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Penn of Penn and Teller discussed on his podcast how he stopped eating meat and had a similar stance on foods pretending to be meat. Then he was compelled to try a particular meat substitute and discovered that it was actually not just trying to be meat but was actually better than meat - meat has grisle and bits you don’t really want to eat, the substitute is only “the good stuff.” Better texture, etc.

It was an eye opening anecdote for me (as a meat eater).

True ownership of scarce digital assets is something that blockchains excel at, particularly decentralized blockchains (because true ownership means no individuals have the power to control your asset) - there are still endless questions about what this means and how this plays out in practice, but it’s a real use case with a fascinating future that will live independently of the get rich quick fantasies of most blockchain proponents.

Do you have sound off?

I believe Neal Stephenson essentially anticipates this in Anathem.

Sometimes you can take a loss on the car, but make a profit on the sale: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/513/129-cars

And how does a judge seriously decide to retroactively apply an arbitrarion agreement when none existed at the time of the transaction? Is the argument that the new ToS were accepted when Lord participated in the bug test? The article seems to be missing that detail if there even is some logic that was used in the ruling (as I assume there was, beyond not wanting to have two rulings).

Maybe if it worked with the Apple Pencil and the taptic feedback was good enough I could see being curious about it. It’d probably just be a good way to incite a riot though.

The FutureCop devs did :-) “I... Don’t Believe it!” Went the sound clip as a window popped up telling Mac Users to contact the studio and tell them that they were playing on a Mac since the Mac version was apparently a labor of love for the engineers. <3

The best AR theme parks :-)

Credit card companies have closed other “buy money on a card and get rewards points” loopholes, I just see this as another such loophole.

Full disclosure: I joined the CK team recently after having been a fan, community member, and tool developer since shortly after they launched in December.

What very few people realize about CryptoKitties is the vibrant community of players and developers that has spawned around this game, and it makes the experience of collecting, breeding, and selling CryptoKitties very rich. One group made an app that lets you buy accessories like hats for your Kitties: built without permission or need for permission thanks to the open mature of the blockchain. I helped make KittyCalc.co after seeing huge demand (and user experience confusion) for my Kitty Genetics spreadsheet that let you input two Kitties to see what the chances for different traits in offspring would be. The community pieced together this breeding algorithm and cracked the genetic code for kitties within weeks of release, but that doesn’t make the game of trying to breed specific Kitties any less fun. It does let you make informed decisions so you can weigh your personal risk to reward ratio for each breed.

There’s a lot of subculture around Kitties—people collecting all black and white Kitties, people competing to breed the most adorable generation 100 kitties, people selectively breeding to breed the lowest generation Kitties possible with the most prestigious ancestry (so-called 8 diamond Kitties). Recently the community got together to raise tens of thousands of dollars for the Seattle Children’s hospital.

This auction, though, at the Ethereal Summit, some crazy to behold. As the article says, Christie’s appraised this Exclusive CryptoKitty + hardware wallet art piece at around 50 ETH, and the actual bidding brought it way higher. The proceeds support a great cause that the CK team believes in, and it’s one of the coolest CryptoKitties in the game (and id 127 is icing on the cake) so it was just really great to see.

I know I often come across as too-enthusastic-to-be-genuine, but I really just love this stuff in my core and can’t help sounding like this when I talk about things I love. Check my post history if you don’t believe me! I totally know also that CK is the easiest thing in the world to dismiss without giving any critical thought, but what made me fall in love was the devs DID give this a lot of critical thought before release, and have created a deep, meaningful experience (I’ve learned so much about Ethereum and the blockchain thanks to CK) behind a silly, fun premise.

Is IPFS for you?

I'm a huge sports fan and League of Legends eSports fan, and I try to watch Overwatch Legaue but just don't think the game itself is fun to watch. I don't think there are lots of people like me, but we do exist!

For me, I actually wish esports were more like traditional sports when it comes to game changes, rather than the other way around. There's no chance for truly deep strategies and specializations to develop when the rules are changed every couple months.

I like the idea of building a reputation system that accepts bots as first class citizens instead of imagining them as an inherent problem. Anyone who meaningfully contributes is good even if they are a bot, and anyone who doesn’t gets left behind. (Easier said than done but the approach to the problem is what’s fundamentally different.)

Read "The Used Car Salesman Defense" section in this issue of Matt Levine's "Money Stuff": https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-20/explainin...

It boils down to this: "Banks are always trying to get customers to think of them as trusted agents, while reserving the right to act as rapacious counterparties."

I like Matt Levine because his "I was on the inside" voice is pragmatic and straightforward, and often makes me stop and say, "Huh."

I don't find joy in a supermarket checkout line, but I have witnessed joy in some people (customers, mostly older, who found a way to stand out from the masses and have a face). Perhaps those who take the time to sing elegies actually do find personal joy and fulfillment even a checkout line even if you and I do not.

The article points out the evolution and how we got from each prior step to this point; it gets worse and worse and worse (and worse and worse)

I think you have to be exposed to the bullshit. I explicitly follow people on Twitter I strongly disagree with; that sometimes outright outrage and disgust me. I don’t interact with them, but I read what they’re saying and what people in their filter bubble say back to them. That’s my best solution to trying to escape too small a filter bubble of my own.

I'm clearly missing something: I don't understand why I schedule a session instead of just starting one. Do I need to be a user of the Music for Programming podcast to understand this?

I don’t think it involved ResEdit but we once changed the Starcraft sounds at one computer in the school Mac lab so that when you made a dragoon it would play “carrier has arrived.” Freaked opponents out all the time.

RedEdit in the system 7 days was a godsend in my life. Hacking new sounds into Maelstrom. Changing character names in Pararena. Stumbling into learning what a sprite was.

But the coincidence that makes it to the top of HN is when the poker guy wins his third WS using the exact same hand. (At this point he played the hand entirely out of superstition at a negative EV but got insanely lucky. He will eventually lose all his winnings playing that hand again and again for the rest of his life. But they’ll name the hand after him, so maybe it will all have been worth it.)

If only we had guaranteed lifespans.

An idle thought perhaps not well thought out. But I was envisioning more than the simple Manufacturer to Amazon handoff, something like a new type of individual-item-specific UPC where you could continue to track ownership even through hip-to-the-system OfferUp style apps. The privacy implications are scary, and I'm not suggesting there's a viable or good idea in here. Thus it was a question. :-)

Might this be a legit use case for a blockhain solution?

We need a wiby.me for any given time frame on archive.org.

Assuming the images ever load haha. This was me in 1998: https://web.archive.org/web/19981202215109/members.xoom.com/...

It’s a shame Hyperface has been delayed. I honestly look forward to the day when you see cyberpunks walking around with these on their faces and you can instantly recognize a kindred spirit, if not the identity of same.

https://ahprojects.com/projects/hyperface/

There was an off hand remark in Jurassic World about how the dinosaurs are genetically engineered to look like the public expects them to look, rather than how they would naturally look.

Like translating a phrase into a foreign language and back repeatedly, I inagine you’d end up with something fun and impressionistic. I’d like to see it too.