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This is a shitty comment.

Unless it already has been.

Paywalled for me too. It's ridiculous to use Medium for corporate content at this point. This company has paywalled a front page HN story.

We can only measure greatness, or the known universe, through the lens of our consciousness, so it seems acceptable to refer back to the nature of the lens as the primary mystery of our experience.

I was about to say this feels like a Jeffrey Scudder piece. Then I hit the about, and it IS a Jeffrey Scudder piece.

Jeffrey, I love your work, and it's great to see you making more paint tools!

For all of the pearl clutching about the fear of inflation or the devaluation of bonds, I don't see enough consideration of what happened the last time the money printer went brrr for TARP.

CPI stayed relatively stable, the bond market recovered, the money got (mostly) repaid. TARP ended up being a really smart move, even though it would have been better structured if it included a small business / consumer package.

It'd be interesting if this crisis taught us that the harmful effects of monetary creation aren't as harmful as we thought. Looks like it's time to see if this Modern Monetary Theory thing might hold water. It's terrifying but also kind of exciting.

Don't mean to be pedantic but those requirements do not require a blockchain.

See: https://urbit.org/blog/why-urbit-probably-does-not-need-a-bl...

It actually doesn't (except for the fact that PKI registration is handled on Ethereum).

Yeah, seems like a bottleneck constricting in two dimensions: technical and social.

Yarvin's formative influence on this project will prevent it from ever achieving scale and that seems problematic for a decentralized system that relies upon an active network of peers.

His neo-reactionary thinking bled directly into the architecture of Urbit and I don't think there are very many "normies" out there who would support it, if they realized all of the long-term implications of a feudalistic social computing system.

Y’all do realize that private equity portfolio companies include every single YC and venture-backed startup, right?

I've used a 12.9" iPad Pro as a laptop replacement since its release in 2018 and I'm happy about the particular series of yesses that have led to this latest OS release.

I've developed a number of workflows that would never work on a Macbook. For instance, I take handwritten notes with the device in my lap during a meeting, convert them to text, and add them to either project management software, or Roam (plug: https://roamresearch.com/).

The pencil is a total joy. I've taken up drawing and painting again and the more laptop-like the iPad becomes, the less I miss my old Macbook Air. In hindsight, it's the laptop form factor that makes less sense. When I need a full OS for some tasks, I use a desktop computer with commodity PC components.

This brings back such good memories of playing this for this first time on my Amiga 2000.

The article offers a wonderful breakdown of the fairly astonishing amount of invention that went into development. Especially given that it was primarily the work of a solo developer.

I also enjoyed the observation that the Amiga's hardware-level support for a laserdisc peripheral (which was never released) was repurposed for the rotoscoping work used to develop the incredibly smooth character animations that still look AAA, even today.

I love this blog. Can't wait to read the book.

Based on recent SEC reports, The Securities Exchange Act, The Investment Company Act, and Investment Advisers Act are applicable to most ICOs that the SEC deems to be in violation of federal law.

Was this thread flagged? It was momentarily the top post.

Starting in the midst of a plunge, this looks really hard to explain. It’s entirely feasible that the Tether project exists to prop up the price of Bitcoin and to protect the Bitfinex margin float.

Ethereum has already surpassed Bitcoin’s transaction thoroughput and yet features significantly lower confirmation time and transaction cost.*

Bitcoin core has made significant technical decisions that has hampered the project in these two areas.

*Source: https://themerkle.com/bitcoin-vs-ethereum-transaction-throug...

You don't think the concerns he listed about the instability of the network, current centralization of nodes, and the fact that one of the founders offered to buy his silence are legitimate complaints?

Neither did the rats.

Different social networking applications imply different social contexts. I may follow you back on Twitter, but that doesn't mean that I want to be your friend on Facebook.

I'm currently working on a client project that uses the Vuforia library paired with an array of iPad Pros to pull off this sort of AR-light effect. But Vuforia relies on a tracking marker, and it's a huge pain in the ass for us. The idea of using lower-level camera and inertia sensor data to perform tracking without a marker is something I didn't expect to see without a Tango-like cluster of depth sensors.

Can't wait to try this out.

So your recipe for, "emotional success" is to not be affected by other people?

Got it.

Hm, could this be a business application of zkSNARK proofs? https://github.com/scipr-lab/libsnark

The financial press has spent the last two weeks lambasting them for a valuation that was essentially a down round from their last private financing. I'm sure they were aiming for a small pop, but 60% does make it look like they left money on the table and that they might have taken some of the heat off the criticism around the discounted valuation.

They just needed to get the deal done (http://avc.com/2015/11/getting-the-deal-done/_.

Tier 1 offerings are available to accredited investors only. Here's a link to the final ruling: https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2015/33-9741.pdf

I bet you already know if you feel able to compete with people in their 20s. If the question is, will other people, for instance, investors, think that you're too old?

Two words: fuck 'em.

Signed, a 35-year old CEO.

I recently started a podcast about the financial side of the indie game business. On our debut episode Neven Mrgan (of Panic and co-creator of The Incident and Space Age) to open up about his sales figures. http://gamasutra.com/blogs/DavidGalindo/20150129/235301/How_...

Yes, but friend: it matters much whether the state's deployment of ethics in the selection of potential suspects are good and just. An individual's ethnic heritage and choice of religion cannot in a free society suffice for just cause in being warrantlessly surveilled. That's what warrant means.

This marks one of the first sizable exits for a company built almost wholly on top of YouTube as a platform. A lot of people said that Google content partnerships didn't leave enough air in the room to allow for this sort of value creation. I hope this emboldens other firms to support companies working in this space, a lot of wonderful things could still happen.

It doesn't sound like you've reserved judgement at all.