would be interesting if WSB was allowed to invest in private startups as easily as they can invest in meme stocks.
Robinhood doesn't like us? We'll start out own.
Reddit doesn't like us? Let's just kickstart and crowd-source another.
This idea that the common man needs to be protected from himself is paternalistic and condescending. Private equity is the means of collective action and the rich people don't want us to organize without their blessings.
> Reddit doesn't like us? Let's just kickstart and crowd-source another.
There's Ruqqus which is already a working alternative to reddit. However, what I found going there is that there are a lot of anti-left memes being shared. Some amount of toxicity. I'm all for freedom of speech, but I wish the platform was a bit less political, a more neutral alternative to reddit... but hey, if enough people leave reddit, maybe it will become just that.
> what I found going there is that there are a lot of anti-left memes being shared
This is probably because reddit is quite clearly a left-leaning platform. Due to the lack of healthy balance, the refugees from reddit are mostly people who feel their views and voices are being silenced by aggressive moderation.
In my opinion this state of affairs is only reddit's fault.
Which is more or less how most big investment (hedge) and prop trading firms use it anyway. The key difference here as the same is it always is: which group has the ear of those with power.
Then payment processors ban you. Then you start your own visa. Let's start our own visa. Banks ban you. Let's start our own bank. Your hosting service bans you. Host your own. Your ISP bans you. Start your own ISP. Other ISPs don't peer with you. Start your own internet. Then the feds shut down your bank.
There is absolutely nothing stopping the members of WSB from pooling their money to start an angel fund, VC fund, or any other form of private equity. You don’t need special Wall Street credentials to do that, just some money and a lawyer.
That’s a pretty long-term bet, though, and I don’t think WSB is usually into those.
> This idea that the common man needs to be protected from himself is paternalistic
Interesting word choice. Conservative wording of "common man", but liberal wording of "paternalistic". I don't mind the former but I do wonder how a father would be more inclined to protect a child from itself than a mother; if anything, I would find maternalistic a more fitting descriptor.
Your single blade on a rack isn't going to stand up against non-stop ddos attacks. That requires ISP level infrastructure. That's why companies like Cloudflare are publicly listed.
From the wiki "Cloudflare was created in 2009 by Matthew Prince, Lee Holloway, and Michelle Zatlyn.[2] It received media attention in June 2011 for providing security services to the website of LulzSec, a black hat hacking group.[3]"
> Womp womp. We warned you.
Your multiple personalities are seeking vengeance on free speech because.. you wanted self hosted hardware??
If you endlessly come up with more and more excuses I'm sure you'll eventually land on needing another earth. What can you do if a meteor hits? What then! Clearly it is oppressive because there is no other earth for me to back up my beliefs and oppress others!
Ultimately you can only do what you can. But let's be honest, if you can't lift a finger to install server hardware and networking switches, how on earth can you possibly advocate for change in our society?
> Your multiple personalities are seeking vengeance on free speech because.. you wanted self hosted hardware??
Please remember HN etiquette.
You say you want free speech yet people can't even invest in your own hardware. Parlor complained but removed left wing content 24/7 - no one complained about "free speech" then. Make it make sense instead of being obvious political pandering.
> You say you want free speech yet people can't even invest in your own hardware.
We already have the hardware. A modern phone has as much computing power as an early server. Computing power isn't what's lacking, it's the permission to use it.
Will Apple and our ISP's allow p2p networking using our own hardware? Apple denied bitcoin wallets from the app store because "reasons". Many ISP's have policies against hosting servers.
The real solution to this is the decentralized web and it too can be clamped down by a handful of companies. If these companies want to act like publishers they should be treated as such.
Software does control airplanes and elevators. When it fails, it can kill people.
But when people think elevator software is broken, they don't take the elevator. When (enough) people think voting software is broken, they topple governments and start civil wars.
And some people who disagree with you are still thinking for themselves. That "not thinking for yourself" is lazy argument.
> When (enough) people think voting software is broken, they topple governments and start civil wars.
But why would they be distrustful unless non-sequitur arguments are presented as the holy grail of truth? "Bro trust me, software engineers and our entire profession are total hacks". Thanks XKCD, very cool.
Yet you fly in airplanes and drive in cars that are digitally controlled. You trust the unsecured web with your banking details because a green padlock appears in your browser. The federal reserve and their network banks don't mail each other IOU's "to be secure" so why should that be the MO for accounting public consensus? I'd call it tired reasoning but it's not even reasoning, it's just some hand-wavy appeal to.. p a p e r
There's so much cargo-cult mentality in react that it's difficult to perform DD and predict the technical landscape years into the future. So perhaps we're in agreement the author should have picked another technology.
Personally I think the author's original architecture was most likely satisfactory, but there should've been design guidelines to enforce a single coding style. You don't have to re architect your app because dan abramov tweeted something.
If there was no value added in adopting hooks then the architect shouldn't have wasted energy adopting it. And let's be real, there was no value added in adopting hooks lol.
I'm not really sure if actually doing something will be effective for say learning history. I think of all the odd activities teachers had me do, and I kind of wish they just told me the story, but I'm a guy who now listens to history podcast so may just be personal.
Also think of all the odd physics demonstrations and I'm not sure they really often enhanced my knowledge more than a gif would of especially versus the expense. Does anyone know of any research around this area?
What is the rate of data processing of a human’s sensory organs? Until VR output data at that rate to every human sense being in VR will be less stimulating than being in real space. I think this is especially true of social environments, were subtle body language, facial movements, touch and smell are critically important.
Being around a group of people is easily 20x more stimulating to me than any VR experience I’ve had, and I’ve experience the state of the art in VR. Spending day after day, year after year, going to classes with the same group of peers was very socially validating and helped me be more engaged with my time at school.
