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pretty weird seeing this recent trend of hn going from crypto-resistant, to cardano pumping. out of all the blockchains cardano? thats where you see the future? really?

bizarre.

"unlimited" surely you mean limited? theres rarely tech with no limits.

also the military/police/law/government defend you from being killed for your bitcoin.

https://mia.bet/ is one i like, a home made site where you bet on a marble run race with the randomness generated by their pet hamster. makes me smile.

i'll also add in https://clr.fund/ as its relevant to the bigger question of "how do we fund open source public goods" that might be relevant to hackernews readers.

After closing a funding round led by a16z, and doubling the size of the team, Optimism will be "launching arbitrary contract deployment on mainnet in March".

Would you spend $5k for the streaming rights to an mp4? Thats generally where people see NFTs going.

Mark Cuban was talking about this yesterday on bankless podcast, how an NFT can contain all the royalty payments for e.g. a film or tv show, director/producer/actors/editors, and when someone wants to show it they rent it for a period of time (or buy it to rent to others), their rent payment instantly divided across everyone involved. That utility saves a lot of time and money. His comparison is to how he still receives physical checks for $1 from some episode of a tv show he did that are barely worth cashing, saving time/money in that process is potentially big business.

Cardano doesnt even have smart contracts yet, how have they implemented nfts?

otherwise yes, energy usage will be dropping massively on most networks with pos upgrades.

if it costs $1 go buy then it is worth spending $0.99 on mining it. the more expensive it becomes the more it consumes. its basically a paperclip maximiser.

I am pro digital currencies in general, but we can do much better than bitcoin.

That said we should avoid moral panic, it only brings division. Ultimately we are all on the same side.

Pretty much all the crypto betting protocols use stablecoins (mostly pegged to the $), people arent betting in eth/btc. Vitalik placed bets on https://catnip.exchange/ so would have been in dai.

Also on the topic of stability, Rai launched this week so we now have non-pegged stable assets backed by eth -> https://www.reflexer.finance/

I really enjoy his interviewing style and calm voice. It is a conversation rather than a list of prepared questions. I get much more from these than say a techcrunch interview.

You can participate in most(all i am aware of) PoS chains with any amount of underlying tokens, in the same way you can participate in a mining pool if you lack the hashrate to mine independently.

There will be independent PoS validators who can afford upfront costs, but there are independent miners too who purchase lots of hardware. In PoS the next block is randomly distributed, so those with better hardware dont outperform. So you can validate off a solar powered raspberry pi or nuc if you'd like and not underperform someone with a highend gpu, so the hardware cost is much lower, added to this in long run it will be cheaper to participate in staking than having to replace gpus/asics to mine with.

I don't see how this leads you to think it is unfair in comparison to mining? Upfront costs pretty similar, running costs cheaper, long term hardware replacement costs much less.

I know when I talk about someone I don't know I use "they". It isn't to do with not knowing preferred pronouns, more like a type of formal speech about an unknown person. Maybe it is a regional/dialect thing? I would read an article about a person, and then still talk about them/they rather than he/her. I think it is tied to them being unfamiliar, as I wouldn't do that with a celebrity.

If i replace she in op's line "She wants a break" it feels like they are writing about someone more familiar to them. "They" implies distance between the observer and observed.

Code isnt law, and shouldnt be. Law is law and it works very well. People always come first. If the majority decide to do something it should happen. Anyone can participate. Honestly its bizzare that “but dao fork” still comes up years later, its not a complex event.

Anyway, sounds like an interesting experiment for reddit. Im not sure if this is great timing or terrible timing for the announcement given the gme/wsb noise.

Also mark cuban was posting his rarible account, which showed hes been using aave and sushi, seems like we might start seeing some bigger tech names joining in defi.

Royalties is probably the wrong word. What i mean is that i can buy an album for $5 on bandcamp and the artist will get more money than if i stream the album 1000 times on spotify. Album sales (especially in no-tour lockdown times) are an important part of funding musicians. Streams dont cover bills. Neither does merch.

vps(https://contabo.com/) about $5 a month or so. I think Funkwhale can be hosted on a server with the library on amazon s3 if you want a lot of cheap storage. but ive been fine on my vps for now.

Ive been running a private funkwhale for me and my friends since november ‘19 and its been great. Works lovely with play::sub for ios. Have about 300gb of music hosted and 4 daily users :)

Recommended for those wanting to ditch spotify. Redirect the subscription fee to buying an album or two each month. Get a few friends to do the same. The artists get much more royalties and you have a more personal collection.

Theres more bitcoin on ethereum than on lightning.

The universe isnt going to turn itself into paperclips.

https://computingup.com/ episode Artificial death was a good one.

Links to The Times of India article:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/violence-...

Good on them. Smash it up, make noise and don't let Apple ignore this. No doubt they respond with the usual "When we worked with factories promising us cheap labour and massive profit we didn't realise people and the planet would be exploited. No one could have known".

Emacs and slime are great for lisp, but my experience is that learning all three at once is too much. Stick to vscode and install the lisp extensions (or sublime and sublime repl was what I learnt on) and work through the lisp koans (search on github you’ll find the repo).

Once you have the basics down then look into setting up slime and jumping down the emacs rabbit hole.

I also found I could code for about 4 hours, so after that I like to reply to messages and read and sketch out ideas for how to approach bugs on paper, just get off the screen. And after a while of that I’ll go for a walk or something and maybe circle back around to the code if I thought of something.

I don’t mind this at all, 8 hours of screen time is a killer and no doubt led to my bad eyesight and wonky posture staring at screens when I was younger.

There is a reason people say “solve your own problems”. It’s a great motivation. You can’t put off real problems because they get bigger. You have to be the one who solves it, and you’ll solve it in the simplest, laziest way so you can get on with your “projects”. We often solve problems without even realising it and those are successful, creative, useful applications to share with others.

You can just watch tv, that’s ok. Maybe you’ll realise there’s an annoying sound the tv makes at 4 o’clock when it’s raining and it annoys you so much you investigate it and discover something we didn’t know about signal processing. Maybe you’ll jam your window open with a shoe so you can have a cool breeze whilst gaming and then discover a whole business in window jamming.

Count your unfinished projects as a great source of experience points for the next event in life.

And if you really want to “do” something then try make the dumbest, most useless, incomplete, consumption led piece of software you can. Prove that image of yourself to the rest of us. Make the most broken software ever written. I’d love to see it.

Need little, want less, forget the rules, be untroubled.

This looks fun, will give it a go. The inbuilt funding sounds interesting, is that like bounties on issues? Or more like Patreon sponsorships?

I’m in Scotland and get about 3/0.1 and it dies whenever it rains( very often), open reach don’t care. They send someone who measures something and says someone else will come and fix it and they never do. I guess the cost of fixing the line for our one house isn’t worth it. Scottish gov said we’d have fibre optic by now but it’s been pushed back another year. We should receive a £400 payout if it isn’t here by next summer, but again my guess is they’d rather pay the fine than pay the cost of installation.

Can’t wait for starlink to come in and destroy them. I’ll sign up the second it becomes available.

Ive been using this since your post way back at the start of the lockdowns. We have a small company, 5 people, and it works great for us to meet up. Itd be cool to have some slack-like features, maybe charater bots you or vhs/answerphone you coukd record messages too for people who join later. A forest where each tree is a repo in our github and we can indicate which branch we are on. Also being able to emote /dance etc and consumable status items would be cool. I guess find the balance of fun and productive ha

Tech co-ops

https://github.com/hng/tech-coops

Duncan Trussel Family Hour. Specifically the episode where he is interviewing his mom on her death bed.

Both of those links are down for me.

My repos are down too

Check out iodine https://code.kryo.se/iodine/